...in the outcome. SOMEONE, NOT BELONGING TO ANY PARTY, VOLUNTEERS TO OFFER INFORMATION TO ASSIST IN A CASE, WHICH IS WHY IT MEANS FRIEND OF THE COURT Astroturf - refers to political, advertising or public relations campaigns that are designed to mask the sponsors of the message to give the appearance of coming from a disinterested, grassroots participant (i.e. fake grassroots); FAKE GRASS/FAKE SUPPORT; OPPOSITE OF GRASSROOTS; Creating the impression of public support by paying people in the public to pretend to be supportive. Bundling - A tactic in which PACs collect contributions from like-minded individuals (each limited to $2000) and present them to a candidate or political party as a “bundle,” thus increasing the PAC’s influence. Checkbook Membership- send in money to be a member A checkbook member is when a person tends to join groups but do little more than pay the membership fees. Collective Action - an action taken by a group of like-minded individuals to achieve a common goal; interest groups allow for collective action Disturbance Theory - interest groups develop as a result of changes in social/ economic/ political environments that upset the well-being of some groups of people...
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...nearly 100 years after the Emancipation Proclamation, African Americans in Southern states still inhabited a strictly unequal world of segregation and other various forms of oppression, which included race-inspired violence towards them. “Jim Crow” laws at the local and state levels stop them from entering classrooms and bathrooms, theaters and train cars, and juries.The civil rights movement centered in the southern states of america. That was where the African American population was the most concentrated and where racial inequality in education, economic opportunity, and the political and legal processes was most prominent. Beginning in the late 19th century, state and local governments passed segregation laws, known as Jim Crow laws; they...
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...The Despicable Content in Hip-Hop Music – Making Plato Turn in his Grave In a city where each individual is able to do as he pleases is a city that will be filled with murder, theft, gluttony, deviance and prejudice. Hip-Hop artists, in their music, constantly incorporate these aspects of life within the content of their lyrics. This content is not only described throughout their songs, but the lifestyle of being able to do such things is constantly being advocated. “F*ck the Police” and “Beat a police out of shape and when I'm finished, bring the yellow tape to tape off the scene of the slaughter” (Rap Genius) are lyrics from the song “F*ck the Police” by the world renown hip hop group, NWA. This is one of many Hip-Hop groups that promote violence through music. Other songs such as “She swallowed It” and “Dopeman” both promote greediness, “lawless desires”, sexism and being promiscuous. If Plato were alive today to bear witness to Hip Hop music he would have despised the content of these songs, as the aforementioned contents of this type of music are all aspects of society in what he calls the “Luxurious City” and the “Purged City” and go against his idea of a just society. Hip-Hop’s first major concept that is addressed time and time again throughout its lyrics is the concept of Greed. Greed is defined as an “intense and selfish desire for something, especially wealth, power, or food.” (Oxford) Many Hip-Hop songs address accumulation of wealth (among other things)...
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...sits with her knees to her chest, her arms wrapped around her knees, her left hand keeping a tight grip on her right wrist. Her knuckles are white. She stares at GRACIE (16). Gracie continues protesting against the coaxing crowd. Her boyfriend, JACK (17) the ring leader of them all. GRACIE (CONT’D) It is weird. JACK Ok pipe down, she doesn’t have to do anything she doesn’t wanna. Gracie turns to Jen. Jen? GRACIE The chatter dies down. All eyes are on Jen. JEN It’d be weird. 3. INT. KITCHEN. NIGHT. Jen stands at the kitchen’s bar, she rests one arm on the table top and glares forward. In front of her CAM (17) sits opposite her. 2. CAM So after I’d seen the big red slits of foreshadowing death on the poor creatures upper abdomen I did what any normal person would do and immediately fished it out of the bowl of death it had been swimming around in... A scream comes from outside, it’s Gracie. Jen jumps, looking past Cam. Outside on the porch Jack has Gracie over his shoulder. Jack places her down and they begin to kiss passionately. Jack cuddles Gracie affectionately and points toward the ocean. He kisses her on her nose gently. CAM (CONT’D) Turns out fish have gills to breath and don’t need band-aids over them at all... What’s the worst thing you’ve ever done? Jen doesn’t reply. She’s still staring...
