cars would pump out nitrogen oxide (NOx) at up to 40 times the legal limit. Crucially, the software “knew” when it was being tested, allowing it to switch emissions controls on and off. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) found that many VW cars being sold in America had devices in diesel engines that could detect when they were being tested. The EPA’s findings cover 482,000 cars in the US only, including the VW- manufactured Audi A3, and the VW brands Jetta, Beetle, Golf and Passat. Who
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old man gonna can us?" George is worried as Curley has authority because he is the Boss's son. - Curley is said to be evil and was born with authority. - Steinbeck uses Curley to highlight the American Dream. No matter how hard you work success only comes to those who are fated to receive it. This links to the theme of fate. And his fate has brought him power and authority because of what he can do and because he is the Boss's son. he predicts it's Curley for OMAM, Mr Birling for AIC -Steinbeck
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Another part of the reading that I did not know is that there was an organized crime ring ran by a African American woman in the 30's and 40's called the forty thieves. I always thought of the Italian families running organized crime and that was all I knew or even cared to know. I never thought about their being Irish, Jewish, and other countries like this involved in organized crime. I was quite shocked to read about the Irish Immigration and see that they as well as Sicilian people were so oppressed
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getting paid only little to assist his family. He proves his determination by, “Then sores began to break out on his feet, and grow worse and worse… The sores would never heal - in the end his toes would drop off, if he did not quit. Yet old Antanas would not quit; he saw the suffering of his family and he remembered what it had cost him to get a job.” (95) Antanas eventually lost his fight, but while attending the union meetings, Jurgis remembered the hardships his father faced, and knew that every
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The basis of the novel, The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement revolves around the life of Alex Rogo. Rogo is the Plant Manager for Uniware a division of a company called Unico. Rogo’s problems arise after and upset customers contacts Rogo’s boss, Bill Peach, complaining that their order is overdue by several weeks and they are not happy. Once Rogo is confronted by Peach, Peach informs Rogo that he does not see any reason to keep his plant open. They are behind on almost every order, they
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The documentary film for this assignment is “The Take”. It filmed by Avi Lewis and Naomi Klein, and took place in Argentina. Argentina was the most prosperous middle-class in Latin America; however, it changed when the Carlos Menem ruled the country in 1990s. Menem implemented many business- friendly policies that according to the rule book of International Monetary Fund (IMF), such as layoff and sold off most of public assets. All these things did not go as what he thought, and it lead to the economic
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cousin, with whose parents I was residing. I didn’t know what to say or do because no one would ever believe me, so I tried to ignore it. That didn’t last but a couple of days, and somewhere through the grapevine my relatives heard what happened. Only what they heard was far from the truth. When I got home from work one night, they told me to pack and get out. Just like that without any questions or explanations, I had nowhere to go and no one to stay with. So, I packed a basket full of things
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Most people knew about the odd house on Violet Hill. The house itself wasn’t very odd though. It was the hill. This hill was rather peculiar. Who would ever think something could be so violet? Violet hill is covered in purple flowers, painting the whole hill violet. The violets were the only thing out of place, until one day, the whole United Kingdom government computer system crashed. All traces of hacking led back to the house on Violet Hill. The strange thing though, was that no one has lived
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accounting”. She feared that her time at Enron would be considered worthless on her resume. However, when the dealings of Enron finally hit the main stream media, Watkins was still working. Her letter reached the public five months after sending it to her boss, and she continued work at the company.
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missing granted as an employee we were allowed to sign out any used golf item to take out and try and the goal of that was to be able to give customers imput on how the club or clubs felt played and worked on the course. But as an employee you were only allowed to take out clubs for no more then 72 hrs because of potential profit loss/customer loss as well. A couple of the employees were putting more money into other items people were trading and basically in a way stealing another product because
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