...When will we see Change? A Critical look at Barack Obama and the democratic party. Charles Kerber POLS 202 9AM American Government Livingston This paper will take a critical look at the history of the democratic party, its most recent 2012 election, its current presidential candidate Barack Obama, and the latest platform. While the paper may read as being highly critical of President Obama, it should be caveated by the fact that this is an extremely trying time in the history of the United States, and the government is under considerable pressures from outside terrorism threats and international relations, to severe recession and domestic economic concerns. Nevertheless, one must look critically at President Obama, and answer has he really given us “change we can believe in”? Biography & history The Democratic party went through a number of iterations before it became the current democratic party. The party began as the anti federalists under the leadership of Thomas Jefferson and James Madison. Thomas Jefferson a former secretary of state under George Washington's administration who had resigned to protest the fiscal policies of Alexander Hamilton. These two rivals would become the basis of the first two political parties of the United States. Alexander Hamilton favored the constitution, the creation of a national bank and repayment of the revolutionary war debt with federal funds. Under this philosophy they would name themselves Federalists, for their leaders support of ratifying the constitution...
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...前言 OPEN QUESTIONS的目的是让recruiter更好的了解candidate, 所以大家要认真对待。 回答OQs的最重要的原则是be honest, 千万不能为了追求所谓的“丰功伟绩”而编造自己没有的经历。 做OQs, 就是要从做过的事情中发掘自己的潜质。 第一部分 四大OPEN QUESTIONS情况简介 1,KPMG KPMG的网站是四大里面做得最好的,内容丰富,有中文版,网速飞快。 KPMG网申的开放式问题有代表性,建议大家认真写。写完一次之后,再申请后面三家就方便了 1)Please give a brief summary of your current recreational and leisure activities, including sports and hobbies. (热身问题) 2)What clubs and societies are you a member of and in what capacity? (团队合作经历的引子) 3)What factors have influenced your career choice? (重要问题,答案最好跟申请的工作有关) 4)Outline your career ambitions and objectives. (重要问题,“N年内做经理 + 我的CICPA考试计划”) 5)Describe your greatest success or a situation where you exceeded your own expectations. (看性格,四大挺喜欢完美主义者的) PwC 1) Why are you applying for this position? (工作性质,职业生涯目标,公司声望等) 2) Please explain how your personal qualities, skills, knowledge and working experience will help you to be successful in the position for which you are applying. (关键问题,见“准备篇”) 3) What community or students' clubs do you belong to and to what extent are you involved? 4) Any additional information? (把KPMG其余的答案写上去吧:) EY 1)Please describe your career objective and what you have done to date to achieve it. (Maximum 100 English words) 2)Please include any other information which you may consider relevant to your application. (Maximum 100 English words) 有了前两家的经验,会写了吧。 DTT DTT的网申是无OPEN Q的,页数也特别少,只有两页。但DTT的网站速度比较慢,所以如果宿舍的教育网不好用,大家就去办个ADSL吧,在找工的过程中很有用。 ...
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...he considered the testator to be of sufficient testamentary competence at the time of execution of the will following the case of re simpson Competence at the time of giving instructions for the drawing up of the will would be sufficient where competence at the time of execution of the will cannot be established following the case of Parker v Felgate (7) If a testator is blind this will mean the profounder of the will have to establish that he had knowledge of its contents r13 Non-Contentious Probate Rules 1987. This requirement would be satisfied if the will was read over and explained to a testator prior to execution, this could be established by a suitable attestation clause at the end of the will, reciting the facts – The list of bequests will need to be read back to the witness and the testator as a whole if not the will not satisfy the requirements of the formal validity, the burden of proof will lie with the profounder to establish had the contents been read back. (8) The requirements of formal validity, as set down in s9 Wills Act 1837, as substituted by s17 Administration of Justice Act 1982, are that the will must be in writing, signed by the testator or by some other person in the presence of the testator and by his direction, and it must appear that by the signature the testator intended to give...
