...Joel Barker's pithy saying, "Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world!" distinguishes an entrepreneur from others. An entrepreneur acts to bring visions to reality. I have longed to be one and have learnt from my reading that modern entrepreneurs have all worked to use technology for the betterment of our lives. Therefore, I decided long ago to study engineering and did not miss any opportunities to learn how the machines in our everyday life worked. In my school days, I used to listen to audio cassettes on a tape recorder. When I learnt the difference between mono and stereo recording, I thought of converting two mono recorded audio cassettes into a single stereo cassette, recorded in mono mode using the cassette's LEFT and RIGHT channels as a separate channels, to be heard in sequence, not together. To my delight, the idea worked and resulted in compacting two cassettes into a single mono cassette. With good scores in the science subjects, I could choose the engineering stream to take up for Bachelors. I chose Electronics & Telecommunication, because of its wide, interdisciplinary span and the ever increasing use of electronics in every branch of modern science, from Astrophysics to Medicine. It is a field rich with opportunities for an entrepreneur. The curriculum of University of Pune introduced me to the basics of several subjects, such as Digital Signal Processing, Integrated Circuit...
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...StudyMode - Premium and Free Essays, Term Papers & Book Notes • Essays • Resource Center I'm Researching... • danielynn31 d… • • • ◦ Back danielynn31 Saved Recents Uploads My Answers ◦ Back ◦ Ask a Question ◦ My Questions ◦ My Answers ◦ Preferences • Account ◦ Back ◦ Account Settings ◦ Profile ◦ Sign Out • • • • • I'm Researching... Products • • • • • Home Research Drive Answers Texty • • • • • Company Legal Site Map Contact Advertise About • • • ©2016 StudyMode.com 1. Home > 2. Debt > 3. Student Loan Crisis... < Back to Debt Student Loan Crisis Research Paper Debt, Education finance, Higher education • • • • By sympathys Jun 11, 2013 1348 Words 220 Views PAGE 1 OF 5 �PAGE � How to Make College More Affordable Many of the protesters occupying Wall Street and other places say they are upset about the rising price of going to college. There is little dispute today that the number of students who have debt has increased, and that the amount of money they have borrowed has gone up (Billitteri). Many students incur large amounts of debt that will never pay dividends in higher wages or greater job satisfaction, and they graduate into a world with weak employment prospects. It's a betrayal of the American social contract that says if you work hard and invest in yourself through education, you'll be able to build a better life. The current system is badly in need of an overhaul...
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...PRE-APPLICATION FORM 2016-17 Kennedy-Lugar Youth Exchange & Study (K-L YES) Funded/ sponsored by : In cooperation with: Please attach passport-sized photo here ! ! ! App. No.: I. PERSONAL INFORMATION Complete name as appears in NSO birth certificate/passport: (Last / First / Middle) Birthdate: (mm/dd/yy) Complete home/mailing address: (House No., Street, Barangay, City/Municipality, Province) Home phone w/ area code, if any: Region: Mobile phone/s, if any: Gender: □ Male □ Female ZIP Code: Email/s, if any: Name of Father/Legal Guardian: Name of Mother/Legal Guardian : Job/Occupation & Employer Name: Job/Occupation & Employer Name: Work or Mobile Phone/s, if any: Email/s, if any: Work or Mobile Phone/s, if any: Email/s, if any: My Passport No. (if available): My Passport issue date: My Passport expiry date: City/Country issuing passport: PHILIPPINES Religion: □ Christianity □ Islam □ Other __________________ Ethnic background, if applicable: Foods I cannot eat / Allergies: Native/Foreign languages spoken: Family/relative who has participated in an YES Program or other AFS exchange program: No. of My Siblings (brothers/sisters): □ Yes, I have a relative who has participated in YES Program or AFS exchange program. □ No, I don’t have a relative who has participated in YES or other AFS exchange program. IF yes, name of relative: Relationship: Program Name/Destination: ...
