...Advanced [EH26] Dictionary, 3rd edition Writing essays The language that we use for writing essays is often more formal than the language that we use in conversation. The next four pages give you help with the more formal type of language that is usually used in writing. They give words and phrases that will help you to write your ideas clearly and naturally, and in a way that is suitable for an essay. Saying what you agree with You will first need to read the essay title carefully, and decide what you agree or disagree with about it or whether you think it is true. Use these words and phrases to say what you agree with or what you think is true about the statement: Certainly . . . It is certainly true that . . . It is certainly the case (= true) that . . . Examples: An example essay You could be asked to write many different types of essays in English during the course of your studies. These may include factual essays, descriptive essays or stories. You may also be asked to write letters, emails, reports or pages from a diary as writing exercises. The phrases below all relate to the language you might want to use in a discursive essay (= an essay in which you are asked to discuss something). The title of the example essay is: ‘Despite the increased availability of ‘healthy’ food and our greater knowledge of what makes a healthy diet, we are fatter and less healthy than ever before.’ Discuss. Before you start Make sure you understand what you are expected to do in writing...
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...There is such a concept residing in the world that is equally ambiguous as it is abstract; this concept would be the notion of truth. To define truth, would be defining something that is invented. Nothing can be absolute truth; rather, there are levels of truth. These variant levels range from more to less true, based on how interpretive one concept is over the other. In “Homo religiousus,” Karen Armstrong delves into two classifications of truth, the symbolic and the logical truth, and provides examples that corroborate her beliefs. In “When I Woke Up Tuesday Morning It Was Friday,” Martha Stout insinuates that the truths, Armstrong terms rational, conceptual and logical, are being influenced by the symbolic nature that is built into any “meaning-seeking creature[’s]” biology (Armstrong 5). An example of a meaning-seeking creature is Homo sapiens. Homo sapiens are the symbolic species. The ability that a meaning-seeking creature possesses, to understand, stems from a foundation of symbols. When defining truth, the idea that everything is made out of symbols has to be accounted for, and when regarding symbols, nothing can actually be concretely true. Therefore, there is no absolute truth, but rather there are conditions that can qualify different concepts as true, based on their levels of trueness, such as maintaining a unified consciousness, the mechanics of beliefs, language, and the...
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...communicate with one another over the phone, through face to face speech, or through fax and email messages. This is useful for people to instantly relay messages between each other when haste is crucial or before they forget. Nonverbal communication is just as, if not more important than its verbal counterpart. A common saying is that “actions speak louder than words”. Though that phrase was meant to be used when someone does something rather than just talking about it but the same phrase can be used in this situation. Sometimes people have a better reaction when using nonverbal communication in a group project rather than just explaining something to someone. People use body language to provide an emotional aspect to their spoken words as well as to provide emphasis to something important. One way people use nonverbal communication is to point at something or remove something that is unimportant. The tone of someone’s voice is also considered a portion of nonverbal communication. You can tell a lot about what someone is saying to you by the tone in their voice and how they use their facial expressions to emote on what they are saying. Men and women have different views on different things and sometimes this makes it more difficult to discuss ideas and theories with teammates. A female may think of one portion of a project as extremely important while a male may believe it is not as important as other aspects and the two may argue on the point making it difficult to complete the project...
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...problem you could solve that would potentially be useful. Most companies start out trying to do too many things, which makes life difficult and turns you into a me-too. Focusing on a small niche has so many advantages: With much less work, you can be the best at what you do. Small things, like a microscopic world, almost always turn out to be bigger than you think when you zoom in. You can much more easily position and market yourself when more focused. And when it comes to partnering, or being acquired, there's less chance for conflict. This is all so logical and, yet, there's a resistance to focusing. I think it comes from a fear of being trivial. Just remember: If you get to be #1 in your category, but your category is too small, then you can broaden your scope‹and you can do so with leverage. #2: Be Different Ideas are in the air. There are lots of people thinking about‹and probably working on‹the same thing you are. And one of them is Google. Deal with it. How? First of all, realize that no sufficiently interesting space will be limited to one player. In a sense, competition actually is good‹especially to legitimize new markets. Second, see #1‹the specialist will almost always kick the generalist's ass. Third, consider doing something that's not so cutting edge. Many highly successful companies‹the aforementioned big G being one‹have thrived by taking on areas that everyone thought were done and redoing them right. Also? Get a good, non-generic name. Easier...
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...retainment of consumers are not taken into account in some cases. They try to sell the products at any cost, by changing your opinions and cause change in your mindset. This is caused due to motivations which are pushed upon us by society. Some may be of internal motivation. We already have dress, (we take previous e.g.) But because something new had been introduced into our lives, we were immediately drawn into a process of spiralling consumption. According to research journals, the key is to make the item not a purchase, but a replacement. We already have many dresses but we are replacing some with new good looking, attractive colour dresses. So how can it be analysed and overcome, well we know what we are buying, and for what. If we don’t then try to think about it, whether it is useful or not. See the usefulness of a product rather than thinking something which are not important. What we wore is of less important than how you behave and how you act. Aware of the future and buy according to that, you may buy it for more price but soon when price falls due to deflation for e.g., the price will fall and what you bought at that time will be sold at very less price , In this situation we are the looser. So just be aware of what is really happening...
