access to cell-phones‚ washing machines‚ electric toothbrushes and in many cases automated gates and garage doors. Our cars are so advanced that they pretty much drive themselves and even the devices in our kitchen can prepare a scrumptious supper with minimal input from our side. I recall when cell-phones were announced the very first time. I have to confess that I was still quite young and foolish at that stage and did not quite understand what the fuss was about. Buddies of mine had a cord-less
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Which Student Deserves an "A?" No matter how many times I mull it over and analyze it I cannot find a more inventive way to phrase my argument. Not any one of the students deserves an "A." Grades are not commodities that are distributed on a whim nor can they be returned because of personal dislike. Grades reflect personal achievement and the result of effort and intelligence. Grades are the foundation that our children are expected to build their future upon. Without a good education we
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WAL-MART’S WORKER COMPENSATION PROGRAM: How Wal-Mart’s Workers’ Compensation Practices Are Costing Its Workers‚ the States and Taxpayers June 2007 Workers’ Compensation and Wal-Mart “Over the last seven years‚ Wal-Mart has “repeatedly and unreasonably” delayed giving injured workers the benefits they were owed under workers’ compensation laws‚ and‚ in some cases‚ WalMart employees were not allowed to file workers’ comp claims at all.”1 — Order issued by the Washington Department of
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A happy or satisfied worker can have many reasons; he/she can have a high salary‚ good working hours‚ bonus holidays‚ or an excellent position in the company. Every individual is satisfied differently. But do happy workers stay over-time or perform better than unhappy workers? According to the book‚ Organizational Behavior‚ organizations with more satisfied employees tend to be more effective than organizations with fewer satisfied employees. Happy workers are now related to organizational
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A 200 Year Democracy Our nation is approximately two hundred and thirty years old‚ and our democracy‚ the same. According to Alexander Tyler a democracy only lasts an average of two hundred years; so we are overdue right? I don’t think so‚ and I shall tell you why. I don’t think we are overdue. No‚ not at all‚ I just think we are running a little late to the party‚ so to speak; however we are well on our way there. Alexander Tyler said that a democracy will fall at the hands of a loose fiscal
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internationally. After posting consistent gains from 1993 until 2001‚ Mondavi posted consecutive quarter revenue losses ending Q2 2002. In a letter to shareholders‚ Mondavi communicated that it became too expensive to pursue additional acquisitions at this time and that they would focus on organic growth. This decision was based on the changing competitive landscape. The wine industry was being invaded by some of the largest food and beverage companies in the world. Because of scale and diversity these
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Should the top executives of the major banks that received bail-out money be allowed to receive large bonuses? My first response to this question is “Maybe?” I personally believe that I can make a convincing argument for why bank executives should have got large bonus’s and just as equally a convincing argument as why they should not have. I must start by saying the government should not have been allowed to give out exurbanite sums of tax payer dollars to these banks to begin with. Whether
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too far? Bill Lee thinks it has and so do many other baseball fans. There was once a time where a father could go to the ballpark with his family for $10 and see their favorite Yankee play‚ but now things have changed. For a family of four to go see a Major League Baseball game it will cost them anywhere from $200 to $250 to sit in tight‚ compact seats‚ while trying to watch the same man as everyone else is. People ask why professional athletes get paid too much; it’s because we allow it. What we pay
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not enough food and water to live for 3 weeks (Tobar). How did all 33 miners survive in this mine with only enough food to last less than half of the time they were in there? What engineering took place for the outsiders to get food down the 2‚300 ft mine(Boyette Chris‚ Michelle Rozsa‚ Rosa Flores). The miners outside of the mine used a drill to make a hole in the mountain and place a tube down the hole and sending food down to the miners (Tobar). But the miners had to live more than two weeks before
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28 March 2013 Time Travel and How Black Holes make it Possible “Man… can go up against gravitation in a balloon‚ and why should he not hope that ultimately he may be able to stop or accelerate his drift along the Time-Dimension or even turn about and travel the other way” (Wells). In this quote‚ H.G. Wells asked one of the most commonly asked questions in time travel‚ why can people not move about in time as they wish? Black Holes present the opportunity to move forward in time although not in
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