...living increase,they often think about improving their knowledge for a better life.To do that,they choose to study in developed contries where they can get progressive education.However,everything has its advantages and disadvantages,so studying abroad is not an exeptation. In my opinion, I think studying abroad is the beat way to improve ourselve.As you know, there are obvious advantages to study abroad. Fristly, We have chance to improve our language. I think nothing is better than to learn language with the native speakers.Because we can practise with the local people what we study at school, so it is very useful to improve our listening and speaking skills.It also offer chances to discover the new cultures,way of thinking,history,customs and lifestyles. Futhermore, we have opportunities to study the new technologies and most recent science achivements.In addition, we are equipped with the valuaable and updated knowledge which may help us find jobs easily after graduating. However, studying abroad is often expensive.We have to pay not only for our school fees but also for our living cost.Therefore, finance may become the biggest problem. Consequently, it distracts our mind from studying to earning money. Last but not least,adapting to a new environment is e real challenge for every foreign student.While changing the weather can affect our health,different cultures and customs may influence our mind and make us become less confident or even a victim of discrimination...
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...smh.com.au - The Sydney Morning Herald NEWS | JOBS | REAL ESTATE | CARS | FINANCE | MOBILE | DATING | TRAVEL | WEATHER network map | member centre Help Quick Search | Advanced Search | Browse Archives Print Entire Page Fairfax photo sales The best photography from The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald. more photos Need Help? Outrageous fortune Author: MALCOLM KNOX Date: 24/03/2012 Words: 1886 Source: SMH Publication: Sydney Morning Herald Section: News Review Page: 22 Can't find what you are looking for? Check out our Search Tips for the best ways to find Fairfax Articles. For back editions of newspapers older than the previous two weeks, please contact Paper World on 1800 811 755 or visit www.paperworld.com.au or your state library. In Sydney, back editions of The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age and The Australian Financial Review can be purchased at Shop 15, Pavilion Plaza, 580 George Street, Sydney, 2000, phone: (02) 9261 8310. If you have a technical or account inquiry about News Store, please click here The modern tendency to deny the existence of luck leads logically to blaming the victim. Since Samuel Smiles invented an industry with his 1859 book Self-Help, it has been a project of the capitalist age to abolish the idea of luck. Smiles, who outsold Charles Darwin and John Stuart Mill that year, opened with a line that said it all: "Heaven helps those who help themselves." The dogmas of self-help have remained religiously rigid. Since 2006, more than 21...
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...1) No, he is not committing Gambler’s Fallacy. Because the black cards are not replaced when they are drawn, the chance of drawing a black card next decreases with each black card drawn. Therefore, after drawing 5 black cards in a row, the chances of drawing another black severely decrease and Achilles is correct in betting that a red card will be drawn next. 2) a. Pr(A&R)= 1/3 * 1/4 = 1/12, Pr~(A&R) = 11/12 b. Pr(A&Y)= 1/3 * 3/4= 1/4; Pr(B&R)= 2/3 * 3/5= 2/5; Pr((A&Y)v(B&R))= 2/5 + 1/4= 13/20 c. Pr(R)= Pr(A)Pr(R|A) + Pr(B)Pr(R|B)= 1/12 + 2/5 = 29/60 d. Pr(B|R)= (Pr(B)Pr(R|B))/Pr(R) = 24/29 3) e. 1/13 f. 1/13 * 3/51 =3/663 = 1/221 g. Pr(A|D1)vPr(A|D2)= 4/52 + 4/52 – 1/221 = 33/221 h. Only if we assume that the four spades drawn were the first four cards to be drawn, the answer would be 9/48 4) i. Pr(R1&B1)= 1/36 j. Pr(R1vB1)= 1/3 – 1/36 = 11/36 k. Pr((R1vR2)&(B1vB2)) = 1/9 l. Pr(~(R1vB1))= 1- Pr((R1vB1))= 1- 1/3- 1/36= 25/36 m. Pr((R1&R2)v(B1&B2)= 0 n. Pr(R1|(R1vR2vR3))= 1/3 5) Pr(P)= Pr(S)Pr(P|S) + Pr(~S)Pr(P|~S) = (3/5)(4/5) + (2/5)(1/5) = 14/25 6) Pr(A)= 1 (Tautology) Pr(B|A)= (Pr(B)Pr(A|B))/Pr(A)= Pr(B) (Bayes Theorem) Pr(A|B)= 1 Pr(B|A)=...
