Participant-Observation Study of the Arabic culture I have conducted a participant-observation research in an Arabic hookah café in Georgetown‚ the Zenobia Lounge. While I was expecting to get more insight about the way Arabs practice Islam in their daily lives‚ my observations were about the service sector in collectivist cultures and expression of cultural identities. I realized that the intimate relationship between a business and customers was more important than the service itself in collectivist
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1. Rainbow Products is considering the purchase of a paint-mixing machine in order to reduce labor costs. The savings are expected to provide the additional cash flows of $5‚000 per year. The machine costs $35‚000 and will last for 15 years. The cost of capital for this investment is 12% a) The payback period of this project is 7 years. The sum of cash flows during the first seven years equal the initial investment. The net present value (NPV) and IRR of this project is -$945.68‚ and 11.49% respectively
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Stealth The first generation of the Lockheed Martin U-2 was created in 1955 and was labeled U-2A. It was developed to allow the U.S. a glimpse into the Soviet Union. It was in direct response to the Soviet’s development of the Myasishchev M-4 bomber (“Hammer”) and the alleged bomber gap. President Eisenhower called for designs of a stealth aircraft that could fly near and over Soviet airspace without the risk of being shot down. It was developed by a team of Lockheed Martin employees called Skunk Works
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Drive down the congested coast highway‚ past the Santa Monica Pier. Take a right at Chautauqua Boulevard and for the first time you are finally driving at the speed limit uphill on a winding bourgeois road. Walk to the end of an unsuspecting alleyway‚ past all the gated post-modern mansions that seem to each exist in their own worlds behind lines of lush green foliage and stark white concrete walls. At the end of the road is The Eames House‚ Case Study House #8—the archetypal symbol of post-modernism
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While Bernice Kaiser is not a name well known‚ Eames is certainly a name that holds an irreplaceable position in postwar American design‚ and according to some‚ Ray and Charles Eames could even be the most important American designers of the twentieth century. From their bent plywood chair of 1946‚ to their short films‚ the Eames were a partnership that engineered innovation across the entire design spectrum. Their more than 80 short films brought awards at film festivals in the United States‚ Europe
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Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Acquisition and Management negotiated contracts between the Air Force‚ Boeing Company and Lockheed Martin. There were several unethical behaviors involved in the negotiations of several contracts with the Boeing Company. Fist Boeing obtained more than 22‚000 pages of documents from Lockheed Martin‚ which contained confidential competition-sensitive or other proprietary information that would give Boeing the upper hand when negating for contracts
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I. Introduction A. Area 51 is a top secret military base that wasn’t even considered to exist until 2013. Some people believe that UFO’s and alien objects are stored here‚ but this information cannot be proven. The content of area 51 today is unknown‚ but we do know what it was created for! I found most of my information on the internet and watching documentaries on this. B. Location 1. Located in the remote Nevada desert near the dry bed of Groom Lake‚ Area 51 may be the most famous military installation
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Case study: Investment Analysis and Lockheed Tri Star MGMTS-2700 Professor Hamza Abdurezak Harvard University Yang Zhong 1> A. Payback‚ NPV‚ IRR‚ Should purchase or not? Payback: $35‚000/5000=7 year NPV: =Co+ C1…..n/(1+i)^1….n Co=-3‚5000 CF1-CF15= 5‚000; I= 12 Computing result is $-945.67 IRR: 11.49% NPV is negative and IRR is lower 12% so reject the proposal. B. NPV: =Co+ C1…..n/(1+i)^1…
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Pre-Feasibility Study FRESH FRUITS PROCESSING (Kinnow) Small and Medium Enterprise Development Authority Government of Pakistan www.smeda.org.pk HEAD OFFICE LDA Plaza‚ 6th Floor‚ Egerton Road‚ Lahore Tel: (042) 111-111-456‚ Fax: (042) 6304926-7 helpdesk@smeda.org.pk REGIONAL OFFICE PUNJAB 6th Floor‚ LDA Plaza‚ Egerton Road‚ Lahore. Tel: (042) 111-111-456 Fax: (042) 6304926-7 helpdesk@smeda.org.pk REGIONAL OFFICE SINDH 5TH Floor‚ Bahria Complex II‚ M.T. Khan Road‚ Karachi. Tel: (021) 111-111-456
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Answer ALL TWENTY TWO questions. \Mrite your answers in the spaces provided. You must write down all the stages in your working. I Work out the value of 6.6xt.2 4.4-2.75 1‚\L L65 -6 -*--9:js!-Io:-9:::F"sD-!-:s?*:l*:j:) 2 A group ofstudents take a test. The group consists of 12 boys and 8 girls. The mean mark for the boys is 18 The mean mark for the girls is 16.5 Calculate the mean mark for the whole group. [(txs) t(s xt;.r); zo = (z‚a rt37) ; zo [1‚4 J--v-::b)*
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