The article I read is called‚ “Road to $25 Billion: Where could the NFL’s revenue growth come from?” The aspiration of getting to $25 billion was introduced during an annual owners meeting in Orlando in 2010. This number was figured based on the amount of money the NFL needed to compete as a global entertainment brand. They wanted the NFL to compete not only against other sports leagues but also against well-known companies such as Apple. The league hopes to reach this goal by 2027. As of 2012
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Solving High School Problems In the past few years American high school students have a significant amount of struggling. Young people’s struggles come from various sources such as school‚ social class‚ race‚ and gender. The article “Teaching Tolerance in America” by Dudley Erskine Devlin mentions multiple issues about high schools‚ and how students tend to divide up into groups. These divisions among adolescents can either cause social‚ race‚ or gender problem. Likewise‚ Michael Quintanilla
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This article is another informative work on the dangers on distracted driving. This article‚ however‚ includes distractions from hands-free devices that allow one to have a phone conversation without holding a phone to his or her ear. A study showed that someone texting or having a conversation on a wireless headset drove as poorly as someone whose blood alcohol concentration was above the legal limits in Australia and Spain‚ where this was tested (0.5 grams per liter). The study also found that
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I‚ Pencil Summary: This was an article written from the aspect of a wooden pencil. The pencil first starts out talking about how no one knows how to make him/her. It states that it is a mystery even more so than a tree or a sunset. It goes on to talk about even though it might look like a simple object‚ it is much more complex with creation. Referencing each piece used to create the pencil‚ then tracing its genealogy to those who made objects used for transportation‚ manufacturing‚ texturing
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What is the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 and what is its purpose? The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 was designed and passed to protect investors of corporations from the possible acts of fraudulent accounting activities by corporations. The SOX Act’s purpose is to commend and force ethical business practices among businesses across all industries. The overall goal was to protect financial records that organizations keep to help further protect against any and all accounting fraud. Major corporations like
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attendance. It will also help you measure the effectiveness of relevant policies‚ processes and procedures‚ and the effectiveness of the plan itself. Your attendance plan should form an integral part of your school’s broader planning and self-review. These guidelines for managing attendance are for boards of trustees‚ principals and teachers. They will help your school: • focus on student attendance as a foundation forstudent engagement and achievement • develop and implement a robust
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ARTICLE REVIEW AND CRITIQUE: “Efficiency of Brand Placement in an International Film- Effects of Exposure in a Local Context” Slim Khalbous and Merium Maazoul Journal of Creative Communications‚ Volume 5‚ Issue 1 (March 2010)‚ p.23-46 SYNOPSIS Product and brand placement arouses a particular interest at the announcers. However the massive use of brands in international programs incites us to wonder about the effect of the local socio-cultural context on the efficiency of this creative technique
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Evaluation of techniques for Dental and DNA identification for mass disaster victim Introduction: A mass disaster is an unanticipated event that results in serious injury and death to a large number of people. Mass disaster can be categorised into three categories‚ natural disasters‚ accidental disasters or even intentional terrorism acts. Natural disasters could include events such as earthquake‚ flooding or tsunamis. Accidental disasters could be associated with events aircraft‚ ship
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According to a survey by Crocker and Kalemba (1999) in “The Incidence and Impact Of Women’s Experiences of Sexual Harassment in Canadian Workplaces”‚ sexually harassed women in the workplace has been considered a contentious social dilemma as half women in the workforce went through incidence of various types of sexual harassment at work which made sexual harassment as the most widespread form of female sexual victimization
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GLOSSARY OF TECHNIQUES USED TO CREATE MEANING Active voice/passive voice Writing that uses the forms of verbs which create a direct relationship between the subject and the object. Active voice is lively and more direct. Eg. ‘We had fun’ is written in the active voice; ‘Fun was had’ is written in the passive voice. Alliteration The repetition of the consonant sounds at the beginnings of words. It is used to produce sound that adds to the atmosphere or mood of the words‚ or perhaps
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