...going to have a great impact on today’s society. Lockheed Martin is developing a HAA (High-Altitude Airship) funded by the Missile Defense Agency. The Pentagon plans to spend $400 million on a very high efficient airship. Lockheed Martin’s HAA is solar powered, helium-filled airship that will fly above the jet stream. HAA will be very beneficial because it will be used for surveillance purposes, weather observation and mobile telecommunications platforms. The HAA sounds like a very efficient airship, but is it efficient when it comes to the environment or society? Is the airship going to have a positive or negative impact? Is Lockheed Martin making everything legal? Lockheed Martin is a global security and information technology company with 136,000 employees worldwide. Their primary customers are the U.S. Department of Defense and U.S. federal government agencies. They design, produce, and maintain advanced technology systems, products, and services. The current company was formed in 1995 with the merger of Lockheed Corporation and Martin Marietta Corporation, both large aerospace and technology companies. The 1996 acquisition of Loral added defense electronics and systems integration to the newly formed Lockheed Martin's capabilities. Lockheed Martin's Aeronautics division has extensive experience in Lighter Than Air (LTA) vehicle...
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...P1 Describe the type of business, purpose and ownership of two contrasting organisations. RSPCA http://www.rspca.org.uk/home http://www.media.rspca.org.uk/media The RSPCA is a charity. The RSPCA (Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals) is an organisation that prevents cruelty to animals. It was founded in a London coffee shop 1824. It was originally called the SPCA (Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals) until in 1837, when Queen Victoria allowed permission for the organisation to add the ‘R’ for the symbol of Royal patronage to be displayed in 1840. The RSPCA is a PLC (Public Limited Company). Two years before the RSPCA was founded, the ‘Martin’s Act’ was created in 1822; this was the first animal welfare law that forbade ‘the cruel and improper treatment of cattle’. In 1835, the ‘Pease’s Act’ was created; this allowed the prohibition of cruelty to cattle to be extended to dogs and other domestic animals. This act also saw that ‘Bear-Baiting’ and ‘Cock-fighting’ were forbidden and also insisted on better standards for slaughter houses. Since being founded the RSPCA has made sure that; laws have been made for lab animals, fur farming in the UK has been abolished and the ban of fox hunting with dogs as well as the Animal Welfare Act. The RSPCA is a founded company that is improving the welfare of animals. ‘It’s our vision to work for a world in which all humans respect and live in harmony with all other members of the animal kingdom.’- RSPCA...
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...watched syndicated shows on television. The series pilot originally aired as an episode of Make Room For Daddy, a popular sitcom starring Danny Thomas. The synopsis of “The Andy Griffith Show” was that Andy Taylor played by Andy Griffith, was a sheriff of a small rural town called Mayberry in North Carolina with a population of 1800. The show depicts Andy's attempts to raise his young son Opie, played by Ron Howard, trying to control his babbling but funny deputy, Barney played by Don Knotts, all while trying to maintain law in a virtually crime-free town. Andy also lives with his Aunt Bee, who helps take care of Opie. There were also a whole bunch of characters that made up the show including scatterbrained Floyd the Barber and the service station attendant, Gomer Pyle. This show portrayed American small-town life during simpler times and where more traditional values were respected. The Andy Griffith Show was a part of a trend in programs at that time in which the main characters were naïve simple minded but honest and hardworking people from the American Heartland. By the late 1960s, however, many viewers, especially young ones, were rejecting these shows as irrelevant to the times they were currently living in. Programs like the Andy Griffith Show portrayed isolation from contemporary problems and that was part of its appeal, but the civil rights movement had brought about a change in the popular image of the small Southern town. They were replaced by comedy shows like The...
