...“After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.” –Nelson Mandela Perseverance, the determination a person has to not let anything or anyone stop them from obtaining their goals. Perseverance is a very important quality to have because without it you could not strive in life. It gives you ethics and makes you a stronger, more respectable person. It pushes you further in life, allowing you to reach you goals. Through life everyone will need at least a smidge of perseverance. Whether it is to help you achieve some short term goals, or even long term goals. It will be what does not allow you to give up even when things seem nearly impossible. Perseverance will be that needle in the haystack; the one positive thing of a hardship you may be going through; the lesson learned from the loss in a game. It will always be that one thing that keeps you going. That just doesn’t allow you to give up. That tells you to “keep going, it’ll all be worth it at the end.” Everyone will eventually encounter a ‘bump in the road,’ in his or her journey of life. But just like when we drive a car, we have to slow down when we reach these bumps, but not completely stop. Take things step by step; see where the best place to go through is. And when were ready, go for it. But never stop, because if you stop you risk getting stuck. Being stuck somewhere or in a situation you don’t want to be in. Even I have already encountered many rough situations at this age...
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...Comparing and Contrasting Lease verses Purchase Options Bridgette Chambers ACC/400 Accounting for Decision Making November 20, 2013 Frederick Thull Comparing and Contrasting Lease verses Purchase Options In order for one to explain the difference between leases verses purchase option one would need to explain both options. One would explain what is debt financing, and provide two examples. Also, one would need to explain what equity financing is as well as giving two examples and last which alternative capital structure is more advantageous and why. If one decided that they do not wanted to take on investors and wanted total control of the business yourself, one may want to pursue debt financing in order to start up a business. One would tap your own sources of funds first by using personal loans, home equity, and even credit cards. A business loan is another option. Debt financing is when a company borrows money that must be repaid but with interest. This will not affect the ownership of the company. Two examples of such would be Issued Bonds and Line of credit. With a line of credit, this is a bank loan where a business can draw out funds whenever money is needed. In Issue Bonds the business can issue bonds as for of debt financing these bonds are marketable securities. Debt financing allows one to have control of your own destiny regarding the business. If you finance your business using debt, the interest you repay on your loan is tax-deductible. This means that...
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...Comparing Marketing Strategies Puma and Under Armour The sport companies must very careful to develop good marketing strategies, because nowadays among of the companies are very competitive like Puma and Under Armour. A good marketing strategy must enable business reach the target or the goals. There are many strategies that the companies want to clear their objective like pricing strategy, product strategy, promotional strategy and distribution strategy. Pricing strategy is a counting way to setting price of the products and this strategy also the most difficult decisions that the company must do. Knowing this strategy means know about the cost of products and services, how much profit that the company will earn, and how many demand that the company’s customers have. Furthermore, product strategy is preparing and planning a product before it launch into its intended market. A good analysis that will be needed by companies to get predict about the market and business that can effects the products the companies will sell. Next, promotion strategy is the way to attract or to pull more customers by advertising or some range technique that can reach the costumers. Lastly, distribution strategy is more directly to where the companies are going to sell their product and where it is produce. This paper will contain about compare and contrast between Puma’s and Under Armour’s way of developing their marketing strategy on the product, price, promotion and place. First of all, Puma...
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...Your goal is to write an essay showing how two subjects are either similar or different (not both). When comparing subjects, show how they are similar. When contrasting them, show how they are different. In a comparison/contrast paper, be sure to develop a thesis that includes words that signal comparisons, such as “although,” “even though,” “in spite of,” “except for,” “not withstanding,” or “but.” Also, use appropriate transitions to signal comparisons and link paragraphs within the body of your paper, such as “on the other hand,” “in contrast,” “similarly,” “also,” “both,” “even though,” and “in the same way.” In order for two things to be worth comparing, the two things should initially appear to be different. In order for two things to be worth contrasting, the two things should initially appear to be similar. Comparing and contrasting are ways of exploring the similarities and differences between two things. 'Compare and contrast' is often used as a development strategy for essay assignments but it's a helpful strategy for any important decisions you have to make. Generally speaking, comparing is showing the similarities, and contrasting is showing differences between two things that are related in some way. For example, you wouldn't compare/contrast reading a book to driving a car, but you would compare reading a book to reading with an e-reader. COMPARING com·pare (kəm-pâr′) v. com·pared, com·par·ing, com·pares v.tr. 1. To consider or describe as similar, equal...
