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Enterprise resource planning, or ERP, is "a process or approach which attempts to consolidate all of a company's departments and functions into a single computer system that services each department's specific needs" (Tech-FAQ 2008). To put it another way, ERP is "a convergence of people, hardware and software into an efficient production, service and delivery system that creates profit for the company" (Tech-FAQ 2008). An example from a company that worked for is a good illustration of the value of ERP. In this company, many of the processes were still done manually even though the company had several computer systems. Financial information was booked in hard-copy ledgers, for example, and information about accounts and business dealings were in employees' standalone PCs where it could not be accessed by others. A sales executive left town on vacation shortly before the company put together a large business deal with one of the clients that he handled. That cl

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Exercise 1: Analysis of Experimental Intervention Dopfner, Breuer, Schurmann, Mettrnicht, Rademacher, and Lehmkuhl (2004) conducted an analysis of an experimental intervention to test the effectiveness of an adaptive multimodal treatment in children with Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). Stringent inclusion and exclusion criteria included age, diagnosis, length of participation in treatment, type of treatment, and other key variables. Randomization was employed in a fixed design to compensate for excluding patients who did not wish to be fully randomized and for whom specific treatment requirements were viewed as mandatory. Subjects were recruited based upon their participation in either behavior therapy or drug treatment after an initial psychoeducation program. A total of 26 percent received a combined drug and pharmaceutical treatment in later treatment stages. For 82 percent, behavior therapy was added. Dopfner, et al, (2004) stated that the study was limited in that it did not consider therapeu

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Introduction Art Nouveau was a movement in architecture that was highly popular in major European cities as well as the United States between 1890 and 1914 (Craven 1). Art Nouveau was a reaction in design against classical approaches that were formal in nature. Instead, the Art Nouveau ethic embraced the idea that "the greatest beauty could be found in nature" (Craven 1). If Art Nouveau was a reaction against the machine age and mechanized approaches to design, the Art Deco movement in architecture is symbolic of the machine age. Art Deco was also an international design movement in architecture, lasting from 1925 until 1939 (Art Deco 1). The designs of Art Nouveau often mimicked nature, with soft, sinuous lines and curved shapes that often resembled the flow of water. The designs of Art Deco are more geometric in shape, with angular or jagged lines and other more easily manufactured designs. Materials used in the two design styles also differ, with Ar

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Relationships of Economic and Financial Development The first question that requires addressing is the question of growth relationships between economic growth and financial expansion. According to Stengos, Ketteni et al, "We find that, in contrast to recent research, the finance-growth relationship is linear when the previously documented nonlinearity between initial per capita income and human capital, on the one hand, and economic growth, on the other, is taken into account." They discovered that when these apparently non-linear elements are ignored, that the finance-economic growth appears non-linear. (Stengos, Ketteni, Mamuneas, & Savvides, 2004) This is at odds with other findings and indicates that these elements are relevant in the overall growth situation. They point out that the empirical evidence supports the contention that economic and financial growth are linked which is the intuitive answer to the question. Econometricians have raised questions concerning the lin

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The research conducted on the Citizen Committee for Children (CCC), New York, and the Bush Administration's No Child Left behind Act have helped form my understanding of policy actors, their role, and their capacity to influence policy development and implementation. Deeper insights were gleaned from my recognition that think tanks like the CCC are private organizations, but that they maintain a strong influence over public policy-makers. Policy actors from the CCC routinely lobby legislators and engage in other forms of policy advocacy that has a strong influence over the development and implementation of policy. The policies arising from No Ch

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French "New Wave cinema" is directly linked to the overarching concept of a "national cinema." At issue herein is the question of how successful French filmmakers have been in creating a "national" cinema that addresses or depicts relevant social and political themes or issues that define a film as being from a particular country subsumed within the ideology of the "New Wave." Such a film, as referenced by Aaron Sultanik (1986), is readily identifiable as positioned ideologically as well as physically within the context of events or ideas shaping the socio-political landscape of a country. By examining a selection of films by two French filmmakers - Claude Berri and Bertrand Blier - it will be argued in this report that France is home to an established "national cinema" that does represent the country's guiding ethos and which is firmly positioned with the larger context of the "New Wave." Additionally, as a product of French cultural rhetoric meant for French and in

