1st Executive Summary In 1970 congress created the National Railroad Passenger Corporation to provide some of the best passenger rail service provided in the United States. Today‚ National Railroad is looking in to a new line of trains that are much faster and will cut today’s commuting times substantially. However‚ they are facing 3 different options for funding this new acquisition. One of the options is to issue new bonds and therefore borrow the money and purchase these trains. The
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Stereotype Threat in a High Stakes Testing Environment Jennifer J. Krebs Wilkes University Abstract Given the rapidly changing demographics of today’s classrooms combined with the high-stakes testing environment created by the passage of No Child Left Behind‚ it is important to understand potential explanations for the persistence of achievement gaps. Explanations for the achievement gap have included high populations of English Language Learners (ELLs)‚ socioeconomic issues‚ lack of resources
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2nd Draft There are many threats to global food supplies. Explain the problem‚ identity possible solutions‚ and assess the implications of implementing these solutions. Because of the increasing world population and the growth of the environmental problems such as global warming and acid rain‚ global food supplies meet great challenges to feed so many people especially those in economically richer areas wasting foods. A series of problems following food
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Rhetorical Analysis: “New Threat to Skilled U.S. Workers” Froma Harrop is a frequent writer for the Providence Journal‚ who is also known for her progressive views on current issues. Her essay titled “New Threat to Skilled U.S. Workers” was published in the Seattle Times in 2007 in which she is persuading American skilled workers to put a stop to the H-1B program‚ or else they might be left jobless. Due to the fact that she is liberal in her views‚ it is clear why she is enforcing a strong opinion
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what I say at once!” page 3. This quote from the story is one of the he things that Harrison did that makes him a threat to society in the story “Harrison Bergeron” where everyone is equal in the year 2081. Harrison is a threat to the society based in the story. So in this essay I will tell you why Harrison is a threat to Society in the story “Harrison Bergeron”. Harrison is a threat to society because for one he escaped from prison. He also broke into a studio during a live broadcasting and threatened
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National Security: How Working Without Warrants Puts Us At Risk Samantha Schmidt English 112-L04 April 19‚ 2012 National Security: How Working Without Warrants Puts Us at Risk After 9/11‚ the whole country was sent into a tailspin. The fact that the United States‚ one of the most powerful countries worldwide‚ had suffered such a blow was mind blowing. The people were terrified. So too insure that a tragedy of that magnitude never happened again
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Is Global Warming a threat to the Human Population? Global warming has been a lot in the media and most people have probably discussed it and feared it for an amount of years now. In the media‚ Global Warming has been presented as a catastrophic event that will change the world as we know it‚ and have disastrous and horrible effects on us‚ and that it might be our demise. At first‚ scientists believed Global Warming to be a result of too much human activity‚ but as they years have passed and
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National Geographic Cover Features Afghan Girl: In December 1984‚ Afghanistan was five years into a bloody civil war between the Soviet Union‚ which sought to maintain a Marxist government there‚ and anti-government Islamic rebels called mujahedeen. Millions of refugees were pouring over the borders into Pakistan to escape the fighting. National Geographic photographer Steve McCurry was in the region for a story on the refugee crisis. While touring a refugee camp on the Afghanistan-Pakistan
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IN 2003‚ when the Government of India identified 55 districts affected by left-wing extremism (naxalism) across nine States to address the issue of backwardness‚ its decision stemmed from the realisation that people were drawn into naxalism and forced to take up arms in order to meet their socio-economic needs. These districts are in the States of Andhra Pradesh‚ Bihar‚ Chhattisgarh‚ Jharkhand‚ Maharashtra‚ Madhya Pradesh‚ Orissa‚ Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal. The objective was to accelerate
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shambles for years later. This power gave the atomic bomb the title of a weapon of mass destruction. Even though they are one of the newest threats to the world; weapons of mass destruction are the most dangerous and versatile weapons. With many types
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