Assignment 1 – Pioneers of Adult Educational Philosophy Sameer Ahmed Presented to: Dr. Terre Eversden In partial fulfillment of requirements of WED 486 – Adult Learning Southern Illinois University Carbondale Author Note A heartfelt thanks to Dr. Terre Eversden to have given me an opportunity to present a paper on the Pioneers of Educational Philosophy and their involvement in Adult Learning or Andragogy. The paper captures the relation of practices of pioneers with liberal
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Mormon Pioneers � PAGE �1� Mormon Pioneers � PAGE �2� Mormon Pioneers John W. Olier HIS/110 October 6‚ 2014 Roger Daene The Early Days of the Mormons In the early days of the Mormon Church‚ founded by Joseph Smith between 1820 and 1830‚ periods of strife and tension would follow the early members of the church around the entire United States. Beginning in the East‚ Joseph Smith would find it difficult to find a safe haven for the organization and headquartering of the Church of Christ. Beginning
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Running Head: Total Quality Pioneers Total Quality Pioneers Paper Ashley Cleeves Quality Management And Productivitiy MGT/449 October 3rd‚ 2010 Zachary Owyang In this paper‚ I will explain quality and elements‚ and a description on how a quality pioneer’s use of total quality elements made the pioneer successful. I will also explain why the elements of quality are useful in today’s business world and what I foresee about the future of quality. Total Quality Management is
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Pioneer Savings and Loan Late in the third quarter of 1994‚ the board of directors of Pioneer Savings and Loan of Orlando‚ Florida requested that their president‚ Herbert Jones‚ submit a recommendation on whether or not to grant branch managers a cash bonus that year. According to the company’s Management by Objectives (MBO) system‚ the granting of yearly bonuses was contingent upon the attainment of specific corporate profit objectives‚ in addition to the individual manager’s performance
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Pioneer Petroleum Cases Analysis The Problem: Pioneer Petroleum Corporation (PPC) has two major problems that are interfering with the goal of the firm to maximize shareholder wealth. The first is that PPC has been calculating their weighted average cost of capital incorrectly‚ by incorrectly calculating their after tax cost of debt and their cost of equity. This miscalculation has subjected PPC to more risk and has hurt the company’s ability to make appropriate investment decisions. This has
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Introduction This paper aims to analyze the common-sized balance sheets and ratios of 12 companies in order to identify their respective industries (Please refer to the Appendix for an overview of the financial data). The balance sheets of the 12 companies are analyzed in four steps‚ as shown in the following table. Step Industry Common Characteristics Companies 1 Service Almost no inventories Inventory turnover negligible Major passenger airline Regional bank Temporary office
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Financial Industry o Commercial Banking Identify the Industry • Retail Industry o Retail Grocery Store • High-technology industries o Computer Software o Pharmaceutical Preparations o Semiconductor Manufacturer • Service Industry • • • • • IT Service Provider Mobile phone service provider Commercial airline Integrated Oil and Gas Liquor producer and distributor • Capital Intensive Industries Detailed Financial Characteristics of each industry • Financial Industry
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Odis Jenkins Reading 0302 January 21‚ 2013 Ruth Simmons: An American Pioneer In 1945 in Grapeland Texas a little girl named Ruth J. Simmons was born. She grew up on a farm in East Texas and had a life of hardship and deprivation. Ruth had a wonderful grounding by her parents and an extraordinary streak of luck. She had mentors who challenged‚ supported‚ and encouraged her to pursue her dreams. One of the most influential mentors was her mother‚ whom Ruth watched for hours pressing fabric
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composed the stories and poems which all used Romanticism in their own unique ways. In “The Pioneers” by James Fenimore Cooper‚ Cooper displays romanticism by creating a connection between humans and nature. Cooper’s goal with this story was too show that settlers displayed the carelessness of their society towards the wilderness. harming the wilderness and everything that lives in it. For example in “The Pioneers” he writes‚“It is much better to kill only such
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Case Summary In 1975 Pioneer maintained relationships with approximately 3‚500 franchise retail outlets‚ the retail outlets benefited from a 5% Pioneer investment in local advertising‚ and attractive gross margins and credit terms. However‚ that same year‚ Pioneer and three competitors were forced to sign consent decrees with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission promising not to engage in alleged anti-fair competition practices – namely requiring distributors to use suggested list prices and punishing
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