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Lesson Analysis In 50 Strategies for English Language Learners, I was impressed by the lesson that incorporated academic language scaffolding as an approach that would be extremely useful for educating culturally and linguistically diverse students. The scaffolding concept is one that helps students form a conceptual bridge from one language to another and learn new vocabulary as they go. One of the salient advantages of this approach as opposed to traditional vocabulary memorization techniques is that it teaches the students the vocabulary as it is used in actual practice and then tasks them with completing activities related to the vocabulary, such as listing words with related meanings and forming "possible sentences" from the words. This approach not only helps students relate the new vocabulary to

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Ovid's The Metamorphoses and Marcus Aurelius' Meditations provide differing views on a variety of issues, but one of the most notable is that of morality. Ovid's The Metamorphoses is a poem that describes the transformations of people and things into new forms and emphasizes the role of the gods in man's life. Starting with the creation of the world in Book the First, Ovid describes the transformation of the earth from a pure and unsullied "golden age" through a progression of corrupting influences to a "silver age," and then an even more corrupt "brazen age," followed finally by an "iron age." In the golden age, "when Man yet new,/No rule but uncorrupted reason knew:/And, with a native bent, did good pursue./ Unforc'd by punishment, un-aw'd by fear" (Ovid). Ovid portrays man as essentially good and free from corruption at his creation. The advent of the silver age, however, occurred when "Saturn, banish'd from above,/Was driv'n to Hell, the world was under Jove," an event

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One of the most polarizing and controversial figures in American history is urban planner Robert Moses. Jeffrey Pfeffer, in his book Managing with Power, notes that Moses was included in Life magazine's list of the 100 most influential people in the twentieth century, along with Roosevelt, Churchill, Gandhi, and Einstein (83). Pfeffer states, "I suspect that if I asked you to choose a position in which you could wield enormous power, you would probably not pick the job of parks commissioner...but Robert Moses was arguably the most powerful public official in the United States during the twentieth century" (83). During his 44-year career, Moses built "12 bridges, 35 highways, 751 playgrounds, 13 golf courses, 18 swimming pools, and more than two million acres of parks in New York" (Pfeffer 83). Among the public structures he built were the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, the United Nations Headquarters, and Shea Stadium. Of the many bridges and tunnels were the Tribor

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Integral to General Electric's (GE) strategy for coming decades is a commitment to so-called "green development," subsumed within the vision of presenting to the public products that are environmentally conscious and sensitive to their potential impact upon the planet. GE's transformation to "green development" is in keeping with the views that corporations have multiple stakeholders, among which the communities served are included; consequently, good business mandates socially responsible development activities. GE has made a number of hard choices about reducing profits or at least increasing costs through environmental responsibility is General Electric (GE) (Immelt, 2005). To the degree that a transformation to "green development" and manufacturing is costly, GE clearly anticipates incurring expenses for this move. Jeffrey Marshall (2005) noted that GE has focused extensively on environmental

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The escalating childhood and adult obesity problem in America demands substantive action. Certainly, at a bare minimum, the foods and beverages offered in school cafeterias must be improved to offer better nutrition and fewer empty calories, but in addition, steps should be taken to bring the schools and communities into the effort at a conceptual level. Partnerships need to be forged with health-care providers, industry, non-profit organizations, and health-oriented groups to identify and facilitate what each can contribute and establish a framework for receiving and processing their contributions ("Progress in Preventing Childhood Obesity: Focus on Schools" 3). Local schools and communities should be empowered to participate, stakeholder support should be built up, and mechanisms should be put into place to document and evaluate obesity prevention efforts ("Progress in Preventing Childhood Obesity: Focus on Schools" 4-6). Innovation should be infused into the process to develop solutions and overcome barriers to success ("Progress in Preventing Childhood Obesity: Focus on Schools" 6). Simplistic solutions such as offering app

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Introduction Should people with terminal illnesses who want to die be able to have a doctor help them commit suicide? The debate regarding a proper and ethical answer to this question has continued for decades (Svenson & Behuniak, 2002) and it is expected that it will continue for decades more (Jeffrey, 2008; Birnbacher & Dahl, 2008). Truog (2008) defines physician-assisted suicide (PAS) as the practice, by a physician, of assisting a patient to voluntarily take his or her own life. Typically, this involves providing the patient with a prescription as the means for death. This paper provides a general overview of PAS focusing on the general nature of the debate, the history of the practice, PAS as an aging policy, the key actors in the PAS debate, policy changes that have taken place with respect to the practice, and the status of the issue. Nature of the Debate As noted by Kopelman and de Ville (2001), the nature of the debate over physician-assisted suicide is comple

