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    “If you are not willing to pay the price for freedom, you don't deserve freedom.” -- Malcolm X Malcolm Little ( known as Malcolm X) was born on May 19, 1925, in Omaha, Nebraska. Malcolm Little was the fourth born child out of eight children. Malcolm’s mother's name was Louise Little who worked as a homemaker. Louise was a wife to Earl Little (Malcolm Little’s father) who was an active preacher and a proud supporter of a black nationalist named Marcus Gravy. Earl Little was so intrigued by Marcus

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    Enron Corporation History of Enron Enron Corporation was founded in Omaha, Nebraska (US), and in 1985 Houston Natural Gas Consolidated with InterNorth to make, what is now established as the energy based company. The corporation based in Houston, Texas (founded in 1985) was known as the better enterprise in North America that accomplished one of the vast natural gas transmission networks. “Enron was a provider of products and services related to natural gas, electricity and communications to wholesale

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    According to Wikipedia, an online encyclopedia, Southwest Airlines is currently the third largest airline in the world, measured by the number of passengers carried. Total number of passengers that were carried in the year 2005 amounted to 77.7 million. They are behind American Airlines and Delta Air Lines. After the tragic September 11th incident, Southwest airlines remains as one of the only major airlines that are still profitable. After the September 11th attacks, Southwest Airline's 6 biggest

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    New Vision Tv Merger

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    New Vision Television is a broadcast company based in Southern California. The company owned over 60 television stations and targeted in upper level markets. The company has considerable viewers mainly on the west coast. In May, 2012, LIN Media announced an acquisition of 13 out of 63 television stations owned by New Vision for $342 million. The deal was approved very soon after the announcement. The acquisition involved agreements on operational control of three Broadcasting-owned stations and

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    Enron Research Paper

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    Houston Natural Gas, had reached sale and assists totaling a whopping $5.7 billon with profits of $123 million dollars. Formally known as Northern Gas Company back in 1930, the other merger was InterNorth. Northern Gas Company originated in Omaha, Nebraska. The merge begin when,

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    Malcolm X

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    Introduction Malcolm X is seen as quite a controversial person. His admirers see him as a courageous human rights activist who campaigned for the rights of African Americans and showed white America how racist it was. His enemies see him as a racist, anti-Semitic and violent person. Malcolm X was orphaned early in life. At the age of six his father was killed and it has been rumoured that white racists were responsible. Seven years later his mother passed away after which he lived in a series of

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    The slaughtering, processing, and packaging of meat has long been associated with a high incidence of accidents, injuries and illnesses. When the Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA) of 1970 became law, the meat and meat products industry was designated by the Department of Labor as one of the five Standard Industrial Classifications (SICs) to receive priority attention as part of OSHA's efforts to target those industries having the highest rates of occupational injuries. In this paper

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    Introduction The aim of this report is to analyse why self -made American billionaire Warren Buffet the Chief Executive of Berkshire Hathaway has consistently outperformed the market over a long time horizon. It will be tried to be proved whether his stellar performance is just a black Swan event or it is an event inherent in Efficient Market Hypothesis theorem. It is thus important to briefly understand who Warren Buffet is, also who the proponents and what EMH really is. Nobel Prize committee

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    The Populist Movement The small farmers of America struggled through many agricultural problems during the late19th century. Their exclusion from the industrializing society, and their lagging in developments set them back from the rest of the country. Through their hardships they found a way to come together and form a political movement that would represent their rights and needs and give them a voice in the political decision making; it was called the Populist movement. However, the

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    Malcolm X

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    We all know Malcolm X as one of the most famous human rights activist, but how did he get that far and become famous? Malcolm X was born as Malcolm Little on May 19, 1925 in Omaha, Nebraska. Malcolm was the fourth of eight children born to Louise and Earl Little. Due to Earl Little’s civil rights activism, the family was subjected to a lot of harassment from white supremacist groups including the KKK. A fact about Malcolm X was he had his first encounter with racism before he was even born. With

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