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    Corporate social responsibility has been a fixture in the business world for decades, and has become embedded in many universities as higher education leaders seek alternative ways to achieve sustainability (Weiss, 2016). Social Responsibility can be defined as a code of conduct and action beyond what is required by laws and regulations when running a particular organisation. As organizations do not operate in a vacuum, their activities will impact their surroundings which include their stakeholders

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    Westward Expansion During the westward expansion many important events happened. The Pony express was one of them it was a mail delivery system. Another very important event was the Transcontinental railroad, it was the first train track ever made! Both of these events were very hard to accomplish but we did accomplish them so that was good. Pony Express The Pony express was a mail delivery system, that started in April, 1860 and used a team of a person and a horse to deliver

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    Pony Express Case Study

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    Johnson 1 Kendra Johnson General English IV Mrs.Jones 11/16/17 The Pony Express Three men in the mid-1800s had an idea to open up a mail delivery system that reached from the midwest all the way from California. (Russell, William) The lack of speedy communication between the midwest and the west. The Pony Express employed about eight hundred to five hundred to carry these riders from one post to the next. ( Monthly pay for these riders was fifty dollars, which were

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    The Pony Express

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    remains as a matter of personal opinion. "However, it was William H. Russell, and U.S. Senator William Gwen who actually discussed and put The Pony Express into operation" (The Founders n.d.). Three business partners named William B. Waddell, Alexander Majors, and William H. Russell are the founders of The Pony Express. "Personable, sophisticated, and politically astute, Russell went to Washington, D.C., to represent Russell, Majors and Waddell in the complex world of national politics. Majors

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    Russell Simmons

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    Russell Simmons has been successful because he turned an idea into an opportunity. Mariotti and Glackin (2013) states while Russell attend college he saw an opportunity in the underground music genre Hip-hop (p.154). From that moment on Russell knew he could capitalize off hip-hop. Not only did Russell take a chance on an opportunity, he formed a great record label with his friend Rick Rubin called Def Jam Records. However his success did not stop there Russell went on to create a clothing line

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    While the use and understanding of philosophy goes widely unknown by a majority of the population today, a selective few have recognized its potential and utilized it to its fullest. In the following essay, three prominent philosophers; Bertrand Russell, Ayn Rand, and Christopher Hitchens. Each gives their insight to three important topics; the value of philosophy, using philosophy and its value, and the importance of freedom of speech. All of whom will be discussed, and agreement or disagreement

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    products in stores. There is some that have a difficult up bringing and turn that into motivation to become successful like Russell Simmons. A successful entrepreneur accomplishes his or her goals which leads to starting somewhere, has stumbles, and becomes wealthy. Russell Simmons was born in October 4, 1957 and grew up in Queens, New York in a middle class family. Growing up Russell was getting in to trouble by being in gang and selling drugs in the street. He was arrested twice for his bad choices he

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    Changes in Rita and Frank in Acts One and Two Nicola White The ways in which Russell portrays the changes and developments in the characters of Rita and Frank in Act 1 scene 1 and Act 2 scene 1 of Educating Rita The play ‘Educating Rita’ written by Willy Russell explores the life of Rita, a twenty-six year old woman from a working class background, who is trying to find a new identity by becoming more independent, educated and cultured. Rita goes to the Open University and meets her

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    In 1950, the British mathematician and philosopher Bertrand Russell once stated, “To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.”. During the same time, the world was gripped by the fear of communism and the possibility of nuclear attacks during the Cold War. Published in 1954, the novel Lord of the Flies, by William Golding, expresses the ramifications of fear in a group of young English boys that have been stranded on an island. Golding explores both the physical and chemical reactions of fear, as

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    The description theory of meaning was proposed independently by Bertrand Russell and Gottlob Frege as a response to some of the fallacies of the reference theory. Description theorists propose that instead of being a simple ‘word - world relationship’, meaning is derived from descriptions associated with certain objects and stored in our mind (or senses in Frege’s case). Frege and Russell’s accounts of the theory differ subtly in how they view descriptions. Several objections have been made against

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