Dragon fruit‚ also known as pitaya or pitahaya‚ belongs to the Hylocereus genus of the Cactaceae family. It is recognized as leathery‚ slightly leafy – skinned sweet fruit of many cactus species rooted from Mexico‚ which was believed to be then brought to Central America by the European. Nowadays‚ dragon fruits are widely cultivated in the United States‚ the South East Asia region‚ Israel‚ Australia‚ Cyprus‚ as well as the Canary Islands (Morton‚ 1987). The term “dragon fruit” is used in English
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The effect of change in organization culture in Dragon Oil v.1.1 (Final Draft) Executive Summary: The dissertation is meant to find a relation between organizational culture and the change in management by means using a valid subject as case study. The author utilized Dragon Oil as the case subject to understand how a relatively unknown oil drilling company has become the talk of the town after going through a change in management around 2008. The dissertation addresses a brief history of
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Dragon fruit in Vietnam has three main varieties: red-skinned fruit with white flesh‚ red-skinned fruit with red flesh and yellow-skinned fruit with white flesh. Since the white-fleshed dragon fruit (or Pitaya) can grow stronger‚ larger and produce sweeter fruit than other varieties‚ they are much more planted in the Vietnam. Dragon fruit with red and yellow flesh are also popular‚ but the area for red-fleshed dragon fruit in the rural areas in Vietnam is trivial and its productivity equals only
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LITERATURE REVIEW Generation Z Generation Z (Gen Z) can be defined as the cohort of people born from 1995 to 2010 (Adecco‚ 2015; Bassiouni & Hackley‚ 2014; Berkup‚ 2014; NIRSA 2013; Seemiller and Grace‚ 2016; Sladek and Grabinger‚ 2014) also referred to as net generation‚ iGeneration‚ digital natives and GenZers. Parry and Urwin (2011) identify generations as ‘a set of historical events and related cultural phenomena have impacted in a way that creates a distinct generational group. The identification
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Dragonslayer story was the English epic‚ Beowulf‚ written sometime between the eighth and eleventh centuries. The story of the Dragonslayer is that of a Hero‚ who starts off insignificant‚ but after his journey‚ is strong enough to face and defeat the evil Dragon. The Hero’s Journey is split into three phases; in order they are: Separation‚ Initiation‚ and the Return. The story of Beowulf was written for a specific purpose‚ other than creating a whole genre. The bards who wrote it as though it was a history
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Altman Z-score is a financial model to predict the likelihood business failure in a company and created by Edward I. Altman in 1968. Altman developed a z-score model using ratios as its foundation. The purpose of the Z-score model is to measure a company’s financial health and predict the probability of failure up to 2-3 years in advance by using a weighting system combined with four or five financial ratios. Altman created three different Z-score models which is original Z-score model‚ model "A"
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Embodying the rags-to-riches rap dream‚ Jay-Z pulled himself up by his bootstraps as a youth to eventually become the reigning rapper of New York City and‚ in turn‚ a major-label executive following his short-lived retirement from music-making. In the wake of his 1996 debut‚ Reasonable Doubt‚ Jay-Z’s albums sold millions upon millions with each release‚ and his endless parade of hits made him omnipresent on urban radio and video television. He retained a strongly devoted fan base and challenged whatever
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WILLIAM OUCHI : THEORY Z Realizing there are many valuable lessons to be learned from the Japanese‚ William Ouchi1 developed a theory‚ called Theory Z‚ which attempts to integrate American and Japanese management practices. Theory Z combines the American emphasis on individual responsibility with the Japanese emphasis on collective decision making‚ slow evaluation and promotion‚ holistic concern for employees. Other factors recommended by Ouchi‚ such as length of employment and career path characteristics
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The book I read is a fantasy novel called A Dance With Dragons by George R.R. Martin. There are 18 point of view characters in the book. These characters are Tyrion Lannister‚ Daenerys Targaryen‚ Jon Snow‚ Bran Stark‚ Davos Seaworthy‚ Theon Greyjoy‚ Lady Melisandre‚ Quentyn Martell‚ Barristan Selmy‚ Jon Connington‚ Victarion Greyjoy‚ Arya Stark‚ Areo Hotah‚ Jaime Lannister‚ Cersei Lannister‚ Kevan Lannister‚ Varamir Sixskins‚ and Asha Greyjoy. I chose to read this book because I had read the previous
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also starts at the letter “A” in the word Amazon and ends at the Letter “Z”. This is to imply that you can happily purchase anything and everything from “A” to “Z” at Amazon. This too can be a subliminal message‚ as not everyone consciously notices this when looking at the logo. Turner has polled rooms of people at trade shows when giving seminars‚ and it seems that about one third of people are consciously aware of the “A” to “Z” arrow (Berman‚ 2014). Bezos was already using some implications or subliminal
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