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...According to Damon Beres in “The Common App Fallacy” "Truth is college applications are crapshoot in this day and age" (Beres 79). he is telling us the process to enter to a University and to a college, and what they check to see if you can get into that specific school. For example, they would look at your GPA and most of the student's would have to do an SAT to check what classes does he or she needs for the career that the student is looking for. Beres tells us his experience, he was one out of 11,000 out of 34,000 students to join the New York University freshman class (79). That means that they would accept people that are smarter than others. His friend didn’t had a good GPA so he seems to be a lazy student.It is hard to apply now a...
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...How can we improve our study habits? Everyone has the experience students, starting from kindergarten to high school or university. For most people, it’s not hard to become a student, but becoming a student who has great grades is not easy. You must want to know what causing this difference. The answer is good study habits. In the process of schooling, many students actually don’t have good study habits. If you want to have a good score, the good study habits can help you more likely to achieve your goals. Improving our study habits can occur in three stages: developing learning habits, using four study skills and understanding the benefits of good habits. First of all, students should develop a way of learning. In fact, most of them don't realize that they don’t have completed good study habits. The article “Why ‘good’ study habit may be bad for learning” (2010) talks, "Clear a quiet work space. Stick to a homework schedule. Set goals. Set boundaries. Do not bribe." But this approach to home studying may be the result of "sketchy education research" and, as such, completely wrong.” This article shows us that our traditional sense of learning habit is not correct. Consequently, you might ask what good study habits are. The good study habits including setting a regular time to study that fits in with the student's family schedule; removing distractions; gathering necessary supplies; recording assignments in an assignment book or on a calendar; note-taking and organizing for a...
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...EPA Essay Life is a continual learning process, which I’ve had a long journey of becoming aware of me needing to develop better ways of apprenticeship. For me, obtaining a higher education will open many doors of opportunity. Everyone should have personal goals in life in order to prosper and succeed in every area of life. Coming from Oakland, Ca, the high crime city with a deteriorating education system and tough living automatically had put me and future generations on a low scale. From seeing so much crime and poverty, I moved to TX for a new life. Being a Collin student, I pray to achieve all of my goals on which I am currently trying to pursue and obtain. Personally, goals are needed to be a successful member of society, and attending CCC I also hope to gain a more transparent positive image of myself, by building my personal growth, along with achieving excellence in my academics. The goals I want to achieve as a Collin student are to obtain an Associate in Hospitality, while taking Pre Req classes for funeral Service, so that I can transfer into the University of Central Oklahoma ‘s Bachelors Mortuary Science program. To make a splash in this society, a diploma is an important achievement. To me being a great student means that I must learn as much as possible from my instructors and seek additional help by looking for tutor resources. Learning new knowledge will heighten my values and help me to find my way, which will lead to having my dream businesses: funeral home...
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...Five rules of student engagement for effective university marketing Can marketing help in tackling falling university applications? John Newbold offers tips on attracting your target audience Establish a link between interests and careers The end goal of most prospective university students is not attending lectures for a few years; but eventually to embark on a career and, more specifically, a career they are passionate about. Recent social media coverage has emphasised the point that career success and happiness comes from pursuing what interests you, rather than what might seem a good idea from other people's perspective (teachers / parents / politicians). One video currently doing the rounds on Facebook simply asks the question: "What if money was no object?" When marketing to potential students, universities should draw this link between student passions and potential careers. Higher education institution Birmingham Metropolitan College's latest campaign achieves this well, with the strapline "Let what you love become what you do". Similarly, Staffordshire University has this week launched a new graduate campaign spanning TV, cinema, press, radio and digital advertising. The idea is to show students that Staffordshire University is committed to their success beyond graduation. Don't talk down to prospective students Avoid falling into the trap of applying your own experiences of university to today's students, even if your university days were only five or...
