sports to help cut costs for equipment, give students more time to focus on grades, and allow kids to focus on work instead of games. As many sports coaches know, equipment can cost schools plenty of money. To find out how much schools actually spend, Amanda Ripley interviewed Superintendent Ernest Singleton of the Premont Independent School District who stated that, “By suspending sports, he realized, the district could save $150,000 in one year” (11). More specifically, “bleachers can cost half a million
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Amanda Persico Case Scenario: Big Time Toymaker 1. At what point, if ever, did the parties have a contract? The parties had an oral contract when BTT and Chou agreed on an oral distribution agreement three days before the 90-day period had expired. 2. What facts may weigh in favor of or against Chou in terms of the parties’ objective intent to contract? The facts that would weigh in favor for Chou were the meeting that took place 3 days prior to the 90-day expiration period, the
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Different Cultures and Race in India Amanda Johnson SOC/120 Brenda Miller There are many different cultures in India and the different cultures come from the different religions that the people of India believe in. Here are a few of the different religions that are in India; Buddhism, Jainism, Hinduism, and Sikhism. Even though there are many different religions, people of different religions worship together. Family is very important to the people in India. In India the parents or guardian
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Momordica Charantia and Influenza A The Momordica Charantia plant was determined to contain a protein that shows antiviral activity. The Momordica Charantia is a tropical plant found in China, India, Africa and parts of the Caribbean and is part of the cucumber family. Indigenous populations have used the fruit for many years in food and folk medicine (Hamissou, Smith, Carter, and Triplett 641). Researchers have found that the plant protein inhibits H1N1, H3N2 and H5N1 subtypes. Of the medicinal
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Cultural Differences in Communication Amanda Finley HCA/230 - Communication Skills for Health Care Professionals 5-18-15 Instructor: Robert Feightner Cultural Differences in Communication Cultural differences in communication start with barriers involving language. Different cultures use their own language. People from South America speak Spanish and people from China speak Mandarin or Chines. The main barrier between them is the patients to understand that not everyone understands English
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Amanda Raby 5/18/16 “Logic and Set Theory” Part # 1 The intersection gives only what the two sets have in common. The union of two sets is the set of elements which are in either set. The intersection of two sets is the set of elements which is in both sets. Make sense right? At times there will not be any intersection at all, this
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one step at a time. “‘Dream big,’ I said. “Live life. Do something.’ “(Romero, 320). In this quote Jordan is on a talk show and is encouraging the audience to dream big. About Me I have three brothers (David, Mark, and Preston), three sisters (Amanda, Amaya, and Avery), and three dogs (Mickey, Masomo, and Finley). I love to read and write. My favorite books are dystopian novels. I have wanted to be a veterinarian ever since I was in kindergarten. Review I liked the book No Summit Out of Sight
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/* Amanda Kong ** September 26, 2014 ** CIS 279, Module 4 ** Programming Assignment 4.3 ** Programming Exercise from 7.12 ** ** Purpose: Create a program that calculates the tax from user's input of filling ** status and taxable income. The tax rates are in an array of doubles and the ** tax brackets are in a 2D array of ints. */ import java.util.Scanner; public class Assign4_3 { public static void main(String[] args) { double taxableIncome; int fillingStatus; Scanner input
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Boy George was born George Alan O'Dowd at Barnehurst Hospital in Bexley, Kent on 14 June 1961, to Gerald and Dinah O'Dowd, who were originally from Thurles, County Tipperary in Ireland. He is one of six children. His siblings are Richard, Kevin, David, Gerald, and Siobhan. He was a follower of the New Romantic movement which was popular in Britain in the early 1980s. George and his friend Marilyn were regulars at The Blitz, a trendy London nightclub run by Steve Strange of the group Visage
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Human Rights: Ceasing Torture and ill Treatment “In Guantanamo, Kurnaz was subjected to abusive practices and interrogation techniques, including waterboarding, religious and sexual humiliation, sleep deprivation, and solitary confinement. Of his time in detention, Kurnaz stated that he was repeatedly made to feel less human” (Patel). This excerpt is a real life connection of torture and ill treatment. Torture is commonly overlooked due to the lack of interest and knowledge about it. For instance
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