... 10. Crimson thread of agreement is not real 11. Anzac stands for? Australia and new Zealand army corps 12. What is conscription was compulsory military service for young men, this defense act began 1902. 13. What was prime minister Hughes campaign to introduce inscription 14. Who were opposed to conscription 15. Ww1 ended in which year? November 11, 1918 16. Who was assassinated in ww1? Archduke Franz Ferdinand 17. Areas fought in ww1? 'Western Front' in France and Belgium were the biggest war areas 18. Most important reason for Australia declaring war in September 1939? Germany invaded Poland and so Great Britain has declared war on them along with Australia. 19. Who were POW in ww2 in Australia internment camps? The main use of internment camps were to put the people against Australia according to...
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...Study Questions for Exam 1, Fall 2012 Theme 1: The Japanese Family System, structure and functions Please remember to use your class readings when applicable to answer the following study questions. Where relevant, think which reading and /or video would illustrate your answer. Why is the family important to study? How have its functions changed and why? The family is important to study because it is the primary agent for socialization. It is the first unit that teaches the rules of society to children. One of the two social entities recognized universally, the other is religion. The function of family has changed over time because it has shifted from an extended family to more of a nuclear family. The functions of a family: Protection, affection, procreation, production, education transfer of status. What are the three important differences between family systems in East Asia and the United States? Explain each. 1. Confucian values- places emphasis on loyalty and obedience to the group and its leader, where the United states has individualism 2. Gender Inequality- In east asia there is a patrinlean and multi-generational system, with the inheritence rights traveling down the male line, where in united states its bi-lateral and emphasis is placed on nuclear family. 3. Demographic Transition- Change from high fertility high mortality to a low fertility and mortality rates causing an aging population. Same in US but there is more immigration to...
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...The Russian - Chechen conflict is a long running one and still poses a problem in the contemporary context. Current situation is the outcome of historical events, which I am going to examine briefly. - Conflict starts even from the 19th century, when Russian Empire annexed the areas of the North Caucasus by force. We can somehow call it "COLONIZATION ". - Then during the WW2 Chechen and Ingush units were accused for collaboration with German Nazi, and as a result Stalin deported more than half a million of people to Siberia and Kazakhstan in 1944. - Chechen conflict as a struggle for independence started in the 1980s with the beginning of "perestroika". On 6th September in 1991 there was a revolution in Chechnya and Dudaev captured the power. With the help of fake elections he became a president and claimed about Chechen's independence. From 1991 to 1994, thousands of people of non-Chechen ethnicity left the republic amidst reports of violence and discrimination against the non-Chechen population. Situation there became very unstable and even dangerous. When Russia invaded Chechnya, a bloody war ensued. Intending to crash separatist forces, this was Yeltsin’s first major confrontation. However, the supposed awesome Russian military strength inherited from the Soviet Union, turned into a disaster. Grozny was devastated. About 80 000 people died, mostly Chechen civilians, and in 1996, Russia withdrew defeated. Dudaev was killed in 1995. - In mid-November 1996, Yeltsin...
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...THE SECRET HISTORY of SOCIAL SERVICE CRIMES: HITLER & today's SOCIAL WORKER “In the best interest of the child” sounds familiar? 28 March 2011 at 04:00 “In the best interest of the child" The "Lebensborn" project was one of most secret and terrifying Nazi projects. “In the best interest of the child" - Do you know what this means...? It was an SS Nazi slogan, now used by today's family courts to determine custody: It is also... the prime directive of all Child Protection Services. “Justice denied anywhere, diminishes justice everywhere.” Martin Luther King, Jr. _______________________________________________________ Nicolas Stathopoulos [SSEC] Social Service Economic Crimes (research) Social service crimes research SSEC (research) © Copyright 2011 The Lebensborn program was a Nazi organizational project set up by SS leader Heinrich Himmler, which provided, managed and ran orphanages, social service centers and relocation programs for children. Lebensborn, for all intent and purpose, was designed to become a human breeding program. "In the best interest of the child, we are breeding superior Aryan children" (SS Nazi chant) The Lebensborn program, was founded and created on December 12, 1935, to promote the policies of Nazi eugenics among other interests. One, of the objectives was to perpetrate, an illusion of superiority (of the Aryan race) over all other inferior races. Some of the ideas used to create the Lebensborn program were extensions...
