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    The Reconstruction era was put into effect by Congress in 1866 and lasted until 1877. Reconstruction was aimed at reorganizing the Southern states after the Civil War. The reconstruction plan granted the means for readmitting the southern states into the Union‚ and tried to come up with the methods by which whites and blacks could live together in a non-slave society. America’s position as a country was established on principles of freedom but those beliefs were weakened by slavery. At the end

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    Winston Churchill once said “Success is not final‚ Failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” This quote is very powerful and deep in the fact that it’s very possible for failure to strengthen a person. This hits my life personal in many ways‚ but mostly in the fact that my older brother is applying for colleges right now. On a bigger scale there is J.K Rowling‚ she and her book series Harry Potter. Failure is basically trials in life‚ you can definitely use them to strengthen

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    key factors that may lead the intelligence failures to occur. Through discovering various materials‚ I find out that the failures are commonly caused by a combination of internal and external errors. Before discussing some reasons for the error‚ we need to understand the nature of intelligence work. The work is an outcome of team effort‚ as it consist a series of human endeavours‚ therefore it cannot be completely accurate. In fact‚ the intelligence failure could cause an intelligence agency or government

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    Slaughterhouse Failure Listen: “O peace! How many wars were waged in thy name”(Alexander Pope.) Kurt Vonnegut’s acclaimed novel‚ Slaughterhouse Five is a gripping book that follows the scattered like of Billy Pilgrim as he jumps through time and tries to understand how life is supposed to be viewed. The novel presents new and fascinating ideas about time and how life can be viewed. Vonnegut intended for the novel to be about the appalling world of war; Yet‚ when reading the book‚ it’s hard to

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    called the Era of Reconstruction. The Civil War left the South in shambles‚ economically‚ infrastructurally‚ and socially. Therefore‚ the responsibility of repairing the South fell on the United States government. The physical damage of the war was the first to be addressed. The government was not only repairing physical damage‚ but economic damage‚ too. The Civil War destroyed the South’s economy‚ with many plantations and farms being consumed by the conflict. Consequently‚ there was a push to industrialize

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    FAILURE IS NOT AN OPTION FAILURE IS NOT AN OPTION - Gene Kranz‟s leadership in movie < Apollo 13> INTRODUCTION Apollo 13‚ the 1995 motion picture directed by Ron Howard‚ is the true story of Jim Lovell‚ Fred Haise‚ and Jack Swigert‚ a team of astronauts reassigned to a space flight with diminished preparation time. Apollo 13 Mission in 1970 was planning to land on the moon as a routine‚ but after astronauts found oxygen tank‟s explosion and leaking‚ this routine mission to the moon suddenly

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    issue. But we have seen some businesses start with some great enthusiasm and drive and before you know it‚ Kaboom... many great products have disappeared from shelves and warehouses because the companies that produce them went under. Business failure is a global phenomenon and cannot be associated with Nigerians alone. It cannot also be analyzed from one focal point because‚ just like businesses fail for one reason or another‚ so do governments‚ social systems‚ economic systems and so on. The

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    Failures: Internal factors | Reasons of failure | Explanations | Team morale | Low morale‚ as not enough payment | Innovation and risk taking | No new innovation and or not willing to take risk will not bring any profit to the company | Stability | Instability‚ always new staff member‚ which ruins the team cooperativeness of the work team | Team orientation | No orientation = no goals for the team | Attention to detail | Not enough attentions will lead to the disconnections towards

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    portrayed a different explanation for why Reconstruction did not work out as planned by the United States Government. Thomas W. Wilson’s article reveals that the government preyed upon the South. Carter Woodson asserts that former slaves were not given a fair chance to make Reconstruction work‚ while Thomas Bailey blames the Radicals for pushing it on clueless‚ former slaves. Finally‚ Mary Beth Norton takes issue with the resistance of Reconstruction that the South held from the beginning. While

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    Entrepreneurial Failure” The first article I read was written by Nicolas A. Bibby. His article title was named “the root cause of Entrepreneurial Failure”. I had a good feeling just by reading the articles name a few things he would be writing about. One reason we fail would be due to our lack of knowledge about the business‚ and dislike towards a chosen career. Another would be insufficient capital to hold venture through making profit and just making it even. He proves what he was speaking of in

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