Analysis of “Super-Toys Last All Summer Long” The short story “Super-Toys Last All Summer Long” from 1969 by Brian Aldiss is about a futuristic family‚ who lives in a science-fiction world. The family members consists of Monica and Henry Swinton‚ their son David‚ and his toy‚ Teddy. The Swinton family live in an overpopulated world‚ packed with lonely people‚ who are accompanied by intelligent “Super-Toys”. Henry Swinton’s job is to develop these toys‚ which are created to ease
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The History of the Electric Guitar The desire to increase the sound of the guitar existed long before the development of electrical amplifiers and speakers. Musical performances in the 19th century were characterized by ever-larger concert settings and ensembles. Musicians needed louder and more powerful instruments‚ which became possible by using new materials and designs. The introduction of steel strings in the 19th century meant not only greater volume‚ but greater tension on instruments
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Case study #2 Barrie Super Subs Introduction Barrie Super subs‚ one of the larger super subs restaurants‚ is a part of a chain of 300 restaurants across Canada. Currently‚ Barrie Super Subs has a restaurant manager‚ who rarely has time to serve customers and is even discouraged by head office from doing so; an assistant manager whose main priority is assisting the manager with purchasing‚ hiring‚ accounts and spends little time on the frontline serving customers; and finally‚ several part time
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MS 403 Engineering Entrepreneurship Case Study: Electric Two-wheelers: Suzhou‚ China versus India Sumit Deshmukh Prashant Patel For the present case study‚ we have taken 2 generic products – TVS Scooty Pep+ - a petrol powered bike and Hero Electric E-Sprint - an electrical 2 wheeler for quantitative cost analysis. Market prices and power rating of these bikes are comparable and hence gives us a more realistic account. TVS Scooty Pep Cost (Rs.) Max. Speed (kmph) km/unit Fuel price/unit
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21‚ 2011 Super Hero in Reality In this novel‚ The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay‚ written by Michael Chabon‚ is trying to illustrate Joe Kavalier as a manifestation of a superhero in the form of a mortal. Joe Kavalier is one of the comic book artists who escaped from Nazi Germany when he was fourteen. Throughout the novel‚ Joe unknowingly personifies a masked superhero. His experiences emulate those of a super hero and he attempts to save the lives of his family as a super hero would
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Super PAC Men $350 Million dollars. That’s the estimated amount of money spent during the 2012 election. An estimated $240 million of that is not even spent by candidates. The 2012 races has seen the greatest number of Political Action Committees (PACs) ever. These committees spent millions and millions of dollars to help candidates get elected‚ or legislature passed without regulation. What started as advocacy groups supporting a cause‚ has turned into big corporations protecting their money
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l forms a circle of radius b that lies in the xy-plane in air with its center at the origin. a) Find the electric field intensity E at the point (0‚ 0‚ h). b) At what value of h will E in part (a) be a maximum? What is this maximum? 3. Determine the work done in carrying a 5 C charge from P1 ( 1‚ 2‚ 4) to P2 (2‚ 8‚ 4) in the field E a x y a y x a) along the parabola y 2x ‚ and 2 b) along the straight line joining P and P2 . 1 4. A finite
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The Lincoln Electric Case International Strategic Management By: Group 4A Introduction John C. Lincoln founded the Lincoln Electric Company in the year 1895. The first products that the company produced and sold were electric motors that he had designed himself. A Few years later‚ in 1907 his brother James‚ a recently graduate from the Ohio State University‚ joined as a senior manager; He was also the one who would introduce different and very innovative human resource policies
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ELECTRIC DISCHARGE MACHINING INTRODUCTION * Sometimes it is referred to as spark machining‚ * Its a manufacturing process whereby a desired shape is obtained using electrical discharges (sparks). * Material is removed from the workpiece by a series of rapidly recurring current discharges between two electrodes‚ separated by a dielectric liquid and subject to an electric voltage. * One of the electrodes – ‘tool-electrode’ or ‘tool’ or ‘electrode’. * Other electrode - workpiece-electrode
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test. These costs were undertaken to determine whether the Super project was feasible‚ and would exist even if the project were deemed unfeasible. 1.ii. Overhead Expenses: Mr. Sanberg proposed to include these in the fully allocated method used in Alternative III. However‚ we believe that these expenses have already been attributed to the Jell-O line of products‚ and the data does not explicitly provide the overheads attributed to the Super project. Hence‚ these should not be considered while evaluating
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