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...(c) Bedford/St. Martin's bedfordstmartins.com 1-457-62096-0 / 978-1-457-62096-6 SOUNDS AND IMAGES Movies and the Impact of Images 187 Early Technology and the Evolution of Movies 192 The Rise of the Hollywood Studio System 195 The Studio System’s Golden Age 205 The Transformation of the Studio System 209 The Economics of the Movie Business 215 Popular Movies and Democracy In every generation, a film is made that changes the movie industry. In 1941, that film was Orson Welles’s Citizen Kane. Welles produced, directed, wrote, and starred in the movie at age twenty-five, playing a newspaper magnate from a young man to old age. While the movie was not a commercial success initially (powerful newspaper publisher William Randolph Hearst, whose life was the inspiration for the movie, tried to suppress it), it was critically praised for its acting, story, and directing. Citizen Kane’s dramatic camera angles, striking film noir–style lighting, nonlinear storytelling, montages, and long deep-focus shots were considered technically innovative for the era. Over time, Citizen Kane became revered as a masterpiece, and in 1997 the American Film Institute named it the Greatest American Movie of All Time. “Citizen Kane is more than a great movie; it is a gathering of all the lessons of the emerging era of sound,” film critic Roger Ebert wrote.1 CHAPTER 6 ○ MOVIES 185 (c) Bedford/St. Martin's bedfordstmartins.com 1-457-62096-0 / 978-1-457-62096-6 MOVIES A generation later...
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...payment for the first shipment of tobacco to England, the equivalent to a million dollar profit in today’s market, the settlers of Jamestown would now have but one purpose in life, the cultivation and sell of tobacco.”They planted the very streets of Jamestown in tobacco. A colony recently starving now neglected grain and gardens in order to cultivate a weed to be burned. Company agents lamented that the settlers' “greediness after great quantities of tobacco causeth them [neither to] build good homes, fence their grounds, or plant any orchards.” (Conlin 31-32) By 1616 the Jamestown colony was exporting to England 2,500 pounds of tobacco. In just to two years the production would grow to 20x that, 50,000 pounds of tobacco was exported. (Station 2/23/15) Jamestown grows from a hobble of dying farmers to a society centered around large plantations. The establishment of large plantations to produce more and more tobacco became the focus of the Virginia Company. Labor would be needed to operate theses large plantations, to encourage the import of servants to Jamestown, in 1618 Virginia instituted the headright system, “each head of household who came to Virginia was granted 50 acres for each person whose transatlantic fare he paid. Thus, a family of five secured 250 acres upon disembarking. If the family had the means to bring ten indentured servants with the, they were granted another 500 acres. Thus was Virginia peopled, thus the tobacco grown, thus were the beginnings of a society...
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...Finance Minister AMA Muhith placed Tk 1,635.89-billion budget for the fiscal year 2011-12 in parliament on Thursday. Of the outlay, 56.2 percent will come from tax revenue, 13.8 percent from non-tax revenue and 11 percent from foreign loan and grants. Another 16.6 percent is to come from domestic souIn addition, increased borrowings from the public through the banking system reduce availability of credit for trade and industryrces, mostly from bank loans. In addition, introduction of five percent income tax on poultry farms and fisheries will further inflate food price. Commenting on the seven percent GDP growth target, it said: “As time progresses, this should be raised to eight percent as the economy has started showing encouraging signs with higher demand for investment credit, increased import of raw materials and betterment of export performance. Higher GDP growth is necessary also for achieving the status of a middle income country by 2021.” “While we appreciate the progressive proposals placed in the budget, we are concerned with the implementation of these proposals. The monitoring and implementation mechanisms need to be strengthened and enhanced significantly in order to achieve the proposed ambitious growth in the economy.” Share on ESTABLISH GENDER EQUALITY, WOMEN HUMAN RIGHTS AND GOOD GOVERNANCE: Bangladesh consists in the most traditional background that gender discrimination is common feature, less job opportunity; economic dependency and abuse of women’s...
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...| |2014 | | | | | |Submitted to: | | |TAKRIMA SAYEDA | | |Lecturer | | | | | |University Of Dhaka | | | | | | | | |Course: THM 325 | |[BANGLADESH RAILWAYS – THE LIFE LINE OF THE COUNTRY] | | | | | |Prepared By: GROUP – ‘Knockout Knights’ | | | Group name : `Knockout Knights` Course code : THM - 325 Member’ |Name ...
