...This is one topic that has ruffled my feathers. I disagree with the terminology used - I find it to be very offensive. (1) Alien - to me, represents something unfamiliar, disturbing, and distasteful; a creature from out of space. In a sense illegal immigrants fit that description in some individual's opinion, but that doesn't define those who are here legally. In reality, I feel they should replace the term alien with something like: an individual of foreign descent who is in the United States "illegally"; in other words an illegal immigrant. As for The Rights of the Alien - related to the "elements of the Constitution's amendments (the First, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, and the 14th) stating such as search and seizure, self-incrimination, trial...
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...I’m doing my report on peacocks. The peacock I chose is the Indian peacock. The Indian peacock has a body that is bright blue. Each feather shimmers with green, blue, and gold. It’s a pattern on their tail called an eye-spot. The body is covered in bright colorful feathers. This type of covering helps the peacock by attracting female peacocks. The Indian peacock lives in India and other parts of eastern Asia. They also live in Pakistan, western China, and Sri Lanka. Tropical forests are their type of habitat. It’s filled with lowland and foot hills with brush and scattered trees. Indian peacocks can live in this area because they are very unique animals, and are able to live anywhere as long as they have the proper shelter. Indian peacocks can live on seeds, insects, berries, and other nutritious items that can be easily found when they are in the wild. In order to get their food they will hunt and go scavenging. Sometimes a peacock will fly up and roost somewhere high to get a view of a wide area for food. Peacocks hunt small animals, small reptiles, small fish, and small insects. They use their great sense of eyesight and hearing to catch their food. Peacocks are very resourceful and they often have a route they follow every day. Dogs, tigers, leopards, and mongooses are prey to peacocks. They defend by flying high up into trees. Peacocks also cry a loud call that comes for a long distance. This is to warn other peacocks that a predator is near, and it gives them time...
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...In last year’s accor take off presentation, we had the emotional control device, we got the NOVA app. Impressive staffs! Today, I’m going to bring you something more, some thing terrific. Trust me, that will make a hit. Imagine when you go out, for a business trip or a family tour, after an unsettling disturbing fly or drive, what do you want most? Home, sweet home! That’s what we have been focused on: to improve the guest’s experience. Now, let me show you what will happen with this new, revolutionary system that we called UTEL. To allow you to fully appreciate "a new way of hotel living”, UTEL suggests that you take the time to appreciate the services and attention that we provide each of our guests. To this end, we've created a range of package stays in line with your desires and needs. When you step into a hotel, or, you visit our website, through computer ,cell phone, you may first notice this new feature. Well, it’s an ordinary booking system, isn’t it? Wait a sec, see? This is the core part of our new system, the custom room user interface. Yes, with this smart interface, not only can you preorder your hotel room, but also, that’s what we called freestyle custom service, you can just simply drag and place all the elements in your room. We offer two choices. 1st , the recommendations. If you really don’t know how to arrange your room, or you just don’t have time to do so, see the presets. Here we offer hundreds of rooms according...
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...concealed perch. They usually have long tails for tight steering. Buzzards are medium-large raptors with robust bodies and broad wings, or, alternatively, any bird of the genus Buteo (also commonly known as "hawks" in North America). Harriers are large, slender hawk-like birds with long tails and long thin legs. Most use a combination of keen eyesight and hearing to hunt small vertebrates, gliding on their long broad wings and circling low over grasslands and marshes. Vultures are carrion-eating raptors of two distinct biological families: the (Accipitridae), which only occurs in the Eastern Hemisphere; and the (Cathartidae), which only occurs in the Western Hemisphere. Members of both groups have heads either partly or fully devoid of feathers. Falcons are medium-size birds of prey with long pointy wings. Unlike most other raptors, they belong to the Falconidae, rather than the Accipitridae. Many are particularly swift flyers. Caracaras are a distinct subgroup of the Falconidae unique to the New World, and most common in the Neotropics – their broad wings, naked faces and appetites of a generalist suggest some level of convergence with either the Buteos or the vulturine birds, or both. Owls are variable-sized, typically night-specialized hunting birds. They fly almost...
