...Reconstruction of the United states of America was a big failure and here are some reasons why. The government never had taken the biggest step and that was land redistribution. After the civil war slaves were left with no economic rights and basically became peasants to society and had no lives and couldn't live like they would of liked to. “Freeing slaves also led to crippling the land and the foundation of the south.” The reconstruction of the south lasted between the years of 1865 to 1877. Republican legislature failed to protect people who were once slaves from the white people that had been apart of the persecution committee. The supreme court eventually came to totally get rid of anti-progressive legislation to reverse the rights...
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...experienced serious injuries and had to miss some time from their sport. The participants had to fill out questionnaires about how they felt being forced to take time off from their sports. Most of them admitted struggling to fill up this emptiness. Also, one of the biggest concerns were re-injuring themselves when coming back to the sport and being forced to postpone come back for an even longer period of time. However, most of the coaches and teammates were supportive and tried not to rush their players or teammates to come back to the field sooner than expected. Unfortunately, there were a few cases when coaches or teammates felt that they cannot achieve their goals without a player and tried to convince him or her to come back sooner to the sport than expected. In conclusion, everyone is affected differently by a setback and deals with this difficulty individually. Paragraph 2 – your opinion of the author’s point of view or information...
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...based investment and advisory firm, Dimensional Fund Advisors, was founded in 1981 by Chicago University students. The founders created DFA based on academic findings that stocks with small market capitalization outperformed the market and large cap stocks over a long period of time. DFA focused on selling investment funds that incorporated a bunch of small cap stocks from major stock exchanges like the NYSE. Their initial small cap funds were devised by ranking the market cap of stocks on the NYSE, AMEX and NASDAQ from top to bottom. From there, they split the ranked stocks into ten groups called deciles. They then sold different funds that would replicate buying stocks from the bottom 5 deciles. Over the years, they became one of the biggest small cap stock owners, owning over 3% of stocks in the bottom two deciles. DFA bought stocks in large blocks. They constantly looked for bargains on the market and bought in bulk. They only accepted deals that would save them several percentage points below the current market value of securities they wanted to purchase. They did not rely on any fundamental analysis in their stock purchases. They just focused on buying the small cap stocks that fell into their deciles and made sure that they didn't buy too many stocks that fell into the same industry or sector. DFA strongly believed that their funds offered enough added value to include a small management fee, as they thought their strategies cut down tremendously on trading fees for...
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...expressive melody.” (Lester). What is another thing that sets him apart from the rest is he has a wide vocabulary in his rhymes that he produces; you can tell that he is very high educated. From the album Take Care I can sing every song on that album because you can understand Drake when he raps. “Drake has a unique musical style that has set him apart from his Young Money counterparts, especially in his latest effort album “Take Care” (Markman). Drake wouldn’t of made it his far in the rapping game if it wasn’t for his influences in his life along the way. He states Kayne West was one of his idols and favorite rappers in Hip-Hop (Rodriguez). In a interview with SoulCuture TV Drake said that singer Aaliyah has the biggest influence his career (Oaks.) “She has biggest influence on my music because – as much as my music may be...
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...Michael Joseph Jackson was an American singer songwriter and dancer called the King of Pop popular entertainers in the world, and he was the best selling music artist. michaels contributions to music, dance, and fashion along with his publicized personal life that made him a global figure in popular culture for over four decades Jackson and his four older brothers Jackie, Tito, Jermaine and Marlon performed together at a talent show in thier town of Gary Indiana when Michael was 6 years old he walked off with his first prize. After signing with Motown Records in 1968, the Jackson 5 topped the U.S. pop charts with their first five singles, including “ABC” and “I’ll Be There.” Jackson released his first solo single “Got To Be There,” the title...
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...record, Johnson earned about $480,000 a month in endorsements. Johnson won both the Lou Marsh Trophy and Lionel Conacher Award, and was named the Associated Press Athlete of the Year for 1987. The enquiry of Ben Johnson being tested positive for drugs began in January 1989 and lasted 91 days. 122 were called to the court case, which included athletes, doctors, coaches, sport administrators and government officials; Johnson finally admitted to taking drugs and told the truth in the court. Johnson was stripped of all of his titles and medals and was banned from competing for 2 years. Johnson claimed his reason for taking drugs was to be able to keep up with the other athletes. IN 1991, after Johnson’s suspension ended, he attempted to comeback, Ben Johnson returned to the track at the Hamilton Indoor Games in 1991 and was greeted by the largest crowd to attend an indoor Canadian track and field event. There was over 17,000 people watching Johnson as he finished the 50 metres in 5.77 second. However Johnson then failed to qualify for the 1991 world championships in Tokyo,...
