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In late 2009, I was part of a Task Force (TF) whose mission was to capture or kill enemy leadership, or High Value Targets (HVTs) In Order To (IOT) facilitate COIN operations in whatever Area of Operations (AO) needed the TF’s capability. Intelligence led us to doing such a mission to Capture/Kill a HVT in Afghanistan in late 2009. The enemy in this AO, at this time, hammered the FOB that we staged out of with indirect fire and rockets multiple times a day. They also inflicted casualties on…

News Story Analysis: Peter O’Connor: Public education is a treasure we must protect it. Education is a site of competing and contested ideas. Numerous educational reforms are being proposed or currently underway. In this news story analysis I will be unpacking and critically examining an article writtin by Peter O’Connor in regards that Public education is a treasure we must protect. The perspective I have chosen to also examine the issue is the Progressive Tradition. In this news story…

flow, but in future more modules could be encapsulated to the core, such as sales force process and flow(to sell system to new customers),billing module (to charge and issue bills for customers either for a sale of system, consultancy or just for a site visit), in another word this system will be transformed into a whole integrated customer care and point of sale…

1. Company Background Bentley is a British luxury automaker founded by W.O. Bentley in 1919. It was acquired by Rolls-Royce Limited in 1931 and later acquired by Volkswagen in 1998. Its mission is “To build a fast car, a good car, the best in its class” (About Bentley, n.d.) and headquarter is located in Crewe, England. Bentley automobiles can be sold via franchised dealers world-wide. In 2001, it first entered China market (“Bentley Mulsanne”, 2009) and China even became the largest market…

1.1 Introduction Lavasa is a private, planned city being built near Pune, Maharashtra, India. It is stylistically based on the Italian town Portofino. A 25,000 acres (100 km2) or 8,000 acres (32 km2) project being developed by Hindustan Construction Company [1], this as-yet-incomplete city has been controversial for multiple reasons including procurement of land, harm to the environment, and loans acquired through political corruption. In our term paper we will be mainly focusing on the…

Planet Earth was made up of several fragile ecosystems. With one action caused an equal and opposite reaction. For example, when an earthquake happened several other events can occur. This caused a chain reaction for other disasters to happen. In 2011, the ground underneath Japan had an earthquake that did not only shake the ground but it shook the future of the country for years to come. Japan sat at the junction of four major tectonic plates. The Philippian plate had been sinking under the…

Maren Malakowsky Composition 101 Mrs. Laura Alvstad 2 Dec. 2014 Low Reading Literacy: The Profound Effects Are You More Literate Than a Sixth Grader? Fit in later to transition to the problem “Adolescents entering the adult world in the 21st century will read and write more than at any other time in human history. They will need advanced levels of literacy to perform their jobs, run their households, act as citizens, and conduct their personal lives.” - Richard Vaca Academically…

Lethal injections have been a controversial topic for many centuries. People have many opinions as to if lethal injections are humane or if the act violates the Constitution. The use of lethal injections became a topic of interest around the 1980s. The first lethal injection execution was administered by Dr. Ralph Gray in 1982. The execution went successfully and from there the use of lethal injections became more popular, which started arguments as people expressed their opinions. For example,…

The Keystone XL pipeline was commissioned in 2010. It “is a $7 billion pipeline approximately 1,661 miles in length and 36 inches wide” (Palliser 2012, 8). The company that would run this project is TransCanada and the pipeline “would run from Hardisty, Alberta, to Nederland, Texas, and traverse Montana, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas” (Palliser 2012, 8). The media has written about the different perspectives on this proposed project. The Indian Country Today article is…

Nuclear energy has the potential to be the most deadly killer our world has ever seen, but if used properly, our nation can benefit greatly from it. The idea of harnessing the power of nuclear reactions has been around for many years, however, the United States has not seemed to capitalize on its usefulness yet. There are currently only 62 active nuclear power plants with 100 reactors in 31 states. These reactors only provide about 20 percent of all energy used in the United States (“How Many…