Mostly Harmless by Douglas Adams focuses on the chaos and potential destruction of the Galaxy. Arthur Dent travels from planet to planet in order to find a new life. Ford Prefect fights the corporate regime. Tricia McMillian has an alien encounter. All three lives help decide the fate of the Galaxy. In chapter one‚ the history of the Galaxy is a confusing mess. People try to exceed the speed of light‚ but it is impossible to do. Only bad news travels faster. People continue to try to exceed the speed
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Jiang Hong Yuan Blk 306‚ Choa Chu Kang Avenue 5 Singapore 123456 15 July 2013 Editor‚ Choa Chu Kang Town Council Monthly Choa Chu Kang Town Council Office 123 Choa Chu Kang Avenue 1 Singapore 123789 Dear Mr/Ms‚ Suggestion for the Facility for Block 301 I am Jiang Hong Yuan‚ a student who currently living in Choa Chu Kang Avenue 5‚ Block 306. I am writing to give my opinion on the suggestions that have been raised about possible facilities. I think that the senior activity centre which
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Good afternoon. I am pleased to announce that one of our students‚ Marissa Kelleher‚ has been named a Commended Student in the 2014 National Merit Scholarship Program. Today‚ I presented Marissa the Letter of Commendation from the National Merit Scholarship Corporation (NMSC). About 34‚000 Commended Students throughout the nation (and the only one at GHS!) are being recognized for their exceptional academic promise. Although they will not continue in the 2014 competition for National Merit
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Centrally planned economy is defined as an economic system whereby economic factors are fixed by central authorities namely the states and the government of a respective nation. Such system is as opposed to one where decisions are made by private residents and companies‚ specifically the market economic system. Centrally planned economy approaches toward an assumption in which the market does not revolve around the utmost interest of the people‚ and that central power decisions are required in
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Implied Terms Douglas Wilhelm Harder When a contract is written‚ those terms that are explicitly written into the contract are said to be expressed terms; however‚ there may be terms that are implied by the nature of the contract. An implied term is a term not written into the contract but is still enforceable. For example‚ it is an implied term in any construction contract that the resulting structure will be built to code. There are two types of implied terms: those required by statute (acts
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Douglas Adams Research Paper “It was one of those beautiful starlit nights‚ and it occurred to me that at some point that somebody should write a hitchhiker’s guide to the galaxy. I fell asleep and forgot about it for six years” (Douglas Adams). Douglas Adams was a brilliant‚ well known writer who discovered his gift of writing as a teenager. He was from an educated family who supported his writing through his childhood and into his college years. Douglas Adams shows what he values in and is
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Response to the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas Frederick Douglass was a slave for about seven years in Master Hugh’s family. In the beginning‚ his mistress was such a kind‚ loving‚ gentle‚ and giving person‚ and treated him as she would anyone else. She taught him the alphabet‚ and that was the beginning of his desire to learn to read. Realizing this and because of her husband’s influence as a slaveholder‚ she gradually changed her ideas of trying to help Douglass. As a result‚ she became
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Douglas Noel Adams Have you ever heard of the movie called The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy is. Douglas Adams wrote the movie and book. He came up with the idea drunk laying in a field in Austria. That is how he came up the movie and book. The book and movie gave him the Golden Pan. Douglas Noel Adams who lived a sad life became an author and movie writer who won the Golden Pan. Now I am going to tell you about Douglas Adams birth and Childhood. Douglas Adams was born in Cambridge England on
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Today’s managers owe Frederick Winslow Taylor a debt for having laid much of the foundation of their profession. Taylor’s work is responsible for workplace phenomena such as reengineering and total quality management. Further‚ what Deming and Juran carried to Japan after World War II‚ was in great part so warmly received there because Taylorism was already well ensconced. Although born to a wealthy family‚ Taylor began his work life when he signed on as an apprentice at a small Philadelphia pump
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Frederick Wiseman (born January 1‚ 1930 in Boston‚ Massachusetts‚ U.S.) is an American filmmaker‚ documentarian‚ and theatrical director.[1] He came to documentary filmmaking after first being trained as a lawyer. He has won numerous film awards‚ as well as Guggenheim and MacArthur fellowships.[2][3] In 2003‚ Wiseman was awarded the Dan David Prize for his outstanding films‚ which make us reckon with our emotions and the cost to society of marginalizing those who cannot speak for themselves. In
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