Analysis of “Super-Toys Last All Summer Long” The short story “Super-Toys Last All Summer Long” from 1969 by Brian Aldiss is about a futuristic family‚ who lives in a science-fiction world. The family members consists of Monica and Henry Swinton‚ their son David‚ and his toy‚ Teddy. The Swinton family live in an overpopulated world‚ packed with lonely people‚ who are accompanied by intelligent “Super-Toys”. Henry Swinton’s job is to develop these toys‚ which are created to ease
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HOW POWER-ORIENTED AM I ? I responded the questions and my resulting score is 23. This means that I fairly far Machiavellianism because my score is not close to 50. I agree with the consequences of this exercise. I read Machiavelli’s The Prince when I studied political theories. The book fairly attracted my attention because Machiavelli is different from other thinkers. I remember that according to Machiavelli‚ all men are bad‚ so there must be a person who has power. The person is so strong
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Introduction I thought I’d start out with heroes. We all have leaders. Leaders are those that we respect the most and want to be like. None of these leaders – the ones you know or the ones you don’t know yet – are perfect‚ and if they were‚ I doubt if I would want to emulate them. They are just leaders who followed the facts to where the facts led them‚ and when they found themselves in some odd place‚ coming to some even odder conclusions‚ these leaders didn’t back down. Leader I admire
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greatest wines Reduced his wine theory to a formula; he can predict the general quality of any vintage by plugging weather statistics for a given year into formula. NOT well received by traditional wine critics BUT‚ unlike the traditional critics who have to wait months to taste the wines‚ Orley could compute his predictions right away (he published them in a newsletter called Liquid Assets) 1990 New York Times Article on his prediction machine greatly intensified
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Case study #2 Barrie Super Subs Introduction Barrie Super subs‚ one of the larger super subs restaurants‚ is a part of a chain of 300 restaurants across Canada. Currently‚ Barrie Super Subs has a restaurant manager‚ who rarely has time to serve customers and is even discouraged by head office from doing so; an assistant manager whose main priority is assisting the manager with purchasing‚ hiring‚ accounts and spends little time on the frontline serving customers; and finally‚ several part time
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with people and ambivalence of feeling towards them becomes stronger and more intense. Aggressiveness that wants to direct on others becomes internalized and strengthen our Super-Ego‚ making it stronger with each generation and restricting our desires to throw out aggression. Eventually Civilization becomes‚ in the form of Super-Ego‚ the most serious tyrant that controls all our desires and thoughts and makes us less egoistic imposing the sense of guilt on us. Every individual becomes the part of
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organization and order were taken to such an extreme level that people lost the freedom to express themselves. Even though‚ at first the life in the community seemed orderly and peaceful‚ I found that such a life is not enjoyable. If I had the power to change anything in the story‚ I would use it to give the people the power to feel and express their feelings. The people of the community did not experience such powerful feelings as love‚ pain‚ compassion‚ and cannot express such feelings. Their lives are
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1.i. Test Marketing Expense: These can be identified as sunk costs‚ using the with-or-without test. These costs were undertaken to determine whether the Super project was feasible‚ and would exist even if the project were deemed unfeasible. 1.ii. Overhead Expenses: Mr. Sanberg proposed to include these in the fully allocated method used in Alternative III. However‚ we believe that these expenses have already been attributed to the Jell-O line of products‚ and the data does not explicitly provide
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Tom Brady and the New England Patriots enacted the most extraordinary resurgence in Super Bowl history‚ triumphing the Atlanta Falcons 34-28‚ in the first Super Bowl ending in an overtime. One of the biggest disputes in football is determining who is the greatest player of all time at any given position. Naturally‚ the leadership positions‚ like the Quarterback‚ are debated with even more intensity. Joe Montana and Tom Brady are three quarterbacks frequently designated as “The G.O.A.T‚” or greatest
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Super Bakery Analysis The Super Bakery utilizes a business model that permits lower expenses of labor‚ equipment‚ factories‚ administrative spaces‚ structures‚ etc. This model is defined as a “virtual corporation minimizes investment in human resources‚ fixed assets‚ and working capital” (Kimmel‚ 2009‚ p. 910). This method obviously keeps costs down to the company itself as major operating‚ and manufacturing expenses are outsourced. Super Bakery adopted the Activity Based Accounting (ABC) to simplify
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