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Japanese Human Resource Manage
Number of Words: 2097 / Number of Pages: 8
... in is the main concern.
Performance is not the purpose or goal of the Japanese firm, instead it is a corporate reality in itself. The Japanese firm also exists in two levels, one which lies in the firm and one that lies outside the firm. Within the firm, the Japanese company tends to be a much more homogeneous group compared to its western counterpart. Large firms hire their workforce, mainly university graduates, from preferred schools to which they subtly assign quotas. These new recruits are hired for their potential. Training and development are essentially an internal affair which the firm i ...
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Joel Poinsett
Number of Words: 540 / Number of Pages: 2
... the public, considering the annexation of California. Polk's initial desire was to simply purchase California, attempting to maintain peace. He soon learned this would be impossible. When Polk ordered General Taylor to cross the Nueces River and eventually to fortify on the Rio Grande, he fully understood the possilble consequences of these actions. In fact, by deploying Taylor and his troops, Polk putting a slow squeeze on the Mexicans which would leave them with no other option than to strike back. Polk waited for the initial attack to be made by the Mexicans and then struck back. Polk claimed that ...
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Proud To Be Canadian
Number of Words: 546 / Number of Pages: 2
... like, or want, even more immigration. Canada reached the hog-wallow of lows when it limited 'free speech' to a point where it became unclear to anyone who supported the idea but of course there have to be limits. After all, it's easier to live on your knees as a slave and face extinction, than it is to stand up and speak out.
Canada has no culture. A robbed identity makes Canadians rush to import active cultures and identities, being so hopelessly deprived of one of their own. Canadian culture has been effectively abolished. Canada has become a cacophony of cultures and a babble of languages all ...
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The Latvian-Russian Relations
Number of Words: 2531 / Number of Pages: 10
... so many absolutely innocent people than anything else.
(Britanica) I was also in Latvia 8 years ago when Latvia along with two
other Baltic States, Estonia and Lithuania, regained their independence and
became free countries once again. The time goes by really fast, but even
though Latvia has a democratic form of government, now all of the post-
communism countries face more problems than ever. But if they overcome them,
there will be prosperity and the countries will reach economic independence.
People cannot forget their history; they have to learn to stand up for
their rights, which they were f ...
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Detectives
Number of Words: 1757 / Number of Pages: 7
... qualities, but great intelligence is not needed. Effective investigators obtain and retain information, apply technical knowledge, remain open-minded and objective, and use logic when attempting to solve a case. All decisions pertaining to a case should be based on facts and not be opinion based, but the results of an investigation should not be based on only one fact. rely on skills acquired by experience, study, and observation. The job requires highly-developed skills, perhaps innate abilities to collect and evaluate case facts.
The decision making required by investigations can be v ...
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Confucianism
Number of Words: 2078 / Number of Pages: 8
... by Confucius, a man. It involves no superior beings other than man himself, and deals specifically with the interactions between fellow men. It also specializes on the actions a government (King) should take for it’s people. The religion was founded by Confucian himself, he lived from 551 B.C.E. to approximately 479 B.C.E.. He was just a man with an opinion. His opinion sprung from his unhappiness with society and the fall it had taken from what it had been. It had changed to an empire where values were ignored, and the past was just that, the past. He foresaw a proud China with values res ...
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Combined Sewer Overflows In The Boston Area
Number of Words: 2766 / Number of Pages: 11
... and the Conservation Law Foundation filed law suits against Massachusetts for violations of the Clean Water Act, that the state decided to make updates to its system (Aubrey, Connor 62). The result of these lawsuits was the creation of the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority (MWRA) in late 1984. Once the MWRA took control of the sewer system changes began to be made. The MWRA oversaw the construction of new primary and secondary treatment plants of Deer Island, which removed the mandatory 85% of pollutants in the wastewater required by the Clean Water Act (MWRA website). They built a new 9.5 mi ...
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The Praise And Strife Of A Her
Number of Words: 746 / Number of Pages: 3
... character traits, which can be, at the most basic level, perceived as being helpful or as being harmful, depending on the character’s viewpoint. People are regularly regarded as having traits ranging from the most trivial as being a perfectionist, to the most weighty, such as being a coward. These traits form the basis of human personality and define the individual’s personal nature. Ideal heroes are perceived differently in different periods of history. In Chaucer’s Prologue of the Canterbury Tales a worthy man is described. He is a chivalrous knight who prided himself on his own pe ...
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Greek Mythology
Number of Words: 1104 / Number of Pages: 5
... Once there was Light and Day, Gaea appeared.
Gaea was the Earth goddess. Erebus then slept with Night, producing Aether and
Day. Aether was the heavenly light and Day was the light of the Earth. Night
solely produced Death, Doom, Dreams, Fate, Nemesis, Sleep, among others that
come to man out of the darkness. Meanwhile Gaea gave birth to Uranus. Uranus
was the sky god and first ruler who later became married to his creator, Gaea.
Together they proceeded to have the three Cyclopes, the three Hecatoncheires,
and twelve Titans.
However, Uranus was a bad father and husband. He disliked the
Hecat ...
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Effects Of Drugs On Adolecents
Number of Words: 1602 / Number of Pages: 6
... is the reason for their usage. If the people in your social group use drugs there will be pressure a direct or indirect pressure from them. A person may be offered to try drugs, which is direct pressure. Indirect pressure is when someone sees everyone around him using drugs and he might think that there is nothing wrong with using drugs. Person might try drugs just to fit in the social norms, even if a person had no intentions of using drugs one might do it just to be considered "cool" by his friends. Today drugs are considered to be an acceptable social phenomenon by many teenagers. Here is a pers ...
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