In order for the DoD Comptroller to achieve these goals for the major end-users, the DoD utilizes the GAO's Standards for Internal Control in the Federal Government, or otherwise known as the "Green Book. "The Green Book provides financial management personnel criteria for designing, implementing, and operating an effective internal control system [GAO14]. The Green Book will aid DoD components to achieve full audit readiness by 2017 and begin full financial statement audits in FY18 consisting of four waves[DOD13]: Wave 1: Appropriations received are validated as audit ready. ... Financi...

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Generation Ecstasy For my book report I read Generation Ecstasy. There was so much information in the book about the rave scene and "ecstasy", I didn't know where to begin. ... There are those who might find a book to analyze music that often aims for the effect of a sledgehammer to the head a mite pretentious. ... Such contradictions have something to do with the structure; the book has been in part assembled from countless articles and released in two "mixes," with the American version telling a more linear, explicatory story. ... But these are minor quibbles: whether you'...

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The book puts the spotlight on the lived experiences of 20 transgender participants struggling from different forms of workplace bullying, violence, and discrimination. ... All five chapters of the book focus mainly on transgender issues, with minor and considerate glances on controversies affecting the LGBTQ spectrum. ... The first part of the book starts with a story of a retired U.S. ... As studies frequently stated in the book, consequent loss of jobs led to homelessness of a huge population of transgender population. ... A section of the book entitled the "I'm Lucky" Phenomenon r...

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According to the book Civil Society and Government, "productive tension " exists between civil society and government. ... The attempts by the Singapore government to control civil society by suppressing the people's freedom of expression have been highlighted in many news reports, such as, when outspoken academic Cherian George, who has called for more press freedom, was denied tenure at Nanyang Technological University, and when letters of demand were sent by the government to bloggers and online media commentators to apologize and remove remarks that allegedly defamed government off...

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Sources that are mainly used will be oral narratives and reports of former contract workers. The first source to be evaluated for its origin,purpose,values and possible limitations is a synopsis of reports and documents, Zwischen Nationalismus und Internationalismus – Über Ausländer und Ausländerpolitik in der DDR 1949-1990 published by Eva-Maria and Lothar Elsner, while the second source is a report of the BIOst, Vietnamesische Gastarbeiter in den europäischen RGW-Ländern by Klaus Fritsche. ... The purpose of the book lto focus on themes that are rarely discussed - like the life...

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Spirituality, although it has always been surrounded by mysticism and uncertainty, has been an integral part of the human psyche since the emergence of the modern man (Buckman 31). There is evidence that even Homo sapiens from the Paleolithic era (ca. 120,000 BC - 8,000BC) believed in a spiritual wo...

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., Terman & Oden, 1947) and a number of large-scale studies on normal subjects in ordinary work situations recently reviewed by Hunter (1986) have reported correlations that are very impressive. ... In an edited book, Practical Intelligence: Nature and Origins of Competence in the Everyday World, Sternberg and Wagner (1986) present a variety of studies under headings such as "Intelligence on the Job," "Intelligence in Daily Life," "The Development of Practical Intelligence," and "Cross-Cultural Approaches to Practical Intelligence." ... Interestingly, among the many studies and analyses of pra...

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One of the largest and most influential of these laws set in place to prevent falsified financial reporting and protect the public is the Sarbanes Oxley Act (SOX), which was implemented immediately after the Enron corporate scandal in 2001. ... In December of 2001, Enron filed bankruptcy with $62 billion in assets; just one month after their auditor gave the company a clean report (meaning their financial statements looked good) (Buckstein). ... Enron created Special Purpose Entities (SPE's), otherwise known as off-book partnerships, and the executives used these partnerships to hide thei...

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The vast empire comprised much of present day Cambodia, along with Thailand, Laos and southern Vietnam (CIA Fact book). ... The kingdom was made up of large reservoirs and canals, in addition to an extensive network of roads and, monumental temples, with Angkor Wat being known as perhaps the most prominent legacy left behind (CIA Fact book). ... The next two decades in some sense were represented by single man dominance in Cambodian politics with king Sihanouk, dictating everything and labeling his movement as, "Buddhist Socialism," (CIA Fact book). ... Although the end of this war r...

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The influence of mass media as an agent of socialization was discussed by Kendall, Linden and Murray in their book Sociology in Our Times, as they pointed out that the subliminal brainwashing of the masses perpetrated by the media could be traced back to the imprinting of young children. ... This created a shift in the social culture of today's generation, as people are more inclined to get their information from different sources of media (such as the news or the internet), as opposed to consulting with a person or a book about it. ... Referencing Samuel P.Hutington's argument in hi...

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According to the ledger-book of utilitarianism, the advantages of consuming meat would need to exceed the price of animals being tortured in factory-farms. ... Utilitarianism does not report for the lack of knowledge; directly not being informed of animals being tortured does not make the pain ethically acceptable under these circumstances. ...

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Terry Karl argues in her book, The Paradox of Plenty, that developing countries who are resource dependent tend to determine the revenues drawn from the resources in a competing, rather than a complementing manner like Norway. ... New York Times journalist Vikas Bajaj, reported in June 2012 on the paradox of plenty in India's food system. ... Michael Herb suggests in his book, No Representation without Taxation, that when a measure of development that excludes the effect of oil on the economy in place of GDP per capita in statistical analysis of the causes of the democratization, oil rich...

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The benefits of these activities and assessment strategies were clearly outlined and this research has led me to brainstorm many other ideas I could use such animated storyboards, role-playing, reader's theater, Ipad activities, and ebook reader book reports, that I know will be inclusive and exciting to the many intelligences and learning styles of my students. ...

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In his book The Naked Employee, Frederick Lane describes offline ways in which employers have been permitted to intrude on employees' privacy for decades, such as drug testing, background checks, psychological exams, lie detector tests, and in-store video surveillance. ... "The ePolicy Institute, an organization that advises companies about reducing risks from technology, reported that breaches in computer security cost institutions $100 million in 1999 alone" (Flynn). ...

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One theory given is that this limitation is likely because these types of research are through self-report and the aggregates are possibly not being entirely forthcoming about the impact the abuse (CITE POST TRAUMA). ... The research will be quantitative in nature because the goal is to be able to manipulate the date for statistical use (CITE TEXT BOOK). ...

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