“Faithless is he who says farewell when the road darkens‚” said author J.R.R Tolkien. Tolkien’s life wasn’t the happiest one‚ and no matter how bad things got‚ he never gave up. Tolkien took his words‚ and he really used them to have meaning‚ or purpose. He spent a majority of his life an orphan boy‚ and he was decently educated. Even after life threw at him it’s worst‚ Tolkien continued on. It is only reasonable that Tolkien be recognized as one of the world’s greatest authors. Born on January
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Japan was hit by an enormous earthquake on March 11‚ 2011‚ that triggered a deadly 23-foot tsunami in the country’s north. The giant waves deluged cities and rural areas alike‚ sweeping away cars‚ homes‚ buildings‚ a train‚ and boats‚ leaving a path of death and devastation in its wake. Video footage showed cars racing away from surging waves. The United States Geological Survey reported the earthquake and on Monday revised its magnitude from 8.9 to 9.0‚ which is the largest in Japan’s history. The
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IAS 19 – EMPLOYEE BENEFITS The Standard prescribes the accounting and disclosure by employers for employee benefits. It replaces IAS 19 Retirement Benefit Costs which was approved in 1993. The Standard identifies four categories of employee benefits: (a)shortterm employee benefits‚ such as wages‚ salaries and social security contributions‚ paid annual leave and paid sick leave‚ profitsharing and bonuses (if payable within twelve months of the end of the period) and nonmonetary benefits (such
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Kerrie Neal James Grubb History 111 May 3rd 2013 The BlackBerry Riots In the summer of 2011‚ the city of London‚ England was disheveled. With what started as a simple police brutality protest soon turned the city upside down with riots clustering in almost every borough. Parliament abruptly returned from their summer holidays to quickly address the chaos dismantling their city’s wellbeing. Just under 2‚000 riot related arrests were made by the Metropolitan police and just under 4‚000 throughout
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Jebsen & Jessen Group of Companies South East Asia Corporate Profile 17 June 2011 / Jebsen & Jessen Group of Companies South East Asia / 1 Content 1 2 About Us Our Regional Businesses 3 4 Statistical Profile How We Do Business 17 June 2011 / Jebsen & Jessen Group of Companies South East Asia/ 2 1 2 3 4 About Us Our Regional Businesses Statistical Profile How We Do Business 17 June 2011 / Jebsen & Jessen Group of Companies South East Asia/ 3 Historical Background
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Check Point: Development of Corrections Tanita D. Wright September 13‚ 2011 What were women’s prisons like before the 1800s? How have they changed? • Women’s prisons before the 1800’s did not actually exist. The prisons were a mix of men‚ women‚ and children all together. In the 1800s woman that were in prison where treated just how the men were treated. The hard labor they had to endure was work such as sewing‚ cleaning‚ laundry and cooking. They were expected to act like ladies
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Corrections in America Zachary Gene Mooney Notre Dame College The American correctional system has its flaws like many other programs in America today. A hot topic in today?s society is whether or not the American criminal justice system is effective; often times‚ this leads citizens to believe that the United States can no longer be considered the land of the free because of its various flaws. America has the highest imprisonment rate in the entire world along with a shockingly high rate
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Case study Topic 2.3 CREATING TAXPAYER AWARENESS: CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY AND THE FORUMS FOR TAXPAYER- TAX ADMINISTRATION DIALOGUE Frank Van Driessche Tax Administration and Fight Against Fiscal Fraud Directorate General for Taxation and the Customs Union (European Commission) Contents: Abstract – 1. The necessity and way to build tax morality among taxpayers - 2. The change in business models drives the new relationship – 3. Taking the EU VAT system as an example for an enhanced dialogue
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Japan’s GDP Annual Growth Rate:The Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in Japan contracted 0.6 percent in the fourth quarter of 2011 over the same quarter‚ previous year. Unlike the commonly used quarterly GDP growth rate the annual GDP growth rate takes into account a full year of economic activity‚ thus avoiding the need to make any type of seasonal adjustment. Historically‚ from 1981 until 2011‚ Japan ’s average annual GDP Growth was 2.15 percent reaching an historical high of 9.37 percent in March of 1988
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Criminal Justice Trends: Corrections J.J. Myers CJA484 March 3‚ 2014 D.R. Mailloux Criminal Justice Trends: Corrections The relationship between the criminal justice system and society has always been up and down. Some individuals think that the system needs to be overhauled‚ and some that think the system is doing well and does not need to be replaced. In some areas of policing‚ policies have led to corruption and substandard policing practices. The first drastic change that we seen in the way the
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