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    Chilean Mine Collapse Communications Concerning communications with families and fellow employees of the 33 men trapped in the mine collapse‚ many considerations need to be made. Care needs to be taken when relaying such news. In this event‚ there are many unknowns‚ such as the cause‚ the future of the operation‚ and primarily the condition of the men inside. The needs of the parties involved‚ families‚ friends‚ and co-workers will differ to some extent and therefore‚ the approach will change

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    Brianna Selhorst Glenn Ames Contemporary World History 5 December 2007 A Long Way Gone vs. Blood Diamond A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier and the recent 2006 film Blood Diamond both depict how it was living in Sierra Leone‚ Africa during the Civil War in the ‘90’s. While A Long Way Gone focuses on child soldiers and what they had to live and go through for many years‚ Blood Diamond focuses mainly on how the country is torn apart by the struggle between government soldiers and rebel

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    Team Collapse at Richard‚ Wood‚ Hulme‚ LLP Executive Summary: SITUATION ANALYSIS: James Michaels was a senior associate in the Richard‚ Wood‚ Hulme‚ LLP. He assisted with junior associates and co-op students with resolving questions in addition to completing his own audit work. He worked in a team to audit Spector’s business in these years. In 2008‚ Michaels faced some problems: the audit started on November 3‚ 2008 and was supposed to be completed by November 19‚ 2008. The deadline was a strict

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    Blood Diamond vs. A Long Way Gone Ishmael Beah’s autobiography is almost unique‚ as far as I can determine – perhaps the first time that a child soldier has been able to give literary voice to one of the most distressing phenomena of the late 20th century. This book tells us how a young boy was forced to become a soldier to preserve his life and live to tell his story. Although Beah was from an under developed nation‚ he had the dreams and thoughts of any normal teenager from the west. It is heartbreaking

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    624 September 15‚ 2011 Porter’s Diamond of National Advantage and How it Decribes the Success of the Indian Software Industry In the article “The Competitive Advantage of Nations” Michael Porter describes a diamond shaped relationship of forces that define a country’s potential for being competitive in a specified industry. The four points on the diamond representing the different forces are: factor conditions; demand conditions; firm strategy

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    As the baseball diamond started to fade in and out of my blurry vision‚ I realized something was wrong when I was still sitting on the bench. I was on varsity baseball‚ ( that’s what I thought I was gonna spend the rest of my life doing) my grade point average was rising‚ and I was surrounded by positive people all around me who gave off a positive vibe. Of course all good things must to an end right? Well my good times came to end quickly. One fateful‚ mildly chilly‚ and cloudy april afternoon

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    Chilean Copper Mine Collapse On August 5‚ 2010 at San Jose mine in northern Chile a cave collapsed trapping 33 miners more than 2000-feet underground (Weik‚ n.d.). This should have been just another day‚ a normal 12-hour shift at work‚ but it instead it turned into a 69 day nightmare. Minors did not know it would be the last time for nearly two months they would see the light of day. Miners‚ much like fire fighters and policemen‚ know there is a risk in the work they do. Their families also know

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    LESSONS LEARNT The study of history and the eventual collapse of Lehman Brothers‚ will help us learn some mistakes made by Lehman Brothers. This might enable us to be very keen in future. We should be watchful not to repeat because it may lead to other problems such as global crisis. If we are keen we might understand that this was the largest failure of an investment bank since Drixel Burnham Lambert collapsed amid fraud allegations 18 years pror. Managerial oversight and accountability Claims

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    April 21‚ 2003 The Enron Collapse Was Enron’s collapse due to a failure in the standard setting process? Why or why not? The Enron collapse was by no means due to a failure in the standard setting process instead‚ the collapse resulted from Enron’s fast growing rate and its highly “creative” management team who at one point just lost control of the business. The company stopped doing what it was known for doing best‚ energy generations‚ and began exploring and operating in a new and unknown

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    take part in keloptorachy. This is when people begin to manipulate others and appeal to their feelings and selfish needs in order to get them on their side. Diamond states‚ “Upstart​ ​would-be​ ​replacement​ ​kleptocrats​ ​seeking​ ​public​ ​support​ ​by​ ​promising​ ​a​ ​higher​ ​ratio​ ​of services​ ​rendered​ ​to​ ​fruite​ ​stolen”(Diamond​ ​276). Government officials who ran for their positions did not get to where they are now because of their honesty and trying to mankind great.

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