Build and they will come has possibly been not executed before in India on such a large scale. The Rs 2,000 crore, initial public offering of Lavasa Corporation Ltd, promoted by Mumbai-based infrastructure group, Hindustan Construction Company (HCC) is likely to be postponed to next fiscal, after it received a show cause notice on 25 November to stop construction of the project from the Ministry of Environment and Forests and after its name surfaced in the bribe for loan scam. Lavasa city,
Words: 2542 - Pages: 11
“Deep Play: Notes on the Balinese Cockfight” Clifford Geertz Reprinted from The Interpretation of Cultures The Raid Early in April of 1958, my wife and I arrived, malarial and diffident, in a Balinese village we intended, as anthropologists, to study. A small place, about five hundred people, and relatively remote, it was its own world. We were intruders, professional ones, and the villagers dealt with us as Balinese seem always to deal with people not part of their life who yet press themselves
Words: 9538 - Pages: 39
\\server05\productn\C\CPP\8-2\CPP204.txt unknown Seq: 1 5-JUN-09 8:30 Racial profiling and searches: Did the politics of racial profiling change police behavior?* Patricia Y. Warren Florida State University Donald Tomaskovic-Devey University Massachusetts, Amherst Research Summary Scholarly research has documented repeatedly that minority citizens are disproportionately stopped, searched, and arrested relative to their baseline populations. In recent years, policymakers
Words: 11234 - Pages: 45
Sacred Texts Legends and Sagas Index Previous Next Buy this Book at Amazon.com The Arabian Nights' Entertainments, ed. Andrew Lang, [1898], at sacred-texts.com p. 187 The Little Hunchback In the kingdom of Kashgar, which is, as everybody knows, situated on the frontiers of Great Tartary, there lived long ago a tailor and his wife who loved each other very much. One day, when the tailor was hard at work, a little hunchback came and sat at the entrance of the shop, and began to sing
Words: 3029 - Pages: 13
The Hunger Games Review and Critique The Hunger Games is a fantasy adventure love story about a young girl from a poor district who volunteers to take her sister place to fight to the death in the 74th Annual Hunger Games in the country’s capitol city. “Every year in the ruins of what was once North America, the evil Capitol of the nation of Panem forces each of its twelve districts to send a teenage boy and girl to compete in the Hunger Games. A twisted punishment for a past uprising and an
Words: 3033 - Pages: 13
Fraud Case on Phar-Mor, Inc. Introduction Phar-Mor, Inc. was one of the top ten deep discount store that grew rapidly in a short period of time during the 1980s. Phar-Mor pricing strategy was to sell products at an even greater discount than other deep discount stores like Wal-Mart. While the practice of selling at such low cost attract customers, Phar-Mor was experiencing losses. The prices were cut so low that profit would not be generated. And this was how the fraud began. To prevent the truth
Words: 2730 - Pages: 11
Introduction: The use of IT and social media was the differentiating factor in the US politics, which catapulted Barack Obama ahead of Mitt Romney and has secured Obama’s second term as the President of the United States. For a long time, traditional social media has been the medium of communication of ideas in politics. Dating back to the 1950s, shrewdly assembled team of social media experts would have designed and crafted political campaigns that appealed and rallied the emotional side of
Words: 4259 - Pages: 18
Last Name 1 Student Name Mr. Patterson Acc. English III 24 May 2010 Barriers Influencing American Dreams Do obstacles in one’s life change one’s aspirations? If something hard or even Winston Patterson 5/17/10 9:49 PM Comment: TITLE SHOULD REFLECT OVERALL THEME OF ESSAYß Winston Patterson 5/17/10 9:35 PM Comment: Attention Getter unexpected occurs, does one turn his or her back on all that has been worked for? In an American society, there is an idea of a dream. Most people
Words: 2718 - Pages: 11
Recommended Reading - Annotated Bibliography Eating Disorders: Anorexia Nervosa, Bulimia Nervosa, and Binge-Eating 3 Anorexia Nervosa: A Guide to Recovery 3 Beating Ana: How to Outsmart your Eating Disorder and Take Your Life Back 3 Beginner’s Guide to Eating Disorders Recovery 3 *Biting the Hand That Starves You 4 *Bulimia: A Guide to Recovery 4 Eating Disorders in Childhood and Adolescence, 3rd Ed. 4 Eating Disorders: Journey to Recovery Workbook 4 *Desperately Seeking
Words: 6359 - Pages: 26
The legal and ethical issues surrounding abortion have been an ongoing debate for years. Pro- life activists, or those who oppose abortion, say that a fetus is a human being and should have rights. They say that abortion is the murder of an innocent life. Believers in pro-choice, or those who support abortion, argue that a baby should not be considered anything more than a “potential life” dependent on the mother’s body. A body that she owns the rights to and can therefore choose whether or not it
Words: 3404 - Pages: 14
