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Los Angeles Times Secondhand Smoke
1,064 wordsIn 1998, Drew Carey held a sit-in because of the smoking ban in the California bars. Even though Drew is not a smoker, he smoked that night and called the ban stupid. Three years ago, California enacted a state law that forbade smoking in bars and other work areas for the sake of the employees. Drew felt "It should be up to each bar owner and patron to decide if they want to smoke or not. Drew Carey was not cited by police for the incident, but the owner, Irwin Held, was. Held said, "It's smokin...
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Good Idea Great Deal
3,034 words... ly carry the density and length of coat as a male, and her personality will generally be more sensitive and laid-back. Females will come into season approximately every 6 months and will need to be confined for 2 - 3 weeks during this time. If you are not planning on breeding your female, you should consider spaying her to avoid this inconvenience and to prevent any unwanted breeding. The male Australian Shepherd will usually stand 20 - 23 inches and will weigh around 50 - 65 pounds. As with...
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Commentary On Life Had Stood A Loaded Gun
516 wordsEmily Dickinson's poem is an allegory, which on the symbolic level, the Gun represents the poet and the Master represents the person or soul mate that was meant to be the poet. The speaker in the poem is clearly the Gun this is clear in the second stanza when the speaker says And every time I speak for Him -- / The Mountains straight reply I stands for the Gun. This is also a personification because the Gun is being attributed human traits. The poem begins My Life had stood Loaded Gun -- This li...
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Brave New World Winston And Julia
1,051 wordsFrom the very beginning Winston and Bernard make them enemies of their society. These characters risk their lives to try and recapture what we take for granted today. Winston and Bernard try to keep their individuality and recapture through their jobs, and the way they live. Both 1984 and Brave new World show us that we must be careful to protect our ideas and way of life. Through the two main characters, Winston and Bernard, the authors show the readers that once tyranny takes hold reality and ...
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Corporate Governance Corporate Responsibility
210 wordsthe aim of Corporate Governance Policy of CalPERS is to help the companies it invests into to find balance between increasing profits and running fair business, desire to get more profit in short term and thinking about long-term development, i. e. a balance between corporate responsibility and irresponsibility. And, of course, not to forget about own profits to be able to provide guarantees expected by its participants. Corporate governance is simply an enhancement technique that we use to impr...
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Point Of View Matter Of Time
2,588 wordsCase Study (1) In chapter Balzar Wars of his book Paris to Moon, Adam Gopnik discuses the commercialization of restaurant business as such that has a negative affect the public image of Paris and France, as a whole. In 1998, the Balzar restaurant, which used to be owned by representatives of the same family since 1894, was being purchased by French restaurant tycoon Jean-Claude Bucher, for the purpose of giving it a chain-operated status. Gopnik complains that the change of restaurants ownership...
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000 Per Year Transaction Costs
1,618 words... the lowest cost avoider will be the part able to reduce damages or the risks of damages at a lowest cost (Brealey & Myers, 1996). As the assumption is that both parties involved in situation can undertake specific actions to prevent damages, it becomes obvious that a Pigou tax could result in significantly worse outcome. For example, it can be assumed that the steel maker is taxed $ 250, 000 per year for the use of his current inefficient steel production methods. In this case, if the steel ...
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California Public Employees Retirement System Corporate Governance Policy
737 wordsCalifornia Public Employees Retirement System corporate governance policy CalPERS strongly believes that each market throughout the world should adopt corporate governance principles that are appropriate for that market. Ideally, these principles should be developed by the markets participants themselves, through cooperative action and consensus What is CalPERS? The California Public Employees Retirement System manages pension and health benefits for more than 1, 4 million California Public empl...
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Free Agencies In Baseball
2,028 wordsFree Agencies in Baseball Introduction Many who have studied the history of American baseball believe that the Reserve Clause has been ineffective and that changes are made for the best. The Reserve Clause was considered as the kind of slavery for baseball players, and the players received more freedom when it was abolished. Actually, it was the antithesis of free agency, a paragraph in each player's contract that allowed a baseball team to keep him indefinitely until he was sold, traded or rele...
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Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Brave New World
2,396 wordsA Comparison Contrast of A Brave New World and 1984 Although many similarities exist between Aldous Huxley's A Brave New World and George Orwell's 1984, the works books though they deal with similar topics, are more dissimilar than alike. A Brave New World is a novel about the struggle of Bernard Marx, who rejects the tenants of his society when he discovers that he is not truly happy. 1984 is the story of Winston who finds forbidden love within the hypocrisy of his society. In both cases, the m...
