MEMO Date: October 20‚ 2014 To: Mr. Jim Peterson‚ President‚ Boston Creamery‚ Inc.‚ Ice Cream Division From: Subject: Evaluating the decision choices of Boston Creamery to improve budgeting Introduction Boston Creamery is currently experiencing difficulties with regards to its budgeting process and variance analysis. For the fiscal year 1973‚ the Ice Cream Division has a favorable operating income variance of $71‚700. The President‚ Jim Peterson feels that the comparisons between budgeted
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..BOSTON (AP) — Two bombs exploded in the crowded streets near the finish line of the Boston Marathon on Monday‚ killing at least three people and injuring more than 140 in a bloody scene of shattered glass and severed limbs that raised alarms that terrorists might have struck again in the U.S. A White House official speaking on condition of anonymity because the investigation was still unfolding said the attack was being treated as an act of terrorism. President Barack Obama vowed that those
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Boston Chicken Case Boston Chicken Inc is chain of fast food restaurants‚ and also in the business of take-out home cooked food. The main business strategy of Boston Chicken is differentiation. To achieve their overall business strategy‚ Boston Chicken implemented four strategies. First‚ Boston Chicken focused on franchising to larger regional developers after a careful screening process. Second‚ Boston Chicken diversified their product offering by keeping introducing new varieties of
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All journeys require a strong sense of ones humanity in order to be successful. In ken Watsons anthology “at the round Earth imagined corners” ‘A righteous day by Mudrooroo and Journey to the interior’ by Margret Atwood and as well as the film ‘Rabbit Proof Fence’ by Phillip Noyce have all expanded my understanding of journeys to myself individuals and the world. Through these texts we can observe different aspects of a journey. Journeys are essential in life because they teach us to overcome adversity
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This essay is a sermon delivered by John Winthrop to the Puritans aboard the ship Arbella as it sailed to America in 1630. Winthrop was an early Puritan leader and the first Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Winthrop writes that God has purposely made some people to be rich and others poor in order to manifest his work in the areas of mercy‚ love‚ gentleness‚ temperance‚ faith‚ patience and obedience. He also speaks of the moral gospel’ that requires man to help one another in every want
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As we learn trough out history‚ many puritans and Calvinists flee England due to the monarch’s Catholic belief. Many of these migrants‚ called Puritans would move to New England‚ the North Eastern area of the United States in present day. The reason why Puritans would flee to America was simple: After the English government became a Catholic country‚ many puritans did not want to the Mayflower Compact. However‚ in 1630‚ John Winthrop along with hundreds of puritans would establish a government in
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John Winthrop was a religious Puritan leader‚ who led a large migration from England to America. Winthrop was a jack of all trades hence the title Mark W. Crilly selected; Magistrate‚ Minister‚ and Merchant. Winthrop at some point worked as either a magistrate‚ minister‚ and‚ merchant often times he would do two or more jobs simultaneously. Often times he would remain in his current position until he has accomplished a goal that gave him leverage in one or both of the other fields. Each of the ventures
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The Chesapeake and New England regions were settled by people of English descent‚ but by 1700‚ they had become two distinctly different societies. They had evolved so differently‚ mainly because of the way that the settlers followed their religion‚ their way of conducting politics and demographics in the colonies. Even though the settlers came from the same homeland: England‚ each group had its own reasons for coming to the New World and different ideas planned for the colonies. On his way to the
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During the 17th century there were many colonies settled in the New World. One thing most of these colonies had in common is the fact that almost all of them were settled by the English. If one were to focus mostly on the New England and Chesapeake colonies‚ one would find that although they were settled by similar people‚ they ended up splitting for very different reasons. The New England colonies were searching for religious freedom from the Church of England‚ whereas the Chesapeake colonies were
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Aboard the Arabella in 1630‚ a group of Puritans headed by John Winthrop endured the journey across the Atlantic in pursuit of founding the Massachusetts Bay Colony in order to escape religious persecution in England. As a Cambridge scholar‚ upper-class man‚ and politician‚ Winthrop assumed position of governor in the newly established community. Even from the start of their journey‚ Winthrop spoke in depth about his vision for an independent Puritan society in “A Modell of Christian Charity." He
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