...you in more ways than are even imaginable. Amir, a timid boy with no inner armor holding him down, now had become scared and angry and he never forgave himself for that one life changing event. Hassan, too, has unfortunate events happen to him and like Amir, Hassan is never quite the same after these events. First, Hassan was born to Ali instead of his proper father so he was set to live the poor life of a Hazara, trapped as a servant to Amir and Amir’s father. Hassan’s loyalty to Amir, as a servant and best friend, was tested when Asef, the school bully, cornered the two boys. Amir and Hassan escaped with Hassan’s skill with a slingshot, and the embarrassed Asef swore to get back at Hassan. Asef saw his chance one day when Hassan went kite running for Amir’s championship winning kite. Hassan, cornered by Asef, refused to give the kite to Hassan and his gang, acting out of loyalty and love for Amir. Asef’s two friends held Hassan down and Asef brutally raped Hassan. From the moment that Hassan put himself in danger for Amir and Amir was too afraid to do the right thing, Hassan and Amir’s friendship slowly but surely came to a doomed end. As if such an event isn’t enough Hassan had another unlucky day when his supposed best friend framed him as a thief, forcing Hassan...
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...In life, there is always a way to be good again because no matter what happens you can always redeem yourself. This statement is especially true for the novel “The Kite Runner” by Khaled Hosseini. In the novel the main character is a Pashtun boy named Amir who is the son of a wealthy father and a Hazara boy named Hassan who is the son of a poor father. Hassan and his father Ali are the servents to Hassan and his father Baba located in Afghanastan. In a land where reputation is like a gun which is aimed at you at all times Amir is constantly reminded of how poorly Hazara’s are treated throughout the novel. Amir and Hassan are no exception to the problems in Afghan society and this is seen through Amir’s treatment and jeasolousy of Hassan. Throughout the entire novel all Amir wanted was his fathers love and attenetion but he realized that he had to constantly live up to his fathers expectations in order to gain it. Amir wants to be the only person in his fathers life but instead he has to share the spotlight with Hassan as well who Amir claims is just a “Hazara boy”. Amir feels guilty in many situations because Hassan always takes the blame for Amir’s actions and always shows love and dedication to Amir even in the face of danger. One such incident where Hassan was in the face of danger and even death was right after Amir and Hassan won the kite fighting championship. Hassan being Amirs servent decides to “run the kite” which means to get the kite that was cut and return it to Amir...
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...INTRAPRENEURSHIP TUGAS MATA KULIAH ENTREPRENEURSHIP 1 OLEH: TRI RETNO KURNIAWATI 1201130306 MBTI-37-08 MANAJEMEN BISNIS TELEKOMUNIKASI DAN INFORMATIKA FAKULTAS EKONOMI DAN BISNIS UNIVERSITAS TELKOM BANDUNG 2015 BAB I PENDAHULUAN 1. Latar Belakang Beberapa tahun terakhir ini, kata entrepreneurship menjadi perbincangan dikalangan perguruan tinggi. Hal ini tidak terlepas dari adanya fenomena banyaknya lulusan perguruan tinggi yang menganggur, karena jumlah lulusan tidak sebanding dengan adanya lapangan kerja yang tersedia. Kondisi ini mendorong para praktisi pendidikan di perguruan tinggi untuk melakukan reorientasi terhadap lulusannya yang dinilai semata-mata disiapkan sebagai pencari kerja, bukan pencipta kerja. Intrapreneurship merupakan jembatan yang menghubungkan jurang ilmu pengetahuan dan pasar. Perusahaan yang sedang berjalan memiliki modal, sumbersumber, tenaga kerja terampil , marketing, distribusi yang sudah berhasil. Kemudian didalam struktur birokrasinya seringkali tidak berkembang kreativitas sehingga tidak muncul produk baru dan cara cara baru dalam berproduksi. Oleh sebab itu perusahaan mencoba mengizinkan dan mengembangkan semangat wirausaha dalam berorganisasi. Akhirnya berkembang semangat intrapreneurship dan berkembang menjadi perusahaan besar. 2. Rumusan Masalah Dari latar belakang diatas, adapun rumusan masalah sebagai...
