...When the school is run by the “Kobras” who are a ruthless gang, someone needs to step up. That’s when Priscilla comes in. Richard Peck’s short story “Priscilla and the Wimps” is a low level comedy because it caricatures and it has physical comedy to convey the idea that standing up for others is important. One element that shows this story is low comedy is that it has physical comedy. When Priscilla stood up for Melvin she went “behind him in another easy motion. And with a single mighty thrust forward, frogmarches Monk into her own locker.” After Priscilla wedges Monk into the locker “it snows all night, a blizzard. The whole town ices up. And School closes for a week.” The chance of this type of situation happening is highly unlikely but...
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...Khan was later assassinated, but his son Amanullah came next in line. Amanullah married a well educated woman named Soraya, she help women have a better education. Amanullah and his sister Kobra formed a women’s organization that fought against injustice. There came a point in time when women could choose their husbands. After the things Amanullah, Soraya, and Kobra did to change the way women were treated, Tribal member’s had finally had enough. They told Amanullah that he needed to close all schools for women, and made women wear veils. Women's rights went back and forth, Amanullah and Soraya were forced out of their spots. After this happened rights for women slowly started to improve. By the 1940’s having women as doctors and nurse became more and more frequent . By 1964 women could vote and enter in politics. This was common for major cities in Afghanistan, smaller cities stuck to their traditions. The soviet- backed communist came back into power in 1978 they enforced the reforms including the rural...
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...Business Law Trends With the move towards a market economy slowing taking over Europe, there has been a vast amount of changes in laws that effect businesses across Europe and in the Czech Republic in particular. Through my research, I have discovered a few trends in which I have found interesting. The first of those trends is the slow removal of anonymous corporate ownership in the Czech Republic. Before the end of last month, numerous companies throughout the Czech Republic had anonymous shares. This made it difficult to determine who had ownership in these said companies. Because of that, just recently a law was put in to place to prevent these thousands of companies from continuing to keep shares anonymous. June 30th was the deadline for companies to make all corporate shares public, and if the anonymous shares are not removed then the companies themselves should disappear. Anonymous shareholders will also lose their rights within these companies such as voting at meetings and receiving dividends. The reasoning behind this is to create a more transparent corporate world in the Czech Republic. As well, this law will help towards ending corruption and criminal acts in the corporate world. Many of these companies have been viewed as a front for illegal activity. These companies have been pinpointed as the most likely companies to be involved in fraud, and the government has made it a point to attempt to block these companies from receiving subsidies, payments, and public...
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...Charles Martin S3134484 1 The advantages of differing views on organisational culture theory: the benefits of a multiparadigm approach The purpose of this essay is to outline the advantages and disadvantages of robust debate surrounding the field of organisational culture. To achieve this, this essay presents the benefits of robust debate which has led to multiple paradigms surrounding the field of organisational culture within organisational theory. It will then be demonstrated how the effect of multiple paradigms produces various, ever improving research approaches, and different research methods which contribute insights that refute, support or extend current knowledge (Lewis & Kelemen 2002). When examined, these techniques provide a context for change within management practice using a multiparadigm approach. It has been observed by many researchers that a single paradigm is inevitably limiting when attempting to uncover certain facets within organisations and can obscure others (Schultz and Hatch 1996). The apparent discourse within organisational culture theory has exemplified organisational theory to the extent that Mingers and Brocklesby (1997) praised organisational studies for exemplifying and encouraging multiparadigm interests within other fields of research (e.g. physics, biology). The benefits of a multiparadigm approach is argued to offer a midpoint between the extremes of academic theory; this has been achieved in organisational culture...
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...Charles Martin S3134484 1 The advantages of differing views on organisational culture theory: the benefits of a multiparadigm approach The purpose of this essay is to outline the advantages and disadvantages of robust debate surrounding the field of organisational culture. To achieve this, this essay presents the benefits of robust debate which has led to multiple paradigms surrounding the field of organisational culture within organisational theory. It will then be demonstrated how the effect of multiple paradigms produces various, ever improving research approaches, and different research methods which contribute insights that refute, support or extend current knowledge (Lewis & Kelemen 2002). When examined, these techniques provide a context for change within management practice using a multiparadigm approach. It has been observed by many researchers that a single paradigm is inevitably limiting when attempting to uncover certain facets within organisations and can obscure others (Schultz and Hatch 1996). The apparent discourse within organisational culture theory has exemplified organisational theory to the extent that Mingers and Brocklesby (1997) praised organisational studies for exemplifying and encouraging multiparadigm interests within other fields of research (e.g. physics, biology). The benefits of a multiparadigm approach is argued to offer a midpoint between the extremes of academic theory; this has been achieved in organisational culture...
