...“I’ll be fine, they tell me. I won’t die. It’ll just hurt a lot.”(Lockhart 34) We Were Liars E. Lockhart. Cadence’s family has always sought to present itself as perfect, rich Democrats. During the summer vacation of her fifteenth year on her family’s private island, Cadence has an accident which causes her to suffer debilitating headaches. Cadence also has amnesia, and can’t remember the details of what happened to her that summer. During the summer of her seventeenth year, Cadence tries to learn the truth about what really happened to her. Her grandfather tries to manipulate his children through the promise of houses and jewelry. Throughout the book you find out more about the family and about the accident. One reason to read it is because it is very interesting and has many plot twists. It makes you keep reading because it is a very big mystery on what caused her accident and why can’t she remember anything. Cadence Sinclair Eastman is the main character and narrator of the book. She is the only daughter of Penny Sinclair Eastman and the oldest granddaughter of Harris and Tipper Sinclair. Cadence suffers with migraine headaches which she believes were caused by a traumatic head injury she suffered during the summer she was fifteen while she was vacationing on her grandparents’ private island. Cadence, however, does not remember what caused her brain injury and her family will not tell her the specifics of her accident. “I used to be blonde, but now my hair is black.” “I...
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...Lord Acton made, I do believe that power can lead to corruption, but not necessarily every individual will fall to victim to this. With power comes certain responsibility to lead others on a positive and uplifting path, never giving in to one’s own accord. Especially with “new” power, one can easily lose their morals in the pursuit of more power. This is greed and can lead to thief, lies, and total corruption. I believe that this comes from not only power, but the monetary reward that comes with power. Unfortunately more people than most strive to become the best not for bragging rights or to help others, but for the money flow that will be created from the power they obtain. Ego will also come into play, behaving as though others cannot compare to them, in this they are losing the ability to successfully lead and falling further into the corruption. According to the science and technology psychology, “to call someone “a little Hitler” meant he was a menial functionary who employed what power he had in order to annoy and frustrate others for his own gratification,” (2011). This reminded me of a time that I was employed at restaurant and me and another individual was up for the same promotion. The other individual ended up with the position and was now over me. I personally saw a change in them for the worse and how they abused their power to humiliate and weed out individuals that did not personally like, regardless of their performance on...
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...A Family of One Sound As we move forward through our lives we begin to see, new bonds created that makes this group a family. We speak together as one mind, one heart, one sound, so that love and support can be found. Our mistakes are learned from and we begin to look back, on the way things used to be before our music was intact. We cannot be a selfish a selfish generation only looking for fame, what we should realize is that at the end of every year we will never be the same. The truth about this group is that we leave no one out, and we all know to leave no doubt. Our parents always talk to us about setting the example for each other, what they don’t realize is that we are setting the example, for music, our other mother. Through the power of music everything is possible to us and we will not be denied, we need to take a stand and show everyone the power of ‘Jaguar Pride’. I am a witness as are you to the effect of one musician can have on us all, his memory reminds us that WE NEED TO STAND TALL. As our lives continue to change daily our bonds grow stronger, our music creates a common goal, to mourn no longer. My message through this spoken word is simple but everlasting; we should band together as one sound and persevere through our tragic passing. We’re the definition of putting up a fight, we have no weakness, and the ability to make our hardest times into positive memories is what will complete us. As we stand here today as witnesses to the power of music in our...
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...understand? A) Countries use trade theories to help them decide how to improve their competitive positions, such as improving the quantity and quality of production factors. B) Countries' trade policies affect whether imports are allowed to compete against domestic production, thus affecting where companies need to produce to serve given markets. C) Countries use laissez-faire policies to intervene in the free movement of international trade, thus affecting where companies can produce most efficiently. D) Countries wrestle with the questions and set policies on what, with whom, and how much they should import and export, thus affecting companies' abilities to produce given products efficiently and sell them into given markets. Answer: C Diff: 3 Learning Outcome: Compare and contrast theories of international trade Skill: Concept Objective: 1 2) Why should managers in international business understand international trade theories? A) Countries' trade policies, based on trade theories, influence which products companies might export to given countries. B) The understanding helps managers decide whether their companies should follow laissez-faire management practices. C) The theories help managers decide whether to use large-scale versus small-scale technologies for serving their export markets. D) The comprehension is useful when deciding whether to transfer managers abroad to manage foreign operations. Answer: A Diff: 3 Learning Outcome: Compare and contrast...
