[pic] With the financial support of the "Europe for Citizens" Programme of the European Commission "Too many people expect wonders from democracy‚ when the most wonderful thing of all is just having it." Walter Winchell BASIC PRINCIPLES OF ACTIVE DEMOCRACY What Is Democracy? [pic] Democracy comes from the Greek word‚ "demos‚" meaning people. In democracies‚ it is the people who hold sovereign power over legislator and government. Democracy is a form of government
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Leadership courses are such an important part to the enlisted side of the army. Without going to Warrior Leader Course (WLC)‚ now known as Basic Leaders Course (BLS)‚ I probably would not have learned some of the important leader fundamentals that I learned during that course. All I have ever done was compare leaders‚ including me‚ to my Drill Sergeants from Basic Training. The only thing with that is‚ they do not teach you all of the tools necessary to become a complete‚ well-rounded leader. I am
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Basic Financial Calculations 1.1 Overview This chapter aims to give you some fi nance basics and their Excel implementation. If you have had a good introductory course in fi nance‚ this chapter is likely to be at best a refresher.1 This chapter covers • Net present value (NPV) • Internal rate of return (IRR) • Payment schedules and loan tables • Future value • Pension and accumulation problems • Continuously compounded interest Almost all fi nancial problems center on fi nding the value
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Banking Lecture 2 - Basic Principles of Banking Michal Mejstřík‚ Petr Teplý Institute of Economic Studies‚ Faculty of Social Science‚ Charles University in Prague‚ Czech Republic 10 October 2012 Global political governance Slide 2 Who will pay this game/cost of crises? Source: Petr Teplý (2011) Slide 3 The current financial world is “simple“ and can be described by 3 terms: 1) Planet Ponzi 2) Zombie banks 3) Uroboros Source: Petr Teplý (2012) Slide 4 Ponzi
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Present value is where the value on a set date of a future payment is discounted to reflect the time value of money and other factors. This can also apply to a series of future payments. Present value calculations are commonly utilized in business and economics to provide a way to compare cash flows at different times. Present value can be described as the current worth of a future sum of money or stream of cash flows given a specified rate of return. (http://www.getobjects.com) Future cash flows
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William Gilbert William Gilbert was also known as William Gilbert. He lived from 24 May 1544 – 30 November 1603. He was an English physician‚ physicist and natural philosopher. He didn’t agree with the traditional way of learning which was to learn completely from books and instead tried investigating and experiments of his own to find out information. He became famous for his experiments with electricity and magnetism which he published books on. William Gilbert first coined the term "electricity"
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CS 11 Handout Outline I Basic computer concepts A Definition of a computer B Number systems and conversion C Types of programming languages Program Development Cycle A Problem Identification B Logic Formulation C Coding D Testing and Debugging E Storage and Maintenance Program Logic Formulation A Algorithms B Algorithm Representation 1 Flowchart 2 Pseudocode Programming Fundamentals A Data Types B Variables and Constants C Operators D Expressions Control Structures A Sequential B Conditional C
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BASIC PROCESS OF LEARNING The term learning is used in various ways by different psychologist to refer to the wide variety of phenomena. Learning is any process through which experience at one time can alter an individual’s behavior at a future time. The Behavioral perspective on LEARNING: acquiring ne responses to and for stimuli * Behaviorism is the attempt to understand behavior in terms of relationship between observable stimuli and observable response. * 2 separate learning processes
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William Morris Research Paper William Morris was a poet‚ artist‚ manufacturer‚ and socialist during the mid to late 19th century. He was most active as a wallpaper and textile designer and later in his life a graphic designer. Morris was born March of 1834 in Walthamstow‚ which was near to London. He lived with his wealthy family near London and learned to read at a young age. He later attended Oxford where he met is friend‚ Edward Burne-Jones‚ who would later become one of the greatest
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I think that the other theme of William Carlos Williams’ poem “The Red Wheelbarrow” is hope because in the poem it states‚ “so much depends upon a red wheel barrow” (William’s 309). The red wheel barrow is used to represent the blood of life and the white chicken or the sick little girl is depending on blood in order to survive. The little girl is hoping that she will be able to get better because in order to survive you need to have water and blood in your body. The poem “Chicago” by Carl Sandburg
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