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...Priscilla and the Wimps Francisco Vasquez By Bonnie per.6 “Priscilla and the Wimps”, is a humorous story about school bullies .In the story, Priscilla, a quiet, shy girl has a best friend named Melvin who get’s picked on by the school bullies, Klutter’s Kobras. Priscilla defends her friend and gives Monk Klutter, the leader of the gang, a taste of justice. Throughout the story the theme of the importance of friendship is demonstrated through the relationships among the students. The importance of friendship is first shown in the story in an unlikely way. Monk Klutter is an effective gang leader because he has so many friends willing to do his dirty work. The narrator of the story reveals in the beginning of the tale that, “there was a time when you couldn’t even go to the rest room around this school without a pass… I’m talking about a pass that could cost anywhere up to a buck, sold by Monk Klutter.” In the previous quote, the narrator tells the reader that everyone had to buy a bathroom pass. Given the number of students and bathrooms at an ordinary school, Monk must have had a large group of people willing to follow his orders and sell passes. Although this kind of activity is not found in normal friendships, Monk’s gang members, his friends, are an important part of his school “business.” Without his friends...
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...Dzimums: sieviete Vecums: 20 1.Vai Jums bieži ir stress? [pic] regulāri [pic] bieži [pic] reti [pic] nekad 2. Kādā veidā Jūs pārvarat stresu? (vairākas atbildes iespējamas) [pic] Smēķējot [pic]Graužot nagus [pic] Lietojot alkoholu [pic] Ēdot [pic] Apzīmējot lapas malas [pic] Šūpojot kājas [pic] Košļājot košļeni [pic] Citi varianti:__eju vannā vai dušā___________ 3. Kad Jūs izjutāt pirmās sūdzības par kuņģa – zarnu traktu (piem., dedzinošu sajūtu, sliktu dūšu, smaguma sajūtu u.c.)? (aptuvenais laiks – gados, mēnešos, nedēļās utt.) Man bija 16 gadi, kad sāku izjust visas pieminētās blakusparādības. Tiku nozīmēta pie gastroentrologa, bija „kobra”. 4. Vai Jums ir diagnosticēts akūts (īslaicīgs) vai hronisks (pastāvīgs) gastrīts? Akūts gastrīts. 5. Vai Jums tika diagnosticēts gastrīts ar paaugstinātu kuņģa sulas sekrēciju vai gastrīts ar pazeminātu kuņģa skābi vai ar tās iztrūkumu? Paaugstināta kuņģa sulas sekrēcija. 6. Kāds bija Jūsu uzturs, ēdienreižu biežums pirms saslimšanas ar gastrītu/kuņģa čūlu? Neēdu pārāk veselīgi un ēdu galveno maltīti vakarā, jo ilgu laiku atrados ārpus mājām skolā un mūzikas skolā. 7. Kādi bija iespējamie cēloņi, kas izraisīja slimību (piem., neregulāra ēšana, stress, pārtika, slikti sakošļāta barība u.c) ? Neveselīga pārtika un, iespējams, iedzimtība – man ģimenē gastrīti un kuņģa slimības ir izplatīta lieta. 8. Kādi simptomi...
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...A Mercy opens with Florens, a black slave, about sixteen years old, on a journey to visit the lover to whom she is addressing her thoughts and feelings. Florens is a literate slave, taught by a priest in defiance of the law. Florens recalls how she was given to her present master, Jacob Vaark, in partial settlement of a debt her prior master, a slave owner from the brutal Portuguese slave colony of Angola, owes to Vaark. Vaark is offered Florens and her mother, but her mother encourages Vaark to take only Florens because her mother is still nursing a baby boy. Florens, about eight years old when she is taken, recounts her shock, pain, and bitterness at this abandonment by her minha mae, “my mother” in Portuguese. The second chapter, told by a third-person narrator who reveals Jacob’s thoughts and feelings, recounts Vaark’s journey to meet with D’Ortega and something of his story as an orphan and beneficiary of 120 acres in the New World. Vaark, a trader and businessman, has a soft spot for “orphans and strays.” He owns Lina (a Native American slave acquired after Lina’s tribe is nearly decimated by an epidemic of measles) and has taken in Sorrow (a half-drowned foundling girl) in another business deal. The reader gets some sense of the politics and prejudice of the period, learning of Vaark’s attitude toward the “popishness” of Catholic Maryland and its luxuries, built upon the free labor of slaves, in contrast to his simple life as a northern trader. Vaark comes away from...
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...Citation Guide for Business (Required for COMM 1E03 and COMM 2MA3) December 2006 Innis Library McMaster University, Hamilton, ON Contents ii Part One: Introduction Citation Style ...................................................................................................................................1 Order of Elements in Paper..............................................................................................................1 Page Numbers ..................................................................................................................................1 Title Page ........................................................................................................................................2 Contents ...........................................................................................................................................2 Text / Body ......................................................................................................................................2 Appendixes ......................................................................................................................................3 Tables and Graphs in the Body........................................................................................................3 Endnotes...........................................................................................................................................4 Formatting...
