Sergeant Major General

In the summer of 2003, excitement was in the air. It was our first school trip across our state. After a year of ups and downs filled with rewards and regrets, it was time to give something back to the community. As the school bell rang to mark the last day of 9th grade, we rushed home, retrieved our bags, and headed out for the trip. After arriving at dawn, we divided into groups and set about exploring the villages on foot. We held signs, persuaded people to accept handouts, and attempted to…

American Auto Industry The effect of competition in every industry in the market have brought different benefits to the consumers, such as product quality, lower price and varied products to choose. These are the direct results of healthy competitions in every industry in the globe. And that includes the automobile industry. This essay delves into subject of environmental challenges the American auto industry is facing in terms of global competition, new technologies used, the effect of…

Who Should Be Listening? (A discussion of Chaucer’s use of satire to reach his intended audience) Who is this message really for? There are several people that can read something, but only a select few that will truly understand the meaning and know what the message is conveying. The message being written is important, but so it the intended audience that it is trying to reach. Chaucer was faced with this problem when expressing this thoughts in his work Canterbury Tales. Chaucer had huge…

Value Servicing In order for a customer to enjoy the products or services provided by a business organization they must deliver those products or services to its customers accordingly; however, it is important to understand business organizations who may have the best reputations can often fail their customers in serving value. Therefore, for a company to combat against this from happening, they must have a customer service department to handle any issues that may arise. Toyota…

Age and Immaturity It is a universal truth that with age comes maturity. This composition will analyze the correlation of age and maturity in the works of Geoffrey Chaucer, focusing exclusively on The Canterbury Tales. By analyzing the Knight, the Squire, “The Squire’s Tale,” and “The Miller’s Tale,” one can see a positive correlation between age and level of maturity. In Chaucer’s writing as the age of an individual increases, his level of immaturity decreases. Adolescence, or youth, is seen…

The automotive industry is dominated by five key players General Motors, Chrysler, Ford Motor Co, Toyota Motor Co, and Honda Motor Co. The majority of the markets shares are divided up respectively between these five giants. This makes this industry an oligopoly, since not one company has full control over the market. When talking about the way profits are measure we turn to the GDP. The GDP, gross domestic product, is the total market value of all goods and service summed together in the course…

Effects of Outsourcing Outsourcing is the process in which businesses contract with service providers or manufacturers for services or goods that would have otherwise been performed or produced in-house by the employees of the business (Outsourcing Dominates U.S. Manufacturing Economy). Businesses do this with the intention of producing the services or goods more efficiently (The Ins and Outs of Global Trade). Offshore outsourcing is a good method of improving efficiency and bettering the…

You think to yourself what happened before there was a hospital to ever run to or doctors or nurses to take care of the sick? I personally would believe everyone just took a slow painful death. The first hospital in the nation founded in Philadelphia in 1751, although most did not recognize this as a hospital as we know today. Eventually after one century passed by the public addressed the hospitals as a safe environment soon after the Civil War reached a high level of appreciation for all…

time when the Church in England was exceedingly dishonest and peasants were at the mercy of the Church. Fraud and honesty are not only found in The Pardoner’s Tale, but also throughout The Canterbury Tales, examples of which can be found in The General Prologue and The Franklin’s Tale. In the prologue, many of the Pilgrims are attempting to appear as something they are…

Reconstructive Surgery is a branch of plastic surgery that can be defined as the restoration of malfunctioning organs or body parts to their normal function and appearance. The majority of the time, these defective body parts are congenital, while other times they are due to trauma such as injuries or burns. Either case can be difficult to live with owing to the fact that it may interfere with normal, everyday tasks or cause a person to be self-conscious thus limiting their social abilities.…