Two young girls are in critical condition‚ fighting for their lives‚ after being shot in the head in two separate incidents in Chicago this weekend‚ police told CNN. The shootings happened in two different inner city neighborhoods within an hour of each other. Kanari Bowers‚ 12‚ was playing with friends at a playground Saturday evening when shots rang out. Chicago Police said the shooting took place on the 1900 block of W. 57th street at approximately 7:10 p.m. (8:10 p.m. ET). Bowers’
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What went wrong at AIG? Despite US$110 billion in annual sales and assets in excess of US$1 trillion‚ on the 16th of September 2008‚ AIG accepted the Federal Reserve’s US$85 billion rescue package in order to prevent itself from facing a Chapter 11 filing. In exchange‚ AIG had given a 79.9% stake in the company to the government and also the right to suspend dividends previously issued to common stock and preferred equity. In all‚ US$184 billion in shareholder value was wiped out in less than a
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My final choice of topic will be my home town Chicago. I selected Chicago because it has been categorized for so long‚ I would like to try to open many people eyes that it is more to Chicago than violence. I strongly feel that Chicago is one of the most unpopular city by those who have never been and those who has visited as well. This paper is for the general audience anyone who has stereotyped and/or have a negative vibe of Chicago should listen up. I know most of you already are up to date
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The city of Chicago is an amazing place for many tourists to come to any time of the year. “Nearly forty million people visit Chicago annually. Along with forty million tourists‚ Chicago has nearly three million residents who inhabit the streets and sidewalks every morning” (cityofchicago.org‚ p. 1). Street performers‚ salespeople‚ and pedestrians add many distractions to the already unknown area. Also‚ the streets and mirroring shops on every block cause much confusion to a first time tourist of
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‘The Man Who Never Lied” and “The Captain’s Party” the characters The Man is similar to Caleb‚ and The King is similar to Toby in both stories and convey the theme that you have respect people who never lie and only spoke the truth. In both stories‚ the king tried to get the man to lie because he never told a lie. So‚ he left and the man told the king’s wife that he’ll be back one day or the next. So the man told the queen to prepare dinner for both days. Then the king realized that the man really
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Carl Sandburg born January 6‚ 1878‚ was an American poet‚ writer‚ and editor who won three Pulitzer Prizes: two for his poetry and one for his biography of Abraham Lincoln. During his lifetime‚ Sandburg was widely regarded as a major figure in literature‚ especially for volumes of his collected verse‚ including Chicago Poems from 1916‚ Cornhuskers from 1918‚ and Smoke and Steel from 1920. He enjoyed "unrivaled appeal as a poet in his day‚ perhaps because the breadth of his experiences connected him
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For a guy who had just recently got used to waking up at 10 AM‚ and spending the entire day playing soccer and video games‚ it was quite a challenge to wake up at six in the morning and take the metra to downtown by seven. My visit to the Chicago History Museum was an opportunity to discover the wonders of history of one of the biggest cities in the world. The spectacular exhibits from all over Chicago offers a remarkable insight from the era of gangsters and mobs to the era of the city’s becoming
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worker going around finding any place that would hire me so that I could raise money for my living expenses. I tried working at a sushi restaurant‚ tofu restaurant‚ bars‚ pubs‚ liquor stores‚ as a chauffeur service and even as a water store delivery man—all on top of
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I decided to go to a Vietnamese Christian Fellowship at Fall Church. I went to the eleven o’clock service on Sunday. The whole church itself was pretty big. There is the main temple that has the regular service and then there is a whole other building that has separate classrooms where the English service is held and other Sunday school type classes are held. It was just the cross by itself. The scriptures that were read came from the bible. They provided me with a bible there so I could follow along
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1. Do you recommend that G.G. Toys change its existing cost system in the Chicago plant? In the Springfield plant? Why or why not? G.G. Toys should change its existing cost accounting system from traditional costing to activity-based costing (ABC) in the Chicago plant as it is allocating its entire manufacturing overhead on the basis of just one cost driver: production run direct labor cost. Since overhead at the Chicago plant is high‚ accurate cost accounting system is required. Different types
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