...It was a warm and night and I was outside on Halloween. There were many children getting all of the savory candy in my neighborhood. I , on the other hand, was stuck passing out candy at my house instead of eating it. If you haven’t had to pass out candy on Halloween, then let me describe the interminable and torturous job that was thrown upon me on Halloween. First, everyone tries to take more candy than they’re supposed to, and honestly they already have enough candy so they should just take one piece. Also, it’s practically torture watching kids get candy while you have to sit alone and have nothing. Finally, rarely anyone says “Trick or Treat” anymore. That’s the whole point of halloween, so now kids get candy for walking up to your door dressed...
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...Pumpkins are the most popular decoration during Halloween. Not only do they provide a whimsical and spooky feel, they also provide light for trick-or-treaters on Halloween night. Every year, millions of Americans break out their knives and transform their pumpkins into glowing jack-o'-lanterns. The good thing about pumpkins is that they are essentially blank canvases. This allows buyers to create a variety of different looks, be it frightening or charming. Getting Started Before getting started, buyers will need to ensure they have all the proper materials on-hand. Although materials may vary, there is a basic set of tools for carving basic jack-o'-lanterns. Selecting the Pumpkin When selecting a pumpkin, buyers should look for one that is large, but not too large. The pumpkin itself should be large enough to carve eyes, a nose, and a mouth. It should also be quite firm to the touch and solid. The shape of the pumpkin does not...
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...How to throw the best Halloween party ever! You will need games, spooky foods, and a scary exhibit. All of these things can be DIY or you can order them! Plus, you can find great things on Pinterest for all of these things. Not only can you DIY but since it's Halloween a lot of places will have things you can buy. For games you need them to be appropriate for all age groups that are coming. If you’re going to have kids there then maybe split the games up, if their are enough kids to play their own games. For games for kids you could have “throw the toilet paper in the toilet” “who can throw the pumpkins the farthest.” When people enter the house you can have a glass of pumpkin stems and they can guess how many for a prize. Games for adults...
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...we are back, back again to this school. Boring as usually from the 5 day break. I have to admit that the break was pretty fine. I didn't really did much but i still had fun. I was mostly working extra hours at work and making extra dollars. but I only got paid 100 a week like usually even though I worked more hours. But I got paid that's all that matter to me right now. I trying to make enough money to buy myself a late birthday present since my parents is not going to buy me anything. after the excuse that they make. “since all the things i done for you”. But I don't really even care anyways. too be honest I thought that the break was for Halloween. But it turned out to be a teacher's break. Halloween was fun I brought some friends on the...
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...How Germany Busted Wal-Mart’s Bubble Reasons and lessons learned behind Wal-Mart’s failed attempt into Germany * Founder Sam Walton opened the first store in 1962 and is now the world’s largest retailer with more than 10,000 retail units under 69 different banners in 27 countries. * 2.2 million employees serving 200 million customers and members every week. * Net sales for 2012 increased 5.9% to $443.9 billion, $125 billion derived from international sales. * Wal-Mart’s 2012 Annual Report…… Five key strategies that are central to Wal-Mart’s future success: 1. Developing their people 2. Driving the productivity loop 3. Winning in Global eCommerce 4. Reinvigorating their customer–focused culture 5. Being the lead on social and environmental issues Wal-Mart’s History in the German Market * Entry began in 1997 with the acquisition of 21 hypermarkets from Wertkauf GmbH, then another 74, which included sites which previous owners had failed to make profitable. * Wal-Mart Germany was initially lead by an American (who didn’t speak a word of German.) Lacking an understanding for German culture, Wal-Mart misfires a second time by replacing the CEO with a Brit to take the helm. * Unable to find what makes German consumers “tick”, Wal-Mart exits the $370 billion German retail market and sells its 85 operations to rival Metro AG, incurring a pretax loss of $1 billion *Wal-Mart’s largest global competitor Carrefour SA of...
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...Running head: ZOMBIES 1 Zombies: How to Survive the Apocalypse Anne Rojas National American University This is not a full APA paper. It is meant to show students the basics. Students should contact their instructor or a librarian for specific questions. ZOMBIES 2 Abstract An abstract is a summary of your paper, usually between 150 and 250 words long. It should include your thesis statement and describe what your paper is about and the key points of your research. Abstracts should be simple and to the point, allowing the reader to decide if he or she wants to read your paper in its entirety. Please also note that the first line of your abstract is not indented. ZOMBIES 3 Zombies: How to Survive the Apocalypse The continuing threat of a zombie apocalypse requires heightened awareness and preparation in order to survive. There is a need for the availability of public health resources and survival techniques. In addition to public resources, individuals will have to take the initiative to be aware and prepare. Focus on development and implementation of resources will prove to have a high return on investment; preparedness will ensure survival of the human species. Procrastination will lead to being assimilated into the zombie ranks. One of the first things everyone can do to prepare for the arrival of zombies is to stock up on water, food, batteries and candles. Having the proper supplies is an important step in being ready in the event of an outbreak. The Office of Public...
