Bay Street Bankcrop Case Summary: Bay Street Bankcrop (BSB) is a highly successful and innovative minority-lending bank. The bank has just got an approval for the funding of $5 million from Fannie Mae for starting a new branch office in the inner city to extend its minority lending services to African American community. BSB has developed an aggressive $30 million lending plan offering long term‚ fixed rate mortgage financing to black owned business ventures. The plan would be financed through
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Located in Cuba Guantanamo Bay served for the U. S as a prison for illegal detention. The U. S by combating the war on terror at Guantanamo Bay is doing something unconstitutional. The main reason the U. S decided to use Guantanamo was after 9/11 in an attempt to fight the war on terror. The use of Guantanamo goes back to the Spanish civil war‚ and even when Cubans were sent to this prison by Castro. Guantanamo also is currently in debate on its closing. Guantanamo Bay was first discovered in 1494
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Because Guantanamo Bay is completely controlled by the U.S. but not actually a part of the United States‚ laws including any regarding human rights ceased to apply there (Friedman 82). According to Ardiente‚ this may be what justified military personnel or others working there to interrogate the way they did. Military doctors have admitted to giving information about detainees’ mental health in order to use it for cooperation of manipulation; the Pentagon has denied such claims (Ardiente 2).
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BAY OF PIGS WAS THE UNITED STATES JUSIFIED? In my research I find that United States involvement in the Bay of Pigs Invasion was important and necessary. The reasoning behind the invasion was to protect the Western hemisphere from the onset of communism. The way the invasion was handled and the outcome was the failure‚ but The United States‚ using covert operations was trying to destroy the communist threat that was quite close to our shores and‚ in the process‚ made the CIA and our government
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Massachusetts Bay‚ and the Chesapeake region were both part of the New World where England was starting to colonize. Even though the people from these two locations originated from the same land (England)‚ these colonies turned out to be extremely different from one another. They differed in the reason they settled the land‚ the economic activity of the region‚ and the demographics of the colonies. II. Motives for Settlement 1. Captain John Smith settled Chesapeake Region. Massachusetts Bay settled
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Review the setting. Lasting only three days‚ the Bay of Pigs was a short yet defining battle in the Cold War. Fought between the communist Soviet Union and the United States the cold war lasted approximately 45 years. In the years of the Cold War‚ 1945-1991 “America and its allies struggled to keep the communist‚ totalitarian Soviet Union from expanding into Europe‚ Asia‚ and Africa.” (Independence Hall Association‚ 2016) The Bay of Pigs affected The Cold War on a strategic level as one of the
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Aqua Bay Marketing Plan for Softubs Table of Contents EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Aqua Bay Ltd is a local pool store looking to increase the net profit from increasing revenues from the Softub line and increasing marginal profit. Aqua Bay primarily competes with two major competitors: St. Lawrence Pools and Beachcomber‚ both offer similar products‚ but neither can match the fantastic value of a Softub. Aqua Bay’s market share in the Hot Tub Industry sits at 15% within the Belleville
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The failure of the Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961 illustrates the mismanagement‚ lack of security‚ and over confidence of our president and CIA at the time. This failure caused tensions to rise between the two superpowers of the world‚ The Soviet Union and the United States. While the blame for this failure falls on the president and intelligence community‚ there are many lessons to be learned. I will first discuss the background leading up to the operation‚ the operation‚ then failures and lessons
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OLONGAPO: A CLEAN CITY LEGEND According to popular legend‚ there once was a group of warring tribes who lived in the area in and around what is now the modern city. A wise old man‚ seeing the perils of disunity‚ exerted great effort toward uniting the warring tribes. There were‚ however‚ some who bitterly opposed his idea‚ and one day the old man just disappeared. After a long search‚ the old man’s body was found‚ but with the head missing. It is said that the tribesmen launched search parties
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w w ap eP m e tr .X w om .c s er SYLLABUS Cambridge IGCSE® Cambridge International Certificate* Chemistry 0620 For examination in June and November 2014 *This syllabus is accredited for use in England‚ Wales and Northern Ireland as a Cambridge International Level 1/Level 2 Certificate. University of Cambridge International Examinations retains the copyright on all its publications. Registered Centres are permitted to copy material from this booklet for their
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