The following post has two questions;
1.Civil War and Presentation
Over 600,000 Americans lost their lives in the Civil War, with the Northern troops suffering higher losses. The North believed the sacrifice was worth it: The slaves were freed and the Union was
preserved. The people of the South, on the other hand, began almost immediately to glorify the ?lost cause.? Their generals became mythic heroes, and they looked wistfully back at the antebellum
period. They almost regretted surrendering. Historian Shelby Foote said,?Any understanding of this nation has to be based . . . on an understanding of the Civil War. . . . The Civil War defined us
as what we are, and it opened us to being what we became, good and bad things. It is very necessary if you’re going to understand the American character in the 20th century to learn about this
enormous catastrophe of the mid-19th century. It was the crossroads of our being.? Burns, K. & Burns, R. (Writers). (1990). Episode 1: The cause (1861). In K. Burns (Producer), The Civil War.
Arlington, VA: Public Broadcasting Service. Write a 700- to 1,050-word paper in which you answer the following questions: What do you think Foote meant in the passage quoted above? How does the
Civil War define the United States? If the Southern generals like Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson were so brilliant, and if the South lost fewer men than the North, why did the North win?
2. Hogsmeadow Garden Centre
1. Hogsmeadow is a business (macro process)with many elements(micro processes) e.g. Growing plants, various plant and product retail areas, display areas ,information centre, restaurant .Choose 3
micro processes and draw an input transformation output model to explain the operation. What are the main operational performance criteria for each one (cost, quality, speed, dependability,
flexibility) (30marks).
2. For each of the chosen processes explain what is meant by Volume, Variety, Variation and Variability. You may wish to present this in a table (20 marks)
3. Explain the types of seasonality or variation in demand that apply to the Garden centre. Why does this make it difficult to run the business efficiently and what would you suggest to reduce the
effect of seasonality, in particular consider the problem of inventory control? (30 marks)
4. What is Don’s strategy for the future of the business .Do you think this is good for the business. Consider in particular the operational implications, do you have any suggestions? (20 marks)