The Lewis and Clark Expedition‚ a force of a little more than thirty men sponsored by President Thomas Jefferson‚ began the exciting mission of exploration of American history in May 14th‚ 1804. They had been ordered to travel through the newly purchased Louisiana Territory‚ the completely unknown Oregon country and finally reach the Pacific Ocean‚ drawing maps and journaling their experiences for those in the future. Jefferson chose his personal secretary‚ Meriwether Lewis‚ an intelligent and
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the new land resulted in lots of unknown questions. Some of them were what does this land provide‚ what animals are out there‚ who can be found on this land? To answer some of these mysterious questions Jefferson sent Meriwether Lewis and William Clark to go explore the Louisiana Purchase. One of their stops on their journey was at what now is known as Fort Mandan‚ in Bismarck‚ North Dakota. Here is where Lewis and Clark’s relationship with the Indians (Mandan Tribe) was crucial because their next
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President Jefferson needed the land for the Louisiana Purchase to be mapped out. Jefferson sent Lewis and Clark to do this for him. Lewis wrote to his friend and former Army colleague‚ William Clark‚ and invited him to join the expedition as co-leader. Clark‚ then living in Kentucky‚ wrote back: “This is an undertaking fraited with many difeculties‚ but my friend I do assure you that no man lives whith whome I would perfur to undertake such a Trip.” The journey began
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Solution to Chapter 8: Budgeting for Planning and Controlling ___________________________________________________________ CHAPTER 8 QUESTIONS FOR WRITING AND DISCUSSION 1. Budgets are the quantitative expressions of plans. Budgets are used to translate the goals and strategies of an organization into operational terms. 2. Control is the process of setting standards‚ receiving feedback on actual performance‚ and taking corrective action whenever actual performance deviates from planned performance
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Glen Clark‚ in his Essay “Colin Kaepernick – Hero or Schmuck?” (2016)‚ identifies why he feels that Kaepernick’s actions are not clear‚ not favored by viewers‚ and not genuine by using quotes from Kaepernick‚ and writing about his own personal experiences of the matter. Clark uses nine quotes from Kaepernick to demonstrate his beliefs‚ afterwards he rebuffs them with logic and reasoning. Often he would structure his essay to follow a pattern that alternates between a quote from Kaepernick‚ logic
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Chapter 7 Budgeting and Cost Estimation Copyright 2009 John Wiley & Sons‚ Inc. Low Bids If you are bidding on a project‚ do you want your bid to be as low as possible and still make a profit? Accept Low Bid If you are accepting bids on a project‚ do you want to accept the lowest bid? Budgeting A plan for allocating scarce resources to the various endeavors of an organization A budget implies constraints Thus‚ it implies that managers will not get everything they
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Chapter 8 Cost Estimation and Budgeting 8.1 True/False 1) Direct costs are those clearly assigned to the aspect of the project that generated the cost. Answer TRUE 2) Material is an example of a cost that is recurring‚ variable and direct. Answer TRUE 3) An expedited cost is one that does not vary with respect to their usage. Answer FALSE 4) An order of magnitude estimate is usually more accurate than a ballpark estimate. Answer FALSE 5) Comparative estimates are more accurate than definitive
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As we sail through the sea on a journey with a crew called Corps of Discovery. The crew was made up of many people‚ the two people that are more distinguishable are Lewis and Clark. Lewis was the captain and Clark is his co-captain. It is their mission to go on a expedition and discover new things in the uncharted territory. I am one of the crew members they took to aid them in their expedition. We were nearing the shore and getting ready to depart. “Are we all ready crew‚” Lewis said . “ Yes
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Benedictine University MBA 683 Project Management 2013 Case analysis Clark Faucet Company Yilei Zhu Clark Faucet Company From the case point out that ‘the competition was fierce’. The quality and artistic design which are the standard evaluate for customer to choose which brand they purchase
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Discussion of the poems of Nancy Knapp‚ Nellie Clark‚ and Dora William from the book Spoon River Anthology by Edgar Lee Masters. In life have you ever thought that no matter what you do all life is going to do is get worse? Have you ever had something done to you that you couldn’t or wouldn’t tell anyone because you were scared? In the book Spoon River Anthology there are many poems that show life was hard for people. Most of the people in Spoon River Anthology believe that they only had one
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