I selected the 4MAT book review Confronting Without Offending: Positive and Practical Steps to Resolving Conflict by Deborah Smith Pagues. The book hit home for me about dealing with confrontation and conflict. I personally tried to avoid conflict and confrontation at all cost. The book shared the importance of what confrontation really is and how to deal with it. I’ve loss valuable friendships because I allowed conflict and misunderstandings to breach the bond. Pagues paints a clear picture
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MIS Case Study: Ch. 7 Database Woes Plague Homeland Security and Law Enforcement 1. It is important to connect as much of the data in many of the federal‚ state‚ and local information systems because it will help stop future attacks and events to happen to the United States. After September 11‚ the federal government created a new cabinet called the homeland security. The cabinet has a database of thousands of federal‚ state and local organizations. They collect as much of the information
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AS Biology‚ Biological Molecules Revision Notes Distinguish between monomers and polymers: Monomers- Identical small molecules. Polymers- Chainlike molecules formed from the linking together of many similar. Distinguish between monosaccharides‚ disaccharides‚ and polysaccharides: Monosaccharides- Simple sugars; sugar molecules may be enantiomers due due to the spatial arrangement of parts around asymmetric carbons; raw material for synthesis of other organic molecules. Disaccharides-
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2. Biological Classification Classification The process of grouping living organisms into convenient categories based on simple characters is known as classification. 1. Two kingdom classification Carolus Linnaeus divided all living things into two kingdoms- Plantae and Animalia. 2. Five kingdom classification R.H. Whittaker divided all living things into five kingdoms- Monera‚ Protista‚ Fungi‚ Plantae‚ and Animalia. The main criteria for classification included o cell structure o thallus
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Environmental Threats Global Problems Sea Level Rising At present‚ sea levels around the world are rising. Current sea level rise potentially impacts human populations and the natural environment. Global average sea level rose at an average rate of around 1.7 ± 0.3 mm per year over 1950 to 2009 and at a satellite-measured average rate of about 3.3 ± 0.4 mm per year from 1993 to 2009‚[01] an increase on earlier estimates.[02] Climate change Destructive sudden heavy rains‚ intense tropical
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Tupperware: Confronting Changing Demand Condition As refrigerators replaced iceboxes as the primary method of cold-food storage in the United States during the 1920s and 1930s‚ consumers encountered a new problem—refrigeration caused food to wilt and lose its flavor. Although paper packaging and wrapping could help deal with this problem‚ paper could leak or tear. In the 1940s‚ a Massachusetts inventor named Earl Tupper began making lightweight‚ unbreakable plastic bowls with airtight lids
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Stem Cell Research Adult stem cell research is providing opportunities to treat people with a various diseases and conditions. In 2010‚ a man’s ankle refused to heal so the doctor took bone marrow from the man’s pelvic bone with a needle‚ condensed it to about four teaspoons of rich red liquid‚ and injected that into his ankle. Four months later‚ the ankle was healed! Adult stem cells are found in all tissues of the growing human being and‚ according to latest reports‚ also have the potential
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President is known to have would be that of protecting the people. The Department of Homeland Security was established in response to the biggest terrorist attack on U.S. soil on September 11‚ 2001. This attack sparked the nation and caused fear among citizens as well as opening eyes of the government to how much stronger the security level had to be in the country. U.S. officials began to reconstruct the Office of Homeland Security once they recognized their shortcomings. Eleven days after‚ following
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The specific agency operating under The Department of Homeland Security I choose to research was the United States Secret Service. The USSS is a federal law enforcement agency that was operated under the US Department of Treasury before it was adopted by the department of Homeland Security. Many people‚ including myself up until now‚ just think that the Secret Service is the US Presidents personal guard. They have much more responsibility then that. Other then the President‚ they also provide security
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the biosphere. Some‚ perhaps all‚ are close to tipping points that‚ if tipped‚ will result in irreversible change. And yet‚ no sense of urgency is apparent. If any one of the eight interactive crises passes a tipping point‚ it will probably act as a threat multiplier for the remaining crises. Both politicians and the average citizen believe that priorities can be established for these interactive crises‚ but such an option is not viable for a highly interactive system. Polls indicate that most people
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