Business's-begginers: 2016

dimanche 1 mai 2016

Hypertext Narrative Walkthrough

mercredi 20 avril 2016

Business Hypertext Narrative

Start here or see the diagram.

It all started like this.

You are in secondary 4. You only have straight A's and you have the choice to achieve a higher level of maths and sciences before going to college. The choice you will make will determine your future.

Choice 1: You achieve these courses and graduate from high school with special mentions.
Choice 2: You don't achieve those courses but you graduate from high school.
Choice 3: You decide not to do them and you also don't graduate because you become a drug addict.

Scene 1.

You graduate with specials mentions. You can choose between these programs in order to continue your studies in Business.

Choice 1: You decide to go to Humber College in Toronto. This reputed institution offer you a bourse because of your great marks.
Choice 2: You decide to go to the United States and persue your studies at Rochester University In New York. This university wants to have you and for this, they offer you an internship after your graduation.
Choice 3: You decide to go to Germany and study at Frankfurt School of Finance and Management.

Scene 2.

Choice 1: You graduate from Humber College and get a job at Toronto Stock Exchange which offer you an invaluable experience.
Choice 2: A car accident leaves you in a coma for an indefinite period.

Scene 3.

Choice 1: After many years of working at Toronto Stock Exchange, you can finally quit your job and take your retirement. You travel, play sports and enjoy your life.
Choice 2: Because of some bad investments you have make in different companies, you have lost all the money you’ve planned for your retirement. For this reason, your retirement is not what you expected. You live on the government subsidies.

Scene 4.

Because of every detail you’ve planned, you can easily enjoy your retirement with your family by making many activities.

Start again: to change your destiny.

Scene 5.

Because you’ve lost all your money and funds, you are barely able to live a decent life. You don't enjoy your retirement.

Start again: to change your destiny.

Scene 6.

After a while in the coma, you are finally restored.

Choice 1: Because of your limited capacities, you decide not to go back to school and find a job in a clothing store. One day, you decide to buy a lottery ticket.
Choice 2: Your vision of life as change and you decide to live with a minimum of resources and to volonteer abroad to help poor people.

Scene 7.

You’ve won 1.6 billions of dollars at the lottery what ensure you a luxury retirement. You travel, buy many houses and eat in the best restaurants in the world.

Start again: to change your destiny.

Scene 8.

You have a modest life. Paying your dues and working leads you to a good retirement. You can’t have the best but you enjoy your simple life.

Start again: to change your destiny.

Scene 9.

You graduate from Rochester University and make an internship where you learn the ropes of the job.

Choice 1: You give all your time and dedicate yourself at work. The company you work for decides to offer you a management position and a premium wage.
Choice 2: You stole the business you work for what makes you lose your job.

Scene 10.

Because of your personal investment in the company, you’ve eared more money and credibility.
Choice 1: You use everything you’ve learned and start you own company.
Choice 2: A competitor offers you a job. The conditions are really good, even better than your actual job.

Scene 11.

Starting a new company at this age doesn’t allow you to enjoy your retirement. You work a lot and can’t enjoy the moments with your family because you are constantly preoccupied.

Start again: to change your destiny.

Scene 12.

You decide to change jobs at this age but it’s all for the best. You have more time, more money and satisfaction in your new job. You can enjoy your retirement.
Start again: to change your destiny.

Scene 13.

You lose your good job and no company wants to hire you because of what you did.

Choice 1: You can find any job so you don’t work and become homeless.
Choice 2: You come back to live in Canada and find a job that offers you a minimum wage.

Scene 14.

You end up in the street eating other people’s food and begging for a living.

Start again: to change your destiny.

Scene 15.

You work at Tim Hortons to pay your rent and to buy some food.

Start again: to change your destiny.

Scene 16.

You graduate from Frankfurt School of Finance and Management.

Choice 1: You get a job at BMW company.
Choice 2: You get a job at Volkswagens company.

Scene 17.

By working for this company, you learn the ins-and-outs of this market and become an important shareholder.

Choice 1: You acquired additional shares of the company.
Choice 2: A conflict with your professional partner leaves you in a bad position and forces you to sell your parts.

Scene 18.

Being an important shareholder allows you a beautiful and happy retirement.

Start again: to change your destiny.

Scene 19.

Despite this conflict, you have a good retirement but you are not personally satisfied.

