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On September 11th, 2001, four separate attacks on the United States were coordinated and carried out by an Islamic extremist terrorist group known as al-Qaeda. Four planes were hijacked by 19 different terrorists, with two of the planes flying into both buildings of the World Trade Center in New York City, one plane flying into the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., and the final plane crashing in a field in Pennsylvania. The attacks followed a growing unrest towards the western world and the USA…

Global Issues and Business: An Annotated Bibliography Thesis Statement: The impact of the global environmental issues have made businesses liable to the respective state laws conceding global warming that had affected the sales and development of many products. 1. Bhattacharjee, A, et al. "Macroeconomic Instability and Business Exit: Determinants of Failures and Acquisitions of UK Firms." Economica 7.301 (2009): 108-131. Print The article mentioned in above is a detailed contextual address to…

Air pollution is a serious public health concern globally [1]. Exposure to ambient air pollution increases mortality and morbidity [2]. Ambient air particulate matter (PM) is the main component of air pollution and has a significant impact on human health [3]. Epidemiologic studies have shown that lung function of people is adversely affected by exposure to airborne particulate matters (APM) pollution [4-6]. In the other words, there is evidence from past studies that ambient air PM (such as PM2…

In addition, some researchers conceptualise project outcome as a uni-dimensional construct concerned with meeting budget, time, and quality (Mir & Pinnington, 2014; Müller & Turner, 2007; Turner, 2009), whereas others consider it a complex, multi-dimensional concept encompassing many more attributes (Atkinson, 1999; Jugdev & Muller, 2005; Lim & Mohamed, 1999; Shenhar et al., 2001). Shenhar et al. (2001) argued that projects are strategic, and project outcomes should be assessed according to…

The message of this verse is simple and clear – love of the Beloved Lord is indeed the real wealth. Those who have love for the piyā (Beloved Lord), the verse maintains, are indeed wealthy, whereas those devoid of love for the Lord are destitute. The term nirdhanā is a compound word, derived from nir, normally used as a prefix, implying negation when used with a noun and certainty when used with a verb, and dhan, which means ‘money’, ‘riches’, ‘wealth’, ‘treasure’. Nirdhanā, therefore means…

The Russo-Japanese War was fought between the global giant Russia, and the newly modernized Japan over imperial ambitions in Manchuria and Korea. The war lasted between 1904 and 1905, and completed shocked everyone. The war resulted in the humiliation of the Russian people, and led them to not only lose confidence in their ruler, Tsar Nicholas II but caused great economic, political, and military conflicts for Russia. Due to this very reason, the war was held partially responsible for the…

HL-60 cells were derived from the blood cell of a patient with acute promyelocytic leukemia, which proliferates continuously. They are immortal cells, until they induce differentiation using chemical reagents such as retinoic acid. After differentiation, they are no longer immortal. Retinoic acid is derived from Vitamin A, and can induce granulocytes. We are going to test whether exposure of longer time to retinoic acid will induce greater percent of granulocytic differentiation. To test…

Giancarlo Casale’s The Ottoman Age of Exploration makes it a point to introduce the concept of global politics to the study of the Age of Exploration and early modern Ottoman history. Giancarlo Casale is currently a professor at the University of Minnesota and specializes in the history of the early modern Ottoman Empire. Casale main purpose in this text was to provide a cohesive narration of the Ottoman Age of Exploration. Casale makes the important distinction that the European age of…

The poem is her version of Pedro Mir’s poem, “There is a Country in the World,” and while Mir focused on the cruelty of Dictator Trujillo, Alvarez chose to focus on the discrimination against Haitians (Torres-Saillant). Alvarez allows the speaker of the piece to ultimately take up a rather doleful attitude for a majority of the poem, mourning…

Iran The Islamic Republic of Iran is located in southwestern Asia. Iran contains many mountains where most of its inhabitants settle on the edges. The capital of Iran is Tehran located in the Elburz Mountains. Iran consist of 77,555,000 inhabitants and is a unitary theocracy. The official language is Farsi and the official religion is Islam. The Supreme Leader, Sayyed Ali Hosseini Khamenei, head of state and government, is more powerful than Iran’s president, President Hassan Rouhani, and…