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    It’s me‚ Charlotte. The 1996 Presidential Election was two days ago. The Democrat nominee Bill Clinton‚ won his second term. His Vice President candidate is Al Gore. He beat the Republican Bob Dole and Jack Kemp. Kemp is Dole’s Vice President candidate. Although Clinton got 379 electoral votes and Dole got 159 electoral votes‚ the popular vote looks much closer. Clinton got about forty-seven million votes and Dole got about thirty-nine million votes. I think that it is great that lots of people went

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    The negative effects of urbanisation outweigh the positive. To what extent do you agree with this statement? About urbanisation‚ maybe different academic circles have different perceive‚ they depends their specialized characteristics to definition. But in general condition‚ urbanisation likely the increase in the proportion of people living in towns and cities. And the definition of urbanisation is ‘Urbanisation is the process by which large numbers of people become permanently concentrated in

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    David Foster Wallace made an excellent Kenyon College Commencement. Rather than the boring conventional speeches‚ he came up with the idea of telling the students about the reality i.e. what is going to happen after this youth will come in the real part of life. Instead of giving students a crap of what amazing things they are going to do in future‚ he makes them realize the dark aspects of future. Not only this‚ but he also provides a solution to handle that situation. Wallace explains about the

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    says " Thy drugs are quick". He is referring to the ecstasy tablet that was given to him by Mercuto. In the play he states this after he drinks the lethal potion in the tomb. Before going to the party Mercutio tells Romeo and friends the Queen Mab speech. He changes it in the movie by

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    two lovers who were from two enemy families‚ that took each others life in love. Both the 1968 and the 1996 movies of the story have their own way of telling it‚ each straying a little from the original play. Each version takes and adds elements to Shakespeare’s classic story. The two movies have many differences‚ but they are also very similar in the way they portray the well known story. The 1996 version is a modern way of expressing the masterpiece of Shakespeare. However‚ the 1968 version of Romeo

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    . . . ~ \ oR’ ~?’;;’;’--~’~~C - 2.5 DiverseIdentities in Organizations STEL LA M. NKOMO AND TAYLOR In the last few years with the release of the Workforce 2000 Report and other publications predicting a more diverse workforce in the United States and throughout the wor1d (Fullerton 1991; Johnston and Packer 1987; JohnstaD 1991)‚ diversity bas gained currency as a topic in the study of organizations. The most attention bas come from practitioners interested in how to ’manage diversity’

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    Mental Health Parity Act of 1996 The Mental Health Parity Act of 1996 is legislation in the United States that required the annual caps and lifetime maximum benefits for mental health insurance to be equal to those for other forms of health insurance. The main goal of this act was to create equal coverage between medical and surgical services and mental healthcare services. The principle beneficiaries of the Mental Health Parity Act would be persons with the most severe‚ persistent and disabling

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    Good Evening and welcome to Port Allen High Commencement Ceremony [introduce myself] Before I get started‚ I want to take a moment to thank some of the most loving and important people in my life: God - for showing me unconditional love‚ for putting great people in my life ‚ and for blessing me to be standing before you all this very moment;My Family - for being by my side‚ loving me tenderly‚ and for keeping me on track; My Friends- for being there anytime and for reminding me that when life

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    ORMED THE ACT OF 1996: Over the last half century or so international commercial arbitration has managed to establish its independence from the courts to such an extent that special provisions that protect its status are taken for granted. Nevertheless such supportive provisions are a vital part of any legislative instrument in support of arbitration- after all; one never knows how arbitration will develop in future. T he policy of the courts and the legislature‚ therefore‚ in recent years has been

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    Writers use many tactics to get across to their readers. In order to get the moral of the story or the overall theme of the book‚ they might write about the main character reaching an epiphany of some sort that reveals the focus of the story. Writers tend to end their story with a happy ending in which the main character experiences a spiritual reassessment or a moral reconciliation. In Margaret Mitchell’s Gone with the Wind‚ the main character‚ Scarlett O’Hara‚ undergoes a spiritual reassessment

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