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    Requiem for Detroit? is a historical documentary, released in 2010 and directed by Julien Temple, about the decline and collapse of Detroit, one of America’s largest cities. It chronicles Detroit’s journey through its success in the automobile industry all the way through its urban decay and industrial collapse to the present day. As the film draws a close, Temple also suggests some ways forward for Detroit. He presents possibilities and clearly shows which he thinks is most likely through his use

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    Henry Ford Henry Ford was born a farm boy in rural Michigan and would rise from humble beginnings to be one of the pioneers of the auto industry where he would populate American landscape with his cars, to include 15 million Model Ts (Brinkley, 2003). Ford was a visionary leader which I will illustrate by showing you how he implemented the assembly line, resulting from ideas which he received from his intellectually stimulated employees and how he exercise the golden rule and payed ANY man $5 a

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    Civic / Social Responsibility Defining Civic and Social Responsibility In a recent article concerning corporate social responsibility, it reveals; “a survey conducted by and BEYOND Communications Inc. shows big changes in how CEOs reported on corporate social responsibilities.” (Go figure - corporate social responsibility, (2005). The point of view is changing within the corporation world. CEOs are now taking note that this needs to be incorporated into the corporate structure and is a significant

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    On Monday, May 23, 2016, at approximately 12:45 a.m., I, Trooper Bradley Brachear, received a telephone call from Sergeant Robert Ventura. Sgt. Ventura advised Trooper Bradley Otten of Illinois State Police District 13 requested my assistance with a two-vehicle crash on Illinois Route 4 approximately 0.23 miles south of Norton Lane in Tilden Township, Randolph County. I responded from the Lebanon area to assist. The crash resulted in one fatality. At approximately 1:28 a.m., I arrived

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    Condominium assessments are the lifeblood of the any condominium association. A condominium association cannot function and provide essential services to co-owners unless assessments are collected. Unfortunately, dissatisfied co-owners often threaten to withhold assessments as a means to get what they want. Examples of situations where co-owners commonly threaten to withhold assessments and/or withhold assessments are as follows: 1. A co-owner has suffered damage to their unit and/or the appurtenant

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    ABSTRACT The design strategy for a skywalk at the Royal Oak Campus entails the use of ramps and steps rising to 5 meters and ramps having a gradient of 1:10.The skywalk will link the faculty parking and the college with a 3metres wide ramp,5 meters wide steps and a slab width of 6500 meters 500metres above the ground level with a building line on each side of 6 meters. Pedestrians and cyclists will use the proposed Skywalk it will be situated to allow pedestrians to cross Washington Avenue because

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    What is Moore’s view of corporate social responsibility? After GM began to announce that the company will be closing it’s location in Flint, Michigan and will be moving down to Mexico the whole city of Flint began to deindustrialize. About half of Flint was left unemployed. Due to a lot of people losing jobs, primarily from the GM company, more and more people were being evicted from their houses and going on welfare. Because of the outsourcing it lead to Flint becoming deindustrialized. A lot of

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    European are people of northeastern North America. The term Ojibwa is said to mean the puckered moccasin people or they say the French said the word meant pictograph. The Chippewa Indians mainly lived in the Wisconsin, Minnesota, North Dakota and Michigan. There was 35,000 Ojibwa on the continent in the mid seventeenth century. They used the word Anishinabeg to describes themselves which means “original people.” The Ojibwa has its own cultural values like honesty, generosity, endurance, wisdom, and

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    “Riley are you ready to go?” “Yes” I excitedly replied to my father. “Are your clubs in car? “They are” I answered, eager to begin the exciting day. We jumped in my dad’s ford explorer that warm July morning and left for the nearby Ye Olde Country Club. After we finished the 9th hole I ran back to the cart grabbed the score card and began adding. Excitedly I yelled “I did it! I just shot my best score! I was so happy, I will never forget that day that started my love for the sport of golf. I fell

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    The Mount Pleasant Center opened in 1891 when the United States Congress directed than an Indian Industrial School be established in Isabella County. In the late 1800s, the U.S. government established many boarding schools throughout the country with the intention of assimilate Native Americans into the predominant European American culture with education as a secondary goal. The Methodist Episcopal Church was another big part of boarding schools as they were contracted with the Federal Government

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