...happen in other communities being that there are two military bases in the city that I live in, along with many others in the surrounding area. The community that I am living in currently is somewhat a different kind of community. I have only been stationed here with my husband and children for three months and I am learning many new things about the area. Not only does this community have many different cultures and races but people from all over the country. The reason that Jacksonville, North Carolina has such a wide range of cultures is partially because this is a town that is full of military men and women. I live within ten miles of Camp Lejeune Marine Corps base and Marine Corps Air Station New River. There are many different kinds of people in my community. There are many who do look a lot like me, and there are others who don’t. There are many women that are military wives out here where I live and they are around the same ages as myself and also have children. I do not have trouble finding people much like myself out here. There is also one thing most of us have in common with each other. Our spouses are in the military and we spend large portions of our lives separated from them. There are woman who are white like myself and tall just like myself as well. They have dark hair and hazel eyes like me and like to go to the gym and spend time with their familys and children. One thing about living the military life style is you never take for granted the most important...
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...UFOs, Underground Bases, and Government cover-ups Julian Mercado DeVry University, ENG135 October 1, 2010 UFO, Underground Bases, and Government cover-ups Introduction UFOs have been seen by people all over the world. People of different cultures and ethnicities have different names for these unknown craft. In Spanish it is “objeto volante no identificado”, and in German it is actually UFO. Regardless of what race you are, UFO means the same thing, “Unidentified flying Object”. Let me be clear on this. It means it is a flying object that cannot be identified. We will delve into the world of UFOs and underground military installations, and examine the history of UFOs, their hot spots, and look into evidence of government cover-ups. UFO History Unidentified flying objects have been around a long time, one of the earliest sightings in 593 BC, recorded in the Bible in the book of Ezekiel 1:16. Ezekiel talks of encountering a flying object near Cheber River Chaldea, in today’s Iraq. "Now as I looked at the living creatures, I saw a wheel upon the earth beside the living creatures, one for each of the four of them. As for the appearance of the wheels and their construction: their appearance was like the gleaming of beryl” (1, Ezekiel 1:16 English standard version, 2010). Perhaps it sounds like something out of a science fiction movie, but many historians have taken this biblical account seriously. He described what he saw with words and phrases from the reality and time...
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...no car of my own, therefore, it would be ten times harder to find and keep a job in a small town with my kind of degree, and with no public transportation. My mom recommended a part-time job; she works at...
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...Peak Vista Community Health Center Colorado Springs, Co Colorado Springs, in El Paso County, Colorado, sits on a high elevation mesa at the foot of the Rocky Mountains (particularly Pikes Peak) in eastern central Colorado (City-Data, n.d.). To its east are rolling prairie lands and to the north a place called the Monument Divide, a geological mountain ridge that divides it from the city of Denver, causing distinct differences in weather between the two big cities (City-Data, n.d.; Palmer Lake Historical Society, n.d.). The city is known for its mild, dry weather as it is protected from severe climate by the mountains to the west (City-Data, n.d.). The city encompasses 194 square miles of land with about 2,242 people per square mile (World Population Review, 2016). As of 2015, 11 neighborhoods find refuge within its borders (Statistical Atlas, 2015). Because of its location beside the beautiful Rockies, it has much natural beauty (Encyclopedia Britannica, 2016). In addition to the majestic mountains themselves, national forests and natural sandstone monuments add to the picturesque view (Encyclopedia Britannica, 2016). Colorado Springs, Colorado is an extremely large city, the 2nd most populous in Colorado after Denver, and the 41st largest in the entire US (World Population Review, 2016). The total population is 416,427 as of Suburban Stats 2015-2016 with 34 being the median age. 11% of the population is over age 65, 70% of households are families, and 47% of those have...
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...Greg Mollnow Professor Gray Homefront HI 1311 Homefront: A Military City and the American 20th Century War and peacetime are losing meaning in today’s society. Most of the time, the standing army is active in some way. This is due to the U.S. involvement in foreign affairs. Fort Bragg just outside of Fayetteville, NC is a great example of this. What used to be peacetime is now time to prepare for the next war. This leaves distinction between the two almost impossible for the people in Fayetteville, who generally see war games played out sometimes involving the city. Due to this and the non-violence of the Cold War, civilians find it impossible to find distinctions between war and peace. Lutz explains in her narrative how our society is losing the time between wars once called peacetime. Now a days this time is used to prepare for the next war, as in war games, training and military exercises. These all put a major strain on society, especially ones that become involved with the war games, etc. This was apparent in Exercise Flash Burn. Here Fort Bragg was running a war game to practice for nuclear war. On maps used for the games, neighboring Fayetteville was dubbed “Pineland”. The local newspaper would cover these games generally in the “style of Reader’s Digest, ‘Humor in Uniform’: Soldiers participating in the games had mishaps as they bellied up to snakes in the woods or were bested by pickpockets on their bus trip in. And some featured...
