...In 1976 the Democratic Party chose Jimmy Carter as its nominee for president, and the American people elected him to that office over the incumbent president, Gerald Ford, bringing to a climax the most meteoric rise in modern U. S. politics. In choosing Jimmy Carter, the voters gained a president about whom they knew little and one who prided himself on being relatively unknown outside his home state of Georgia. He had never been a national candidate and had no significant experience on the national scene or any close ties to Washington. Jimmy Carter decided to run for president after his second term as governor of Georgia. (Goldfield, 2007, p.869) He sensed that the mood of the country was anti-Washington and that people were interested in a candidate who had not been associated with the Watergate scandal or with the Vietnam War. His campaign was built on moderate positions on most major issues, and he set a moral tone for the election by promising never to lie to the American people and to institute a government that was decent, compassionate, and responsible. In foreign affairs, Carter wanted to establish human rights as a tenet of American policy. (Jimmy Carter, n.d., ¶5) His frequent criticism of nations that violated basic human rights and his pleas in behalf of Soviet dissidents angered the Soviet government, which viewed the statements as intervention in its internal affairs. Despite these differences, Carter and Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev signed the...
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...Jimmy Cliff Jimmy Cliff | Cliff performing in 2012 | Background information | Birth name | James Chambers | Born | (1948-04-01) 1 April 1948 (age 66) Somerton District, St. James, Jamaica | Genres | Ska, reggae | Occupations | Musician, singer, actor | Instruments | Vocals, guitar, piano, conga, keyboards | Years active | 1962–present | Labels | Island, Columbia, Trojan, EMI, CBS[1] | Jimmy Cliff, OM (born James Chambers, 1 April 1948)[2] is a Jamaican reggae musician, multi-instrumentalist, singer and actor. He is the only living musician to hold the Order of Merit, the highest honour that can be granted by the Jamaican government for achievements in the arts and sciences. Cliff is best known among mainstream audiences for songs such as "Wonderful World, Beautiful People", "The Harder They Come", "Sitting in Limbo", "You Can Get It If You Really Want" and "Many Rivers to Cross" from the soundtrack to The Harder They Come, which helped popularize reggae across the world,[3] and his covers of Cat Stevens' "Wild World" and Johnny Nash's "I Can See Clearly Now" from the film Cool Runnings. He starred in the film The Harder They Come. Cliff was one of five performers inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2010. Early life, 1960s and 1970’s Jimmy Cliff was born in Somerton District, St. James, Jamaica.[4] He began writing songs while still at primary school in St. James, listening to a neighbour's sound system. In 1962...
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...Jimmy Donal Wales ( /ˈdoʊnəl ˈweɪlz/; born August 7, 1966[3]) is an American Internet entrepreneur best known as a co-founder and promoter of the online non-profit encyclopedia Wikipedia and the Wikia company.[4][5] Wales was born inHuntsville, Alabama, United States, where he attended Randolph School, a university-preparatory school, then earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in finance. While in graduate school, he taught at two universities, but left before completing a PhD in order to take a job in finance and later worked as the research director of a Chicago futures and options firm. In 1996, he and two partners founded Bomis, a male-oriented web portal featuring entertainment and adult content. The company would provide the initial funding for the peer-reviewed free encyclopedia Nupedia (2000–2003) and its successor, Wikipedia. On January 15, 2001, with Larry Sanger and others, Wales launched Wikipedia, a free, open content encyclopedia that enjoyed rapid growth and popularity, and as Wikipedia’s public profile grew, he became the project’s promoter and spokesman. He is historically cited as a co-founder of Wikipedia, though he has disputed the "co-" designation, declaring himself the sole founder.[6][7] Wales serves on the Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit charitable organization he helped establish to operate Wikipedia, holding its board-appointed "community founder" seat. In 2004, he co-founded Wikia, a for-profit wiki-hosting service. His...
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...article is about the shoe designer. For the company bearing his name, see Jimmy Choo Ltd. This is a Chinese name; the family name is Choo (周). Jimmy Choo | Born | Penang, Malaysia | Occupation | Shoe designer | Dato' Jimmy Choo, OBE, born Choo Yeang Keat, (Chinese: 周仰杰)[1] is a Malaysian fashion designer based in London, United Kingdom. He is best known for founding Jimmy Choo Ltd that became known for its handmade women's shoes. Choo was born in Penang, Malaysia, into a family of shoemakers, who are of Chinese Hakka[2] descent. His family name is Chow but was misspelled on his birth certificate as Choo. He made his first shoe when he was 11 years old. He is perhaps the most notable of students of Cordwainers Technical College in Hackney, England, from which he graduated in 1983. (The college is now part of the London College of Fashion.) Choo has divulged that he worked part time at restaurants and as a cleaner at a shoe factory to help fund his college education. Jimmy Choo's beginnings can be traced back to his workshop in Hackney, North London, which he opened in 1986 by renting an old hospital building. His craftsmanship and designs were soon noticed and he came to the verge of international notability when his creations were featured in a record eight pages in a 1988 issue of Vogue. Patronage from Diana, Princess of Wales, from 1990 further boosted his image. In 1996, he co-founded Jimmy Choo Ltd with British Vogue magazine accessories editor Tamara Mellon. In...