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...existing breeds. (Nimbkar, et al., 2008). Reports have shown that feathers play an important role in broilers production especially during feathering processes (Omeje, et al., 1998). This is because they are made up of the same protein structure as human hair, keratin, though not uniformly distributed throughout the bird’s body as described by (Wilson et al., 2007). Rather they are arranged in rows to produce distinct feather tracts. Each tract follows a specific arrangement with distinct angles which give broilers a common pattern in feather. About 75% of a bird’s skin surface is covered with feather tracts with the uncovered areas being mostly beneath the wings and on parts of the breast. The follicles are formed during embryo development and fixed once the chick is hatched. During broilers life time each bird undergoes two molts. The first occurs during the first two weeks of age where the down feathers are mostly shed and replaced with juvenile feathers and the second at about 4-5 weeks of age where new feathers push the first set of feathers out (Bacon et al., 2005). The head and neck of broilers are the last area of the body to go through molt. It is normal to see broilers with first set of down feathers still on their neck and head area at 5-6 weeks of age. In adult birds, feathers are used for courtship displays and their pattern of structure also in sex differentiation of broilers. Contour feathers protect the broilers against the sun, wind, rain and injury in range...
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...everyone there. Usually a real president makes some long-winded speech about how he is going to turn the country around, and rattles off a list of everything he's going to do. Groucho breaks into song about how he's going to completely make everyone's lives miserable. Everyone agrees to what Groucho's planning to do by singing back the lines he just said. This is a great way of poking fun at the government, since half the time it really can't keep every promise it makes. The musical numbers in Duck Soup are not only mocking the government, national anthems and war, but movie musicals. There are two big musical numbers. All of scenes are well coordinated, but have so many site gags in them (Pinky cutting the feathers off of hats) that they are visually silly. On top of that they are promoting the wrong morals, war and...
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...GEOLOGY/GEOMORPHOLOGY The Sacramento Valley almost holds the northern half of the Great Valley, wherein provides to the full extent the northwest-trending relating hollow heading towards the west next to the Great Valley Fault Zone, Southern Coast Ranges and on to the east near the Sierra Nevada and the Foothills Zone. Thus, the Great Valley’s surface is wrapped with Alluvium of Holocene and Pleistocene age produced mainly with sediments propelled by rivers and deposited to the valley floor. A careful study by Wright (2004) on the release and sediment yields on the Sacramento River’s upstream and downstream with reference to the Fremont and Sacramento Weirs; he was able to say that: “There is a very high probability of a decreasing trend in suspended-sediment discharge for a given flow.” “The annual suspended sediment yield has decreased by one-half from 1957 to 2001.” “During time.” The three largest reservoirs in the watershed have accumulated a mass of sediment of the same order of magnitude as the decreases in suspended-sediment yield from 1957 to 2001.” NATURAL HAZARDS As mentioned above, the chief purpose of the YBWA is for flood protection for the Sacramento Valley citizens. It’s being managed by DFG, through the management of vegetation and hard structures in the Bypass wherein the water does not emerge. For the most part, “Averting” is the best course of action. How? By depleting seasonal wetlands before April 1. SOIL Identifying the dominant...
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...I had sorted through the piles of stuff on my floor. I was cleaning my room and had large stacks of books and other things strewn across my bedroom floor. I had been rearranging my book shelves and had stumbled across my old postcard album. My postcard album was a regular photo album, but instead of putting pictures in it, I had filled it with postcards. I paged through the book, remembering all of the places I had been. A postcard from Sanibel Island caught my eye. I remembered when I was in Florida I wanted to collect shells, so I woke up early in order to get to the beach. I remembered the beach. The ocean was peaceful and the seagulls ruffled their feathers in the wind. It was so peaceful and pristine. The sun had not risen yet, so I just...
