In The Heights by Lin-Manuel Miranda is a multi-award winning classic musical. The story takes place in the poor neighborhood of Washington Heights and follows Nina‚ an eighteen year old college dropout. She has always made the grade‚ been the best and outshined others in her town. After getting a scholarship to Stanford‚ she is the first person in Washington Heights to go to college. After working jobs and all the homework‚ she wasn’t able to do it all. Now‚ she has to come home to all these people
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In the eye-opening excerpt from the book Silent Spring‚ by Rachel Carson‚ we are regaled with a tale of an ideal‚ albeit fictional‚ flourishing town that blossomed with vitality. Through descriptive passages and an abundance of detail the author uses the setting and mood to take us on a journey through time as we learn about a prospering town that succumbs to a doomed fate that can only be instated through humans careless actions. The author immediately plunged into descriptive detail in this short
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Ben Ohau Lodge provides a unique product and services of an exclusive vacation in order to fulfill its customers’ needs for one of a kind vacation that is private‚ safe‚ exclusive‚ entertaining‚ relaxing and undisturbed. Its customer’s type includes the rich and famous ranging from presidents‚ princes‚ celebrities‚ and business executives from all over the world. This customer market segment possesses special characteristics and can be described in several different dimensions. Those dimensions can
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Ben & Jerry’s Homemade Ice Cream Inc: A period of Transition Despite making the first yearly loss in 1994‚ the company’s health cannot be written off. The loss in 1994 can mostly be attributed to some irregular factors like debt due to the asset write-down of $6.8 million resulting from abandonment of complex manufacturing system and incorrect assumption about the value at the St. Albans plant. The introduction of the "Smooth‚ No Chunks" line in the same year also resulted in some extra advertising
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Reading about the San Francisco State College Strike‚ it became very clear how racist and hypocritical the U.S. educational system was. Students‚ faculty members and community activists had to fight hard for equal access to higher education and a new education curriculum that would include studies of the history and culture of all people including ethnic minorities. As Asian Americans were facing similar systematic discriminations‚ they joined other racial groups to initiate and support the student-led
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TO: File FROM: Adriana Gonzales RE: Ben Divorce (tax year 2016) FACTS: • According to a divorce decree‚ set two years ago‚ Ben’s ex-wife will receive monthly payments of $1‚100. The monthly payments consist of $600 for child support and $500 for alimony. • For 3 months of the year‚ Ben was unemployed and only payed his ex-wife‚ Jen‚ a total of $9‚900; he allocated $5‚400 for 9 months of child support and $4‚500 was for 9 months of alimony. • To make up for the 3 months of unpaid alimony and child
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Journal of Business Ethics DOI 10.1007/s10551-008-0005-9 Ó Springer 2008 A Study of Management Perceptions of the Impact of Corporate Social Responsibility on Organisational Performance in Emerging Economies: The Case of Dubai Belaid Rettab Anis Ben Brik Kamel Mellahi ABSTRACT. Although a number of studies have shown that corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities often lead to greater organisational performance in western developed economies‚ researchers are yet to examine the strategic
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Question 1: How does Ben Lawson’s Custom Fabricators‚ Inc.‚ create value for Orleans? Custom Fabricators‚ Inc. is able to create value to Orleans because Custom Fabricator’s manufacturing plant is right next to Orleans’ plant. Ben is able to minimize lead-time for Orleans. They are able to deliver parts to Orleans really fast. Quality is also something Custom Fabricators could ensure because they are able to fix something and deliver it to Orleans quicker because they are so close to each other
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of power under a single-party dictatorship. Fascist dictators maintain authority through strict socioeconomic controls‚ suppression of the masses through censorship and terrorism‚ and policies of aggressive nationalism and racism (“Fascism”). Francisco Franco first implemented this government policy in Spain after witnessing its achievements in Germany and Italy. Franco’s strong nationalistic and military upbringing was the basis for his fascist dictatorship. What made Franco the “ultimate fascist
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The artwork that is titled “Clouds Over San Francisco No.2”was created by Dina Budginas. She was born in Lithuania and soon migrated to Germany‚that is where she discovered her love for art. Dina is a self taught artist who picked up great nurturing skills along the way while attending art schools. She attended three art schools‚one that was located in Boston and the other two in Los Angeles by the names of Otis Art Institute and El Camino College. Her art life was put on hold due to raising four
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