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...------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Table Of Contents ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1. Introduction 2. Version History 3. Rules 4. Walkthrough 4.1 The Beginning 4.2 Petalburg Town And Forest 4.3 Rustboro City.. The First Badge! 4.4 Across The Sea To Dewford City 4.5 Slateport City 4.6 The Road To Mauvile 4.7 The Electrifying Mauvile Gym! 4.8 Route 111 & 112 4.9 Fiery Path & Route 112 & 113 4.10 Fallarbor Town 4.11 Route 114 And The Meteor Falls 4.12 The Road To Verdanturf Town 4.13 Mt.Chimney 4.14 The Jagged Pass 1 4.15 The Hot Lavaridge City 4.16 The Interesting Desert 4.17 The Petalburg Gym 4.18 The Ocean Path 4.19 The Abandoned Ship 4.20 The Rest Of The Road 4.21 The New Mauvile 4.22 The Harsh Routes 118 & 119 4.23 The Weather Institute 4.24 The Rest Of Route 119 4.25 The Confusing Fortree City 4.26 Route 120 & 121 4.27 Lilycove City 4.28 Mt. Pyre 4.29 Route 123 4.30 Team Magma's Hideout 4.31 The Team Aqua Hideout 4.32 The Ocean Route 124 4.33 The Psychic Mossdeep City 4.34 The Space Center 4.35 The Water Routes (1) 4.36 Underwater Hideout 4.37 Saving.. The Pokemon World! 4.38 The Wanted Rayquaza 4.39 Sootoplis Gym At Last! 4.40 The Path To Victory Road 4.41...
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...Positioning 6. Marketing Program 2.0 a. Product Strategy b. Price Strategy c. Promotion Strategy d. Place (Distribution) Strategy 7. Financial Data and Projections 1.0 a. Past Sales Revenues b. Five-Year Projections 8. Organizational Structure 0.5 9. Implementation 1.0 10. Evaluation and Control 0.5 11. Bibliography Total Pages in Marketing Plan Excluding Appendices 10.5 My service is going to be a grocery store that also delivers and takes orders over the phone and online. So a person could either call in, order online and also pick either pick up or delivery. You can still come into the store and buy yours goods as well. The mission statement is “Serving everyone like their family.” My goals are to beat out the competitors of other grocery stores and to either put them out of business or to have them join my business. There aren’t going to be any other grocery stores like mine because they don’t deliver, take orders online or...
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...dress swaying in the breeze, “it’s just…They look so sad, like they’re lost, and cant’ get home.” A soft smile played at my lips, I bent down so my head came up to her shoulders. My little girl turned and looked at me, rubbing her nose and leaving a streak of pollen on its tip. “Would you like to hear a story?” I whispered, placing myself back on our blanket. She nodded, her eyes lighting up at the prospect of another myth. She sat down next to me, curling up and resting her head on my lap. I sighed, turning my eyes upward to the speckled red sky, the last light of day just beginning to hide behind the cloak of night. I closed my eyes, remembering the myth my grandmother had told me years ago; the soft chirping of a Pine siskin floats through the cool air as I begin the story, the Senowee tale of why the sunflower follows the sun. Why the Sunflower Follows the Sun “Once, long ago in a place much different than our home, there lived a burning flame. Her name was Asishkawatz, and she was the mother sun. Now, Asishkawatz had seven children, six of who had extraordinary gifts. Sal, the eldest, had the voice of an angel. When she sang, the entire world was still; not even the buzzing of a grasshopper would dare disturb her song. Tocho was the second eldest and he was born with iron bones. It was said that he fought like ten men and that once he wrestled with the storm god Pillan and beat him with a single blow. There were also twins born to Asishkawatz, Satinka and Alwin...
