POS420: DQ’s for Week 1 Discussion Question 1 - Week 1 (Saturday): How old of an operating system is Unix? The story of how UNIX came to be is a long‚ but interesting tale. During the mid-1960’s‚ the first multi-user operating system called Compatible Time-Sharing System (CTSS) was created by Fernando Corbato at the MIT Computation Center. Although CTSS was highly influential for its time‚ it eventually failed‚ but not before a second generation operating system called Multiplexed
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Exam: 250636RR - Information Literacy Lesson Exam 3 1. Although online bibliographic generators are generally accurate‚ it ’s always best practice to verify the accuracy of the citations by A. using Purdue University and Long Island University ’s online writing labs. 2. What is the style rule for introducing a direct quote in MLA? C. Use a signal phrase that includes the author ’s name‚ along with the page number on which the information appeared in parentheses. 3. The correct term for the list
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Example “initial” DEVRY MATH221 Discussion posts This is a collection DEVRY Math221 “Statistics for Decision Making” Discussion posts. This class is set up as a 8-week class where in the first 7-weeks you must post 3 discussion posts. These posts should be viewed as the ‘initial’ posts for each week. Normally the 2nd and 3rd posts each week are responses to other students. These discussions make up ~14% of the class so they are very important‚ and an easy way to get maximum points! These
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A&F Discussion Questions 1. Companies like J. Crew (http://www.jcrew.com) and banana republic (http://www.bananarepublic.com) are targeting many of the same consumers as Abercrombie & Fitch. Visit their websites and discuss how their marketing strategies are different from those of A&F. Would you suggest any changes in these strategies that would allow these two companies to better position themselves in the minds of consumers? Banana republic and J. Crew’s marketing plan is geared more towards
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Discussion Questions: 1. Does religion have anything to do with political theory? 2. What are the social and political implications of Genesis? For two examples‚ consider nature‚ and women. Are any of the cultural values described in this book still with us? 3. How did the Hebrew people define themselves as a people? In what specific sense are they a community? What is the relationship of community to covenant? How does any society define itself as a distinct society? 4. Can you find the three
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#5 under Get Out & Do It on pg 274. Be prepared to discuss your choice and reasons for it during class on Thursday. 3) Answer Discussion Questions 1‚3‚5‚7 on pg 275. Put these in Digital Drop Box. 4) Read Retailing View 10.1 on pg 281 and Retailing View 10.3 on pg 294. 5) Read Chapter 10 Summary on pg 302. 6) Answer Discussion Question #5 on pg 303. 7) Do the Discussion Board Question. Page 275 1. Human Resource Management is especially important in retailing due to the simple fact that
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Week One Discussion Please refer to "Guide for Participation" located in the Course Home Unit. Topic 1 -- The Cost and Worth of Communication in Business After you finish your readings for Week 1‚ post a message in the discussion thread below in which you provide your commentary‚ applying the guidelines on the WORTH of communications‚ especially human communications‚ in today’s business environment‚ and the COST of workplace communications problems. Discuss these issues as they are related to today’s
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Six – Lehman Brothers NAME MGT/521 DATE INSTRUCTOR "Lessons from Lehman Brothers: Will We Ever Learn?" MEMBER 1 QUESTION 2: What was the culture at Lehman Brothers like? How did this culture contribute to the company ’s downfall? DISCUSSION/ANSWER: One would think that with the many years of studies‚ investigations‚ and teachings on what not to do in corporate America‚ it ’s frightening that a company like Lehman Brothers was able to get away with such unethical corporate practices
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SCM-416_Procurement and Supply Chain Integration Discussion Questions Session #15-Supplier Management - Supplier Total Quality Management 1. According to Monczka‚ what is the correlation between the amount of materials and components that a company outsources‚ and the relative impact that supplier quality has on the overall quality of that company’s final product? According to Philip Crosby the external suppliers are estimated to be responsible for about half of a firm’s product-related
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Week 5 Discussion Discuss the following: A staff meeting has been called for all members of the administrative department at the hospital where you work. Due to a change in patients’ needs‚ the hours of operation need to be modified. Several scheduling options are presented and a decision has to be made. Should this decision be made by a majority vote‚ or a consensus? Support your choice with reasoning from the decision making section on page 98 of your GMC. I think that due to the time
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