In November 1‚ 2008‚ a man named Satoshi Nakamoto posted a research paper to an obscure cryptography listserv describing his design for a new digital currency that he called bitcoin.Bitcoin is an experimental‚ decentralized digital currency that enables instant payments to anyone‚ anywhere in the world.Bitcoin uses peer-to-peer technology to operate with no central authority: managing transactions and issuing money are carried out collectively by the network. In many ways‚ bitcoins function
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The Industrial Revolution was a period from the 18th to the 19th century where major changes in agriculture‚ manufacturing‚ mining‚ transportation‚ and technology had a profound effect on the socioeconomic and cultural conditions of the times. It began in the United Kingdom‚ then subsequently spread throughout Europe‚ North America‚ and eventually the world. The flying shuttle 1733 The flying shuttle was one of the key developments in weaving that helped fuel the Industrial Revolution. It was patented
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Being exposed to second hand smoke from burning tobacco products causes disease and early death among nonsmokers. Public policies help to make and enforce new laws that are beneficial to the public‚ for instance‚ smoke free laws that prohibit smoking in public places like bars and restaurants to help improve the health of workers and the general population‚ there for saving lives by sparing non-smokers from breathing in the second-hand smoke. Smoking does not just harm the smoker it also harms
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clerk and he didn’t make much money. At fifteen‚ Charles found employment as a clerk‚ while he studied shorthand at night. His sad experience in the factory haunted him all of his life. He shared it only with his wife and his closest friend‚ John Forster. but it later became the inspiration for his novels - “David Copperfield” and “Great Expectations”. Oliver Twist is born in a workhouse in a provincial town. His mother has been found very sick in the street‚ and she gives birth to
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The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett The “Uncommon Reader” is a quirky little book about Queen Elizabeth II‚ who becomes an avid reader in her 80’s‚ and her life takes a dramatic turn when she discovers the pleasure of reading. At the beginning‚ the Queen was not a big fan at all; she had never taken much interest in reading‚ her feeling was that liking books is "something that should be left to other people." Due to this new obsession‚ she begins to ignore her formal duties much to the dismay of
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is a semi-autobiographical novel by James Joyce‚ first serialised in the magazine The Egoist from 1914 to 1915‚ and published first in book format in 1916 by B. W. Huebsch‚ New York. The first British edition was published by the Egoist Press in February 1917. The story describes the formative years of the life of Stephen Dedalus‚ a fictional alter ego of Joyce and an allusion to the consummate craftsman of Greek mythology‚ Daedalus. A novel written in Joyce’s
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McCormack‚ L. (2008). Applying Social Marketing in Health Care: Communicating Evidence to Change Consumer Behavior.Medical Decision Making‚ 28 (5)‚ 781-792. Forster‚ J.‚ McGovern‚ A.‚ Wagenaar‚ M.‚ Wolfson‚ C.‚ & Perry‚ P. (1994). The ability of young people to purchase alcohol without age identification in northeastern Minnesota‚ USA Forster J. L.‚ Murray D. M.‚ Wolfson M. and Wagenaar A. C. (1995). Commercial Availability of Alcohol to Young People: Results of Alcohol Purchase Attempts Fry‚
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Most of us have our own rough defnition of heroism — we think we know a hero when we see one. But pinning down those attributes is a challenge; your hero may not look much like mine. So it ’s worth asking: Are there certain immutable characteristics that have defined heroism across the ages? The men and women on the following pages are individuals of extraordinary distinction‚ but how do they stack up against the legends of the past? Although there are some timeless‚ universal qualities known as
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------------------------------------------------- Great Expectations From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia This article is about the Charles Dickens novel. For other uses‚ see Great Expectations (disambiguation). Great Expectations is Charles Dickens’s thirteenth novel. It is his second novel‚ after David Copperfield‚ to be fully narrated in the first person.[N 1]Great Expectations is a bildungsroman‚ or a coming-of-age novel‚ and it is a classic work of Victorian literature. It depicts the growth
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Human Resource Management in an International Setting The purpose of this research essay is to give general view on prime issues on managing human resource. My research concentrates on the following principal issues considering practices on expatriate and local employees in MNCs. Introduction. Identifying‚ Selecting and Managing the Global Workforce. Importance of Cultural Awareness. Training‚ Performance Management‚ Appraisal and Compensation Issues. Introduction: IHRM HRM refers to
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