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...CHALLENGES STUDENTS FACE IN LEARNING ESSAY WRITING SKILLS IN ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE IN SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN MANGA DISTRICT, NYAMIRA COUNTY, KENYA BY NYANG’AU BENARD NYASIMI E55/CE/14078/2009 A THESIS SUBMITTED IN PARTIAL FULFILMENT FOR THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF EDUCATION IN THE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION KENYATTA UNIVERSITY JULY 2013 * DECLARATION This thesis is my original work and has not been presented for degree in any other university. Signature: ______________________________ Date: ________________________ BY NYANG’AU BENARD NYASIMI E55/CE/14078/2009 We confirm that this thesis was carried out by the candidate under our supervision as university supervisors. Signature------------------------------------------------------ Date-------------------------- Dr .Sophia. Ndethiu. Department of Educational Communication and Technology. Kenyatta University. Signature------------------------------------------------------ Date------------------------- Dr. John. Kimemia. Department of Educational Communication and Technology. Kenyatta University. * DEDICATION This work is dedicated to my loving wife Zipporah Nyasimi and our sons Philemon Siko and Enock Ongeri . * ACKNOWLEDGEMENT I wish to acknowledge the support of those individuals who made it possible for a successful completion of this work. Special thanks go to my supervisors Dr. Sophia Ndethiu and Dr. John. Kimemia for the support, guidance...
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...Bandar Baharu) Pn. Nadia Normala Vimala bt Abdullah (Assistant District Language Officer for Languages, Pendang) Cik Farha bt Sobry (Assistant District Language Officer for English (Secondary), Kuala Muda Yan En. Oslan bin Yum (Assistant District Language Officer for English (Secondary), Kubang Pasu Panel of Smart Module 2 2011 (SPM 1119) 1. Pn. Farah Ikhmar bt Jafri (SMK Sik) 2. En. Lim Swee Teong (SMK Simpang Kuala) 3. YM Raja Nurhayati bt Raja Abdullah (SMK Seri Pantai) 4. Pn. Norliza bt Abd Hamid (SMK Syed Abu Bakar) 5. Pn. Razliza bt Razak (SM Vokasional Kulim) 6. Pn. Noorkhasimah bt Abdul Halim (SMK Dato’ Syed Ahmad) 7. Pn. Sabjeet Kaur a/p Kasmir Singh (SMK Pendang) 8. Pn. Adibah@Adiba bt Khusairi (SMK Naka) 9. Pn. Fadhilah bt Bukil (SMK Mahsuri) 10. En....
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...------------------------------------------------- WESTERN GOVERNORS UNIVERSITY ------------------------------------------------- Submittal Cover Sheet ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- Date: 7-21-2015 ------------------------------------------------- Student Name: ------------------------------------------------- Student ID Number: ------------------------------------------------- Student Degree Program: BS-IT ------------------------------------------------- Student Email: tryyg@wgu.edu ------------------------------------------------- Four Digit Assessment/Project Code: ENT1 ------------------------------------------------- Mentor Name: Tiffany Trissel-Griffey ------------------------------------------------- For Revisions Only Indicate Previous Grader: ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- Submit to: ------------------------------------------------- Western Governors University ------------------------------------------------- Attn.: Assessment Delivery Department ------------------------------------------------- 4001 South 700 East, Suite 700 ------------------------------------------------- Salt Lake City, Utah 84107-2533 ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- wgusubmittals@wgu.edu ...
