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Foundation" in 2003, which helps provide grants to poor countries that have child mortality rates of more than 15 percent, for education and sports-related projects. In 2005, he auctioned his racquet from his US Open championship to aid victims of Hurricane Katrina. At the 2005 Pacific Life Open in Indian Wells, Federer arranged an exhibition involving several top players from the ATP and WTA tour called Rally for Relief. The proceeds went to the victims of the tsunami caused by the 2004 Indian…

In “The Open Boat” by Stephen Crane, four survivors of a tragic shipwreck are forced to live in a lifeboat and fight for survival. The four men are the cook, the oiler, the correspondent, and the captain. The captain assures the men that they are getting very close to a manned lighthouse that he is familiar with, although day by day the men see no lighthouse. The men start to lose hope when finally, land comes into sight. In their great efforts to make landfall, the oiler drowns, despite being…

transformation of government. And we do it all in the open. We code in the open. I 'm going to tell you why and how we do that. Before GDS The story of GDS begins back in 2010, back when the government’s digital main offering consisted of Directgov - a consumer-facing portal. There was also a separate site, Business Link, aimed at businesses. Directgov was run in a very old-fashioned manner. There were major…

I believe that individuals born in the mid to late 1990s can be more open-minded and diverse. I am very open-minded to many things such as ethics, religion, sexuallity, culture, and language. Although I happen to be an open-minded and diverse person, I do not think that this is true about everyone born in the mid to late 1990s. I am very open-minded to many things such as religion, sexuality, culture, and language. Everyday whether it is on the news, social media, or the radio, I hear…

Open Source Software Projects: A Balance of Trust and Control According to Jones et al. (2005), trust is the single most important driver for the success of virtual teams. However, as a result of Michael Gallivan’s (2001) case study on open source software projects, he now believes that there is another variable to this movement that can be found in control. He presents the McDonaldization theory by identifying four aspects of modern organizations: efficiency, calculability, predictability and…

You Can’t Take It With You, the play script theme is how in life we usually tend to work in the field that we think will make us the most money, but in reality they do not make us happy. The Vanderhof and Sycamores believe in being happy the most. The majority of them do not have real jobs except for Alice who works for the Wall Street Journal. The most eccentric of the Vanderhof-Sycamores family is Martin Vanderhof the Grandpa. One reason why I think that Grandpa is the most eccentric is…

The Princess Bride’s tongue-tied Impressive Clergyman slowly and monotonously paints a picture of marriage, “Mawage. Mawage is wot bwings us togeder tooday. Mawage, that bwessed awangment, that dweam wifin a dweam... And wuv, tru wuv, will fowow you foweva.” Is marriage the beginning of a picture to be painted beautifully, or simply a canvas restricted by a frame? Young Mrs. Mallard has just heard the tragic news of her husband’s sudden, unexpected death. Paralyzed by the news, she sobs and runs…

should be banned because they are too violent, without them the world would be more peaceful, and crime rates would decrease. This society gun is the best thing for us to have in this world to protect yourself from someone harm us, and our family as well. Have you wondering if the guns were banned we wouldn’t worry about people threaten us and stealing our stuff from our house because they don’t have power to harmed people, without weapon they become weaker also less violence and less crime…

the “structure, sequence, and organization” of thirty-seven Java APIs without permission in 2010. Google’s need for Sun’s APIs stemmed from their development of Android in 2005. They contacted Sun with the hopes of getting approval to use, adapt and open source Java, which was unsuccessful. According to court documents from Oracle America, Inc. v. Google, Inc., “The point of contention between the parties was Google 's refusal to make the implementation of its programs compatible with the Java…

as he waits impatiently to the door to be open.…