On August 5th‚ 1864‚ Rear Admiral David Farragut led the Union navy into Mobile Bay‚ Alabama‚ to face a smaller Confederate fleet under the command of Admiral Franklin Buchanan and neutralize three forts surrounding Mobile Bay to complete the Union blockade of the Gulf of Mexico. The battle would prove pivotal in the Union victory‚ as well as President Abraham Lincoln’s re-election three months later. The Union fleet‚ under Farragut‚ used sheer power and numbers to decimate the Confederates. The
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Diane Fenchel is a chiropractic physical therapist at Anchor Bay Spine Center in New Baltimore‚ Michigan. She has a second job for which she is the manager of the physical therapy department in a medical care facility. She spoke unfavorably of her second job‚ however. Diane said she does not like the system in place there‚ “it’s disorganized and has a lot of obstacles everyone has to push through‚ plus I don’t like the traditional medical field anyway.” Unfortunately Diane’s position does not
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How Batteries Work TOPIC: Explanation of how batteries work SPECIFIC PURPOSE: To inform the audience how a battery works on a scientific level THESIS STATEMENT: A battery is essentially a can full of chemicals in which chemical reactions take place to allow for the flow of electrons. Introduction I. Batteries are everywhere. They are in our cell phones‚ our flashlights‚ our cars‚ our laptops. (Attention getter) II. Life as we know it is made possible largely by batteries. III
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How scholars criticize the practice of bay’ al-Inah in Malaysia Islamic Banking Bay’ al-Inah is a sale contract with immediate repurchase. It takes place when a person sells an asset in credit and immediately buys back the asset in cash at lower price. This practice has gained some popularity in the South East Asian region‚ despite the fact that it has been rejected outright in almost all other Muslim countries by the Islamic scholars. The classical jurists were in disagreement in assessing the
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du17.3 Million Filipino Adults Are Current Tobacco Smokers Twenty-eight percent or 17.3 million Filipino adults age 15 years and older are current tobacco smokers‚ according to the results of the 2009 Global Adult Tobacco Survey (GATS). Almost half (48 percent or 14.6 million) of adult males and 9 percent (2.8 million) of adult females are current smokers. Moreover‚ 23 percent of Filipino adults are daily tobacco smokers: 38 percent for males and 7 percent for females. Filipinos mainly smoke
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1. Introduction Marina Bay Sands (MBS) is one of only two integrate resorts (IRs) in Singapore‚ locating in Marina Bay waterfront in the heart of the city. It developed by Las Vegas Sands (LVS) Corporation has opened officially in 2010. MBS does not only delude tourists by the fascinating design‚ but it also attracts visitors by a rich variety of services such as 2‚560-room lodging property‚ amenities of spa‚ fitness centre‚ bar‚ theme park with infinite swimming pool‚ the state-of-art casino‚ convention
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Questions for Discussion Q1. Give examples of needs‚ wants and demands that Diwan’s customers demonstrate ‚ differentiating each of these three concepts. Answer : Needs: state of felts deprivation ‚ they include basic physical needs‚ social needs and individual needs. Ex. Diwan’s customer needs are to improve themselves and to be fulfilled and satisfied culturally and intellectually. Wants: Form that needs take as they are shaped by culture and individual personality Ex. Diwan’s customer
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Safety of lithium-ion batteries June 2013 The European Association for Advanced Rechargeable Batteries Safety of Lithium-ion batteries Foreword This publication is prepared to provide information regarding the subject matter covered. The document has been prepared with the information available at the time of its publication. It is communicated with the understanding that the authors are not engaged in rendering legal or other professional services on issues covered by this report
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Humboldt Bay Tidelands and the Public Trust Doctrine Wildland Water Quality December 11‚ 2009 Table of Contents Setting 1 Historical Setting 4 Legal Setting 5 Impairments & Beneficial Uses 6 Extent of Severity 9 Causes of Impairment 10 Reasons for the Impairment 10 Solutions 12 Summary 12 References Cited 13 List of Figures and Tables Figure 1: Historical extent of land entrusted to the public around Humboldt Bay 2 Figure 2: Six watersheds feed Humboldt Bay Source
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Analysis of The Pirate Bay Copyright Infringement Kristin Philip Marylhurst University MBA 530 E-Commerce August 5‚ 2012 Abstract This paper explores the social and legal issues raised by Peer-to-Peer (P2P) file sharing of copyrighted material on websites such as The Pirate Bay. The Pirate Bay has created a controversy around the world between people who support P2P file sharing and the industries that make their money selling the content that is being shared by peers (Laundon
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