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    Brief 1 Rent the Runway

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    Decision and Background: Jennifer Hyman and Jennifer Fleiss‚ positioned separately as CEO and president for Rent the Runway‚ should decide whether to raise a new funding round ahead of schedule as well as whether to expand their business in new direction‚ delivering women’s dreams instead of just value and convenience. The company is measured nearly breakeven in first year assuming to grow steadily. Based on feedbacks from customers‚ the demand is strong on styling advice as younger women‚ RTR’s

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    Introduction In the last hundred years‚ life expectancy doubled and many deadly illnesses were eradicated. The world would be a better place to live‚ had the astonishing scientific discoveries not been devalued with building the atomic bomb an invention that can destroy life on earth in an instant. Fredrick Soddy‚ who together with Ernest Rutherford discovered in 1901 that radioactivity involved the release of energy‚ described an atomic future in which humanity could transform a desert continent

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    Irène Némirovsky was born in Kiev‚ Ukraine in Feburary 11‚ 1903. When her family moved to France she attended Sorbonne and began writing at age 18. Her first published work was David Golder about a Jewish banker and his troubled daughter. Irene soon became one of the youngest and most successful authors in France. She had converted to catholicism in 1939 but her Jewish linage was not ignored. Irene and her husband were forced to wear the yellow star. When the Nazies got hold of Paris they fled to

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    In 1737‚ on January twenty-ninth‚ Thomas Paine was born in England to a quaker father and an Anglican mother (Philip). Paine was said to be baptized into the Anglican church‚ his mother’s religion (Philip). However‚ his father’s religion greatly impacted him to become a humanitarian ("Thomas Paine"). A humanitarian is a person who encourages or supports human welfare. This fueled his detestation of governments that promoted hereditary privileges ("Thomas Paine"). Paine received little education

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    Fredrick Douglass formerly known as Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey was a very important African American human rights leader in the United States during the 19th century. During his lifespan‚ Fredrick Douglass made a name for himself with his support of the anti-slavery movement and gained world-renowned fame because of his inspiring speeches of past experiences and important autobiographies. Fredrick Douglass was born into a family of slavery during February of 1818 in Talbot County‚ Maryland;

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    Part of life is having to overcome some very difficult things like death or even life. Buck had sold into the doggy workforce and having to overcome with the cold weather and the ruff life style of having to live to the snow. Tina had to overcome having to live in a trailer house out in the country with no friends anywhere around her and without a father‚ he is not there to teach her they right and the wrong. Both Buck and Tina had some bad things in their life but neither of them gave up on what

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    Jimmy Carter was born on October 1st‚ 1924. He was born and raised in Georgia where he also attended college. He was the 39th president. Carter was a Baptist and his parents where very religious. Carter has three sons: john‚ James and Donnel. Carter was married to Rossalynn. Carter attended Georgia southwestern college and later in the navy became a submariner. Also‚ carter attending Union College. After the death of his father he returned to take care of his mother. He became a community leader

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    Just War PHI 208 Dr. David Tredinnick May 5‚ 2014 Just War War is an organized and often prolonged conflict that is carried out by states or non-state actors. It is characterized by extreme violence‚ social disruption and economic destruction. War should be understood as an actual‚ intentional and widespread-armed conflict between political communities‚ and‚ therefore‚ is defined as a form of political violence or intervention. The set of techniques used by a

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    Halle Berry was born in Ohio in 1966‚ and has become a very famous actress in the United States. Here are some little known facts about the celebrity. Check back for part two of our list‚ coming soon. Number Fifteen: Early Life Her father was a hospital attendant and her mother was a nurse specializing in psychiatry. She has an older sister as well. Once her parents divorced‚ her and her sibling were raised by only their mother. Number Fourteen: She Suffered Discrimination She went to a school

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    Hypatia of Alexandria was Born in Alexandria Egypt around 370 ad‚daughter of theon who had been a professor at University of Alexandria‚she was born into the educated life. Hypatia had been a mathematician and also a greek philosopher of her time.Furthermore she had been later described as a beautifully and well-proportioned Woman later after her death. Historical events of Hypatia in her life was that she was first women to make a substantial contribution to the development of mathematics

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