Cummins

The dilemma Cummins Engine Company, Inc. faced was Tim had a decision to either comply with the EPA or put the low emission engine production on hold and accept a non-conformity penalty. The challenge they faced was adhering to the consent decree and NOx emissions reduction would increase the total cost of ownership for companies purchasing the trucks and companies purchasing the trucks. This increased TCO could reduce their sales and upset stakeholders (Balancing Stakeholder Risks, 2014). This…

to improve them. In the article Mrs. Sarah Corapi interviews Professor Steven Cummins, the lead researcher in a study which was conducted…

by Tad Cummins. Additionally, he was Elizabeth's old forensics teacher during freshman year in high school. She was last seen when her friend dropped her off in Colombia, which is forty miles southwest of Nashville. Authorities say that Cummins was captured on surveillance pumping gas into his car, on the same day Elizabeth went missing. Therefore, police think Cummins picked up Elizabeth, and headed south towards Alabama. Before the alleged kidnapping, allegations were made on Tad Cummins for…

Reaction on Teaching for Transfer: Challenging the Two Solitudes Assumption in Bilingual Education Cummins (2008) discusses the research and theoretical literature concerning the “two solitudes” assumption in regards to the mediums of instruction dominant in second language teaching and bilingual education programs. He argues that this assumption has minimal research basis. The “two solitudes” assumption is rooted in the direct method, which imitated the way children learn their first language…

As Dean Kamen, inventor of the Segway, once said “Clearly, there are many places where diesel is king or gas-turbine is king . . . but there are many places in the world where, as we 've seen, they just won 't do the job” (Daryl). Hydraulic electronic fuel injection units, turbochargers, and glow plugs—do the words mean anything to you? Car and truck motors are a mystery to many, but when diesel engines come into play, many can’t do anything except put them into gear and drive them. I will be…

scenarios (Baker, 2011). CALP is abstract language that is required to master in order to be able to participate in class, read text without pictures or text that requires background knowledge that ELLs do not always have (Garcia & Kleifgen, 2010). Cummins (1979, 2000) suggests that it takes five to seven years to develop academic proficiency in an additional language. According to the research of Thomas and Collier (1997), it takes ELLs between four and ten years to achieve “on grade” level…

United States. However, it is essential that leadership understand the potential impact that a policy may have. The policy must both empower employees to effectively perform a job, while also enabling the company’s long-term success. Given that Cummins recently underwent a restructuring due to weak economic conditions, it is especially critical that the cost impact be carefully examined. Providing analysis on cost factors will help leadership to fully understand if there is potential to…

decision because they want to. The difference in the personality trait is a contributing factor (Cummins, 28). Therefore, understanding the people in the society helps giving them time to change in case they made the decisions when they did not want to. The aspect of Disneyfication facilitates better understanding of the occurrences in the fairy tale. The fairy tale is founded based on moral understanding (Cummins 23). The interpretation of the book would be related to the social development in…

classmates and teachers and to work with the curriculum (Baker, 2011). However, the ELLs’ cognitive academic language proficiency has not been developed adequately to manage the demands of the curriculum (Baker, 2011). Baker (2011) writes that what Cummins considers essential in the bilingual education of ELLs is that the ‘Common Underlying Proficiency’ be well developed either in the first or second language, or in both languages…

public education regardless of their first languages. Second, it will be aimed at meeting various statutory provisions, including the NCLB Act, which mandates the development of programs for teaching languages that are of high quality (Corson, 2001; Cummins, 2000). The programs are geared towards assisting schools, school districts, and states meet the needs of ELLs with poor English proficiency (Corson, 2001; Gándara, 2010; Gándara, 2012). These programs are armed with the means of assisting…