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Principles of Accounting DL-A2 10/11/2017 Nike Inc. Nike Inc. was founded on January 25, 1964. Originally the company was formed with the name Blue Ribbon Sports. Nike was founded by Bill Bowerman and Phil Knight, and officially became Nike, Inc. on May 30, 1971. Nike Inc. was founded with just $1,200 in the bank. Bill Bowerman was a track and field coach and Phil Knight was a runner at the University of Oregon. The Nike swoosh logo was created by a student that attended Portland State…

In The Once and Future Liberal, Mark Lilla addresses the failures of American liberalism over two generations. Despite the prominence of democrats in the White House along with notable policy influence, the vision of small government and the self-reliant individual introduced by Reagan has continued to dominate political ideology for nearly forty years. In response the Democratic Party has failed to present a competing generalized vision of their own. Hinted at by the books title Lilla argues…

On May 10th, 1915 the president at the time, Woodrow Wilson, gave a speech about welcoming new members into American society. Welcoming new members into American society is an issue still to this day, allowing people to still have strong views on the topic. Nowadays some people have views on accepting people into American society, ways that are different from Woodrow Wilson. One person who has different views is the current US President Donald Trump. Wilson believes that immigrants should come…

hillbilly people anymore, and this is one of his advantages over Clinton. Although Clinton has a perfect resume for politics since 2001, she is also famous for her controversial statements, which contradict her own statements in the past. Her husband, Bill Clinton, was convicted guilty in the Lewinsky Scandal during his presidency. So,…

On january 21st President Barack Obama made a speech that would much relate to the speech Dr. Martin Luther King once made on August 28, 1963. They both believed that one day the country would come together and a great nation would be formed. That everyone would get the opportunity to be treated equally. They also believe that this country cannot function without everyone coming together as a nation. In Obama’s speech he will be talking a lot about bring the nation back together and that…

MOVIE REVIEW (OLA BOLA) 1.0 SYPNOPSIS Movie that set background in 1970’s, Ola Bola celebrates the unity and courage that inspire a team of Malaysian footballers to rise through all previous situation that story from zero to hero. Inspired by real events, the film showcase, the pride, and passion of a multicultural football team and their struggles to overcome personal and collective hardships. It is at once a powerful exploration of everyday human relationships and of the indomitable spirit…

In the following, Barack Obama´s victory speech, which was held in November 2012 after being re-elected as President of the United States of America, will be analysed. Generally, one can say that Obama sends a message of shared values and hopes by using rhetorical devices and structuring his line of arguments in a way that establishes a connection and a feeling of togetherness and involvement in his actions in the audience, for example by the usage of pronouns like “we”. Now, a closer look will…

“If they would rather die…they had better do it and decrease the surplus population.” -Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol From the words of Ebenezer Scrooge, one can see that the rich and the greedy are heartless to the poor. Charles Dickens shows how the rich and powerful did not care about the poor and like Scrooge, they wanted them to die, so London would not be so crowded. The world of Charles Dickens is best understood, through his…

Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens focuses on an orphan child, Oliver who is very poor and in an orphanage that didn't actually care for any of the kids there. Then when Oliver asked the cook for more food and fled to the streets of London when he wasn't given the food he asked for. Later on Oliver met Artful Dodger who leads him to Fagin and his “gang” of pickpockets. The orphanage hears about Oliver's escape and go into the streets of London to retrieve Oliver and bring him back to the orphanage…

Aziz Ansari, an Indian-American actor and comedian, is best known for his role as Tom Haverford on the NBC series Parks and Recreation. He was invited as a comedian to talk on the American television show “Saturday Night Live,” a day after the inauguration of Donald Trump. In his performance, Ansari discusses several factors that contribute to rising racial problems that appear after Donald Trump’s election as president. He points out that a certain group of people, “lowercase KKK”, is rising…