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...Dripping black oil began to puddle around my feet as I stumbled out of my 2000 Ford Toyota 4Runner. The smell of burning metal and gasoline began to seep into the air. My entire right side was numb and I could barely feel my face. The strong metallic taste of blood began to fill my mouth, as I bent over to spit out the amount that had now pooled at the bottom. I struggled to remember how I got to this part of Interstate 270, when I started off on the East Side of Columbus. I slowly hobbled to the front of my car to survey the damage. Fighting to keep my footing, I noticed my hands were violently shaking. Never in my life had I flipped a car before, but during those rolls my heart skipped many beats as my SUV searched for steady ground before coming to a rest. Finally, stumbling to the front after grabbing ahold of the hanging bumper to stabilize my steps, I noticed the extreme amount of damage. My truck was totaled, no question. How could I put my life and those around me in jeopardy without so much as a second thought? Earlier that night, I hopped out of the shower eager to go out and celebrate the end of another work week. After ironing the clothes I picked out earlier that day, putting on some cologne, and admiring myself in the mirror, I darted out the door and threw the car in reverse. Drinking was always on the agenda, but I had the motto that the more I drank, the better driver I became. I decided to make a quick stop at a bar before proceeding onto a nightclub for the...
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...living increase,they often think about improving their knowledge for a better life.To do that,they choose to study in developed contries where they can get progressive education.However,everything has its advantages and disadvantages,so studying abroad is not an exeptation. In my opinion, I think studying abroad is the beat way to improve ourselve.As you know, there are obvious advantages to study abroad. Fristly, We have chance to improve our language. I think nothing is better than to learn language with the native speakers.Because we can practise with the local people what we study at school, so it is very useful to improve our listening and speaking skills.It also offer chances to discover the new cultures,way of thinking,history,customs and lifestyles. Futhermore, we have opportunities to study the new technologies and most recent science achivements.In addition, we are equipped with the valuaable and updated knowledge which may help us find jobs easily after graduating. However, studying abroad is often expensive.We have to pay not only for our school fees but also for our living cost.Therefore, finance may become the biggest problem. Consequently, it distracts our mind from studying to earning money. Last but not least,adapting to a new environment is e real challenge for every foreign student.While changing the weather can affect our health,different cultures and customs may influence our mind and make us become less confident or even a victim of discrimination...
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...father has been out of the picture for several years now, there is no other source of income for the poor family. Wes tries to stay strong despite all the bad things in his life, and pushes through days looking for the light at the end of the tunnel to solve all his problem. When Wes heads off to private school years later, he is at first passing classes and learning at a steady pace. However, when his life at home becomes too much to handle along with school, Wes takes a fall and fails out of private school. Wes doesn't want to go on living in poverty, so he decides that he is going to get an education one way, or another. He decides to join a military school and enlist in the countries' armed forces, in hopes that he will have one more chance at getting a wonderful education to turn his life around. At first, he didn't seem cut out for the military, but with time came acceptance, and Wes toughened up and contributed to the war in his own way. After his time in the...
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...“Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity." Have you ever heard people talk about the things they would do if they won the lottery, and yet a large percentage of these people never go out and buy a ticket. These people have exactly a zero chance of winning, while the ones who went out and bought a ticket have a chance, albeit slim, at becoming lucky. This is the scenario that came to mind when I first read the quote “Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity”. However, the more I thought about the quote, the more I realized how easily this could be applied to many real life situations. The author of this quote is trying to tell the readers that preparing yourself for opportunity is the key to being lucky, or successful. In order to prepare yourself for success, there are certain steps that must take place. First, you have to believe in yourself. You must believe that you can pick the lucky numbers, or you must believe that you are capable of competing in, let’s say a marathon. Second, you have to set goals for yourself. In the case of the lottery it’s pretty easy; Goal #1, buy ticket. Goal #2, wait. In the marathon scenario, much like most other scenarios, it’s a little more complicated. You must train both physically and mentally, and make many sacrifices along the way. Finally, you must be optimistic about the result you achieve. In the case of the lottery player, they probably didn’t win. But at least they can try again in a few days, right? The marathon...