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...Allan Ritch CHMN 201-D01 LUO March 31, 2014 Spiritual Gifts Paper PART ONE: What are your top two spiritual gifts? Do you agree with the results? Why or why not? My two dominate spiritual gifts as determined by taking the “Spiritual Gifts Analysis” on www.churchgrowth.org are (1) Administration and (2) Exhortation. I completely agree with this assessment. Having been in the administration field most of my adult life, in one capacity or another, I see that this gift has had an influence upon me. I am definitely a take-charge type of person when it comes to something that I am enthusiastic and passionate. The analyses pointed out that people with this gift tend to count on others to take care of the small details and are gifted delegator. I am definitely that type of person in most situations. I do not like to micro-manage others or be micro-managed. I tend to take on many tasks myself just so I can control the outcome and results. I tend to lack patience at times when a detailed explanation is required and expect that others already know how and what the goals are. The gift exhortation is a direct complement to administration. While administration directs and organizes, exhortation teaches, counsels, and encourages. I have not always seen this gift within my character, although as I look back I can see that this gift has been in the development stage for quite some time. The analysis advises against interrupting people and allowing pride to be the primary motivator...
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...The most important reason for Wolsey’s fall from power was his failure to gain a divorce for Henry VIII, how far do you agree? Wolsey’s dismissal from Henry’s court came in September 1529, though Wolsey had a plethora of failures before, his fall his failure to get a divorce for Henry VIII proved to be the most significant. This is because Wolsey’s strength of position depended on whether he got Henry what he wanted and the divorce was the most obvious case of Wolsey’s failure to do so. For this reason, this essay will argue that the most important reason for the fall of Wolsey was his failure to get a divorce for Henry VIII. Some argue that Wolsey’s failure was due to his alienation of common people. In his early days, Wolsey sought to ensure that common people got justice through his establishment of the Star Chamber. However, this egalitarian attitude faded during Wolsey’s later years and Wolsey’s own corruptness meant that he fell out of favour with the public. Within the area of the Church, Wolsey was guilty of absenteeism, pluralism and nepotism – appointing his illegitimate son (Thomas Wynter) to high positions in the Church. Furthermore, though his attempt to raise money for Henry’s foreign campaigns came in the form of the Amicable Grant 1525 (a heavy tax) failed, Wolsey was not dismissed on the grounds of this. From this we can see that Wolsey’s alienation from the ‘common’ people did not cause his fall, but something else. Henry did blame the Amicable Grant on...
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...Introduction “American Imperialism has been a part of United States history ever since the American Revolution. Imperialism is practice by which powerful nations or people seek to expand and maintain control or influence over weaker nations or people.” (Casahistoria, 2010) The 19th century bought about a lot of commotion for this country as well as other countries because of different things that we needed and the other countries had but did not want to share. For example, the countries were fighting over land, food, trees, etc. It seems like they were fighting over what ever the other country may have had that they wanted. In this one century there were many wars there was the war of 1812, the civil war, Napoleonic war and many others. The War of 1812 The war of 1812 was a war fought between the USA and Great Britain. It was fought because the USA wanted to keep up the ongoing trade they had with France but because the British was France main rival and the British had more power they tried to stop the US from trading with France. The US felt that this was against the law and when the British would not let up the US imposed war on them; the war lasted from 1812 through 1815. In my opinion, this war was for territory in the end there was a peace conference where both countries came together declared the war over and which ever land they claimed. The British claimed all of the northern states like Maine, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, etc. The US claimed many states farther...