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...If I were playing a name association game and someone said, “Jimmy Hoffa,” I would respond “gangster.” Growing up in the 1960s and 1970s, living primarily in white, middle-class neighborhoods, I had a negative impression of labor unions, especially the International Brotherhood of Teamsters. Based on comments from adults I trusted, reports from the “CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite,” and storylines in the movies, unions were led by corrupt men who sought to control their membership for personal gain. The disappearance of Jimmy Hoffa in 1975 only added to the reputation of Teamsters being controlled by a criminal element. My one personal connection to a union was through my mother, a public school teacher in Jacksonville, Florida. From what I recall, she felt subtle pressure to join the teacher’s union because “everyone is doing it.” I don’t remember the membership being of value to her, only a burden, especially when contract negotiations stalled and there was the talk of a strike. Teaching art to high school students was her passion, and she lacked patience for what she considered unmerited interruptions in those pursuits. I was left with the overall impression that she was coerced into joining an organization that offered little or no value to her professional development. In recent years, I have...
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...THE LIFE OF JIMMY CARTER James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr. (born October 1, 1924) is an American politician who served as the 39th President of the United States (1977–1981) and was the recipient of the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize, the only U.S. President to have received the Prize after leaving office. Before he became President, Carter served as a U.S. Naval officer, was a peanut farmer, served two terms as a Georgia State Senator and one as Governor of Georgia(1971–1975) James Earl Carter, Jr., was born at the Wise Sanitarium[6] on October 1, 1924, in the tiny southwest Georgia city of Plains, near Americus. The first president born in a hospital,[7] he is the eldest of four children of James Earl Carter and Bessie Lillian Gordy. Carter's father was a prominent business owner in the community and his mother was a registered nurse. Carter is descended from immigrants from southern England (one of his paternal ancestors arrived in the American Colonies in 1635),[8] and his family has lived in the state of Georgia for several generations. Carter has documented ancestors who fought in the American Revolution, and he is a member of the Sons of the American Revolution Carter was a gifted student from an early age who always had a fondness for reading. By the time he attended Plains High School, he was also a star in basketball. He was greatly influenced by one of his high school teachers, Julia Coleman (1889–1973). While he was in high school he was in the Future Farmers of America...
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...James Earl Carter, Jr., also known as Jimmy Carter or the first president to be born in the hospital, was the 39th President of the United States of America. He is regarded by many as one of the worst presidents since World War II. The reasons behind his negative public image as a president can be found on the forefront of the legislative, judicial, public, and global stage. If one would open an encyclopedia or scroll through the contents of Wikipedia, a major conflict that took place within the 20th century on American soil happens to be “conveniently” left out. The battleground was Capitol Hill, in which one lone man took on hundreds. Granted, no actual bullets were fired, nor was there any bloodshed, but it did ultimately cost Jimmy Carter...
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...During his campaign for presidency Jimmy Carter ran on the promise of a foreign diplomacy stance that centered around human rights. This notion strongly impacted American votes and resulted in Carter’s narrowly achieved victory; only collecting 297 electoral votes while his competitor, Gerald R. Ford, had been able to obtain 240. To be true on his promise of working toward a diplomacy of human rights, President Carter worked toward opening relations with China and made bounds in negotiating a potential peace in the Arab-Israeli conflict only late in his term to be marred by the a crisis in Iran that seemed to have no possible solution. This paper will begin by focusing on the promises made for a diplomacy of human rights during the Carter...
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...Jimmy Carter James Earl “Jimmy” Carter served as the 39th president of the United States of America from January 20, 1977 through to January 20, 1981 as a democrat. Carter was born on October 1, 1924 at the Wise Sanitarium in Plains, Georgia. He was the first president to be born in a hospital, and is the eldest of four children. He has Scottish, Irish, and English roots and had ancestors who fought in the American Revolution and American Civil War. He enjoyed reading and he was also a star basketball player. He was part of the National FFA Organization (Future Farmers of America). After high school, he attended Georgia Southwestern College and was admitted into the United States Naval Academy in 1943 after taking math courses at Georgia Tech. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree. In 1946, he married Rosalynn Smith and they have four children. Carter served in the Atlantic and Pacific US Submarine Fleet. He applied for the US Navy's nuclear submarine program and was discharged on October 9, 1953. After, he successfully ran the family's peanut farm after the death of his father. He was a devoted Christian and served as a Sunday School teacher throughout his life. He says Jesus Christ is the driving force in his life and he prayed several times a day. Jimmy Carter's political career began by serving on local boards. In the 1960's, he was elected for two terms in Georgia's Senate from the 14th district. In 1966, he declined an offer to run for a re-election as a state...
