an opportunity to dedicate ourselves to doing something good to the society. In the end‚ I fulfilled my duty with my heart and soul with a terrific take-away lesson for team work. World Partnership Golf (WPG) is a tournament set up by Aga Khan Foundation Canada (AKFC) for “Canadians to raise funds and awareness for projects that assist the poor and disadvantaged in Asia and Africa”.(WPG Official website‚ 2012) The reason why we chose this event is the significant meaning of this tournament——Take
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David Suzuki is an award-winning environmentalist‚ scientist and broadcaster. He also dabbles in radio and television series that go into detail about the complexities of the natural sciences in an easy and fascinating way. Finish Intro Paragraph – any tips‚ mother? David Suzuki is first and foremost‚ a geneticist. He graduated from Amherst College in 1958 with an honors degree in biology. He moved onto graduate school at the University of Chicago with a PhD in Zoology. Suzuki’s first academic
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Israel‚ Palestine and the Jewish future. He is also Associate Professor of Journalism and Political Science at The City University of New York‚ Senior Political Writer for The Daily Beast-Newsweek‚ and a Schwartz Senior Fellow at the New America Foundation. His first book‚ The Good Fight: Why Liberals—and Only Liberals—Can Win the War on Terror and Make America Great Again‚ was published by HarperCollins in 2006. His second book‚ The Icarus Syndrome: A History of American Hubris‚ was published by
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Closed Source Systems POS/355 Option One GNU Introduction The GNU General Public License has served a major role in the way people think of programs today. The GNU‚ or simply GPL is originally written by Richard Stallman of the Free Software Foundation (FSF). The case is‚ most software’s don’t want you to share or change the program. This means that they are trying to take away freedoms of having the program. What the GNU General Public License is designed to do is the opposite of that because
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time you download it. The 2nd characteristic is you can also share the free software with others. And the 3rd characteristic of free software is that you’re able to change it & distribute it out with a cost if needed. 4. What is the Free Software Foundation/GNU? What is Linux? Which parts of the Linux operating system did each provide? Who else has helped build and refine this operating system? GNU a group dedicated to creating an operating system compatible with the Unix software system. Linux
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Utilitarianism was first developed by Jeremy Bentham‚ a philosopher and legal theorist of the 18th century. Bentham argued that one should maximise happiness for the majority (‘the greatest good for the greatest number‚ a view which is known as the ‘Utility Principle’. Happiness was equated with moral goodness. This idea further identifies Bentham as a ‘psychological hedonist’‚ since he regarded humans as being primarily motivated by pleasure and the avoidance of pain. A contented society would be
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Biochemistry Exam I Terminology Boiling point is the temperature at which the vapor pressure of the liquid equals the pressure surrounding the liquid. At this temperature the liquid phase changes into the gaseous phase (also a colligative property) Melting point is the temperature at which the solid and liquid phases are in equilibrium. At this temperature the solid state changes into a liquid phase (also a colligative property) Specific heat is the amount of energy (in joules or calories) needed
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of the powerful‚ efficient‚ stable and secure operating systems like LINUX. it has a capability of providing each user the same data ensuring total privacy from each user even while accessed by 100’s of users simultaneously. 4. The Free Software Foundation (www.fsf.org) is the principal organizational sponsor of the GNU Project. GNU developed many of the tools‚ including the C compiler‚ that are part of the GNU/Linux Operating system. Linux is the name of an operating system kernel developed by Linus
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corporations. Kamprad does not technically own IKEA; instead‚ he controls the company through a holding company. The company’s structure can be divided into two parts: operations and franchising. Most of IKEA’s operations are owned by the Stichting INGKA Foundation‚ which is established by the Kamprad family in the Netherlands as a tax-exempted‚ not-for-profit organization‚ while the INGKA Holding B.V. is the parent company of the IKEA Group. Of all IKEA stores‚ more than 230 are run by the INGKA Holding‚
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Charles Murray The New Right came from the work of the American Sociologist Charles Murray who viewed welfare payments has causing lone parenthood which in turn created an underclass. Charles Murray visited the UK in 1989 and said it has a developing underclass. Murray said: “the underclass are defined by their behaviour. Their homes are littered and unkempt. The men in the family are unable to hold down a job. Drunkenness is common. The children grew up ill-schooled and ill-behaved and contribute
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