Executive Summary Introduction History of Nordstrom, Inc. NAICS: 448140 SIC: 5651 Ticker: JWN Current Stock Price: 62.45 In 1887, 16-year old John W. Nordstrom emigrated from Sweden with the promise of New York City, five dollars and not a word of English to his name. The first couple of years were hard for John but he made a living working in mines and logging camps while crossing the country to reach Washington State. One morning in 1897, he picked up a newspaper with the headline “Gold
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The 6500 word letter went on to explain and make clear to the clergy and to the world why the struggle against racism must not be deferred. King's main claim in this letter is that no matter what the circumstances are it is far beyond time for the black community to stand up and fight for what is rightfully theirs, the same rights and freedoms accorded to the white community. King effectively accomplishes this task through the structure of the essay and in his use of pathos, ethos, and logos to defend
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INTRODUCTION Addiction is specifically concern with the process by which drug-taking behavior, in certain individuals, evolves into compulsive patterns of drug-seeking and drug-taking behavior that take place at the expense of most other activities and the inability to cease drug-taking. THERE ARE FIVE THEORIES OF ADDICTION NAMELY; * MEDICAL MODEL * PSYCHODYNAMIC MODEL * SOCIAL MODEL * MORAL MODEL * BIO-PSYCHO-SOCIAL MODEL MEDICAL MODEL This involves * Addiction as a “brain
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Phillis was about eight years old, when she was captured and taken away from her parents, soon after that she was bought as a slave. “The child was a victim of the largest involuntary human migration in history. She had been kidnapped from her family in Africa and forced to spend up to two months crossing the Atlantic. She now faced land again at last (Carretta, 2011)”. “Phillis reached Boston in 1761 at the peak of the annual season for selling imported slaves (Robert). There has been a great deal
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American man who sat in the first-class section of a train on June 7, 1892 was asked to be seated in the Jim Crow Cars although he had already bought a first-class ticket. After refusing peacefully, Plessy was arrested and trial was set for five months later. The case ultimately moved up to the United States Supreme Court. Plessy Vs. Ferguson hearing would “challenge the definition of race itself” and eventually the case was overturned in 1954. The United States Supreme Court’s ruling was an
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Discussing the History, Training and Methodology of the Rhodesian Selous Scouts in Counterterrorist Operations during the Rhodesian Bush War Discussing the History, Training and Methodology of the Rhodesian Selous Scouts in Counterterrorist Operations during the Rhodesian Bush War When discussing the effectiveness and impact of properly trained, motivated and supported counterterrorist units, one must look to the Rhodesian Selous Scouts. Although the Rhodesian government did not survive, the
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Highlights Percent of adults on probation MisdeTotal Felony meanor Total Offense Violent Property Drug Public-order 100 % 100 % 100 % 17.3% 28.9 21.4 31.1 19.5% 36.6 30.7 12.1 13.5% 18.2 7.6 59.6 Criminal history None Priors Juvenile Adult 49.9% 50.1 9.0 45.1 49.2% 50.8 10.3 45.1 52.1% 47.9 5.6 44.3 Type of sentence Probation only Split Jail Prison 49.8% 50.2 37.3 15.3 Special conditions Any 98.6% Fees/fines/costs 84
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which they chose the anti-apartheid resistance to photograph, due to Mofokeng’s socioeconoic status and the conditions of apartheid towards black people, he could often not get to where the photos needed to be shot in time as he did not own a means of transport (Haynes, 2009: 39). Instead of shooting and exposing the political issues and the uproar of the black community in South Africa, Mofokeng was more intrigued with normal, everyday life in the South African townships (Haynes, 2009: 39). Not only
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The patient is a 72-year-old gentleman who is brought to the emergency room because of poor oral intake and loss of appetite. The patient really has had poor intake for the past 6 months. He has not eaten in the past 5 days. He usually has no appetite, but in the ED he is asking for food and cryine. He lives with a friend who called the EMS today because the patient had altered mental status. The patient had been seen in this hospital in April 2015 for elective outpatient thoracic aneurysm repair
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drugs and alcohol causes crime. Ostrowski a political analyst from the Cato institute, states that drug laws greatly increase the price of illegal drugs, often forcing users to steal to get the money to obtain them. Although difficult to estimate the black market prices of heroin and cocaine, these drugs appear to be many times greater than their pharmaceutical prices. For example, a hospital-dispensed dose of morphine (a drug from which heroin is relatively easily derived) costs only pennies; cocaine
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