Bessie Smith was born in Chattanooga‚ Tennessee in April 15‚ 1894. She was the most popular female blues singer known as “The Empress of the Blues”. She started her career by singing in tent shows in 1912‚ alongside another blues specialist Ma Rainey. Bessie influenced other singers including Aretha Franklin‚ Nina Simone‚ Frank Sinatra‚ Billie Holiday‚ Dinah Washington and Janis Joplin. Bessie Smith was married to Jack Gee on June 7‚ 1923. She made her first record with Columbia records “Downhearted
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It was a cold friday afternoon as I sat at the bus stop waiting to get home. I had just got out of an intense Friday lecture from the Northampton local Mosque. The Imam was furious and obviously disgusted at the behavior of our generation. "How do we live with ourselves" Imam Aseem Ibrahim had said. "Most of us have enough to feed ourselves and our family‚ even buy the latest gadgets just because we can but do we feed the poor? Do we clothed them?" He said in anger as he chocked on the words. The
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Hostel life is not without its disadvantages. The rich students get sufficient money from their parents and therefore spend lavishly. The poor boarders also urge their parents to increase their monthly allowance and spend their hard earned money on luxuries. The company of the rich also makes them pick up their bad habits. They start smoking. Some of them take to intoxicants and thereby ruin themselves. Another great defect in hostel life is the mismanagement on the part of the warden. The food
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Adam Smith Lectures - 1 - Frederick Weil February 1999 Adam Smith - Lecture 1 The Character of Market Society Smith makes a number of claims about the “natural” state of things: “human nature‚” “natural” prices or rates of wages‚ rent‚ and profit‚ “natural” character of the market and market society. In this lecture‚ I explore the picture of market society he gives‚ mainly in Book I of the Wealth of Nations. In this and the following lectures‚ we will see how Smith contradicts most of his basic
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Overview * General Tips * Non-Fiction * Fiction * Poetry * Fire Starters Creative Non-Fiction If representing and exploring the “real” by writing in the genre of creative non-fiction is your goal‚ we hope these tips about what creative non-fiction is‚ as well as some pointers on a few genres that are considered creative non-fiction (memoir and the personal essay) can help you. We have also included some links to some well-known examples of creative non-fiction to give you a sense
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Non-repudiation It refers to one of the properties of cryptographic digital signatures that offer the possibility of proving whether a particular message has been digitally signed by the holder of a particular digital signature’s private key. A digital signature owner‚ who may like to deny a transaction maliciously‚ may always claim that his or her digital signature key was stolen by someone and that someone actually signed the digital transaction in question‚ thus not accepting/denying the transaction
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Business Law – Unit 15 Task 01-a A legal system in a country embodies both the law of that country and the mechanisms the country has in place for regulating and enforcing those laws. A legal system incorporates: * The country’s law * The legislature: the law making body * The judiciary: the body that sits in judgment on disputes about laws * The prosecution system: the system that seeks to ensure the criminal law in enforced and people who break the law are prosecuted * The
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restricting the other party from performing similar work for a specific period of time within a certain geographical area. First used in the nineteenth century‚ and common today in certain professions‚ noncompete agreements sometimes have an uncertain legal status. Courts do not always uphold them. Generally‚ courts evaluate such clauses for their reasonableness to determine whether they constitute an unfair restraint on trade.The rationale behind noncompete agreements is an employer’s self-interest.
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Ethical‚ Social and Legal Issues of Internet Although internet of things provides lots of advantages to human beings‚ there are also some issues that IoT has a bad influence on our daily environments. Some internet users are not aware of the danger waiting for them while using the internet of things recently. In legal perspective‚ since the internet of things is fairly new‚ there are so many issues related to the laws by using internet that they still haven’t been solved in society. An example of
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) Springfield College The article‚ a review of “Ethical and legal issues in research involving human subjects: do you want a piece of me” (2006)‚ is about the legal aspects‚ and ethical concerns‚ in regards to clinical trial participants’ dignity and privacy. The author’s abstract raises the question of how “These ethical concerns have been translated into a complex regulatory apparatus in the USA‚ containing specific legal provisions concerning such matters as participant safety‚ informed
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