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    I went into the spring of 2016 semester taking on too much, too many classes, too many hours at work, and too many charity events with my fraternity of sigma tau gamma. I started off thinking that I would be able to take 18 credit hours of school while working anywhere from 20 to 25 hours a week and still find room to attend all of the philanthropy events put on by sigma tau gamma. Simply put, my struggle with the spring of 2016 semester was due to myself taking on too many things at once. My struggle started almost as soon as the semester began. The main cause of my problems was trying to balance the homework from my classes with work. On most days I would get out of class and immediately head to work, work until 11 at night and once work was over try and get all my homework done. This led to me going to sleep early in the morning waking up for classes shortly after. Once I would get to class I would be so tired that I could barely pay attention. Even though I could see myself falling behind I tried not to give up in my classes. After midterms I finally decided that I needed to withdraw from some classes to try and lighten up my workload but by then it was too late, I had already dug myself into too deep of a hole to come out of. In order to correct my satisfactory academic progress deficiency I have decided to limit the amount of work I take on. Instead of starting off with too many hours of school like last semester I have limited myself to 14 credit hours. After seeing…

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    What Is Burgundy?

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    not its rich culture. Vast country sides filled with lakes, forests, vineyards it’s a nature lover’s paradise. Burgundy know for more specialty food and dishes than just its wine that it produces. Burgundy has the most appellation d’origine controlees than any other French region. The climate of the region can be described as moderate during the summer and winter month, the same can describe its annual rainfall. Burgundy having a rich history going back to prehistoric times. Burgundy and it…

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    Lower Normandy is a very impressive and interesting place while not being hardly larger than the State of Connecticut. It is the site of many game changing and devastating historical events. Lower Normandy also has a beautiful landscape and beaches.. Lower Normandy also has its own fair share of indigenous cuisine only found in the area. There are also three different regions in Lower Normandy, Calvados, Manche, and Orne. The first of the regions, is called Calvados. Calvados is recognized for…

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    Public Campaign Finance

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    City-states of the ancient world were one of the first political entities with democratic governance. Part of the democratic process is authorizing individuals to make decisions, holding these individuals accountable, and for these individual to be responsive to the needs of the community (Pitkin, 1957). Today, cities have low levels of democratic participation that hold elected officials accountable and authorize them to have the power to make a decision. At the same time, a majority of the…

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    the User-Friendly Budget may not create further citizen engagement based upon the research. Research has shown that by studying the budget process in all 50 states, we ended up with a wide variety of requirements. The only similarity that appears through this study was that state governments are primarily only concerned with the first step of informing the public. There is no requirement or mandate beyond this to narrow the gap between government's creation of the budget document and citizen…

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    Types of external considerations within Rutherford County are related to natural disasters, political disasters and macroeconomic shifts, including inflation, rate of growth, and unemployment. As a measure to offset natural disasters, we have relationships with other counties across the state coordinate efforts with our Emergency Management team. Indeed, the county 's mitigation planning efforts consist of local, state, and federal assistance. Unfortunately, there are few measures to plan for…

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    Pinellas County Case

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    Haoyu Zhao PUP432 10.15.2015 Case Brief Contractors And Builders Association Of Pinellas County V. City Of Dunedin Background Context Until the 20th century, the general law in Florida stipulated that local governments could only obtain funds from public revenues as they had no authority to taxes. The local government made the realization that these funds were insufficient for running the everyday affairs of the growing county. For this reason, the county turned to private sources…

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    founders’ family. It is about their fight for control of the company. It stars Terrence Howard as Lucious Lyon, who was a former drug dealer turned hip hop mogul and CEO of Empire. After Lucious learns that he has ALS his life started to cave in around him due to his past sins that come back to haunt him. Lucious then has to groom his three sons Andre, Jamal, and Hakeem to take over Empire which puts them against each other. It also stars Taraji P. Henson…

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    Pivot Table / Chart Report Exercise There are four observations in the pivot table, and the one part of pivot table report is about the annual adult care facility, total number of census, SMI and SSI. The other part is about New York State Population, total population and total number of race and ethnicity distribution. The results that I received are come from the data Adult Care Facility Annual Survey and New York State Population. I use the pivot table or chart to get the observations. At the…

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    Jill started a new job as a count/verification assistant for the Johnson County Board of Elections. After completing her degree, she believed she would have the greatest chance of making a difference in her community and society as a whole. She had completed the counties required training and briefings, read and agree to the terms of the Statement of Secrecy, and she would have no problem with acting impartially at all times and respect confidentiality of material handled. Mark the senior…

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