the pork barrel funds of 5 senators and 23 Congressmen for ghost projects. She was even tagged as the alleged mother of the PHP 10 billion pork barrel scam. Napoles’ firm was allegedly tapped for government-funded projects that were later found questionable. The “so-called projects” include the PHP 728 million funds for a fertilizer project for poor farmers. It was alleged that the fund was diverted to benefit politicians and the former President. The Fertilizer fund scam is a political scandal
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Gun rights and gun control have different meaning depending with where one lives and the influence they have on one’s life. The debate on gun control has been going on for ages now. There have been people advocating for gun control while others want the control tightened. The federal government has been working on amending current gun regulations to be able to control gun ownership. Owning a gun in the United States is a peculiar American tradition so the Obama government and those who will follow
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"In Gun Control Debate‚ Logic Goes out the Window" by Richard J. Davis The claim of this essay is that in the debates of gun control logic has lost out in the past and is currently losing out. This article describes the difficulties and rationale of both sides of the gun control debate. The author talks about how a proposal in 1978 would have manufacturers‚ wholesalers‚ and send purchase reports to the Bureau of Alcohol‚ Tobacco‚ Firearms‚ and Explosives. The idea was that creating such a database
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Go Glow Grow is a nutrition curriculum developed for preschool children. In conjunction with the book Go Glow Grow: Foods for You‚ children learn about healthy eating‚ exercising and the importance of hand washing. Using a simplified version of MyPlate‚ children learn the connection between healthy foods and what they do for the body. •Grains are Go foods‚ they help you run‚ jump and play all day. •Fruits and vegetables are Glow foods; they help you have shiny hair and sparkly eyes. •Milk and meat
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Executive Summary Organisational factors or ‘bad barrels’ are said to have instigated many occurrences of corporate corruption and deviant behaviour (Wharton 2002‚ p 2)‚ involving large numbers of active or passive participants; these are ‘rarely the result of a few bad apples’ (Murphy 2007‚ p 7). The AWB case is a clear example of corporate culture and other systemic failures influencing and defining an organisation’s decision making and its ethical posture. This report addresses the underlying
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The Maxim Gun By Alexander Thompson Hiram S. Maxim‚ who was working with an engineering works in Fitchburg‚ Massachusetts‚ invented the Maxim machine-gun in 1884. Hiram Maxim was born in Sangersville‚ Maine on February 5‚ 1840. His first patented inventions included models of electric lamps and gas appliances‚ and curling irons. Maxim’s first idea of inventing a weapon effective for battlefield combat came from a man he met at the 1881 Paris Electrical Exhibition. This man told
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"Green Grow the Rashes" Robert Burns’ poem‚ "Green Grow the Rashes" is a very simple poem. The main theme to the poem is the praise of the female gender. Throughout the poem Burns comments on what females mean to him‚ and how wonderful they are. "The sweetest hours that e’er I spend‚ Are spent among the lasses‚ O. (Robert Burns) With this statement in the first stanza of the poem‚ Burns attempts to make his point on females. The happiest times of his life are spent
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Political leaders and those in power constantly portray manipulative facades. Moreover many believe that Totalitarianism assists in building a strong and balanced society. Aldous Huxley’s 1931 novel‚ Brave New World (BNW)‚ portrays the cunning nature of the dystopian society. Moreover Barrack Obama’s 2008 Political speech Change Has Come outlines the competing political realities of the USA‚ and advocates the American Dream as a continued pursuit of the American creed. Through these texts‚ representation
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How to Grow Old Bertrand Russell In spite of the title，this article will really be on how not to grow old，which，at my time of life，is a much more important subject．My first advice would be to choose your ancestors carefully．Although both my parents died young，I have done well in this respect as regards my other ancestors． My maternal grandfather，it is true，was cut off in the flower of his youth at the age of sixty-seven，but my other three grandparents all lived to be over eighty．Of remoter
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What Is True Darkness “We Grow Accustomed to The Dark” and “Before I Got My Eye Put Out” are two poems written by Emily Dickinson conveying the concept of sight. Although these two poems share a common theme‚ their way of comprehending ideas about sight are very different. “We Grow Accustomed to the Dark” is conveying a message to the audience of how the speaker is adapting to the darkness‚ while in “Before I Got My Eye Put Out” the speaker is trying to tell the audience how she would
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