interesting facts. The Virgin Islands has an interesting geography including rainforests‚ national parks‚ wildlife refuges‚ and coves. St. Croix has a rainforest that has a wildlife refuge. In the rainforest you can also find the Salt River Park. Smuggler cove is the most popular cove on The Virgin
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engines of their cars when crossing the border to avoid being caught (“National”). After crossing the border‚ bootleggers would enroute on the Dixie Highway‚ which ran from Michigan to Florida. Moonshine was widely distributed along this highway‚ and smugglers would enhance their cars’ speed to outrun police (Mueller). Rum also became widely popular and was smuggled from the Bahamas by William McCoy and his men who were known as “rum runners” (Mueller). This proved successful as the water route between
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Philippe Bourgois (born 1956) is a Professor of Anthropology & Family and Community Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. He can be considered a proponent of neo-Marxist theory and of critical medical anthropology. His greatest influences include the work of French social theorists Pierre Bourdieu and Michel Foucault. In his research‚ Bourgeois relied on the participant-observation method‚ meaning that he chooses to live and integrate himself in the society he studies. To write his book “In
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Thesis Do you believe that one’s words can reflect on a certain person’s action? Today‚ Rap has become the most popular type of music in the US. The Rap industry is dominated by artists’ who mostly dedicate their lyrics to either violence‚ drugs‚ or sex. Through 1998 and 1999 the survey taken by the National Music Bureau‚ stated that 46% of the listeners of Rap are under the age of 19. While 65% of the listeners‚ live in run-down homes‚ or impoverished areas‚ usually being inner cities.
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coAn Oracle White Paper February 2012 2012 B2B E-Commerce Survey: Results and Trends 2012 B2B E-Commerce Survey: Results and Trends Introduction Although business to consumer (B2C) gets a lot of attention for being on the “sexy” side of ecommerce‚ 2010 U.S. Census data shows estimates for business to business (B2B) revenue transacted online—not through electronic data interchange (EDI)—at approximately US$300 billion. Compare that with almost $200 billion in retail transactions‚ and the
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Public Relations Using the example of one specific organization of your choice‚ establish the role a Public relations officer plays within the organization. Illustrate your answer with specific examples. A public relations officer also known as Media Specialist is the spokesperson of a company or any organization. His role is to convey the policies and interests of the organization to the public through various forms of media. Public relations are a vital part of maintaining the organization’s
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Social Inequality and it’s Representation in Elysium Introduction Movies are an important vehicle for the transmission of cultural norms and understandings as they allow producers to present their views on present day problems and increase our understanding of particular historical events or the lives of people in other places (Dowd 2010 in Sutherland & Feltey 2013). This is reflected through the film Elysium (2013) in which director Neill Blomkamp constructs and challenges the concept of social
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Consequences of Refugee Flow and Mixed Migration ABSTRACT There are 214 million estimated numbers of international migrants worldwide. In 2010‚ there were 15.2 million refugees around the world (IOM‚ 2010). There are as many factors responsible for this large number as there are impacts. The impacts can be viewed as it relates to the migrants and the refugees themselves as well as it relates to transit communities‚ host communities in particular and Host countries in general. The dominant hypothesis
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The offline retail environment of the automobile industry is that of manufacture to intermediary to consumer. The process from which the product (car) proceeds from manufacturer to consumer is that of through the automobile dealer. This intermediary batch purchases a number of models from the manufacturer and sells them from the ‘lot’ or storefront. This placement and presentation of the product has proved largely successful. The tangible product is viewed‚ test driven and purchased from the
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Karplus‚ Levitt‚ Warshel win 2013 Nobel prize for chemistry Martin Karplus‚ Michael Levitt and Arieh Warshel won the 2013 Nobel Prize for chemistry for the development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems‚ the award-giving body said on Wednesday. “(The scientists) laid the foundation for the powerful programs that are used to understand and predict chemical processes‚” the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said in a statement when awarding the prize of 8 million crowns ($1.25 million)
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