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Ethics In Business
<view this essay>.... young, imitate the mores and manners of successful businessmen. How important are business ethics? In what ways are business ethics defined? The ethical standards of businesses shape America and are key to a business’ functioning.
Ethics are the backbone of American industry, well, they should be. Whether an organization has good or bad ethical standards, ethics is an issue for all people. “Ethical problems arise not only from the difficulties experienced in making a valid moral judgment, but also from practical obstacles to the execution of even a correct decision” (Pastin 1). Often, it is harder to go through with a morally correc .....
Number of words: 5128 | Number of pages: 19 |
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Engines 2
<view this essay>.... It is used in electric-generating and marine-power plants, in trucks, buses and some cars. Both diesel and Otto-cycle engines are made in two-stroke and four-stroke cycle models.
The first piston engine was developed in 1690 by a French physicist and inventor Denis Papin and it was used for pumping water. His first engine was a crude machine that used air. It was a single cylindered engine that also was used as a boiler. There was a small amount of water placed in the bottom of the cylinder and it was heated until steam was formed. The pressure that was made from the steam made the piston rise fitting in the cylinder, and after it was raised the heat was r .....
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Snowboards
<view this essay>.... first snowboard ever marketed was produced by Shervin Popper, in 1964.
It was a crude model put together in his garage, after he saw his daughter
trying to go down a hill on a sled standing up. It consisted of two of
children skis strapped together, with some doweling on the top for foot
attraction. His daughter took it to the local sledding hill, and soon
enough all the kids wanted one.
He and his wife in the next ten years sold one hundred thousand of these
contraptions for 15 dollars a piece. with new improvements such as a string
at the tip for balance and a more stable base, it was dubbed the "Snurfer",
a mix with snow and surfer, because of its no-bi .....
Number of words: 4559 | Number of pages: 17 |
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How To Play Asshole
<view this essay>.... a large table and a deck of cards. Further, be advised that plenty of beer should be on hand as this game has a tendency for mass consumption of alcohol. Shuffle the cards, (I realize that this is obvious, however there are boneheads out there) and remove the jokers. To begin play, have all the cards placed in the middle of the table and have every player draw a card. The player with the highest card, 2 being low and Ace high, is appointed President. The next highest cardholder becomes the Vice-President, and so on and so forth until the player holding the lowest card becomes affectionately known as the Asshole. In the event that two or more player .....
Number of words: 1562 | Number of pages: 6 |
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Mcdonaldization Of Society 2
<view this essay>.... Mario’s Restaurant’s establishments while the dinner menu was being served on Saturday evenings between 6pm and 8pm to evaluate the ways in which McDonaldization has affected their company. On January 29th I visited East Side Mario’s in London, Ontario, on February 19th I visited East Side Mario’s in Plano, Texas (I used to hold a job as a server at this location) and on February 26th I visited East Side Mario’s in Orange, California. With the diversity of locations I was able to observe, I compared and contrasted many angles of the East Side Mario’s concept. East Side Mario’s Restaurants Inc. is one of the millions of business’ that has implemented the four .....
Number of words: 3294 | Number of pages: 12 |
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Opening An-inground Swimming P
<view this essay>.... is attached to the drain pump on the top of the pool cover. Try to place the hose at the lowest point on the cover. This will allow the standing water to flow to the lowest point and be sucked off the cover. Then lay your push broom on the cover and pull it back toward you, dragging any debris with it. After the cover has been cleared of water and debris, you can begin to remove the pool cover. Start at one end of the pool; begin by removing the sandbags that were used to hold down the cover during the winter. Use caution when lifting the sandbags and remember to bend at the knees when lifting the sandbags. Have two people assist you with the pool cover. .....
Number of words: 585 | Number of pages: 3 |
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History Of The Hot Dog
<view this essay>.... there in 1484, five years before Christopher Columbus set sail for the new world. However, the people of Vienna, Austria, point to the term "wiener" to prove their claim as the birthplace of the hot dog. As it turns out, it is likely that the North American hot dog comes from a common European sausage brought here by butchers of several nationalities.
The year, 1893, was an important date in hot dog history. In Chicago that year, the Colombian Exposition brought hordes of visitors who consumed large quantities of sausages sold by vendors. People liked this food that was easy to eat, convenient and inexpensive. In the same year, sausages became the standard fa .....
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Television 2 -
<view this essay>.... thinking, whether we are hard-worked or lazy. We expect from it effortless pleasure and news. A Chinese word says a picture is worth ten thousand words.
But the astonishment takes its toll and we lust for more. Images pour over us in a never-ending torrent.
Television has already modified our social behavior. It helps our taste for things that visual. The impact of the picture and its colors. It encourages in us a strive for the big spectacle. The effect can be seen in the way we react to one another and in the world of advertising. But television cannot yet be said to have enriched our civilization. For that to happen it must become interactive, so the viewer .....
Number of words: 1398 | Number of pages: 6 |
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