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    The title of this essay "Silence and the Notion of the Commons" gives the same idea of people as programmable and unprogrammable similar to the idea seen in the Matrix. Whereas programmable people‚ who are the commons‚ are the people inside the matrix they are also known as the sheep‚ the people that believe in everything they are told. The unprogrammable people‚ who are the silence‚ are the people outside of the matrix. Ursula Franklin uses a variety of techniques in order for the audience to fully

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    Comprehensive Project Proposal Regression Application toward Better Management of Construction Project Budgets Objective This project plans to develop a methodology to estimate future projects’ costs and their appropriate contingency reserves for changing prices in constructional projects. Based on the methodology‚ recommendations will be given in order to change Ministry of Construction’s policies that relates to project budgets‚ and how to deal with the current policies if they are not

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    Financial Contingency Planning: Sources of Funding in Hawai ’i Corrections System The increasing population in prisons has called authorities to consider parole because this program reduces caseloads for the parole staff as with small amount of cases‚ it reduces the time utilized on nonviolent criminals and alternately spent more on the offenders with high public safety risk. In addition‚ the parole calls for state to provide staff with appropriate equipment and mandate that enables faster procedures

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    Idealism This article is about the philosophical notion of idealism. For other uses‚ see Idealism (disambiguation) In philosophy‚ idealism is the group of philosophies which assert that reality‚ or reality as we can know it‚ is fundamentally mental‚ mentally constructed‚ or otherwise immaterial. Epistemologically‚ idealism manifests as a skepticism about the possibility of knowing any mind-independent thing. In a sociological sense‚ idealism emphasizes how human ideas — especially beliefs and values

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    Contingency Theory of Leadership The most popular and extensively researched situational theory of leadership was first proposed by Fred Piedler during the 1960s. Fiedler’s model claims that group performance depends on the interaction of the leader style and the favorableness of the situation. Fiedlers major contributions consist of(l) iden-tifying the leadership orientation of the leader and developing a way to measure it‚ and (2) identifying three situational factors influencing leadership

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    STRATEGIC CONTINGENCY PLANNING By Karen Scott-Martinet Fall 2006 The objective of this study was to develop a strategic contingency planning model to be used to fully incorporate emergency management and business continuity into organization structures. (For the purpose of this study‚ Emergency Management and Business Continuity were collectively referred to as “contingency planning.”) Presently‚ contingency planning is mainly done on an operational or tactical level. Current thinking suggests

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    | Definition of contingency(noun) by the Oxford Dictionary noun (plural contingencies) * a future event or circumstance which is possible but cannot be predicted with certainty * examples: a detailed contract which attempts to provide for all possible contingencies * a provision for a possible event or circumstance: stores were kept as a contingency against a blockade * an incidental expense: allow an extra fifteen per cent on the budget for contingencies * [mass noun] the absence

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    Contingency Plans Name HRM/420 Date Contingency Plans PLAN A Facility System Contingency Plan Introduction I decided to choose on a contingency plan for a facility system. The plan would serve as a repository for information that is centralized. It would also cover procedures and tasks necessary in facilitation of facility system’s management decisions. It would also be fundamental in responding to any extended interruption of the normal business of the department in both operations and services

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    Studies Exam 1‚ question 4 Although there are many similarities and connections among Bourdieu’s notion of habitus and Williams’ notions of hegemony and structure of feeling‚ there are also many differences. Through a brief discussion of the three concepts‚ the reasons why hegemony and structure of feeling would seem to challenge habitus‚ rather than support it‚ will become apparent. Bourieu’s notion of habitus is one of a way of organizing everything around a set of assumptions about a place. The

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    6/03/13 Thinking 1. What is a thought? An idea or opinion produced by thinking or occurring suddenly in the mind: "Mrs Oliver’s first thought was to get help”. Thought generally refers to any mental or intellectual activity involving an individual’s subjective consciousness. It can refer either to the act of thinking or the resulting ideas or arrangements of ideas. Similar concepts include cognition‚ sentience‚ consciousness‚ and imagination. 2. What do scientists say? As scientists

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