The Mysterious Phone Call It was late one Friday afternoon as my sister and I casually drove down the busy street‚ listening to the current hits on the radio‚ and trying to relax after a hard day at work‚ we could not imagine the news that was going to come our way in just a matter of minutes. I was slumped back lazily‚ my feet sloppily propped up on the black dashboard of my sister’s Suzuki‚ and my eyes beginning to droop as Nickleback flowed out of the car’s speakers. I could see the heat waves
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The offshoring of mobile phone assembly to China‚ India‚ Brazil and Vietnam did not result in a reduction of domestic jobs. On the contrary‚ Samsung’s domestic employment increased from 5960 persons in 2002 to 20‚500 in 2012. This increase mainly reflects a net increase in high-paying
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The New Jim Crow Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness Revised Edition M I C H E L L E A L E X A N D E R © 20 I 0‚ 201 2 by Michelle Alexander All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form‚ without written permission from the publisher. Request for permission to reproduce selections from this book should be mailed to: Permissions Department‚ The New Press. 38 Greene Street‚ New York‚ NY 10013. Published in the United States by The New Press‚ New
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Please talk to me but not the mobile phone “Hey! Are you listening to me?” my friend yelled at me during the meal. It is not the first time I was blamed by my friend because of using my mobile phone texting with others during the meal. I put aside my mobile and started to think. I used to hate others using mobile phone when they are having meal with me‚ why it becomes my habit nowadays? Nowadays‚ mobile instant messaging has become a very popular and common application in everyday life‚ most of
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Victor Ferreira The New Jim Crow Chapter 2 Incarceration rates in the United States have exploded due to the convictions for drug offenses. Today there are half a million in prison or jail due to a drug offense‚ while in 1980 there were only 41‚100. They have tripled since 1980. The war on drugs has contributed the most to the systematic mass incarceration of people of color‚ most of them African-Americans. The drug war is aimed to catch the big-time dealers‚ but the majority of the people
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through the cracks above me. I slowly tilted my head‚ trying to figure out where I was. It looked like a small cave or something. The last thing I remembered was diving behind a pile of rocks before a grenade went off and my world exploded. My name is Jim Golemafi and I was an ex-army commander recruited to fight in the Afghanistan war. As my eyes slowly started to adjust to the dark cave‚ I carefully scanned each corner‚ hoping this wasn’t some animal’s hideout‚ or worse‚ the Taliban’s. In the very
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patently false and dangerous mindset. The segregation and stigma of race is still very much alive in our society. Instead of a formalized institution such as slavery or Jim Crow‚ America has found a new way to continue the marginalization of blacks by using the criminal justice system. In Michelle Alexander’s book “ The New Jim Crow”‚ she shows how America’s “ War on Drugs “ has become a tool of racial segregation and how the discretionary enforcement of drug laws has resulted in an overwhelmingly
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Mobile phones being one of the most successful inventions of the twentieth century has become a necessity in today’s world as the world is living in an electronic age where it has given birth to globalisation. The latest mobile phones consist of different functions such as surfing the internet or playing music ‚ it is still mainly used as a form of communication which can be used anywhere at anytime. This is due to the fact that it has a unique networked system which needs no wiring ‚ fixation or
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Dhaka City College INTERNSHIP REPORT ON “Measuring the Effectiveness of Grameen Phone’s CSR Programs in Creating the Brand Awareness” Supervised By: Ms.Nasrin Sultana Lecturer Department of Business Administration
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•Which aspects have you improved on during your academic and professional career so far? Which tools or values have helped you achieve this? (*) During my academic career I have mainly improved on teamwork‚ since all my classes involved team work‚ and since I was a member of the junior consulting club for 1‚5 years‚ and how to make presentations in front of an audience‚ exposing my ideas in a clear way. When I studied for six months in Sweden in 2004‚ I was able to improve my capacity to adapt to
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