...Mic Check, One-Two Suzanne Fields, the author of “Bad Raps: Music Rebels Revel in Their Thug Life” wrote her article on May 21, 2001 for insight on the news. In her article, Fields talks about how rap music has negative effects on our younger generation. She personally believes that the lyrics in these songs have a harsh effect on our youth and that it is the worst genre of music out right now. While reading, I found her opinion to be extremely biased and unfair. I also found myself disagreeing with almost every bad thing she stated about the rap genre since many other genres can have the same types of effects on younger people when they listen to them. Fields starts out her article by saying that rap music “expresses the worst kind of images” and is harmful to our younger generations. She thinks that the lyrics “employ vulgar street idioms” and are too harsh. She also states that she believes their lyrics come from “a world of broken families, absent fathers, illegitimate children and matriarchal dominance, often subsidized by welfare.” (Fields) Fields continues her argument against rap music by saying that the reason for the harsh lyrics is because language and experience of poetry and romance are absent from the lives of the rappers and their audiences. Fields personally does not know the true lives of the rappers, so she shouldn't be judging them just off of their lyrical content. Fields continues her article against rap music by using a couple facts about other singers...
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...colonialism, slavery, or their aftermath as they are lived out in many parts of the world today”(Pratt 34) by Mary Louise Pratt in her writing titled “Arts of the contact zone”. This song has been helpful and caused huge issues within the communities. The song shows the struggle that people of color go through in society and how different races portray each other based on stereotypes. NWA, which stands for Niggas With Attitude, wrote this song as a parody. I believe that they presented themselves with such vulgar because they felt like everyone saw them in a negative way. They became what the public thought they were. In doing so they caused a lot of commotion with the FBI and police. The song is from the view point of the 3 attorneys; MC Ren, Ice Cube, Eazy-E and the judge Dr. Dre. Each attorney shares their story about the struggle of being a person of color living in Compton. The first verse is by Ice Cube who mentions “and not the other color so police think/ they have the authority to kill a minority”(NWA 5). What Ice Cube is saying is that cops think because they are white, they are superior to people of color. The cops assume they have the right to kill them and abusing the authority they have. Instead of protecting the civilians,they are harming them. Later on Cube says “searching my car,looking for the product/thinking every nigga is selling narcotics/ you'd rather see, me in the pen/ than me and Lorenzo rolling in a Benz-o”(NWA 6) The police will stop these young...
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...often arose. Informal competitions started when a few truly exceptional dancers were noticed on the dance floor; the rest of the people would back off and allow the leaders to duke it out. As these informal competitions became increasingly common and popular, announced competitions became part of a night out at hip hop clubs. Whether they arose organically or they were advertised in advance, this competitive nature helped hip hop retain the "battle" culture that has existed since the beginning. This type of competition can also be seen in other dance forms, perhaps most notably in tap dancing of the early 20th century. *The Hammer Dance (Mc Hammer) MC Hammer brought rap music to the mainstream audience with his album Please Hammer Don't Hurt 'Em, the biggest-selling rap album of all time. Born into poverty in Oakland, California, in 1962, MC Hammer began his performing career as a young boy dancing outside the Oakland Coliseum during Oakland A's games. He launched himself into full-fledged stardom with the 1990 release Please Hammer Don't Hurt 'Em, the first...
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...The closure of MG Rover REPORT BY THE COMPTROLLER AND AUDITOR GENERAL | HC 961 Session 2005-2006 | 10 March 2006 The National Audit Office scrutinises public spending on behalf of Parliament. The Comptroller and Auditor General, Sir John Bourn, is an Officer of the House of Commons. He is the head of the National Audit Office, which employs some 800 staff. He, and the National Audit Office, are totally independent of Government. He certifies the accounts of all Government departments and a wide range of other public sector bodies; and he has statutory authority to report to Parliament on the economy, efficiency and effectiveness with which departments and other bodies have used their resources. Our work saves the taxpayer millions of pounds every year. At least £8 for every £1 spent running the Office. The closure of MG Rover LONDON: The Stationery Office £12.25 Ordered by the House of Commons to be printed on 7 March 2006 REPORT BY THE COMPTROLLER AND AUDITOR GENERAL | HC 961 Session 2005-2006 | 10 March 2006 contents ExEcuTivE SuMMAry PArT 1 This report has been prepared under Section 6 of the National Audit Act 1983 for presentation to the House of Commons in accordance with Section 9 of the Act. John Bourn Comptroller and Auditor General National Audit Office 7 March 2006 The National Audit Office study team consisted of: Craig Adams, Tim Bryant, Alan Hartnell and Si Mathavan assisted by Santosh Gora, Daisy Hodgson, Laura Hughes, Kevin Manic and Robert...