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...Compare and contrast essays are effective in all areas for my life. Comparing two items that are similar can be positive, however contrasting these items may not be the best way to write about them. Comparing two items that are very different would not be the best way to write about them. Comparing thru contrast would be a much better essay. The idea of writing any essay is to interest the reader to the point where they do not want to stop reading the paper. It is important to capture the reader’s attention, and to keep their interest until the end of the story, or essay. Comparing two ideas that are similar and comparing their similarities could be detailed on how you could change something about the subjects to be able to show their differences. Letting the reader make their own conclusions after giving them the information will help to get the reader involved. subjects. The situations in which these are most effective are professional reflections. Professional comparisons are usually backed by professional primary sources. Those are primary sources can give factual information about both viewpoints in the essay. Personal reflections in a compare and contrast essay is slightly more ineffective as usually personal emotions can get in the way of being objective. If you take one side of a two viewpoint subject, you would find the essay favor the side you have taken. Professional compare and contrast essays are coming from multiple viewpoints. These viewpoints are factual...
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...Comparing and Contrasting Sample Essay: http://www.sadlier-oxford.com/grammar/writerworkshops/GFW8_WM_compare.pdf WHAT THIS HANDOUT IS ABOUT This handout will help you first to determine whether a particular assignment is asking for comparison/contrast and then to generate a list of similarities and differences, decide which similarities and differences to focus on, and organize your paper so that it will be clear and effective. It will also explain how you can (and why you should) develop a thesis that goes beyond “Thing A and Thing B are similar in many ways but different in others.” INTRODUCTION In your career as a student, you’ll encounter many different kinds of writing assignments, each with its own requirements. One of the most common is the comparison/contrast essay, in which you focus on the ways in which certain things or ideas—usually two of them—are similar to (this is the comparison) and/or different from (this is the contrast) one another. By assigning such essays, your instructors are encouraging you to make connections between texts or ideas, engage in critical thinking, and go beyond mere description or summary to generate interesting analysis: when you reflect on similarities and differences, you gain a deeper understanding of the items you are comparing, their relationship to each other, and what is most important about them. RECOGNIZING COMPARISON/CONTRAST IN ASSIGNMENTS Some assignments use words—like compare, contrast, similarities, and differences—that...
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...How To: Use Comparing Strategies DQ3: HELPING STUDENTS PRACTICE AND DEEPEN THEIR UNDERSTANDING OF NEW KNOWLEDGE Element 17 Examining Similarities and Differences Comparing is the process of identifying similarities and differences between ideas or things. A variety of strategies can be used when designing comparison activities. We will discuss sentence stems, Venn diagrams, double bubble diagrams and comparison matrices. Sentence Stem Comparisons This strategy can be used to have the students compare and contrast people, characters, places, events, concepts or processes. The comparisons can be general or specific. Marzano’s Becoming a Reflective Teacher, gives the following examples: General – House cats are similar to lions because ____________________. House cats are different than lions because _______________________. Specific – Sherlock Holmes and Gandalf are both characters who enjoy solving mysteries, but they are different because ____________________________. After a gym teacher has provided a series of critical-input experiences on baseball and fast pitch softball, he might assign a sentence stem assignment comparing and contrasting the two sports. A completed example can be found in Marzano’s A Handbook for the Art and Science of Teaching and looks something like this. Baseball and fast pitch softball are similar because they both… • Have 4 bases in a diamond shape • Have 9 defensive players. • Have the same ball/strike counts: 4 balls = walk & 3 strikes = out ...
