With Calamity‚ Comes Solidarity A week after crazy Yolanda’s rage‚ I went home to Leyte for the sole purpose of bone crushing my entire family with the biggest hug my outstretched arms could make. Even after knowing they’re all fine‚ I couldn’t settle my nerves with mere words coming out from someone’s mouth telling me that everyone is safe. I longed to see for myself that my family is okay so I bought a ticket and sailed home. As the boat neared the port of Ormoc City‚ the once green and lush
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Case study Mutual Fund Data Solution for a Bank Branch Network The Client Headquartered in Toronto‚ Canada‚ with 74‚000 employees in offices around the world‚ our client offers a full range of financial products and services to approximately 17 million customers worldwide‚ managing $435 billion in assets. The bank also ranks among the world’s leading on-line financial services firms‚ with more than 4.5 million on-line customers. The bank approached VAULT when it needed a new mutual fund
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Poland and the Role of Solidarity Marisa Saldana and Sofia Venegas Overview What is Solidarity? (August 14‚ 1980) ● Independent self-governing trading union ● It was a broad anti-communist social movement ● Used the methods of civil resistance to advance the causes of workers’ rights and create social change. ● Contributed to the fall of communism and sparked the later Revolutions of 1989 Critical figures Lech Walesa ● ● ● ● ● Most prominent leader of the Solidarity movement Persistent activism
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The Solidarity movement in Poland was one of the most dramatic developments in Eastern Europe during the Cold War. It was not a movement that began in 1980‚ but rather a continuation of a working class and Polish intelligentsia movement that began in 1956‚ and continued in two other risings‚ in 1970 and 1976. The most significant of these risings began in the shipyards of the ’Triple City’‚ Gdansk‚ Sopot and Gdynia in 1970. The first and by far the most violent and bloody of the workers revolts came
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`Solidarity and its effect on the fall of European Communist Regimes The rise of the Polish Solidarity Trade Union in the 1980’s was historically significant because of its continued persistency for social change. Solidarity’s ability to develop and persevere through years of political oppression led to substantial changes within the Polish Government and its influence led to the eventual collapse of Eastern European Communist regimes. Although Hungary‚ Czechoslovakia‚ and East Germany would receive
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Citation Rudolph A. Hardman‚ Frances N. Hardman and Hardman‚ Inc. Appellants‚ v. United States of America‚ Appellee‚ 827 F.2d 1409 (9th Cir. 1987) Facts Rudolph‚ Frances Hardman and Hardman‚ Inc. sought review of the lower court’s decision upholding tax deficiencies assessed by the Internal Revenue Service. Hardmans characterized a payment by a corporation as a part consideration for the purchase of property from Frances Hardman‚ treated the payment as a capital gain and the corporation added the
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Scenario 2 – Soliciting Funds 1. The crime in which Tarrance committed had a specific intent (mens rea – guilty mind) when he copied his employer’s customer database on a USB drive and created a fictional business. “Under the federal Industrial Espionage Act of 1996‚ knowingly stealing‚ soliciting‚ or obtaining trade secrets by copying‚ downloading‚ or uploading via electronic means or otherwise with the intention that it will benefit a foreign government or agent is a crime. This act also applies
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FIN3102 Investment Analysis and Portfolio Management Case 1- The Dynamis Fund: An Energy Hedge Fund Section C4 Group 1C Group Members Chen Zu Qing (U098258E) Kwan Kin Weng (U090381H) Low Siao Chi (U098260J) Sim Wan Lin (U098374Y) Yong Jun Kang Eric (U098357R) Yong Lin Lin (U098312Y) 0 1. Why would a regional brokerage offer such instruments Compared to individual portfolios‚ such funds woo investors by offering several advantages namely: professional asset/money management‚ liquidity and more
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NIEHS vs. Government Funds Some people want to be fit and healthy their whole life‚ but there are some factors in the environment that could make them sick and ruin their goal. There is a company named NIEHS‚ or the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences‚ that helps keep playgrounds‚ parks‚ and the environment around you clean and safe to help prevent you from getting harmful or even deadly diseases that can cause you and your family or friends harm. Currently‚ the NIEHS is asking for
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Mutual Fund Analysis Case Study Investor Summary John and Jane Mooney Working for an investment firm I was recently asked by my boss to help advise two of firm’s best clients. The client’s names were John and Jane Mooney. Both John and Jane are in their early 40’s and have no children. John is a fireman for the local fire department while Jane is a professor at the local community college. The Mooney’s annual income is roughly $115‚000. The Mooney’s own their home and are virtually debt free
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