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- 2661: Italy
- ... the largest forests in the country and much pasture land. The central part of the range has productive farmland and grazing. The southern Apennines include the poorest part of Italy. This area has plateaus and high mountains, but few natural resources. The fifth and sixth regions are the Apulia and southeastern Plains. These form the "heel" of the boot-shaped peninsula. This region is composed of plateaus that end as cliffs ... of World War II all happened in Italy. I believe the historical and cultural significance of Italy is largely overlooked. Another reason I chose Italy is that it is a country we rarely study in school. When we study European history, we mainly cover France or Germany, etc. We rarely get into countries that are just as important as Italy. When we do study them, we blend them all together and just get a brief overview of the countries history and culture. One of the things that fascinated me about this country was its place in current world economics. Italy has a high GDP and is heavily involved in trade on the Mediterannean. Italy has the largest shipping fleet in the world. When the news mentions the strongest economic nations, you never hear about Italy. Yet I ...
- 2662: Dress Codes and Hair Restrictions are Vital
- ... they build class integration, increase our image in the community, and dress the students for business, not play. Jesuit Prep needs to continue this vital dress code and hair restrictions for the future. Having a school full of students wearing the same clothes and hairstyles helps build an integration within the class. Students that wear many different styles of clothes all come together wearing similar pants, shirts, ties, and shoes. Through ... will always be more trusting with people who fit that image. Within everyone's life, there is a time for fun and a time for business. While some people wait until they are well passed high school before they prepare for business, Jesuit is in the forefront preparing students now. This preparation stems from the dress code and hair restrictions which are enforced by Jesuit Prep. When a coat and tie ...
- 2663: Anti-Affirmative Action
- ... phrase, I realized that the student, whom I knew and worked with so many times, the one with such a lack of motivational ability, confidence, and ideas, was now occupying my chances towards a preferred school. "Affirmative action", I soon found out, was used by President John F. Kennedy over 30 years ago to imply equality and equal access to all, disregarding race, creed, color, or national origin. As a policy ... action is the admission practices at the University of California Berkeley. In the same article by Pasour, it states that while whites or Asian-Americans need at least a 3.7 grade point average through high school to be in consideration for admission in Berkeley, most minorities with much lower standards are automatically admitted. All the preferential treatment may provide a basis for employers, employees, as well as real applicable students ...
- 2664: Concerns Facing the United States in the 1990s: Crime, Education, and Employment
- ... was passed in 1994 which has put more police on the streets, increased drug enforcement, border patrols, and crime prevention programs. Another concern we deal with as Americans is education. Many students drop out of school early. Many of the rest graduate knowing less math, science, and history than other industrialized nations. Illiteracy rates are high, and more and more students are graduating from school even if they have been absent more days than allowed. To improve this, committees have been organized will develop voluntary national and state standards for education and authorize grants to develop model programs to ...
- 2665: Economic Value Added
- ... the risks and benefits just as owners do. Joel Stern notes that in cases without an EVA incentive plan, employees suffer from a common problem. On average their fixed pay, salaries and pension, are too high, and their variable pay, profit sharing and share options, are to low (Ehbar XIX). Stern adds that size, not value, drives employees in typical incentive programs because size is positively correlated with increases in fixed ... value is eroded. EVA, as a corporate measure and a predictive tool, generates mixed reviews in the business and academic worlds. AT&T's Jim Meen says, "The correlation between MVA and EVA is very high. So when your driving your business toward EVA, your really driving the correlation with market value" (Kramer & Pushner, 43). Stern Stewart finds an R squared value of 60% based on 20 groupings of firms (Kramer ... a better predictor of market value than other performance measures. Proponents of EVA also argue that GAAP standards distort true economic reality, produce unreliable corporate standards and serve as an unproductive compensation system. Harvard business school professor Baruch Lev states that; "Overall, the fragile association between accounting data and capital market's values suggest that usefulness of financial reports is rather limited" (Ehrbar, 161). Some differences in GAAP and economic ...
