NSA REPORT The NSA stands for National Security Agency. It’s the main producer and manager of signals intelligence for the United States government. Basically‚ it spies on people 24/7. Every time people blink‚ they know it. In short‚ they know our personal lives. They know your deepest‚ inner thoughts. They are hearing your most private conversations. There was this one incident with a girl whose web-cam kept turning on when she remembered turning it off. Every time she turned it off‚ it
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Agency Theory: An Assessment and Review Author(s): Kathleen M. Eisenhardt Source: The Academy of Management Review‚ Vol. 14‚ No. 1 (Jan.‚ 1989)‚ pp. 57-74 Published by: Academy of Management Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/258191 Accessed: 14/10/2010 10:43 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of JSTOR’s Terms and Conditions of Use‚ available at http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp. JSTOR’s Terms and Conditions of Use provides‚ in part‚ that unless you
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The Cuban Missile crisis was perhaps the closest the world has gone to the point of all out nuclear war‚ and for 13 days in October the world was watching a dangerous game of ideological brinkmanship. The intensity of the situation was probably best described by Soviet General and Army Chief of Operations‚ Anatoly Gribkov as‚ "nuclear catastrophe was hanging by a thread ... and we weren’t counting days or hours‚ but minutes." The trigger for the Cuban Missile Crisis occurred when reconnaissance
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Topic: Law of agency Summary of Facts: Company Star Boat employed Tom as the manager for marketing and sales department. Being an agent for Star Boat‚ Tom frequently concluded contracts with a number of suppliers for acquiring certain parts to manufacture boats. Smooth Sailing was one of the suppliers. Tom resigned from Star Boat in July 2012 upon being offered a better position in Star Ferry. However‚ he acquired 4‚000 parts from Smooth Sailing in August and manager of Smooth Sailing did
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Why did the Imperial Coronation happen? There has been much speculation on the imperial coronation of Charlemagne in 800 and the sources written on it hold vary varying opinions as to which of the parties involved in this coronation played the key role in making it happen. These characters consist of; The Pope‚ the court (namely Alucin) and Charlemagne himself. It can also be disputed that the coronation was simply a natural outcome of the long term growth in Frankish and Papal relations over time
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historical development of police agencies and their jurisdiction‚ while analyzing their roles in contemporary society. It will describe the main types of law enforcement agencies‚ including local‚ state‚ and federal agencies and their components. Historical Development of Police Agencies Historically‚ policing in America mimicked that of the English. American ideas expanded on the English way of policing‚ to start an era of ever evolving police agencies. In the beginning policing was
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specifically looking at health in a negative way it more so looks at health as being free from illness‚ tiredness and upset for example; all the things that are related to being unwell. Whereas the positive perspective of health is when you look at how to actively stay clear from illness‚ this can be through taking up a sport or eating healthier. This is in correlation to well-being which is defined as “the state of feeling healthy and happy” . This can be confused with health as the person may look
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Learning is a process that produces change in an organism (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learning). This change usually is permanent although extinction can occur. Extinction is when the new behavior happens less frequently due to the reward being withdrawn. Learning through operational conditioning is through manipulating stimulus to increase or decrease responses or a certain behavior. This is seen in positive reinforcement/punishment and negative reinforcement/punishment methods. In the reinforcement
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they use a Key worker system so a good level of trust can be built between the child and their key adult. Playing with other children and using their imaginations is away that children continue to develop their identities and by using role play they start to see how different roles within their lives play apart. For example playing mummy’s and daddies‚ Doctors and nurses. Children will also start to learn about boundaries and why they are important and necessary and as they get older become more
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Explain how an understanding of Honey and Mumford’s learning styles could help you to maximise your own learning on the International Diploma course. Learning Styles were created by Peter Honey and Alan Mumford‚ and they identified four distinct learning styles or preferences: Activist‚ Theorist; Pragmatist and Reflector. ( Mobbs‚ 2003).These are the learning approaches that individuals naturally prefer and they recommend that in order to maximise one’s own personal learning. Individuals have
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