Born the son of an astronomer‚ Phidias‚ in 287 B.C.‚ Archimedes’ education began as a young man in Syracuse. He furthered his education in Alexandria‚ where he studied with fellow scholar Conon‚ an Egyptian mathematician. What we know of Archimedes comes from his personal works as well as those of Cicero and Plutarch. However‚ "due to the length of time between Archimedes’ death and his biographers’ accounts‚ as well as inconsistencies among their writings‚ details of his life must remain subject
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Question – Chapter 2: Research Problem 2 When Oprah gave away Pontiac G6 sedans to her TV audience‚ was the value of the cars taxable? On Labor Day weekend in 2006‚ World Furniture Mall in Plano‚ Illinois‚ gave away $275‚000 of furniture because the Chicago Bears shut out the Green Bay Packers in the team’s football season opener at Lambeau Field in Green Bay (26-0). Was the free furniture in the form of a discount or rebate taxable‚ or should the furniture company have handed the customers a Form
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form of communication that is not based on a formal language system 1.5 Identify a range of communication methods and aids to support individuals to communicate 1.6 Describe the potential effects on an individual of having unmet communication needs 2. Be able to contribute to establishing the nature of specific communication needs of individuals and ways to address them 2.1 Work in partnership with the individual and others to identify the individual’s specific communication needs 2.2 Contribute
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Case Study#1 In June 1993‚ Kombs Engineering had grown to a company with $25 million in sales. The business base consisted of two contracts with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)‚ one for $15 million and one for $ 8 million. The remaining $2 million consisted of a variety of smaller jobs for $15‚000 to $50‚000 each. The larger contract with DOE was a five-year contract for $15 million per year. The contract was awarded in 1988 and was up for renewal in 1993. DOE had made it clear that‚ although
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User Interface Development- 280CT Exercise 2 :( Eight Golden Rules) For questions 1 and 2‚ refer to the following interface: 1 Describe five things wrong with the above interface. 1.1 Form fill-in formats The input box given that asks users to fill in names; the label is not aligning with the input box. It makes the users confuse whether they should fill in name or not because when they saw the input box that has label ‘Date’ is alignment. Therefore‚ the ‘Your name’ label should
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Assignment 2: Avon Products or GE Money America Case Study Due Week 4 and worth 150 points From the Goldsmith & Carter textbook‚ select either the Avon Products (Chapter 1) or GE Money Americas (Chapter 6) case study for this assignment. Write a five to seven (5-7) page paper in which you: 1. Provide a brief description of the status of the company that led to its determination that a change was necessary. 2. Identify the model for change theory typified in the case study of your choice
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E-commerce Introduction of Alibaba.com Website-http://www.alibaba.com/ E-model-b2b and b2c Alibaba.com is an online business-to-business trading platform for small businesses. The company was founded by Jack Ma and 17 other people in 1999‚ and now day is the flagship company of Alibaba Group. It claims it had more than 79 million registered users in more than 240 countries and regions as of March 31‚ 2012. Alibaba.com has three major business-to-business (B2B) marketplaces. The company’s
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Business Resources Unit 2 Level 3 Task 1 Criteria P1 Describe the recruitment documentation used in a selected organization that you have been studying. Recruitment documentation basically means filling information and personal details about the vacancy that the person is applying for. Recruitment documentation consists of all the copies of application forms and supporting documents‚ and notes from all the panel members as well as regarding that the
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believes that the main purpose of any organization should be altruistic. This altruistic purpose is “best defined from a customer’s point of view.” The reason a customer uses the product should help define why the company makes the products. As in the case with Konica cameras‚ the company was first focusing on what customers thought of the camera and not what the customers thought about the pictures they were producing. Most customers thought the camera was great‚ and that they just weren’t taking good
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Assignment Submission Name: Samantha Platts Student Number: MD1133307 Address: 22 St Marks Grove Rawcliffe York Postcode: YO30 5TS Course: Human Resource Management Assignment Number: 2 Date Submitted: 30th July 2014 Number of pages: 11 Email: s.platts1986@googlemail.com What is a Trade Union? The Trade Union came into fruition in 1867 where it was realised that employees where submitted to long working hours‚ low pay and no benefits. Employees had no rights within the work place
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