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...Compare and Contrast Essay [pic][pic] Language – Writing The purpose of a compare and contrast essay is to examine two things of interest and tell the reader about the similarities and differences between them. There are many different formats for writing a compare and contrast essay. For the purpose of this assignment, we will focus on the most common format called the Feature by Feature Format, where we compare and contrast (similarities and differences) between two subjects (i.e. Singapore versus Trinidad, etc.) on three different features about the subjects (i.e. geography, people, and food, etc.) Basic Structure: |1st Paragraph – Introduction | |General Topic Sentence(s) – catch the reader’s attention | |Brief background information about the two subjects | |THESIS STATEMENT | |Brief overview of the three features you are comparing and contrasting | |2nd Paragraph –Personality Inventory ...
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...Identifying Global Business Opportunities 1. POTENTIAL MARKETS Discuss one or more of the global business opportunities from above in terms of: (a) a specific product or service, including customer benefits; and (b) a potential market-a country that would be appropriate for this business opportunity. 2. ABSOLUTE AND COMPARATIVE ADVANTAGES Analyze for the presence of an absolute or comparative advantage that might be related to a business opportunity in the country where the item will be produced or sold. Describe how this analysis might influence the success of your proposed business idea. (For example, the availability of natural resources can make a business opportunity cost efficient.) 3. BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY ANALYSIS Compare two or more proposed business opportunities based on factors such as foreign market potential, start-up costs, and foreign business risks. (For example, a proposal to construct new highways may be appropriate for a developing economy. However, the risks in this market are probably greater than in an industrialized nation.) 4. Research the international operations of a company doing business in several countries. Obtain information related to: (1) the products sold in various regions of the world; (2) current and planned business activities in specific regions of the world-Asia, Africa, Eastern Europe, Middle East, Latin America; (3) the company's strengths and weaknesses related to global business activities; (4) future actions that...
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...[pic] Template 3: Description of QA/QC Procedures | | | |[pic] |1: Institutional Arrangements | |[pic] |2: Methods and Data Documentation | |[pic] |3: Description of QA/QC Procedures | | [pic] |4: Description of Archiving System | |[pic] |5: Key Category Analysis | |[pic] |6: National Inventory Improvement Plan | Country Representative Contact Information |Country: | |Postal Address: | | |Contact Name: | |Phone Number: | | |Title: | |E-Mail: | | |Organization: | |URL: | | Instructions • The implementation of quality assurance and quality control (QA/QC) procedures is an important part of the development of national greenhouse gas inventories...
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...world, countries sized by facebook population Pros: 1. Showing facebook population compared with each country geographical location. 2. Color division by continent makes easy to understand Cons: 1.Not easy to compare facebook population ratio with actual population 2. Not easy to recognize each square because of overlap b. What is the figure in the lower section? % residents who use facebook versus actual population, size represents facebook population Pros: 1. Easy to compare facebook population ratio with actual population 2. Overlap problem solved. I guess compared two individual variables 3. Easy comparison by Facebook user and Actual population average. 4. Continental comparison according to menu - “click to highlight”. It is astonishing to realize that only 5.20% of India Population who use Facebook. Although India is one of the IT strength countries. I didn’t hear about small countries like Cyprus and Montenegro. However there is high Facebook population ratio like 51.19% and 46.59% for each 2. If the CEO of Facebook ask you to improve this chart, what kind of chart will you suggest? (You don't need to draw. Just give us 1 example (or link, if any). I would like to suggest “Age Stratified Sampling”. Searching on google, I found high facebook population ratio (76%) in young generation (age 18~34) although the ratio (5.20%) is low in actual population, 2012. I like to see Age Stratified Sampling circle chart for each country by clicking...
