...of stars as well as enough gas and dust to make a | | |billions more. The Milky Way is over 100,000 light years from one end to the other. | |3 |According to Reeves (1999), “Astronomers, believe that the universe began in a big bang roughly 14 billion years ago” (para. 5). They | | |believed that a bubble exploded suddenly and the birth of the universe began. Keep in mind this bubble was only about the size of a | | |pinhead. | |4 |You are looking back in time because of the speed of light. Light moves 186,000 miles per second. An example of this would be like we see| | |the sun, eight minutes after the fact. | |5 |The Earth is the 3rd planet from the Sun. Earth is where we live, and is the only planet that contains life. Earth is the only planet | | |that is breathable. | |6 |The Proxima Centauri is the closest star to the Sun, and the Sun is around 150 million kilometers from Earth. | |7 |The Sun is about 28,000 light years from the heart of the galaxy, and is...
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...secular intellectual, a lesbian, and a left-wing journalist” and has well documented her Atheist upbringing (Miles, iii). Her childhood and subsequent worldly travels, which has provided her with the opportunity to experience life from many different facets, and being intermingled with individuals from all ends of the socio-economic spectrum, has surely shaped her views of the church, religion, and the body of Christ. Whereas most individuals who were raised in a church setting are used to the strict formalities of rules and tradition, Miles seemingly holds no regard for following them, as religion and all that encompasses it had always been foreign to her. As she did with her own life, Miles also takes a very liberal and unabashed approach to how she conducts herself in the church setting, specifically, when she first visited St. Gregory’s Episcopal Church. Miles described how she just wandered into liturgy, and decided to take part in communion as the “Body of Christ” was passed around (Miles, 57). In the...
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...key constructs from other theories into a comprehensive theory of change that can be applied to a variety of behaviors, populations, and settings including treatment settings, prevention and policy-making settings. Thus the name Transtheoretical (Pro- Change Behavior Systems, 2015). Stages of change It is not easy to for individuals to change from an unhealthy behavior to a healthy one. Therefore, the TTM focuses on the decision-making of the individual. It operates on the assumption that people do not change behavior quickly and decisively, rather, change in behavior, particularly long-term behavior, occurs continuously through a cyclical process (Boston University School of Public Health, 2016). The TTM postulates that individuals move through five stages of change: pre-contemplation, contemplation, preparation, action, and maintenance. For each stage of change, different intervention strategies are most effective at moving the person to the next stage of change and subsequently through to the maintenance stage, which is the ideal stage of behavior. 1. Precontemplation - In this stage,...
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...KFC-Japan history from the beginning gives a good picture of the different existing ways of managing subsidiaries. Lessons learned from successive managers can help us to identify what is the best way of seizing external opportunities in a given situation. The dilemmas KFC is facing at the different stages of her history which can be represented with the three stages theory describes well the organizational and operational challenges usually faced by a “transnational” company. Each appointed manager represents a specific way of managing subsidiaries or a stage of the “three stages theory”. At the beginnings, each country manager was on his own to make a success of his venture, and most had to learn the business form scratch. From this start point, the main issue is to determinate the appropriate level of control in this given situation. The issue of performance measurement is closely linked to the one of the level of control. On one hand, standardization facilitates performance measurement and control, but can also lead to counter performances if excessive. In this respect, it is very important to determine the expected level of performance (the same everywhere?). On the other hand, tolerating exceptions tends to weaken the whole system. KFC development until the critical point of confrontation illustrates one of the existing methods of launching a new activity overseas (I). Conflicts between headquarters and KFC-J raise a number of issues which well depict...
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...General McClellan doesn’t follow many of these but the first one is the fourth principle. This states that “Use speed and preparation to swiftly overcome the competition.” General McClellan did a horrible job following this principle. On April 4th 1862 the Union march was halted by a 13,000 troop force led by General Magruder. McClellan out numbered his force by almost 100,000 men but Magruder made his force seem so much bigger. However, McClellan still should have been able to run right through this force even if it was as big as he though. This made him pause his entire campaign. The point of this campaign was for him to use his massive force and swiftly move through the confederate defenses and take Richmond. Not only did he not move swiftly but General McClellan kept asking for more forces. When President Lincoln kept General Irwin McDowell from helping McClellan he halted his troops. Although eh had a massive force to command he felt like he needed more. He could never have enough troops even though it was one of the largest forces in the civil war. Sun Tzu clearly states that you should attack swiftly and prepare well. While McClellan prepared his troops extremely well and had them organized perfectly...
