Starbucks historically used two paper cups and currently uses a paper cup and sleeve to serve many of its hot coffee and tea beverages. Little cardboard coffee holders a great device engineered by Starbucks Coffee executives allows the coffee to be served at a higher than normal temperature, consequently remaining too hot to drink for a longer period. ... Starbucks Coffee Company and the Alliance for Environmental Innovation are working together to change the way Starbucks serves coffee. ...

• Word Count: 1895
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: Graduate

Phrases such as "direct and terrible," "delicious death," "her red umbrella, filtering the light, rouges her face with a bloody glow," and "in harmony, she moves along, glad to be alive, smiling an empty smile," all serve to support the meaning and mood of this poem as slightly sour, positioning "Beautiful Dorothea" in a dream where these words would make sense and come together. The poet sets the scene by invoking the sense that everyone but the speaker, the reader, and Dorothea are awake to witness the action: "the stupefied world collapses into a siesta, a sort of delicious death where the...

• Word Count: 2157
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: Graduate

According to Maslow's beliefs he felt that individuals would not be motivated if they haven't succeeded or overcome the set below where they stand. They will need to be satisfied with each set in order to be motivated. ... Moreover, UNICEF UK continues to set high goals and targets, as they aim to achieve 'deeper systematic changes' within their human relations approach as they intend to provide a strong platform. ... Employees are expected to work at service target times at TGI Fridays for example; the starters are expected to be served within seven minutes of the receipt...

• Word Count: 2238
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Graduate

In this method, the general contractor served as a 'master builder', participating in both the design and construction phases of a project. ... In design-bid-build, an owner is required to publish a complete set of project plans and specifications for the public to ensure bidding is fair, unbiased, and equally available to any interested enterprise. ... In 1990, the Attorney General of Texas, Jim Mattox, set the legal precedence for banning the use of alternative delivery methods in public construction in Opinion No. ...

• Word Count: 2310
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Graduate

People trust them to make informed decisions that hopefully serve their purpose in the best way possible. They are usually free to operate under their own (or senior professional's) instructions to fulfill what they set out to do which usually has a rightful purpose from the societal perspective regardless of the client's intentional desires. ... Requiring continual analysis for mistakes, opportunities, and methods for improvement, the work must not be taken lightly and a large burden is often placed upon professionals to serve society with the utmost responsibility for providing ...

• Word Count: 2074
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: Graduate

Initial efforts were made by Formalists and the New Critics who assigning primary importance to the text set up the tradition of close reading. ... Methodology of these models and approaches serve to develop aesthetic and linguistic understanding of students and help them read history as discussed by the author and poets. ... In the process the readers deconstruct the ideological binary opposition set up between male and female genders in male dominated patriarchal culture. Marxist literary theory also develops a critical attitude in the readers and enables them to recognize and question the...

• Word Count: 1829
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Graduate

Furthermore, Herodotus' aim in this work, as set up in his preamble, demonstrates an impartiality for which we have no prior precedent. ... Herodotus does not set up his motivation for attacking the Persians as being entirely due to his misinterpretation of the Delphic Oracle. ... The Persian fleet, when sailing round Euboea, is harried by an observed natural occurrence, the Hellespontine (¶ 7.188), which serves to bring down the size of the Persian fleet. ... These dramatic scenes of tactical discourse served to portray the dangers of expeditions in an engaging manner. And while bei...

• Word Count: 2143
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: Graduate

The organization justice in an organization serves the employees to work for them longtime, give creative ideas and use the knowledge for the betterment of the organization; in return organization promotes their employees and creates strongand long-term relationship with the organization. ... The research study stated that"a more rigorous set of theories and modern methodological tools have yielded a better understanding of organizational politics, and impressive advancements have been made in a field that once was theoretically intriguing but empirically vague," [CITATION Eis08 l 10...

• Word Count: 1667
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Graduate

In terms of social learning theories, antisocial values and behaviors of adults, peers and the images internalized from media messages come to serve as norms and standards that are imitated by a potentially violent individuals. ...

