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    surveillance. The U-2 Spy plane, introduced in 1957, was at the peak of stealth and imagery from the air. In fact, the U-2 is still in service today. “On May 1, 1960, a U-2 spy plane, piloted by Francis Gary Powers, was shot down while on an intelligence-gathering mission over Soviet airspace (Frankel, 1960). Powers was unable to activate a destruction device within the surveillance camera before evacuating the aircraft. The Soviets captured the pilot and collected undamaged portions of the plane (‘‘Excerpts

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    NAFTA: Not for America Essay

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    America’s economy is flat lining. We are bleeding jobs and hemorrhaging revenue. One out of every seven citizens is on financial life support and our government needs to do something stat. One of the first steps in the road to recovery is repealing the North Atlantic Free Trade Agreement, or NAFTA, because it is dangerous to our economic stability and future. NAFTA took effect on January 1, 1994 with the culmination of all quota and tariff repeals on January 1, 2008. This agreement was

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    most significant background cause of the Cuban Missile Crisis was the underlying cold war ideology of capitalism vs communism. This was dramatically increased by the second key cause, a series of events that quickly built tensions between the super powers from 1959 such as the U2 incident, JFK’s response to the Berlin Wall, and the Bay of Pigs incident. The third cause was the relationship between the leaders Khrushchev and Kennedy. It can be argued that the short-term consequences of the Crisis were

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    An ‘ideal victim’ is someone who has played no part in their victimisation by an offender who was wholly responsible for the incident. The public can relate to the ‘ideal victims’ ordeal and although they have been through an awful sometimes incomprehensible experience society views the ‘ideal victim’ “as pure, blameless (hence passive) people against whom an evil act was omitted by a depraved individual” (Spalek, B. 2006 p25). Although most people can relate to an ‘ideal victim’ there is a ‘positivist

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    McCarthyism There were lights beaming so bright that you can barely see. All of the sudden the judge enters the courtroom before you. After the judge and this man named Joseph McCarthy asks you questions regarding the Communist Party. You stutter through the microphone and you are hesitant on what to say. This will go down in history as an era with intimidation and very aggressive forms of bullying called McCarthyism. McCarthyism was a campaign or practice that endorses the use of unfair allegations

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    Marketing Mix

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    Marketing Mix Decisions IE 153—WSWX Marketing Mix The term “marketing mix” became popularized after Neil H. Borden published his 1964 article, “The Concept of the Marketing Mix”. Borden began using the term in his teaching in the late 1940’s after James Culliton had described the marketing manager as a “mixer of ingredients”. The ingredients in Borden’s marketing mix included product The Marketing Mix planning, pricing, branding, distribution channels, personal selling, Source: http://www

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    Marketing Mix

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    Distinctive — is the brand closely associated with a and confidence. product? • Word Association — does it have a pleasant meaning? • Legal Requirements — can it be registered? • Memorability — can your name be remembered easily? Source: Armstrong, Gary and Kotler, Philip. Principles of Marketing, 7th Edition. Prentice-Hall International, Inc. 1996 • Pronounciability — can it be pronounced easily? • Limitations — is the brand name too limiting to be used for expansion Brand – a name, term, sign, symbol

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    The CIA and the U.S. military have been using drones for more than 100 years, but only in the past 10 years the public has realized how powerful this technology is. Drones should be used to combat terrorism in Afghanistan because they are a step into the future for warfare. Drones are some of the most used technologies that are used to combat terrorism in foreign countries, and there is a reason for that. Drones are used to spy, track, and assassinate high priority terrorists. Regular ways of warfare

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    Design Proposal

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    Eventually, the treatment of African Americans that Harper so vehemently is against in her poem and Whitehead writes about in his novel sends the United States into a Civil War. Eleven southern states formed the Confederate States of America in which they fought a devastating four year war against the United States. The Civil War drastically changed the treatment of African Americans. The movie Glory is evidence of this. Glory is a civil war movie about the first African American regiment in the

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