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...tasks of producing global leader is the responsibility of the organization, parent country, and the host country. Global organizations compete with a much broader group of companies than their domestic counterparts. They operate at the highest level of involvement in the global marketplace and must develop several strategies that are efficient and cost-effective. These organizations are flexible and compete by offering top products tailored to segments of the market while keeping costs as low as possible. They may have multiple headquarters spread throughout the world and have a decentralized decision making structure. The location of each facility is based on the ability to effectively, efficiently, and flexibly produce a product or service base using cultural difference as an advantage. Global organizations threats different cultures as equals, rather than challenges they have to overcome. This type of organization requires human resource management practices that encourage flexibility and are based on an in-depth knowledge of differences among countries (Noe, Hollenbeck, Gerhart, & Wright, 2011, p. 461). Global leadership is an important factor in future business success. The term, “Global business leader” literally means a person who runs a business operations that expands globally. The capabilities of a global business leader should include such things as management prowess communication capability, and cross-cultural sensitivity. A global business leader should be familiar...
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...Television History - A Timeline 1878-2005 1878 William Crookes confirmed the existence of cathode rays by building a tube to display them in. 1897 German scientist Karl Ferdinand Braun constructs the cathode ray tube scanning device. 1900 Russian Constantin Perskyi introduces the word "television" at the 1st International Congress of Electricity at the World's Fair in Paris. Souvenir trading cards are sold at the same fair, two predicting color television and news radio in the year 2000. 1905 Philipp Lenard wins the Nobel Prize in physics for his research on cathode rays. 1907 A.A. Campbell Swinton in England and Boris Rosing in Russia independently propose an electronic scanning system in which a cathode ray tube could produce an image on a phosphorus-coated screen. 1923 Vladimir Zworykin, working for Westinghouse Electric, patents the iconoscope, a television transmission tube and in 1924, patents the kinescope, the receiver tube. 1925 In England, John Logie Baird demonstrates the first moving television pictures via a mechanical system based on Nipkow's disk; they were recognizable human faces in 1925 and moving objects in 1926. He had shown a still image of Felix the Cat in 1924. 1927 Philo Farnsworth transmits the first electronic television image and applies for a patent on the first complete electronic system, the Image Dissector. The first practical demonstration of television is arranged by Bell Labs and AT&T, when Commerce Secretary Herbert...
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...with sexually assaulting a teenage boy after picking him up at a Greyhound station and forcing him to perform oral sex on him. Charges were dropped after the boy failed to show up in court (Cahill & Ewing, 1986). Gacy was able to buy a house with the help of his mother. The two moved in to the house, where Gacy would remain until his arrest for his murders in 1978. In August 1971, Gacy became engaged to Carole Hoff, an old high school girlfriend. One week before his wedding, Gacy was arrested after a complaint from a boy named Jackie Dee. He claimed that Gacy lured him into his car by flashing a fake badge. Gacy then forced Dee to perform oral sex on him. Charges were dropped after Gee was caught trying to blackmail Gacy. Gacy and Hoff were married on July 1, 1972 and his mother then moved out of his house (Cahill & Ewing, 1986). By 1975, Gacy had admitted to his wife that he was bisexual. On Mother’s Day, after having sex with her, Gacy stated that would be the last time they would ever have sex (Cahill & Ewing, 1986). He then began coming home in the middle of the night, sometimes bringing teenage boys with him into their garage. Gacy and Hoff divorced in March 1976. Gacy’s first murder took place on January 2, 1972. Sixteen year old Timothy McCoy was picked up by Gacy at the Chicago Greyhound station. Gacy had convinced McCoy to spend the night and promised that he would have him back at the bus station the next morning. During the night, Gacy was woken up and saw McCoy standing...
