Rossetta Stone Inc. I. Current Situation A. Current Performance Proactive and aggressive potential for profit about Rosetta stone’s growth‚ the language – learning industry produced over 83$ billion in consumer spending. From 2004 to 2009‚ Rosetta Stone’s revenue increased from $25.4 million to $252.3 million‚ representing a 58% compound annual growth rate B strategic posture 1. Misson Rosetta Stone’s mission was to change the way people learn languages. The company
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The Paleolithic and Neolithic Ages were both part of the Stone Age. The Paleolithic Age is considered the “Old Stone Age” while the Neolithic Age is the “New Stone Age.” During the Paleolithic era‚ humans had more of a nomadic lifestyle and tended to move with the herds. They used animal skins as clothing and chipped stones or animal bones as tools. Their main focus was to find food by hunting animals and gathering what they could from plants growing in the area. The Neolithic Age gave way
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the material which man used in the manufacture of his weapons and tools. The earliest epoch is known as the Old Stone Age. The following one is known as the New Stone Age. In the Old Stone Age man’s implements were usually made of stone‚ and particularly of easily chipped flints‚ though sometimes bones‚ horns‚ tusks‚ and other material were used in their manufacture. The man of the Old Stone Age saw that he retreating glaciers of the last great ice age‚ of which geology tells us. He was a hunter and
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Enzo Tan 1-D 26 Paleolithic Era: * Greek in origin: * Palaios: old * Lithos: stone * Literal translation: Old Age Of The Stone * 2.6 m.y.a until 10‚000 Before Present * (In which Present is Jan. 1‚ 1950) * Distinguished by the primary use of stone as tools for hunting‚ and building. * Men also used bone and wood as material for tools. * Men hunted in small groups or bands. * A rich source of Paleolithic artifacts is the Euphrates river.
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team‚ to maintain the source. Fire was produced by using bricks‚ woods‚ and stones. It wasn’t exchanged‚ but groups of people shared the source all together. The invention of the use of fire is what led to potters. According to the American Society for Testing and Materials‚ Potters are “all fired ceramic wares that contain clay when formed‚ except technical‚ structural‚ and refractory products”. In the time of the Stone Age‚ Potters were used as a source of holding items. It was a way to carry
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The period described as the Stone Age has been calculated as beginning about 2‚000‚000 BCE. During the Stone Age human society experienced the most fundamental changes‚ the most important of which was the massive yet lengthy transition from cave and rural dwelling and later to the more organized communities in towns and cities. The Stone Age is divided into two main periods: the Paleolithic period and the Neolithic period. Each of these periods is based on the sophistication of the tools our ancestors
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sharp-edged stones) the more difficult it is to decide whether they are natural objects or human artifacts. There is some evidence that the australopithecines (4 mya) may have used broken bones as tools‚ but this is debated. It should be noted that many species make and use tools‚ but it is the human species that dominates the areas of making and using more complex tools. A good question is‚ what species made and used the first tools? The oldest known tools are the "Oldowan stone tools" from
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Human beings‚ in contrast with other species‚ do not possess highly developed instinctive reactions but have the capacity to think systematically and creatively about techniques. Human beings can thus innovate and consciously modify their environment in a way no other species has achieved. An ape may on occasion use a stick to beat bananas from a tree. A human being can fashion the stick into a cutting tool and remove a whole bunch of bananas. By virtue of human being’s nature as a toolmaker‚ a
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EXAM I VOCABULARY Paleolithic and Neolithic Vocabulary to Know: * Paleolithic – 40‚000-8‚000 BC Old Stone Age‚ mankind produced * Neolithic – New Stone Age 1. Comes about at different times at different locations due to ice age ending unevenly 1. Development of organized system of agriculture (replacing hunting gathering community) 1. Domestication of animals 1. Permanent architecture (year round settlements) * Iconography – pictoral representations * sculpture
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became proficient in new techniques of casting and shaping copper‚ which put them ahead of the world around them. Finally‚ the Sumerian jewelry was often not just decorative pieces of metal or stone but they often carried or displayed precious metals and rocks. This form of jewelry became a stepping-stone into the way jewelry is formed today. Egyptian art‚ unlike Sumerian art‚ was meant to be used for the importance of religion and to allow the upper class citizens to have beautiful houses. While
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