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...SWOT Elements S = Strengths (internal to the organization) W = Weaknesses (internal to the organization) O = Opportunities (external to the organization) T = Threats (external to the organization) Strengths and Weaknesses Strengths and Weaknesses, as their names imply, are internal characteristics of an organization - things that your company does well or poorly. Think of your workplace or another organization. Can you name things that the firm does well? These are factors over which managers have complete control, so they are considered Internal Strengths. Examples of Strengths: Strong brand name or company reputation Cost advantages over rivals Product innovation capabilities Good customer service capabilities An internal strength can be considered a distinctive competence when the organization and only a few of their competitors possess that internal strength. When the strength is difficult to imitate by the organization's competitors then that distinctive competence creates a sustainable competitive advantage for the organization that possesses the distinctive competence. Therefore, distinctive competencies are of great value to an organization and one that organizations strive to possess and protect. On the other hand, weaknesses are things that you don't do well. It is tough to conduct an honest account of weaknesses from inside an organization. Realistic assessment will probably be damaging to one department or another. Examples...
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...1/3 The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India INTERMEDIATE (INTEGRATED PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE) EXAMINATION / ACCOUNTING TECHNICIAN EXAMINATION - MAY 2014 CANDIDATE DETAILS Name of Candidate : SWEETY AGARWAL DOB: 23/08/1994 Registration No : ERO0183077 Applied Date: 23/02/2014 Medium Opted : English Gender : Female E Mail : radhasurana8@gmail.com Control No: 4285300 Landline No: - Exam Applied : Intermediate (IPCE) Both Groups Examination Centre : Kolkata III Center Code: 309 Mobile No : 9230422289 Father's Name: ANIL AGARWAL Registration date of Intermediate(IPCC)/ATC/Inter/PEE-II/PCC: 20/07/2012 PIN :1994 Differently Abled :No Revalidation Date: - ENTRANCE/ FOUNDATION/ PEE-I/ CPT PASSING PARTICULARS Exam Passed CPT MONTH & YEAR 06, 2012 Roll No. 178973 PARTIAL INTERMEDIATE/ PEE-II/ PCE/ IPCE EXAMINATION PASSING DETAILS Exam Passed MONTH & YEAR Roll No. EXEMPTION DETAILS OF EXEMPTION SECURED IN ERSTWHILE PCE Month & Year Roll No P1 P2 P3 P4 P5 P6 EXEMPTION DETAILS OF EXEMPTION SECURED IN IPCE/ATE Month & Year PAYMENT DETAILS Total Amount: 1600 INR Transaction Date: 23/02/2014 Bank Transaction No: EFI_ERO0183077_1180823904 Roll No. P1 P2 P3 P4 P5 P6 P7 2/3 The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India INTERMEDIATE (INTEGRATED PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE) EXAMINATION / ACCOUNTING TECHNICIAN EXAMINATION - MAY 2014 Registration No : ERO0183077 Control No: 4285300 DECLARATION BY THE STUDENT 1. I SWEETY AGARWAL son/daughter of ANIL AGARWAL...
