Chapter 1 I. Introduction: ¹ Windows 8 is a Microsoft operating system that is designed for home users as well as for business purpose. Its development started even before its predecessor’s release Windows 7 in 2009.Windows 8 is a system that is particularly orientated to touchscreen hardware. There are some important changes and additives that make it look and differently than the users are used to. For example‚ the Start menu is completely substituted by a Start screen that can be taken away
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2015 / 2016 TUTORIAL 8 Learning Outcome:- On completion of this unit‚ a student shall be able to: Discuss the characteristic and feature of common stock and preferred stock. Apply preferred and common stock valuation. 8-1 How does a right’s offering protect a firm’s stockholders against the dilution of ownership? 8-2 What is the purpose of a call feature in a preferred stock issued? 8-3 Over the past 5 years‚ the dividends of the Dave Corporation
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Develop Through the Life Stages: Margaret Childhood She was fed physically by her parents or carers who made choices for them. As she grew she chose her own choice of food. She needed a lot of sleep to keep her awake in the day time and to keep her from being tired when she played. She needed shelter‚ warmth and security from her parents or responsible adults as she was too young to look after herself. She might have suffered from the common cold‚ chicken pox‚ Fever and things like that but nothing
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Should the massacre of over a million Armenians by the Ottoman Turks be considered Genocide? The Armenian Genocide is also known as the Armenian Massacres‚ but by the Americans‚ it was called as the Great Crime. This took place after World War I and was implemented in two phases: the wholesale killing of the able-bodied male population through massacre and forced labor‚ and the deportation of women‚ children‚ the elderly and infirm on death marches to the Syrian Desert. Between 1 and 1.5 million
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the perpetrators‚ one may first discuss the causes of the genocides. Firstly‚ the Rwandan genocide and the stories surrounding it have led to a birth of different explanations of the crime. According to Hintjenns‚ some of these interpretations include colonialism‚ ethnic and analytical conflict‚ economic and social crisis (Hintjens). Many have argued that even as all these were contributing factors‚ the main cause of the Rwandan genocide was the involvement of both the Belgian and the German colonial
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The Rwandan Genocide 1994 Evaluate the causes and significance of the Rwandan Genocide war “During the one hundred days that began on April 6‚ 1994‚ Rwanda experienced the most intensive slaughter in this blood-filled century. It is important that the world know that these killings were not spontaneous or accidental … These events grew from a policy aimed at the systematic destruction of a people.” Rwanda is one of the smallest countries in Central Africa‚ with a population of just seven
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The Catholic Church in Rwanda has admitted and apologized for its role in the 1994 genocide and expressed regret for violating God’s commands. In a statement released by the conference of Catholic bishops and read out in parishes across Rwanda on Sunday‚ the church acknowledged its hand in planning‚ aiding‚ and executing the 1994 genocide. The massacres by Hutu extremists left more than 800‚000 ethnic Tutsis and moderate Hutus dead‚ The Associated Press details. “We apologize for all the wrongs the
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The Rwandan Genocide was a mass killing of the Tutsis. Rwanda is an East African country with a mountainous terrain known for its volcanoes‚ golden monkeys‚ and gorillas; aside from that is home to 11.8 million people. A genocide is the deliberate and systematic destruction‚ in whole or in a part of an ethnic‚ racial‚ religious‚ or national groups. It is the killing with intentions to groups by causing mental harm‚ preventing births‚ inflicting conditions of life‚ or transferring children to other
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A History Of Genocide Nigeria Synopsis Nigeria Synopsis Nigeria starts it ’s existence much like other African countries drawn up mostly for a land claim‚ with little or no thought given to those people who reside in it ’s actual boundaries. With many different ethnic groups within its boundaries Nigeria appears both as very diverse and very unstable. The 3 predominant groups are the Igbo in the southeast
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Armenians living in the Ottoman Empire. Sources have stated that approximately 2 million Armenians were killed during the Armenian Genocide. The Armenian Genocide was just one of three genocides the ruthless Ottoman Empire caused.(the others being Assyrian Genocide and the Greek Genocide) The reason behind this genocide(this is the first ever genocide to called be called a genocide) is that the “Young Turks” strongly discriminated the Armenian race. On April 24‚ 1915‚the Turkish government arrested and
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