Taylor Shockley Guns‚ Germs‚ and Steel A. YORK Period 4 Research: Write a short biography of the author‚ include information about his areas of research‚ books written‚ and prizes awarded. Jared Diamond is a professor at the University of California He wanted wrote Guns‚ Germs‚ and Steel‚ which won the Britain’s 1998 Rhone-Poulenc Science Book Prize and Pulitzer Prize. He also wrote Collapse: How Societies choose to Fail or Succeed. Jared has been on 22 expeditions to New Guienea and islands
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regulators‚ companies‚ investors and the general public on weaknesses in corporate governance systems and the need to address this issue. The OECD Principles of Corporate Governance provide specific guidance for policymakers‚ regulators and market participants in improving the legal‚ institutional and regulatory framework that underpins corporate governance‚ with a focus on publicly traded companies. They also provide practical suggestions for stock exchanges‚ investors‚ corporations and other parties
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He had strength‚ courage‚ and abilities to make him a heroic hero. Beowulf is considered a Nordic Hero. (Hammett‚ n.d.). Hammett expresses (n.d.)‚ "The epic of Beowulf is largely dedicated to scenes of war‚ and the plot represents well an early emphasis on combat and the supernatural. The legend depicts a kingdom under siege in which the offensive
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Nineteen Eighty-Four is a novel by George Orwell published in 1949. It is a dystopian andsatirical novel set in Oceania‚ where society is tyrannized by The Party and its totalitarianideology.[1] The Oceanian province of Airstrip One is a world of perpetual war‚ omnipresent government surveillance‚ and public mind control‚ dictated by a political systemeuphemistically named English Socialism (Ingsoc) under the control of a privileged Inner Party elite that persecutes all individualism and independent
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Nordic skiing has changed my life. When I was young I did not think I was capable of performing in such an intense sport. I saw women with such strength and power‚ gliding effortlessly across the snow. I wanted to be like them‚ but I lacked the confidence‚ and I was hesitant to leave my comfort zone. I wanted to stay in a corner of the world where there was no pressure and nothing was expected of me. I joined BSF when I finally realized that I would only feel pressure if I put it upon myself. Since
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Heinrich Himmler Essay Have you ever wondered whose idea it was to exterminate all the Jews‚ or who started the concentration camps? Heinrich Himmler‚ Hitler’s right-hand man‚ was the main architect of the Holocaust‚ using elements of mysticism and a fanatical belief in the racist Nazi ideology to justify the murder of millions of victims. In his entire lifetime‚ Himmler coordinated the killing of approximately six million Jews‚ between 200‚000 and 500‚000 Italians‚ and millions of Soviet prisoners
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Section 1 PROFILE OF JPMORGAN CHASE & CO. 1.1 Introduction of the Company JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM) is an American multinational banking corporation of securities‚ investments and retail. It is the largest bank in the United States by assets‚ and as of 2012‚ it ranks as the second largest bank in the world by assets. It is a major provider of financial services‚ with assets of $2.509 trillion. The hedge fund unit of JPMorgan Chase is one of the largest hedge funds in the United States
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their origin Goods such as golds and salts from Africa and frankincense from Arabia became important goods in the trading world The Silk Roads One of the world’s most extensive and sustained networks of exchange among the diverse people of Eurasia Linked pastoral and agricultural people to as well as the large civilizations on the continent’s outer rim Largely a
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In Afro-Eurasia‚ because of the many trading networks that have begun‚ these new routes had brought more vulnerability and easier distribution of deadly diseases that no one has ever been exposed to before. As mentioned in the course book article Thucydides‚ The Plague (430 BCE)‚ there was a sudden outbreak of diseases had that came from Afro-Eurasia and that many of these communities had sadly been not immune (26). This was due
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