Environment: a sum of all the conditions surrounding us that influence life Environmental Science: the field that looks at interactions among humans and nature System: a set of interacting components that influence one another by exchanging energy or materials Ecosystem: the living and non-living components of a particular place on earth Biotic: the living part of the Earth (animals‚ plants) Abiotic: the non-living part of the Earth (soil‚ air‚ water) Environmentalist:any person who advocates
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Contract A promise the law will enforce. Judicial Restraint The court takes a passive role and enforces what is already written in the contract‚ no matter if one party benefits over the other party. Judicial Activism The court takes an active interest in the contents of the contract and makes decisions based on what is "fair" and "right". Four Elements of a Contract (1) Agreement- offer is made by one party and accepted by another party.(2) Consideration- bargaining (3) Legality- has to
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HUMAN RESOURCES HUMAN RESOURCE PLANNING INTRODUCTION Human resource management (HRM) The strategic approach to an organization’s workers so that they help the business gain a competitive advantage. Human resource or workforce planning Analysing and forecasting the number of workers and their skills‚ which will be required by the organization to achieve its objectives. LABOUR MOBILITY Occupational mobility of labour Extent to which workers are willing and able to move to different
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Militarism a political orientation of a people or a government to maintain a strong military force and to be prepared to use it aggresively to defend or promote national interests Alliances an agreement between 2 or more countries to help each other out in war Imperialism A policy of extending a country’s power and influence through diplomacy or military force Nationalism devotion and loyalty to one’s own nation Central Powers An alliance between Germany‚ Bulgaria
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Academic Vocabulary 1. Abbreviate: to reduce by leaving out letters so shortened form can represent a word or phrase 2. Abstract: summary of a text; thought apart from concrete realities 3. According: agreeing or corresponding 4. Acronym: word formed by initial letters or groups of letters of words in set phrase 5. Address: a speech; direction to intended recipient; place where object is located 6. Affect: to act on‚ produce an effect or change in; feeling or emotion 7. Alter: to change
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GATTACA* New word Part of speech Synonym Antonym Meaning Sentence 1. embark verb Launch Stop Get on transportation object 2. dismay verb Anxiety Calm Dissapointed feeling 3. queue noun Line Disorder Line of people waiting 4. burden noun Duty Tranquility Something you carry and its heavy 5. summon verb Request Reply Call to a place 6. advocate noun Defender Enemy Person supporting an idea 7. gaudiness noun 8. hazel adj. 9. plunger noun 10. loathe verb
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Psychology (Myers‚ 8E) Chapter 10 Study online at quizlet.com/_h108 1. cognition the mental activities associated with thinking‚ knowing‚ remembering‚ and communicating a mental grouping of similar objects‚ events‚ ideas‚ or people a mental image or best example of a category a methodical‚ logical rule or procedure that guarantees solving a particular problem. Contrasts with the usually speedier -- but also more error-prone -use of heuristics a simple thinking strategy that often allows us
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Cyber piracy: where the Internet is used to copy a digital document without authorization. Droppers: a program that when run will install a virus‚ Trojan horse or worm onto a hard drive‚ floppy disk or other memory media. Intranet: A network of networks that interconnects within a single widespread organization and uses the Internet Protocol (IP). Hierarchy: IM-Instant Messaging: IM is a software utility that allows users connected to the Internet to send text messages and files between other
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POLITICAL THEATRE: measured drama pitting a character with a conservative point of view against a character with a liberal viewpoint. It can be passionate advocacy of one idea and ardent attack on anyone who opposes that idea. And it can be a drama that falls anywhere between these two types. PERFORMANCE ART: is one recent form that poses these questions and then some. What is considered performance art has undergone several transformations in recent decades. It often means a single artist who artist
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Phnom Penh Khmer pronunciation: is the capital and largest city of Cambodia. Located on the banks of the Mekong River‚ Phnom Penh has been the national capital since French colonization of Cambodia‚ and has grown to become the nation’s center of economic and industrial activities‚ as well as the center of security‚ politics‚ cultural heritage‚ and diplomacy of Cambodia. Once known as the “Pearl of Asia”‚ it was considered one of the loveliest French-built cities in Indochina[2] in the 1920s. Phnom
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