worlds...To seek out new life; new civilizations...To boldly go where no one has gone before!" Star Trek’s connection to the real world started with its monologue‚ “to boldly go where no one has gone before” (Gene Roddenberry‚ Star Trek: the Original Series)‚ which was taken almost word for word from a 1957 White House booklet on space exploration(Startrek.com). In their 80 episodes‚ the original Star Trek crew beamed themselves on and off the Enterprise‚ traveled at warp speed‚ found new civilizations
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Porter’s model highly focuses on rivalry and profitability but has some major limitations that have many organizations consistently reevaluating their strategic plans. Porter indirectly rebutted the assertions of other forces‚ by referring to innovation‚ government‚ and complementary products and services as "factors" that affect the five forces (Porter‚ 2008). He assumed that his model will allow markets to stay fairly stable‚ not taking into account brisk technological advances or increasing competition
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What is power? Power is having strength and being forceful‚ physically applying your strength to another individual. In order to become powerful‚ steps are always considered‚ you aren’t powerful with a blink of an eye‚ you have to start from scratch‚ being powerless. One of the fundamental expectations underlying this premise is the capacity or ability to direct or influence behaviour of others or the course of events. Power can be gained or lost. Both central protagonists from Frank Darabonts Shawshank
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Terri Simmons Online Class The Pullman Strike George Pullman started out with humble beginnings and although he denied having dreams; he had vision. The vision was to make travel in rail cars more comfortable which would benefit not just the avid traveler but himself as well.
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Roman Empire and Mongolian Empire The key to the Mongolian success lied in their excellent horsemanship‚ their use of the composite bow‚ their unimaginable discipline and communication on the battlefield and also their ability to adapt to enemy tactics. The Mongolian invasion of China often makes it sound as though these nomadic people did not have much of a battle plan‚ however it is the exact opposite according to (Conant‚ 1994) “Genghis Khan was a very cautious man‚ and would study the towns
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of £2500. Because of the outbreak of war in 1939‚ the Ds could not get enough tenants and in 1940 the Cs agreed in writing to reduce the rent to £1250. When the war ended in 1945 all the flats were occupied and the Cs sued to recover the arrears of rent as fixed by the 1937 agreement for the last two quarters of 1945. Held; [High Court] Denning J that Cs were entitled to recover this money as their promise to accept only half was intended to apply during war conditions. (This is the ratio decidendi
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How To Write a Critical Paper Ask Four Basic Questions as You Read: 1) What is the book/story/poem/chapter about as a whole? Question to consider in description 2) What is the author saying about the food in detail‚ and how is it said? Question to consider in interpretation 3) Is it true‚ in whole or in part? Question to consider in criticism 4) What is the significance of the work? Question for the 4th parrt ELEMENTS OF A CRITICAL PAPER The following is a general structure to follow for
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Feared Empire. The Mongols are arguably the best conquerors the world has ever seen. Through brutal military tactics and intimidating physiological warfare‚ they were capable of building the greatest land empire that the world has ever seen. The empire not only was fierce and cruel but they also brought about the rival of Silk Road trading which helped lead to their people to great economic prosperity. The Conrad-Demarest Model of an empire is a basic guideline that all of the empires are said
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Three strikes raises important questions about how sentencing laws need to achieve public safety. How are such laws made? Who do they target? And why did Michael Reynolds and Mark Klaas start out as allies and end up as bitter political rivals. Over the last two decades (1980-2000)‚ the US prison population has increased 450%. California has led the nation in prison growth since the early 1980s‚ and it incarcerated a higher percentage of its population than any nation on earth by 1994. The same
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The Mayan empire was a pre-Columbian civilization located in Central America near the Mexico - Guatemala border. These geniuses lived about 500 -600 years B.Sc. They developed technology that rivaled the masterminds of that era in the Eurasian continent. There is evidence that leads to running water‚ sewer systems and the concept of 0 which did not come to existence in the old world hundreds of years later. This empire was all about religion‚ their gods‚ and human sacrifice. Since there was an
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