Start again: to change your destiny.

Scene 20.

You are working for VW company and earned a lot of money.

Choice 1: You quit your job to travel around the world and learn about every culture.
Choice 2: An important fraud about the engines makes you lose your job.

Scene 21.

Quitting your job allows you to live and enjoy your life in a simple way. You are satisfied with your life path.

Start again: to change your destiny.

Scene 22.

Your retirement is not what you expect. You are obliged to work in a small company because nobody trust you.

Start again: to change your destiny.

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Scene 23.

You decided something which brought you here. Briefly say what the choice was and then develop the story some more. After reading this part, your reader will have to make another choice.

Choice 1: You apply for a job at the SAQ.
Choice 2: You decided to apply at Vieux-Montreal College in a graphism program.
Choice 3: You apply at Ahuntsic College in a Prehospital Emergency Care program.

Scene 24.

You get a cashier job at the SAQ.

Choice 1: This company offers you some specialised courses in order to become a wine waiter and you accept this offer.
Choice 2: You work as a simple employee.

Scene 25.

You followed these courses and become an expert in this domain.
Choice 1: A chic restaurant wants to have your expertise and for this reason, they offer you a premium wage and an intership in their business.
Choice 2: You start you own wine company, producing some local wine.

Scene 26.

By saying yes to this offer, you are making much money but you have to work on the weekend and this is not the best for your retirement. You didn’t have time to enjoy your life.

Start again: to change your destiny.

Scene 27.

Starting your own company was the best choice ever. Your partners are involved in the company which allows you to travel and have some time for you at retirement.

Start again: to change your destiny.

Scene 28.

Working as an employee is not stressful and this is what you expect for your life.
Choice 1: At the age of sixty, you can take your retirement.
Choice 2: You have an important disease.

Scene 29.

Because you have been in this company for a long time, you can live the rest of your life in good conditions.
Start again: to change your destiny.

Scene 30.

Because of a serious disease, you can’t live a happy retirement. You accumulated debts because of the costs of your treatments and you live under the povrety line.
Start again: to change your destiny.

Scene 31.

You graduate in graphism but jobs in this area are rare.

Choice 1: You decide to go to university in order to be more specialised.
Choice 2: You persevere and apply in many companies. You finally got a job in your field of study.

Scene 32.

You are at the university.

Choice 1: You decide to go in a program related to ecology and environment.
Choice 2: You end up with a Bachelor in Graphism.

Scene 33.

Because of your personal interest, you decide to live your retirement in an " Amish " community.

Start again: to change your destiny.

Scene 34.

Your studies' leads you to a better job. You are working for a big company that makes you rich. You enjoy your retirement after all these efforts.
Start again: to change your destiny.

Scene 35.

You get a job in a small company.

Choice 1: You keep this job and make a lot of effort to live comfortably.
Choice 2: You get a second job in a bar to increase your income.

Scene 36.

Because you decide to keep this job, you can barely live and you don’t enjoy your retirement.

Start again: to change your destiny.

Scene 37.

Your second job allows you to buy a cottage where you can live with your wife and family and enjoy your last days.

Start again: to change your destiny.

Scene 38.

You are in Prehospital Emergency Care program at Ahuntsic College.

Choice 1: You decide to finish your studies and graduate.
Choice 2: You decide to change program and study in Radiation Oncology program at the same institute.

Scene 39.

You become a paramedic.

Choice 1: You get a job at Urgences-Sante and work for the government.
Choice 2: You accept an internship in a private company and meet a beautiful italian guy.

Scene 40.

You work at Urgences-Sante for many years but this job is really stressful. During your retirement, you develop a cancer.

Start again: to change your destiny.

Scene 41.

You fall in love with this man and decide to live in Italy for the rest of your life. You have a little restaurant where you make good pastas.

Start again: to change your destiny.

Scene 42.

You graduate at Ahuntsic College in Radiation Oncology.

Choice 1: After your studies, you get a job as a technician in a hospital.
Choice 2: You decide to go to university and make a Ph. D to become a doctor in Radiation Oncology.

Scene 43.

You life is good. You can enjoy your retirement.

Start again: to change your destiny.

Scene 44.

You practice your profession in the United-States. You make a lot of money and have an early and comfortable retirement.

Start again: to change your destiny.

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Scene 45.