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...the use of magical Cinderella tales from different lands and apply map skills in learning which country each story comes from. These magical tales will help students to develop awareness that different Cinderella tales have much in common. Materials Class comparison Chart Graphic Organizers: Venn Diagram Sequencing Chart Compare and Contrast T-Chart My Favorite Part Handout Book Mark Template World Map Map pins Book collection The Rough-Faced Girl by Rafe Martin A Golden Slipper” A Vietnamese Legend by Darrell H.Y. Yum Chinye: A West African Folk Tale by Obi Onyefulu Yeh-Shen: A Cinderella Story from China by Ai-Ling Louie The Egyptian Cinderella by Shirley Climo The Irish Cinderella by Shirley Climo The Way Meat Loves Salt:A Cinderella Tale from the Jewish Tradition adapted by Jewell Reinhart Coburn The Golden Saddle: A Middle Eastern Cinderella by Rebecca Hickox Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters by John Steptoe The Irish Cinderlad by Shirley Climo Lesson 1 Key Vocabulary Country — a small part of a continent with its own borders and government Landmark—an object in a landscape that can be seen from far away Title — the name of a book, movie, song or other work Fairy Tale — a make believe children’s story about magic, fairies, giants, witches, or talking animals. Procedures 1. Ask and discuss “What is a Fairly Tale?” 2. Tell students we will be reading several Cinderella stories over...
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...three students and each group will submit one joint report. 2. In doing this assignment, you are encouraged to refer to the lecture notes, text, the reading material in Blackboard and any other material that may assist you in understanding what you are doing in this assignment. Group members are expected to actively discuss and work among themselves but not refer to the work of any other groups. Any collusion of this form will be treated very seriously and penalised. 3. Please ensure that each member in a group makes an equal contribution to the assignment, as far as possible. Free riders should be reported to me and may be penalised. 4. You are expected to make this assignment an opportunity to develop you spreadsheet computational skills. Make use of Excel to do your calculations and charts/graphs. 5. Assignments must be presented in a professional and reader-friendly manner. The key results or summaries of your calculation and your comments must be shown in the body of the report. Make sure the formulas or methods used for your computations are clearly shown. The data collected and details of calculations can be shown as appendices to the report. The length of the report should not exceed 10 pages (Excluding the appendices). You should also follow the following typing conventions: • Times New Roman Font (at minimum, 12 pitch); • 1 ½ line spacing; • Top, bottom, left and right margins to be at least 2½cm; and 6. Ensure that you give adequate references to the...
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...This country case study represents 20% of the course evaluation and requires you to prepare a comprehensive review of the economic performance of the country you have chosen to study. You will work in the pairs assigned at the beginning of the course on a single country from your chosen region. You and your partner will turn in a single paper and will present jointly a 10-minute PowerPoint summary on your research in class. The objectives of this study are as follows: 1) To become familiar with the data available for national economic analysis; 2) To use this data to report on a country's overall macroeconomic situation; and 3) To assess if a country reflects a healthy, growing, sustainable, open-economy. The following guidelines will help you use the principles presented in the text and the course along with the specific statistical data to describe and analyze your country's past and economic performance and draw conclusions on prospects for the future. Data and Sources You should examine data from the last two decades for your country from the following sources: • World Bank Country At-a-Glance tables: http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/DATASTATISTICS/0,,contentMDK:20485916~menuPK:1297819~pagePK:64133150~piPK:64133175~theSitePK:239419,00.html • CIA World Factbook: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/ni.html • BBC News Country Profiles: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/country_profiles/default.stm ...
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...HP Envy dv7t-7200 Quad Edition Notebook PC Acer Aspire V3-571-9890 1) Compare the following items for your selections: a. Price: HP $999.99, Acer $729.99 b. Delivery Charges: HP Standard shipping $9.99, Acer Standard Ground Shipping $15.00 c. Financing Options: HP No payments/Interest if paid full in 12 months, Acer no current offer d. Discounts: HP additional 15% off accessories with pc purchase, Acer free overnight shipping e. Coupons: Could not find coupons, companies possibly send these with shipped items f. Warranties: HP Two year limited hardware warranty, Acer one year international travelers limited warranty g. Installation Offered: HP windows 8 os, Norton internet security 2012, hp games; Acer windows 8 os h. Recycling of Old Components Offered: HP offers information on recycling different products in your local area, Acer also has a recycling program with information on how to dispose of components in your area. 2) What are some factors that can impact the gross profit of a merchandise company? There are many different factors that can impact the gross profit of a merchandise company including an increase in supplies, labor, and taxes. Anything that increases the cost of producing a product or providing a service affects the gross profit of the merchandise/service. In many markets, companies do not have the ability to increase the price of their product just because of increase in production costs, thus costing them profit. 3)...
