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1.1 Introduction 1.1.1 BHP Billiton Company Background BHP Billiton Limited was founded in the year 2001 as a merger between Australian Broken Hill Proprietary Company and the Anglo-Dutch Billiton Plc. BHP Billiton is a dual listed company and well known as the leading global resources and the largest mining company in the world measured from its revenue. The headquarters is in Melbourne, Australia and a major management office in London, UK. They have more than 100,000 employees and contractors

1 Introduction Patagonia was founded in 1957 by Yvon Chouinard who defines himself as a reluctant business man. He started his business as a way to climb and surf year long, seeking to build the best product to satisfy his passion. “Build the best product, cause no unnecessary harm, use business to inspire and implement solutions to the environmental crisis.” –Patagonia's Mission Statement Patagonia grew out of a small company that made tools for climbers. Alpinism remains at the heart of a worldwide

vagueness of special educational needs, previously delivered through a postcode lottery of provision.’ (Clough, 1998. p.2) 2.3 Theoretical Models It is commonly accepted that there are two contrasting ‘models’ or ‘views’ of disability currently present within modern day

1.1 Introduction: Pond's Cream was invented in the United States as a medicine by scientist Theron T. Pond (1800–1852) in 1846. Mr. Pond extracted a healing tea from witch hazel, with which he discovered he could heal small cuts and other ailments. The product was named "Golden Treasure", after Theron died, it would be known as "Pond's Extract". In 1846, the "T.T. Pond Company" was formed, with Pond and other business people as investors. Theron Pond's health was failing, however, so he sold

1 Introduction The purpose of this paper is to shed some light on the concept of franchising from the viewpoint of the franchisor, discuss its different uses taking into account the advantages and disadvantages attached to them, and link these considerations to a firm’s internationalization decision-making process. 1 What is franchising ? Franchising as it is generally known today is a form of marketing or distribution in which a parent company customarily grants an individual or a relatively

1.1 Introduction Polaroid Corporation was founded in 1937 by Edwin Land who dropped out of Harvard College in order to focus on the research on the polarization of light. He developed the first instant camera in 1948. From that time onwards the instant camera was the main product of the company. 90% of the company’s efforts were tied up to this product over the next decades. Within four decades, sales of the firm grew from $142000 to over $1 billion. Significant break- through of Polaroid included:

Summary of “Tense Present Democracy, English, and the Wars over Usage” Published in April of 2001 by Harper’s Magazine, David Foster Wallace’s essay is both a review of A Dictionary of Modern Usage by Bryan A. Garner and an interjection into the present day “Usage Wars.” Wallace’s thesis for his essay is stated after a list of grammatical errors that are overlooked on a daily basis and a few paragraphs defining SNOOT. His thesis states, “Issues of tradition vs. egalitarianism in U.S. English are

a reality, reality is always in the present tense. A montage creates meaning and coherence to a film, but by doing so it transforms the present into the past. Much like our lives, we live in the present time; we see and hear reality from a single point of view. Like the long take, our lives have no real narrative or meaning as long as we live. Death does to a life what montage does to a film, it creates the meaning to a life but it also transforms the present into the past. The Zapruder film is one

In English , it has the agreement markers just in the present tense with the use of the third person singular -s. 4- The use of the verb' be' is different in English but Arabic do not have the verb ' be' and do not use it to be between the noun or pronoun subject . So some Arabic learners leave out the verb 'be' in the progressive tense because it does not exist in Arabic. 5- In Arabic, there is a repetition of the object, that occurs when

which she experienced the Santa Ana winds. She tells the details in chronological order starting from the moment she woke up and ended in the present tense. Thomas stated, “I know this because this morning I awoke to air so dry that the graze of my nightgown against the down comforter created tiny orange sparks”(Thomas). Thomas ended with a different tense from which she began her essay. She said, “We are here to watch the orange flames color the sunset.”(Thomas). She also included details that incite