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...Antonio Magadán Sister Spilsbury English 3 A 12 September 2014 Back to School Coming back to school can be a little annoying and stressful, especially when I’m coming back from a long summer. I have to wake up early in the mornings; there is not much free time for myself; how could I possibly like that? Well, like everything else in life, it’s all about perspective. My life has the potential to be an art, and coming back to school can be an opportunity to prove it. I just have to be creative. I may think school is just taking away all of my time and that I don’t have the chance to play sports or do the things I like, and it might be true. But changing my perspective can allow me to see that school is not keeping me from doing what I always do, but it is an opportunity to learn something new. Now that it’s my senior year and that I’m a member of the student council, school is an opportunity to leave my mark in this school and to make a change in the students’ lives. It’s also an opportunity to learn and prepare myself for the life that I have ahead of me in the future. School can be great if I am patient enough and aware of what is happening around me. That’s why I have to pay attention to my surroundings. But what happens if I find myself in a situation where I have the potential to do something amazing, but I just don’t know what to do? That’s what preparation is for; school can help me prepare myself for the opportunities that may cross my way in the future, so that...
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...Office page กรุณาเลือกโหมดแสดงสรุปผลโครงการ စီမန္ကိန္း၏အက်ဥ္းခ်ဳပ္ကိုေရႊးခ်ယ္ရန္ สรุปผลการประเมืณโต๊ะที่ให้บริการ ဝန္ေဆာင္္မႈေပးေသာစားပြးမ်ား၏ရလဒ္္ ဲ สรุปผลการประเมืณแบบละเอียด အကဲျဖတ္္ျခင္း၏အေသးစိတ္ရလဒ္ P1 Myanmar ျမန္မာဘာသာ P2 กรุณาเลือกหมายเลขโต๊ะทีได้รบการบริการ ဝန္ေဆာင္မရရွိေသာစားပြးနံပါတ္ကိုေရႊးခ်ယ္ရန္ ่ ั ႈ ဲ ก่อนหน้า ေနာက္သို ့ P3 กรุณาเลือกความพึงพอใจในการให้บริการ ဝန္ေဆာင္မႈ၏ေက်နပ္မကိုေရႊးခ်ယ္ရန္ ႈ ดีมาก အလြန္ေကာင္း พอใช้ได้ သာမန္ ควรปรับปรุง ျပင္ဆင္ရန္လိုအပ္ P4 ขอบคุณสาหรับการประเมิน အကျဲဖတ္ေပးျခင္းအတြက္ေက်းဇူးတင္ပါသည္ กลับหน้าแรก ပင္မစာမ်က္ႏွာ เพิ่มเติม ပိုမိုထည့္သြင္းရန္ หากต้องการประเมินแบบละเอียดกรุณากด “เพิ่มเดิม” အေသးစိတ္အကဲျဖတ္လိုလွ်င္ “ပိုမိုထည့္သြင္းရန္” ကိုႏွိပ္ရန္ P5 กรุณาเลือเพศ က်ား/မေရႊးခ်ယ္ရန္ ชาย က်ား หญิง မ P6 กรุณาเลือกอาชีพ အလုပ္အကိုင္ကိုေရႊးခ်ယ္ရန္ ลูกจ้าง/พนักงาน/ฟรีแลนซ์ လုပ္သား/ဝန္ထမ္း/အလြတ္တန္း นายจ้าง/เจ้าของกิจการ/ผู้จ้างงาน လုပ္ငန္းပိုင္ရွင္/အလုပ္ရွင္ ราชการ/รัฐวิสาหกิจ အစိုးရဝန္ထမ္း/ႏုိင္ငံေတာ္စီးပြားေရးလုပ္ငန္း นักเรียน/นักศึกษา ေက်ာင္းသား/တကၠသိုလ္ေက်ာင္းသား องค์กรด้านแรงงาน အလုပ္သမားအဖဲြ႕အစည္း องค์กรอิสระ อื่นๆ အျခား P7 เรื่องที่มาขอรับบริการ ဝန္ေဆာင္မႈလာေတာင္းဆိုသည့္အေၾကာင္းရင္းကိုေရႊးရန္ ขอคาปรึกษา ညိွႏႈင္းတိုင္ပင္မႈေတာင္းဆိုျခင္း ร้องทุกข์ အကူအညီေတာင္းဆိုျခင္း จดทะเบียน စာရင္းသြင္းျခင္း ขอใบรับรอง/รองต่ออายุใบรับรอง ေထာက္ခံခ်က္လက္မွတ္ေတာင္းျခင္း/သက္တမ္းတိိုးျခင္း ขอข้อมูล/เอกสาร သတင္းအခ်က္အလက္/စာရႊက္စာတမ္းမ်ားေတာင္းဆိုျခင္း P8 ระดับความพึงพอใจด้านสิ่งอานวยความสะดวก 5 มากที่สุดและ...
