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    The purpose of this report is to give an overview of what the Human Resource (HR) department does for Pratt and Whitney (PW). The Human Resource department is in charge of all hiring at PW. HR department is involved in recruitment, career and development, and also diversity, inclusion, and ethics. The HR department plays an important role at PW which is to hire the brightest talent to the company. The Human Resource Talent Center controls the external hiring process. The Talent Center has a process for sourcing and hiring. First, they must verify where there is a gap and how many people need to be hired to fill such gap. Second, is to create the job description. It is important to craft the job description using key words to match with the skill set needed for the job. Also depending on the level of the position HR might need to work with a Business Area Export Representative (BAER) to get export clearance on their job requisitions before posting the description. Third step, HR must upload the job opening. Forth step is to source the candidate by approving them for an interview or denying their application due to lack of qualification. The…

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    Provide an example of how an aircraft manufacturer uses EDI and explain its role in the firm. Boeing, being an aircraft manufacturer, would use EDI to order parts from its suppliers because of the accuracy or timing of the delivery. For instance, if Boeing was producing a 757 on the production line and the last item to be installed was the 2 Pratt and Whitney PW2000 engines they could order them via EDI. This would save storage space at Boeing’s plant by ordering them when needed. This allows…

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    Whitney Elizabeth Houston was born on August 9, 1963, in Newark, New Jersey. She was an award-winning singer. She was also the youngest child and had two brothers. She began to show signs of her talent at a very young age. It was like the talent of singing ran in her blood because her mother, cousin, aunt, and godmother were all amazing singers. She started her singing career at a church singing side by side with her mother. She was signed to a record label at the age of nineteen and…

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    Whitney Houston, the women who inspired others, the women who made breathtaking music, and the women who was loved by many. She was born on August 9, 1963 in Newark, New Jersey. Houston had an amazing childhood and grew extremely close with her family through music. Whitney grew up in a musically inclined background, so she learned to sing at a very young age, and even by the age of 11 she was preforming and focusing on her music career. When Whitney was young her mother taught her to sing…

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    Alexus Fields Ms. Wernersbach and Mrs. Spears English II April 4 Modern Day Tragic Hero Research Paper:Whitney Houston Born on August 9, 1963, Whitney Houston was an American singer and actress. Whitney Houston was an American singer and actress whose first four albums, released between 1985 and 1992, and amassed global sales in excess of 86 million copies. Whitney Houston began singing in church as a child. Whitney Houston is a modern day tragic hero because she was an amazing singer. She had…

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    Whitney Houston was a legendary singer from Newark, New Jersey. The daughter of Cissy Houston, a famous gospel great singer, Whitney Houston shot to stardom in the mid-1980s with her first album titled “Whitney Houston”. Before being discovered by Clive Davis of Arista Records, Whitney was singing and performing with her mother as well as in church in her hometown of Newark, New Jersey. Whitney, with a voice that would make the pages of a telephone book sound like a hit record, was destined…

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    Whitney Houston was born August 9, 1963 in Newark, New Jersey. Whitney was an American actress. Whitney was also a singer who went from gospel to pop stardom. Houston started off singing when she was 15 with her mother while trying to get a record deal of her own. At age 19 she was discovered in a nightclub by Clive Davis. Houston passed away February 11, 2012 at a suite in Beverly Hills, California. Whitney was found death by her assistant that afternoon. The assistant found Whitney face down…

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    Whitney Elizabeth Houston (August 9, 1963 – February 11, 2012) was an American singer, actress, producer, and model. In 2009, Guinness World Records cited her as the most awarded female act of all time.[1] Houston is one of pop music's best-selling music artists of all-time, with an estimated 170–200 million records sold worldwide.[2][3] She released seven studio albums and two soundtrack albums, all of which have diamond, multi-platinum, platinum or gold certification. Houston's crossover…

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    John D. Rockefeller is the poster child for the American dream. He worked himself from the bottom of the monetary food chain to the top. Rockefeller believed in hard and honest work and hated when anything went to waste. This is why when he saw oil being drilled and wasted through inefficiency, he saw an opportunity. Rockefeller then started his own company and the rest is history. He became one of the first multimillionaires in the United States of America through his business and talent. …

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    sticks to his opinion whether the majority likes it or not and I can relate to that and this is the main reason why I chose him for my assignment. In my upcoming paragraphs I will go over several points in the artists form for example, I will be discussing what type of lines he uses, what type of color was used in it, what is the focus on this masterwork and what type of design was used to make that masterwork? Robert Mapplethorpe was born in November 4, 1946. He was known as “American…

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