A2 Business CourseWork

AS Business studies Unit 1 - Investigating Business A portfolio investigating and researching the supermarket chain Tesco By Matthew Hampson Introduction: About the business: Tesco is a UK based international food and general retail chain. It is the UK's largest retailer by sales and market share, with profits exceeding £3 billion. On a worldwide scale it is the world's third largest retailer falling only behind Wal-Mart and Carrefour. Tesco was founded in 1919 by Jack Cohen when he started selling groceries on a market stall in east London. The brand "Tesco" first appeared five years later in 1924. The brand was formed when Cohen took the initials of T.E Stockwell and added the first to letters of his sir name (C.O) and hence the name TESCO was formed. The first Tesco store opened in 1929 in Middlesex. By 1947 the company was already on the London stock exchange. Tesco grew through the 1950s and 60s until it had more than 800 stores acquired, in the most part through the purchase of other retail chains. Tesco pioneered the "pile it high, sell it cheap" ethos, this was in the most part due to Jack Cohen's belief that this was the best way for the business to succeed. In 1964 Tesco signed up with 'Green Shield Stamps' to further entice customers, to the modern day family this revolutionised shopping. However Lord Sainsbury disagreed with Cohen's new idea and market

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  • Level: AS and A Level
  • Subject: Business Studies
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World War One

The first line in his poem describes the troops as being "like old beggars under sacks". This not only says that the men are tired but that they are so tired they have been compared to old beggers. "Coughing like hags" suggests that these young men who were in their teens were suffering from illness due to the damp, and fumes from the decaying bodies of their soldiers. Another simile Wilfred used is "His hanging face, like a devil's sick of sin'' suggests that his face is probably covered with blood which is the colour representing the devil. He also used a very powerful metaphor "vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues'' this metaphor tell you that the troops will never forget these horrific experiences. As you can see Wilfred Owen has used figurative language so effectively that the reader gets drawn into the poem. The lines Wilfred Owen uses create a image in your mind and can make you feel the pain and sickness for example in one of hes lines he says "If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud'' this shows us that so many men were brutally killed during this war, their death was so painful and slow it seemed like cancer. Lines like this one play a massiv role in poem it creates such a disturbing image to the reader that it makes them feel bad for sending people to war. . In

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  • Level: GCSE
  • Subject: History
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PEP basketball

P.E.P. Name: Gareth David Waton Age: 17 Height: 5'10" Weight: 12.5 stone Activity: Basketball Level of participation: College team, Area Team, Thirsk Vikings Local Club Profile: I consider myself to be a very fit and very active participant in a variety of sports and recreational activities. I currently do roughly between 19-26 hours of training a week and anywhere between 3-10 hours of competition in season. This is broken down into the following: General Training * 2 hours training Monday PM, Wednesday PM & Sunday PM Swimming) (medium intensity- Aerobic only) * 1 hour training Thursday PM, Saturday PM (Swimming) (medium intensity- Aerobic only) * 4 Hours Training Monday PM (Basketball) (medium intensity- Aerobic only) * 1 Hour training Monday AM, Tuesday AM, Wednesday AM, Thursday AM, (high intensity- Aerobic only) Friday AM (Basketball) (medium intensity- Aerobic only) * 1 Hour training Monday PM, Tuesday PM, Wednesday PM, Thursday PM (Basketball) * 2 Hours Training Thursday PM (Basketball) (medium intensity- Aerobic only) * 1 Hour Training PM (Football) (high- Aerobic + Anaerobic) * 1 Hour Training Tuesday AM, Thursday AM (Running) (low intensity- Aerobic only) Competition * 2 hour game - Monday PM (most common venue)(If applicable) (Basketball) (high intensity- Aerobic only) * 2 hour game - Any day Tuesday-Sunday (Away venue)(If applicable)

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  • Level: AS and A Level
  • Subject: Physical Education (Sport & Coaching)
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This study sets out to investigate the evolving educational role of the academic librarian in the context of Information Literacy (IL) skills provision, by exploring the IL programs offered by a selection of the universities within the Russell Group,

Abstract This study sets out to investigate the evolving educational role of the academic librarian in the context of Information Literacy (IL) skills provision, by exploring the IL programs offered by a selection of the universities within the Russell Group, and by considering to what extent there is a relationship between the Continuing Professional Development (CPD) of academic librarians and the level of integration of IL into the university curriculum. This study focuses in part on the IL programmes offered by individual universities; how appropriate they are for users and how relevant they are in the current rapidly changing information environment. The project also investigates the difficulties of convincing academic staff of the value of IL and the importance of embedding it into the university curriculum for the benefit of their students' education faced by academic librarians A review of the current literature traces the development of the educational role of the academic librarian and emphasises the importance of CPD for them if their skills and expertise are not to become obsolete in the face of the present Higher Education (HE) information environment. Information gathered through analysis of university websites, email questionnaires and individual telephone interviews is used to generate the views of academic librarians about their teaching roles, their

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  • Level: University Degree
  • Subject: Education and Teaching
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A Christmas Carol - Marley's Ghost.

