Looking around‚ I could see the uneasy and impatient expressions on people’s faces. Suddenly‚ a loud voice interrupted my presentation: “The scenarios sound like scary but implausible fictions. We should stop here!” This stunning moment occurred during a milestone meeting for one of my early projects at Monitor Group. The project was meant to develop a set of plausible scenarios for evaluating the potential impacts of the melting Arctic ice-cap on Singapore’s status as a transshipment hub. As
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The Reconstruction Era was a period from 1863-1877 in which America went through three phases of reconstruction after the Civil War. In the early 1860’s the Civil War between the Union and Confederate‚ the war’s main cause were economic and racial reasons. After the end of the war‚ the reconstruction and unifying of the country started. During reconstruction there was a Presidential and Congressional reconstruction followed by a redemption period. The presidential reconstruction was the transition
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portrayed a different explanation for why Reconstruction did not work out as planned by the United States Government. Thomas W. Wilson’s article reveals that the government preyed upon the South. Carter Woodson asserts that former slaves were not given a fair chance to make Reconstruction work‚ while Thomas Bailey blames the Radicals for pushing it on clueless‚ former slaves. Finally‚ Mary Beth Norton takes issue with the resistance of Reconstruction that the South held from the beginning. While
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HTM 1213: English for Hospitality and Tourism Assignment 1 – Individual Written Project “Tourism and the Benefits it brings” Class of / Group: BH6 / G1 Name: Ribka Marchella Limantara Student ID: 0309243 Date of Submission: 8th November‚ 2012 Lecturer: Ms. Audrey Lee The tourism industry is the “fourth largest industry in the global economy” (Honey‚ et al.‚ 2009:1). In the last few decades‚ it has been considered to be one of the most rapidly growing industries. According to Tourism Highlights
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Unit one: Principles of personal responsibilities and working in a business environment Assessment You should use this file to complete your Assessment. 1 The first thing you need to do is save a copy of this document‚ either onto your computer or a disk 2 Then work through your Assessment‚ remembering to save your work regularly 3 When you’ve finished‚ print out a copy to keep for reference 4 Then‚ go to and send your completed Assessment to your tutor via your My Study area – make sure
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Gender equality in the workplace is not a priority for business today. In the workplace context the term gender equality refers to equality between men and women with respect to opportunities‚ treatment‚ and outcomes including both economic and social achievements. It encompasses a range of considerations including equality of representation in the workforce‚ types of work performed‚ access to equal pay‚ representation at management and board level‚ childcare‚ workplace flexibility‚ equal opportunity
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All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood. Man and women should be treated equally. The image of the 21st century woman is confident‚ prosperous‚ glowing with health and beauty but we cannot forget about the less fortunate women in the rest of the world. Nowadays in certain countries‚ women are still not treated equally‚ they have so many rules restricting their lives such
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Emergence of Economic‚ Social and Political Ideas Introduction The new ideas that shaped our modern world are the influence of democracy‚ republicanism‚ nationalism and liberalism. Democracy is a form of government in which the citizen elects a representative to create laws on their behalf. Republicanism is a form of government in which the head of the state is the citizen of that nation rather than a monarch. A monarch is someone like a king‚ queen or an emperor. Nationalism is the belief that
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to the outback of Australia‚ America is regarded as the ‘Beacon of success.’ America’s 16.3 trillion dollar economic debt and high unemployment rate has caused many of its citizens to put the blame on the influx of immigrants in search of their American dream. The outcry that immigrants are siphoning America’s economy and taking over jobs‚ led author Shayan Zadeh to write his article‚ “Bring on More Immigrant Entrepreneurs.” In his
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need not need to think differently‚ and many did not even question the way of the world until the middle of the 1800s. It was then that feminism actually became an organized movement. Feminism is defined as "the theory of political‚ economic‚ and social equality of the
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