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...10/25/2013 Department of Physics | Loyola College | JOURNAL | PHYSICA | JOURNAL | PHYSICA | CONTNETS * About college * About physics department * Students club * Science news * Science facts * Picture of the day * Puzzle * Riddle ABOUT COLLEGE Glorious college: Loyola College Loyola College was founded by the Society of Jesus (Jesuits) in 1925, with the primary objective of providing University Education in a Christian atmosphere for deserving Students, especially those belonging to the Catholic Community. Although this college is meant primarily for Catholics, it admits other students irrespective of caste and creed. The College aims at training young men and women of quality to be leaders in all walks of life, whom we hope will play a vital role in bringing about the desired changes for the betterment of the people of our country, more particularly of the dalits and other poorer and marginalized sections of society. The College trains young men and women to serve their fellowmen in justice, truth and love. Loyola College became autonomous in July 1978. The College, however, continues to be affiliated to the University of Madras and is autonomous, in the sense that it is free to frame its own course of studies and adopt innovative methods of teaching and evaluation. The University degrees will be conferred on the students passing the examinations conducted by the college. In Loyola, we look at education differently...
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...academic writing. During my semester of Intro to Expository Writing, my academic writing has greatly improved. My writing started as “Elementary school was like a fairytale; there was a pretty princess and a handsome prince, but I was an evil villain.” And has grown to “Through her diction, Walls creates various tones in order to convey to her audience that despite obstacles, it is possible to escape from a dysfunctional family in hopes of a brighter future.” Using How to Say Nothing in 500 Words, I will be evaluating my own writing by discussing my strengths, weaknesses, and how I have grown as a writer. Writing narratives have always been a personal struggle for me. Unless I passionately come up with a story, and immediately write it on paper, my narratives are bland. It is hard to write personal life-changing stories when I have a deadline. One weakness of mine is using colorful words. For example, a sentence from my personal narrative was written as “It was magnificent with its stained green carpet and plenty of wooden bookshelves stocked with colorful books.” In retrospect, this is how it could have been written, “The spacious library had wooden bookshelves stuffed with leather-bound books, which rested on gritty emerald carpet.”...
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...Table of Content 1. Introduction 2. The imitations of Tencent QQ 3. The reflection of Tencent’s imitations 4. Conclusion Introduction QQ, which created by Tencent Company in March 1999. It is the most popular instant messager in China.[1] The number of QQ users is 1118.7 million on September 2010.[2] As a research, around 60 percent of China internet users were using QQ in 2008, when only 25.49 percent of them were using MSN.[3] Apart from internet users, mobile phone users also intended to use QQ Mobile as their communication tool rather than dialing. Tencent Company is still developing their scale. Their company services include search engine (website), chat rooms, games, music, web browser, antivirus software, etc. In the recent year, they also try to expand their market internationally, such as QQ Hong Kong and QQ International. Moreover, the original target customers is young users, but Tencent Company is planning expand their target customers to older audience.[4] The imitations of Tencent QQ From many years until now, many people criticized the Chinese imitation of western brands or software, so is Tencent. The previous name of QQ is OICQ, which got the same name with ICQ.[5] The icon of QQ and the icon for QQ users criticized that imitated the Linux icon and many different cartoon characters, either. Moreover, many games in QQ are the imitations...
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...----------------------- News in brief 第1期 （总第1期） 2011年11月1日 English News †††††††††††††††††††††††††††††††††††ഠ∍瑉猧瀠楯瑮敬獳琠楳湧甠⁰潦牰杯慲 "It's pointless to sign up for programs like this if they overemphasize parents' authority, and they may prevent children from having independent thoughts," she told China Daily on Monday. Sun Yunxiao, deputy director of the China Youth Research Center, said filial piety entails respecting and caring for parents and other aged relatives, not obeying them. "Children should learn to understand and respect their parents, but when parents require their children to do everything they want them to do, filial piety becomes a shackle," he said. Xiong Bingqi, deputy director of the 21st Century Education Research Institute, a private, nonprofit policy research body, worried that the program will consist of nothing but empty talk if it is merely based on textbooks. "It's useless to read classic moral teachings if children don't have enough of a chance to practice them in daily life," Xiong said. Nowadays, a lot of parents in China only care about children's academic performance and the only thing children need to do is to get high scores in exams, he said. Xiong said parents should encourage their children to do housework to teach children about sharing family responsibilities. Editorsns in brife civilians and one ...
