Exercise 1 The “Seven Up Series” is a series of documentary films about the lives of fourteen British children. The participants were chosen in an attempt to represent different social classes in Britain in the 1960`s‚ the children were asked to answer different questions about society‚ other children and their lives. In one of the episodes children talk about colored people. Almost all of them expressed their opinions about colored people intolerantly‚ which made me feel uncomfortable and confused
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STRENGTHS Global recognition: General Electric has ventured into the world market thus gaining global recognition for its unique goods and services. In the year 2009‚ Forbes magazine ranked GE as the world ’s largest company. Hurbert (2007) notes that General Electric ’s brand is the world ’s most recognized brand. This kind of recognition has given it a competitive edge over other companies due to its ability to attract more customers. Global strength and competitiveness:The Company’s products
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The Earthquake-Resilient Building The Brilliant Idea: A replaceable‚ building-wide system to help hospitals‚ apartment buildings and office towers survive severe seismic shaking. By Logan Ward and the Editors of Popular Mechanics September 30‚ 2010 6:30 AM Elastic high-strength steel cables run down the center of the system’s frame. The cables control the rocking of the building and‚ when the earthquake is over‚ pull it back into proper alignment. A steel frame situated around a building’s
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The General Electric (GE) Market Attractiveness-Business Position Matrix is one of the best-known directional policy matrices‚ “which categorises business units into those with good prospects and those with less good prospects” (Johnson‚ Whittington & Scholes‚ 2011‚ p.252). The following two factors is the principal cause for the development of the GE Matrix. In the 20th century‚ since the blossoming of multi-activity enterprises‚ corporations have faced the challenge of managing its portfolio of
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Insights……………………………………………………….6 6. Case Analysis....………… ……………………………………………………..7 7. Conclusion ……………………………………………………..........................7 8. References……………………………….…………………………………......7 Introduction: Through the Leadership Center‚ GE spends approximately $ 1 billion world-wide every year on training and educating its people. The Center even went further in leadership and learning by its epicenter at Crotonville‚ located in Ossining‚ New York. Attracting a wide range of students
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GE Capital Analysis Recommendation on Argentina’s future outlook Abstract This dissertation will determine Argentina’s current political‚ economical‚ social‚ and legal macro environments in order to make a consensus on a recommendation for the next step in GE Capital’s involvement within the country. Recommendation will be based on analysis on previous economic‚ political‚ legal and social environments of Venezuela
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Political Politics highlight the role of nation governments‚ as the large global company‚ the firm has to deal with national political systems differently. The difficulties to negotiate with government conditions including tax systems‚ regulations and restriction which the firm has to adjust the service conditions and product requirements to get into the nation markets. These will be the huge impact which the firm has to be considered properly in order to work well with the governments and reach
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mind through his greatest imaginations and suspicious thoughts against the definite judgements. This is not the only reason that makes him one of the first philosophers in European literature who begins to think liberally but also‚ he prefers to say "Que‚ sais-je?" "What do I Know?". He never indicates definite judgements. Montaigne believes that the society is able to stay together without any strong or organized government controlling them. On The Power Of Imagination Montaigne introduces ambiguity
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Appendix B Page 15 Appendix C Page 16 Executive Summary General Electric is a multinational corporation that is divided into six distinct divisions. These include GE Technology Infrastructure‚ GE Healthcare‚ GE Energy Infrastructure‚ NBC Universal‚ GE Capital Finance‚ and GE Consumer and Industrial. They are the twelfth-largest company in the world by revenue and the second-largest company by market capitalization. The diversity and size of General Electric gives
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international markets‚ General Electric (GE) has created international revenues which have been contributed to growth of the company. During the 1980s and 1990s‚ GE made huge foreign investments in Europe‚ Latin‚ and Asia to expand their market. As a result‚ from 20 percent in 1985‚ the revenues from international sales increased to 40 percent in 2001. They realize that China‚ and India have been potential markets which purchase more wide-body jets than United States. Indeed‚ GE is more beneficial because the
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