One night, Dr. Adams is summoned to help an American Indian woman who has been in painful labor for two days. The doctor takes his young son, Nick, and his brother, George, to the American Indian camp on the other side of a northern Michigan lake. There, the doctor performs impromptu, improvised cesarean with a fishing knife, catgut, and no anesthetic to deliver the baby. Afterward, he discovers that the woman's husband, who was in the bunk above hers, silently cut his throat during the painful ordeal
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《信息技术和信息社会》案例分析 (共两个案例，请尽可能在案例背景下，进行批判性思维critical thinking，给你的你想法。你的逻辑、创意、所运用的课程中的知识点是我所看重的) 案例1. Zynga Wins with Business Intelligence 这是一家高速发展的游戏公司，但它并不是以逼真的图像，令人心悸的动作，或者史诗般的故事著称，也不为Playstation, Xbox, 或者Wii开发游戏。这家公司就是Zynga。如果你有Facebook的账户，很大可能你会很熟悉它所开发的游戏。Zynga爆炸式发展表明社会游戏的潜力以及社会化网络在提供关键数据理解公司客户的能力。 Mark Pincus和一群创业者在2007年创建了Zynga，如今这家公司已经成为社交网络游戏的领行者，它的游戏包括CityVille、Texas HoldEm Poker、FarmVille、Empires & Allies等。这四款游戏是Facebook上最为流行的应用。Zynga的游戏有将近3亿月活跃用户以及6千多万日活跃用户，他们每天就会产生3TB的数据。自创建以来，Zynga便将数据分析放在优先级位置上，以方便对其游戏的管理以及公司的商业决策。
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The Absolute True Diary of a Part-Time Indian On The Outside Looking In Being an outsider in a new place is never easy. One has to do twice the work to make friends, and fit in. While reading the novel, I could relate to the character of Arnold Spirit. The obstacles he faced going to a new school, with a different culture reminded me of struggles I faced myself when I started school in America. Trying to “fit in” to a culture foreign of your own is especially hard when you’re a teenager like
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elected government is doing everything. Be it temples, mosques, gurudwaras or any place, we must take efforts to clean our surroundings. Cleanliness is not only the responsibility of the 'safaai kaamgar', it is the responsibility of 125 crore Indians. If Indians can reach Mars at a cheap cost, can we not clean our neighbourhoods?" Giving credit to previous governments, Modi said, "I do not make any claim that only the newly elected government has done everything. All governments have done something
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and strategies are extremely effective when faced with the vast amount of issues it has in its sixty plus years of history. McDonald's business in India: McDonald’s success in global growth is exemplified in its achievement in infiltrating the Indian food market. This infiltration has been made famous due to management and strategic issues encountered by McDonald's from the macroeconomic environment, particularly in the economic, demographic, socio cultural and the competitive environment. McDonald's
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India buys 30 per cent of equipment from Japanese firms. * The Madhya Pradesh government has obtained Rs 12,000 crore (US$ 1.85 billion) loan from Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) for its Bhopal and Indore Metro rail projects. * Indian Railways has issued a Letter of Award (LoA) to US-based General Electric (GE) for a
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EVOLUTION OF FOOD Second Draft Essay for Online Food Blog. The world sings praises about Indian cuisine and array of choices to please your taste buds. This leads every Indian housewife in a dilemma asking ‘Kya khana banao?' As the Indian cuisines is a vast ocean of carbohydrates, proteins and vitamins and combinations of which appear at every meal time with beautiful flavors to amaze your taste buds. The food was essentially a need for a person's survival but now it's the most powerful tool to change
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The Indian Removal act was not only a symbol in American History but really devastating. The Native Americans that lived in the 1800s especially the 1830s have endured the worst things possible and we didn’t have too because of our own selfish needs. But that’s not all how and why did the Indian Removal act have caused the war and there is more to talk about. Claim The Indian Removal act was important, it was significant to American History, and led to the Civil War. Reason The Indian Removal
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In the article, “What does a casino mean to a tribe?” by Angela A. Gonzales, an associate’s professor in the department of sociology at Cornell University, mentions The positive economic impact of casinos on Indian tribes notwithstanding, several studies have found gaming to be a boon to local business owner and citizens alike, attracting tourist dollars into the area and helping to alleviate poverty, unemployment, this for example is a positive effect on both
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The game had been in trouble for several years already. Attendance was in decline and rumors of fixing had caused injury before. The Black Sox Scandal seemed destined to ruin baseball as a professional sport entirely. The Chicago White Sox and the Cincinnati Reds made it to the 1919 World Series. This World Series is said to be the most well-known outrage in baseball history. The best players in the league were not making much more than the average baseball player and a bribe of money could
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