Business Talk 2 Final Exam - Case Studies Sale of Sand to the Saudis Joe Raymond’s position as sales manager for Granite Rock and Sand was in jeopardy. His unit had been low performer in terms of sales for the last seven quarters. Joe’s supervisor‚ VP Tom Haws‚ told Joe that he had through the next quarter to pull his unit out of last place. Haws also told Joe that Joe would have to be replaced if the improvement did not occur. Joe and his wife had just purchased their first
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speakers talk about what is going on in the world currently and what needs to be changed. The speakers also talk about ways to change the negative things that are going on. Mr. King’s speech is about the fight for justice and equality. In Mr. King’s speech he talks about the signing of the emancipation proclamation 100 years ago and how the Negro is still not free. In his speech Dr. King repeats the phrase “100 years later” to list the difficulties of the Negro. In King’s speech he also talks about
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In the article‚ “Stop Googling. Let’s Talk.” by Sherry Turkle‚ she talks about how the impact of phones and how the use of technology affects our conversations and interactions with people. Turkle talks about how nowadays people divide their attention between multiple things‚ but the two main examples she uses are phones and conversations. By dividing their attention‚ people rarely dive into deep conversations with one another. They tend to have shallow conversations with people due to the fact that
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world’s problems? In the TED Talk “Gaming can make a better world” American game designer and author Jane Mcgonigal places much emphasis on the topic of productivity through gaming. She believes that “if the rewards to create a better world‚ were similar to an online game‚ then more gamers would be willing to take action to better society”(3:30). She adopts a provocative tone in the form of “creating a better world” in order to engage the viewers. Mcgonigal gets her point across effectively by
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ANTHONY-BASSEY FRANCIS PROFESSOR BARRY POMEROY ENGL 1310- LITERARY TOPICS 23RD OF OCTOBER 2012 SUMMARY OF “MUNITIONS” BY JESSIE GEORGINA SIME The text “Munitions” by Georgina Sime talks about the position of women and how they too can make a different or change in the society. Sime uses a character (Bertha Martin) to stress the idea and show actually how she strived and made decisions to be able to attain a sense of self-worth. The general image of women was said to be unpleasant “loud
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all the time. Some people talk to people on line but they need to talk to them in person. It’s hard for somebody to complete a task by there self. Some adult’s or student’s like working with other people on project’s. Some people can have other people help them out. Like if your working on something and you don’t know what to do‚ you can call someone‚ and they might know what too do. It’s good to be able to talk to people‚ you might get bored and need somebody to talk too. That’s how you make
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unable to venture into the unknown because if they fail‚ other students will judge them and deem them as inferior because of the competition in the environment. In David Sedaris’ Me Talk Pretty One Day‚ the narrator recounts his experience at a language school in France. He had a harsh teacher‚ who would shame and insult her students as they tried to speak and understand French. This lead to feelings of confidence and fear in the students because they constantly felt like they were failing. However‚
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Dave Pink’s Ted Talk reminded me of Ivan Pavlov’s conditional reflex theory; I believe sometimes in order to get a person motivated to do something‚ an incentive must be presented. We learn at a young age to have extrinsic motivation (if you did chores‚ you would get an allowance; if you got A’s in school‚ we would get rewarded; and so on and so forth). Growing up‚ I was never motivated by intrinsic motivation‚ I wasn’t personally rewarded by doing chores; I was motivated by the allowance. While
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Do as I say not as I do. Have you ever seen this leadership approach? How frustrating is it when leadership does not “walk the talk”? In my experience‚ leaders who have this approach are extremely hard to follow. Leaders that “walk the talk” set the example and can be emulated. The first example which comes to mind is when I attended a class. Lunch ran a little long and we were minutes from being late. In my company was a Full Bird Colonel. There were two options one was to walk in a couple
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1. After having watched Dr. Roughgarden’s talk‚ what example most interested you and why? The most interesting example to me was the sex role reversal in nature example of seahorses. Male seahorses take on the role of the caregivers instead of the females in nature‚ which was once believed to be the opposite of the “structure” of nature‚ the female seahorses are the ones who look for a male who is interested in them‚ so they are the ones hunting for a mate. This is interesting to me‚ because what
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