Notes on Case “Jim Poss” Jim Poss‚ a second year full-time MBA student at Babson College‚ has a passion for preserving and protecting the environment. He uses a summer internship and Babson courses to search for opportunities and evaluate them. By the final semester he focuses on a solar-powered trash compactor. When he graduates he puts all his efforts into his new venture and soon lands an order from Vail for one of his trash compactors‚ which will be installed in a remote area of the ski resort
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Jim Jones – Individuals Report The widely known leader I have chosen to present in my report is the American religious cult leader‚ responsible for the Jonestown massacre in 1978; Jim Jones. Born as James Warren Jones on May 13‚ 1931‚ he was an extremely influential leader of his cult church‚ The People’s Temple. His influence over this group led to a series of quite horrific events and eventually a mass suicide which Jones called “revolutionary suicide"‚ killing more than 900 people‚ including
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business scenario as it relates to Development and Implementation of Training. Your Case: Jim worked as a labourer for a gas utility in Winnipeg‚ Manitoba. When the opportunity came to apply for a backhoe/front-end-loader operator job‚ he was excited. Three people applied. To select the one who would get the job‚ the company asked each of them to go out and actually work on the back-hoe for a day. Jim felt his change for the job disappear because he had never even driven a tractor‚ let alone
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James Warren Jones commonly known as Jim Jones was an American cult leader. He was the founder of Peoples Temple which is infamous for mass murder suicide in 1978 November where 918 members of his cult lost their live. It is estimated that nearly 300 innocent children were murdered at Jonestown‚ almost all of them by cyanide poisoning. He was seen as a very charismatic man by his followers and he attracted people who were feeling isolated for whatever reason. Majority of his followers were African
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The New Jim Crow The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness‚ by Michelle Alexander‚ is a book about the discrimination of African Americans in today ’s society. One of Alexander ’s main points is the War on Drugs and how young African American males are targeted and arrested due to racial profiling. Racial profiling‚ discrimination‚ and segregation is not as popular as it used to be during the Civil War‚ however‚ Michelle Alexander digs deeper‚ revealing the truth about
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Jim Valvano was just some Italian kid from Queens New York who played college basketball for Rutgers University as a point guard from 1964-1967. In 1967 Valvano was able to lead his team to a third place finish in the NIT tournament‚ this is where Valvano’s leadership skills came to surface. Valvano then started his coaching career as the freshman head coach and an assistant coach on the varsity team. From there he became the head coach at John Hopkins University for 1 season‚ Arguably his greatest
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The Strange Career of Jim Crow When The Strange Career of Jim Crow was first published in 1955‚ it was immediately recognized to be the definitive study of racial relations in the United States. Professor Woodward discusses the “unanticipated developments and revolutionary changes at the very center of the subject.” Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. referred to the book as the historical bible of the civil rights movement. The Strange Career of Jim Crow won the Pulitzer for Mary Chestnut’s Civil War
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through the cracks above me. I slowly tilted my head‚ trying to figure out where I was. It looked like a small cave or something. The last thing I remembered was diving behind a pile of rocks before a grenade went off and my world exploded. My name is Jim Golemafi and I was an ex-army commander recruited to fight in the Afghanistan war. As my eyes slowly started to adjust to the dark cave‚ I carefully scanned each corner‚ hoping this wasn’t some animal’s hideout‚ or worse‚ the Taliban’s. In the very
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Quero‚ Mariane Coleen G. June 27‚ 2013 BSAc 1 2:30-3:30 TTHS Levels of Organization in Organism In unicellular (single-celled) organisms‚ the single cell performs all life functions. It functions independently. However‚ multicellular (many celled) organisms have various levels of organization within them. Individual cells may perform specific functions and also work together for the good of the entire organism. The cells become dependent on one another. Multicellular organisms
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Desperate loss and hopelessness fill so many homes. It is all too common to hear about a father walking out the door‚ a mother broken and defeated‚ and the children suffering through it all in fear and abandonment. Feelings such as these are found in Jim Stevens’ poem "Schizophrenia." The poem shows the conflicts that exist within the house. However‚ the crisis that the family is experiencing is not expressed directly‚ but indirectly‚ through the house. By personifying the house in every aspect‚
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