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...English Mini-Assignment Theme | Elements of Fiction/Film Techniques | “In the right circumstances, the underdogs can also be the winner.” | * Theme, Characterization * Lighting, Audio, Setting, Editing | Thesis: The film version of the multi-award winning novel, Moneyball, is a strong adaptation of the story. The director, Bennett Miller, has succeeded in matching author Michael Lewis’ style by using a great sense of lighting, audio, characterisation, setting and editing to help capture the theme; underdogs can be winners in the right circumstances. Just like the book, the movie symbolized hope, unfairness and to never give up. List of 10 Passages: 1. ISU Novel Passage: " There was the bias toward what people saw with their own eyes, or thought they had seen... There was a lot you couldn't see when you watched a baseball game.” (Lewis 19) Elements of Fiction: Setting, Characterization and Conflict between what baseball managers see in baseball players. Film Adaptation: Billy and Paul (his name is Peter in the movie) are in the garage of the Cleveland Indians baseball team and they are both wearing a suit, and there are cars in the background. (Time: 0:20:39) Film Techniques: - Medium-Bright lighting to show enthusiasm - Over-the-shoulder shots - Inspirational music in the background to show inspiration of what Paul (Peter) is saying Analysis/Connection to Thesis: This passage and movie scene relates to the thesis because the thesis is about how...
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...and the Cavs have a lot of the odds stacked against them. The Cavs,however, never lost hope in themselves and came back and won the whole series. This was the biggest comeback in NBA finals history and it was the first time the Cleveland Cavalier’s had one a championship in 52 years! This proves to show that losing is a great teacher to learn how to win in the future. No one likes to admit they've failed. In business and in life people are rewarded and praised for success. That ends up creating a culture where we don't learn from failure, and could end up repeating mistakes. A quote by Samuel Smiles is“We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.” This just shows that no great discovery was found without failures and obstacles along the way.Even as a baseball player, going in a hitting slump is nothing new.It can be the most frustrating thing in the world, but it pushes me to hit off the tee and practice to break out of it and it helps me learn even more after being in the slump....
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...learned and genetic, because the genetic side was that it’s her mother and the learned side is because the young girl saw this as she grew up. 2. Is it formed by experience or do we inherit it? Personality is formed by both experience and inheritance, just depends on how exactly the personality trait was formed by the individual. Many children copy what their parents do when they are younger, like cussing, fighting, or even acticing a certain way. Once they start getting older, many of the traits that we had when we were younger have gone away but a few stay. These are also inherited because they are traits that keep up with you in adulthood. 3. Provide an analysis of each panelist's viewpoint. Prof. John Carey His biggest comebacks were science related. Prof. Peter McGuffin Peter’s point on twins were interesting. Twins that grew up in different areas, like separated at birth could live similar lives, is one thing that Peter seemed to talk about. He also believed that parents passed on many genes to their children, and that’s how personality is formed. Dr. Micheal Maler He was very into animals being tested because he believed that animals could be tested to see how emotions are viewed, like through CT scans. Then with that information, you can find more so in humans. Prof. Jeffery Gray He mentioned that ink blot tests are non-conclusive because you can show the same inkblot and each person will see something differently. 4. Whose viewpoint in the...
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...the automotive industry before the recession, after the recession, how the industry is doing now and how the future looks for automakers. Contents The Automotive Industry Recovery 1 Transmittal Letter ii Contents iii Figures iii Executive Summary iv Introduction 1 Finding 1 Pre-Recession 1 Post Recession 2 How is it now? 3 The Future Outlook 3 Analysis 3 Summary 3 Conclusions 4 Reference 5 Figures Figure 1, Annual Auto Sales in the U.S. 2 Executive Summary The Automotive Industry was hit hard by the “Great Recession”. Jobs and sales declined rapidly as the economy and Americans were coming up short financially. After a couple years and some restructuring the automotive industry started making a comeback. Increasing sales by focusing on consumer needs helped bring workers back to work. Now the industry is booming again with continued growth in the future. The Automotive Industry Recovery INTRODUCTION PURPOSE The nationwide effect from the Great Recession on the auto industry was apparent everywhere. With the bail-outs of some of the big auto makers and loss of jobs, the economy really went into a slump. But with the automotive industry appearing to be on the up rise, there’s one question lurking in the many heads of the auto workers as well as the consumers. Will the U.S. automotive industry rebound to its pre-recession fame and glory? This report will focus on pre-recession, post-recession, the current state of automotive...