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...The Future of the Middle East We often think of the Middle East as a volatile region, but for a time experts saw the region as relatively stable. Entrenched authoritarian regimes were seen as pillars of the region that rested on their coercive apparatus as well as rentierism to maintain their rule. Thus, it came as a shock to experts when the Arab Spring bulldozed regimes that had been in power for as long as forty years. The hope of the Arab Spring was to eradicate the despotic rulers of the Middle East and replace them with democratic institutions. However, this hope has not been realized as civil war, failures of newly democratic institutions and unscathed monarchies continue to plague the region. Still, the Arab Spring is in its infant stage. The outcomes in Egypt, Tunisia, Libya and Syria remain to be seen while it appears that the monarchies of the region are stronger than ever. The future of the Middle East will be divided between the monarchies and the republics. The monarchies will most likely keep the status quo (with the help of the United States) while the republics will shape the future of democracy in the region. While it is impossible to predict the future of the Middle East due to a number of factors including the Arab-Israeli and Kurdish conflicts and the drying of oil wells, most experts on the Middle East would agree with the notion that monarchies will continue to remain unscathed in comparison to their non-monarchical neighbors. However, these same people...
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...Name of Student: Name of Professor: Course Code: Date: Contemporary Art Thesis statement An analysis of contemporary artwork reveals that there is a strong relationship between contemporary art and everyday life as artists can use them for environmental and political activities. Introduction One question that most people usually ask themselves when asked about the history of arts is whether art can have a history. Yes, art has a long history, older than most if not all individuals currently living on earth. Most people think of it as being timeless because art has remained beautiful and attractive since the Old Stone Age. Individuals enjoy looking at arts for its own sake not knowing that they may have a significant meaning and the knowledge of its context inasmuch as viewers from different generations and cultures may see same artworks and interpret them differently from the previous generations. Most of the art works we see around originate from things of the past. Rarely does an artist come up with an imaginary art from vacuum (Art History, par 1). Most of them usually refer their arts by critiquing the outmoded models, borrowing some traditional techniques and methods, researching the old and forgotten stories as well as building on some timeless themes to enable them obtain new ideas (Par 3). It is very important for us to understand the historical precedent as it guides artists in obtaining context since art began from the caves by the Old Stone Age Homo sapiens...
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...Business Communication Prepared for: Mr. Khandoker Asef Safa Kabir Lecturer School of Business and Economics Prepared by: Name | ID# | Mahtab Hossain Khan | 1321135630 | Abhi Barua | 1410305630 | Rezwanul Islam | 1320502030 | Md Adeel Anjum | 1321311630 | Mohammed Ahsan ul Haque | 1320379030 | Section: 10 Summer 2016 North South University Acknowledgement First of all, we want to thank Almighty God to give us strength to work hard for preparing this report. The report is not only of our own hard works. There are many people who helped us a lot making this thing possible. Special thanks goes to Mr. Khandoker Asef Safa Kabir; without his co-operation and proper guideline, this report couldn’t become complete. We sincerely thank him for his tremendous support. A thanks goes to our course mates, family members, friends and relatives. Their unconditional support inspired us to go beyond our limit and to give our best preparing this report. Last but not the least, we thank those kind people who spent some of their precious time for participating our interview. Their co-operation helped us a lot to conduct the research and made our job very much comfortable. We sincerely thank these people and wish them all the very best. Letter of Transmittal July 30, 2016 Khandoker Asef Safa Kabir Lecturer, School of Business and Economics North South University Dhaka, Bangladesh Dear Mr. Khandoker Asef Safa Kabir, As you commissioned the research report...
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...APPLICATION For CNPCIW Vendor/Bidders List China National Petroleum Corporation International and Watan Oil & Gas Afghanistan Limited. (CNPCIW) June 2012 Application Submission Form NOTE: The application submission shall be presented on the Applicant’s company stationary, in the case of a Joint Venture, on company stationary of the lead partner and stamped by company seal. Date: [08, December, 2012] Reference: Execution of upcoming Services & Supply Projects under CNPCIW, Afghanistan Subject: Application for CNPCIW Vendor/bidder List |To: |CNPCIW | | |Attn: Contracts Office | | |House No. 1029, Street 15 | | |Lane 6, Wazir Akbar Khan | | |Kabul, Afghanistan | Dear Sir/Madam, Being duly authorized to represent and act on behalf of Green Tech Construction & Engineering Co., and having reviewed and fully understood all of the Application requirements and information provided, the undersigned hereby applies for Application to be included on the CNPCIW Vendor List for Works (Contractors). Your organization and its authorized representatives are hereby authorized to conduct any inquiries or investigations to verify the statements, documents, and information submitted in connection with this application, and to...
