Jacqueline Corley WGSS 365 Professor Kar 11 December 2015 Final Paper The movie I chose to watch was Legally Blonde Elle Woods is an incredibly girly and popular sorority girl fashion major at a university in LA who gets dumped by her boyfriend Warner, so he can “stop dicking around” and date someone “smart” before he goes to law school at Harvard. In order to prove her seriousness and commitment to education, she applies to Harvard and gets in. Everyone believes her to be a misguided dumb…
Foundation. Jordan Spieth had an interesting childhood, college career, and has accomplished many achievements playing golf on the PGA Tour. Spieth won the U.S. Junior Amateur Championship in 2009 and 2011, making him just the second golfer, after Tiger Woods, to win the event twice. Also, Jordan Spieth was the Big 10 Player of The Year. Spieth was the youngest player to win on the PGA Tour in 82 years. To finish off, Spieth is translated to “successful” or “speedy” in Middle High German and…
spiritual side that wood offers, but taught me a lot about the creation of realism. Through researching different artists, I learned the different techniques they use in order to create their master pieces in a realistic manner. Due to wood burning being a nearly forgotten medium, it was difficult to find artists but I managed to find some artists who have made some incredible works. Eric Battaglia represent, in his art work Birdcage (see Image 1), a human ribcage done using wood burning and a…
Let’s get something straight: Any ranking of the greatest black athletes ever that doesn’t include Tiger Woods is not something I can get behind. This list, the result of public responses to surveys conducted by SurveyMonkey for The Undefeated, could be called “50 Great Athletes People Admire Most” or “Americans’ 50 Favorite Black Athletes.” But it ain’t a credible list of the greatest if it doesn’t include Tiger. You can dislike Tiger and you can dislike golf, but if you fail to acknowledge…
Psychological behavior in arsonists Arson is a crime that occurs worldwide, it has an immense impact on the victims and the community the arson takes place in. Arson leads to major financial damage, serious injury, or even death. In many cases in attempting to link psychiatric abnormalities to the arsonists have been focused on sexual motivation for firesetting. This psychiatric flaw has been linked to urination, homosexuality and cruelty to animals in the childhoods of firesetters have all…
PROPOSED MEANS TO ACHIEVE STATED RESEARCH OBJECTIVES Based on the researcher’s philosophy, methods and approach highlighted above, the following are means to achieve stated research objectives. OBJECTIVE 1: To examine the extent to which oil and gas companies engage in foreign currency transactions and translations and the impact of such on profitability. Proposed Means to Achieve this Objective The research will involve an investigation into aspects of the oil and gas industry value chain…
taxpayer funding. But why devalue our money with unnecessary printing when we can strengthen it with a commodity that we already have? The United States Treasury Department holds 11,041,059,958.46$ in gold, enough to finance a return to the Bretton-Woods agreement. In addition, gold prices are strong and stable above 1,000$ per oz. That will keep the dollar’s purchasing power stable. The only obstacle that we would face prior to readopting the gold standard would be surmounting the national debt…
Economics [Type the document subtitle] Stephanie Brands 6/16/2013 Contents International Trade 2 UK Balance of Payments 2 UK Trends in Trade over the last 30 years 2 The 80’s 3 The 90’s 3 Currently 3 Relationship between the Exchange Rate and Balance of Payments 3 The Advantages and Disadvantages and Effects of Two Exchange Rate Regimes 3 Floating Exchange Rates 3 Fixed Exchange Rate 4 Effects of Exchange Rates on Economic Agents 4 Impact of Multinationals on Less Developed Economies 4…
would help to these economies recovering. Besides the Marshall Plan, which was a program created by the American government after World War II to help European states recovering, the international community created the Bretton Woods institutions. The meeting held in Bretton Woods in 1944 was the occasion in which the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD; actual World Bank) and the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) were…
undermine states, as the introduction of the laissez-faire economy etc. (Williamson, 2004: 6). Some more crucial definitions that Williamson provides in his historical overview are the usage of the term Washington Consensus when referring to the Bretton Woods institutions (World Trade Organization, World Bank, International Monetary Fund) and neoliberalism or market fundamentalism. The former tend to describe the policies of those institutions along those of the US towards client countries. The…