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...stop there, as it’s due to be a bumper year of events again; my personal highlights are below: The leadership of 4 out of the 5 permanent members of the UN Security Council (China, France, Russia and USA) are preparing for elections/transitions. Although you could argue Putin never really gave up power, China is facing the biggest overhaul of its leadership for a generation, albeit set to be completed in 2013. All eyes will be on London – The Queens Diamond Jubilee, another Mayoral Election (only the 4th in it’s history) and the Olympics will be coming. The legacy of the stadium is to yet to be decided, as is the pay deal for London’s transport workers, never mind the issue of thousands being unable to resell their unwanted tickets. I’m not greatly enthusiastic about the games so I’m quite happy to watch the only 10 seconds I care about from the comfort of my sofa, however the exhibits and festivals showcasing our culture, in and around the world’s greatest sporting event is definitely something we should acknowledge and celebrate. Not only limited to London, closer to our head office, The Stone Roses, Happy Mondays and New Order will be making comebacks. Rio+20 Conference in June will probably not be attended by the world’s most powerful leaders, nor will anything notable be achieved. With the various elections, as already noted taking place, the Eurozone and a significant number of other western economies set to be teetering on the edge of financial collapse, domestic...
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...Internal Memorandum from CEO to all employees Due to the high tech company recent struggles the new CEO of Yahoo Inc is seeing a lot of unproductive workers who mostly work from home who could be the cause of the company’s and as many of you have experienced our pool of participants are decreasing. The biggest concern is how to make Yahoo Inc. the most used search engine and email provider. The ongoing concern has been how to deliver service effectively to all customers when they are using all the services provided by Yahoo Inc. Many of you have expressed that employee time is better managed when there is collaboration, face-to-face meetings and addressing issues as and when they occur. For example, all the cubicles and offices are empty at the Yahoo office because most people work from home. Employees should be available to determine level of service based on continuous assessment to so to meet customers’ needs by identifying why customers are switching to other providers. At last, the CEO of Yahoo Inc., has developed a new policy to address our concerns that are affecting the company’s performance. Due to the advances of technology, such as traffic on search engine websites, email assess, and all search engine services, customers or users are expecting accuracies in services. The CEO is focusing on: hiring the right people, using them to build products consumers love, using those products to bring in traffic, and using that traffic to grow revenue which will eventually...
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...International firm is doing being business Asia then I would follow their social trends as well as will respect their culture. I will try to follow the same cultural trends and will try to keep that in mind while doing business with these Asian countries. As Asia dose not consist of only one kind of nation. Asia is the biggest continent in the world and it has lot of different countries with different cultures and religions. All the Asian countries have the biggest problem like corruption. Countries Like India, China, Japan has the highest level of corruption in their system. As different cultures has different problem like in United States you have an option of working from home if you had some urgent issues to attend at home. I will try to implement the same option for the people so that they feel comfortable and be more efficient. Also like few companies like Deloitte Company in United States provides day care and day support for elderly people and cleaning services for their employee. They don’t want their employees to get home burnout out from work and then indulge themselves in more tedious activities. This will effect in the performance of their employees when they comeback next day to work. I will try to implement something similar to that for the employees in Asia too. Will try to understand their cultural barriers like giving them time off. Arranging consular’s for them if they are facing any kind of issues related to work or personal issues. Answer 2. In my opinion I...
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...Taylor Johnson Financial Management 2201 Company Analysis Paper June 22, 2015 Target Corporation is the second-largest discount retailer in the world, trading the company’s stocks on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) with the ticker symbol ‘TGT’. Target sells general merchandise ranging including clothing, home goods, beauty products, electronics, and both perishable and non-perishable food items. Most Target stores also include pharmacies, gift registries, and food services such as Pizza Hut and Starbucks. While classified as a discount store, the company is colloquially known as a superstore where you can buy everything you need in one convenient place. Target’s biggest competitors are Wal-Mart, Meijer, and Kmart. Demand for Target’s products and services is growing rapidly, with Target creating new store formats, such as City Target (coming to Boston in 2015) and Target Express to meet the needs of customers in various markets. With instant-gratification being a common customer expectation, Target Express, 1/6th of the size of a normal store, allows the company a competitive edge over retailers such as Walgreens and CVS. In a cost-conscious economy, consumers understand that Target offers goods such as electronics and groceries at lower prices than other retailers in each respective industry do. City Target, on the other hand, operates as a store with less-bulky items that would not easily fit in to a small apartment. With customers demanding easy accessibility...
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...NORMAL- In little more than eight years, Adele has established herself as one of the world’s biggest entertainment brands. The albums 19 and 21 earned her critical praise and a level of commercial success, with the artist selling millions of albums worldwide. Twenty-one spent 23 weeks at number one and has sold 4,751,000 copies in the U.K. “When I listened to the Ettas and the Ellas, it was like an awakening. I was so inspired that as a 15-year old I was listening to music that had been made in the ‘40s.” Adele told the Telegraph. Adele developed a passion for music after her father left the family when Adele was four years old. Her working-class mother encouraged her to explore her musical talents. Successful artists such as Mary J. Blige, Lauryn Hill, and Alicia Keys all inspired Adele to pursue her dream. She attended BRIT performing arts school and four months after Adele graduated school, she was signed onto a record deal....
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