Although skating was born in Europe‚ Americans can be proud of the fact that figure skating‚ as we know it today‚ traces its origins directly back to an American - Jackson Haines - who was born in New York in 1840 and died in 1875 in Finland (popular folklore holds that he caught pneumonia during a raging blizzard he encountered while traveling by sled from St. Petersburg to Stockholm; in reality his death was attributed to tuberculosis). Just before the Civil War‚ a skating craze‚ accompanied
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Categories of Computer Crime Smith Strayer University CIS170 Wk2 Professor Masudur Chowdhury July 4‚ 2013 Explain in detail the four common categories of computer crimes and provide at least one example for each. There are many different types of computer crime and multiple ways to categorize them. I will discuss four categories in detail to shine light on how vulnerable people are‚ when we choose to use a personal or publicly used computer to transmit confidential information
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Question – Define the concept of culture. Illustrate your answer with examples [8] ‘Culture’ is the ways in which a society lives. A culture may share the same religions‚ beliefs‚ values‚ class or status‚ a culture can dress in a certain way and act in a way that follows the norms of how their society carries out life and what they deem as acceptable‚ culture can shared by a large group of people or a smaller group within society. For example there are ‘subcultures’‚ a subculture is a small
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................... 3 Figure I.1 LVDT............................................................................................................. 3 PART I: CHARACTERISTICS OF AN AC LINEAR VARIABLE DIFFERENTIAL TRANSFORMER (LVDT) .................................................................................................. 5 THEORY .............................................................................................................................5 Figure A1.1 Equation .........
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widely popular Golden Rule and the lesser known Platinum Rule. The Golden Rule‚ which seems to be almost a moral standard as variations of this rule are found amongst various religions which we sum to “Treat others as you would like to be treated.” The platinum rule is the idea that you should “Treat others as they would like to be treated ”. The Golden Rule encourages an egocentric based morality which cultivates a distorted and disconnected view of service while the Platinum Rule encourages individualism
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115)‚ so it’s easy to use and set up‚ install and maintain. The monitors are placed in certain areas of the store or strategic places that meet their needs. The good thing about these types of cameras is they not only alert to shoplifters but other crimes as well (pg. 115). Because they are also set up outside in parking lots and tape continuously they can get license plates or pictures of faces in case of kidnaps or murders‚ and muggings as well if there in range of the cameras. Security
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Research Report The Dark Side of Discretion Robert B. Kaiser Kaplan DeVries Inc. Robert Hogan Hogan Assessment Systems THE DARK SIDE OF DISCRETION Leader Personality and Organizational Decline Robert B. Kaiser Kaplan DeVries Inc. Robert Hogan Hogan Assessment Systems Author Notes Rob Kaiser is a partner with Kaplan DeVries Inc. Robert Hogan is President of Hogan Assessment Systems. Correspondence concerning this article may be directed to either author at Rob Kaiser‚ 1903 G Ashwood Ct
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best define crime? Discuss. The Oxford English dictionary defines crime as “an act punishable by law‚ as being forbidden by statute or injurious to the public welfare‚ an evil act; an offence‚ a sin‚ -an act can only be considered a crime when identified as such by law. An act was defined a crime in the old testament with the creation of the Ten Commandments. This was when it was literally set into stone that numerous acts became a crime against God‚ the first rules of the world. Crimes are now
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Significant Figures Lab Question 1: Which measurement gives the BEST value for the mass of a single paper clip? (BEST value includes both accuracy and precision) Claim: The measurement accepted as having the best value for the mass of a single paper clip was .411493 grams (Where best accounts for both accuracy and precision). This value was achieved by taking the average weight of a total of 30 paper clips‚ all of presumably varying weights. Evidence/Reasoning: The “best” value that maintains precision
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Simon Christ-figure Vs. Roger Satan-figure Lord of the flies was written by William Golding in 1954. After his participation in World War II he began teaching and writing. Lord of the flies is a simple adventure story of schoolboys on an unhabitated island after their airplane crashed. The children make a set of rules to follow‚ but eventually the rules are broken. The children are then divided into two different tribes. Among the two tribes there’s a Christ-figure and a Satan-figure. In Ralph’s
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