First Assignment - Summary and Critique Paul S. Martin‚ Twilight of the Mammoths: Ice Age Extinctions and the Rewilding of America‚ University of California Press‚ 2005‚ Prologue and Chapter 2 Summary The overkill hypothesis stresses the fact that people were the main technicians behind the late pleistocene extinction of fauna in Northern Eurasia and North and South America. Paul Martin of the University of Arizona and others see a subsequent and spontaneous connection between the presence
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Group Summary: Drucker‚ P.‚ 2004 “What makes an effective executive”‚ Harvard Business Review‚ 82(6) pp. 58-63 As individuals‚ all executives consist of different personalities‚ attitudes‚ values‚ strengths and weaknesses among each other‚ in order to become an effective executive eight practices are collectively employed. The article “What makes an effective executive”‚ by P. Drucker discusses the repeated practices that is followed by successful effective executives including‚ “what needs to
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1.0 Executive Summary Situation Analysis McDonald’s Corporation offers greater variety and quality choices and delight customers with the food and beverage products they desire from a fast-food restaurant. McDonald’s is convenient and modern making life fun and easy for customers‚ crew‚ and mangers. They also offer a range of tastes‚ sizes‚ and prices that deliver value to customers. An analysis of the internal and external environment indicates McDonald’s secret of success is its willingness
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REAL TIME DISCRETE EVENT SIMULATION OF A PCB PRODUCTION SYSTEM FOR OPERATIONAL SUPPORT This is a summary of the paper titled “Real Time Simulation of a PCB Production System for Operational Support” by Mats Jackson and Christer Johansson in the 1997 Winter Simulation Conference. I picked this paper because it deals with how Discrete Event Simulation (DES) is used to assist a crucial methodology in the current market – “Agile” manufacturing. Nowadays‚ the customers want better products available
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Executive Summary Background: For displaying a new type of store and exposing more of the teahouse market to the community‚ Andy Yang and Tracy Huang decided to open Snowflake Tea House. The original Snowflake Tea House was launched in Fremont‚ CA; first opening in 2012. Due to the popularity‚ the owners decided to open another branch in Union City. This branch is renamed to be Snowflake Tea House 2. This location is very profitable to the new branch because Union City is located in the middle
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Vishnu SUMMARY Vishnu: The preserver and protector of the universe He is part of the Hindu triumvirate‚ which includes Brahman (creator of the universe)‚ Shiva (the destroyer)‚ and Vishnu. His role is to return to the earth in troubled times and restore the balance of good and evil. So far‚ he has been incarnated nine times‚ but Hindus believe that he will be reincarnated one last time close to the end of this world. Some people consider him the greatest god and therefore only worship him
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Jennifer Jones Professor Rodger Smith English 1301 20 September 2012 Working against the Clock Many people who strive for a career that will pay the bills with ease often resort to the medical field. In the article‚ “Medicine”‚ by Matt Richtel‚ manifests the different level of duties each field contains and how that influences medical students to determine which specialty they will pursue. Dr. Jennifer C. Boldrick graduated from Stanford University Medical School in preparation to become
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Chapter Summary Chapter seven talked about campaigns‚ elections‚ and the media. The legal qualifications for holding political office are minimal at both the state and local levels‚ but holders of political office still are predominantly white and male are likely to be from the professional class. American political campaigns are lengthy and extremely expensive. In the last decade‚ they have become more candidate centered rather than party centered in response to technological innovations and
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Gunnar Lentz SOC 3160_1002 Dr. Gary Oates January 13‚ 2013 Differential Issues Summary & Reaction In “Race and Sex as Biological Categories‚” Ruth Hubbard discusses how biological differences shape our society’s views of women and minority groups. Hubbard first talks about the exploitation of minority groups in order to fuel the industrialization of Europe and North America‚ saying that “it became imperative to draw distinctions between that small number of men who were created equal and everyone
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Summary ——United Dominions Corporation Ltd Brian Pty Ltd（1985）HCA 49；157 CLR 1 This is an appeal which is against the decision upholding the previous appeal. While the legal issue is that whether UDC who is the appellant in this case had fiduciary relationship with Brian who is the first respondent and whether UDC acted in the breach of its fiduciary duty to Brian. Actually‚ the fact of the case is that UDC‚ SPL and others got involved into two arranged development of land which turned into
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