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...this paper, I will discuss some respective advantages and disadvantages of the Union and how these elements manifested during the American Civil War. Let’s start off with an advantage the Union had over the Confederacy. The Union had far more valuable leadership such as Ulysses S. Grant. (World History Group, n.d.) Ulysses worked his way up through the ranks of the Army starting as a volunteer. The victories at Vicksburg and Gettysburg put Ulysses in the public eye and was promoted to Lieutenant General and named commander of the entire Union army by President Lincoln. (Ulysses S. Grant, n.d.) Ulysses surrounded Confederate General Robert E. Lee’s army in Northern Virginia and Lee eventually surrendered to the Union at Appomattox...
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...They were able to sell their horses for much more than most other horses. They were also able to make trades with settlers and other tribes. Ranchers rode up the Wallowa Plateau in search of grass for their cattle that had been suffering from the severe drought and saw thousands of head of horses in the meadow. Rancher and settlers began to invade the Nez Perce reservations. As their land grew smaller so did the herds of Nez Perce horses. In 1863 the Nez Perce signed a treaty that 90% of their reservation was given to the United Sates, leaving only 750,000 acers in the Idaho Territory. Due to the terms of the treaty, all Nez Perce were to move onto the new reservation. However, a large number of Nez Perce did not accept the agreements of the treaty and refused to move on. The “non-treaty” Nez Perce included the band of Chief Joseph, who lived in the Wallowa valley. Disputes in Wallowa Valley with the white farmers and ranchers led to the deaths of several Nez...
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...American army lost more than a third of their army while the Nez Perce had lost only a few. Chief Joseph had only wanted freedom for his people and to cultivate and hunt on the land that they owned. The reservations were no more than a prisoner camp. The American Indians were not allowed to travel from place to place, but only confined to the reservation. They needed permission from the federal government to leave and move...
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...The increasing need to efficiently move freight globally will need to continue to grow in order to meet the demands of an expanding world population. It is predicted by 2035 the United States will be required to move over 37, 211 million tons of freight across the country (U.S., 2008). In order to meet this increasing future demand, freight will be required to move from place of origin to final destination as quickly as possible while trying to keep costs down. Intermodal transportation is the type of transportation that could meet this demand by combining many different modes of transport that is easily interchangeable using standardized containers. Intermodal transportation is the use of two or more modes of transport to freight. Increasing the use of intermodal transportation will efficiently escalate freight movement by using shipping containers to easily transport from one location to another, and by using multiple modes of transport that can reduce costs for the shipper and end user. Intermodal transportation had slow beginnings. The concept and use of intermodal transportation did not see its beginnings until the 1960s. Before then cargo was moved at times separately and by hand. According to Donovan (2000), The task of shifting cargo between modes still required that boxes, barrels, and bags in which goods were packed be unloaded from one carrier and then reloaded on the train, ship, or truck that would carry them on the next leg of their journey (p. 1) This...
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...true story or is it a tale of insanity? The ambiguous writing style used by Henry James in The Turn of The Screw leaves the story open to the interpretation of the individual reader. I will show how this ambiguous writing style does not lead the reader to any specific interpretation, but it is actually used by James to deliberately confuse the reader and foster an atmosphere of uncertainty. This purposeful lack of facts by James throughout the story makes the reader draw his own conclusions about what actually takes place. Many critics have analyzed The Turn of The Screw and most of them have come to the same conclusion; that the story is littered with ambiguity, but this is where the consensus ends. Nearly everything that takes place in the story can be interpreted in more than one way (Beidler 189). This novella penned by James has generated more than three hundred books, articles, and doctoral dissertations over the last forty years (Teahan 349). One critic, Edmund Wilson, wrote in his evaluation “There is a very good reason, however, in the fact that nowhere does James unequivocally give the thing away: everything from beginning to end can be taken equally well in either of two senses” (172). Just a few of the many unanswered questions that get asked are: Why did Miles really get sent home from school, is he as angelic as he is originally portrayed or is he a bad boy? Why does the uncle not want to have anything to do with Bly or the children, does he know what’s...
