MEMO To: Rick Solon‚ CEO of Orion Bus Company From: Lily Chen‚ Analyst Date: Nov. 12‚ 2010 RE: Recommendations on bidding strategy Regarding your concern about whether historical bidding data can benefit future bids for our bus contract‚ this is to introduce and recommend a more effective bidding model which could help predict the winning bid and maximize financial returns of the company during bidding process. Firstly‚ how does the model work? Based on the analysis of the past industry bid
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Soon after‚ Solon became the leader. He outlawed slavery based on debt and made four classes of citizens – this time divided by wealth‚ not ancestry. Only members of the top three classes could hold public office‚ but all citizens could vote in the assembly. Citizens
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To begin with‚ both governments are forms of a democracy‚ although before the democracy in Athens‚ they used to have an aristarchy. Cleisthenes created a council of over 500 around 500B.C‚ where he created more reforms after the work of Draco and Solon‚ pushing to change Athens to a democracy. After the democracy was created‚ Pericles decided to strengthen it greatly‚ during the Golden Age. Athens was a strait democracy; however‚ the United States is a form of a democracy
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Analysis: Chapters 1–5 The lines from the poem Maya cannot finish‚ “What are you looking at me for? I didn’t come to stay . . .” capture two of the most significant issues she struggles with in her childhood and young adulthood: feeling ugly and awkward and never feeling attached to one place. First‚ Maya imagines that though people judge her unfairly by her awkward looks‚ they will be surprised one day when her true self emerges. At the time‚ she hopes that she will emerge as if in a fairy-tale
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others like it‚ Rynah must “enlist” the help of four unlikely heroes from planet Earth. Solaris‚ using technology much like the beaming teleportation of Star Trek‚ transports these select individuals from different time periods of Earth’s history. Solon‚ the philosopher‚ is from the year 751 B.C.‚ Alfric‚ the warrior‚ is from the year 1163‚ Brie‚ the lover‚ is from the year 2014‚ and Tom‚ the inventor‚ is from the year 2099. These six characters (including the AI spaceship‚ Solaris‚ who has a personality
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are the foundations of community and family. Vivian‚ while an equal force in Grant’s eventual change in attitude that constitutes a form of double consciousness in “A Lesson Before Dying” by Ernest Gaines and seems to have a different effect. While Grant tends many times to shy away from interaction with his aunt and Emma throughout “A Lesson Before Dying”‚ and even in one of the most important events in “A Lesson Before Dying” he finally opens up to Vivian at the end and admits his weakness by laying
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oligarchy‚ and finally to a democracy. They were the first to create laws that came from man and not believed from the Gods. Draco wrote the first Greek laws in 621 BC. His laws were very harsh and the death penalty was extremely common. Secondly‚ Solon wrote laws in 594 BC. He encouraged farmers to grow new crops‚ resulting in an increase of trade for Athens. All citizens were required to teach sons trade. Pisistratus gained power in 546 BC. He greatly improved conditions‚ and gave land to the
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Study Guide Fall 2012 POS 340 ASU Figures: Lycurgus Solon Pericles Aeschylus Sophocles Orestes Athena Antigone Creon elenchos nomos demos idiotes polis agon paideia demagogue philosopher king/queen theory of the Forms the Good divided line allegory of the cave myth of Er cycle of decline 5 types of constitutions Socratic ignorance examined life soul/psyche funeral oration Peloponnesian War Mytilenian debate Melian dialogue heroic virtues Greek
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these practitioners that led journalists to call public relations practitioners "PR flakkers"‚ a derisive term given by journalists to PR people for putting forth slanted‚ self-serving information‚ which does not tell the whole story most of the time (Vivian‚ 1999‚ p.309). Therefore‚ this academic essay aims to discuss whether ethics and PR can work hand-in-hand even though it may be considered an oxymoron relationship‚ whether ethical behaviour should be different from country to country and how public
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as a small city state itself and was also once a monarchy‚ but soon became an aristocratic republic after the last Etruscan king was removed from his position. The Romans created constitutional compromises to ease class tensions while the Greek had Solon‚ who also created a compromise between the aristocrats and the slaves to ease the class tension. The Roman Republic had three branches: consuls‚ senate‚ and a council of people. The Athenians created democracy‚ and so Athens‚ one of Greece’s important
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