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...(HRD). Compensation of people at work has become one of the most demanding problems facing management in South Africa (SA) today. In the past, payment for work performed was simple and straightforward. Paying for work not performed, such as vacation was simply unheard by the management. For most parts the employer displayed a take it or leave it attitude when making pay offers to employees. Today the almost automatic increasing of employees’ salaries every 12 months or so is common practice. Although thing has change substantially, new and better ways of compensating people are needed in Human Resource Management (HRM). To understand the utility of broader construct for considering military and civilian pay comparability, it is necessary to consider how military service differs from employment in the civilian sector (Asch & Warner, 1994). A primary goal of South African National Defence Force (SANDF) compensation is to enable its military to meet its manning objective for the force size, composition, and wartime capability. To attain these objectives, compensation must be appropriately structured to attract, retain, and motivate personnel at a reasonable cost, even when national security goal are...
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...is a city in south-west New South Wales, situated on the banks of the Murrumbidgee River. It is the largest inland town in New South Wales with a population of about 47,000 people and is the regional centre for the Riverina area, and is an important stopping point as it is almost exactly half way between Sydney and Melbourne. The original inhabitants of Wagga were the Wiradjuri people, but the towns’ founder was Charles Sturt, of whom the main road of the city is named after. Wagga Wagga is home to the Royal Australian Air Force base and the Royal Military Hospital. The original village had a lot of settling problems, even though it was based on the banks of one of Australia’s largest rivers, it is located in a n alluvial valley, giving its early inhabitants constant trouble with salinity. To make matters worse, it is also located on a flood plain, so the settlers had to deal with this as well as the troubles they had with growing crops and orchards. Wagga Waggas has a temperate climate with hot summers, reaching up to 47 degrees Celsius, and freezing winters with temperatures sometimes hitting as low as -5 degrees Celsius. The village of Wagga Wagga (Crows Eye) was founded in 1829 by Charles Sturt, and the town quickly grew, reaching a population of 627 by 1949. The population continued to rise steadily, with both a public library and a reservoir built by 1885. Gas lighting was also added around this time, and Wagga was the first inland town in New South Wales to have its...
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...design and architecture, and rapidly change the nature of a city. It also shows how this transformation can produce an environmentally sustainable city through collective intelligence gained from interactions with geographically dispersed cultures. The city under consideration is the Persian Gulf city of Bushehr th th during the 18 and 19 centuries. During this time the city transformed from being a naval base into a trading and information hub, and this had a strong impact on its popular culture and architecture. Approach – The approach is to examine how the flow of knowledge affected urban design and architecture before the emergence of rampant globalisation. The changes in Bushehr are interpreted in the light of Deleuze and Guattari’s rhizomatic view of knowledge as being unstructured, cross-disciplinary and serendipitous. For example, it is suggested that the encroachment of modernist architecture has not completely destroyed the rhizomatic nature of Bushehr because the ‘asignifying rupture’ ensures that the city continues to grow and develop along new and existing lines. The position of Bushehr as a trading port and information hub led to its adopting architectural styles from east Africa, the hinterland of Iran...
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...airfields for the U.S. Army, at Oat and Winsor Field, simply known as “The Project”. During this time there was a lot of political unrest in the colonial Bahamas related to political and labor rights and race relations. This all stared during (1939-1945), when Americans began to set up military bases in Nassau, which was advantages because of the clear skies for training airmen and the clear water for training in under water skills. Permission was sought from the British Government for military bases to be built in several Caribbean countries. In the Bahamas, with lend-lease arrangement, permission was given for the U.S firm, Pleasantville Incorporated, under supervision of the U.S Army Engineering Department, to construct two bases at New Providence. The first, known as Man Field, was adjacent to Grants Town where a small landing field was already developed by Sir Harry Oakes and the other, known as Satellite Field. Collectively, these were known as “The Project”. Work began on the 20th May, 1942. Because of the demoralizing lack of employment that excited at the time, when the news about this employment opportunity was made public, many men form the outlying Bahamian islands flocked to New Providence joining the already...
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...our nation on shutdown. It has seemed that a virus outbreak has turned people into cannibal. The National Guard has been called in and the president told people to stay in their homes and off the streets. I have also seen people in biohazard suits on television Day: 2 Okay, I figured out what this thing is it is the Z-virus it is a zombie virus. The only way to kill the zombies is destroying the head. The military is trying their best to keep the infection from spreading. I don’t think they are going to last. I have also boarded up the windows just in case. Day: 3 The military has fallen back and now the electrical power is out and also the virus is now spreading across the world. There is still hope it is not the end of the human race. I will fight with every last breath. Also now we are all on our own. Day: 4 I have got my old radio working in my armored jeep. From what I have heard there are hoards and mega hoards in New York and the military is trying to eradicate them before they spread the disease and to bring more control .also I found my old military buddy john. He got separated from his squad when they fell back and out of the city. Day: 5 The virus is now completely worldwide now. I have also heard that there are safe zones spread across the world, but most of them are going to fall I know it will happen because some of them are not well protected. If we have leave soon we need to be careful because there are zombies gathering near the garage and front...