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...masters of architecture, medicine and engineering.They were also deeply religious and deeply devoted to human sacrifice. Their capital was called either Tula or Tollan, and was located in the state of Hidalgo approximately sixty miles North of Mexico City. I am very interested in Toltec and hope that you love learning about them as much as I do. Toltecs were very powerful in the ancient civilizations. Toltecs were very religious, they had two gods and also believed in human sacrifice there two gods were called Quetzalcoatl and Tezcatlipoca. The first god Quetzalcoatl is the feathered serpent and represented culture, philosophy, good and peace. Tezcatlipoca is the smoked mirror and it represented war, tyranny and evil. Toltec had more than two gods, but Tezcatlipoca and Quetzalcoatl were their main two. They had human sacrifices so they could please their gods. Their sacrifices were very grueling since they would...
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...cover the steps in a decision-making process and how making the right choices will improve the whole outcome. When relocating from the southern region of the United States to the northern region, an individual must put various degrees of thought and make sure that the decision to make the move will benefit the individuals of the family and not cause any harm to those same folks. When making a decision for the move, the Gaffney family had to ensure that they would first have the money to make such a move, the timing of the move did not interfere with any school schedules, and there would be a place to live once the move was made. As discussed in the reading, there are many more steps involved in the decision making process that the Gaffney family overlooked while making such an important decision. The stages described in the book Management: Leading and Collaborating in a Competitive World are Identifying and Diagnosing the Problem, Generating Alternative Solutions, Evaluating Alternatives, Making the Choice, Implementing the Decision, and Evaluating the Decision (Bateman & Snell, 2010). There were several steps that the Gaffney family did not take into consideration when making such a large change in their lives. By following the steps in the decision making process, the Gaffney family identified and diagnosed the problem as living extremely far from family makes it hard to spend time and holidays with each other. They did not explore alternate solutions because no one...
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... Yet women were still not allowed to compete and the struggle to establish a women’s Olympic Marathon was itself something of a long distance race. Before the 1980s, there were no women’s distance races in the Olympics. In the Moscow Games, the longest race for women was the 1,500 meters, which had been instituted in 1972. Women had been excluded from track and field competition altogether until 1928, when the longest race was the 800 meters. Despite a world record by winner Lina Radke of Germany, many of the competitors had not properly prepared for the race and several collapsed in exhaustion. This let Olympic organizers to consider the race too strenuous for the elimination of all women’s competition from the Games. This drastic move was not taken, but until 1960, when the 800 meters reappeared, no race over 200 meters was contested by women in the Olympics. This is not to say there was no tradition of women’s long-distance running. Women had been forbidden from participating in the ancient Olympics. A women who was caught even as a spectator at the Games could face execution. But women in ancient Greece held their own festival to honor the goddess Hera every five years. Only one athletic event was held a short foot race. When the Olympics were revived in 1896, women were again excluded. But, in March of 1896, Stamatis Rovithi became the first woman to run a marathon when she covered the proposed Olympic course from Marathon to Athens. The following month, a...
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...killed by Patroclus” (471-472). He wants to intervene and put a stop to this tragedy, but is told by his wife “...don’t expect all of us to approve…If you send Sarpedon home alive…Think of the resentment you will create” (480-485). Imagine watching your only child die in battle, knowing you could have prevented it, but your wife is in your ear blatantly telling you to let him die. Nonetheless, time passes and Sarpedon’s fate does indeed come to pass. He dies. Achilles is heartbroken. However, he does not let his grief defeat him. In book XXIV it says, “When Achilles had his fill of grief And the aching sorrow left his heart, He rose from his chair…”(549-551) with a new attitude, a new spirit saying “Let our pain Lie at rest a while no matter how much we hurt. There’s nothing to be gained from cold grief” (559-561). This quote exemplifies...
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... | |Member: | | | | |Objective 18: SWBAT solve word problems with two-step equations |Knowledge: | | | |Certain words in a word problem can clue us in to the mathematical symbols that| | |A cab ride costs $5 for the first mile and $4 for each additional mile.|relate the values that appear in the word problem. | | |Carlo’s cab ride cost $13. | | | |How many miles was the ride? |Skills: | | |A. 2 |Identify the givens | | |B. 3 |Circle all the values | | |C. 4 |Underline the “clue words” (mental triggers) in...
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