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    The federal bureaucracy is said to be the fourth branch of the government. This organization is just as important as the legislative, executive, and judicial branches are. The three named branches of government are known for making laws, carrying out the laws, and evaluating the laws, but not much credit is given to the federal bureaucracy. The federal bureaucracy can be called the fourth government branch because this is the organization of individuals who implement public policies and budgets,…

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    1. According to Rumsfeld, the ones who control the bureaucracy is the executive branch. Specifically, it is the people that are appointed by the President that has control, because they have the power of approval. Rumsfeld, as a former Secretary of Defense, was also a bureaucrat. The bureaucracy is necessary because its purpose is to provide a set of behaviors for a government to follow. A bureaucracy creates a “rule book” the government abides by, that helps in dealing with common situations.…

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    Congress Oversight Essay

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    Oleszek (2011) defines oversight as some form of legislative “supervision” or “watchfulness” of delegated authority to executive branch entities and officials. It is an implicit constitutional obligation of the Congress. According to Oleszek (2011) there is a large number of overlapping purposes associated with oversight. They can be divided into three basic types; programmatic, political, and institutional (Oleszek, 2011). Programmatic purposes include such objectives as investigating waste,…

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    southwest end and a dam built at the outlet to maintain” the water level. By the 60 's there is a weir controlled by the Horseshoe cottagers. 2003 The Ministry of Natural Resources (MNR), interested in reducing the significant effort in maintain the two lakes levels through the seasons, droughts and heavy rains decide a new dam is required. Initially the lake level was to be reduced a substantial 18 cm to 198.38 m above sea level. Also no sluice for a 100 year flood and no consideration for the…

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    workflow. Our associates would quality check the work to verify all documents were generated and we would prevent privacy breaches. The department operated with a service level agreement (SLA) of one day. We would emphasize our ultimate goal in our planning stage. The main goal for Fulfillment Operations was to meet our one-day service level agreement and utilize capacity effectively. We would do this by assigning volumes appropriately…

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    “no longer noticed the willows or the reflections of” their “running figures in the water” (pg. 6) as they had on the previous page. Thus, We can see that this “time” has greatly affected our main character, this time that is not measured in months or years, for numerical time has no affect on them. As the main character describes, “we sat there for an hour, maybe two, I don’t know, because it was then that time measured in the ordinary way stopped” (pg.6). Fink begins to use the scenery around…

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    What can humans do to help reduce global warming? It might sound like a dumb statement but there is actually a lot of action that humans can take on to help out with global warming, but some of us either don’t know it or are unaware of this major ongoing problem that affects all of us. For example, we can choose to go green in our homes or bigger complexes such as apartments by the doing the most minimum changes to your house by doing things such as switching from the normal light bulbs to the…

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    $57 billion by the end of the century. Besides energy costs, scientists predict that with a rise in the global temperature there will be one to three foot change in the sea level by 2100. This doesn’t seem like much, but in the U.S. alone, 3.1 million people would be displaced by this event. With this rise in water levels, major coastal entities would be impacted. Transportation industries on the coast, such as airports, harbors, trains, and roadways, would be unusable. Evacuation routes…

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    Daphnia Lab Report

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    The Effect of pH levels on the Motility of Daphnia in Lake Ecosystems Introduction: The production, transportation, and use of chemicals by chemical industries can result in chemical pollution. This leads to a harmful effect on ecosystems and their balance of life (Linlin, Chen, 2012). The pH levels of aquatic environments are important because it affects the physiology of animals by changing their behaviors. The ion concentrations associated with the water and the organism’s survival can also…

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    within 1 [metre] of mean sea level”, meaning that close to 100 million people could and will be displaced from their homes within the next few hundred years, due to sea level rise (2010). There are several factors that contribute to the rise of global sea-level, both directly (warming oceans, expansion of ocean particles and melting glaciers) and indirectly (global warming and the loss of ice shelves). While ice shelves don’t directly contribute to the rising of sea-level, they play an important…

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