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...ready and be well-prepared. Take Oprah Winfrey for example. Before she became a well-known national TV host, she worked in a local station for many years and had gone to uncountable interviews. Without her experiences, she could not have gotten the interview for national TV host and become successful. Second, preparation is always advantageous and never harmful to us. Preparation requires motivation, activity and carefulness. Those who most frequently experience outcomes viewed by society as unlucky live lives which exhibit little evidence of motivation, activity and care. When preparing for something, we are actually increasing the possibility of success, creating our own luck. For instance, learning how to write a good essay is not only helpful for my composition course but also beneficial for answering the essay questions in other classes such as literature and linguistics. In addition, even though we miss the opportunity this time, we will have a better shot next time if we have...
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...Living Room Feng Shui Ideas Feng Shui is known as a method of placement to improve your life in every way. It is all about incorporating into the environment as it allows us to achieve harmony by the placement & arrangement of space. Living Feng Shui life can provide you peace and tranquillity of life. With the Feng Shui items, you get restricted to some of the interior furniture arrangements. Weather, astronomy, geomagnetism are central components of Feng Shui. Using Feng Shui products one can have a great positive impact on one's health, increase one's fortune and have better personal relationships. The main room in our home is the Living room where all the family members or guests get together and share their ideas. Various Feng Shui living room tips can be shared as under:- • Place the sofa in the corner which is farthest from the door and windows and make sure the sofa is clearly visible and provides a clear view of the door. • Do not allow space in between the wall and sofa. Wall is essential for providing security & protection to the members in the Feng Shui house. Don't place the sofa in front of a window or directly opposite the door. Since energy flows between the door & window, it would restrict the path of your guests. • Make sure you do not have lights or beams directly above the sofa as this would release the flow of negative energy. • Use of screens & partitions to influence the energy flow is highly recommended. This way the flow of energy can be directed...
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...COMES CLOSEST TO REFLECTING YOUR OPINION ABOUT IT. Disagree very much Disagree moderately Disagree slightly Agree slightly Agree moderately Agree very much 1 I feel I am being paid a fair amount for the work I do. 1 2 3 4 5 6 2 There is really too little chance for promotion on my job. 1 2 3 4 5 6 3 My supervisor is quite competent in doing his/her job. 1 2 3 4 5 6 4 I am not satisfied with the benefits I receive. 1 2 3 4 5 6 5 When I do a good job, I receive the recognition for it that I should receive. 1 2 3 4 5 6 6 Many of our rules and procedures make doing a good job difficult. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 I like the people I work with. 1 2 3 4 5 6 8 I sometimes feel my job is meaningless. 1 2 3 4 5 6 9 Communications seem good within this organization. 1 2 3 4 5 6 10 Raises are too few and far between. 1 2 3 4 5 6 11 Those who do well on the job stand a fair chance of being promoted. 1 2 3 4 5 6 12 My supervisor is unfair to me. 1 2 3 4 5 6 13 The benefits we receive are as good as most other organizations offer. 1 2 3 4 5 6 14 I do not feel that the work I do is appreciated...
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...Odontologist to match dental records. Libel also says that identifying marks may be seen through medical records, which would narrow down our matches. By examining the victim’s teeth, we quickly learned that the victim would have most likely worn braces. We also noticed something very odd about her that could be used as a distinguishing feature, which was that her right hand appears to have stopped growing sooner than her left hand, resulting in an asymmetric bone size between them. Additionally, her arm appears to have been in a cast soon before her death. Using this information, we were able to match our victim’s features to over seventy hospital records. By narrowing out matches down to only people who have had braces, and then again to those who have been reported with asymmetric hands, we were left with only five potential identities for our...