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...4/14/2015 Essay on Swachh Bharat Abhiyan Clean India Mission Essay Search Home Festivals Events Social Issues ► Hindi Essay ► Rural India ► It in India Essay Speech Quotes Rhymes ► Tree India Swachh Bharat Abhiyan Essay Essay on Swachh Bharat Abhiyan Swachh Bharat Abhiyan is a cleanliness campaign run by the government of India and initiated by the Honourable Prime Minister, Narendra Modi. It is a most important topic which our kids and students must know and be aware of this mission. It is a general topic which students are generally given in their schools to write or say something on Swachh Bharat or Swachh Bharat Abhiyan. We have provided below some simply written essays on this topic in order to make your kids gets participated in the essay writing competition or competitions. Swachh Bharat Abhiyan Essay 1 (100 words) Swachh Bharat Abhiyan is also called as the Clean India Mission or Clean India drive or Swachh Bharat Campaign. It is a national level campaign run by the Indian Government to cover all the backward statutory towns to make them clean. This campaign involves the construction of latrines, promoting sanitation programmes in the rural areas, cleaning streets, roads and changing the infrastructure of the country to lead the country ahead. This campaign was th officially launched by the Prime Minister, Narendra Modi on 145 birth anniversary of the Mahatma nd Gandhi on 2 of October...
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...Knowledge management embedded in social media – successful company and its innovations ABSTRACT The continuous market pressures and competitions pushes the organisation to be in the race of making innovations besides safeguarding the talent and information they own. The race for new products and services for the customers arises due to increasing awareness and exposure through social media. This essay focuses on studying the knowledge management jointly with social media leading to innovation. The essay seeks to examine the role of social media taking IKEA as the case of interest. It aims to further investigate how knowledge management through social media help a company in its innovations, product development and services. 1. INTRODUCTION. Knowledge management has become the buzzword in recent past in the industrial sector. Companies have become very focused on the knowledge assets that they own and the capabilities of their organisation or company and staff to utilize theses assets. Thus, knowledge can be called a resource which could be acquired, exploited and applied to achieve success and advantage for the company (Zack, 2003). However, companies that fail to manage the knowledge it has might surely be losing its capabilities, potential and brains (Denford, J. S., & Chan, Y. E., 2011). The benefits that knowledge management offers ranges from promotion and elevation of unequivocal knowledge to attain efficiency and innovation in various business practices (Durrant...
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...2014-2015 Edition 30 How to Reference using the Harvard System The Harvard System (also called the Author - Date System) is the preferred referencing method for most LSBU departments. Other referencing styles include APA (Psychology), OSCOLA (Law) and Numeric (Electrical Engineering). If you’re not sure which style to follow, please check your module guides or speak to your lecturers. If you look at other Harvard Referencing guides available in print or online, you may notice variation between them. The important thing is to be consistent and to follow any specific instructions from your lecturers. Contents 1. Why do we need to reference? ............................................................................................................ 3 2. The two stages of the Harvard system ................................................................................................. 3 2.1 In-text citation............................................................................................................................... 3 2.2 Reference list ................................................................................................................................ 3 3. Citing references within the text .......................................................................................................... 3 3.1 Work by a corporate author ..........................................................................................................
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...YORK UNIVERSITY FACULTY OF LIBERAL ARTS AND PROFESSIONAL STUDIES SCHOOL OF ADMINISTRATIVE STUDIES COURSE SYLLABUS, SUMMER 2014 ADMS 1000 - INTRODUCTION TO ADMINISTRATIVE STUDIES: THE CONTEXT OF BUSINESS Course Director: Course Website Access through: COURSE DESCRIPTION This course offers an examination of the external context of business and the challenges of managing in the Canadian business environment. Our exploration of the external context of business includes consideration of such key areas as economic, competitive, labour, technological, societal, global, and political issues. The broad aim is to provide insight into current challenges and opportunities that play a dramatic role in the business landscape and affect business strategy. COURSE GOALS 1. To identify the key factors which comprise the external environment of business. 2. To understand the potential impact of these external factors on business. 3. To obtain an understanding of the challenges & opportunities present in the Canadian business context. 4. To encourage critical thinking regarding the external challenges that must be addressed as part of successful business strategy. Prerequisite: None REQUIRED TEXT Karakowsky, L. (2013). Exploring The Canadian Business Environment, SECOND EDITION. Pearson: Toronto COURSE CONTENT AND SCHEDULE SESSION 1: The Context of Business: A Framework Learning Goal: To consider why the most logical starting point to undertaking studies...