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...In the eyes of Phillip Kent, the town was going to hell. First, they built the air force base that caused large military trucks to clog up the roads. Then they built the test site where they plotted the end of the world. And plot they did. Phillip would rant and rave and scream and complain to anyone that would listen. “They’re doing stuff over there that’s not right,” he would say, his hands shaking and his long face dripping with sweat. “I know. I read the Book of Revelations. I know end times when I see it, and this here’s the end times – mark my words. They’re messing with things that shouldn’t be messed with.” Still, no one paid him any mind. Every town had their fool, and Phillip was the fool of Beatty, Nevada. So, when Doris and Marvin Hinckley moved to Beatty in the summer of ’57, they followed suit with the rest of the town....
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...ENG215 Caroline Lusk Full-length Article – Final Fanning the Home Fires: Raising Awareness and Caring for military kids & families During my husband’s career, my family and I have visited several military installations: Camp Shelby, Mississippi, Fort Bragg, North Carolina, Fort Indiantown Gap, Pennsylvania, and Fort Dix, New Jersey to name a few. If you have never visited an Army base, it’s quite an experience. In some respects, it’s not much different than many middle-income towns in America, but in other ways, it’s very different. The people you meet there feel like family somehow. They, like you, are aware that if you are on the base, shopping or in the grocery store that it’s likely you or someone in your family may be faced with the same uncertain but inevitable struggle; coping with the deployment of a family member. Education, teaching coping strategies and connecting families and service personnel to the available resource has been a top initiative of the US Armed Forces in the past 5 years. With the increased dependency upon Reserve and National Guard components to supplement force strength, an unprecedented burden has been placed on the American family. For those individuals who are actively serving as a part-time soldier, deployments mean separation, family hardship and leaving their ordinary everyday lives to serve their Country. In my case, my husband Mark serves as a Sergeant in the Pennsylvania National Guard as a tank commander. He has been...
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...I'm glad to get a chance to talk to you. Thank you so much for contacting me. What is it that inspired you to become an actress? Well, it's interesting because I'm from a really small town--in rural Manitoba. I've never really known anyone personally as an actor. The most famous people we met were hockey players. When my friends and I were in school, there was this traveling road show that would come to McCreary--the town I grew up in--and we would literally line up to see this live theater. And I remember seeing the audience and being totally transfixed in this world and loving it so much. But it wasn't until my English teacher , Darlene Grimstead, in high school moved to our town, and she created a drama club. And I joined it, and from the very first play we did, it was like I was hooked after that. She changed the path of my life for sure. So from there, what kind of training did you have to pursue this dream? Well, at that point, it...
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...is that the candidate being considered should have a MBA or at minimum three years’ experience as store manager. CompTech’s strategic objective is to meet customer requirements and expand their customer base, so I would also include strong customer service skills as a job specification. To validate the specifications that have been given I would look towards the job description initially and I would perform some job analysis on the store manager’s position (Bernardin, J.H., 2013. A job description would be able to tell me the most important job duties and specifications (Bernardin, J.H., 2013. In performing the job analysis I would use several different approaches. I could observe someone performing the store manager’s position or I could actually perform the store manager’s positions for a set period of time. I would also go through a position analysis questionnaire and a management position description questionnaire to see what specific job duties would fit this position best (Bernardin, J.H., 2013. What hypotheses or proposal do you have so far regarding CompTech's strategic position? What do you regard as the critical strengths and weaknesses based on the data you have? CompTech’s strategic position is to “meet customer requirements and expand the customer base into small-business workstations in order to build a long-term relationship”. My proposal to CompTech would be to review their current requirements for a store manager position. One of their strategic...
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...Dyess Air Force Base, Texas is formally known as a military hub for the famous B-1 and C-130 aircraft and for being an active part of the Global War on Terrorism. From December 2003 until April 2013, the base was a vital part of Operation Enduring Freedom as well as Operation Iraqi Freedom and was deployed consistently for almost 3,400 days during that time. Dyess Air Force Base, located 4 miles west of Abilene, has valued and contributed to the community of Abilene throughout its history. Formerly named Tye Army Air Field, Abilene Army Air Base, and Abilene Army Air Field, Dyess Air Force Base, Texas has been “dropping warheads on foreheads” in the name of freedom for over seventy years. Although only remnants of Tye Army Air Field exist...
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