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...The Conflict Game In 1960, the Milton Bradley Company created the Game of Life. This board game sends players on an adventure through life. The player has options throughout the game and sometimes is sent down a risky road where fortunes are won or lost. During the course of the game, if a player lands on all spaces that give money and the player has the highest salary amount possible, they could earn a maximum of $3,115,000 and be deemed the “game master”. In efforts play this game the players have to determine if they are going to be “game players” or “game masters”. Players in the real game of life must also make similar decisions and face similar consequences for their actions. Also, just like the board game, players get their feathers ruffled and conflict is created when course of life takes a different route from the original plan. This can generate high emotions and increase the stakes of the game. In efforts to succeed in both the game and in daily life, the players have to recognize the game playing is an essential part of managing conflict. (Hasbro, 2013). Relationships can often be viewed as games because each relationship has a set of rules worked out between both parties. When the rules are followed, things go well. When the rules are stretched or disregarded, conflict arises. It is one thing to “play the game” but quite another to “master the game”. A game master knows how to play the game and why such game should be played. A game master is stable in good situations...
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...INTRODUCTION The book of Romans imparts wisdom and warnings about living a Christian life. Paul is the author and he instructs all in how we should live and respond to the natural world, our individual human identity, relationships with others and God, the culture, and much more. In referencing Romans 1-8, Paul’s warns his readers not to have faith in good works, but that faith in God, through Jesus Christ, is the only way to heaven. The Natural World In Genesis 1:1 of the Bible, scripture states that “foundation of the earth was originally created by God.” Then Paul references the creation of the world in Romans 1:20, “For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse.” This scripture speaks to the fact that in God’s creation, he’s shown to be the orderly designer, powerful creator and undeniable. Keener (1993) referenced Cicero who stated “the human mind cannot deny what God is like.” The splendor of the earth pointed to God, but people still rejected Him and the goodness of what he completed for mankind. In this rejection, man willfully create gods for themselves and turn to idol worship (Keener, 1993). In doing so, Paul warns his readers that only God was worthy of praise and those that rejected the knowledge from the creation caused damnation on themselves. (Hindson and Towns, 2013). Human Identity Paul made...
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...success of the convention. This success stemmed from the desire of all agencies to highlight the city of Boston in a positive light. Assistance was generated by Governor Romney’s request to Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge to designate the DNC as a National Special Security Event (NSSE). With the NSSE designation there left no ambiguity as to who was in charge of security. However, even though a large government agency with virtually unlimited resources was taking the lead, it could not work alone and required the cooperation of eleven various federal, state and local agencies. Even though it appears that cooperation between all parties was evident it still took a point-person to ensure that everyone worked well together, no feathers were ruffled and tasks were maintained. Political issues also needed to be weighed, as Democratic Mayor Merino was heavily involved in the bidding process and any blunder or mismanagement would shine a negative light on his party. In spite of all these issues, the Secret Services mission was to secure the Fleet Center, its delegates, protestors, and attendees. This is where the leadership of Secret Service Special Agent Scott Sheafe was key in getting everyone on board with the project. Sheafe had the foresight to see the potential issues that would arise once the security goals of the Secret Service and DNC came to light. He immediately made clear his goal of completely securing the fleet center by sweeping it clean and then allowing entry...
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...Ethical Dilemma: Goldman Sachs Was Goldman Sachs Socially Responsible? Pamela Bryant Northcentral University Abstract Illegal and unethical activity was prevalent in the Goldman Sachs administration and the charges filed against them by the SEC were inevitable. The underlying thought at Goldman Sachs amidst the allegations was a social purpose and a contribution to the economic cycle. While there were many gray areas of activity, this research will focus on the investment strategies used to control the clients financial investment gain and in most cases loss. Furthermore, this paper will outline the unethical behavior that was associated with the fraudulent transactions of Goldman Sachs as it related to the clients and public investors. Was Goldman Sachs Socially Responsible? The problem to be investigated is whether Goldman Sachs violated its own Code of Ethics in dealing with clients and public investors. According to the Preamble of the Business Code of Ethics, Goldman Sachs believes the highest standard of integrity should be included as the focal element in a business relationship. Regardless of how perceptive one might be in understanding the investment strategies of Goldman Sachs or even its relationship to the difficulties of the market, it is clear that not all activities were in accordance with the good old-fashioned law of principle and ethics. Background Goldman Sachs history has never been clear of controversy, dating back to its inception in...
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