As students began to realize the severity and dangerous nature of what was transpiring they began to flee the cafeteria and running into the west wing of the high school building where many of the classrooms and library was located. ... The boys also shot out the windows in the library and shot at students running for rescue injuring two students. ... The Red Cross along with first responders and school personnel should try to relocate students to a secure location such as the nearest school and set up identification procedures for parents and students. ... Denver is viewed as one of the most...

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The statistics from this source will help us draw conclusions on whether the population of a country affects the amount of electricity used and if our prediction that the population of a country affects the amount of electricity used per year, with the larger countries using more and smaller countries using less is correct. ... However, we also had valid points on how some of the larger countries are considered developing countries, and people wouldn't be able to afford luxuries like electricity, as they do not even have running water. We eventually hypothesized that the population of a c...

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A question running through many people's minds is if globalization is a threat or an opportunity. ... People of various countries have different customs as well as technological advances. ... Countries are having difficulty keeping up with the high paced economy due to lack of technology, resources, and capital. ... Therefore, they will remain as "third world countries;" uninvolved in the world around them. ... Globalization has transformed the world from an era of cross-cultural exchange to mass production. ...

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This would give all the countries involved a necessary alternative to the Russian supply routes - and it would become the fourth most dynamic energy corridor for Europe. ... As Nabucco is a grandiose project in terms of investment and politics involved, the study will try to show the extend of Turkey's ability to handle such a big project by taking a look at the currently running BTC pipeline as a case study where there is relatively more published work available such as Akiner, Starr and Cornell and Winrow21. ...

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Over the past eight years, the number of software companies and jobs in this country has doubled. ... One particular situations with Sun Microsystems and the government allege that Microsoft saw Java's cross-platform capabilities as a threat to the popularity of its Windows operating system, and tried to sabotage the technology. ... James Gosling, the inventor of Java, admitted in his testimony that Sun's "write once, run anywhere" promise of complete cross-platform compatibility is nothing more than a marketing term. ... While Sun failed to deliver on Java's "write once and ...

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Israel's Defense Minister Ehud Barak is the loudest proponent for attacking Iran, arguing that they have crossed the "zone of immunity" and will soon be producing uranium from a site that cannot be attacked (Sanger). ... Officials pointed out that Iran has enough uranium now to keep a reactor running for years, but they have not yet stopped production (Sanger). ... Additionally, he pointed out that the United States is the only country to date to actually use nuclear weapons and that Israel possesses their own secret stash (Sanger). "A bitter irony of our era is that the US government,...

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The Canadian Red Cross is one of the foundations that did so (Canadian Red Cross, 2012). The Canadian Red Cross Foundations mission is to help improve the lives of vulnerable people by mobilizing the power of humanity in Canada as well as around the world (Canadian Red Cross, 1999). After Hurricane Sandy took place, volunteers with the Canadian Red Cross began to give assistance to the individuals in other countries who needed it (Canadian Red Cross, 2012). Volunteers travelled in order to care for individuals who had to reside in shelters, as well travelled around affected areas delivering w...

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In other words, Japanese Americans were willing to die fighting for their country just like any other Americans. ... During World War II, the unit fought well against the Axis powers by taking out 409 planes and 950 ground units, sinking a battleship and running more than 200 bomber escort missions. The unit earned three Unit Citations, one Silver Star, 96 Flying Crosses, 14 Bronze Stars, 744 Air Medals and eight Purple Hearts after winning numerous battles and being the only unit to not suffer a single casualty (Tuskegee Airmen). ... On the contrary, if the government simply allow minority Am...

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As a result of this act, the Federal Radio Commission was created to organize adequately and promote regulation throughout the country. ... Without these restrictions, there would be an excessive imbalance in power and influence, thus eventually resulting in Sprint and T-Mobile running out of business. ... For example, Republican and subcommittee chairman, Greg Walden, challenged the FCC on the rule towards media cross-ownership. The media cross-ownership rule makes it where companies or business are limited to owning multiple media outlets in the same network or station. ...

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Ethnocentrism could appear both on the managerial aspect of running hotels or on the operational aspect (non-managerial staff). ... Staff behavior changes according to their individual cultures and according to the culture of the country they work in. for example, an American working in Russia cannot expect to be given the same amount of information as he would be given in the US, so he must become more interrogative and less diplomatic in his relations with the other employees. ... This creates great rifts in the ways management deals with staff from country to country. ... Once again, in so...

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In actuality, scholars of countries where women have already been integrated into the infantry, such as Korea and Russia, report that their war victories could not have been accomplished without the efforts of their female infantry soldiers. ... The idea that a woman's job is to bear and raise children has dominated the ideology of the majority in this country. ... And since then, women have continued to show more improvement in events such as marathon running and pole vaulting by as much as 24 percent. ... Also, when other measures of strength are used, such as strength relative to cross...

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Globalization, State, Power and Sovereignty Globalization "Globalization is the panacea for all our ills, but only in favour of the developed countries of the north" -Robert Reich Before a person can answer the question posed by this essay, he or she must fully understand the concept of globalization. ... With globalization comes a greater cross-border movement of both tangible and intangible goods and services, which include ownership rights and intellectual property. Globalization is usually facilitated by the significant lowering o...