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...DMS Business Finance CA Group Project Date of Report: April 23, 2014 Part A Golden Agri-Resources Ltd (“GAR”), which is located in Indonesia, is the world’s second largest palm oil plantation company as at 31 December 2013. GAR is established in 1996 and was listed on the Singapore Exchange since 1999 with a market capitalisation of US$5.5 billion. Owning 471,000 hectares (ha) of oil palm estates across Indonesia, GAR produces more than 2.7 million tonnes of palm products per annual. The land size the company own benefit itself from economies of scale and develop best expertise in some professional areas that turned it to be one of the most efficient palm oil plantation companies in the world, in terms of productivity and operating costs. Flambo International Ltd, an Investment Company, is GAR’s largest shareholder. It holds 49.95% stake of GAR. Besides, GAR also has several subsidiaries, including PT SMART Tbk which is listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange since 1992. In 15 January 2012, GAR and its subsidiaries have launched a Yield Improvement Policy (YIP). The policy will leverage on technology and innovation to improve Company’s CPO yield/ha. By carry out this policy, it will not enable HAR to produce more palm oil from less land but also reduce the impact of the palm oil industry developed that cost a lot. In 19 January 2012, GAR has received Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) certification that it is one of the important part to help the GAR for producing...
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...need to study. These are the givens like books, bags, IT equipment and could cost to at least $2,000 a year. So it is important to be able to budget before you go to college. Make sure you leave yourself some extra money monthly for self use. Try to find a monthly average of your expenses so you could allocate your funds accordingly. Going to college is a big investment but in the long run the education you get would allow you to get bright opportunities when working which can make your life and family. Students could also try to get student loans, or grants to help out aiding the financial needs in college. I've researched many education grant opportunities and am really excited about this one. Click here to register to Win a $10,000 Scholarship [http://collegegrantsmoney.com] to pay your way back to school....
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...Perusine War (41-40 BC). But there is a discrepancy among the authors as to what extent she was actually involved. Cicero, Octavian and Antony, who were all key players in events, provide their own particular versions of what occurred. Later authors, such as Appian and Dio, may have been influenced by these earlier, hostile accounts of Fulvia. This is the first study in English to make use of all the available evidence, both literary and material, pertaining to Fulvia. Modern scholarship has a tendency to concentrate almost exclusively on events towards the end of Fulvia’s life, in particular the Perusine War, about which the evidence is much more abundant in later sources such as Appian and Dio. However, to do this ignores the importance of her earlier activities which, if studied more fully, can help to explain her later actions in the 40’s BC. This thesis is divided into five chapters. The first provides an introduction to the topic and a biography of Fulvia. The second is a review of the modern scholarship ii on Fulvia. The third focuses on the contemporary sources,...
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...These pages were downloaded from Writing Personal Statements Online, available at https://www.e-education.psu.edu/writingpersonalstatementsonline/ Short Personal Statement by a Geology Student Growing up in Canada with a life-long fascination for Canadian geography, I have always been interested in returning to the country. Although my family moved to the US before I entered high school, I have always kept my eyes turned north, especially in recent years as I began to read journal articles about research conducted on John Evans Glacier, located about 80° N latitude. Graduating next semester with a B.S. in computer science and engineering and a minor in geographic information systems, I am interested in attending the University of Alberta for graduate study. Geographic information systems (GIS) is a field especially suited to investigating spatial patterns, modeling diverse scenarios, and overlaying spatial data. This semester, in my advanced GIS course, Spatial Data Structures and Algorithms, I am part of a team developing a temporal database and program for tracing historical trading data. My computer science skills have also been put to use in two summer internship projects, where I acquired proficiency with using LIDAR (light detection and ranging) technology, now favored by NASA in its current 10-year study of Greenland and changes in the ice cap extent. Through my coursework and project experience, I have also accrued skills...
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