Tonia 11552 9/28/2013 Self-portrait Intercultural Communication My drive for success My name is Tonia 11552; I am from the Caribbean‚ a small island located off the north eastern coast of Venezuela. I am 43 years old born November 5th 1969. My mother is a lawyer for the federal government in New York City. My father is a distributor for Coca Cola and Nestle in with a PHD degree in accounting; this is the reason for my story. I attended HS in the Caribbean for five
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Drive When I saw the trailer to Drive‚ I wasn’t to thrilled to see it. The night it came out‚ my friends asked me to see it. I said yes but my decision was based on the fact that Bryan Cranston had a roll in it. I had pretty low expectations walking in but when I walked out I remember telling myself “that is one of the best movies I have ever seen”. I couldn’t pinpoint exactly what about the movie I really liked. It wasn’t until a second viewing‚ through seeing the movie from within‚ that
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America’s Drive-In - Case Analysis Table of Contents i. General Background / Key Issues ii. Analysis a. Internal Analysis b. External Analysis c. Business-level Strategy d. Corporate-level Strategy e. Structure and Controls f. Strategic leadership/ Entrepreneurship iii. Case Recommendations iv. Referenced i. General Background / Key Issues Sonic was created over 50 years ago‚ the enterprise started as a small drive in Shawnee
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Sonic Drive-In Case Background In 1953‚ Tyro Smith founded the prototype of the first Sonic drive-In in Shawnee‚ Oklahoma. Before 1953‚ he had already tried opening two other restaurants. Smith eventually bought a steak house that had a root beer stand on the lot. He intended to tear the stand down to add more parking for the steak house‚ but the root beer stand‚ called Top Hat Drive-In‚ proved to be more profitable and even outlasted the steak house. While traveling in Louisiana‚ Smith saw homemade
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DATE : October 5 ‚ 2006 TO : Board of Directors ‚ Pechanga Casino Entertainment Center FROM :SUBJECT : Red Cross Blood Drive Despite being responsible for half the nation ‘s supply of blood and blood products ‚ the American Red Cross ‘ supply for donated blood has fallen dangerously low . Although during highly publicized disasters when people are eager to help out by donating blood ‚ it is a fact that in calmer times ‚ only 5 percent of eligible donors think of donating blood .Donated blood
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Imagine a time when being cool meant long hair‚ a slick car‚ and tickets to the weekend double feature at the drive-in. The 1960s made this dream the goal of teenage boys; near the end of the 2010s‚ if a person has similar things‚ they can still be considered cool‚ hip‚ and with the times‚ excluding the drive-in. Drive-ins are nearly extinct‚ so maybe just a normal movie. With its share of similarities‚ the 1960s did have profound differences in many categories. Some of these categories include
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Don’t text and drive Victoria Guerriero Image Analysis “Five seconds is the average time your eyes are off the road while texting. When traveling at 55mph‚ that ’s enough time to cover the length of a football field.” (2009‚ VTTI). While texting and driving has always been an issue since people were able to text on phones‚ it has not gained much media attention until recently. People may have sent an occasional text while driving ten years ago‚ but because the keyboard was
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Film analysis - Drive The movie Drive stars Ryan Gossling as the dark and mysterious “Driver”. He works as a wheelman for hire in Los Angeles. At daytime he stunt drives for film productions‚ and at night he’s steering getaway vehicles for armed heists. When he meets his neighbour Irene (Carey Mulligan)‚ a vulnerable mother‚ he falls in love. When her boyfriend Standard (Oscar Isaac) returns from prison‚ Irene and her son gets dragged into a dangerous underworld. Driver acts as the superhero in
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Introduction: The Puzzling Puzzles of Harry Harlow and Edward Deci Drive offers a new way to think about motivation. Most of what businesses‚ governments‚ and nonprofit organizations assume about human behavior‚ particularly about what motivates us‚ is wrong. Short-term incentives and pay-for-performance schemes come from outdated assumptions that favor external motivations (i.e.‚ rewards and punishments for behaving a particular way) overintrinsic motivations (i.e.‚ the joy that comes from completing
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console. From the sounds of this the very architecture can be upgraded to accommodate future games and updates just as the Nintendo 3DS has as well. Nintendo is definitely trying improve their systems and seems it may come to fruition. DOS DOS (Disk Operating System) gained a reputation by supporting operating systems developed by IBM and Windows. DOS was prominent in the industry up until support was terminated for Windows ME. Though it’s not as sophisticated as modern systems‚ DOS offers many
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