A Christmas Carol Stave One Marley's Ghost Marley was dead, to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. The register of his burial was signed by the clergyman, the clerk, the undertaker, and the chief mourner. Scrooge signed it. And Scrooge's name was good upon 'Change for anything he chose to put his hand to. Old Marley was as dead as a doornail. Mind! I don't mean to say that I know of my own knowledge, what there is particularly dead about a doornail. I might have been inclined, myself, to regard a coffin-nail as the deadest piece of ironmongery in the trade. But the wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile; and my unhallowed hands shall not disturb it, or the country's done for. You will, therefore, permit me to repeat, emphatically, that Marley was as dead as a doornail. Scrooge knew he was dead? Of course he did. How could it be otherwise? Scrooge and he were partners for I don't know how many years. Scrooge was his sole executor, his sole administrator, his sole assign, his sole residuary legatee, his sole friend, and sole mourner. And even Scrooge was not so dreadfully cut up by the sad event but that he was an excellent man of business on the very day of the funeral, and solemnised it with an undoubted bargain. The mention of Marley's funeral brings me back to the point I started from. There is no doubt that Marley was dead. This must be distinctly

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  • Level: GCSE
  • Subject: English
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Problems in requirements modelling

. Introduction 5 .1 Project Aim 5 .2 Project Hypothesis 5 .3 Project Objective 6 .4 Research Approach 6 .5 Dissertation Structure 6 2. Software Engineering 8 2.1 Purpose of Software Engineering 8 2.2 Motivation for Software Engineering 9 2.3 The beginning 10 2.4 The different stages in software engineering 11 2.4.1 Requirements specification 12 2.4.2 Design and implementation 12 2.4.3 Testing, validation and verification 13 2.5 Summary 14 3. Methodologies, Tools and Techniques 15 3.1 Overview 15 3.2. Rapid Application Development 16 3.2.1 History of RAD 17 3.2.2 Advantage of RAD 17 3.2.3 Disadvantages of RAD 17 3.3 Multiview 17 3.3.1 Five stages in Multiview 17 3.4 Soft System Methodology 19 3.4.1 Stages in SSM 19 3.4.2 Advantage of SSM 19 3.5 SSADM Structured Systems Analysis And Design Method 20 3.5.1 History of SSADM 20 3.5.3 Disadvantage of SSM 21 3.6 Object Orientated 21 3.6.1 Object Orientated Methods 22 Object-Oriented Analysis (OOA) (Coad90), (Coad91) 23 3.6.3 Notation 24 3.6.5 Advantage of O-O 25 3.6.6 Disadvantages of O-O 25 3.7 The Jackson Structured Design(JSD)(Jack83) 25 3.7.1 The JSD steps 25 3.7.2 Advantage of JSD 25 3.7.3 Disadvantage of JSD 26 3.8 Semiotics 26 3.8.1 Semiotics Framework 26 3.8.2 Normbase - Ontological Charting Tool: Prototype Version 30 3.8.3 Advantages of Semiotics 30 3.8.4 Disadvantages of

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  • Level: University Degree
  • Subject: Mathematical and Computer Sciences
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How did Shakespeare create tension in act 1 scene 5 of Romeo and Juliet

How did Shakespeare create tension in act 1 scene 5 of Romeo and Juliet ? Romeo has just gate crashed on the Capulet party and no one knows that he is at the party and if he is found by the Capulet he will most likely be killed because of Romeo being a Montague this because earlier in the play the Montague's and Capulet have a fight. Romeo see Juliet and say "snowy dove trooping with crows" (act 1 scene 5) this tells us that romeo thinks that Juliet stands out from every other person. Tybalt hear Romeos voice and he know romeo is not meant to be at the Capulet party. Tybalt wants romeo gone but lord capulet stops him and tells him off "why, how now, kinsman, wherefore storm you so?..."(act 1 scene 5) he holed this against romeo and wants retribution and calls romeo a "villain" (act 1 scene 5) this time this was a very offensive word to be called. While tension increases romeo and Juliet meet and fall in love the share kisses and proclaim there feelings for each other and how ever they do not realise that they are sworn enemies. The Capulet despise the Montagues' who they have been at war since "ancient times" (prologue) so when the nurse tells Juliet that Romeo is the some of her fathers "great enemy" (act 1 scene 5).this adds to the tension in the play. Immediately after Romeo asks what is her mother and a nurse replies Juliet's mother is "the lady of the house." (act 1

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  • Level: AS and A Level
  • Subject: English
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Where does the World Trade Organisation fit in the overall scheme of international public policy?

