Head of the Commonwealth

students, including the choice of product, its design, financial and operations costs, marketing, promotion, company name and company logo. Cultural representation and specific topics were also in affect as each of the nine teams were allocated a commonwealth country, a real life business sponsor and a disability as a ‘wild card’ to focus their…

Raymond Colello, a neuroscientist at Virginia Commonwealth University at Richmond was watching a football game when he came up with the idea of putting magnets in helmets (Wheeling). According to Kate Wheeling, about 60 percent of concussions in football are head-to-head collisions. Colello predicts that magnets could broaden the impact zone beyond the helmet, slowing down the collision and would reducing the…

Established rigid controls for inventory and asset management, and worked with external auditors (Grant Thornton) on compliance, risk management, and control hardening of financial frameworks. • Managed relationships with Commonwealth Bank Australia (CBA) who service the banking needs of the organisation, negotiating financing agreements and favourable rates. • Served as Company secretary, maintaining all external public company reports i.e. Appendix 4C,4D and 4E. • Compiled…

During the early part of 1754, Franklin became gravely concerned about the security and future of the British colonies. As the war between Britain and France loomed, Franklin believed that colonial unity was becoming increasingly important. In Franklin's mind, each colony was going too far in its direction, thus neglecting the greater needs of the American colonies as a whole. As a result, Franklin created his "Join or Die" cartoon to serve as an appeal for unity. The snake, was purposely cut…

How did the eruption of Mount Vesuvius affect the city of Pompeii? By: Josh Scabarozi Screaming, crying, your mother screaming, telling you “It is going to be okay”. These are all things you would hear if you lived in the Roman city of Pompeii in 79 AD. The eruption of Mount Vesuvius affected Pompeii in many ways. Pompeii was very modern and most of the wealthy Romans would go to it as a vacation spot. The eruption caused lots of damage by covering the whole city with layers of rocks, ash, and…

to become “outraged and turned their backs on them; they refused to listen to excuses or pleas for forgiveness” (pg. 27) causing the water guardians to send a great flood. When they thought there was no way out, they were saved by the “strange blue head” (pg.…

The decision to use the atomic bomb posed several justifications, alternatives, and complications of the dilemma President Harry S. Truman faced. After Teddy Roosevelt's death, Truman entered presidency with a huge decision to make only a few months after, later learning of America’s dark secret, the Manhattan Project. The Manhattan Project was the manifestation of an atomic bomb discovered by German physicists splitting a uranium atom. Albert Einstein and Enrico Fermi, who escaped execution…

that theater that the British ran out of officers who could speak Urdu and the like, thus command these units effectively.” (Indian Letters from World War I). By the end of the war, over 1 million Commonwealth forces died, including 50,000 Sepoys. One man wrote a letter saying “I’ve been wounded in the head, but hope to get better soon…lucky [to be] alive while all my brethren have been killed…here the earth is covered with dead men and there is no place to put up one’s foot” (Indian Letters…

democracy under a constitutional monarchy. It has three branches of government. The Executive branch is made up of the chief of state, the head of government, and the cabinet. The Legislative branch is a bicameral Parliament made up of the Senate and the House of Assembly. The Judicial branch is made up of the Supreme Court and the Court of Appeal. Barbados is a commonwealth realm. The major political parties are the Barbados Labor Party, the Democratic Labor Party, and the People’s Empowerment…

along with my goals and values. As such, they both equipped me with the necessary skills; such as critical thinking, problem solving, interviewing, working within organizations, conducting groups and meetings, etc. values and the knowledge necessary to head back out to the field of work. Moreover, these majors also cater for me to engage in several internship programs to help prepare me for the world of work. Not forgetting the courses in each program are outlined to prepare me as well. For…