In the song ‘Zombie’ by The Cranberries‚ it has a story behind it like many other songs. The singer‚ who also happened to be the songwriter‚ is named Dolores O’Riordan. In an interview‚ she stated she wrote this song in protest of how “... innocent people are being harmed.” She took a larger stand for that viewpoint after she witnessed a mother getting her child taken away during the IRA bombing and England and Ireland War. It impacted the singer emotionally; as a result‚ it motivated her to write
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Jose Alejandro Gomez History of Finance The history of the financial cooperative: The German credit union as a quintessential social innovation and the origin of modern collaborative consumption. In light of the prolonged malaise of the global market driven capitalist system there appears to be a rising intellectual interest‚ public concern or in some cases political push for a more ethical economic order that prizes greater levels of equity‚ equality and social purpose to be incorporated into the
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idea of credit cooperative. Theoretical developments of Mr. Raiffeisen in the field of agricultural credit cooperation in many respects were based on ideological views of Mr. G. Schultz-Delich. Developing theoretical bases of credit cooperation‚ Schultz-Delich solved one of the most pressing problems of small-scale craft enterprises – a possibility of receiving the small cheap credit. The fundamental principles of activity of its credit cooperatives were as follows: 1) The cooperatives united only able-bodied
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from the average collection period of104.29 ($42‚000/402.73) days in 2005. 3. SciTronics apparently needed $29‚000 (inventories in 2008) of inventory at year end to support its operations during 2008. Its activity during 2008 as measured by the cost of goods sold was $74‚000 (COGS). It therefore had an inventory of turnover of 2.55 (74‚000/29‚000) times. This represents an improvement from 2.04 (43‚000/21‚000) times in 2005. 4. SciTronics had net fix...
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Is Globalization A Good Thing? With globalization rapidly expanding it is on the mind of people around the world more than ever. Some of the main topics of globalization include topics such as‚ its effect on the social value system‚ the positive and negative effects on the concept of globalization and what it can contribute to the world. Also‚ what happens when a non-indigenous value structure is introduced‚ and how it can affect one’s identity? The effects of a globalized social value system
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Non-governmental organizations‚ credit groups and cooperatives Due date: 16 September 2013 Table of contents Page No. 1. Introduction 1 2. Types of non-governmental organizations 1 2.1. NGO type by level of orientation 1-2 2.2. NGO type by level of cooperation 2 3. Cooperatives and credit groups 2-3 3.1. Developmental roles of cooperatives 3-4 3.2. Developmental roles of credit groups 4-5 3.3. Functions of cooperatives 5 3.4. Functions of credit groups 5-6
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A1457 Cooperatives: Principles and practices in the 21st century Kimberly A. Zeuli and Robert Cropp ABOUT THE COVER IMAGE: The “twin pines” is a familiar symbol for cooperatives in the United States. The Cooperative League of the USA‚ which eventually became the National Cooperative Business Association (NCBA)‚ adopted it as their logo in 1922. The pine tree is an ancient symbol of endurance and immortality. The two pines represent mutual cooperation—people helping people. COOPERATIVES: ii
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The themes I choose to highlight is that of Dual federalism and Cooperative federalism. In dual federalism‚ “power is divided between the federal and state governments in clearly defined terms‚ with state governments exercising those powers accorded to them without interference from the federal government”. This implies that the federal and state government share sovereign power over an area of people. Cooperative federalism is defined as “one where federal‚ state and local governments are able
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suggests that there is a general principle guiding conversation what he calls the Cooperative Principle (CP for short)‚ and communicators observe the general conversational maxims of truthfulness‚ informativeness‚ relevance and clarity within the CP‚ according to the four main maxims of Quantity‚ Quality‚ Relation and Maner. When the listener hears the expression‚ he has to assume that the speaker is being cooperative and intends to communicate something. That something must be more than just what
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Trunk in a Cooperative Task” they both talk about how the elephants try to achieve a collective goal. The elephants worked with a helping trunk to test and achieve this goal and the mahouts‚ or elephant trainers would test how the elephants use their cooperative skills. Their task was to use their and rope-pulling skills and work together as a team. Overall‚ in the article “Elephants Can Lend A Helping Trunk”‚ and the passage “Elephants know When They Need A Helping Trunk in a Cooperative Task” show
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