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...Running Head: MARKETING DEFINITION Marketing Definition Paper University of Phoenix MKT 421 October 31, 2006 Marketing Definition Paper When most people think of marketing they think of advertisements and commercials. This is partially true though there are differences amongst advertising products and marketing. According to the American Marketing Association (2006), “Marketing is an organizational function and a set of processes for creating, communicating, and delivering value to customers and for managing customer relationships in ways that benefit the organization and its stakeholders.” This view is similar to other definitions such as MSN Encarta Dictionary. The dictionary depicts marketing as “selling of products or services: the business activity of presenting products or services in such a way as to make them desirable” (MSN, 2006). Though most people would settle for these definitions a personal definition is “Marketing are the activities such as marketing research and the 4 P’s (price, product, promotion, place) that are linked to a specific product and the target markets wants and needs. Marketing is the act of satisfying customers beyond the competitor’s abilities.” Marketing and Organizational Success Many areas intertwine to create a successful organization. Marketing is one area that intertwines with almost every aspect of a company such as sales, accounting and finance, customer service, and internal and external publics. Marketing is a...
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...The Psychology of Panic Research paper on Academic Writing Skills First semester – A.Y. 2012-2013 Kevin and Friends Antonio, KevinArlante, Gil AngeloJorge, CamilleLeonardo, LaarniePascual, Shenine LevinaSalcines, Denz JovelleSantos, Arrianne | The War of the Worlds is a science fiction novel written by Herbert George Wells in 1895-97 and was published in 1898. It is about the adventure of an unnamed protagonist as he ventures in London while the Martian are invading the Earth. The setting of the Novel is in the time of the Victorian England and is one of the earliest stories that involved an extraterrestrial race. It has two parts: The Coming of Martians, and The Earth under the Martians. The Mercury group, which was led by Orson Welles, adapted in their show “Mercury Theatre on the Air” the science fiction novel The War of the Worlds by H.G Wells for the airing of their Halloween show in the night of October 30, 1938. Orson Wells and his writer Howard Koch revised the novel to have the elements of a radio play and made it to sound like real news broadcast. The group aired the show in time with their rival radio broadcast “Chase and Sanbourn Hour” in an attempt to increase their listenership status. Before they even started the radio play, an announcer informed the listeners that they will feature the imaginative novel. However, regardless of the radio show’s disclosure, the play stimulated various responses. During and even after the airing of the program, millions...
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...tend to interact with one another in a variety of social roles, and have a closer relationship with one another. While this may seem like a very safe place to raise a family, Newman, Fox, Harding, Mehta, and Roth claim, in Rampage (2005), that the small-town atmosphere was an imperative factor in the Jonesboro, Arkansas shooting. At the same time that tight-knit communities make it easier for information to spread from person to person, they also make it easier for people to make assumptions. Andrew Golden committed a school shooting at Westside Middle School with Mitchell Johnson, in Jonesboro, Arkansas on March 24, 1998. Psychopaths, like Andrew Golden, often present themselves well, being likable and even charismatic. During their research, a neighbor commented, “Andrew was a sweet child whenever his parents...
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...wreak terror because children believe that the once-dead can reappear. At haunted houses, children dip their hands in buckets of cold noodles and spaghetti sauce. Even if you tell them what they touched, they know they felt guts. And children surmise that with the right Halloween makeup, costume and demeanor, they can frighten even the most skeptical adult. We do grow up. We get jobs. We have children of our own. Along the way, we lose our tendencies toward magical thinking. Or at least we think we do. Several streams of research in psychology, neuroscience and philosophy are converging on an uncomfortable truth: We’re more susceptible to magical thinking than we’d like to admit. Consider the quandary facing college students in a clever demonstration of magical thinking. An experimenter hands you several darts and instructs you to throw them at different pictures. Some depict likable objects (for example, a baby), others are neutral (for example, a face-shaped circle). Would your performance differ if you lobbed darts at a baby? It would. Performance plummeted when people threw the darts at the baby. Laura A. King, the psychologist at the University of Missouri who led this investigation, notes that research participants have a “baseless concern that a picture of an object shares an essential relationship with the object itself.” Paul Rozin, a psychology...
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...From there, the project research was moved to the colony of Connecticut. The resources detailing witchcraft in Connecticut also revealed a variety of approaches to narrating historical events. Take the work by John Demos titled Entertaining Satan: Witchcraft and the Culture of Early New England. In this article, Demos detailed witchcraft in Connecticut through the veil of Gender Studies as a social movement primarily targeted at women living on the fringes of colonial society. According to Demos, this phenomenon explained why women were victims at a ratio of four to one verses their male counterparts. This methodology is markedly different than the narrative approach utilized by Cynthia Wolfe Boynton. Using an approach based on corroborating evidence from firsthand accounts, arrest records, and government documents preserved in the Connecticut state archives, Boynton attempted to relay each instance of witchcraft in the colony with as much detail as historical evidence could allow. This allowed her to piece together the story of the first recorded instance of a condemned witch being hanged in the British colonies: Alyse Youngs of Windsor Connecticut was publicly executed for witchcraft in 1647. After exploring the tragic end of Youngs and other cases depicted by Boynton, this research project moved southwards from...
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