direction between investing in the IT sector and the effectiveness on company profitability. Keywords: Information Technology‚ IT‚ Profit‚ Profitability‚ Tourism Literature Review According to Daniel (1994)‚ IT is the application of technology to business processes‚ gathering data and creating information that is valuable to managers who make business decisions‚ in other word IT translates symbols
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What ’s Entertainment? Notes Toward a Definition 1 Stephen Bates and Anthony J. Ferri What’s Entertainment? Notes Toward a Definition Introduction Entertainment has been a part of all cultures‚ from the Chauvet Cave paintings to the iPad. For Rothman‚ it is “the storehouse of national values” (xviii). Perhaps nowhere is that observation more apt than in the United States‚ a nation that Gabler terms a “republic of entertainment” (11). Many Americans seem to feel entitled to high-quality
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What is Quality? Hoyer & Hoyer state that quality standards and customer expectations‚ in various guises‚ have been in existence for many centuries. However international quality standards‚ the formal study and implementation of “Quality” are the preserve of the 20th & 21st centuries. Consumers in the last 20-30 years have become finely tuned to the existence‚ value and need for quality but do they actually know what it is? Hoyer & Hoyer identified 8 quality guru’s and summarise their definition’s
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Orwell’s "1984." There was a chillingly similar place for "non-whites" in South Africa from the 1940’s to the 1990’s. I believe that enforcing Apartheid is unjust and immoral. Reading this paper you will learn: What is apartheid? Who were involved? And how did apartheid end in South Africa? What is apartheid? The system of apartheid--"apartness" between races--began in 1948 and in the time span of one generation‚ it wove itself into every aspect of life. Apartheid was a radical and extreme extension
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Paulina Prado English 250 Tu/Thu 10/5/10 What is Love? Love is one of the most difficult words to define. I challenge you to try. You can even go the easy way and simply Google the word “love”. What you will find is not one but hundreds of definitions along with countless books‚ movies‚ and songs all having to do with love. The reason why it is so hard to define love is because there are different forms/stages of love and there are so many things that love can consist of. Also‚ love can
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culpable actions. Conversely to Puig’s protagonist Molina who sacrifices himself for love‚ Bulgakov creates the master whose egocentric desires for public recognition leads to loss of inspiration and eventually to self-destruction‚ which as a result makes him apathetic towards the world. These modernist texts were written during regime period‚ therefore all the characters suffer from despotism of others – in more control. Manuel Puig who didn’t support Juan Perón‚ the president of Argentina in 1970s
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What is success? How do we define it‚ how do we measure it‚ is it a single achievement or is it multiple accomplishments? To me defining success is so broad to pin point and directly state so I look at success in a more self-proclaimed stand point rather than from a physical one. Success can be defined in many ways but I think ultimately it means to accomplish what one has set out to do. Success is different for everyone. Over the years I have had many failures as well as what I feel as successes
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successful Chinese literature study group with Taijun Takeda in 1934 when he was a university student. This was regarded as the beginning of modern Sinology in Japan. It was in 1931 that Takeuchi first met his long-lasting friend‚ Taijun Takeda at Tokyo Imperial University. They then went on to forming the Chinese Literature Research Society. In 1935‚ they published an official organ for the group‚ namely‚ Chugoku Bungaku Geppo in order to open up the study of contemporary Chinese literature as opposed to
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Define Ethics in your own words: Ethics: Personally‚ Ethics main two things: Firstly‚ ethics mains establishing right or wrong standards which dictate what humans ought to do‚ usually in terms of rights‚ obligations‚ benefits to society‚ fairness‚ or specific virtues. Once these standards are set‚ one should refrain from anything that is unacceptable in a society such as rape‚ stealing‚ murder‚ assault‚ slander‚ and fraud. On the other hand‚ Ethics can be a set of standards that are acceptable
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What is an American? The American Dream... a concept‚ which is very popular amongst the people who reside within the United States of America. When asked the question “What exactly is the American Dream” the answers most people will get would be quite similar to each other‚ but the way people interpret that answer differs based on what their values are. The problem is that Americans have many different values due to the fact that most Americans come from different ethnic
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