other chemicals and pollutants in it. Tap water‚ on the other hand‚ is straight from a source that is thoroughly regulated. Consumers should ban the bottle when it comes to drinking water and instead drink tap water. For one‚ drinking tap water decreases the astronomical amount of waste caused by bottled water. Not only that‚ but by American consumers purchasing bottled water‚ they are paying companies to waste money and valuable natural resources‚ while tap water and it’s increased use is creating
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ERP Localization in a Foreign Subsidiary of the K Company Ji-Ye Mao Wei Wang Mianzhen Pan Foreign subsidiaries of multinational companies (MNCs) are often mandated to adopt the same ERP package used by their parent‚ but the results vary to large degrees. ERP implementation in foreign subsidiaries involves bigger challenges than at home. It is partly because of potential misfits between the software package‚ which reflects European and U.S. industry practices‚ and the local cultural
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By the end of the XV century‚ Europeans knew only three continents: Europe‚ Asia‚ and Africa. The existence of a vast continent of America‚ they did not know. The first sailor who attempted to reach India by the West was Christopher Columbus. He was born in Italy‚ near Genoa‚ in the Weaver family. All Columbus life was connected with the sea. In his youth‚ he participated in several voyages and then engaged in drawing maps. In the summer of 1492‚ three small caravels with a team of 90 people set
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My findings in the assumptions around bottle water and tap water resulted in a wide range of how the water supply is regulated. There are two different agencies that regulate the water supply in the United States. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulates bottled water. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulates tap water. Both agencies are highly regulated agencies and have different standards of how the water is delivered to the consumer. The FDA manufacturing process is
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colonization of the new world proved to be a monumental task‚ yet daunting task that presented a new set of challenges for the settlers. In his letter to Ferdinand and Isabella‚ the king and queen of Spain in the late 15th century and early 16th century‚ Christopher Columbus describes his colonization of the new world as a massive potential for the seemingly untouched utopia of natural resources. The letter reveals a sense of urgency and uncertainty in Columbus derived from the competition between world powers
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POWER‚ WEALTH AND TREACHERY IN THREE PLAYS OF CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE By Norbert Oyibo Eze Department of Theatre Arts‚ University of Nigeria‚ Nsukka. Marlowe’s popularity does not only stem from the grandeur of his poetry and penetrating tragic tone‚ but lies heavily on the social relevance and sublimity of his themes. Harry Levin is of the opinion that “Marlowe’s name is the one that comes after Shakespeare’s in any discussion of English tragedy” (1956:Blurb). Marlowe’s Elizabethan age disclosed
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Thanks to strict regulations imposed by the US Environmental and Protection Agency‚ clean tap water is something Americans take for granted. But such is not the case for the residents of Flint‚ Michigan. Their water supply is so tainted that President Obama declared a federal state of emergency in Flint releasing up to $5 million USD to help the city combat what is probably one of the biggest public health crisis of recent times. The chain of events that led to this unprecedented situation began
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Christopher Paolini wrote‚ “It was as if his point of view had‚ within seconds‚ gone from that of an ant to that of an eagle.” As I kept learning to love reading more and more‚ I would always stay away from the very long‚ novel like books. I never thought that they could keep the reader engaged. I was also very picky when it came to the fantasy genre. Most fantasy books seemed a bit too childish. Then I discovered The Inheritance Cycle series. It was four books and each was a novel. I really wanted
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difficult task since everything that is appealing in a book is not necessarily going to work out great in the movie. This requires directors and writers to modify some of the story to fit nicer with the movie environment. The book Eragon‚ written by Christopher Paolini‚ is the first book of the series called inheritance cycle which consists of four books. Paolini wrote Eragon back in 2001 and a movie based on the book was made later in 2006. Although the movie is based on the book and shares a lot of similar
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Managing knowledge transfer in MNCs: the impact of headquarters control mechanisms (article 1) 4 Minbaeva et. al. (2003): MNC knowledge transfer‚ subsidiary absorptive capacity‚ and HRM (article 2) 5 Mudambi (2002): Knowledge management in multinational firms (article 3) 6 Foss & Pedersen (2002): Transferring knowledge in MNC’s: The role of sources of subsidiary knowledge and organizational context (article 4) 7 Gupta & Govindarajan (2000): Knowledge flows within multinational corporations (article
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