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...Research Study INTRODUCTION Accounting scandals in business firms arise with the disclosure of financial misdeeds by trusted executives of corporations. Examples of Accounting Fraud: • Merging short and long term debt into one amount to improve the perceived liquidity of the company • Failing to disclose risky investments or “creative” accounting practices • Over-recording sales revenue • Under-recording expenses (i.e. depreciation expense) Accounting fraud leads to many serious problem for everyone not only for the perpetrator. Accounting fraud causes problem in the market place and the economy. As a result in most cases, investors' loose large sum of money due to the misrepresentation of financial position and financial result of the company. Also, because of this, there is lack of trust in the market, accounting system, and in the company in which accounting fraud was committed from the investors. Employees in that company are at rest of losing their job because of the scandal. WHY DOES ACCOUNTING FRAUD OCCUR? Fraud are triggered by three elements; rationalization, perceived pressure, and perceived opportunities. Whether the fraud benefits the perpetrator directly, or indirectly, such as benefiting the perpetrator’s company, the three elements are always present. Rationalization- perpetrators find some sort of rationalization that makes their unethical behavior seem acceptable. Perceived Pressure- perpetrators are faced with some kind of pressure...
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...renowned social psychologist Stanley Milgram which was carried out in the early 1960’s (Banyard 2012) to determine how far ordinary people would go to inflict pain to a fellow human based on instruction from an authority figure, and that of the replication of the experiment which was carried out by Burger in 2009 (Byford 2014) to determine if the same level of obedience was still applicable in the 21st Century, as was observed in the original study some 40 years earlier. The essay will look at some of the key similarities and differences between the two studies. For the purpose of this essay only the base studies will be discussed. Milgram’s motivation to study this trait in human behaviour came from the atrocities that took place during WW2, and the trial of Adolph Eichmann who in his defence said he was ‘simply following orders’ (Banyard 2012) to carry out the mass murders. Milgram asked himself ‘how can ordinary people who are courteous and descent in everyday life act callously, inhumanely without limitations of conscience?’ Milgram on Milgram (part 1): Obedience experiments (The Open University, 2014) Milgram devised his obedience study. He developed a laboratory based experiment to determine how far a participant in the experiment would go inflicting electric shocks to another person when instructed to do so by a person in authority in this case a scientist. Both in the original study and the replication Milgram and Burger recruited participants through a newspaper advertisement...
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...International Humanitarian Law – jus in bello 1. Geneva Conventions The law in this area is covered by the four Geneva Conventions, signed in 1949 after the atrocities of WW2 and two additional protocols signed in 1977. 1. Geneva Convention on the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded and Sick in Armed Forces in the Field (GC I) 2. Geneva Convention on the Amelioration of the Condition of Wounded, Sick and Shipwrecked Members of Armed Forces at Sea (GC II) 3. Geneva Convention on the Treatment of Prisoners of War (GC III) 4. Geneva Convention on the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War (GC IV) Protocols of 1977 – in response to the conflict in Vietnam 1. Protection of Victims of International Armed Conflicts (Additional Protocol I) 2. Protection of Victims of Non-International Armed Conflicts (Additional Protocol II) 2. International Armed Conflict – application of the GC’s • International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) states that an armed conflict within the meaning of the Geneva Conventions is any difference of opinion between two states that leads to intervention or action by the members of their armed forces • Common Article 2 of GC (ie in all of them) states that it will apply: o To all cases of war, and armed conflict between two or more parties to the treaty (even if “the state of war” is not recognised by one of them) o To all cases of partial or total occupation of the territory...
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...Yale ICF Working Paper No. 02-04 November 21, 2002 PREDICTING THE EQUITY PREMIUM (WITH DIVIDEND RATIOS) Amit Goyal Goizueta Business School at Emory Ivo Welch Yale School of Management NBER This paper can be downloaded without charge from the Social Science Research Network Electronic Paper Collection: http://ssrn.com/abstract_id=158148 Predicting the Equity Premium (With Dividend Ratios)∗ Amit Goyal† Goizueta Business School at Emory and Ivo Welch‡ Yale School of Management and NBER November 21, 2002 Abstract Our paper suggests a simple recursive residuals (out-of-sample) graphical approach to evaluating the predictive power of popular equity premium and stock market time-series forecasting regressions. When applied, we find that dividend-ratios should have been known to have no predictive ability even prior to the 1990s, and that any seeming ability even then was driven by only two years, 1973 and 1974. Our paper also documents changes in the time-series processes of the dividends themselves and shows that an increasing persistence of dividend-price ratio is largely responsible for the inability of dividend ratios to predict equity premia. Cochrane (1997)’s accounting identity—that dividend ratios have to predict long-run dividend growth or stock returns— empirically holds only over horizons longer than 5–10 years. Over shorter horizons, dividend yields primarily forecast themselves. JEL Classification: G12, G14. ∗ Forthcoming: Management Science. The paper and its data...
