Vidrine 24 February 2010 Off the Bus: A Thematic Analysis of Vivian Gornick’s “On The Bus” Sometimes all we need is for someone to listen; Gornick realizes this as she travels back and forth on a bus from New York to a school three in a half hours away. While traveling to and from school‚ she meets an exhausted woman in her mid twenties named Jewel‚ who is traveling from Cleveland to New York to visit her sick mother. Over the few weeks they share on a bus together‚ Gornick listens to Jewel
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twenty five million passengers aboard their bus lines and consolidated revenue was $1‚022.4 million. Greyhound’s fleet consists of more then 2‚300 buses which arrive and depart from one hundred and twelve company-operated terminals and approximately one thousand seven hundred agency-operated terminals. In 2001‚ the number of employees nationwide on payroll was twelve thousand and of that amount‚ approximately thirty six percent are drivers. Greyhound bus lines operate a vigorous schedule of twenty-four
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Wal-mart ’s Strategic Initiative Richard Cannataro‚ Michelle Hayes‚ Camille King‚ Kristyna Princivalli‚ and Cynthia Zatarian FIN/370 October 24‚ 2011 Brad Simon Wal-Mart ’s Strategic Initiative It is difficult to clearly understand the goals of a company unless you look at the strategic planning involved. What is strategic planning? Strategic planning is simplifying the overall purpose and desired results of an organization‚ and showing how those results will be achieved. If the strategic
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Traveling by bus or by train? The second benefit of traveling by bus not by train is you can sing some songs or watch movies during your journey. If you feel bored in the bus‚ you can choose some songs from songbooks to let you feel more fun. You sing whatever you like to distract your dull time during in the bus. On condition that you don’t want to sing some songs‚ watching movies are the best options for you to pick. There are many plots in the movie that will make you laugh sometimes and forget
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Organizational Planning This paper will provide a brief overview of L-3 Communication’s SWOT analysis‚ strategic‚ and operational plans that will enable the corporation to achieve its strategic and operational goals. This paper will identify strategic and operational plans for the specific strategic goal of technical and market leadership‚ and the operational goal of quality as the standard by which performance is measured L-3 is currently experiencing strong inorganic growth through the acquisition
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Unit 3 – Sampling Type your Name Here American InterContinental University Abstract This is a single paragraph‚ no indentation is required. The next page will be an abstract; “a brief‚ comprehensive summary of the contents of the article; it allows the readers to survey the contents of an article quickly” (Publication Manual‚ 2010). The length of this abstract should be 35-50 words (2-3 sentences). NOTE: the abstract must be on page 2 and the body of the paper will begin on page 3. Introduction
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Case Presentation Gingerich vs. Protein Blenders Protein Blenders‚ Inc. made written contract with Gingerich to buy from him shares of stock of a small corporation named Maplecrest Turkey Farms. The plaintiff‚ Protein Blenders‚ Inc. agreed to purchase 4‚505 shares of preferred stock from the defendant‚ Gingerich‚ a small corporation named Maplecrest Turkey farms. The price of each stock was $52.50 per share which came to a grand total of $236‚512.50. Protein Blenders‚ Inc. has failed and
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Your instructor may opt to have you and your co-managers do a presentation at the end of the simulation (or possibly even at some point during the simulation). Typically‚ the audience for such a presentation is your company’s board of directors and/or shareholders (with your instructor‚ invited guests‚ and other class members assuming the roles of board members and/or shareholders). Your instructor will clarify whether the context of your presentation will be a meeting of the company’s board of directors
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1 - Describe your company and analyze the various primary and secondary stakeholder groups‚ their roles‚ and relationships. A - In July of 1958‚ MITRE was founded as a private‚ not-for-profit corporation to provide engineering and technical services to the federal government. In doing so‚ it fulfilled a request by Secretary of the Air Force James Douglas for a specialized services group to provide the system engineering and ongoing support for the massive‚ multi-billion dollar‚ continental air
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2. Fact Pattern: Question 2: You own your own small party supply and rental business. You maintain an Excel list of potential customers and clients who have rented or purchased from you in the past two years. The list includes both physical mailing addresses and e-mail addresses for each person listed. You have a “category“ code to show whether the contact is a client. If they have done business with you‚ they show a code of “CUST” for customer. If they are potential customers who have not yet purchased
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