Gays and lesbians should not be allowed to adopt. Kids need both male and female role models in their lives. A girl needs her mother to teach her how to be a woman and how take care of her self; She also needs her father to caution and protect her. While a boy needs his father to teach him how to be a man and he needs his mom to teach him how a woman should be treated. Having two parents of the same gender is just like having one parent because‚ neither one of them can play the role of the opposite
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NOKIA AND MICROSOFT JOIN FORCES IN SMARTPHONE WAR On the 11th of February 2011‚ Nokia Corporation announced the alliance with Microsoft Corporation‚ unveiling their aggressive strategy to challenge Google and Apple for domination of the hot smartphone market. In this strategic alliance‚ Nokia will use Microsoft’s mobile operating system (OP) Windows Phone on its smartphones. As per the deal‚ Windows Phone would replace Symbian as the primary OS on Nokia’s phones and Nokia would pay royalties to
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Microsoft: On anti-trust and monopolies (or How A Linux User Can Court Ostracism) Introduction In 1890‚ the US Congress passed the Sherman Act. Further‚ the Clayton Act was enacted in 1912. This was followed by the Robinson-Patman Act of 1936. These antitrust laws prohibit agreements in restraint of trade‚ monopolization and attempted monopolization‚ anticompetitive mergers and tie-in schemes‚ and‚ in some circumstances‚ price discrimination in the sale of commodities. Thus‚ the goals of
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GROUP A PRESENTATION: Leibler (“True and fair view- an imaginary view”) argues “in an ideal world‚ and with just a little imagination‚ accounting standards would always produce a true and fair result. But this is not necessarily so in the real world” (p 61). o What is the problem that Leibler identifies in his paper with respect to the ‘true and fair’ requirement? o What solutions does Leibler suggest to ensure that reporting entities do a better job at addressing the ‘true and fair’ requirement
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Contemporary Issue on Microsoft & Netflix Companies often buy back their own shares. There are several reasons to take such step that is to increase earnings per share‚ return on equity‚ to avoid takeover attempts‚ or to reduce the number of shareholders and so on. Some publicly held corporations purchase all their outstanding shares with the procedure of leverage buyout (LBO) and choose to go private. Recently‚ this LBO procedure is adopted by dell with the help of Microsoft contribution of 2 billion
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Every Friday during the semester‚ I made my way to an elementary school to participate with the Adopt-A-School program; which was apart of an educational initiative for my sorority. The mission of the Adopt-A-School program represents a tremendous opportunity to positively affect the lives of students‚ teachers‚ and volunteers. My chapter chose to adopt Berg Jones Elementary School in Monroe‚ Louisiana. This was an inner city school that ranged from Pre-K to grade 5‚ and included about 500 students
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Microsoft Zune and Apple iPod I. Introduction: Hook: Portable MP3 players have come a long way since their humble beginnings in the late 1990s. Subjects: Microsoft Zune and ipod Purpose: analyzing differences between two mobile T.S: The world’s first MP3 players‚ The Eiger Labs MPMan F10 and the Diamond Multimedia Rio PMP300 were shipped with 32 Mbytes of internal memory. MPEG Audio Layer III (MP3) the standard for audio compression that makes any music file smaller with little or
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depends on it. Ray Kurzwell (2005) focuses on the idea of the Singularity. The Singularity is the idea that technology will continue expanding to the point where human life will be completely transformed. This leads to the question‚ should there be limits on technological advancements? Although issues could arise with constant technological development‚ I believe that research should be limited only when an issue arises and ethics are questioned. There has never been a period where humans stopped
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for the whole family. However‚ single people possess parental feelings and a desire to have a child. And‚ if for some reason‚ a single man or a woman cannot have a child naturally‚ he or she should be allowed to adopt children even though in some countries‚ they are forbidden to adopt. First of all‚ for some single people it is impossible to become pregnant or to inseminate because of some physiological or health problems‚ such as sterility‚ chronic illnesses or obesity. Many women are cautious
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begins amortizing software costs at the beginning of the following year. Estimate the effect of capitalizing software costs on Microsoft’s fiscal 1997‚ 1998‚ and 1999 income statements and balance sheets. [pic] b. Why do you think Microsoft chose to expense all software costs as incurred rather than capitalizing a portion of these costs? Remember that the FASB provides explicit guidelines for the treatment of software development costs that required capitalization once technological
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