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...“Luck, Greed & Money” Success or failure brought by chance rather than through one’s own actions is Luck; which Hester understands but still is not willing to give up their luxurious lifestyle. D. H. Lawrence describes their living style in “The Rocking-Horse Winner,” in a pleasant house, with a garden and servants to feel superior to anyone in the neighborhood. Hester marries for love, and it turns into dust. She had two little girls and a boy, whom she tells that luck is everything, and her “good luck” is ruined by her husband’s “bad luck.” They did not live a poor life style, but Hester is to compete with other families by having the best and most stylish living. She is always looking for ways to earn more money, but fails. This greed was turning Hester into a Heartless mother, she complains about not having enough money that the house starts to echo the phrase, "There must be more money!" This statement caused her son Paul, feel the need to help find more money. He does this by gambling with the gardener at the horse race track and wins a lot of money. As he wants to start giving his mother some of the money on yearly basis, she ends up wanting it all. The more she gets, the more she wants, without realizing where it was coming from. Everyone in the neighborhood thinks Hester is a good mother, who adores her children, but only she and the kids knew that it wasn’t true. She always showed love to her kids but could not feel it in her heart because there wasn’t enough...
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...is another idea that is very prominent in the book which is the idea of chance or luck. Kosinski does a lovely and humorously plain and straightforward way of narrating the book. The narration really helps the book to reach its full potential. Chance is an ordinary gardener; he is a bit slower than most. He has always lived in an old man’s house, where he’s tended to the garden, ever since he can remember. But one day, the old man dies, causing Chance to leave all he’s ever known and step foot into a world he’s literally never seen before. In the afternoon of his departure, of his only home, he says goodbye to the garden and to the only place he’s ever been in/ to and wanders out on to the street of New York City. But shortly after his leaving, he gets hit by a limo. This is where one of the themes, chance/ luck, begins. A woman, Eve Rand, exits the limo and talks to Chance. He doesn’t really know what’s going on, but his left leg is injured so he goes with Eve to her home where his new life begins. Chance, or Chauncey, enters the home from medical treatment, but both Eve and Ben deeply admire him once they begin to talk to him. This is where the next theme, “too artsy”/ over-analyzing appears. This theme carries throughout the book, unlike luck. Throughout the book, Chance is put in situations that he is lucky to do well in. It shows that anyone’s life can change in a blink of an eye. When Chance was hit by the limo, unlucky luck, he was brought into a bigger world....
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...with the rest of his crew in the South Pole. As a result, Death and Life-in-Death, two spirits that follow the crew to punish them, are to decide his fate, his life, to a game of dice. Entities beyond mortality gamble the future of a guilty, yet helpless man. Doesn’t this sound familiar? Don’t our lives seem, sometimes, the result of a game of dice being played by someone/something bigger than ourselves, even bigger than life itself? Just the fact that we are who we are is nothing but a result of chance. This statement, beyond its recklessness appearance, has an explanation consisting of three moments of existences that are determined by the roulette. The first one goes back to before we’re born. Have you ever thought of how many billions of chances were there when your parents’ genetic material mixed to create you? I, for instance, could’ve been blond, tall and smart. Or short and dumb. Or anything. But, somehow, I turned out to be me, out of what appear to be infinite chances of who I could’ve been. And this process follows no logic or intervention from our part: is the work of randomness. The second moment, chronologically, involves our environment. Where we’re born, who our parents are, and the rest of conditions that welcome us to this world are the sort of aspects I include in this side of this pyramidal die. The third and final moment is composed of the things that are choices in our lives. This is also a consequence of luck because the construction of ourselves...
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...If given a chance, what would you do? As a person that are healthy, younger and live in a good life, and have a chances to help the community around that was a great opportunity to us in order to help others people that are unlucky to have a good live like us. Here have a few ideas that we would like to do if we have chances to do that. First is distributing food for homeless in Chow Kit area. We like to have collaboration with Yayasan Salam in order to give food for homeless at Chow Kit area. By doing this we can share a little bit of what we eat every day as a lucky person and also we as a student we can see how hard they have to face a challenging life that we know they did not want to live like that. Second is give motivation and develop skill among them. The foundation that we want to go is Sinar Salam foundation at Chow Kit. Here we would like to give some motivation to them and also want to share some skill that we have like cooking, sewing, craft or something that they can use after they get out of this foundation. Third is help out families at your local hospital. Offer to colourful baby blankets to donate to the maternity hospital. This is meant to celebrate the birth of the baby for parents especially to the newly married couples. Fourth is visit and help at old folks home. The main thing that we like to do this activity is we want to give some happiness to them and in the same time we want to help the staff there to handle everything about taking care...
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