- 2666: Immigration Into Canada
- ... affluent people. The result of their immigration into Vancouver has been a booming economy and social tension. With greater understanding and awareness on both sides we can alleviate the social tensions. Introduction There is a school in Vancouver which is offering a four year immersion programme to its students. That in itself is not highly unusual in our bilingual nation, what is unusual is that the language of choice for the ... and employment. An exception to this rule was during the latter part of the 1980s. Worry over the declining fertility rate and our ageing population led the federal government to raise its annual targets despite high unemployment. Most recently, under economic pressures, the most recent Liberal government once again lowered the immigration level. The Geography of Immigration There have also been attempts at controlling the geography of immigrant settlement. The Federal ... little money and a willingness to take any work that was offered, many of the most recent newcomers to the city, particularly the roughly one-fifth who arrive from Hong Kong, have both wealth and high expectations. As investors and consumers their growing presence has extremely visible consequences. The new economic immigrants arrive in Vancouver flush with cash. They are rich. At the Chinatown branch of the Hongkong Bank of ...
- 2667: Conversion To Christianity (pa
- ... Roman citizen. He grew up in Tarsus and became a tentmaker like his father and grandfather before him. He was taught to be an orthodox Jew. He later journeyed to Jerusalem and attended the Pharisaic school. He did not become a rabbi, but became a member of the temple police. He then set about persecuting the followers of Jesus with unequaled religious zeal. "His orthodoxy, and it alone, was the reason ... quarrels and rivalries. Rather, arm yourselves with the Lord Jesus Christ, spend no more thought on nature and nature's appetites" was the first passage he read. In that moment, his conversion had hit its high point. "The consequence of the conversion was baptism. But with baptism the authority became unshakable for Augustine and his celibacy final" (Jaspers 67). Augustine retired to Cassiciacum because of health problems that came on in ... a single nut. "The rule was that of the rod" (McGiffert 8). Both were very religious and he became so as well. He was educated in the University at Erfurt and was destined for law school. On one journey back to the university, at the age of twenty-one, Martin was caught in a storm, filled with lightning and thunder. "In mortal dread of death, he threw himself on the ...
- 2668: Drugs In The Work Place
- By: Ed Sliwak E-mail: poet311@aol.com Drug Addiction in the School and Work Place How has work efficiency changed as a result of drug addiction in the sch a couool and work place? In the 1960 and 1970's, men and women worked long hours to ... some "uppers" and "downers"out of sheer interest to experiment with them. The drugs seemed to be "cool" for the teens and their stealing of them increased greatly. They then started taking the drugs to school because of a grown addiction to them. Other teens were also influenced to taking the pills because of peer pressure and to "fit in." The use of drugs is detrimental to our health and causes ... vision, confusion, hallucinations, low blood pressure, and many more. As you can tell by the list of effects, this is not at all a healthy drug. A commonly taken stimulant is Ritalin. It causes a high blood pressure and insomnia, as well as many other side effects. A lot of them are similar to those of Valium except for the few which were mentioned. The side effects of these drugs, ...
- 2669: Love 2
- ... Some people can only stand so much of another person before they grow tired of the situation. Also, it could be as a result to distance. For example, when a couple who were together in high school go their own ways in choosing colleges, this, most often than not, results in the couple breaking up. A long distance relationship like that simply that does work out often.In direct relation to growing ... for break-ups are differences. This can include different life goals; differences in religion; different race; incompatible personalities; and families that don't approve. With life goals, if one person in a relationship is shooting high and wants to be successful, while the other person just wants to work a minimum-wage job, things just don't add up. It would be very unlikely that these two people can have ...
- 2670: Maya Angelou 5
- ... poorer family s just to get peanut butter, as a treat. Maya and Bailey move to San Francisco to rejoin with their mother. May gave birth to her son Guy, at age 17. When in high school, she received a two- year scholarship to study dance and drama at the California Labor School. Maya became the first black San Francisco streetcar conductor. She moved to Laurel Canyon in Hollywood, where she sang and raised her son. She didn t like the fame, so she moved to Washington, ...
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