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    “people analytics” was the title of the article Dr. John Sullivan published on February 25‚ 2013. If you haven’t seen it in the news‚ after its stock price broke the $800 barrier‚ Google moved into the No. 3 position among the most valuable firms in the world. Google is clearly the youngest firm among the leaders; it has surprisingly been less than a decade since Google’s IPO. Most companies on the top 20 market cap list could be accurately described as “old school”‚ because most can attribute their success

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    RUNNING HEAD: THE 1950’s AND 1960’s 1 The 1950’s and 1960’s Tracy Ladner Mississippi University for Women History 110 RUNNING HEAD: THE 1950’s AND 1960’s 2 The 1950’s and ‘60’s was a time of great growth and change for America. Some called it “The Golden Age” (Brinkley‚ 2012‚ p.779). For the most part there was prosperity and advances

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    fate in life. In Moby Dick by Herman Melville‚ Ishmael‚ the main character and narrator of the book‚ recounts his adventures aboard the whale ship‚ Pequoud‚ which mainly include chasing a whale called Moby Dick. In Sophie’s World by Jostein Gaarder‚ Alberto Knox encourages Sophie to think about her life philosophically through various examples from history. In East of Eden‚ John Steinbeck follows the life of the Trusk and Hamilton families‚ a basic portrayal of good vs evil‚ and how you can choose

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    Canada`s Contribution to World War II World War II began on September 1st‚ 1939 when Hitler and his German troops led an assault on Poland without a declaration of war. This action finally led Britain and France to declare war on Germany on September 3rd. On September 10th‚ Canada declared war on Germany on its own accord. Canada’s various roles in the war would contribute to their status on the world stage following the tragic war. Canada took part militarily and assisted the Allied war effort

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    The American people have questioned Harry S. Truman’s decision to drop the atomic bomb for years. Some people believe the release of the bomb was beneficial to both parties involved in the war‚ however others believe that it was cruel and unnecessary. Either way the decision was one that caused many people to speculate‚ asking questions such as; did the release of the bomb prevent the death of millions of the Japanese and Americans‚ or was the United States trying to show the Soviet Union how much

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    The world changed to a great extent during the period of time from the 1750’s to the 1900’s. These changes were due to the Scientific Revolution‚ Industrial Revolution and the movement of peoples. During this time frame changes occurred not only in the way people viewed the world but also how they travelled‚ their working and living conditions‚ it allowed them to make new discoveries and opened up many new doors. The Scientific Revolution led to fundamental changes to scientific ideas in mathematics

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    Effects on Same Sex School Does anyone think about what is same sex school? Why any students want to go there? Both single sex school and co-ed school have advantages and disadvantages. If we were parents‚ we would think that which school is better to let children go. Some of them do not care about the issue‚ but it may happen some problems to their children. In other word‚ if parents think about it carefully‚ their children will be successful. Going to same sex schools have had several positive

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    The Role of the S.S. in the Holocaust All along people have said that Hitler did the Holocaust. This statement is not entirely true‚ and it was his soldiers did. They marched under the Nazi orders‚ and exterminated men‚ women‚ and children alike. The SS started out with humble beginnings. They were founded and started by Adolf Hitler himself. They were started with no intent to harm or kill‚ but to protect Hitler and his fellow party members. They had 300 members in the beginning. They

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    experience and it insisted on the freedom and the autonomy of the individual” (Wolf). The philosophy of existentialism‚ and one of its greatest philosophers Jean Paul Sartre‚ were the motivation and inspiration to the arts and humanities during the 1940’s and 1950’s. First allow me to elaborate on the definition of existentialism and France at the start of 1940. Existentialism is a philosophical movement oriented toward two major themes‚ the analysis of human existence and the centrality of human choice

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    Sophie Amundsen is fourteen years old when the book begins‚ living in Norway. She begins a strange correspondence course in philosophy. Every day‚ a letter comes to her mailbox that contains a few questions and then later in the day a package comes with some typed pages describing the ideas of a philosopher who dealt with the issues raised by the questions. Although at first she does not know‚ later on Sophie learns that Alberto Knox is the name of the philosopher who is teaching her. He sends her

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