Event Article 1 Chief Executive Officer I have always wanted to be the CEO of a large company. A chief executive officer is the highest ranked officer of the business. The only person he or she has to report to is the board of directors. The CEO has to be a great communicator and has to be an awesome people person. Everything he or she does is on the higher level of the business world. After reading this article‚ my mind has been changed a little because of what people think about the CEO of
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Medical Ethics (Current Event Summary #1) Parents oppose end of care for brain-dead son. This event was about Motl Brody of Brooklyn. He was pronounced dead after a half-year fight against a brain tumor‚ and the DR’s at Children’s National Medical Center in Washington say the seventh-grader’s brain has ceased functioning entirely. “ But for the past few days‚ a machine has continued to inflate and deflate his lungs. As of late Friday his heart was still beating with the help of a cocktail of
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Erin Powers Mrs. Runkle Economics- E Period February 26th‚ 2013 Current Event #1: International 1.) Source money.cnn.com‚ http://money.cnn.com/2013/02/27/news/economy/minimum-wage/ index.html 2.) Summary of Article According to CNN news tabs‚ Americans in the United States who possess the ability to work for minimum wage has dropped in the past year. From 2012 to now in 2013‚ the estimated amount of people who have minimum wage paying jobs has lowered from 3.8 million to 3.6 million. In some states
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Rodney Colt Feimster GLST 200-001 Student ID:25709323 Current Event 2: 2.81m hungry in drought stricken Central America http://article.wn.com/view/2014/08/31/281m_hungry_in_droughtstricken_Central_America/ http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2014/09/01/2003598786 I found this article through World News‚ which is why I included two links. World News used this article from Taipei times. Overview: A drought has ravaged through South and Central America affecting the so-called “dry corridor
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Current Events Assignment In the article it proclaims about how a plane with Russian tourists crashed in the Sinai Peninsula of Egypt just few days ago. Russian tourists were coming back from visiting the wonders of Egypt‚ heading towards St. Petersburg‚ Russia. Most people of Egypt were shocked about this incident. Fortunately‚ the plane did not have any explosives‚ as this is a counterexample regarding ISIS claiming they caused it. Apparently‚ ISIS wants more attention around the globe to scare
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Current Event Summary- 2012 US Presidential Elections Whether it is about taxes‚ spending‚ the bailouts‚ the debt ceiling or entitlements‚ a fundamental source of disagreement between Republicans and Democrats is whether the federal government should be a support system for the country or play an extremely limited role in business‚ social and day-to-day life. The tea party wing of the Republican party has used reducing the size of government as a rallying cry while progressive Democrats
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Current Events September Summarize the Article Parkinson’s disease‚ a chronic disease with unknown causes‚ attacks brain cells‚ specifically the ones that control body movement. This causes shaking‚ stiff limbs‚ and poor coordination. Because of this‚ Professor Trond Riise and colleagues Anders Engeland and Kjetil Bjørnevik started the painstaking work of analyzing over 100 million prescriptions in Norway. Their research started in 2004 and continues to this day. In their study‚ the medicines that
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1984 Current Event: Privacy and Censorship 1) The main issue is that there is a new Facebook feature that allows others to share someone’s post. The creator of the post has “zero control over which posts friends promote” (Guynn). For a $7 fee‚ friends can “repost” statuses‚ leading to a lack of privacy; due to the fact that hundreds or maybe thousands of people you do not know are reading your post. 2) According to Facebook‚ “this feature respects the privacy of the original poster- i.e. it
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My current event is about how AIDS is the top cause for deaths in young women. In its first study of women’s health around the globe‚ the World Health Organization said that the AIDS virus is the leading cause of death and disease among women between the ages of 15 and 44.Unsafe sex is the leading risk factor in. Throughout the world‚ one in five deaths among women in this age group is linked to unsafe sex‚ according to the U.N. agency. The data were included in a report that attempts to highlight
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Current Events Women’s rights in Afghanistan is an issue that must be brought to international attention. It has been only six years since the Taliban regime was taken out of power in Kabul. Many positive changes have occurred since then for improving Women’s rights and participation within society. When the Taliban were in power‚ women were not allowed to work‚ go to school‚ receive medical care from male doctors‚ travel without male relatives‚ and they were regarded as non-citizens without rights
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