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...Strengths Jaguar Land Rovers was holding all the aces in the global market. Leading brand of high quality cars is the company’s main strength. Most of the company’s cars won some honored awards. It made the products easily accepted by the general public and had an instant icon which everyone can recognize. The award, such as Gear Magazine Awards and Magazine 2009, fleet world honors. It came along when the company had introduced special selling point in Jaguar drive selector TM, Jaguar Sequential Shift TM, and Jaguar drive Control TM. Secondly, the TATA ownership is a positive effect to the company. The investors play an important role in this company, JLR company won’t be successful if the investors doesn’t exist, because you can’t make an omelet without breaking eggs. TATA has shown a great step ahead compare to other cars company. The existing company brand and also develop more brands which would fit in among the poverty and wealth general public and improve the sales in the balance market. This is because TATA Motors Limited is an old and experience company. Their mindset and idea were creative and innovative. India was the main manufacture of the TATA Motors Limited. There is a great hope of enhance the sales of the JLR Company to the peak following by the TATA SWOT analysis by the economist. The Land Rovers British brand image is also one of the main strengths. The defender vehicle is one of the highest longevity compared to other cars. The fact that the car features...
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...BE ORIGINAL Introducing the New BMW MINI Cooper Hardtop, “The New Original”. MINI is known for its quirky campaigns over the years, the launch of the new model brought about MINI’s biggest campaign yet, with the slogan: “The New MINI. The New Original.” Spring 2014 announced the arrival of BMW’s new MINI Cooper Hardtop. The car that was first launched in 1959 has been entirely redesigned from bonnet to boot. Bigger and better than ever, the new MINI focuses on the things that make it undeniably different from all its competitors. With new engines, technologies and design, the MINI is faster, safer and more connected than a switchboard. It is completely different from any other car. BMW in collaboration with their respective advertising agencies worldwide, have used all possible forms of media and creative new ways to engage their target audience in the launch of their iconic MINI. MINI uses brand promotion tools including advertising and sales promotions. Back To Spike/ Spike The Bulldog/ Bullheaded/MINI Cooper Dog Lovers BMW decided to keep Mini’s iconic bull-dog stance in their first ad, “Bullheaded” which features Spike the Bulldog. The ad was launched on MINI’s YouTube channel and was broadcasted on TV. If you never thought you would buy a car because of a dog, THIS AD makes you think otherwise. Outdoor & Print Ads/ More Torque Less Twerk/ Nothing says quirky quite like their quick-witted and humorous outdoor and print ad campaigns, which show off the...
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...the end of this term • Provide everything students may need during their academic year in 2015 • Enhance the courses pass rate in LSC by 1% in the end of 2015 The sector of the economy the business operates in - It is in the tertiary sector because it provides services to students such as library services. The ownership of the business - LSC is a public organisaton in a public sector, it is also owned by the government, and therefore the debts will be paid by the government. If they have any debts it will only be paid within the things of the business and not with the owners’ property. Jaguar Land Rover The type of business - an international business which means the company set up branches cross at least two countries or more. Jaguar Land Rover is a multinational automotive company, its headquarter located in Whitley, Coventry UK. Private business: Jaguar Land Rover is a private business owned by the Indian car maker Tata Motors. The aims of the business: • Always provide a car service and make a profit by selling cars to car dealers • To become the one of the major cars manufacturing facilities in the world • Expand its business into all Asian countries to increase more profits The objectives of the business: • Be actively participating in a number of events, try to...
