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Kent State University Incident
Number of pages: 4 | Number of words: 907.... were taken by
students and used aganist them. At that point Governor James Rhodes called
for the National Guard to come in and protect the campus(Four Deaths at
Noon).
The following day Kent State University was under the protection˛ of the
Ohio National Guard. Around noon on that day, students fromed in protest.
They were told to disperse, but refused. The first action of the National
Guard was to release tear-gas grenades upon the masses of students (Guard
Fired in Self Defense). These grenades were marginally successful, and
only caused a temporary retreat. The stude .....
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Transportation And Community D
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 680.... have not received the same benefits from transportation advancements and investments. Some of the governmental policies in housing, land use, environment, and transportation may have even contributed to and exacerbated social inequities. Some communities accrue benefits from transportation development projects, while other communities bear a disproportionate burden and pay cost in diminished health. Generally, benefits are more dispersed, while costs or burdens are more localized. Having a multi-lane freeway next door is not a benefit to someone who does not even own a .....
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Ernest Sosa: Externalism
Number of pages: 4 | Number of words: 859.... the
belief is unreliable but the subject did not intentionally come to hold the
belief because it was acquired unreliably. And, finally, a belief has strong
meta-justification iff the subject neither believes that nor can determine if
the belief is ill-formed (hence the "meta-" prefix), and the subject is aware of
the process by which he got the belief and that the process is reliable.
OK, seems reasonable enough. But, Sosa points out, there are a couple of
scenarios (actually, three, but Sosa concentrates mainly on the two listed
below) in which these conceptio .....
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Japanese Capital Structure And
Number of pages: 18 | Number of words: 4872.... result for some firms has been a reduction in debt levels to those more resembling U.S. companies. The questions now have become: What is the optimal debt level for a Japanese firm? Should firms still be taking advantage of the benefits of their keiretsu relationship that have allowed them to take on such levels of debt?
Our analysis focuses on Mitsubishi Corporation, a core conglomerate that is part of the larger Mitsubishi Group keiretsu having the capital structure characteristics mentioned above. The report will first explore the circumstances that may have induced Mits .....
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Media Control
Number of pages: 4 | Number of words: 903.... and approved by these primary sources and agents of power; and (4) "Flak" as a means of disciplining the media.1 Each of these filters takes a bit of the true reality out of the information and eventually leads to a misinformed public.
A recent incident at The San Francisco Examiner illustrated filter two. Nike and the Examiner were co-sponsoring the Bay to Breakers race. At the same time Stephanie Salter, a columnist at the paper, wrote an article about Nike's inhumane practices in Asian. The story was not published because the paper didn't want to upset Nike so cl .....
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Fascination Of Motorcycles 2
Number of pages: 4 | Number of words: 911.... but as technology evolved it soon became it's own entity. The designs were so useful that police agencies began using them to combat crimes. The U.S. military quickly realized the advantages of two wheels, and soon put them into service. Upon returning from war, U.S. service members soon began using their personal motorcycle as a tool for expressing themselves. This spread to many other countries and soon changes started coming about. The big brutish cycles of the fifties soon started to change to sensible machines built for commuting and reliability. Within only thirty year .....
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A Society Without Knowledge!
Number of pages: 4 | Number of words: 925.... refused to accept Huck as
he was and wasn't going to change its opinions about him
until he was reformed and civilized. The Widow Douglas and
Miss Watson try to "sivilize" Huck by making stop all of his
habits such as smoking, etc. They try to reverse all of his
teaching from the first twelve years of his life and force him to
become their stereotypical good boy. The rest of the town
also refused to view him as good until they received visual .....
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Activity Based Costing
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 820.... labor hours is a good example). This was acceptable when overhead was small and direct costs were high. But in today’s automated factory, this can lead to disaster. Conventional systems report inaccurate product costs--often grossly inaccurate. Management, in turn, makes strategic decisions based on these inaccurate product costs.
Traditional cost systems assume all overhead activities are consumed equally by all products relative to volume produced. Further, all costs are allocated to products because the system assumes that current output drives current overhead costs. .....
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