Because of many circumstances, you didn’t graduate.

Choice 1: You met new friends. You start using drugs and become a criminal gang member.
Choice 2: You decide to get a job at McDonald’s.
Choice 3: You start your own construction company.

Scene 46.

You are part of a street gang.

Choice 1: You tired of this lifestyle, you decide to make a therapy in order to be clean.
Choice 2: You climbed the ladder and become an important member of this gang.

Scene 47.

Your therapy is a success.

Choice 1: You are straight for the rest of your life.
Choice 2: You were clean for a while but you relapse. You still use drugs.

Scene 48.

You end your day working in a therapy center helping people with drug problems. You enjoy your retirement.

Start again: to change your destiny.

Scene 49.

You finally died of an overdose. You wasn’t strong enough to overcome your addiction.

Start again: to change your destiny.

Scene 50.

As an important gang member, you :

Choice 1: You’re caught by the police for a bank ranking and homicide. You get 25 years in prison.
Choice 2: You attend a shooting and receive a ball in each leg.

Scene 51.

At the age of seventy you get out of prison. You’re not healthy and you end your days in a retirement home.

Start again: to change your destiny.

Scene 52.

Since the shooting, you are paraplegic. Your quality of life is mesirable. You don’t enjoy your retirement.

Start again: to change your destiny.

Scene 53.

You work at McDonald's.

Choice 1: You are a victim of sexual harrassement. You boss didn't do anything to change this situation.
Choice 2: One of your regular costumer offers you a job at his company.

Scene 54.

You are under pressure. You can handle this situation any more.

Choice 1: It’s too much, you quit this job.
Choice 2: Because you have many responsibilities, you continue to work at this restaurant.

Scene 55.

You find another job. You are not a victim anymore and you are happy. In the end, it is what counts.

Start again: to change your destiny.

Scene 56.

You receive a government pension that allows you just to live. You don't enjoy your retirement.

Start again: to change your destiny.

Scene 57.

You accept his offer. You are working for a pyramidal company.

Choice 1: Because you are devoted at work, you earn a lot of many and become a manager.
Choice 2: You give the minimum required to keep your job.

Scene 58.

You can enjoy your retirement because you earned a lot of money during the years you work for this company.

Start again: to change your destiny.

Scene 59.

You are not satisfied of what you make in your life, you ever find something you really like. You have a simple lifestyle but still enjoy your retirement.

Start again: to change your destiny.

Scene 60.

Because of your knowledge in this field, you start you own company.

Choice 1: You are devoted and you work about seventy hours a week.
Choice 2: It’s too much responsibilities. You can’t handle this.

Scene 61.

Because you give and work a lot for your company, you success and make a lot of money.

Choice 1: You invest all the money you make in stock exchange.
Choice 2: You spend your money in the lottery and casinos.

Scene 62.

Your investments have paid. You buy a cottage on the waterfront for your retirement.

Start again: to change your destiny.

Scene 63.

You lose all the money you gained with your company and you accumulated debts. You go into liquidation and lose your house.
Start again: to change your destiny.

Scene 64.

You sell your company.

Choice 1: You work as an employee in a company related to your field.
Choice 2: You decide to return at school and get your high school diploma in order to pursuit at College in technical Engineering.

Scene 65.

You have a good quality of life and you enjoy your retirement.

Start again: to change your destiny.

Scene 66.

You are passionate. You work at retirement because you like it but still take time to travel.

Start again: to change your destiny.

Diagram

Hypertext narrative template for digital ESL literacy

This hypertext narrative fiction template was developed by Bokomaru Publications and checked for common ESL grammar errors using an online ESL grammar checker and checked for field-related vocabulary using an b-block ESL vocabulary checker.

mardi 15 mars 2016

Business Glossary

As a student at Ahuntsic College, I currently study in a pre-university in business. This program provides the basic knowledge in business required in order to go at the university. Consequently, the following glossary gives you really important keywords to help you to understand the texts or books related to business.

Administrator

A person who manages or has a talent for managing.

Business

An organization or economic system where goods and services are exchanged for one another or for money.

Capital

Wealth in the form of money or assets, taken as a sign of the financial strength of an individual, organization, or nation, and assumed to be available for development or investment.

Company

A business organization that makes, buys, or sells goods or provides services in exchange for money.

