Chapter 1 Outline What Americans Think about Government 1. Americans historically have been reluctant to grant government too much power and have often been suspicious of politicians‚ but they have also turned to government for assistance in times of need and have strongly supported the government in periods of war. 2. Political efficacy is the belief that citizens can affect what government does. In recent decades‚ the public’s trust in government has declined. As public distrust of government
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Chapter 3— Rooms Division Operations Functions and Departments of a Hotel The primary function of a hotel is to provide lodging accommodations A hotel is comprised of several businesses of revenue centers Hotels exist to provide service and to generate a profit for the owners Management Structure Management structure differs among larger‚ midscale and smaller properties Someone must be responsible for each of the key result areas that make the operation successful -Ex: a small
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Chapter 20: DNA Technology Biotechnology: Use of living organisms to perform tasks. * Wine & cheese * Selective breeding * Antibiotic production * Recombinant DNA Restriction Enzymes * Bacterial enzymes: cut up foreign DNA * Specific: only but at recognition sequences * Palindromic: cut at the same base sequence on each strand‚ but in the opposite direction * The exposed bases provide “sticky ends” * H-bond to compliment bases of segments cut with same restriction
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Chapter 12 Notes Rebuilding the Imperial Edifice in the Sui-Tang Era p 267 * Splinter states fought for the control of China in the centuries after the fall of the Han * Yang Jian was a member of a prominent northern Chinese noble family that had been active in these contests * Yang Jian struck a marriage alliance with his daughter and the ruler of the northern Zhou empire * The Zhou monarch had recently defeated several rivals‚ which united much of northern China * Yang Jian
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Notes from Stearns’ text book World Civilization 1:1 The Neolithic Revolution (10-13) • Farming initially developed in the Middle East‚ the Fertile Crescent. Grains such as barley and wild wheat were abundant. Also‚ not heavily forested‚ and animals were in short supply‚ presenting a challenge to hunters. 10‚000 BCE to 8‚000 BCE. Notice: it took thousands of years for this “revolution” so not fast but profound for history. Agriculture was hard for many hunting and gathering peoples to
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Chapter 7 (14th) The Road to Revolution 1. The Deep Roots of Revolution 1. And‚ those American colonists were growing independent. 1. The Americans felt separated from England; they felt as though they were the cutting edge of the British Empire. 2. The Americans were developing their own brand of politics. 1. The Americans were embracing republicanism‚ that is a society where citizens elect representatives to govern for them. 2. The "radical Whigs" of England influenced American thinking. They
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Chapter 20: The Immune System The immune system has two intrinsic systems: 1. Innate (nonspecific) defense system 2. Adaptive (specific) defense system The immune system is a functional system rather than structural; there are no specific immune system organs Pathogen: a disease-causing agent; anything foreign in our body that causes disease Three lines of defense: 1st: external barriers 2nd: several non-specific defense mechanisms 3rd: immunity‚ specific resistance to disease
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Chapter 31: Agency Formation and Duties • Agency – a relationship between two parties in which one party (the agent) agrees to represent or act for the other party (the principal) Section 1: Agency Relationships • The Restatement (Second) or Agency (an authoritative summary of the law of agency) defines agencies as fiduciary relationships • Fiduciary – (adj) involving trust and confidence • Agency relationships commonly exist between employers and employees • Agency relationships can also
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Chapter 28: The Liberal Era‚ 1960-1968 A New Beginning: Nixon-Kennedy televised debates made voters choose Kennedy: chose Lyndon Johnson as VP‚ got Catholic votes JFK won and promised a “new frontier” to get America moving again--won in ’61 Kennedy’s Domestic Record: JFK’s major policies included: Boost defense budget—nuclear weapons‚ military‚ and “Green Berets” to do guerrilla warfare “Race to the Moon” Cut in corporate taxes Anti-pesticide warnings and Clean Air Act—regulating automotive/industrial
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Jamie comes home one night‚ to find his mother is gone. He sees a figure in his house (Alexandru Rusmanov) who attempts to kill him‚ however he is stopped by Victor Frankenstein. Frankenstein takes him to the Loop‚ and Jamie is adamant about finding his mother. Jamie recruits Larissa Kinley‚ a teenage vampire in the cells of the Loop‚ to help them‚ however Frankenstein does not approve as he hates all vampires. Jamie‚ Larissa and Frankenstein go to the house of the Chemist‚ a vampire making the drug
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