privatization of their prison systems‚ outsourcing the management to private enterprises. Like most privatization issues‚ this topic has many supporters from the liberal economic philosophy‚ as well as many detractors that argue against profit seeking enterprises. The discussion promotes themes such as the ethical dilemma of the private sector “administering punishment”‚ selecting the correct metrics used to evaluate the performance of private sector versus public sector‚ disputes of what are “just and fair”
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PRIVATE EQUITY – A VIABLE ALTERNATIVE SOURCE OF FUNDING FOR GHANAIAN SMEs By Joseph Ciici Arthur Ghana’s workforce is predominantly employed by the informal sector. This sector of our economy is largely made up of Small and Medium scale Enterprises (SMEs) and sole proprietorships (“one man business”). This is confirmed by available data from the Registrar General which indicates that 90% of companies registered in Ghana are SMEs. Over time‚ this target group has been identified as the catalyst for
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Michael Fred Phelps was born on June 30‚ 1985 in Baltimore‚ Maryland‚ to Fred and Debbie Phelps. The youngest of three children‚ Michael Phelps and his sisters grew up in the neighborhood of Rodgers Forge. His father‚ Fred‚ an all-around athlete‚ was a state trooper; mother Debbie was a middle-school principal. When Phelps’s parents divorced in 1994‚ he and his siblings went to live with their mother‚ with whom Michael grew very close. Phelps began swimming when his two older sisters‚ Whitney (born
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By attacking public hangings as cruel death penalty opponents were able to agitate five states to abolish public hangings but fifteen states continued to hold private hangings. In 1853‚ Wisconsin abolished the death penalty after a gruesome hanging in which the prisoner “struggled for five minutes at the end of the rope‚ and a full eighteen minutes passed before his heart finally quit.” (Reggio‚ 1997) We see here that the basis for rejecting capital punishment evolved mid-century from arguing that
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people are faced with the decision of standing up for what they believe in while breaking the laws or doing what the law says while not agreeing with what they are doing. There is a way to make a change in what American laws should be. It’s called a peaceful protest. But how do these little protests affect our society? These protests do not benefit society. The laws are created to help our society and government‚ and even though we may not see that completely‚ there is reason. Protesting is not a safe
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PRIVATE TRANSPORT The last century has seen a huge transformation in how we travel. Technological advances mean that we can fly long distances in half the time it took fifty years ago and we now commute by train‚ boat‚ car and coach in relative comfort and safety. This section looks at the development and fire safety issues of modern day transport‚ highlighting the application of flame retardants for the construction and comfort of passenger travel. AIMS&OBJECTIVE
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Mohandas Gandhi A Peaceful Protester Peace‚ love‚ and loyalty are words that people think of when they think of Mohandas Gandhi. Mohandas Gandhi changed the world by being a peaceful‚ tolerant rebel. He showed the world that people could be strong even though you have no power and use no violence. He left a legacy as a peaceful protester. When Gandhi was in his early years‚ he was known as a hero (Rau‚51). In his early life‚ he was a hero that was frail on the outside‚ but strong on the
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One need only look to Abraham Lincoln to best respond to the question‚ "Does peaceful resistance to laws positively or negatively impact a free society?" All too often‚ government is a term applied erroneously to some faceless inanimate mass. As if government is more a thing than a collective‚ decision-making‚ living‚ breathing organism. You often hear people blaming societal problems and failings on the ineffective "government." Government does not‚ nor can it exist without people. For those
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Heroism can be defined in three words‚ showing great bravery. In Peaceful Warrior‚ a few people showed this. Dan and Socrates were the main two who showed this. They should us their heroism by Dan’s courage‚ determination and Socrates’s power to help Dan to become a better person and athlete. They showed courage throughout the movie. Heroism shows itself in Peaceful Warrior. The first thing I noticed was that Dan was challenged a lot in the movie. Sometimes he wanted to give up. After Dan’s
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FIN 527 Alternative Investments | Private Equity | Project 1. | | Wei Chen‚ Ye Zhang | | | Part 1. Performance Measurement for Private Equity a) Summary statistics for venture capital and buyout returns: Histograms of returns: The return distribution of venture capital has a kurtosis of 23.25 and a skewness of 3.63‚ which means it is leptokurtic and skews to the right. It is not close to normal distribution. Mainly due to the high returns in late 1990s during the
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