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Small Businesses Hard Working
991 wordsAcct. Term Paper Cash Out In an October 1998 issue of Fortune Magazine in the finance section, an article entitled Cash Out on Your Own Terms speaks about a relatively old concept refined for a new market. In the centuries past, wealthy landowners would allow working farmers to live and work on their land and tend the crops and cattle for a portion of the goods and maybe a portion of the profit. The farmer was happy because he didnt have enough money to buy his own land yet he could still do wha...
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Hazardous Waste Held Liable
483 wordsWho Is Responsible For Cleanup Under CERCLA? What is CERCLA? The Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLThe purpose of CERCLA is to make owners and operators of hazardous waste dump sites and contaminated areas, as well as their customers, responsible for cleanup costs and property damage. 2) CERCLA is also referred to as THE SUPERFUND. It is authorized to a level of 8. 5 billion dollars. The funding for CERCLA comes 87 % from taxes on the chemical industry a...
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Trade Secrets Intellectual Property
980 wordsLike it or not, engineers are now responsible for much of the success of a product. You can expect this trend to continue in the electronics industry, so engineers must become more involved with documenting and promoting the protection of intellectual property (IP) associated with a given product. Intellectual property includes, among other things, designs, software listings, manufacturing techniques, and testing procedures. Engineers need to think more about how they can help protect IP by usin...
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Shawn Fanning Limp Bizkit
3,009 wordsIs trading digital music using Napster Online legal or copyright infringement? First, we must find out what Napster is and who created it. Napster is a combination of? the features of existing programs: the instant-messaging system of Internet Relay Chat, the file-sharing functions of Microsoft Windows and the advanced searching and filtering capabilities of various search engines? (Greenfield). Basically all it is, is a really cool little program that a person can download off of the internet f...
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Don T Make Humane Society
1,888 wordsDogs chomp on more than four million people a year. Don? ? t be one of them. Dog bites on the rise Megan Bogers of La Belle, Pa. , returned from shopping with her mother and ran into the yard to greet the family pet, a part-cocker mutt named Blaze. Seconds later, her mom, Elena Bogers, heard a snap and then shrieks from three-year-old Megan. There was blood all over her face from tooth punctures under an eye and around her mouth, she recalls. Elena and her husband rushed their sobbing child to a...
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Plantation Owner Upper Class
1,048 wordsThesis: Feudalism Feudalism Thesis: Feudalism was a bust because it started a way of putting things into classes and that way of life has continued until today. The reason that classifying things was and still is incorrect is because the guidelines for the classifications might not be pleasing to all those affected by the different levels in society. Feudalism was not just a system that was practiced in Europe, but also in Japan and China while similar organization was followed in Africa and als...
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Sylvia Plath Phrase Quot
2,767 wordsMargaret Dickie " The Arrival of the Bee Box" is more positive about this " clean wood box" that would be a coffin except for the " din" within, " the swarm feeling. " The owner wonders what would happen if she freed the bees; " I am no source of honey/ So why should they turn on me? " She resolves to set them free tomorrow. In the box imagery, with its rampant life, Plath begins to develop a familiar situation in her poetry: inner turmoil and ou...
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Husband And Wife Important To Note
3,505 wordsThe Kiwi Papuans of British New Guinea This paper discusses the Kiwi Papuans of British New Guinea, as described in The Kiwi Papuans of British New Guinea, published by MacMillan and Co. in 1970. Anthropologists Gunnar Landtman, P. H. D. , lived among them in April 1910 to April 1912, in order to study their anthropology and sociology. The majority of the Kiwi Papuans inhabit the large island of Kiwai, which is about 50 kilometers long and 5 kilometers wide. In addition to Kiwai, they inhabit ce...
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Middle Class Class People
830 wordsMedieval cities kept old traditions, opinions, and ideas from their birth but times were changing, population was increasing and expansion of trade was taking place. Yet people of authority did not see the value of this change and were stubborn to fix the ways they went about things to fit this new era. Authorities defended their old traditions not so much for their own best interests but rather they did not want the way things were run to be changed in fear that society as a whole would be dest...
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Justice Was A Compromise Justice In Plato Knife
596 wordsJustice in Plato vs. Justice in Aristotle Usually when you hear that someone is a teacher you tend to believe that the ideas of his or her pupils would be somewhat similar to those in his or her teachings. Often enough the student decides to take what he or she learns from his teacher and expands or even opposes his teachers ideas. Aristotle was a student of the often imitated, never paralleled, philosopher, Plato. Although under the tutelage of Plato for over nineteen years and teaching at the ...
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