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...1 THE HOUSE OF CARDS S01 01 你干什么 Hey, what are you doing? 天哪 Jesus! 你看清肇事的车了吗 Did you get a good look? 只看到是辆蓝色丰田佳美 Blue Toyota Camry, it's all I saw. 是沃顿家的狗 It's the Wharton's dog. -天哪 -他撑不了多久了- Oh, man. - He's not gonna make it. 去看看他们在不在家 Go see if they're at home. 没事了 It's ok. 痛苦分两种 There are two kinds of pain. 一种让你变得更强...The sort of pain that makes you strong... 另一种毫无价值 or useless pain... 只是徒添折磨 The sort of pain that's only suffering. 我对没价值的东西也没耐心 I have no patience for useless things. 这种时刻 需要有人采取行动 Moments like this require someone who will act... 或做一些不好的事 or do the unpleasant thing, 但也是必要的事 or the necessary thing. 好了...There... 痛苦结束了 No more pain. 肇事逃逸 我很遗憾 It was a hit and run, I'm awfully sorry. 他肯定又自己跳出了庭院 He must have jumped over the fence again. 史蒂夫会就肇事车信息报案 Look, Steve's gonna file a report on the car, 他会派下属去处理 he'll put his people on it. 我们会找到那个司机的 We'll track him down. 你真是光彩照人 You're stunning. 我们走吧 Shall we? 三...二...一...Three two...one... 新年快乐 Happy New Year! 当选总统 加勒特· 沃克 Oh, President elected Garrett Walker. 我喜欢他吗 不 Do I like him? No. 我信任他吗 这不是重点 Do I believe in him? That's beside the point. 任何一个能获得七千万选票的政客 Any politician that gets 70 million votes 他所象征的含义早已超过了自身 has tapped into something larger than himself, 当然也超过了我 尽管我不愿意承认 larger than even me as much as I hate to admit it. 看那胜者的笑脸 那些信任的眼神 Look at that winning smile, those trusting eyes. 我一早便抓住了他 并扮演了重要角色 I clung to him early on, and made myself vital. 在国会待了 22 年 After 22 years in congress 我能嗅到风头的走向 I can...
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...electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the Publishers. First published 1994 Fifth impression 1997 Illustrated by Chris Ryley British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Alexander, L. G. Right Word Wrong Word: Words and Structures Confused and Misused by Learners of English. - (Longman English Grammar Series) I. Title II. Ryley, Chris III. Series 428.24 ISBN 0-582-21860-8 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Alexander, L.G. Right word wrong word: words and structures confused and misused by learners of English/L.G. Alexander. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-58221860-8 1. English language-Usage. 2. English language-Errors of usage. I. Title. PE1460.A48 1993 428.2'4-dc20 93-11963 CIP We have been unable to trace the copyright holder of the text for Exercise 52 Everybody, Somebody, Anybody, Nobody and would appreciate any information that would enable us to do so. Set in Times New Roman, TrueType Produced through Longman Malaysia, ETS ISBN 0 582 21860 8 Acknowledgements I would express my sincere thanks to the following people who supplied extremely useful data while this work was being developed: Julia Alexander Mohamed Eid, Cairo, Egypt Professor Jacek Fisiak, O.B.E., Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland Cristina Germanis, Verona, Italy Jurgen Kienzler, Ludwigsburg, Germany Roy Kingsbury Professor Hanna Komorowska, University of...
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...Hundreds(of(real(personal(accounts(of Group'Discussions'&'Personal'Interviews during(MBA(admissions(to(India’s(best(B9schools Written'by Compiled'by Loads'of'MBA'Aspirants The'PaGaLGuY'MadCapz'Group PaGaLGuY.com Antholo gy Hundreds of real personal accounts of Group Discussions and Personal Interviews during MBA admissions to India’s best business schools. In this edition: The IIMs at Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Calcutta, Lucknow, Indore & Kozhikode. Written by Loads of MBA aspirants Compiled by The PaGaLGuY MadCapz Team PaGaLGuY GD-PI Anthology Copyright © 2011, PaGaLGuY.com All text and content in this document is solely owned by PaGaLGuY.com. Reproduction without permission in any form or means is illegal. Special copy prepared exclusively for mustafa rokerya Get your own Free personalized copy (with your name on it) of this book from http://www.pagalguy.com/books/ What this book is about What is a real IIM interview like? What kind of questions do they ask and what judgments do applicants have to make while answering them? Since 2003, those with real Group Discussion and Personal Interview calls from India’s top bschools have been posting entire and detailed transcripts of their admission interviews immediately after they happen, so that others slotted for later interviews can learn what GDPI is going to be like this year. This book is a collection of dozens of handpicked GDPI experiences from the country’s top bschools during the admission...
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