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...Employment Of Foreign Workers In Malaysia INDEX 1. Executive Summary 2. Introduction 3. Analysis 4. Challenges 5. Implications 6. Recommendations 7. Conclusion 8. References 1.0 Executive Summary The report investigates on the issue of employment of foreign workers in Malaysia. During the British colonial period in the early nineteenth century, Malaysia was a net receiver of foreign nationals who came to work in the plantations, mines, and construction sectors. Nowadays, rapid industrialization, urbanization, strong economic growth led to labour shortages in rural areas and plantation sectors due to rejection of locals to work in these industries. There are some changes and policy reforms since early 2000 regarding the employment of foreign workers, which includes: Amendments to the Employment Act and Equality in Treatment and Enforcement of Laws. There is also a proposel regarding Foreign Workers Act. The report analyses the advantages and disadvantages of employing foreign workers. Among the advantages are availability of low cost labour, willingness to work for long hours and availability of abundant foreign workforce. Nonetheless, there are also drawbacks to employing foreign workers including rapid expansion of population and increasing in level of unemployment of locals. The main issue is exploitation of foreign worker in Malaysia. Foreign workers are exploited by their employers in different ways, for instance, wage manipulation...
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...of the secretive Shadowhunters, and to its capital, the City of Glass, where with the help of a newfound friend, Sebastian, she uncovers important truths about her familys past that will help save not only her mother but all those that she holds most dear. ISBN-13: 978-1-4391-5842-5 ISBN-10: 1-4391-5842-8 [1. SupernaturalFiction. 2. DemonologyFiction. 3. MagicFiction. 4. VampiresFiction. 5. New York (N.Y.)Fiction.] I. Title. PZ7.C5265Ckg 2009 [Fic]dc22 2008039065 Visit us on the World Wide Web: http://www.SimonSays.com [http://www.SimonSays.com] For my mother. I only count the hours that shine. Acknowledgments When you look back on writing a book, you cant help but realize what a group effort it all is, and how quickly the whole thing would sink like the Titanic if you didn't have the help of your friends. With that in mind: Thanks to the NB Team and the...
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...The Moose and the Sparrow Hugh Garner From the very beginning Moose Maddon picked on him. The kid was bait for all of Maddon's cruel practical jokes around the camp. He was sent back to the tool-house for left-handed saws, and down to the office to ask the pay cheater if the day's mail was in, though the rest of us knew it was only flown out every week. The kid's name was Cecil, and Maddon used to mouth it with a simpering mockery, as if it pointed to the kid being something less than a man. I must admit though that the name fitted him, for Cecil was the least likely lumberjack I've seen in over twenty-five years in lumber camps. Though we knew he was intelligent enough, and a man too, if smaller than most of us, we all kidded him, in the good natured way a bunkhouse gang will. Maddon however always lisped the kid's name as if it belonged to a woman. Moose Maddon was as different from Cecil as it is possible for two human beings to be and still stay within the species. He was a big moose of a man, even for a lumber stiff, with a round flat unshaven face that looked down angrily and dourly at the world. Cecil on the other hand was hardly taller than an axe-handle, and almost as thin. He was about nineteen years old, with the looks of an inquisitive sparrow behind his thick horn-rimmed glasses. He had been sent out to the camp for the summer months by an distant relative who had a connection with the head office down in Vancouver. That summer we were cutting big stuff in...
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...accessible area and slowly yet surely be a dominant player in the market. Our mission is to provide all that is beautiful and add beauty with flowers to everyday life at affordable prices and superb customer service. * Resources: For our business recruiting research we utilized numerous resources. The Internet was of great help to us providing everything from the risk free rate to quotations for our delivery vehicle and fridges. Moreover, the Internet was of great assistance in allocating employees and getting a rough idea about salaries as well as finding out about the training program allocated in London, England. As our second resource we went to Fleur, a very similar flower business in a residential area. We got real figures from them who were kind enough to provide us with the capacity as they are the same size as we plan to be along with employees salaries...
