What Is Grand Strategy?* by John Lewis Gaddis** Yale University When my colleagues Paul Kennedy‚ Charlie Hill‚ and I first began talking about setting up a grand strategy course at Yale in the late 1990s‚ at least half the people to whom we tried to explain this thought we were talking about “grant” strategy: how do you get the next federal or foundation grant? This misunderstanding would not have occurred‚ I think‚ during the fifty years of insecurity that separated the Japanese attack on Pearl
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FIRE SAFETY ENGINEERING IN HIGH RISE BUILDINGS Author’s Name. Date. Dissertation submitted in partial fulfilment for the degree of Department of University of ABSTRACT This dissertation is concerned with how the safety of high- rise buildings in the event of fire can be improved‚ especially with regards to engineering. Its major focus is to examine recent fires that have occurred in high-rise buildings. It will then conduct a critical
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Within Dostoyevsky’s The Grand Inquisitor and Herman Melville’s Bartleby the Scrivener are expressive figures facing problems of an existential nature. Consumed by an inability to find purpose in life‚ their actions and reactions become characterized by absurd and illogical streaks. The characters begin to align with the ideas surrounding existentialism‚ most notably with the “sense of disorientation and confusion in the face of an apparently meaningless or absurd world." As they attempt to understand
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November 18‚ 2013 Subject: Issues of MGM International Resorts I am writing this letter in order to address the slow recovery of your company. It has come to my attention that your company‚ MGM International Resorts‚ is facing some major issues as the gaming and hospitality industry struggles to recover. In this letter I plan to address the industries problems‚ and the specific issues that your company is facing. One of the major issues facing MGM International Resorts is that it is that
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losing power because of the practice of empowerment. Most of the managers waste time on dealing with minor issues. The general manager John Becker is sick of giving minor decision instructions to his subordinates. Organization – The Regency Grand Hotel Verbal and written complaints from the customers increase rapidly. The prestige of the hotel is replaced by negative feedbacks given by the public. The business is definitely losing money. *Relating to Organizational behaviour* concepts
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The Grand Master of Sociopaths A sociopath is a person with an antisocial personality‚ usually a criminal who lacks a sense of moral responsibility. In the comic book‚ television show and movies; the character the Joker is the king of Sociopaths. He again and again commits crimes with no hint of remorse. The Joker has much charm. He charmed his way into convincing a psychiatric counselor into letting him out of his holding cell. He convinced her that they were meant for each other. This same
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what the Grand Inquisitor said about how people seek to escape freedom. Wanting to live and worship in a community strengthens the idea of living within those boundaries which will automatically restrict freedom. The Grand Inquisitor says that people find freedom" dreadful"‚ he says "In the end they will lay their freedom at our feet‚ and say to us: Make us your slaves‚ but feed us."(262) Man is not hungry only for bread‚ he is capable of tireless searching for someone to worship. The Grand Inquisitor
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BlackBerry aims to go private in $4.7bn deal with Fairfax Financial group Troubled smartphone maker‚ whose shares have plummeted in recent times‚ ready to be sold to Canadian buyer for $9 a share Heidi Moore in New York‚ The Guardian theguardian.com‚ Monday 23 September 2013 19.36 BST BlackBerry‚ the once-dominant maker of smartphones that fell on hard times in recent years‚ has found a suitor willing to pay $4.7bn for the troubled company. Fairfax Financial‚ a Canadian firm that already owns
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Grand Strategy Matrix: Grand Strategy Matrix has become a popular tool for formatting alternative strategies besides SWOT Matrix‚ SPACE Matrix‚ BCG Matrix and IE Matrix. Grand Strategy Matrix has four quadrants. All the organization can be positioned in one of the quadrant in Grand Strategy Matrix. Evaluative dimensions: 1. Competitive position and 2. Market growth. DPS has been positioned in the quadrant 1. A firm in quadrant 1 of Grand Strategy Matrix has strategies which put the
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The Grand Canyon was once a part of a continental collision about 1.7 billion years ago when volcanic islands collided in the south west of America‚ where the North American plate is now. Mountain building occurred about 75 million years ago when the uplift of almost 2 miles in the region‚ (called a Laramide orogeny event) started and created the Colorado Plateau. The rocks in the Grand Canyon were igneous or sedimentary rocks before the collision of tectonic plates. The collision pushed the plates
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