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...Persian literature (Persian: ادبیات فارسی) is one of the world's oldest literatures. It spans two-and-a-half millennia, though much of the pre-Islamic material has been lost. Its sources have been within Greater Iran including present-day Iran, Irap and the Caucasus, as well as regions of Central Asia wherethe Persian Language has historically been the national language. For instance, Molana (Rumi), one of Iran's best-loved poets, born in Balkh or Vakhsh (in what is now Afganistan or Tajikistan), wrote in Persian, and lived in Konya, then the capital of the Seljuks. The Ghaznavids conquered large territories in Central and South asia and adopted Persian as their court language. There is thus Persian literature from Iran, Mesopotamia, Azerbaijan, the wider Caucasus,Turkey, western parts of Pakistan, Tajikistan and other parts of Central Asia. Not all this literature is written in Persian, as some consider works written by ethnic Persians in other languages, such as Greek and Arabic, to be included. At the same time, not all literature written in Persian is written by ethnic Persians or Iranians. Particularly, Turkic, Caucasian, and Indic poets and writers have also used the Persian language in the environment of Persianate cultures. Described as one of the great literatures of mankind, Persian literature has its roots in surviving works of Middle Persian and Old Persian, the latter of which date back as far as 522 BCE (the date of the earliest surviving Achaemenid inscription...
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...The character I feel is most important is Amir. Amir is the narrator of the story, a story that details his childhood and continues through his lifetime. He starts of being a loving and caring person. He recalls the tragic events of 1975, in which he commits terrible sins against his friend and half brother, Hassan. Amir tells us that he is what he is today because of his sin at the age of twelve. His childhood is one that he struggles with everyday. It is in that sin that he seeks and finds atonement to be good again. Amir’s character’s success and failures are influenced by his family, especially Rahim Khan, his father Baba, Hassan and Ali. In the begging we see that Amir’s brother Hassan has always stuck up and covered for him no matter how much trouble Hassan knew he would have to face for it. Like in this passage where Amir suggests that Hassan fire walnuts into their neighbor's one eyed German shepard's eye, "I talked Hassan into firing walnuts with his slingshot at the neighbor's one-eyed German shepard. Hassan never wanted to, but if I asked, really asked, he would never deny me. Hassan's father, Ali, used to catch us and get mad . . . ‘yes, father,' Hassan would mumble, looking down at his feet. But he never told on me. Never told that the mirror, like shooting walnuts at the neighbor's dog, was always my idea."(4) From this Amir should believe that Hassan is a good friend but because of Amir's failure to accept Hassan because of his standing in society and more focused...
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...Report on an Analytical Review of Management Course: MGT 210 Prepared For KH.ASEF SAFA KABIR Lecturer North South University School of Business Group Name: MaximuM SynergY Course: MGT 210 Instructor: KH. ASEF SAFA KABIR (KSU) Section: 5 School of Business (B.B.A) North South University Dear Sir, We are glad to inform you that we have formed a group of six members and the following there are the names and IDs of our group members. Name: Mahmudul Reza ID: 1420621030 Name: Ahamad Mostofa Montasir ID: 1330348030 Name: Sazid Ahmed ID: 1410066630 Name: Shithi Samad ID: 1410566630 Name: Tanvir Hossain ID: 1320196030 Name: Lutful Kabir Sadi ID: 1220319030 Letter of Transmittal 09 December, 2014 To KH.ASEF SAFA KABIR Lecturer NSU Business School North South University Plot-15; Block-B;Basundhara,Dhaka Subject: Submission of project report on manager of AL-ARAFAH ISLAMI BANK (AIBL) Dear Sir, With due respect, we would like to submit an exclusive Report on Analytical Review of Management. The report deals with whole activities of General Banking in this Bank. We tried our level best to make the report meaningful and informative....
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...IBM Case study Introduction Virtualization is one of the most exciting trends in the industry and one that has the potential, over the next few years, to change the model of how IT systems are deployed. But server virtualization will not only change how IT administrators and architects think about servers and system utilization, it is also going to affect the processes and tools used to manage what will certainly become an increasingly dynamic environment. Virtualization has actually been around for some time now, but the technology is still evolving. In fact, the word itself still means different things to different people. In broad terms, however, virtualization is about abstracting one layer of the technology stack from the next layer, like storage from servers or the OS from the applications. Abstracting the different layers, in turn, enables consolidation and better manageability. As a concept, virtualization applies to storage, networks, servers, applications, and access. When you look at storage and networks, the goal of virtualization is to aggregate a set of different devices so the total pool of resources looks and acts like a single entity. For example, you can configure a 40TB storage solution instead of a set of 20 2TB storage devices. But with other components, virtualization acts in the opposite direction, helping you to make a single system appear as though there are multiple systems. The most common example of this is server virtualization, where you...