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...I would like to nominate Corporal Daniel Martinez #1178 for the Correctional Supervisor of the Year. Corporal Martinez has been with the Hernando County Sheriff Office since August 2010. During this period, Corporal Martinez promoted to several different positions within the Agency. In May 2015 Corporal Martinez was appointed to fulfill the position of Administrative Corporal. The Hernando County Detention Center’s Administrative Corporal position comes with great responsibilities. The Administrative Corporal serves as the Fire Safety Sanitation Officer, and is responsible for the facilities’ Maintenance Department, Laundry Department, Programs Department, Tool Control, Key Control and the Department of Public Works programs to include...
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...efficiency projects, and 4.) Conservation & Humanitarian Partnerships by working partnerships for conservation and society’s gain. E Terrain Technologies: A joint $1,253m investment into new technologies designed to reduce CO2 emissions and improve fuel consumption. Land Rover is targeting a 25% reduction in joint fleet average tailpipe CO2emissions within the next five years. Beginning with an intelligent Stop/Start system on LR2 TD4 manual in 2009, followed by Intelligent Power Management Systems (IPMS) with Smart regenerative braking on all LR4 & Range Rover vehicles, to the announcement of our new small Range Rover, e_TERRAIN TECHNOLOGIES form a fundamental part of our carbon management plan. Sustainable Manufacturing: World class manufacturing facilities, certified to ISO14001 since 1998. As a company we are targeting a 25% reduction in operating CO2emissions by 2012, 25% in waste to landfill and 10% in water consumption. Going forward we are measuring our total operating carbon footprint and setting targets to reduce it; since 2006 this integrated approach has included the carbon offset of all manufacturing assembly CO2emissions from our Solihull and Halewood plants. But it doesn't stop there. Every Land Rover is designed to be 95% recoverable and reusable - with 85% that's recyclable and a further 10% that can be used to generate energy. CO2 Offsetting: For every ton of CO2 emitted during the manufacturing assembly of all our...
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...Organizational Changes in Ford Motor Company Organizational Changes in Ford Motor Company In today’s business world, one of the questions organizations are inquired about is “What can be done in order for our organization survive and expand?” Today’s society is evolving into something too challenging to easily foresee, with a numerous opportunities and drawbacks continuously passing. Economic modifications continue to change the very fundamental nature of how an organization is conduct performs. A company must be able to acknowledge the course they face and be able to poise themselves to meet head-on any difficulties in order to accomplish the goals they settle on. In order to meet these demands is through systematic competent management and resilient leadership. Ford Motor Company is an organization that has endures this and has created outcomes that exemplify the power of operative management and precise leadership. The company’s ability to employ qualified managers and leaders has permitted the company to climb from previous low points to be primed for an optimistic economic future. Ford Motor Company, as an American manufacturer and distributor of vehicles and automotive parts and accessories, has confronted many challenges since its integration that required resolute management and qualified leadership. To better associate with the challenges the company faces an understanding of the explanation of management and leadership are required...
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...decisions and restructured its debt in such a way that, when the economy slowed down, Ford didn’t. Mulally observes that this timing was a bit of luck and a bit of strategic planning. “I go back to the fundamental point of view that the Ford Motor Company has taken about the future going forward, and the actions that we have taken to create that future,” he observes. “[Several years] ago we decided that fuel efficiency was going to be very, very important going forward, along with quality and safety and good value. We also decided that we wanted to provide customers with an absolutely clear vision of Ford and focus on the Ford brand.” As part of this overall strategy, Ford sold off its luxury brands Aston Martin, Jaguar, and Land Rover. Meanwhile, it invested in the development of moderately priced, fuel-efficient cars and trucks. Ford took on some extra debt at the time as a hedge against a recession—and had the cash on hand when the other two automakers didn’t. Decisions like this are typical of the responsibilities that are faced by top managers like Mulally. They require strong leadership qualities that include a willingness to persist during tough times. But Mulally wasn’t always CEO of Ford. His first management position was as an engineering supervisor at Boeing. He overmanaged his employees so closely that one engineer finally quit. Mulally says that this was an important experience early in his management career. He realized that his job as a manager ...
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