P. T. Barnum

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    Annotations Birkett, Dea. "Cruel? No, Elephants Love the Circus—And I Should Know, Says Dea Birkett, I Used to Ride Them in the Big Top." Animal Rights. Ed. Noah Berlatsky. Farmington Hills, MI: Greenhaven Press, 2015. Current Controversies. Rpt. from "Cruel? No, Elephants Love The Circus—And I Should Know, Says Dea Birkett, I Used to Ride Them in the Big Top." Daily…

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    Barnum made his first investment in what he called, Barnum’s American Museum. He had everything a typical museum would have, from paintings to sculptures to mummified bodies. Arguably, the most popular installment at P.T. Barnum’s museum was the Feejee Mermaid. Barnum claimed that he had found a mermaid and was exhibiting it at his museum. Evidently, this brought hundreds of people to the Barnum American Museum eager to see what this mermaid looked…

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    years after the death of John’s wife Mable, hoping it would “promote education and art appreciation, especially among our young people.” John Ringling owned and operated a circus with four of his six brothers and it’s name was the Ringling Bros. and Barnum and Bailey Circus. While he gained great success with the circus he developed a voracious passion for…

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    provider by acquiring Pacific Telesis Group (1997), Southern New England Telecommunications (1998) and Ameritech Corp. (1999). In 2005, SBC Communications Inc. acquired AT&T Corp., creating the new AT&T. With the merger of AT&T and BellSouth in 2006, and the consolidated ownership of Cingular Wireless and YELLOWPAGES.COM, AT&T is positioned to lead our industry in one of its most significant transformations since the first telephone more than 130 years ago. One of AT&T’s strengths is there is…

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    Verizon Wireless is a company that thrives on innovation and staying true to its CREDO. This company in particular ensures quality products, quality service and outstanding care. The customers that are with Verizon continue services with them because they are the best. “Verizon Communications was created on June 30, 2000 by Bell Atlantic Corp. and GTE Corp., in one of the largest mergers in U.S. business history. GTE was a major telecommunications company with 1999 revenues of more than $25…

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    AT & T Company Profile

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    AT&T is a highly recognized brand of telecommunications company that provides a variety of services for the average everyday consumer. These services consist from a varying range this can go from being just a TV service, which is called DirectTV to their more distinguished cellular plans. AT&T is most well known for their cellular plans which have had very low prices and certain perks. For example, one of the perks of being an AT&T customer is that on Tuesdays you can bring another person with…

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    A1. Description of the Organization Verizon Wireless is known for their quality of service across the United States and for their outstanding customer service experience. Verizon Wireless was founded on June 30, 2000 by Bell Atlantic Corp. and GTE Corporations (Verizon Communications, 2018). The merge with Bell Atlantic Corp. and GTE Corp. was one of the largest merger business agreement to date. Before the merger GTE Corp. was one of the world’s largest telecommunications companies with more…

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    KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM (INTERNATIONAL) VERIZON Communications,Inc Background of the company Verizon Communications is an American multinational telecommunication provider and the largest wireless communication service provider in the U.S. Verizon was formed on 30th June,2000 as a product from the merging of Bell Atlantic Corp and GTE Group. Although Verizon was formed on the early 21st century, the mergers that formed Verizon already the big name in the telecommunication business and can…

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    (1) The current organizational culture at Verizon is a mixture of the clan and adhocracy sections of the competing values framework. Verizon’s three main goals in 2011 were to build a business and workforce as good as its networks, to lead in shareholder value creation, to be recognized as an iconic technology company (Kinicki & Williams, p257). By setting out to achieve their goals they will be able to reach the top and get recognized as an iconic technology company. The clan culture will…

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    Verizon Case Study

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    In the past years, Verizon laid off thousands of workers, including those who worked for the company for years, and did not replace them. For almost a year Verizon has been trying to renegotiate terms with the communications workers of America union. Workers are concerned about their job knowing that it isn’t safe anymore. Employees are without contracts, according to union officials and workers, and as Verizon stands firmly with “corporate greed”, a strike was the only option left. This strike…

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