1. How has Altera modified its strategy? Why? Altera learned a hard lesson in inventory management after losing $115 million worth of inventory in the 2000-2001 timeframe. Altera produced its programmable logic devices and stocked them in warehouses waiting for customer demands. Their thought was to provide a cost advantage to their customers by having readily available stocks. Altera also leaned forward to help customers by building new products from specs. This push strategy backfired‚
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In this video we take a look at Chinese born artist‚ Hung Liu‚ as she gets ready for a show in New York at the Steinbaum Krauss Gallery. Most of her pieces consist of social realism paintings‚ done from photographs. Liu also likes to address the objectivity and oppression of women throughout Chinese history in her art. In 1966‚ Hung Liu was in high school getting ready to go to college when Mao’s Cultural Revolution began. She was forced to leave her home to work in the rice fields as part of
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Introduction The history of celebrity endorsement of products can date back to the 1760s in the western countries. In the US‚ 25% of all advertising features a celebrity (Shimp‚ 2003)‚ which is an increases from the late 1970s‚ when 17% of advertising featured celebrities (Howard‚ 1979). Because there is an increasing realization of the high costs and risks with celebrity branding‚ advertisers begin to quantify and qualify the use of celebrities by evaluating their effectiveness under different
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Question: Why did Mao launch the Cultural Revolution? For instance‚ do you think the occurrence of the CR had any connections with the CCP ’s organizing principle and guiding ideologies‚ such as democratic dictatorship and the democratic-centralism‚ or was caused more by other reasons? Also‚ although many things people did during the Cultural Revolution look so absurd‚ irrational‚ and even cruel today‚ millions of Chinese‚ especially the Chinese youth seemed to be obsessed with the movement during
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Priestley created Eric to show how people should learn to recognize their mistakes. I have a quote here to show that but I need help analysing it. I can’t really get much out of it. If we look at Eric as a character‚ we should be able to associate him with a certain conscience‚ which‚ when you think about it‚ is what the Inspector tried to do; get the characters to appeal to their conscience. Now Eric‚ along with Sheila‚ both give real‚ emotional responses to the death of Eva/Daisy‚ whereas Gerald
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In my study of history in high school the revolution wasn’t broadly taught in class. We did a small study on the revolution but I never truly got an insight on the matter. In my recent traveling through china I discovered the great impact the revolution actually had on the country. Devastation‚ violence and great personal loss as well as social upheaval were key words to describe the revolution. All Chinese I spoke to were either direct or indirectly affected by the revolution‚ and often negatively
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1. What is documentation? Why do accountants need to understand documentation? ------------------------------------------------- Documentation refers to a set of documents and models‚ such as narratives‚ data flow models‚ flowcharts‚ and other written materials that explain a how a system works. Documentation tools are important‚ because: -At minimum‚ you must be able to read documentation to determine how the system works. -You may be required to evaluate internal control systems documentation
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The shooter of Columbine‚ Eric Harris portrays the signs of psychopathy extensively. The purpose of this paper is to assess Harris using the PCL-R to determine whether Eric Harris is in fact a psychopath. Writing this paper will conclude if he is psychopathic or not‚ and to which degree if he is. All of the twenty traits will be assessed to come to a conclusion. The paper will be structured in three main parts; the concept of psychopathy‚ a description of the traits Eric Harris portrayed and a conclusion
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Foreign Policy and the Origins of the Cultural Revolution. Washington D.C.: Washington Institute Press‚ 1987 4. Michael Schoenhals. China ’s Cultural Revolution‚ 1966-1969: Not a Dinner Party. Armonk‚ NY: M.E. Sharpe‚ 1996. 5. Lowell Dittmer. Liu Shaoqi and the Chinese Cultural Revolution. Armonk‚ NY: M.E. Sharpe‚ 1998.
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unfolded in three stages: an initial skirmish at Red Cliffs followed by a retreat to the Wulin battlefields on the northwestern bank of the Yangtze‚ a decisive naval engagement‚ and Cao Cao’s disastrous retreat along Huarong Road. The combined Sun-Liu force sailed upstream from either Xiakou or Fankou to Red Cliffs‚ where they encountered Cao Cao’s vanguard force. Plagued by disease and low morale due to the series of forced marches they had undertaken on the prolonged Southern Campaign (de Crespigny
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