300: More Fact than Fiction “300” begins by setting the vivid stage of what was to become one of the most inspiring battles of Greek history. Leonidas‚ the Spartan “king‚” is warned by messengers from the Persian empire to kneel before Xerxes‚ the Persian god-king‚ or to see his beloved Sparta be destroyed and it’s loyal people be captured as slaves. Leonidas denies these requests as a free man who will kneel to no one. Xerxes‚ seeing this as a threat to his newly established empire‚ wages war
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Effectiveness is more important than efficiency? Joel Fleming – Affirmative The following theory was first propounded in ’ (Samson‚ D & Daft 2012‚ p. 17) “Effectiveness is the degree to which the organisation achieves a stated goal. It means that the organisation succeeds in accomplishing what it tries to do. Organisational effectiveness means providing a product or service that customers value. Organisational efficiency refers to the amount of resources used to achieve an organisational goal
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Brief Summary: This article focuses on the fact that there is not enough probation officers in Ontario. Infact‚ the province is proposing legislation that could result in seeing more metal detectors at courthouses‚ although there might be more need to use that money to hire additional probation officers. The auditor general of British Columbia ranked Ontario the lowest ratio in terms of probation officers to offenders. In Ontario‚ there are 66 offenders for every probation officer‚ compared
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Research report on gender differences in conforming behaviour at traffic lights. Abstract This study was carried out to examine gender differences in relation to conformity at pedestrian crossing. The hypothesis of this study was that females were more likely to conform than men at pedestrian crossing. This study involved recording all pedestrians that used the pedestrian crossing at the junction of Aungier Street and Cuffe Street over a 30 minute period. The total number of pedestrians observed
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Should there be more laws to regulate guns? Gun control has always been one of the most discussed topics in the United States. In the campaign‚ the president candidates argue about it. After each gun shooting incident‚ people and the media argue about whether more gun control laws should be implemented‚ but at first people need to know what gun control really is. According to Federal Firearms Regulations Reference Guide written by ATF‚ gun control is “the set of laws or policies that regulate the
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Is IQ a more appropriate measure than EI influencing performance of managers at work? IQ is important‚ but Emotional Intelligence‚ including social skills‚ is even more so. From the research‚ I found that for all types of jobs‚ emotional competencies are twice as prevalent among distinguishing competencies as are technical skills and purely cognitive abilities combined. In general‚ the higher position in an organization‚ the more Emotional Intelligence (EI) mattered. For those who are individuals
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violence‚ but that is not always so. For example‚ Switzerland has more per capita firearms than any other country in the world has lower murder and robbery rates than England‚ where guns are essentially banned. This is stating that Switzerland with more guns has less crime and that England with less guns has more crime. It all goes back to its not the weapon or gun that commits the crime! Gun Control only takes guns away from people that are law abiding citizens. It doesn’t stop criminals from
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The World Health Organisation states that “Health is a state of physical‚ mental and social well-being. It involves more than just the absence of disease or infirmity.” Health is evidently more than just the absence of disease‚ as achieving wellness requires an adequate balance of various aspects of the whole person. There are several crucial dimensions of health that need to be taken into consideration before forming the beliefs of the nature of health – physical‚ social‚ emotional and spiritually
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Name: Dariga Kassenova Are children of alcoholics more likely to be alcoholics themselves? In answering the question‚ researchers sampled 451 people in Alcoholics Anonymous to see how many would say that one‚ or both‚ of their parents were alcoholics. People in AA used in the study currently attend AA somewhere in Ohio‚ Michigan‚ or Indiana and were asked by people in charge of the local AA programs to volunteer to fill out a survey. The research found that 77 percent of the respondents had at
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