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However with this Chunnel project having the main purpose to create a permanent link between England and France as proposed earlier, this needs will aid in an easy transportation of people and goods between the two countries. Besides transportation will be at ease, this Chunnel will serve as an incentive to the economic development and as well as improve the trading environment between the two countries. ... Amongst the ten proposals that were submitted, the TransManche Link plan was selected as the preferred design in which the Chunnel was designed as three 50 km tunnels: two 7.5 m in diame...

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One hundred and twenty two million people turned up to vote - a threshold that had never before been crossed - which equated to a turnout of about sixty one percent of eligible voters. ... (Panagopoulos and Bergan) The reason for this is key: this was the most polarized election in the countries history. ...

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Blair's "third-way" alternative created widespread cross-class appeal for New Labour, effectively capitalizing on an electorate searching for an alternative to the Conservative's political malaise. ... Blair's rhetoric of reform and modernization was particularly effective in portraying New Labour as a party dedicated to running a government marked by innovation and competence in delivering the people of Britain their needs (Krieger 227). ... Recognizing Britain's role in the global community and its European roots, New Labour's spokesmen have made great efforts to...

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Some variant of the nexus standard has been adopted in 29 states; however, the District of Columbia is currently the only jurisdiction in the country that has an explicit law guaranteeing that sexual orientation by itself cannot be used as a factor in determining custody or visitation. ... Long-running myths and misconceptions regarding gay and lesbian parents must be thrown out before all families are protected and respected equally. ... Obstacles will continue for gays and lesbians who are seeking to be parents until society crosses the boundaries and releases its stereotypical and discrim...

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To promote the country's economic growth. ... Therefore they have offered such courses at much lower prices than their neighboring countries. ... Technological Environment In 1957 when Malaysia attained to become an independent country, it had only a single university. ... Apart from running twinning programs there were several university colleges granting their own degrees. ... The leading 3 countries were China, Iran and Indonesia. ...

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Also no person may distribute any publication that is printed outside of the country unless the name of the country of origin is affixed to the publication.[ CITATION Jus11 l 7177 ][ CITATION Gov93 l 7177 ] 2.2.2 The Competition Act 89 of 1998 The Competition Commission was established to investigate, control and evaluate restrictive practices, any abuse of dominant positions and mergers aiding for the establishment of the Competition Tribunal. ... Caxton argued that because of Naspers' cross ownership in pay television, magazines and newspapers it can offer advertising packages across m...

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Thesis statement: Eva Luna by Isabel Allende is an example of a novel that depicts a great variety of women characters that come together in their struggle to survive in a politically torn and male-dominated country. ... When the crucial letter written by Melesio led to massive arrests in Calle Repuclica and ultimately to the Revolt of Whores, La Senora running to save herself and leftovers of her possessions leaves Eva in the middle of the street fights in her fear of being accused of corrupting minors. ... She comes back to the country to save her only friend, a socially rejec...

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The Riverdance is very popular in that it is running up to the moment in major cities apart from Ulan Bater. ... The ladies are expected to sit with their legs crossed right at the ankle or even at the knees. It is deemed informal to have their ankles crossed over the knee. ... The old custom ways of the Irish culture can be seen in the country regions of Ireland. ... It may have to come down to a breakdown of one of the religions in order to bring peace to the Country of Ireland. ...

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If not to count the ancestors of the American Indians who presumably crossed the Bering Strait in ice age, the Chinese were the first Asians immigrants to enter the United States. At first what appeared to be a generous hospitality from their new country quickly turned bitter anti immigration policies passed in the 1880's. ... Newspapers like San Francisco Chronicle criticized the Chinese in its publications and supported the anti Chinese sentiment running through out 1880's. ...

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The Riverdance is very popular in that it is running up to the moment in the main cities apart from Ulan Bater. ... The ladies are expected to sit with their legs crossed right at the ankle or even at the knees. It is deemed informal to have their ankles crossed over the knee. ... It may have to come down to a breakdown of one of the religions to bring peace to the Country of Ireland. ... This indicates the capability of the country to survive well in a downturn and reveals that the banking system is very much united with the local economy. ...

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However, one can also point to a rapid increase in cross-border social, cultural and technological exchange as part of the phenomenon of globalisation. ... A Dutch academic who maintains a good website on globalisation, Ruud Lubbers, defines it as a process in which geographic distance becomes a factor of diminishing importance in the establishment and maintenance of cross border economic, political and socio-cultural relations Left critics of globalisation define the word quite differently, presenting it as worldwide drive toward a globalised economic system dominated by supranational corp...

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Sometimes running from and sometimes working with the police authorities, Jake Lo eventually comes to recognize the importance of the American presence in China through the figure of his dead father who had been working for the U. ... American narratives about crime and ethnicity have often dealt with the difficulties of finding the American dream of personal freedom, and the voice over opening for Vanishing Son's credit sequence summarizes this succinctly: Running from oppression, yearning for freedom, he came to America. ... Running from the law, Jian-Wa, like Lo and Caine, represent...

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The article then goes on to explain that as Social partnership evolved within this country that it then went on to add the Community and Voluntary as a pillar in the process. ... Based on the debt which Barbados managed to accumulate, it forced the country to a crisis point. Out of this Barbados realised that the country was moving to a point which had a sustained negative growth. ... Barbados first implemented the Social Partnership protocol in 1993 and since then there has been five (5) additional agreements, running up to Protocol 6 being the latest since 2013 (Minto-Coy, 2011). ... This...

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