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...Course Code: MKT 101 Course Name: Principles of Marketing Section: 5 An Assignment on------ “Launching a New Product in the Market” Course Instructor: Md. Nazmul Hossain Lecturer, Department of Business Administration East West University. Prepared By 1. Syed Mohammad Tauseef Chowdhury 2007-2-10-012 2. Umme Habiba Dipty 2007-2-10-094 3. Tabassum Fahima Zaman 2007-2-10-061 4. Israt Jahan 2007-2-10-156 5. Khadizatul Kobra 2007-3-10-004 Table of Contents Acknowledgement….................................................................................3 Company Overview…………………………………………………….................4 The Motto………………………………………………… …...............................5 Our Takeout…………………………………. ………………………………………5 Launching a new product………………………………………………… ………5 Market scenario—why chocolate? Why not other products??……………..6 Brand Synopsis……………………………………………………......................7 Segmenting the market…………………………………………………………….9 Target Marketing……………………………………………………………………10 Brand Positioning…………………………………………………………………...
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...October 17, 2012 CORPORATE GOVERNANCE ASSIGNMENT Question 1 a). The Australian Investments function is to make sure the Australian financial markets are fairness and transparent. The Australian Securities and Investments Act 2001 (ASIC Act) has provided ASIC a number of enforcement powers to carry out their role, which includes: 1. Grant Australian financial service license and Australian credit license ASIC has the power to legalize or licensing a person who carries on financial services business. It is aim to give an investor a confidentiality to deal with the persons who are legally licensed by ASIC. In relation to the license that provided by ASIC, it is intended to ensure the financial services business fulfill their obligation according to the standards and meet the public prospect. Then this will help ASIC to take any action to protect the investors from engaging any misconduct ...
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...Inheritance Law in Belgium and Switzerland Marieke Martens We live, we work and we die. People basically work to make money and spend it but also save it. After somebody has died what will happen to the money and the possessions? Firstly the division of the money and possessions takes place, according to the will. But what if there is now will? If there is a will or not, the possessions and money will not be inherited for free. The inheritance law is a collection of articles, which explains what happens to and with the inheritance of the person who died when there is no will and when there is a will. In this paper two countries will be compared based on their inheritance law. The first country is Belgium, which is part of the EU and has no specific advantages if it comes to being a tax paradise. The other country, which will be used in this research, is Switzerland, which is not part of the EU and is very famous for being a tax paradise. Both countries do have one thing in common: they are both West-European countries. Because Switzerland is a tax paradise it can be assumed that the inheritance law in Switzerland is more favourable than in the Belgium. This statement basically states that in Switzerland you have to pay less inheritance tax, there are better condition if it comes to making wills or not, than in Belgium, which results in a higher inheritance than in Belgium. These are the fields of Inheritance law that will be covered in the paper in order to answer he...
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...LOVELY PROFESSIONAL UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF MANAGEMENT Report on Summer Training TOPIC-STRESS MANAGEMENT AT NTPC ,KAHALGAON Submitted to Lovely Professional University In partial fulfillment of the Requirements for the award of Degree of Master of Business Administration Submitted by: SAMIDHA SINGH ROLL NO.RT1903A67 REGD NO-10907368 DEPARTMENT OF MANAGEMENT LOVELY PROFESSIONAL UNIVERSITY PHAGWARA DECLARATION I hereby declare that this project of STRESS MANAGEMENT done in NTPC KAHALGAON is original work by her for the award of partial fulfillment of the degree of MASTER OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION in HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT from lovely professional university is record of bonified work carried out by me. I also declare that this project is a result of my own effort and that not been submitted to any other University / Institution for the award of any degree. SAMIDHA SINGH RT1903A67 ACKNOWLEDGEMEN T I am very thankful to management of the "National Thermal Power station, kahalgaon for extending their-cooperation in completion of project work. I am thankful to MS SUKHVINDER...
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...Chapter 1: Introduction to HSBC Group 1.0 HSBC Mission Statement: “We aim to satisfy our customers with high quality service that reflects our global image as the premier international bank” Objectives of HSBC: HSBC’s objectives are to provide innovative products supported by quality delivery of systems and excellence customer services, to train and motivate staffs and to exercise social responsibility. By combining regional strengths with group network HSBC’s aim is to be the one of the leading banks in its principle markets. HSBC’s goal is to achieve sustained earnings growth and to continue to enhance shareholders value. 1.1 An Overview of HSBC Group The HSBC Group is named after its founding member, The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited, which was established in 1865 in Hong Kong and Shanghai to finance the growing trade between China and Europe. Thomas Sutherland, a Hong Kong Superintendent of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company helped to establish this bank in March 1865. Throughout the late nineteenth and the early twentieth centuries, the bank established a network of agencies and branches based mainly in China and South East Asia but also with representation in the Indian sub-continent, Japan, Europe and North America. The post-war political and economic changes in the world forced the bank to analyze its strategy for continued growth in the 1950s. The bank diversified both its business and its...
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