countries. According to Huntington‚ a country can be consider a democracy if “ its most powerful collective decision-makers are selected through fair‚ honest and periodic elections in which candidates clearly compete for votes and in which virtually all the adult population is eligible to vote”. Thus‚ Venezuela can be considered as a democratic country because it fulfills these requirements. To begin with‚ the country has periodic elections. The president is elected every six years; congressmen
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“The Machine is Us/ing Us” is a short video created by Michael Wesch. The video reveals how technology has advanced throughout the years and how it has affected our daily lives. As displayed in the video in the beginning‚ about how he writes in paper and shows how difficult it is to do the things that we can do digitally way more easier and faster. Later in the video‚ it shows how easy it is to change texts digitally and how hypertexts can be linked and shared with the entire world. This is something
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from England" . The infamous Boston Tea Party in 1773 would result from the tax on tea‚ and the continuous conflicts escalated to a war about a year and a half later. Saving the contents of the war for the rest of the paper‚ the colonists‚ against all odds‚ managed to defeat the British and maintain their independence they established during the war. The answer to "How were the Americans able to fight their way to victory?" is still debated over today. Many historians claim that the
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greatest inventors of all time. He invented many objects including: the Bifocals‚ Lightning Rod‚ The Franklin Stove‚ Swim Fins and much more. One of his most famous discoveries was electricity. Franklin began working on electricity after he heard a lecture about it in Scotland in 1743. Five years later he sent a letter over it to the Royal Society. In 1751‚ he published his book of his electrical current experiments in England called Experiments and Observations of Electricity. Before Franklin started
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Coradella Collegiate Bookshelf Editions. Around the World in 80 Days. Jules Verne. Open Contents Jules Verne. Around the World in 80 Days. About the author Jules Verne (February 8‚ 1828 March 24‚ 1905) was a French writer and a pioneer of the science fiction (scientific romance) genre. Verne was born in Nantes to attorney Pierre Verne and his wife Sophie. The oldest of the family’s five children‚ he spent his early years at home with his parents‚ on a nearby island in the Loire River
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after only 18 months in the position‚ due to his inability to turn around the financial hemorrhaging at the Duracell division. Suppose it is 2001 and you are a business consultant. James Kilt‚ the newly hired CEO of Gillette‚ hires you to write a 3-page and double-spaced consulting report for him. Considering what had cost his predecessor’s job‚ Mr. Kilt asks you to provide recommendations on the question: “How to turn around the Duracell division?” Grading Criteria: Your response to the
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Mount Vernon and I wouldn ’t miss that for all the tea in China.” He and Thomas Jefferson were two founders of marijuana‚ they farmed and dealt the plant in the early 1850 ’s for economical reasons. They had three primary farms in Virginia. Washington used some of what he produced to create hemp clothing to be worn by his slaves‚ Jefferson cultivated hemp for recreational consumption‚ according to Washington ’s diary. Marijuana has never been legalized in all the fifty states‚ even though marijuana
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Types of Soccer Strikers around the World Striking in soccer is not an easy job that every single player can do. That is why there are two or three strikers in each team. They are who score against the opposing team and lead the team to win. Today players are becoming more creative with their ways to score because strikers can dribble more and try to make goals different. Most strikes do not find free kicks and penalties as a good way to score because these are when the ball is not moving.
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2. The plaintiff the United States of America (U.S.) is suing the defendant Burlington Northern Railway / Shell Oil Co. over its participation in creating a significant contamination of soil and groundwater at the Brown & Bryant‚ Inc. (B & B) agricultural chemical distribution business. The plaintiff is requesting that the defendant is responsible for a portion of the cleanup cost because the defendant was a Potential Responsible Party (PRP) under the Comprehensive Environmental Response‚ Compensation
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