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    How many people died on the Titanic? The Royal Mail Steamer (RMS) Titanic built by the White Star Company in the UK and owned by American tycoon‚ J.P Morgan met its fate while on its maiden voyage to New York when it struck an iceberg and sank two hours later in the early morning of April 15‚ 1912‚ in the Northern Atlantic. A total of 2224 people boarded this ship during its sail and a sum of 1514 people perished with it. The name Titanic‚ a Greek methodology means gigantic and it took a total of

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    lot of companies will make ads so they can get their name and product out there. It is very common that big name companies such as‚ Tide‚ Doritos‚ Amazon‚ and Budweiser make commercials to air during the game every year. A Super Bowl ad has cost around $5 million dollars the last 3 years. Every single second of a Super Bowl commercial costs $170‚000 Dollars. This means that Amazon paid around $15 million dollars to air their “Alexa” ad for 90 seconds.

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    Why do so many projects fail

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    INVESTOR NEWSLETTER ISSUE N°3 IT SHOULD BE DELIVERED ONLINE TRAINING THE WAY HTTP://WWW.4PM.COM FALL 2007 Why Do So Many Projects Fail? Dick Billows‚ PMP ProjectPedia Change control Charter Estimating Lessons Learned People Skills Planning/Scope Presentations Requirements Risk Scheduling Status Reports What do PMs do Work breakdown WBS CERTIFICATION Associate PM IT/IS Project Manager Consulting PM Healthcare PM Business PM PMP Professional PM All Courses

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    Why So Many Foreigners Join Jihadists? Wang Zixuan 201201228 Mon 13:30 The Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) is a jihadist group based on al-Qaeda in Iraq‚ formed in April 2013. It has become one of the main jihadist groups fighting government forces in Syria and Iraq. Its leader is Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi‚ who joined the rebellion that erupted in Iraq after the US-led invasion in 2003. Its original aim was to establish a caliphate in the Sunni-majority regions of

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    Jamestown was one of the first attempts to establish a colony by the English settlers. The key word in the previous sentence: attempts. This word implies that the feat attempted was not a success‚ and in this case‚ the implication is quite correct. Jamestown failed because of severely strained Indian relations over resource supplies‚ an almost absolute lack of planning‚ which is a result of insufficient leadership‚ and environmental issues including lack of reliable water sources. Jamestown failed

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    The colonists who came to the New World all have a similar quality. They all used slavery in one way or another to achieve their goals. The colonists would depend on other people or groups in order to sustain a suitable lifestyle the choose. This is why so many colonists thought that working the slaves and indentured servants and giving them very austere living conditions was morally correct. Also‚ the government is a Democracy so since the majority of the people are colonists‚ the government

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    food‚ and shelter poor colonists also known as indentured servants agreed to work for the colonists for 4-7 years. Joint stock companies invested their wealth in support of sending people to the New World‚ their hope was to yield a profit in return. The Virginia Company sent over 150 passengers for the first voyage in April of the year 1607. The Virginia Company was a stock company that created to establish settlements in the New World by King James I . Another reason why settlers came to the new

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    Jamestown was a small colony situated on an island in the James River. The Jamestown colony was on a course to fail from the beginning due to the poor location‚ lacking leadership and ill prepared people‚ and deadly conflicts with the natives. Colonists began arriving at the first permanent English colony in 1607‚ the first group consisted of 110 settlers of various backgrounds.(Doc C) Jamestown’s location on an island was a rather poor decision for many reasons. One of which was the lack

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    Shannon Springstead Honors US History 1 09/09/13 Jamestown Jamestown settlement was the first successful establishment when the 13 colonies on North America were founded. In 1606‚ King James I sent a charter known as the First Charter of Virginia to the Virginia Company in order to assign land rights to colonists. By assigning land rights‚ King James I had a better grip on propagating the Anglican Religion to the settlers. He also had the intentions of rectifying other countries from

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    Why So Many People Eat Junk Food Lonny Sometimes people are very curious about why so many enjoy eating junk food even when they already know the detriment of junk food and it’s damage for health. Perhaps because of the convenience‚ junk food tastes delicious or because people finish the working whole day‚ they are too tired to cook. Also even someone might be too lazy to move a little bit‚ just clicking mouse and devouring delicious food that

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