American University of Sharjah Department of Writing Studies WRI 101: Academic Writing Spring 2014 Instructor: C. Horger Meeting Times: Mon/Wed 8:00‚ 9:30‚ 11:00‚ 12:30 E-mail: chorger@aus.edu Meeting Location: Lang 102 and 109 Telephone: 515-2717 Office: Lang. 220 Office Hours: 10:00-12:00 S/T Course Description Academic Writing challenges students to recognize‚ understand‚ and
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Abstract The South China Sea plays a significant role in the geopolitics and economics of the Indo-Pacific. It is one of the busiest commercial route with many of the busiest shipping ports. It is also understood being rich of oil and natural gas. Brunei‚ China‚ Malaysia‚ the Philippines‚ Taiwan and Vietnam‚ all have been competing for claims over the China Sea territory. The United States—a non-neighbored country— also has gotten involved with an excuse to maintain free movement and rule by international
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Major indicators that cause political leaders to ignore intelligence warnings originate in cognitive biases that create their mindset. These mindsets can lead political leaders to ignore intelligence warnings by either creating unrealistic expectations of intelligence‚ or politicizing intelligence that support their policy preferences. Political leaders crave a confident amount of certainty and accuracy in intelligence reports. Their cognitive biases assume that intelligence should be perfect‚ in
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Immigration Is Good To the United States Imagine a world where immigrants did not reside in the United States. Who would be living in the United States? How many people would not exist in the United States if immigration did not happen? Would only one race be living in the United States and would they be racist? These are all the questions that people should consider before deporting immigrants who have families resided in the United States. Immigration helps this country economy tremendously
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constitution? Why do state need a constitution? The functions of constitution: Organize the State structure: For example‚ in the USA‚ the Federal Government is divided in to three branches by the Constitution: Legislative‚ Executive and Judicial. The reason for this separation is to ensure that balance the power and there is no branch which controls too much Limit the power: In the USA‚ Constitution limit the power of government by divide it between the national government and state government
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Compare and contrast any two sociological theories and briefly evaluate them. In the following essay I am going to compare and contrast the theories of marxism and functionalism‚ looking at the topics of the family and education. Functionalism has a macro-structural approach to society. It looks at society as a whole and is known as a consensus perspective i.e. everyone agrees on social norms and values and people work together to maintain society. These norms and values are learned by social
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The military is a vital institution to the United States of America‚ protecting the United States and its citizens from direct threats. In our United States military‚ respect and leadership are one of the most valued things‚ they often go by the motto “Mission first‚ people always”. Our soldiers are there to deploy‚ fight‚ and win our nation’s wars‚ as well as protect us from any threats while maintaining peace and stability in other regions. Our military is set to defend the USA and our interests
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main types of businesses in America. These five types of businesses are Sole Proprietorship‚ Limited Liability Company‚ Cooperative‚ Corporation‚ and Partnership. Each type of business effects the government and economy in several different ways; either working to better the economy and government or working against it. The way each business works is quite similar‚ they all work together to accomplish the same goal; to make a successful‚ plentiful business worth a lot of money. The first type of
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This paper will describe the role of the United States Constitution and the United States legal system in business regulation. The recent business regulations in US businesses will be outlined and further explanation on how the economic growth created by private business and how the US government could not sustain itself. This paper will examine an example from an article which demonstrates how a Constitutional right affects a business and how the legal system is used with respect to recognizing
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2010 How and why do political systems change? Political systems through the world have changed over the ages. A political system is a significant set of social institutions implemented among the people by the government. Political systems have a lot of functions. Political systems create resources for health‚ education‚ welfare‚ industry and foreign policy. Political systems have changed significantly over centuries and are still changing everyday. To understand why and how political systems change
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