Guns‚ Germs‚ and Steel Video Questions/ Answers Episode 1 Name: Cindy Liu Per______ Jared Diamond has a theory about what causes huge discrepancies among different countries‚ and he says it boils down to geographic luck. What was great about the “Fertile Crescent”? The big four livestock animals; cows‚ pigs‚ sheep‚ and goats‚ were native to the Middle East. Also‚ due to its fertile land‚ the Fertile Crescent housed the best crops in the world. The great crops and animals it had benefited the civilizations
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Stress On Employee’s In Organisation Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the award of the degree of Bachelor of Business Administration programme of Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University‚ Delhi. Submitted To: Submitted by: Varun Batra Naveen Gupta Roll No.: 04896701712 Kamal Institute of Higher Education And Advanced Technology K-1 Extension‚ Mohan Garden‚ New Delhi – 110059 Batch (2011-2014) DECLARATION
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Guns‚ Germs and Steel Jared Diamond‚ author of the Pulitzer Prize Winning‚ National Best Selling book Guns‚ Germs and Steel‚ summarizes his book by saying the following: "History followed different courses for different peoples because of differences among peoples ’ environments‚ not because of biological differences among peoples themselves." Guns‚ Germs and Steel is historical literature that documents Jared Diamond ’s views on how the world as we know it developed. However‚ is his thesis that
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worth living for worker. Organizations provide welfare facilities to their employees to keep their motivation levels high. The employee welfare schemes can be classified into two categories viz. statutory and non-statutory welfare schemes. The statutory schemes are those schemes that are compulsory to provide by an organization as compliance to the laws governing employee health and safety. These include provisions provided in industrial acts like Factories Act 1948‚ Dock Workers Act (safety‚ health
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JVA Corporation To: Katelyn Van Michelson‚ CEO Subject: Compensation Restructuring Dear Ms. Michelson‚ During the last fiscal year‚ JVA Corporation had a devastating net loss of $53 billion and suggestions have been made that we close a couple of the international factories to help stabilize the corporation and remain in business. As the Director of HR‚ I feel that these closures would have a negative impact on the employees and JVA Corp. The proposed closures would move the production
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illustrated below; • Equity is stock or any security that represents ownership interests. In BlueScope Steel‚ stocks are the total amount of shares of the company that represents the owner’s interests • The amount of money that has been contributed by the owners commonly referred to as stockholders or shareholders and their retained earnings and losses. It’s also called shareholders equity. BlueScope Steel has millions of shareholders who have
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Accounting 2200 Project 2 Responses to the Form 10-K of NVE Corporation Professor Jane Morton Muhan Li‚ Madhur Mittal‚ Adam Rosen ------------------------------------------------- Question 1 NVE Corporation is in the business of nanotechnology‚ founded in 1989 in Minneapolis. NVE develops and sells devices that use a new technology known as “spintronics‚” and was founded by James M. Daughton‚ Ph. D.‚ and spintronics pioneer. NVE has been awarded $50 million+ in government research contracts
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Ispat Nigam Limited - Visakhapatnam Steel Plant (RINL-VSP) is India’s first shore-based integrated Steel Plant built with state-of-the-art technology and is a prime producer of long steel products in the country having extensive market in infrastructure‚ construction‚ automobile‚ electrical and forging industry. With an annual turnover of over 14‚000 crores‚ the Company is poised to commission its second phase of expansion from 3.0 Mtpa to 7.3 Mtpa liquid steel capacity by 2013-14. We have also commenced
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Absenteeism in the workplace is probably one of the most difficult areas of employee discipline to control. This is usually because the problem is seldom properly monitored - supervisors ignore it on the basis that the employee won’t get paid for the day anyway‚ so it is his own fault. Problems of lost production‚ other workers getting upset because they have to pick up the workload of the absent employee‚ and so on are not even thought of by the supervisor. The pay office or wages department
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professor. This sparked Jared Diamond to answer this question by turning back the clocks of time to an era where everyone lived the same. This is the beginnings of Diamond’s ground breaking and heartwarming three- part documentary called “Guns‚ Germs‚ and Steel.” This documentary goes deep into history and answers the main question of‚ “How did our worlds become so different?” Jared Diamond takes on the challenge most philosophers wouldn’t dare try of dividing the haves and have-nots of the world
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