The Sound Poetry Circuit: Festivals‚ Networks‚ and Transatlantic Relations There is a photograph ‚ taken during the 11th edition of the Sound Poetry International Festival‚ held in Toronto in 1978‚ that depicts three authors: they are‚ from the left to the right‚ Bob Cobbing‚ Sten Hanson (holding what seems to be a cat)‚ and Henri Chopin‚ or‚ should we say‚ England‚ Sweden‚ and France‚ in what seems to be a metaphorical representation of the theme proposed by the current paper. Either way‚ they
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1. Companies need a clearer understanding of the link between loyalty and profits in order to get strong returns on relationship programs. 2. Companies will have to find ways to measure the relationship between loyalty and profitability so that they can better identify which customers to focus on and which to ignore. 3. Loyal customers will be more familiar with a company’s transaction processes. Because they need less hand-holding‚ the company should find it cheaper to deal with them. 4. Consumers
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Weakness and fear of failure are rooted deep inside every person’s mind. It causes people to act through emotion instead of logic. In Things Fall Apart‚ by Chinua Achebe‚ Okonkwo is greatly affected by these emotions and makes horrible decisions that lead to his biggest failure. Okonkwo had worked his whole life striving for great success‚ however‚ with his mind on only the prize‚ he fell short by failing to maintain an important relationship with his son‚ letting his fear of colonization by the
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MBA 523 A Rush to Failure Case The Canadian Aeronautics Administration (CAA) has commissioned two contracting companies‚ Hollenbeck Aircraft and Eskina Software Systems‚ to build a set of giant robotic arms known as Retractable Extended-Arms Compatible Holder‚ or REACH‚ for the International Space Station. The REACH project has a deadline of six years. It has been noted that under normal circumstances the project would take around 10 years but there are time constraints due to political pressure
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Discourse Muhammad Hassan This paper highlights the causes of military intervention in Pakistan and its effects on the polity of the country. The militarybureaucracy oligarchy occupied a dominant position and has been in effective command of state power ever since the creation of the state. This oligarchy installed politicians and political parties in office to provide a façade of parliamentary government for a decade; it then decided to expel them in 1958‚ when the prospects of the impending
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Question 5 Was this truly a disaster? What lessons can be learned from this case and similar disasters‚ particularly regarding the importance of such “human factors” as courage‚ truthfulness‚ and open communication? The Vasa was built as a symbol of Sweden’s naval supremacy. Unequalled in size‚ ornamentation and firepower‚ the Vasa was intended to project might and to intimidate the nation’s enemies. Of course‚ the reality of Sweden’s many conquests in the Baltic region was not lost on its
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Lecture 1 Chapter 1 Technology and modern enterprise. Today billions in advertising dollars flee old media and are pouring into digital efforts‚ and this shift is reshaping industries and redefining skills needed to reach today’s consumers. Firms are harnessing social media for new product ideas and for millions in sales. Many of the world’s most successful technology firms—organizations that have had tremendous impact on consumers and businesses across industries—were created by young people
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diplomatically resolve disagreement between nations before conflicts escalate and to safe guard human rights and dignity globally. Unfortunately‚ the U.N. has consistently failed to live up to its mandate and will continue to do so because of its blatant failures to prevent genocides‚ its inability to resolve conflicts and the its dysfunctional structuring that enables the permanent Security Council to dominate the dominate the organization. Following the end of World War II‚ there was a general consensus
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Definition and Explanation of Quality Costs: The concept of Cost Of Quality (COQ) has been around for many years. Dr. Joseph M. Juran in 1951 in his Quality Control Handbook included a section on COQ. The Quality Cost Committee under the Quality Management Division was established by the American Society for Quality (ASQ) in 1961. However it was Philip B. Crosby who popularized the use of COQ because of his book Quality is Fre in 1979. Several current quality system standards‚ ISO 9000‚ QS-9000‚ AS-9000
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Mireles 1! Servando Mireles Dr. O’Hare English 112 10 February 2015 Rhetorical Analysis for “Cultivating Failure” In her article‚ “Cultivating Failure‚” Caitlin Flanagan argues that gardening in schools is actually “robbing an increasing number of American schoolchildren of hours they might have otherwise spent reading important books or learning higher math” (Flanagan 1). She simply states that these are the things that have “lifted uncounted generations of human beings out of the desperate daily
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