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    What is Ordinary Shares An ordinary share defines a single unit of equity ownership of a corporation‚ where the holders of the ordinary shares receive the right to cast a vote in decisions involving important corporate matters. Such votes are available to each ordinary shareholder in correspondence to the number of ordinary shares held within the company. Ordinary shareholders are the last to receive dividends‚ and are only entitled to funds which remain after dividends on preferred shares are paid

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    Why do people conform?

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    Dear Reader‚ The main point of my paper is to show the underlining reasons as to why people confirm to different forms of government structures‚ democracy and authoritarian‚ based on their economic background. I attempt to do this by working backwards‚ first I show why they would revolt or protest‚ and then I extrapolate the reasons why they followed the regime in the first place. Before reading my paper‚ my readers probably think that each class supports the government for money and survival.

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    made a deal that Zero would dig half of his hole and Stanley would teach Zero after the hole s are done digging. The warden found out that Stanley and Zero made a deal and that Stanley was teaching Zero how to read and write and Stanley did a big thing that day that he stood up to the warden saying why can’t I dig my hole and still teach Zero how to read and write and all the campers were shocked to hear that Staney talked back to the warden after Stanley talked back he had serious consequences (139)

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    with an infinity of potential‚ and we have allowed ourselves to become an unthinking‚ unquestioning blob of conformity and uniformity. A herd. Once we concede to the herd mentality‚ we can be controlled and directed by a tiny few. And we are.” Here‚ Icke is saying that humans often become attached to groups. They do not tend to question what is going on‚ as long as they feel safe and secure with any group. Humans thrive on the feeling of being included‚ so much so that they lose themselves and start

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    Why people shouldn’t steal things. Stealing is pretty much putting your life in jeopardy‚ your reputation gets ruined‚ there are consequences to face‚ and it is illegal and of course forbidden. For example‚ Stealing puts your reputation on the line‚ your known as the person who’s in and out of juvenile facility centers. You influence people in a bad way. You also let everyone know that you’re out and all about trouble. You will be known as the troubled kid. No one would want you

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    I was going build a time machine and jump from age twelve to twenty because I did not want to be a teenager. From watching TV and observing my older sister‚ I thought all teenagers we required to be moody‚ yell at their parents‚ and wear dark clothes. I did not want to be that way. Slowly‚ I began to realize that my perception of the teenage years was a little off. In eighth grade my view of calling and what it meant to be a teenager was transformed when I read Do Hard Things: A Rebellion Against

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    Do the Right Thing Film Analysis “Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. It is impractical because it is a descending spiral ending in destruction for all.”(Martin Luther King Jr.). Violence and racism are both important motifs in‚ Do the Right Thing (Lee‚ 1989). They are prominent in almost every scene of the film and lead to the climax when Radio Raheem is killed by the police. Spike Lee used many different directorial techniques in his movie. Heat and music

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    Things Ridiculously Successful People Do Every Day Travis Bradberry‚ a co-author of the best-selling book of Emotional Intelligence 2.0 and the co-founder of TalentSmart 16‚ published an article in Enterpreneur.com‚ which talks about Kevin Kruse‚ an entrepreneur‚ popular keynote speaker and the bestselling co-author of We‚ recently interviewed over two hundred successful people‚ including olympians‚ billionaires and a number of accomplished entrepreneurs. In Kruse’s finding‚ he shares fourteen things

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    The Extraordinary Life of William Shakespeare “We know what we are‚ but know not what we may be.” This is just one of many genius quotes from Shakespeare himself. William Shakespeare is regarded to be the greatest playwright of all time. This man has an exquisite taste when it comes down to writing and literature. Shakespeare is believed to have created over 1‚700 words in the English language. Not only are his works interesting‚ but also the Globe Theater in which many of his plays

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    much easier to dismiss them and believe we could never become like them. However‚ this was not truly the case for many of those who participated in the Holocaust. These men were not brainwashed‚ and some were not even Nazis— they were simply ordinary men. People often associate the Holocaust with men who had been indoctrinated with the Nazi ideology‚ but many of the men who joined the police battalion were not initially Party members. From those men who came from the lower-middle class only about 30%

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