rP os t HEC027 Volume 9 Issue 3 September 2011 Visioning Information Technology at Cirque du Soleil op yo Case prepared by Professors Anne-Marie CROTEAU‚1 Suzanne RIVARD2 and Jean TALBOT3 tC Danielle Savoie‚ recently appointed Chief Information Officer (CIO) at Cirque du Soleil‚ was delighted. She had just met with the firm’s Executive Committee to present the very first information technology (IT) strategic plan in the history of Cirque. The plan presented a coherent
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15. “He is the Subject; he is the Absolute. She is the Other” (Beauvoir‚ The Second Sex‚ 6). Discuss. Despite having a relatively conservative childhood in which she was raised a Catholic daughter to a bourgeois family‚ Simone de Beauvoir steered away from the traditional familial roles and became a pioneer for modern feminism. Perhaps to the distaste of her family‚ she attended university and always placed the autonomy of the intellectual life above the traditional values of
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Louis XIV Louis XIV‚ a marvelous leader during his reign (1643-1715)‚ was a prime example of an absolutist ruler. He used his position to expand the power of his government with projects like the expansion of the Chateau de Versailles‚ completed in 1688. Despite the unimaginable cost of the monumental construction of Versailles that exhausted much of France ’s finances‚ its creation was beneficial for the French government‚ foreign influence‚ and the historical impact on France and the world.
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Salar de Uyuni Salar de Uyuni is the world’s largest salt flat located in Bolivia. It is over twelve thousand square kilometers in area‚ which makes it the largest salt flat in the world. It also has the distinction of being the highest salt flats in the world at three thousand seven hundred meters above sea level. From a distance the salt flats look like a huge white sea. When there is rain then something magical happens. The salt flats become a mirror of the sky. The origins
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Olympe de Gouges was a woman who lived in France during the French Revolution. She was a feminist and an abolitionist. She accomplished many things during her life. One of the things she accomplished was writing pieces of literature and plays. She was the first woman to publish books and plays using her own name and not a male pseudonym. Every woman who was a playwright before her had used male pseudonyms to avoid being criticised for it. Her first play was called The Generous Man‚ and it was about
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The American War against De Jure and De Facto Discrimination Throughout the semester‚ we have examined the differences between de jure segregation‚ that which is written into law‚ such as slavery and Jim Crow‚ and de facto segregation‚ that which is seen as customary. Even though the battle against de jure discrimination has been a victorious one‚ with the desegregation of the American military and federal government in the 1940s‚ the reversal of Plessy vs. Ferguson in the 1950s‚ and the passing
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MA. GIEMELCA E. CANSON BSMA-4 MWF 6:00-7:00 pm PROJECT FEASIBILITY PROPOSAL Tinta de Alugbati ALTERNATIVE BALLPOINT INK Too expensive ballpoints‚ too classy ballpoint cases‚ too wondrous thick ink writings. Those are for what? When we all need is a decent penmanship? Anyhow‚ there will be exemptions too. Like‚ we need to have those tiny and “clean” ballpoint inks for such important write ups‚ but for us ordinary students‚ who are not that capable of having those dollar-cost pens‚ we’re
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In De Paisano a Paisano: Negotiations and Resistance between Migrants and Cultural Industries by Martha Chew-Sanchez‚ she discusses how corridos music has shaped and influenced many Latinos and Latinas in Mexico and the United States. She focuses her chapter on how corridos music is advertised and made mainstream for many people to listen. Chew-Sanchez discusses Los Tigris del Norte‚ who are a well-known famous corridos band and how they play an important role for many Latinos and Latinas. The Mexican
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seemed like a good idea‚ there were crucial details that were not taken into account. Details such as: the importance of the workers affiliated with the Baathists‚ and the reasons why workers associated themselves with the Baathist party. After the De-Baathification of Iraq many very important shoes were left unfilled‚ so the military replaced them with their own. “Now you have an American Soldier‚ who majored in Art History running the power grids‚ or someone else who is highly unqualified.” As
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“Woman as Other” De Beauvoir’s “Woman as Other” lays out an elaborate argument on gender inequality; using the term “other” to establish woman’s alternate‚ lesser important role throughout her work‚ the author dissects and examines from its origin the female’s secondary position in society in contrast to man. Indeed‚ from the beginning of recorded history‚ the duality of man‚ by definition‚ positions woman at the opposing end of the spectrum in relation to her male counterpart. Even by today’s
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