New Models Of Doing Business: Pandora Radio As if the music industry has not seen enough change in recent years‚ Pandora Radio has started yet another music revolution. This time‚ however‚ the revolution is not about how the music is stored and collected (LP/CD/MP3 transformation)‚ or how music is purchased (Record Stores/ iTunes transformation)‚ but how we actually listen to music. Pandora Radio has created an amazing technology‚ which allows users to create and customize their own radio stations
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An important aspect of any business is to be able to analyze and evaluate the environment‚ both internally and externally‚ in which the business is to operate (Plunkett‚ Attner‚ & Allen‚ 2008). The cost of doing business overseas is a concept that is related to evaluating the external environment‚ where a manager or business owner must consider such elements as “the strengths and weaknesses of suppliers and partners‚ the availability of additional labor and technology‚ and the needs of external
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Colombia has been a very unstable country for the past fifty years. Beginning in the 1960s Marxist guerilla groups formed. The two strongest groups called themselves the National Liberation Army (ELN) and the other was the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). Making things worse‚ in the 1970s drug trafficking became a huge problem for Colombia. Drug cartels pretty much controlled the country starting in the mid-1970s. By the 1990s right-wing paramilitaries had formed. They
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simplify Plan Colombia‚ the objective was to bring order to a disorderly country. Colombia’s national objective with Plan Colombia was to “ensure order‚ stability‚ and the rule of law; guarantee sovereignty over national territory; protect the State and the civilian population from the threats posed by illegal armed groups and criminal organizations; break links between the illegal armed groups and the criminal drug industry that supports them”. Through regaining control and order within Colombia‚ Plan
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United States should end Plan Colombia.” Definitions “In order to clarify this round of debate‚ we would like to offer the following definition:” Plan Colombia: the US aid package given to Colombia to combat the drug war through military means that has been worth over 5 billion dollars since 2000. Now I will give a Resolutional Analysis: This resolution implies immediacy (therefore this argument is resolutional and fact based) so the pro must prove that Plan Colombia should be ended right now. Additionally
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INTRODUCTION The past fifty years in Colombia have been dominated by the struggle between the government and an organization named Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia) or better known as the FARC. Founded in 1964 the FARC was created as a military wing of the Colombian Communist Party to overthrow the government and prevent them from industrializing Colombia (“Revolutionary”). The Colombian government planned to industrialize the country and rebuild
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A large portion of FARC’s profits now come from drug trafficking; however‚ they weren’t major drug traffickers when Plan Colombia was first implemented. Peter Dale Scott‚ a professor at the University of California‚ Berkeley and author of several books on this topic‚ noted that the Colombian government estimated in 2001 that paramilitary groups controlled 40% of the cocaine exports; whereas the FARC controlled only 2.5%. The FARC had been more involved in the “taxing” of the drug trade‚ but they
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teenager do business? No one was there to teach me how to do it. One of the reasons America is known is because of the opportunities they have and the support offered to people that come here for a better life and work hard for their dreams; however‚ this country does not support small businesses as much as they support the biggest ones. Immigrant business owners and business starters do not have the same support in the business world as others have. This problem is caused because of the business demand
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was thinking that I was going to have an easy report to write by writing about the way I felt and how society just simply ignored me as I was doing nothing because they’re use to seeing things like this and they rather not entertain the “weirdness”. Well‚ I was wrong. After a while people got nosey. People walked by and asked they’re company “what are they doing?” (as if their company is supposed to know). The funniest things I heard that day was “they must be in a cult” and Williams 2 “they‘re possessed
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Armed Forces of Colombia The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) is the military wing of the Colombian Communist Party that was formed in 1964 after Castro’s Cuban revolution. FARC’s ideological goal is to overthrow the democratic government of Colombia and replace it with a Communist regime. The group supports Marxist-Leninist theory of redistribution of wealth by seizing it from the wealthy and giving it to the poor. Also‚ FARC opposes U.S. influence in Colombia‚ the privatization
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