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...(SUVs) became the fastest growing segment of the auto industry. Generally larger and heavier than the typical automobile, SUVs require more fuel and produce greater amounts of toxins. Although buyers believe that SUVs are safer than automobiles, which they are in some cases, SUVs are more prone to roll-overs than are automobiles. With sales projected to grow to over 3 million units per year in 2001, SUVs show no sign of decreasing in popularity. However, the SUV is increasingly coming under attack for its fuel economy. The retail gas prices rose to just over $4 a gallon. Sales of large SUVs were affected more than any other vehicle, and their resale values dropped like a rock. In this paper I would like to talk about: why people want to buy SUVs? What impact does the lower fuel economy of SUVs have on the economy? What is the new fuel economy policy by the government? What impact does the safety record if SUVs have on the economy? Sport utility vehicle (SUV) is a vehicle similar to a station wagon or estate car. Early SUVs were used in military and commercial purposes, Jeep and Land Rover were used in the WW2. Chevrolet Carryall Suburban was the first SUV came out in 1935, but it’s only a RWD. SUVs became popular in the United States, Canada, India and Australia in the 1990s and early-2000s. In every household in United States owned many types of SUV. There are four different types of SUVs in the market right now those are: Compact SUV, Mid-size SUV, Full-size SUV, and Luxury SUV...
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...Quality Improvements in the Air Force James Prentice 15 March 2015 Instructor: Manu Vora The military and the Air Force have a long history of being more progressive in some of their practices than other government organizations, and quality management is no exception to this. After all it is in the best interest of both the military and the taxpayers that support them to perform their duties as efficiently, safely, and as inexpensively as possible. Bearing in mind two facts about quality management in the Air Force. The first being that the Air Force is a government entity and therefore will have directives on everything. In fact there is a directive advising how to go about ensuring quality is embedded in the everyday practices of the Air Force. Secondly, it should always be kept in mind that the Air Force is a big entity and as such is slow to react to advances that other types of organizations are quick to respond to. With this in mind the quality management methodologies employed by the Air Force are quickly catching up to the private sector in regards to complexity and effectiveness. Having entered the military in 2004 I have seen my fair share of quality management techniques employed by the Air Force; in fact by the time I had been in a while and had started to get a feel for how things worked I discovered that many middle management officers and enlisted had seen their fair share of quality management and were in a sense burned out with the half steps...
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...Unit 1: The Seeds of Conflict, 1917-1944 The differences between capitalism and communism Capitalism advocated private enterprise, land owned by individuals with minimum government interference. Liberal democracy was a political system where each person has freedom to vote, to elect, of speech and of worship. Communism advocated state-owned property, an economy where all industries and agriculture were owned by the government on behalf of the people. A one-party state was a political system with one political party to represent the people. In the USSR, all political parties other than the Communist Party were banned and elections were contested between individuals of this party. The tensions that existed between the USSR and the USA in the 1920s and 30s Communism was viewed as an unstable force that threatened social and political order and Lenin, leader of the Bolshevik Revolution, was to represent this. Allied countries Britain, France, USA and Japan had sent help to Bolshevik enemies during the Civil War therefore there were some hostile feelings towards them even after the war. The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk (March 1918) was a result of Russia withdrawing from the war, leading to a feeling of betrayal amongst the allies who were left to fight Germany alone. Communist groups in Spain and France grew in strength in the 1930s in response to the hardships of the Great Depression which placed strains on the USA. Britain’s appeasement policy towards Germany under Hitler’s...