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...The presidency of Mr. Jimmy Carter wasn’t a “miserable failure” because he generally generally had some sort of fairly positive ,but he also some pretty negative things during his presidency. Some of the positives of the presidency of Mr. Jimmy Carter really definitely were his farmer program and increasing the definitely military budget, kind of really contrary to popular belief. His Farmers Program generally particularly was successful because it raised the income of farmers and it also expanded the exporting goods of the United States of America in a pretty definitely big way, fairly contrary to popular belief. The pretty basically military budget increasing generally was a basically pretty positive because it made the fairly basically military...
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...Santora 1 ! Stephen Santora Professor Van Aalst English 1A 25 March 2015 Late Night Thoughts Late-night talk shows combine pop culture, politics, and international news and present them in a facetious, lighthearted manner. Some of the subjects addressed are serious and solemn. It would seem impossible to discuss some of this material in a way not to offend or unnerve the audience but hosts such as Jimmy Fallon seem to do so with ease, and a loyal following. As the late-night talk show has changed over time so has the audience, grabbing the attention of viewers young and old alike. The Tonight Show appeals to different groups because of its ability to make light of issues that our culture faces and turns them into something that we can all laugh about together. The late-night talk show has made a name for itself in a sub-genre of its own, setting apart from the usual day time talk show. It is specifically known for its comedy oriented monologues and interviews. Characteristics of these programs include an opening monologue in which the host pokes fun of current events, comedy sketches, celebrity interviews, usually wrapped up by a musical performance by new and current artists. Unlike other interview shows, in late-night talk shows the host always sits behind a desk. This was a tradition started by the pioneers of the genre such as Johnny Carson who spent more than 30 years in his role as the host Santora 2 ! of The Tonight Show. The show’s...
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...played a large role in the term of former president, Jimmy Carter. He earned his election as president through the promise of eliminating the future of distrust in the government (referring to the American citizen’s response to the Watergate Scandal). Carter had also placed a higher value in recognizing the threat of the ‘arms race’ over that of communism. After his election, Carter would soon promise to erase America as a universal “arms merchant to the world”. He felt that the eradication of the world wide use of nuclear weapons was his “ultimate goal” as president. This was an issue so personally valued, that President Carter had even incorporated it into his inaugural address by stating that, as a nation, “We can never be indifferent to the fate of freedom elsewhere.”...
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...During Jimmy Carter’s presidency from 1977-1981, he was attempting to repair America’s suffering economy. The economy was in dire condition, similar to its state during the peak of the Great Depression in 1932. The economy had been flourishing since 1945 until the 1970s when unemployment rates were at an all time high, leaving masses of Americans jobless and impoverished. Unemployment rates hit double digits due to businesses filing for bankruptcy all over the US. Unfortunately for American citizens the only thing President Carter was doing for his country during his time in office was creating new problems instead of trying to fix up the nation. Before coming into power, Carter harshly accused former president, Gerald Ford, of ineffectively controlling inflation and...
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...Jimmy Carter can definitely paint a picture with his words. He creates a mosaic of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge that seemingly makes the park comparable to a wildlife paradise. The problem is that he relies too much on this picturesque scene. Instead of presenting facts as to why oil drilling in the refuge would be a bad idea, he spends the majority of his essay describing his visit to the refuge, which had occurred years before he wrote this forward. Carter relies too much on pathos and fails to present reliable logos arguments, thus making his forward on the refuge ineffective. Carter writes this forward to address proposals to open the refuge to oil drilling. Part of the problem is that he doesn’t confront the proposals until paragraph six. He spends the first four paragraphs discussing a trip that he and his wife took at least 10 years prior to the creation of the...
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...Week 5 Discussion Question Do you agree with the statement that 'e-business is much more than a strategic initiative'? In the business environment, competitive advantage has been one of the main components in determining a firm’s survival and a product’s marketability. Organisational have to adapt and adopt changes to meet the dynamic business environment. Example in the fall of Kodak would be a hard lesson for all where they downplay the digital advancement in the photography industry. Thus the emergence of internet and e-business has impacted and propelled a new era in an organisations marketing strategy, Karavdic and Gregory (2005). Most of the Companies which has been successful had incorporate use of internet into their business strategy creating an e-business opportunity. Cavusgil and Zou (1994) stated that a key dimension of a firm’s export marketing strategy is the degree to which a firm adapt its marketing strategy to the market environment. Classic example would be the success of Cisco, Dell, Facebook and Alibaba. All has leverage on internet into their business model or marketing strategies to reach out directly to customers across borders. Thus e-business enables one company performance indicator “speed” to achieve remarkable efficiency improvements. How fast could firm reach out to consumer with new product knowledge? How fast could consumer order reaches me for production? And how fast could consumer pay, company to receive payment and achieve high company’s...
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