needs. Students are able to achieve degrees online and by attending traditional schools; however‚ school online gives more freedom to individuals‚ allowing them to receive a higher education and to work a full time job. Trotter said‚ "On some days‚ Vail works as late as 5 a.m. then sleeps late in the morning. Her 90 students have permission to call her as late as 10 p.m.; one boy who works at an after-school job until that hour may call her as late as 11 p.m.‚ and he does" (Trotter). This flexible
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to install underground wiring. The first sign of natural monopoly was with AT&T and the telephone. According to Horowitz‚ it states: “Under the leadership of Theodor Vail‚ AT&T maintain the telephony constitution a natural monopoly. ‘One policy‚ one system‚ and universal service’ was Vail’s ot-reapted slogan.” (Horowitz‚ Page 99) Vail argued that by having more then one provider there would be a waste of resources and if there was one provider pooling its resources they would be able to provide a
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3 March 12‚ 2014 The Promise In the short story “The Demon Lover‚” written by Elizabeth Bowen‚ she describes a story of a middle aged woman who had made a promise with her fiancé twenty-five years ago. It begins by Mrs. Kathleen Drover coming back to her old bombed house in London to pick up a few things left behind. While she was there‚ Mrs. Drover finds a letter which makes her recall of her soldier fiancé twenty-five years ago and the promise that he made her make. After she had read the letter
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not only the idea represented in the novel but also the author himself. Although this is no explicitly stated throughout the book‚ there are a couple of characters that are more significant to Tim O’brien than others. These characters are Linda and Kathleen. By analyzing the book we can observe that both character are connected to O’brien and his stories. They not only represent the youth of the present‚ but also change the author’s perspective on war. Since he is an adult‚ we can straight away notice
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Elizabeth Bowen‚ the female protagonist‚ Kathleen Drover‚ finds that the atmosphere‚ interiorly and exteriorly of her former home‚ is similar to her repressed memories of a past life. Kathleen Drover arrives to her former residence with an initial plan to pack up a few items from her former life; the “steamy‚ showery day” (1) represents Kathleen’s need to restore her current life by obscuring memories that surfaced upon her arrival to the house. However‚ Kathleen‚ in an unstable mental state‚ cannot
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Sacrifices Summary and Characterization The story Sacrifices by R.J Ellory is about Kathleen Reynolds who works as a cop at the Fairfax County Homocide Division. Kathleen Reynolds has given up both husband‚ kids‚ her family and holidays‚ for her career. Later on in the text we are introduced to a woman named Bitsy whose mother is diagnosed with terminal cancer. Bitsy can’t bear seeing her mother in agony‚ and therefore she overdoses the morphine that is used to relieve her mother’s pain‚ with the
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On December 9‚ 2001 Kathleen Peterson‚ the wife of Michael Peterson was found dead in a pool of blood at the bottom of a staircase in their mansion home located in Durham‚ North Carolina. Kathleen was a business executive‚ engineer‚ and a philanthropist. Michael Peterson was an American novelist who was convicted in 2003 for murdering his wife‚ Kathleen Peterson. It was known that Michael had called for help shortly after finding his wife unconscious who seemed as if she had fallen down the stairs
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When the telephone did not exist‚ what device did people use for communications? The telegraph was the answer‚ made by Samuel F. B. Morse. An invention that could transmit an electric pulse across a cable to send messages. This invention was looked poorly upon at the beginning of its time. But one man had the guts to invest in Morse’s telegraph‚ and he soon became one of the reasons the telegraph was created. The telegraph caused the telephone to be invented. Morse had wanted to be able to “talk
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FMLA’s Intermittent Leave: Confused and Suspicious | | | Employers who originally envisioned or understood that FMLA would be taken once‚ in its entirety when an employee had a child or provided caregiver services for a family member have found it difficult to adjust to the provision of intermittent leave and reduced schedules for the impact they have had on the workplace. When dealing with intermittent leave employers are experiencing some new dynamics with employees including keeping
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without even being able to test it beforehand is an accomplishment on its own‚ but the fact that its developer wasn’t even sure how to actually build it‚ was an even greater one‚ sure Jim had constructed and sold a prototype before‚ but as long as Vail is concerned the devices they’re Purchasing (3 at first) didn’t even exist yet. Finally I believe that if it wasn’t for the deadline and by being under time constrain‚ Jim and his team would have taken much longer to figure out the ins-&-outs of
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