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...10000 quiz questions and answers www.cartiaz.ro 10000 general knowledge questions and answers 10000 general knowledge questions and answers www.cartiaz.ro No Questions Quiz 1 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 Carl and the Passions changed band name to what How many rings on the Olympic flag What colour is vermilion a shade of King Zog ruled which country What colour is Spock's blood Where in your body is your patella Where can you find London bridge today What spirit is mixed with ginger beer in a Moscow mule Who was the first man in space What would you do with a Yashmak Who betrayed Jesus to the Romans Which animal lays eggs On television what was Flipper Who's band was The Quarrymen Which was the most successful Grand National horse Who starred as the Six Million Dollar Man In the song Waltzing Matilda - What is a Jumbuck Who was Dan Dare's greatest enemy in the Eagle What is Dick Grayson better known as What was given on the fourth day of Christmas What was Skippy ( on TV ) What does a funambulist do What is the name of Dennis the Menace's dog What are bactrians and dromedaries Who played The Fugitive Who was the King of Swing Who was the first man to fly across the channel Who starred as Rocky Balboa In which war was the charge of the Light Brigade Who invented the television Who would use a mashie niblick In the song who killed Cock Robin What do deciduous...
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...Petroleum refers to the hydrocarbon compounds of crude oil and natural gas that are found in the underground rock formations Reservoirs are generally thousands of feet below the surface and are made up of the remains of small marine plants and animals that lived millions of years ago. Petroleum may also seep to the earth’s surface along fault lines and cracks Petroleum refers to both crude oil and natural gas Modern uses of petroleum and its byproducts include: Transportation fuels (gasoline, diesel, jet fuel, and compresses natural gas) Heating Fuels (Propane, heating oil and natural gas) Electric Generation fuels such as natural gas and fuel oil Manufactured products such as plastics and building materials. Crude oil refers to unrefined hydrocarbon mixtures produced from underground reservoirs that are liquid at atmospheric pressure and temperature Classified as either light or heavy depending on the density of the mixture Density is measured in API gravity Heavy crude oil has more of the longer, larger hydrocarbon molecules (greater density) Difficult to produce and transport to market; more expensive to process; weighs more but sells for less Natural Gas refers to hydrocarbon mixtures that are NOT liquid but gaseous at normal atmospheric pressure and temperature. Natural Gas is largely methane, which is a clear, odorless gas. It has the smallest natural hydrocarbon molecule (CH4). Natural Gas mare also contain some of the larger hydrocarbon molecules commonly...
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...Amazon’s Marketing Plan Case Amazon's Target Market Segmentation E-commerce is becoming more international now as more foreign countries flock towards the online marketplace. Technology is becoming less expensive as it is being produced more than ever. This allows underdeveloped countries to use these online marketplaces such as eBay or Amazon. Across the world, shoppers are buying more products online; and even with their mobile phones. Amazon is creating websites for China. The U.S. has been using Amazon for over 20 years now, and it has grown to offer just about anything you can think of. Amazon’s biggest selection is in books, movies and media, That is only because they started the company as an online bookstore, Amazon is now selling over 200 million products in the U.S. and 306 items sold every second (Yarow, 2012). Amazon has approached its marketing strategy differently than some companies by using segmenting over having specific target markets. When a customer joins Amazon, they do not get questioned on personal information to determine what marketers will promote to them, but their behavior throughout the site plays a huge role. As customers use the site, their activity is recorded and registered to then be provided with content related to what they’ve previously had an interest in. This can all be done with very simple technology that can even build automated messages through emails to customers (Kanary, 2014). Amazon seems to attract individuals of the higher...
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...The DIGITAL ECONOMY I. Introduction ( Pearlson & Saunders, 2013, Introduction; Tapscott, 2014, Ch. 1) @mtpadam Week 1 1 COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA Copyright Regulations 1969 WARNING This material has been copied and communicated to you by or on behalf of the University of Newcastle pursuant to Part VB of the Copyright Act 1968 (the Act) The material in this communication may be subject to copyright under the Act. Any further copying or communication of this material by you may be the subject of copyright protection under the Act. Do not remove this notice. 1 Educational Objectives for Today • Foundations of the economy • Similarities and differences between analog and digital goods • Understand the basic concepts of the digital economy • A brief overview of the history of IT • Creative destruction and digital disruption | EBUS3050 | The Digital Economy| I. Introduction “These Google guys, they want to be billionaires and rock stars and go to conferences and all that. Let us see if they still want to run the business intwo to three years.” (Bill Gates, Microsoft, 2003) “$100 million is way to much to pay for Microsoft.” (IBM, 1982) Week 1 3 “Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don’t think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the others.” (Bill Gates, Microsoft) “By 2005 or so, it will become clear that the Internet’s impact on the economy...
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