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...SOC 105 01: RELIGION AND SOCIETY Spring 2015 / Tuesdays and Thursdays 9:35 A.M. – 11:00 A.M. Room: BROWER HALL 203 Instructor: Konstantinos Ardavanis Email: Konstantinos.ardavanis@hofstra.edu Office Hours: Tuesdays 11:00 A.M. – 12:00 P.M. COURSE DESCRIPTION This course is designed to help you learn about the Sociology of Religion, with special attention paid to contemporary issues in religion and society in the United States. This course will set out to explore the various rituals, values, and customs that a society embraces, and through this, find the hidden meaning behind the cultural knowledge that these values, rituals and customs provide. While people use these values, rituals, and customs to interpret the world around them, it will be our job to discuss the implications and unconscious assumptions that these interpretations provide using a number of qualitative and quantitative research methodologies. TEXTS AND READINGS REQUIRED • Sociology of Religion: Contemporary Developments (2nd edition) by Kevin J. Christiano, William H. Swatos Jr., and Peter Kivisto, ISBN 978-0-7425-6111-3 • Additional readings to be posted to Blackboard SUGGESTED • Durkheim, Emile. 1965. Elementary Forms of the Religious Life. New York: Free Press. • Marx, Karl and Frederich Engels. 1978. "The Communist Manifesto" and “the German Ideology,” in The Marx-Engels Reader. Ed. Robert Tucker. New York: W.W. Norton. • Weber, Max. 1958. The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit...
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...Association of Southeast Asian Nations The Secretariat of ASEAN at Jalan Sisingamangaraja No.70A, South Jakarta, Indonesia. The Association of Southeast Asian Nations,[4] commonly abbreviated ASEAN ( /ˈɑːsi.ɑːn/ ah-see-ahn,[5] rarely /ˈɑːzi.ɑːn/ ah-zee-ahn),[6][7] is a geo-political and economic organization of ten countries located in Southeast Asia, which was formed on 8 August 1967 by Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand.[8] Since then, membership has expanded to include Brunei, Burma (Myanmar), Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam. Its aims include the acceleration of economic growth, social progress, cultural development among its members, the protection of regional peace and stability, and to provide opportunities for member countries to discuss differences peacefully.[9] ASEAN covers a land area of 4.46 million km², 3% of the total land area of Earth, with a population of approximately 600 million people, 8.8% of the world population. The sea area of ASEAN is about three times larger than its land counterpart. In 2010, its combined nominal GDP had grown to US$1.8 trillion.[10] If ASEAN were a single entity, it would rank as the ninth largest economy in the world. History ASEAN was preceded by an organisation called the Association of Southeast Asia, commonly called ASA, an alliance consisting of the Philippines, Malaysia and Thailand that was formed in 1961. The bloc itself, however, was established on 8 August 1967, when foreign ministers of five...
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...International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy 30 Whose Solution is It? Development Ideology and the Work of MicroEntrepreneurs in Caribbean Context by Marina Karides, Florida Atlantic University An economic leader in the Caribbean, the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago has incorporated micro-business development as one of its main strategies to alleviate poverty and unemployment and to spawn economic growth since the late 1980s (ILO 1991, 1998, Ministry of Finance 1996). Although the discovery of natural gas in the early nineties catapulted Trinidad’s economic growth rate to four percent per annum, unemployment and poverty continue to affect a large portion of the population. The majority of the population has not benefited from Trinidad’s economic growth. Thus, the government has attempted to create “a nation of entrepreneurs” in order to relieve some of the inequality that defines the society (Ministry of Trade and Industry 1997). Trinidad’s expansion of micro-enterprise programs reflects an international trend. Endorsed by non-governmental organizations, private financial institutions, international development agencies, including the World Bank, many scholars and development practitioners also view microenterprise assistance as a panacea for Third World poverty (Johnson and Kidder, 1999; Mosley and Hulme, 1998; Dignard and Havet, 1995; Grosh and Somolekae, 1996; Rakowski, 1994). Micro-enterprise development programs generally consist of training in business skills...
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...FINANCE AND FINANCIAL MARKETS 3,6 Types of financial intermediaries Financial institutions are like most other businesses in that they exist to make a profit and this is maximized by minimizing their costs and maximizing their revenue. Like most firms they can only survive if they design and sell products and services that can meet demand at a reasonable profit level. We now proceed to look at some of the key types of financial institutions that are involved in the process of financial intermediation; that is, the transfer of funds between surplus and deficit agents. We distinguish between deposit-accepting institutions, such as banks and savings institutions, and other types of financial intermediaries, such as insurance companies, mutual funds/unit trusts, pension funds, hedge funds and private equity and the like. 3.7 deposit institution an institution such as a bank or savings institution that accepts cash deposits Deposit institutions Deposit institutions accept deposits from economic agents. These funds become their liabilities which they then on-lend to make direct loans or investments, which become their assets. Deposit-taking institutions aim to make a profit in the way of 'spread income' between the cost of the deposits that they accept and other sources of funding, and the return that they receive on their investment portfolio in the way of loans, equity stakes and other investments. Examples of deposit institutions include commercial banks,...
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