BUS101 Portfolio 2 Prepared by Lei Jin Updated Wednesday‚ February 2‚ 2011 Sony Net Slips 8.6%‚ Hit by TV Results By DAISUKE WAKABAYASHI WSJ Online FEBRUARY 3‚ 2011 http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703437304576121240005019676.html?mod=WSJ_business_whatsNews This article reported that Sony Corp. announced an 8.6% decline in quarterly profit because the hurt by cutthroat market conditions crimping television
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1. How does Ben’s age affect his decision to get an MBA? In this case‚ Ben’s age affects his decision to get an MBA because he is now 28 years old and has been out of school for six years. Assuming Ben has worked for the previous years since graduation‚ he has accumulated money from saving his salary in order to obtain his MBA. Now starting an MBA program at 28 years old‚ Ben will suspend working to spend at least two years studying and finishing his MBA. He will finish by the age of 30 if he
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Hisaye Yamamoto: Wilshire Bus Rosa Parks will always be known for her courageous acts against racism. Her story of strength and self respect has made her one of the leading ladies in history. Just as Rosa Parks stood up for herself‚ Esther Kuroiwa fell into the same category. Her story was just another example of how racism constantly continues in this world. Looking through the historical lens and psychoanalytical lens the Wilshire Bus‚ by Hisaye Yamamoto is really about racism. The Wilshire Bus ‚ w
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Analysis of “Bus Riders” Gloria Garchitorena-Goloy The poem‚ “Bus Riders”‚ Gloria Gatchitorena-Goloy‚ is a symbolic poem written in free verse‚ the central theme of hardship can be found in the poem’s use of imagery‚ language and connotation of every word by which the meaning is implied. In her poem‚ these three fundamentals of writing smoothly work together to create a piece that represents the exhaustion and depressing characteristic of commuting by a public transportation like the bus. On the
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of American culture from a 5 mile bus ride. On 20th July‚ on a Friday‚ I rode the Foothill 482 bus towards Puente Hills Mall‚ a bus ride of about 10 miles. It was around 4.30 p.m. when I took the bus and I arrived around 45 minutes later‚ having passed through many landmarks and stops. From the ride‚ I observed a whole lot of events that made me conclude a few things about the modern American culture. The five conclusions that I made about America from this bus ride are: the distinct modes of transportations
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Responses to Question 1 and 4 on “Two Ways of Seeing a River” on page 481 of Model for Writers 1. The method of organization that Twain uses in this selection is time order because he described the way he saw and experienced the river in a sequence as they occurred. In addition‚ he stared an essay by telling an event in the past and ended it in the present. That is the time order organization. He might have used the comparison and contrast method as the alternative methods because he compared
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VANCITY “SLENT” Sociocultural social enterprises fill gaps and there are many needs in the North America context‚ younger population in Vancouver area than other parts of NA‚ health and environmentally conscious (west coast mentality)‚ well educated Legal-political a credit union as an alternative to banks‚ different laws for credit unions than for banks‚ trade require different organizational form to support societal changes not met by bank type financial backing Economic new business
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1. Jennifer Trucking Company operates a large rig transportation business in Texas that transports locally grown vegetables to San Diego‚ California. The company owns 5 large rigs and hires local drivers paid fixed salaries monthly‚ regardless of the number of trips or tons of cargo that each driver transports each month. The below table presents details about the number of drivers and the total cargo transported by the company at different staff levels. Drivers employed Total Cargo Transported
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This assignment involves analyzing how the Critical Success Factors (CSFs) are applied in the Harvard Business Review case study‚ “Boss‚ I Think Someone Stole Our Data.” Some examples will be provided in the analysis. The organizational readiness‚ risk culture‚ and project benefits will be determined with justification for the assessment. Based on the above results‚ three project risk recommendations will be presented in this assignment. The initial risk categories (RBS Level 1 and 2) will be presented
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Traveling by Bus or Train First of all‚ let us see the similarities. The compatibilities for the bus and train are distinguished by their services‚ in general nearly all people know them by public transportation‚ and both are community transportation. Having said that‚ they both have different directions in route the course meant for the bus is called route‚ while the path for the train is called transit. The next similarity is money. When we are traveling by bus or train‚ the amount of money depends
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