1. Name of the Case: Linda W illiamson v. City of Houston‚ Texas‚ 148 F.3d 462‚ 1998. 2. Facts: In 1990‚ Linda Williamson‚ a police officer with the City of Houston Police Department‚ was assigned to the Organized Crime Squad. Officer Doug McLeod‚ another member of this squad‚ began sexually harassing her on a daily basis and this behavior lasted for approximately 18 months. The harassing behavior occurred in front of other police officers‚ including the officers’ supervisor‚ Sergeant Bozeman. McLeod’s
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Speech The power issues in The Club by David Williamson are shown throughout the play. The characters are all different with their personalities and roles within The Club. In his play The Club‚ David Williamson presents numerous Australian attitudes of the 1970s. However‚ many of these attitudes are still relevant and fairly accurate representations of Australian attitudes in the 1990s‚ David Williamson uses power to show the tension in the club and between the members. Tradition plays a very important
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alkoxide react with a primary haloalkane or a sulfonate ester under typical SN2 conditions. The scientist who developed this reaction‚ Alexander W. Williamson‚ was a professor at University College in London in the latter part of the 1800’s. This reaction has been around a while! Secondary haloalkanes and sulfonate esters are occasionally used in the Williamson ether synthesis but the yields are often poor. The ether prepared in this experiment is methylphenoxyacetic acid‚ a phenolic ether that is prepared
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Assignment 1: Tradeoffs” Fuel efficiency cars are something that we really need in society today. Unfortunately‚ there are some tradeoffs. For instance to make a car more fuel efficiency manufactures would have to make the car lighter. With the technology we have now‚ making the cars lighters will make it a little less safe when in car accidents. Also they are at the time more expensive than our regular vehicles we have now. So lighter unsafe cars and more expensive cars are the tradeoffs we have for
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and Return Tradeoff Memo The process of portfolio construction can be quite complex. Analysts go through reams of statistics – past performance‚ future potential‚ and industry knowledge and rely on personal insights into the market to arrive at the final list (UOP‚ 2009). Every investor aims to maximize returns while minimizing risk. Individual securities must be evaluated not only on the risk-return trade-off in isolation but also on their contribution to the risk-return tradeoff of the entire
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Cyclops Paper The Klan was very influential in Williamson County‚ in November 1922 seventeen men walked in the First Christian Church on Sunday morning in full Klan regalia‚ hoods up and everything. But what they didn’t know was this wasn’t going to be the last time these men would wreak havoc on their day to day lives. The Klan had a severe prejudice for immigrants and took up residence in small towns in southern Illinois. Williamson County was the perfect place for them. They led residents
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Face-to-face vs. Electronic Communication We’re living in an age where e-mail‚ Facebook and digital connections are the rule‚ and face-to-face interactions start to become the exception. With the ability to exchange information via e-mail‚ chat and presentations over the web‚ face-to-face interactions with people seem to be unecessary. This is a harmful assumption that many people make. Without face-to-face communication intimacy is lost‚ there is greater misunderstanding‚ and people become
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William son Eth er Synth esis Introduction In this reaction‚ an alcohol is deprotonated to form a good nucleophile‚ which then attacks the electrophile methyl iodide to form an ether. Tetrabutylammonium bromide‚ a phase transfer catalyst‚ is used to carry ions back and forth between the organic phase and the aqueous phase. OH O NaOH + NaI + H2O CH3I Before coming to lab‚ please review the following techniques: "Reluxing a reaction‚" "Extraction and washing‚" "Drying an Organic Solvent‚" "Evaporating
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Case Study 1: Prioritizing Projects at D.D. Williamson Dr. Donny Bagwell Managing Human Resources Projects: HRM 517 October 27‚ 2013 Introduction D.D. Williamson implemented a new process for project prioritization that included focusing on the vision and impact of projects and narrowing down projects by selecting the ones of high importance and assigning them to senior management teams. I will attempt to critique that process‚ recommend an improvement for
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Throughput/Fairness Trade offs for the iSLIP Scheduling Algorithm Petros Mol Todor Ristov Nikolaos Trogkanis University of California‚ San Diego University of California‚ San Diego University of California‚ San Diego pmol@cs.ucsd.edu tristov@cs.ucsd.edu nikos@cs.ucsd.edu ABSTRACT High throughput and fairness consist two desirable properties when scheduling traffic in an Input-Queued crossbar switch. Unfortunately‚ these two goals are conflicting which makes the job
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