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...Compare and Contrast Paragraphs I do not think have any terms to define. I will try my best to write what rent means and the write what buy means. Although I know that everybody already knows what they mean. Rent is where you pay a certain amount of money every month for the use of the property. Buy means to acquire by payment. So when you are renting something you paying to use it, when you are buying something it is yours to keep so to speak. I do believe that those are really the only two terms that I will have to define. Yes I will be using compare and contrast paragraphs. I will be comparing the same benefits between buying a house and renting an apartment. There are not many similarities between the two. The only thing I can think that would be the same would be the fact they both supply a roof over your head. When comparing these two I will have to look for some similarities between the both. The contrasting part of the essay will not be that hard. There a lot of differences between renting and buying a home. This part will be easy to do. The hardest part will be comparing the two. I will be contrasting the difference between renting and buying a house. When you rent there are things that you can technically get by with. When you buy the more things that you have do and there are certain things that you can do. When you rent there are certain thing that you cannot do. Which when you rent there are all kinds of rules that you have follow set by your landlord. When you...
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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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...Course For more classes visit www.indigohelp.com DBM 502 Individual Assignment: Implementing an Enterprise DBMS DBM 502 Individual Assignment: Comparing Database Software PART 2 OF 2 DBM 502 Individual Assignment: Comparing Database Software PART 1 OF 2 DBM 502 Individual Assignment: Data Dictionary DBM 502 Individual Assignment: Database Security DBM 502 Learning Team Assignment: DBMS Implementation Plan ………………………………………………… DBM 502 Individual Assignment Comparing Database Software PART 1 OF 2 For more classes visit www.indigohelp.com Individual Assignment: Comparing Database Software Create a list of criteria that can be used to compare database software. Create a table that uses the list of criteria to compare and contrast Microsoft® Access, SQL, DB2, and Oracle®. Write a 2- to 3-page paper that discusses Refer to “Standards for Written Work” and “Standards•your results. for Presentations” in your Program Handbook, which can be accessed through the student Web site. ………………………………………………… DBM 502 Individual Assignment Comparing Database Software PART 2 OF 2 For more classes visit www.indigohelp.com Individual Assignment: Comparing Database Software Create a list of criteria that can be used to compare database software. Create a table that uses the list of criteria to compare and contrast Microsoft® Access, SQL, DB2, and Oracle®. Write a 2- to 3-page paper that discusses your results. Refer to “Standards for Written Work and Standards...
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...How Tyack and Cuban Assumptions and Purposes and Politicization Differ from John Dewey approaching Public Education by Jasper Thompson jasper.thompson@waldenu.edu ID A00240846 Specialization: Educational Technology Paper Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for EDUC 8111: Principles of Social Change Walden University April 24, 2011 Comparing Tyack and Cuban With Dewey on Social Change 2 Abstract The essay material will examine the viewpoints of the Assumptions Tyack and Cuban concerning the Public Schools traditional strategies and social change will blend gradually to form the essay that compare the theories of John Dewey involving traditional and progressive approaches of schooling pertaining to their purposes and assumptions about Public Education. Comparing Tyack and Cuban With Dewey on Social Change 3 How Tyack and Cuban Assumptions and Purposes Differ from John Dewey approaching Public Education The title of the essay paper is How Tyack and Cuban Assumptions and Purposes Differ from John Dewey Approaching Public Education. The essay will discuss the assumption and purposes of both theorist John Dewey and Tyack and Cuban about public schooling reform and social change. The organization of the essay will first analyze the central concepts of Tyack and Cuban and the theories of John Dewey. The Assumption and Purposes of Public Education...
