Did NUS student get what he deserved for online rant? Debate rages over whether punishment for Sun Xu was adequate Published on Mar 30‚ 2012 FIRST‚ they wanted him punished. But now that the National University of Singapore (NUS) has meted out the punishment to the foreign student who made derogatory comments about Singaporeans‚ the debate has turned to whether justice has been done. Earlier this week‚ Mr Sun Xu was given an official reprimand‚ a $3‚000 fine‚ and an order to do three months
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the provost 3. What did Vayentha picture in her head ? Answer : She pictured the two agents who had been disavowed. 4. What is the famous quote derived from the work of Dante Alighieri ? Answer : The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis. 5. What does Langdon suffer from ? Answer : He suffers from claustrophobia. 6. Who was Ignazio Busoni ? Answer : He is the longtime director of the Museo dell’Opera del Duomo. 7. What is the Hall of
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How did the Constitutional Convention of 1787 and the period immediately following it deal with the issue of the debate between those who supported a strong central government and those who wanted more power given to the states? The Philadelphia Convention was an assembly of the brightest minds of American politics in 1787. Emerging from it was the Constitution of the United States‚ which gave the national government more power‚ but kept them restrained through a system of checks and balances
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1. What areas did you score highest in? Do you believe these are the same areas you would have score high in elementary school? Why or why not? I scored the highest on kinaesthic‚ visual / spatial and intrapersonal portions. No i think that I would of scored lower on those test in elementary school. I think that over the ages I became more 2. What areas did you score lowest in? Do you believe these are the same areas you would have score low in elementary school? Why or
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1. What did King mean by “the need to be maladjusted”? In sum‚ the definition of maladjustment refers to someone who is “failing or unable to cope with the demands of a normal social environment.” In Martin Luther King’s 1963 speech‚ King states that “Now we all should seek to live a well—adjusted life in order to avoid neurotic and schizophrenic personalities. But there are some things within our social order to which I am proud to be maladjusted and to which I call upon you to be maladjusted
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Will Higher Oil Revenue Always Guarantee a Higher Quality of Life? (A study of governance in Oman‚ Saudi Arabia and Nigeria) Department of Economics Trent University Peterborough CANADA. I. Introduction The demand for oil has been increasing exponentially. In 1965‚ the world oil consumption was 31‚095 thousand barrels of oil and in 2009 the world oil consumption was 84‚077 thousand barrels of oil (Simon 2010). The demand for oil has been followed by large revenues
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The GNP was 34% higher in 1936 than in 1932 and 58% higher in 1940 on the eve of war. That is‚ the economy grew 58% from 1932 to 1940 in 8 years of peacetime‚ and then grew 56% from 1940 to 1945 in 5 years of wartime. However‚ the economic recovery did not absorb all the unemployment Roosevelt inherited. Unemployment fell dramatically in Roosevelt’s first term‚ from 25% when he took office to 14.3% in 1937. Afterward‚ however‚ it increased to 19.0% in 1938 (’a depression within a depression’)‚ 17
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Poseidon the sea‚ and Hades the underworld. This worked for a while until Hades no longer like it in the underworld and would like to split the rule of above ground. Hades decided to confront his brothers about his thoughts. Poseidon and Zeus however‚ did not like the idea. For they knew the underworld was the worst place. This started a fight. Poseidon and Zeus eventually won the 2v1 and made Hades go back to the underworld. Hades now knowing that he can’t leave the underworld by himself he asked
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opting out of surveillance work‚ Mr. Snowden embraced the disillusioned employees refashioning themselves as heroic whistle-blowers and so he delivered hundreds of highly classified N.S.A. documents to The Guardian and The Washington Post. So‚ what laws did Edward Snowden break? He is known to have stole information from the Government; therefore the criminal complaint against Snowden cites “Theft of Government Property”‚ “Unauthorized Communication of National Defense Information”‚ and “Willful Communication
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To what extent did Witte’s Policies develop Russia? Sergei Witte was the Minister of Finance in Russia in from 1892 to 1903. He desperately wanted to bring Russia‚ metaphorically‚ ‘out of the dark ages’ by bringing it up to speed‚ so that it would eventually reach a level of modernisation where it could go head to head with the advanced countries further west. He believed Russia first needed to attain capital investment in the industrial sector‚ increase urban workers (Proletariat)‚ attract foreign
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