1a. Why do you think that Louisville Slugger purchased the Alcoa factory rather than continue letting Alcoa make it’s bats? as a cost effective investment which allowed them to leverage purchasing power for raw materials and renegotiate existing contracts based on a larger business model more involved in quality control in order to maintain a positive reputation gain knowledge of experienced people which allowed them to get into the market more quickly (To me‚ this has an element of why purchase
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Blogger‚ etc. We see this term being a big part of Clive Thompsons book Smarter Than You Think and is an essential element to understanding technology today. According to Thompson‚ ambient awareness is “almost like being in the same room as someone and picking up on his/her mood and thoughts by the stray signals he/she gives off” (Thompson‚ 2013). He continues to say that ambient awareness is like a type of E.S.P. where “you create a picture of someone else’s internal state gradually‚ actually unconsciously
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each time the cumulative output doubles • Learning Effects – Costs savings through learning by doing • Economies of Scale – Reduce costs by creating a large volume of product‚ the larger your market‚ the more opportunity for this you receive. 4.
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1. Why do you think religious attitudes are such a strong predictor of political affiliation? Provide an example to explain your answer. I believe that Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King‚ Jr. is an example of how religion can strong predictor of political affiliation. It is because of many things Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King‚ Jr. said and did that helped in the equal right of African American people. Many laws were passed because of his teachings so basically if it wasn’t for the many things he did
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To be surprised is for the flow of life to reach you personally‚ to be a participant in the unpredictability of life‚ for better or for worse. To never be surprised is to live an incredibly sheltered life‚ or to be completely insensitive to the ebb and flow of live around you. I often like to be surprise even from the childhood. My surprises come just on holidays such as St. Nicholas or Santa Claus. I remember when my parents tried for years to make for us my holiday surprises‚ like putting at foot
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Explain Why? Hitler was a fan of Mussolini but he put his own spin on Fascism. Mussolini was fired by his party in Italy and no one in Germany would have dared to try that with Hitler. They were similar in the way that they both wanted to take over a certain country and eventually take over the world. Also they were both watchful over the League of Nations. They are also similar in the way that they both lost and they both died in the end of all their chaos. 6. Why did a movement like
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SHC 21: Introduction to communication in health and social care or children’s and young people’s settings Identify the different reasons people communicate There are many different reasons why people have the need to communicate with each other. Establishing good communication will enable adults and children to work together effectively. Essentially we communicate to: Share information and knowledge with others To express the way in which we are feeling to others To enable us to work with others
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Why do you think our school is good for your future plans andpurposes? A simple bridge truss was the first structure I ever analyzed . The simplecombination of beams that could hold cars‚ trains‚ and trucks over long spansof water fascinated me . Having the tools to analyze the loads on the trussfurther increased my interest in structures . I encountered the bridge in atextbook for my first engineering class . Knowing that the professor‚ Mr . John Doe‚ was a tough teacher‚ I asked himfor th
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1. Why do you want to be a GHC fellow? (200 words maximum) Since I was young‚ I was always asking myself why people in African‚ mostly women and children‚ always suffer from malnutrition‚ gender inequality‚ poverty‚ injustice and many more problems which are against their rights. Because I was still young‚ I would not understand the reason why of those things were happening. Crimes were committed to human beings by other human beings. After a certain period of time‚ I came to understand that there
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paramedic pushing a petite woman‚ on the gurney‚ towards the ambulance holding her hand. What everyone begins to realize is that this is not a grown pregnant woman‚ but a pregnant teenage girl. Some neighbors are whispering with disappointment‚ while others do not care. Teenage pregnancy is one of the biggest issues that we face in our society today from numerous reasons. “Recent estimates of teen pregnancies amongst teens reveal that an estimate of 1 million teens end up pregnant every year” (East and Felice)
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