WEEK 2 ASSIGNMENT Chapter 4: World‚ National‚ Regional‚ and Other Organizations Case Problems 1. A popular tourist state has fallen on hard times. The state government can no longer provide adequate funds for its state park system. The governor has proposed a “group maintenance” policy for the parks. This means that all the parks in a given part of the state would be managed on a group basis. Eliminated would be all of the individual local park managers. Several million people visit these
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Opportunities in Hospitality Industry Cruise Line Hotel Director - The Hotel Director oversees the whole Hotel Operations including the Guest Services department‚ the Food and Beverage department‚ the Housekeeping department‚ and the Entertainment department. Marketing and Revenue Manager - Oversees all the revenues onboard the ship and helps implement strategies to increase onboard sales within various departments. Candidate works closely with the Hotel Director and Cruise Director as well as the Training
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1. How should Smooth Sailings’ mana gement perform the recoverability test for the cruise ship as of December 31‚ 2010? FASB ASC paragraph 360-10-35-23 states that for measuring an impairment loss‚ long-lived assets should be group with other assets and liabilities at the lowest level for which identifiable cash flows are largely independent of the cash flows of other assets and liabilities 2. What assets and liabilities should be included in the “asset group” as defined by ASC 360- 10
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ABSTRACT Cruise control system is developed for highway driving. This system is useful for driving in roads which are big‚ straight‚ and the destination is far apart. When traffic congestion is increasing‚ the conventional cruise control becomes less useful. The adaptive cruise control (ACC) system is developed to cope up with this situation. The conventional cruise control provides a vehicle with one mode of control‚ velocity control. On the other hand‚ ACC provides two
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“Forever a Kid at Heart” Being out in the middle of the ocean on a “magical” cruise ship is my definition of perfection. Disney World is known to be the most magical place in this world but that also holds true with the Disney Cruise Line. I have personally been on five cruises‚ and all have been with Disney‚ and I have never enjoyed myself more than being on those boats. Disney Cruise Line has a total of four ships and each have their own distinctive design‚ with beautiful gold swirls on the sides
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Summary of "The Case for Animal Rights" In "The Case for Animal Rights‚" Tom Regan writes about his beliefs regarding animal rights. Regan states the animal rights movement is committed to a number of goals‚ including: "the total abolition of the use of animals in science; the total dissolution of commercial animal agriculture; and the total elimination of commercial and sport hunting and trapping. Regan goes on and tells us the "fundamental wrong is the system that allows us to view animals as
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Carnival Cruise Lines is a British-American owned cruise line based in the Doral suburb of Miami‚ Florida (Carnival Cruise Lines‚ n.d.). The company offers vacations that appeal to a wide range of lifestyles and budgets. Carnival was founded in 1972 as an independent company by Ted Arison. The cruise line company became known as the world’s most popular cruise line and in 1987 it made an initial public offering of 20 percent of its common stock. The public offering provided the company with an influx
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on the this Disney Cruise. The Dream Cruise is very interesting and impressive. The Disney Dream Cruise crew
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Corporate Social Responsibility of TOMS Shoes BUS 311 Ethical Management May 20‚ 2013 Tom’s Shoes Corporate social responsibility is defined as "actions of an organization that are targeted toward achieving a social benefit over and above maximizing profits for its shareholders and meeting all its legal obligations" (Ghillyer‚ 2012). The for-profit company‚ TOMS Shoes‚ takes social responsibility seriously starting with their central goal: "We can create a better tomorrow by taking
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War I and II required use of cruise ships as troop carriers. After the war ceased‚ they were used for transporting displaced refugees seeking a new start in distant lands. The industry recovered speedily as the government heavily funded the building of cruise ships with the view to possible redeployment in the future. Even though huge breakthroughs in the flight industry dented the flow in transatlantic journeys‚ the sixties witnessed the start of the modernized cruise ships. People desired to relive
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