Competitor

A rival organization that is engaged in commercial or economic competition with others.

Consumer

A purchaser of a good or service in retail.

Cost

An amount that has to be paid or given up in order to get something.

Credit

An agreement based largely on trust under which goods, services or money is exchanged against a promise to pay later.

Currency

A system of money in general use in a particular country.

Distribution

The movement of goods and services from the source through a distribution channel, right up to the final customer, consumer, or user, and the movement

of payment in the opposite direction, right up to the original producer or supplier.

Export

To send goods or services across national borders for the purpose of selling and realizing foreign exchange.

Firm

A business organization, such as a corporation, limited-liability company or partnership.

Import

To bring in commodities from a foreign country for use or sale.

Leadership

The position or function of a leader, a person who guides or directs a group.

Logistics

The planning, implementation, and coordination of the details of abusiness or other operation.

Management

The act or manner of managing; handling, direction, or control.

Profits

The monetary surplus left to a producer or employer after deductingwages, rent, cost of raw materials, etc.

Tax

A compulsory financial contribution imposed by a government.

Trade

Commercial transaction involving the sale and purchase of a good or service.

Warranty

A written guarantee, issued to the purchaser of an article by its manufacturer, promising to repair or replace it if necessary within a specified period of time.

samedi 12 mars 2016

Article Summary

The choice I made to study in the field of business is first connected to my personal interests. In fact, I have always been concerned with business in every aspect of it. I was already studying at Ahuntsic College, in Montreal, when I decided to change program. I choose the pre-university program in business at this college because the teachers are interesting and recognized in their field of study. Also, studying in a major metropolis as Montreal is rewarding because there is a contact between the different cultures. In the same way, study in an urban center like Montreal facilitates the transition to the labor market because you can establish some contacts which helps you to find a job and start your own career. Finally, my personal interests and what this program has to offer has led me to choose this field of study and particularly this institute. For these reasons, I decide to summarize the text " A day in the life of an Entrepreneur " because this is really close to my field of study.

A Day in the Life of an Entrepreneur

An entrepreneur expose to danger all his funds, investments and expertise in business. He illustrates the American dream because he represents his own boss and source of income. Those who succeed possess some of the same qualities. They know and learn about their business and they are particularly engaged because the minimum of hours required for the success of their business is more or less seventy hours. Furthermore, businessmans are preoccupied and interrested by every division and aspects of their field of knowledge. They need to think about all the details even the smallest one. Also, an entrepreneur can be the master of his own destiny unlike an employee. The work of a businessman has no value and everything that is done is getting on for his own improvement.

Being their own boss increases not only the compression and the responsabilities but also provides amusement. For this reason, the individuals who set up businesses must consider every aspect of the business before buying it. A businessman also have to know how to operate a business and know when he has to change the administration methods when it is necessary. On the financial plan, the entrepreneurs need liquidity to face all subsequent problems. More than 60 pourcent of the new businesses closed after a while. In most cases, this is due to external causes and not because of the entrepreneur's actions or choices. In other words, the success of a company depends on independent variables. All things considered, build a successful business represents a lot of responsabilities, of time and commitment. In contrast, having his own company and making his own money is attractive for others.

On the financial aspect, if you have the resources, the leadership and the capacity, you may desire create your own business. Knowledge in finance is a must or at least a partner with it. Also, you need to know everything about your business domain as the market, the available products and the other companies by making some research, In addition, the capital and credit are very important to start a business. An entrepreneur has to prepare a good business plan in order to convince the banks to give you an advance to put your plan into action. Moreover, many groups of business and associations offer you the budgeting assistance you may need.

Being his own boss is more than a perfect model because the U.S population works on merit. Everybody can have a chance to success and the entrepreneurs prove that the American dream is not only fiction. The franchise concept developed in 1980 is less popular than before because the businessmen have preferred to specialize in one aspect of their business. When a company is held by many people, it may be more difficult to manage, but the workload is more clearly defined.

The quality of life of an entrepreneur, in the first two years of operations, is hard but how much rewarding. The experience aquired can lead you to success because you know more about every facet of running a business. If the company is successful, you might want to develop others within five years after opening. However, some entrepreneurs might ask whether it would be better to sell or not. Finally, for the individuals who decide to keep their company, they're after 10 years, established and profitable. They still work a lot but they extend their expertise and knowledge in their field of business.