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From a liquidity point of view, Target has done much better than Wal-Mart. The current ratio, which measures the ability of liquid assets that can be turned into cash in one year to cover liabilities that will come due in that same time period, is considerably higher than Wal-Mart's. Target can reasonably expect to take in more than enough to pay its bills, whereas Wal-Mart will have to some juggling to do. The acid test, which is cash over current liabilities, shows that target even has e

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First proposed in 1923 and reintroduced in 1972 during the heyday of the Woman's Liberation movement, the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) failed to pass the various tests mandatory for ratification (Schlafly, 2007). While claiming to benefit women, the ERA would actually, if ratified, have had negative effects on the lives of American women and would even have taken away some of the rights that women have gained over the course of American history. This essay will examine two of these arguments, advancing the idea that women's rights are sufficiently protected by the Constitution of the United States and relevant statutes at the federal and state levels. As now constituted, the law of the country requires married men t

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The research question explored herein is how to coral reefs function and what are their responses to environmental stressors such as increasing ocean temperatures and acidification. A related question is what, if anything, can be done to protect coral reefs from harmful environmental effects. The function of coral reefs as described by Bellwood, Hughes, Folke, and Nystrom (2004) is to provide an ecosystem in which a wide variety of fish and flora live, feed, breed, and interact with each other. These ecosystems have been characterized by Bellwood, et al (2004) as vital to the maintenance of many different species. Coral, like fish, play multiple functional roles and support several different reef processes. They add to what Jackson (1997) characterized as a species-rich ecosystem that is vital for many different life forms. Essentially, reefs as discussed by Dean (2008), are integral to the complex ecology of ocean areas. There is a growing body of evidence that a number of environmental stressors such as increased ocean temperatures, acidification, human activity, and even ecotourism are cont

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Averett University (2007) submitted a Quality Enhancement Plan (QEP) to the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools' Commission on Colleges. Averett University (2007) titled the plan "Reading Critically for Success" and stated that its intent was to redirect the institutions' academic focus and resources to address the problems that are associated with diminished student interest and competencies regarding reading at the post secondary level. Using data gathered via student and faculty surveys along with a review of relevant research and best practices, Averett's (2007) QEP presents a restructured university-wide strategy whose goal is to establish a culture of reading across the traditional undergraduate program. This essay evaluates the Averett (2007) QEP and considers issues regarding its structure and assessment strategies. The first issue addressed herein is an identification of the structure or components of the QEP. The three central components of the Averett (200

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Just how irony can take control of life does not become entirely clear until the final lines of "Good Country People," but irony is established from the moment the reader moves beyond the title, and the description of the characters' thoughts and behavior builds up the basis on which the irony finally becomes clear and startling. It is only in retrospect that the reader recognizes that the author has been manipulating seemingly unimportant details to obtain maximum ironic impact from the way the story is structured. By that time the reader is forced to confront the fact that the author has been playing some tricks with her storytelling method and also making some points about the problems that people create for themselves when they go through life judging others. Clues to the way irony multiplies in the story that become apparent only after it ends could actually give away the ending, but they are kind of subtle. Thus Mrs. Hopewell is not very good at hoping. Mrs. Freeman, as

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Outline I. Introduction II. Body A. Different levels B. Poetic Devices C. The Senses D. Grandmother's Condition E. Intellectual Nourishment F. Organization of Poem G. What is Missing/Lost 1. Grandfather 2. Old culture H. Emotions III. Conclusion Leonard Adame Introduction In Leonard Adame's poem "My Grandmother Would Rock Quietly and Hum," the speaker experiences both a reconnection and a loss as now mature he remembers memories of his grandmother. He reconnects with his heritage and youth, but he also recognizes a loss has occurred because he has become acculturated to mainstream society and has become distanced from his Latino origins. "My Grandmother" is actually a tribute poem in which the mature speaker can now reflect on the joyous memories of spending morning in his grandmother's house, despite the poverty-

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Of Scottish-Irish descent, Andrew Jackson was one of the most fascinating and complex presidents in American history. Born three weeks after his father died in the Waxhaw area of the border between North and South Carolina 1767, the young Jackson received a sporadic education but had enough legal training to practice "frontier law" successfully by the time he was twenty-one (Andrew, 2008, p. 2). A military and political career would soon follow. Jackson's tenure as president coincided with the rise of capitalism, the rise of urbanism, enormous social and economic change, and an era of political upheaval. Ultimately many of Jackson's less flattering qualities would be used against him, but at all times his will to lead never dampened. As H.W. Brands (2006) writes, "He was a born leader who couldn't make himself into a follower" (p. 97). This biography will focus on Jackson tenure as president and the character and leadership qualities of America's seventh president.