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...statistics (GDP) provide a good basis for comparison between countries? In the world of Economics, GDP per capita is used to compare the way that countries are coping with different economic climates; such as recession, boom etc. This essay will be assessing whether GDP is the best statistic to use for comparing different countries’ economies. GDP is the most commonly used method by world famous economists to assess how successful an economy is. GDP stands for Gross Domestic Product and is the market value of the official goods that have been transferred in and out in a country over a certain period of time. GDP is a good method for comparing the national incomes of countries because it can be very accurate. This is especially the case when the GDP for a division is divided between the population of a country. This is a statistic called GDP per capita and is a lot more accurate at showing how wealthy a country is because it divides the value of the goods transferred in a country between the whole population. This is clearly a better way of measuring how wealthy a country is because it explains how rich each person is in a country. This is a better way of comparison between countries because it shows how rich the country is in terms of value per person instead of making assumptions. This makes a huge difference because in normal GDP, China is the richest country in the world because it is worth the most as a country; however when GDP per capita comes into play, Luxembourg is the...
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...IELTS Writing Task 1 Simon Contents 1. Line graph 2 1.1. Tips for Line graph 2 1.2. Internet Users as percentage of population 3 1.3. Internatioal migration in UK 4 1.4. UK acid rain emission 5 1.5. Water consumption 6 1.6. Car ownership 7 2. Bar chart 8 2.1. Marriages and divorces 8 2.2. Levels of participation 9 2.3. Consumer good 11 2.4. House prices 12 3. Table 13 3.1. Tips for table 13 3.2. Rail networks 14 3.3. Poverty proportion in Australia 15 3.4. Daily activities 16 3.5. Goods consumer 17 4. Pie chart 18 4.1. Cam7, page 101 18 4.2. Diet 19 5. Map 20 5.1. Village of Chorleywood 20 5.2. Gallery 21 5.3. House design 22 5.4. 2 proposed supermarket 23 6. Process 24 6.1. Tips for process diagram 24 6.2. Forecast in Australia 25 6.3. Brick manufactuting 26 6.4. Water cycle 27 Line graph Tips for Line graph Line graphs always show changes over time. Here's some advice about how to describe them: * Try to write 4 paragraphs - introduction, summary of main points, 2 detail paragraphs. * For your summary paragraph, look at the "big picture" - what changes happened to all of the lines from the beginning to the end of the period shown (i.e. from the first year to the last). Is there a trend that all of the lines follow (e.g. an overall increase)? * You don't need to give numbers in your summary paragraph. Numbers are specific details. Just mention general things like 'overall...
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...Where does the US Healthcare system rate? 37th in the World England Compare and Contrast the English healthcare system with the US system The citizens won’t see a single medical bill, the hospitals and their employees are owned by the government. Hospitals go against each other to get funding. It’s similar in the fact their is a “family doctor.” What are the advantages of this system over the US system? No medical bills, no medical bankrupcy. Patience can choose what hospital they want to go to. Excellent preventitive medicine. What are the disadvantages of this system? They pay much higher taxes. Takes a while to get hip or heart surgery (waiting list). Japan Compare and Contrast the Japanese healthcare system with the US system Cover everyone and spend half the amount the U.S. does. 80% of hospitals are private buisnesses. There are set prices for everything in hospitals all across Japan. What are the advantages of this system over the US system? Everyone is covered and it is very cheap. There is no gate keeper, no appointment is neccessary so they can go see any specialist they want. Insurance takes care of the bill. What are the disadvantages of this system? The doctors can’t charge what they want which limits the amount of money they can make. 50% of hospitals in financial trouble. Spend too little on medicine which cause this financial trouble. Germany Compare and Contrast the German healthcare system with the US system Like Japan, most...
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