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...250 WORDS ANWSERS FOR EACH QUESTION 1. According to Delfabbro (2009) games of chance can be classified across four dimensions. Explain one of these dimensions and identify a form of gambling at each extreme point of this dimension. Delfabbro(2009) has mentioned that locational characteristics is also influences the nature of gambling activities such as whether they can play at home, alone, a groups, at casino, or can be on telephone and on internet. Besides, the locational characteristics of gambling play a significant role in people’s choice of gambling activity (Productivity Commission, 1999). Different venue can also affect social relationships, and environmental air at the scene of gambling activities. Players prefer to engage in lively environment, casino, race track, where the player can easily interact with the host and other players. Bustling atmosphere can create more dynamic, stimulating players more involved. (Charlotte Fabiansson, 2010) But in addition, with today's modern technology, players can easily participate in gambling activities such as betting at the races at home without directly by phone and internet. (Richard McGowan, 2008) Today, with modern technology, the gambling the phone and internet gambling is increasing because of the rapid, convenient, time-saving to the player. Players just sit at home and can be able to communicate, bet with friends and other players around the world with the click or one phone call. Casino host also can create online...
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...How To Combat Terrorism Terrorism is used by extremist to scare the public into meeting their demands. These terrorist believe that if they can cause some sort of panic that they can force people to fear them and in turn, have power over them. Their tactics are generally extremely violent and they will do whatever is necessary to strike fear into the hearts of those they deem to be their enemy. What can be done to combat terrorist? Is there any way that we can keep ourselves safe from these extremist? Combating terrorism is no easy task and it is something that can not be done over night. It will be a long struggle that could be quite dangerous. One of the first things to do is to find out all of the methods that these terrorists use and understand their strategies. How do they attack us? In what ways have they been most successful? If we can find out all of the ways they may attack, it will be much easier to set up defenses and stop them before they harm any innocent people. Once you know where they will attack, you can begin setting up procedures to stop them. One of the most obvious rules is to simply have security scout the area for anything unusual. At an airport, for example, security guards should be constantly patrolling the area and if they notice anything strange, they should check it out. There should be some sort of system to check bags for harmful items and of course a metal detector. Some sort of smaller system should be placed in any type of area that terrorist...
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...INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT OF PADDY POWER 1.1 INTRODUCTION Paddy Power, Irelands biggest, most successful bookmaker is an international betting and gaming group. Since 2012, an estimate of €5 billion what of bets have been placed by Irish online gamblers alone (Duffy, 2015). In this case study, we will focus our environmental analysis on the bookmaking industry and Paddy Power in particular. This will include the internal, external analysis and how international management has affected the company. Why Paddy Power? The company claims to be the most innovative and security conscious bookmakers (Paddy Power, 2011). They have also drawn a lot of criticisms in the past of which some of them would be mentioned in this report. If you cant beat them, join them. Paddy Power although Ireland’s largest is not Europe’s largest bookmaker, PMU (Pari Mutuel Urbain) is. Instead of competing, the company decided to make a...
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...mysteries of entrepreneurship and reveals that magic and genius are not the necessary ingredients for success but instead proposes a scienti c process that can be learned and replicated. Whether you are a startup entrepreneur or corporate entrepreneur, there are important lessons here for you on your quest toward the new and unknown.” —Tim Brown, CEO, IDEO “The road map for innovation for the twenty-first century. The ideas in The Lean Startup will help create the next industrial revolution.” —Steve Blank, lecturer, Stanford University, UC Berkeley Hass Business School “Every founding team should stop for forty-eight hours and read The Lean Startup. Seriously, stop and read this book now.” —Scott Case, CEO, Startup America Partnership “The key lesson of this book is that startups happen in the present —that messy place between the past and the future where nothing happens according to PowerPoint. Ries’s ‘read and react’ approach to this sport, his relentless focus on validated learning, the neverending anxiety of hovering between ‘persevere’ and ‘pivot,’ all bear witness to his appreciation for the dynamics of entrepreneurship.” —Geoffrey Moore, author, Crossing the Chasm “If you are an entrepreneur, read this book. If you are thinking about becoming an entrepreneur, read this book. If you are just curious about entrepreneurship,...
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