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The presence of a physical or developmental disability is often a negative influence on career development; learning as well as other functions may be inhibited by the presence of such disabilities, which can be addressed by means of the ecological model of career counseling (Szymanski, 1996). However, there is no definitive theory of career development and disability. Career development for most individuals is a lifelong process of getting ready to choose, choosing, and then continuing to make choices from among many occupations (Szymanski, 1996). For the disabled individual, such choices are often limited by factors that cannot be controlled by the individual and which are therefore best addressed through an ecological model. Szymanski (1996) stated that the ecological model poses that career development is a developmental process, that interests are learned, and that career development is influenced by the context in which people live. Consequently, this particular model

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John Lennon's song "Imagine" is poetry, and-like me-reflects a compassionate, caring person. It is poetry not just because the b and d stanzas rhyme but also because of its "economy of language" and its "spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings" (Flanagan). The song uses few and simple words to communicate powerful ideas, and poets are "miserly and unrelentingly critical in the way they dole out words to a page," choosing each word carefully for its "emotive qualities, its musical value, its spacing, and yes, even its special [sic] relationship to the page" (Flanagan). "Imagine" has spare wording but talks about issues that affect all of mankind-life, death, and world peace. Moreover, it stirs the heart of the listener with a passion to help the world or die trying, if necessary. It evokes a vision of a world living in harmony and unity, a vision that rises in a glowing, jewel-like presence above the din, corruption, and selfishness of modern life. The poem is

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Essay #1. Discuss the primary interests of each of the three cultures described in these documents: ancient Babylonia for the Code of Hammurabi, Athenian Greece for the Funeral Oration of Pericles, and Republican Rome for the Constitution of Rome. Since each culture was part of a homogeneous Western tradition, can you identify how each subsequent culture borrowed from earlier ones? The primary interest of ancient Babylonia in the Code of Hammurabi appears to have been to assure order in general and protect the ability of the community to thrive in a precarious environment in particular. There is an assertion of right against the might of "evil-doers," which suggests that the ruler wants to be just king (Code 1), but the plurality of laws have to do in some way with agriculture, which suggests that subsistence farming and a concern to exert social controls dominated the physical environment of Babylonia. Thus there are penalties for failing to maintain the condition of an irri

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Introduction In the present scenario, a seventh grade female student, "Margie," is experiencing an ongoing issue with three male classmates. In the hallways of the school, the boys called her names and make "odd sounds" when she passes by (Students, 2008, p. 1). When she confronted the three boys, they laughed at her and continued to taunt her. When the taunting escalated, Margie sought assistance from her guidance counselor. The school counselor talked with the boys. After this meeting, the boys cornered Margie, shoved her into a locker, knocked her books to the ground and spat on her. At home, Margie also began to receive "abusive" and "obscene" phone calls from the three boys, who, after receiving warnings from the school counselor, significantly increased their harassment of her (Students, 2008, p. 1). Margie took the matter to the school principal, who simply told her, "Just stay away from them while you are at school" (Students, 2008, p. 1). When the h

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National Recovery Administration: Created in 1933 as part of the National Industrial Recovery Act, the NRA was meant to eliminate "destructive competition." The NRA allowed businesses and workers to collude in order to control the market. Workers were allowed to set minimum wages and maximum hours for the industries in which they worked and businesses were allowed to set minimum prices. The NRA was ended when it was declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court in 1935. Many businesses that did no support the NRA were boycotted by workers. Federal Communications Commission: The FCC was created by Congress in 1934 as a successor to the Federal Radio Commission. It regulates the use of radio waves and interstate and international communications. This role was previously held by the interstate commerce commission. The Federal Radio Commission had been criticized as being under the control of the industry it was supposed to be regulating. Social Security Act: The Social Security Act provided insurance and aid to many groups that were suffering from the Depression. It was the first act of Congress to provide help to the elderly. Socia

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The advent of any new technology, from the wheel and atomic bomb to cell phones and the Internet, offers society benefits and drawbacks. This is because any invention or form of new technology has the potential for positive or negative use. For instance, the internet has removed significant barriers to education for disabled individuals with online classrooms and courses by established universities, but it has also created potential danger for teens and youth from Internet predators. In Social Implications of the Internet, DiMaggio, Hargittai, Neuman, and Robinson (2001) maintain that because of the internet's unique capability of integrating modes of communication and forms of content, it is "a critically important research site for sociologists testing theories of technology diffusion and media effects" (p. 307). Critics of the internet argue it is divisive and leads to a decline in social capital, while others contend it offers more personalized information and

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