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Genentech finds itself in a unique situation requiring a change in strategy that addresses numerous threats to their profitability. Due to new healthcare reform, as well as expiring patents, there are multiple considerations for strategy improvements to ensure Genentech operations continue to generate sustainable profits. One of the core competencies and foundational attributes of Genentech was its reputation as a leader in research and development. The new strategy will have to find new ways…

Self-monitoring: “Fresh Kids” Intervention Reduces Daily Sugar Intake for Student Darwina Weisser Student No. 18517643 La Trobe University Bundoora Word Count 1000 Self-monitoring: “Fresh Kids” Intervention Reduces Daily Sugar Intake for Student Sugar is consumed daily by billions of people, even though it has been related to many negative health problems. World Health Organisation (2015) recommended 25 grams of sugar per day. It is health-beneficial to have less than 5% of the daily energy…

question that he asks himself while reviewing an idea is: “Will it feed my own [Baz Luhrmann’s] life?”. If the answer is “yes”, idea always becomes an obsession, and his research sometimes goes into extremes. For example, for the theatre production of La Boheme (2002), his creative team went to Italy to actually live the “life of the piece” and visit operas and research the original productions (Brantley; Cook; Wallace). This,…

It is these three Christian themes of love towards God, free will, and suffering that are significantly present in Dante’s Purgatorio. Dante Aligheieri was an Italian poet from Florence, who wrote his most famous poem, the Divine Comedy, in exile. Dante wrote the Divine Comedy for his idealized love, Beatrice, who appears in the trilogy as a goal for Dante. He traverses Hell, Purgatory, and even into Heaven to find and be with Beatrice. In the first part of his poem, titled Inferno, Dante, led…

In the last couple years, it seems that there is always a news headline about a celebrity getting into an argument with the paparazzi, and there is always that one person that feels the need to say, “They signed up for it,” but that’s not true. These celebrities signed up to do what they love; they signed up to do a job just like any other person. What they didn’t do is sign up to have drones fly over their homes, be followed and yelled at as the walk down the street, or be photographed as they…

in the rural state who shared one common goal: reclamation of the towns that were being run by the Knights Templar, a violent drug cartel that had been terrorizing the state since the beginning of the decade -replacing the cartel formerly in power, La Familia Michoacana (Archibold). The absence of protection from the cartel by the government prompted immediate acceptance and gratitude for the formation of the Autodefensas. However, the rapid growth and lack of regulation established the…

intrastate Mexican Drug War has been an international example of continued policy failure. The complex conflict includes various actors, all of which play a different but important role. There are seven main drug cartels: Beltran-Leyva, Gulf, Juarez, La Familia Michoacana, Los Zetas, Sinaloa, and Tijuana/Arellano Felix. Each cartel maintains its own territory, and some areas are disputed among cartels. For example, Los Zetas controls the Central North and some of the Southeast coast, and the…

Drawing the Line between Classes Class systems have been around for ages. During the olden days people would have the job their parents had. Even if they had other dreams or aspirations they were forced to have the job their parents had. Other countries and cultures had a similar class system in which people could do whatever job they wanted as long as the job stayed in the class there parents came from. Occasionally people would do something honorable or worthy of a great reward, such as…

Drugs and Crime in Mexico Drugs and crime in Mexico has been risen very quickly. Mexico has become the focus of a great attention due to the concern of violence related to drug trafficking. Since the mexican president Felipe Calderon declared “war” on drug traffickers, an estimated of 22,000 people have died in drug-related violence. In the early twenty-first century, the mexican government attempt to stop the activity of drug cartels, but the result has been an uncontrolled violence. The…

People wander through life today and often miss the wonder of all that surrounds them. The modern world of science and technology reduces the focus to pushing buttons and entering data into searches that produce easy answers generated from a short search; gone is the wandering that leads to discovery. The possibilities of becoming are lost in the safety of clear conformity. The majority do not dare to wander because of lost time, reputation or certainty. Most are far too worried about appearing…