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    Canadian Club Whisky

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    Group 4 Chu‚ Murray‚ Victor & Walkowski CC Research Proposal Due: 9/4/14 Canadian Club Whisky Purpose: The purpose of the research is to explore and understand consumer appeal and adoption of Canadian Club. In order to accurately propose how to re-energize the brand‚ we plan to examine why Canadian Club is such a popular whisky amongst older age groups‚ and look at what led to the continuous decline in sales of the once prominent whisky brand. Background:   Canadian Club has experienced declining

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    Prohibition In The 1920's

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    result of a widespread temperance movement during the 20th century‚ Prohibition was difficult to enforce and people would go through extreme lengths just to get their hands on alcohol. The illegal production and sale of liquor‚ the proliferation of speakeasies‚ and the rise in gang violence and other crimes went way up. This led to waning support for Prohibition at the end of the 1920’s. Both federal‚ and local government struggled to enforce Prohibition. The enforcement of alcohol was initially assigned

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    The prohibition era was the period in the US when the manufacture‚ sale and transportation of liquor were banned. To completely eliminate alcohol from society was always going to be an impossible task due to the limited amounts of prohibition officers and the easy manner in which illegal alcohol could be made and old‚ so in that aspect of its ambition it failed. However it was able to reduce alcoholism‚ and as a result of prohibition fewer arrests for drunkenness were recorded. With those thoughts

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    Programming languages

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    Shari Smith Marie Baker Matthew Reece Unit 1 Research Assignment 1: Exploring Programming Languages Computers don’t do anything without someone telling them what to do‚ much like the average teenager. To make the computer do something useful‚ you must give it instructions in either of the following two ways: Write a program that tells a computer what to do‚ step by step‚ much as you write out a recipe. Buy a program that someone else has already written that tells the computer what to do.

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    Impact Of The Jazz Age

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    poetry‚ a type of poetry that imitates jazz-like rhythms and improvisation. Jazz led to dance crazes such as the Charleston‚ a dance named after the South Carolina town of Charleston. Young people danced dances such as the Charleston in clubs or speakeasies which which were illicit nightclubs that sold alcohol‚ which was illegal in this time period. Jazz culture was not only prevalent in America but it also reached the European continent‚ especially the country of France. The

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    and also went to speakeasies which were secretive bars. In big cities gangsters tried to control the alcohol market by committing fierce and violent crimes to control there turf which was called "turf wars"(“1920’s

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    Prohibition During the 1920’s to early 30’s the Eighteenth Amendment was established to end the production of alcohol in the United States. This was a fourteen year long reform that caused a rise of crime and violence in America. Many passed this Amendment thinking that many would benefit from the absence of alcohol. For example The Anti-Saloon League of America. This was an organization that originated in Oberlin‚ Ohio in 1893 and believed in temperance. Their goal in the 1900s was to rid America

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    The prohibition lead to places called speakeasies. Speakeasies were places where people could go to get alcohol illegally. Not only did they sell alcohol‚ they had ballrooms and stages for musicians. Many jazz musicians came to speakeasies to play their music which highly helped in the spread of jazz. It became popular and more and more people wanted it. Chicago and New York became the places

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    languages created? • BLISS‚1970 • KRL‚ 1971 • Sue‚ 1971 • CDL‚ 1971 • Smalltalk‚ 1972 1980 Who was the creator of each of these languages? 1970‚ 1971‚ 1972 • CBASIC‚ Gordon Eubanks‚ 1980 IBM BASICA‚ Microsoft‚ 1981 • Speakeasy-IV‚ Stanley Cohen‚ at Speakeasy Computing Corporation‚ 1982 • Draco‚ Chris Gray‚ 1982 • PostScript‚ Warnock‚ 1982 • GW-BASIC‚ Microsoft‚ 1983 When was each of these languages created?1981‚ 1982‚ 1983 1990 Who was the creator of each of these languages

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    Prohibition Led to the Rapid Growth of Organized Crime Prohibition was a period in which the sale‚ manufacture‚ or transport of alcoholic beverages became illegal. It started January 16‚ 1919 and continued to December 5‚ 1933. Although it was designed to stop drinking completely‚ it did not even come close. It simply created a large number of bootleggers who were able to supply the public with illegal alcohol. Many of these bootleggers became very rich and influential through selling alcohol

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