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...Tourism in Bangladesh Bangladesh as a vacation land has many facets. Her tourist attractions include archaeological sites, historic mosques and monuments, resorts, beaches, picnic spots, forest and wildlife. Bangladesh offers opportunities for angling, water-skiing, river cruising, hiking, rowing, surfing, yachting and sea bathing as well as bringing one in close touch with Mother Nature. She is also rich in wildlife and game birds. HISTORY: The history of Bangladesh has been one of extremes, of turmoil and peace, prosperity and destitution. It has thrived under the glow of cultural spiendour and suffered under the ravages of war. The earliest mention of Bangladesh is found in the Hindu epic, the Mahabharata (the story of Great Battle-9th century B.C). Evidence also suggests that there was a strong Mongoloid presence as well. Soon after, in the 5th and 6th centuries B.C. came the Aryans from Central Asia and the Dravidians from Western India. Then came the Guptas, Palas, Senas, who were Buddhist and Hindus. From the 13th century A.D. the flood of Muslim invaders and the tide of Islam swamped the Buddhist and Hindus untold 8th century. Sometimes there were independent rulers like the Hussain Shahi and Ilyas Shahi dynasties while at other times they ruled on behalf of the imperial seat of Delhi. From 15th century the Europeans, namely; Portuguese, Dutch, French and British traders exerted an economic influence over the region. British political rule over the region...
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...Practice Test #1 Critical Reasoning (53 Questions) 73. (25075-!-item-!-188;#058&001412) Most of Western music since the Renaissance has been based on a seven-note scale known as the diatonic scale, but when did the scale originate? A fragment of a bone flute excavated at a Neanderthal campsite has four holes, which are spaced in exactly the right way for playing the third through sixth notes of a diatonic scale. The entire flute must surely have had more holes, and the flute was made from a bone that was long enough for these additional holes to have allowed a complete diatonic scale to be played. Therefore, the Neanderthals who made the flute probably used a diatonic musical scale. In the argument given, the two portions in boldface play which of the following roles? A. The first introduces evidence to support the main conclusion of the argument; the second is the main conclusion stated in the argument. B. The first introduces evidence to support the main conclusion of the argument; the second presents a position to which the argument is opposed. C. The first describes a discovery as undermining the position against which the argument as a whole is directed; the second states the main conclusion of the argument. D. The first introduces the phenomenon that the argument as a whole seeks to explain; the second presents a position to which the argument is opposed. E. The first introduces the phenomenon that the argument as a whole seeks to explain; the second gives...
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...Coastal Resources Management, Policy and Planning In Bangladesh Md. Masudur Rahman, Zubair Ahmed Chowdhury and Md. Nasir Uddin Sada Department of Fisheries Bangladesh Rahman M.M, Z.A Chowdhury and M.N.U Sada. 2003. Coastal resources management, policy and planning in Bangladesh, p. 689 - 756. In G. Silvestre, L. Garces, I. Stobutzki, M. Ahmed, R.A. Valmonte-Santos, C. Luna, L. Lachica-Aliño, P. Munro, V. Christensen and D. Pauly (eds.) Assessment, Management and Future Directions for Coastal Fisheries in Asian Countries. WorldFish Center Conference Proceeding 67, 1 120 p. Abstract This paper reviews the coastal fishery resources of Bangladesh emphasizing the coastal environment, capture fisheries and management issues relative to the sector. Bangladesh’s Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) covers an area of about 166 000 km2. This area has abundant natural resources such as fish, shrimps, crabs and other marine products. Shrimp and fish trawling is the most important economic activity in this area. The fishery sector makes a significant contribution to the national economy in terms of foreign exchange, income generation and employment. It is very important in nutrition, especially in providing animal protein. In 1997 - 99, the marine fisheries sector contributed 22% of the total fishery production of 1 373 000 t. However, the resources are being destroyed in many ways. The fisheries resources have declined and fishers are getting poorer. The decline is partly due to estuarine...
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....7 e-Commerce in Different Sector in Bangladesh ................................8 Overview of implementation stage of e-Commerce in Bangladesh 8 Some e-Commerce shop in Bangladesh ............................................9 The impact of e-Commerce ...............................................................9 Constraints to E-Commerce in Bangladesh......................................10 Challenges of E-commerce for Bangladesh......................................11 Recommendations………………………………………………………………………11 Conclusion........................................................................................12 References………………………………………………………………………………….13 Ecommerce refers to the buying and selling of products or services over electronic systems through Internet and other computer networks. The most popular medium in which e-Commerce is conducted is the internet. It combines a range of process such as:...
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