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    Date: 28-Oct-2010 Fundamentals of Management – BAD 201 Case Study Boom and Bust in Telecommunications 1- The strategic plan adopted by level 3‚ Global crossing and 360 networking failed due to several reasons. First‚ overvaluing the opportunity found in the market by wrong analyzing of the market and claiming that there is 1000% growth in the internet traffic in the year that was found to be 100% which is way less then what they thought. Second‚ the heavy competition between rivalries

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    According to the Pew Hispanic Center‚ the rate of high school dropouts that are Hispanic is staggeringly higher than other ethnic groups. Furthermore‚ the rate of dropouts that go on to get a GED is also significantly lower. Some 41% of Hispanics are high school dropouts‚ and of that 41% only 1 in 10 gets a GED. In an interview with Dr. Rosemary Gonzalez‚ she was told the statistics from this article‚ and asked to comment on her thought in general about the level of Hispanic drop out. Dr. Gonzalez

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    Crash‚ Boom‚ Bang Janie Bunce Abstract The movie “Crash” was voted the best movie of 2005 for good reason‚ it deals with subjects that others were probably afraid to tackle. As the name implies it starts with a car crash‚ but in doing so reveals only one of the metaphors used in the movie. Other metaphors used in the movie allow us to view the culture shock that many people see on a daily basis‚ especially when dealing with different ethnicities‚ religions and races. Los Angeles is shown in

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    detrimental to the schools as well. School dropout rates are higher than before. Almost 3 out of 10 teen American girls will get pregnant at least once before they hit age 20‚ that’s nearly 750‚000 teen pregnancies every year. Parenthood is the leading reason that teen girls drop out of school. 8 out of 10 teen dads don’t even marry the mother of their child. Teen pregnancy is a common issue in America. “Young women who give birth while attending a community college are 65 percent less likely to complete

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    minority in the United States. Yet it is also the minority group that suffers with many barriers in their education. Unequal opportunities for the Latino students and poor conditions of education still exists in many of the Latino community school. The dropout rates among the Latino students are very high. Chicano Students suffer of the lack of help from the counselors in their schools that will help them finish high school . The rate of Latino that graduate from a 4-year universities is very low‚ because

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    There are a number of sobering statistics concerning the high school dropout rate in the United States. One third of all students who enter high school don’t graduate.1 As of 2000‚ 10.9% of 16 to 24 year olds were dropouts.2 The dropout rate in urban schools is twice the rate of non-urban schools.2 Statistics also show that young adults whose families are in the lowest 20% of incomes are six times more likely to dropout that those whose families are in the upper 20% of incomes.2 The U.S. Department

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    Boom and Bust 1920s

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    Boom and Bust At those times the United States of America were a land of opportunities. The 1920s were known as the boom years. The economic boom and bust in America was based around the consumer good‚ mostly luxury items that people wanted to buy but didn’t really need. American industry had profit by selling war goods to Britain and France. The disruption to British and French industry allowed America to become the world leading exporter. America only joined the war by the end‚ so it had

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    public school for one year. School dropouts should pay back the money used to educate them. If they don’t pay back the money then that would mean the student flushed our money down the drain. Every 26 seconds a high school student drops out of school. That’s over 65 billion dollars a year‚ if this keeps up then our money should go towards other things like projects‚ debt‚ and social security. Lastly‚ for the students who are going to school‚ some of the dropout money should go towards schools so

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    A lot of America’s food may have been very hazardous‚ but there were no laws or guidelines on how food and drugs should be manufactured in the early 1900s. During the progressive era‚ people began to worry about the things that might have contaminated food while being processed. People became scared to eat‚ because they never knew if their food might have been contaminated. Albert Beveridge gave the president‚ Theodore Roosevelt‚ the book “The Jungle.” He was disgusted and knew something had

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    Causes of High School Dropouts: High school dropouts of today’s generation are very alarming and disappointing to see the amount of teens that have made the ultimate decision to give up. Teenagers suffering from drug addiction‚ alcoholism‚ pregnancy or financial problems are very likely to drop out. These all lead students into believing there is no reason to try any longer. Dropping out of high school is a negative decision‚ but can be prevented very easily. Bad decision making on teens parts

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