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...Individual Assignment: Implementing an Enterprise DBMS DBM 502 Individual Assignment: Comparing Database Software PART 2 OF 2 DBM 502 Individual Assignment: Comparing Database Software PART 1 OF 2 DBM 502 Individual Assignment: Data Dictionary DBM 502 Individual Assignment: Database Security DBM 502 Learning Team Assignment: DBMS Implementation Plan ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- DBM 502 Individual Assignment: Comparing Database Software PART 1 OF 2 (UOP) For more course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com Individual Assignment: Comparing Database Software Create a list of criteria that can be used to compare database software. Create a table that uses the list of criteria to compare and contrast Microsoft® Access, SQL, DB2, and Oracle®. Write a 2- to 3-page paper that discusses Refer to “Standards for Written Work” and “Standards•your results. for Presentations” in your Program Handbook, which can be accessed through the student Web site. ------------------------------------------------------------------- DBM 502 Individual Assignment: Comparing Database Software PART 2 OF 2 (UOP) For more course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com Individual Assignment: Comparing Database Software Create a list of criteria that can be used to compare database software. Create a table that uses the list of criteria to compare and contrast Microsoft® Access, SQL, DB2, and Oracle®. Write a 2- to 3-page paper that discusses...
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...themselves. The Positive and Negative Media Image Effects on the Self. The article written by Dirk Smeesters and Naomi Mandel is a summary of research towards images of models to woman and how it effects there self esteem. The research has shown that images of thin woman have been known to cause self enhancement and some negative self image. The first part of the research that was studied was how certain woman reacted to extreme body images as well as moderate body images. They would be shown an extremely thin/heavy model or an averagely thin/moderately heavy woman. The article uses the word assimilation to describe how some woman view the images to them. The article explains the natural tendency of people to evaluate themselves by comparing with others. There are two different types of comparisons they are upward and downward. Upward meaning that people perceive the image positively and...
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...Jen writes the story in a comical contrasting way. The language and ideals of the brothers contrasts that of their parents. Jen uses many constrasting sentences throughout his story in the conversations of Goodwin and Morehouse. The language used by Morehouse and Goodwin’s parents, is funny and prejudice. Jen begins the story by telling us that the brothers have bought a house for their parents because they couldn’t climb the stairs in their apartment anymore. ’’..they had been Americans for fifty years and could no longer belay themselves hand over hand up their apartment stair rail to get to their bedroom..’’ here Jen uses some contrast that isn’t out in the open, he states that even though they had been americans for fifty years they couldn’t bring themselves up the stairs. The contrats can be found in their age saying that ’’they had been americans for fifty years’’ before they were able to climb the stairs now they can’t. Jen continues the story with the brothers as they are fixing the house and now need a place to dump their garbage. Here Jen shows a contrast in society and how it affects some people, ”Goodwin was out scouting for dumpster. Becuase this was what the recession meant in their neck of the woods…” ’’He (Goodwin) did not, of course, like the idea of illicit trash disposal; he would have perferred to do this, as all things, in an aboveboard manner.” Here jen uses contrast to give us a sense of what Goodwins character is like, although hes out scouting for a dumpster...
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...termpaperwarehouse.comHow to Write a Comparative Analysis Throughout your academic career, you'll be asked to write papers in which you compare and contrast two things: two texts, two theories, two historical figures, two scientific processes, and so on. "Classic" compare-and-contrast papers, in which you weight A and B equally, may be about two similar things that have crucial differences (two pesticides with different effects on the environment) or two similar things that have crucial differences, yet turn out to have surprising commonalities (two politicians with vastly different world views who voice unexpectedly similar perspectives on sexual harassment). In the "lens" (or "keyhole") comparison, in which you weight A less heavily than B, you use A as a lens through which to view B. Just as looking through a pair of glasses changes the way you see an object, using A as a framework for understanding B changes the way you see B. Lens comparisons are useful for illuminating, critiquing, or challenging the stability of a thing that, before the analysis, seemed perfectly understood. Often, lens comparisons take time into account: earlier texts, events, or historical figures may illuminate later ones, and vice versa. Faced with a daunting list of seemingly unrelated similarities and differences, you may feel confused about how to construct a paper that isn't just a mechanical exercise in which you first state all the features that A and B have in common, and then state all...
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