WHITHER THE WORLD TRADING SYSTEM? TRADE POLICY REFORM, THE WTO AND PROSPECTS FOR THE NEW ROUND Razeen Sally London School of Economics and Political Science Where does the World Trade Organisation fit in the overall scheme of international public policy? The WTO retains the core business of its predecessor, the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, i.e. negotiating and enforcing rules for market access in industrial goods, but it has manifestly gone further than the GATT. It now provides rules for market access in agriculture, textiles and clothing, and services; it has a strong agreement on intellectual property protection; and more detailed coverage of trade procedures (e.g. on subsidies, technical barriers to trade, sanitary and phytosanitary standards, customs valuation and import licensing). In particular, it houses a strong, legalistic and quasi-automatic dispute settlement mechanism, in stark contrast to the GATT's weak dispute settlement procedures which relied less on strict rule-adherence and more on diplomacy. Lastly, the new round of multilateral trade negotiations, launched at the Fourth Ministerial Conference in Qatar in November 2001, proposes to take the WTO into new territory to cover investment, competition and environment-related policies. Clearly, the WTO is a weightier international organisation than the GATT. On the other hand, the WTO is buffeted

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  • Level: AS and A Level
  • Subject: Economics
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Study on the Indian Service Sector

A Study on the Indian Service Sector Submitted to Prof. PES. Vidya Sagar An Assignment on Business Environment & Policy Under the Guidance of Prof. V.L.Rao Table of Contents . An Overview of the Service Sector in India 3 2. Consultancy Sector in India 6 * Executive Summary 7 * Classification of consultancy services 9 * Global overview 13 * Consultancy Sector in India 15 * Export performance of Indian consultancy industry 16 * Consulting opportunities in other countries 17 * Engineering consultancy services 19 * SWOT analysis 20 * References / Bibliography 22 3. Transportation Sector in India 23 * Executive Summary 24 * Introduction 26 * Railways 27 * Roadways 29 * Ports / Civil Aviation 32 * Metro Railways 36 * Inland Waterways 38 * Conclusion 40 * References / Bibliography 41 4. Study on Indian Education System 42 * Executive Summary 43 * History of Education System in India 45 * Expenditure on Education 45 * Structure on Indian Education System 50 * Conclusion 57 * References / Bibliography 60 5. Telecom Sector in India 61 * Executive Summary 62 * Brief History on Telecommunications 64 * Origin of Reform Policy and Initiatives in the Sector 64 * Market - Size, Key Players and Emerging Trends 69 * Growth Story and Key Growth Drivers 73 * Challenges and Opportunities 76 * References / Bibliography 80 6. Study on Indian Hotel

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  • Level: University Degree
  • Subject: Miscellaneous
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Contract Practice for Alpha construction LTD.

Contract Practice 4css571 ________________ ________________ ________________ Cousework 2 ________________ Alpha construction LTD ________________ Hertfordshire School of Construction Ltd. ________________ Taha Sheikh-Noor 02171703 Courtney Bramwell 021212121 Shazad Mahmood 032321321 Nikolaos Michalakis 9233123129 Ali Faizollahi 92319023 ________________ ________________ ________________ Tables of contebnts Introduction The Project outline THEME 1 mEETING aGENDA and mINUTES Theme 1 Summary of Decisions Theme 1: Agreed Decisions THEME 2 mEETING aGENDA and mINUTES Theme 2 SUMMARY of Decisions Theme 2: Agreed Decisions THEME 3 mEETING aGENDA and mINUTES Theme 3 SUMMARY of Decisions Theme 3: Agreed Decisions THEME 4 mINUTES OF THE MEETINGS Evaluation Bibliography /REFERENCE ________________ ________________ Introduction ________________ Building projects are invariably continuums, whereby decisions taken at one stage will impact on future issues which arise. Furthermore, building projects depend on the interaction of various members of a team in order to be successful (Smith, 2004). A project requires complicated assessments, evaluations and decision making and performance throughout the project from inception through to completion.

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  • Level: AS and A Level
  • Subject: Law
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