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    Research on TOYOTA MOTOR CORPORARION and the FORD MOTOR COMPANY • Describe and critically analyze the supply chain management practices employed by both of these companies. • Are they involved in strategic alliances with major trading partners? If so, how and for what purpose? • What strategies do they apply to procurement and outsourcing? • What challenges and risks do they face internationally? How does each attempt to overcome these challenges? • Compare how these organizations are

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    Walmart is the largest retailer in the world. Sam Walton the founder of Walmart, opened the first Walmart store in Rogers, Arkansas in 1962. Sam Walton was born in 1918 in Oklahoma. Sam Walton started of working for the famous retailer we still know today which is JC Penney. Walton then gave up his job and decided to open up his own retail store. He first purchased a franchise in Arkansas. Sam Walton began offering huge discounts on prices, he became successful due to the cheap prices made affordable

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    agreed to move. Others were driven from their homes at bayonet point. Almost two thousands of them died along the route they remembered as the Trail of Tears." For decades, the state of Georgia sought to enforce its authority over the Cherokee Nation, but its efforts had little effect until the election of President Andrew Jackson, a longtime supporter of Indian removal. In 1838 the U.S. government forced the Cherokee Indians out of their land

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    By most accounts, Bessie Smith was a rough, crude, violent woman. She was also one of the greatest Blues singers of the 1920s. The road that took her to the title “Empress of the Blues” was not an easy one. It was certainly not one of the romantic "rags to riches" tales that Horatio Alger made popular during her time. For a young black woman from the South the journey was anything but easy, and it would require a special kind of person, and Bessie Smith was definitely that. She was a woman who fought

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    Ramirez Aurora University Abstract Fecal transplants have been around for many years; however up until recently it had not been widely used or accepted as a feasible course of treatment for gastrointestinal complications. Since approval by the U.S Food and Drug administration in 2013, the method is being thoroughly researched and tested to entice its use for Clostridium difficile infections. Clostridium difficile is extremely prevalent in the community and more over in healthcare facilities.

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    Allied forces were not strong enough to meet the Axis powers on a conventional battlefield. In December of 1941 Colonel William J. Donovan, a World War I Army hero and presidential confidant, made a formal proposal to President Roosevelt to create a U.S. military unit that “would infiltrate occupied territory and assist resistance groups.”(Major John T. Hoffman USMCR, 3) In January of 1942, the president’s son, Captain James Roosevelt USMC wrote a letter to Major General Thomas Holcomb, 17th Commandant

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    “A whole generation of Americans had grown up knowing no other president. He was a presence in their living rooms, he had called them my friends, and he had been at the helm of the two worst crisis of the century.” (“FDR”) The people loved his optimism and his sympathy with the less fortunate. (Perkins, 7) He was the people’s champion and they elected him to office four consecutive times. (Schlesinger, Time) President Roosevelt rescued America during the hardship that was the great depression. His

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    Wind Power and Wildlife Issues in Kansas

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    Remember in Wizard of Oz how Dorothy was swept away by a tornado, and how tornados are massive wind storms. Well, it is no wonder they took the setting in Kansas. “Kansas has been ranked third in the nation for its potential wind resources” (Wind Power and Wildlife Issues in Kansas). Wind turbines have been placed all around Kansas, gathering wind to produce energy. Truth is it’s causing problems for animals and farmers. A great deal of biodiversity is being taken place throughout the wildlife. Unhappy

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    The Pollution Of The Sea

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    Intro The sun sets on the port communities and the sky glows orange yellow purple and blue, not the beautiful sun set that is causing this it’s the disgusting pollution in the ports is a massive issue effecting every port and surrounding community. From the first ships that set sail to the super tankers of today shipping product by ocean going vessel is the most effective way. With all the positives of ocean trading the major negative is the fact that the exhaust is polluting the very air we breathe

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    INTRODUCTION The world today is entirely dependent on various means of transportation for their day to day and hence a more rapid and reliable source of transportation is must. People today recognizes aero plane as the fastest means of transportation which has its own disadvantages and there were no other options available till the beginning of the 20th century , but with the development in technology there were other means of transport which came into action and one of which was the MAGLEV TRAIN

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