• Word Count: 2159
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Graduate

During my visit, I analyzed my encounters with Hinduism in terms of the anthropological definition of religion, "a set of beliefs based on a unique vision of how the world ought to be, often revealed through insights into a supernatural power, and lived out in the community" (577). ... The visit also allowed me to understand how lucky I am to live in a city that "serves as an immigrant gateway," a perfect depiction of the forces of globalization, which are "stretching and shaping religions and religious practices" (Guest 610). ...

• Word Count: 1573
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Graduate

The relationship, however, strays off its set parameters as it effectively unleashed a wide range of emotions that Edna had previously not experienced--jealously, passion, true and loving interaction. ... Kate Chopin frames her character, Edna into such: a symbol of resistance against obeying the extrinsically imposed social customs that only serve to limit the pleasures of life. ...

• Word Count: 1478
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Graduate

Orwell uses his novel to foreshadow and predict the state of world affairs following World War 2 leading up to 1984, the year in which the book is set, and the effects unchecked, rampant capitalism has had on the world, leading it to develop into three global super-states where knowledge and information are heavily regulated and supreme power is held by the select few as opposed to the many. ... This enduring omnipresence of Big Brother further serves The Party and tightens their grip on power and control over society. ...

• Word Count: 1916
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Graduate

In addition to the revenue and fund both systems face the challenges of meeting the requirements and criteria standards set by state educational law. ... Public Pedro Noguera added on City Schools and the American Dream "At several new charter schools parents are asked to serve on the site council or expected to provide services to their school (Clinchy, 2000) in some of these schools such an approach creates conditions for a genuine partnership between parents and educators" (Noguera p98). ...

• Word Count: 1398
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Graduate

This was a use of HR's information management skills, which was followed by HR's integration and change skills to manage the organizational interfaces, assess the organizations skills (or the current values of the banks human resource investment), set priorities, anticipate the future, and facilitate the changes. ... In the Peoples" Bank example, the environment changed from a product orientation, to a market orientation where the market (or what people wanted, demanded, and were buying and using) demands where determined first and then the products were "developed to serve the mark...

• Word Count: 1539
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Graduate

Real, or flesh and blood, communities are a group of people who are different yet interdependent and who are bound together by a common set of rules and responsibilities (Lewis 2002) and a place where inclusion may depend on economic, employment, gender or race status. ...

• Word Count: 1841
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Graduate

They emphasize that with inclusion, educational support services are made available in the general education milieu, and disabled students are required to benefit educationally as opposed to necessarily completing the goals and objectives set for their non-disabled peers. ... In conclusion the number of students with disabilities being served in general education classrooms is steadily increasing. ...

• Word Count: 1523
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Graduate

Furthermore, the University clearly states that their policies coincide with state law, which serves as a foundation for most university guidelines. ... The victims of sexual assault and misconduct have many resources available to them after an incident of harassment, which universities set up specifically for such reasons. ...

• Word Count: 1759
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Graduate

While Mayor Michael Bloomberg's soda that put limits on big, sugary drinks has been caught up in controversy in New York City, another ban on drink in Chicago is now controversially underway. Different from NY soda ban that gained public attention due to hardcore actions of Mayor Bloomberg despite s...

• Word Count: 2223
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Graduate

Is E-commerce Creating a More Efficient and Effective Logistics Industry? Electronic commerce has revolutionized not only the way goods are sold, but how they are delivered. Customers demand products delivered at very high speed with complete order flexibility and convenience. Moreover, today's onli...

• Word Count: 2005
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Graduate

It would be easy to accept the popular notion that only representative democratic regimes can be legitimate, after all, that is what is familiar to citizens of the modern Western world and humans, being creatures of habit, will often accept the status quo as that which is right. However, it is neces...

• Word Count: 2466
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: Graduate

Tajfel and Turner's social identity theory was set against the backdrop of post war Europe where theorists such as Asch (1954 cited in Brown 2007) argued that groups were a negative force which affected otherwise rational individual behaviour which ultimately lead to conflict. ... This is what we know today as social identity theory, which proposes that the way in which individuals identify with their social groups and how they differentiate with other groups serves an important function. ...

• Word Count: 2377
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Graduate

Communication is essential in any relationship. Building and managing relationships with consumers and customers has a direct bearing on marketing communications. Marketing communications helps to define an organization's relationships with customers not only by the kind of messages exchanged, but a...

• Word Count: 2453
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Graduate