In the opening scenes of the movie Star Wars by George Lucas Princess Leia‚ who is a leader of the Rebel Alliance‚ has stolen the plans for the Galactic Empire’s new weapon‚ The Death Star. Leia has to get the plans off the ship so she records a message to Obi Wan Kenobi‚ an old jedi knight in hiding‚ and loads them onto a droid named R2D2. She sends him and another droid‚ C3P0‚ off of the ship on an escape pod which lands on the planet Tattooine. This is the home planet of the protagonist Luke Skywalker
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Lufthansa 24 7.0 Corporate-level strategy of Lufthansa 25 8.0 Strategic Alliances 26 9.0 Strategic Leadership and German Culture 39 10.0 Evolutionary Patterns of Strategy and Structure 33 11.0 Conclusion 36 12.0 Appendices 37 13.0 References 39 Executive Summary In 1991 Lufthansa airlines was almost bankrupt. In 1999 the company already announced record results in its 70-year history‚ helped to found the Star Alliance‚ the industry ’s largest network‚ and is now looking to become one of the
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commitment through an integrated network that includes its alliances‚ partnerships and five business segments. Although this strategy requires global coordination and flexibility‚ all segments are decentralized and operate in a sovereign form with the assurance to support Lufthansa’s strategic development goals. Explain what means the company has used to expand internationally. Lufthansa created a strategic alliance with Star Alliance which serves a global airline network. Lufthansa remained
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leader in the airline industry while: 1) Restructuring the organization to increase cost and revenue transparency and to reduce fragmentation in decision processes. 2) Focusing on continuing strategic cost savings in terms of creating Asian alliances. 3) Combating exhaustion‚ change-tiredness‚ or even organizational burnout in an industry that requires maintaining constant change momentum. Potential Business Impact: From autumn 2003‚ Lufthansa planned to offer its passengers new business
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Star Trek Fan Fiction: Copyright Infringement? Introduction As I sat in during one of the many Westlaw training sessions this year‚ I heard rumors that the company instructor and research guru John Lim was a part time actor. A quick trip to IMDB confirmed that John Lim played Hikaru Sulu in a fan fiction series named Star Trek New Voyages: Phase II. With the proliferation of the Internet‚ it has become easier than ever before to have access to other fans of a certain work and as a result‚ create
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To be a fan of Star Trek is one thing‚ but to be a “Trekkie” puts you in a while different category. Trekkies is an old documentary about the many loyal fans of the original movie‚ Star Trek. Have you ever asked yourself that question‚ What meaning has this show had in these people’s lifes? Does the show’s message hold some kind of ideal for the future? Does the show somehow create a way for people to feel they “fit in?” In the movie Trekkies‚ the Star Trek actors and fans answer these
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Companionship Can Change a Life Louis Lowry skillfully captures a time where food shortages were a given‚ fear was ever present‚ riots were synonymous with regular life‚ and death eminent in her historical drama Number the Stars‚ which emphasizes how a devoted friend can change the life of another.Lowry elaborates on the lengths friends go to protect one another by engaging the reader with Annemarie’s thoughts‚pathos expressed through the character emotions‚ symbolism of Ellen’s necklace and growing
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The Holocaust The title of my book is Number the Stars by Lois Lowry and it is a historical fiction. My book was about a jewish girl named Ellen that stays with her best friend’s family the Johansens to avoid being caught by the nazis and relocated along with her family. I selected this book because it was by Lois Lowry and I read other books by her so I thought that this book would be good. I also chose this book because it was a Newberry award winner. Annemarie Johansen is the main character
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October 7‚ 2013 Society’s Views Amid Star Trek It has been said that Star Trek is simply a western in space. The show was roughly set 250 years into the future‚ so would it be so profound to depart from the western-cowboy manner of writing? In season one’s twenty-third episode called “Space Seed” primeval stereotypes of women and Native Americans are exploited to boost ratings for the show. Only in more recent years have women portrayed strong‚ confident‚ and independent women in film and
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The Star Spangled Banner Patriotism reflects the affection and reverence one has for the nation they were born in and lived their whole life. Devotion to country can be shown through many different ways of which one is the recitation of the nation’s national anthem. The people of the United States of America display their loyalty to their nation by reciting “The Star Spangled Banner.” Over the last seventy-nine years many singers have sung the U.S national anthem‚ but there are four renditions that
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