A.1 Interview with Mr Geoff Rosbrook (General Manager at Queensland Youth Orchestras) 1. What could be considered Queensland Youth Orchestras’ internal strengths and weaknesses? An internal strength would include that Queensland Youth Orchestras has a unique flat organisational structure where a small administrative team has worked with a large number of volunteers‚ as administrators‚ librarians and stage managers‚ attached to each orchestra or ensemble. Another strength would be the organisation’s
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The 21st amendment to the constitution is a repeal of the 18th amendment which criminalized the sale‚ manufacturing and transportation of alcoholic beverages‚ so in turn you cannot talk about the 21st amendment without starting with the 18th amendment. By the late 1800s‚ prohibition had sprung up across the United State‚ driven by religious groups who considered alcohol‚ specifically drunkenness‚ a threat to the nation. By the late 19th century‚ these groups had become a powerful political force
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Betty Ford “Republican Feminist” Patricia Scurlock 05/11/2013 In her contributions to both the political and social arena‚ Betty Ford promoted the importance of women. While Betty’s time as the First Lady was a short one‚ she certainly left behind quite a legacy and touched the lives of many women. Betty spoke publicly about her diagnosis and treatment for breast cancer‚ she strongly lobbied and pushed for the Equal Rights Amendment‚ she openly supported and lobbied for legal abortion‚ and
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------------------------------------------------- Early years[edit] Fernandes was born in Kuala Lumpur to an Indian father (a physician‚ originally from Goa) and Portuguese-Eurasian mother‚ Ena Dorothy Fernandes of Malacca‚ Malaysia.[2][3] At a young age‚ he used to follow his mother‚ a businesswoman‚ to Tupperware dealer parties and conventions. He was educated at The Alice Smith School in Kuala Lumpur‚ Epsom College from 1977 to 1983 and graduated from the London School of Economics in 1987. He
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Written Brief #4 Ethical conduct on its surface seems like a simple enough area to grasp firmly and abide by. Most people are born hard wired with a certain sense of order that is conventionally thought of as ethical conduct. Ethical conduct cannot be gauged and categorized due to its ever changing nature. Today’s public administrators face many dilemmas in regard to ethical conduct. This is not because today’s public administrators are inherently evil. This is mainly due to the elevated
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discretion. The second of the two conflicts is of sexuality and preference‚ and this is one that grips our nation and many others when really it should not. Religious institutions have such a problem with gay-marriage that through years of successful lobbying against such marital status resulted in many states banning or suspending this right. This is a clear indicator that the seperation between church and state has become a bit of a fallacy. Out of all the major faiths and sects in the world‚ the Anglican
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The competition between George Westinghouse and Thomas Edison to supply electricity to cities in the late 1880s is often called the ’War of Currents ’‚ as this battle ultimately decided which type of current became the standard for the generation of electricity today. Due to different advantages and disadvantages‚ Edison promoted direct current (DC) for electric power distribution‚ whereas Westinghouse and Nikola Tesla both advocated alternating current (AC). Edison ’s direct current was initially
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When I first started out this class‚ my writing skill was a mess. In the past two months‚ I feel my writing skills had improved a little. This is probably one of the hardest classes I’ve taken mainly because of the formatting but it challenges me improved my writing skill. Starr is not an easy book to read‚ so it shaped me to critically think read between the lines of text. In the future‚ I’ll brainstorm and write an outline before typing out the paper and annotating what I’m reading. I find annotating
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incentives to encourage policy makers to pass policies that will be beneficial to the corporation. The desires of Biased Pluralism is typically not intended for the betterment of the American people. It is solely to benefit the companies conducting the lobbying and their
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told what music to sing‚ what music to play‚ and even what we may listen to in the privacy of our own homes. That world already exists as a reality in more countries that you might imagine‚ and that very reality is knocking on our door: In the USA‚ lobbying groups have succeeded in keeping popular music off the concert stage‚ out of the media‚ and off of the shelves. Of course‚ if presented with this contingency‚ any one of us would declare how horrible this reality would be. Why then‚ do we hear
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