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...the gender wage gap? Is the gender wage gap something feminists should be protesting? Feminists have been around since the Seneca Falls Convention on July 19th, 1848. At Seneca Falls they fought for their right to vote, now they fight for equal pay. So, what is the simple explanation of the gender wage gap? The gender wage gap is easy to understand if you break it down into words; gender= female or male and in this case female vs. male, wage= a fixed regular payment and in this case the amount of money one gets, and finally gap= difference or a break or hole in something. If you put it all together it makes the difference between male and female salaries. So, why are feminists protesting something that they have no control over?...
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...TABLE OF CONTENTS Case Study – Vincor: Project Twist Executive Summary………………………………………………………………………………………..………….…….2 Problem Statement………………………………………………………………………………………………………….2 Situation Analysis………………………..…………………………………………………………………………………..2 Background…………………………………………………………………………………………………………2 Objectives………………..………………………………………………………………………………………..2 S.W.O.T. Analysis………..…...…………………………………………………………..……………………………….3-4 Market Analysis………….....……………………....…..…..…………………………..……………………………….4 Competition Analysis….......…………………………....…..…………………………………………….4 Positioning Map….......…….………………………....…..…..……..……..................................5 PESTE………...….......…….………………………....…..…..…………..……..................................5-6 Consumer Analysis…...…….………………………....…..…..……………………………………………7 Case Keys.…………………………………...…………………………………….………………………………………….8 Alternatives……………………...…………………………………...…………………………………………………….8-9 Recommendation………………..…………………………………...…………………………………………………9-10 Action Plan…………………………………………………………...………………...………………………………….10 Short term………….………………………………………………………...………………………………..10 Long term……………………………………………………………………..………………………………..10 Contingency Plan……………..……………………………………...………………….................................10 Market Segmentation Chart- Appendix A……………………………………………………………………11-12 Pricing Options Chart- Appendix B……………………………………………………………………………..13 Executive Summary: Vincor, world-renown for its production and distribution of wine and wine-related products,...
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...What’s more important to you? Your phone or your future? It’s time to fire your phone and hire your brain. So it’s time to get working! We have been so focused on our phones that we forget that we actually have a brain we can use. “Shut down your screen” week can change all of that. We should participate in “Shut down your screen” week because it can help kids become more focused in class. During school while my teacher was talking to my class my phone kept vibrating, I kept having the urge to check it. This proves that phones are a huge distraction in our daily lives. This is why we need to participate in “Shut down your screen” week. It can help students pay attention more in class without having a phone to buzz in their pocket every five...
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...curve is a graphical representation of the changing rate of learning (in the average person) for a given activity or tool. Typically, the increase in retention of information is sharpest after the initial attempts, and then gradually evens out, meaning that less and less new information is retained after each repetition. The learning curve can also represent at a glance the initial difficulty of learning something and, to an extent, how much there is to learn after initial familiarity. For example, the Windows program Notepad is extremely simple to learn, but offers little after this. On the other extreme is the UNIX terminal editor vi, which is difficult to learn, but offers a wide array of features to master after the user has figured out how to work it. It is possible for something to be easy to learn, but difficult to master or hard to learn with little beyond this. The concept of the Learning Curve basically states that there is less and less learning as more repetitive steps are taken. The Boston Consulting Group conducted some empirical studies and below are the conclusions from that study: 1. The time required to perform a task decreases as the task is repeated, 2. The amount of improvement decreases as more units are produced, and 3. The rate of improvement has sufficient consistency to allow its use as a prediction tool. Consistency in improvement has been found to exist in the form of a constant percentage reduction in time required over successively...
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...drain on the limited resources of our planet. However, there are several other factors that make recycling important which will be discussed in this paper. Although recycling may seem like a modern concept introduced with the environmental movement of the 1970s, it's actually been around for thousands of years. Prior to the industrial age, you couldn't make goods quickly and cheaply, so virtually everyone practiced recycling in some form. However, large-scale recycling programs were very rare -- households predominantly practiced recycling. The mass production of the industrial age is, in many ways, the very reason we need to worry about large-scale recycling. When products can be produced (and purchased) very cheaply, it often makes more economic sense to simply throw away old items and purchase brand new ones. However, this culture of "disposable" goods created a number of environmental problems. In the 1930s and 40s, conservation and recycling became important in American society and in many other parts of the world. Economic depressions made...
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...5. Introduction The idea of the topic came into my mind from the conversations I have regularly with my NSU mates. The topic is undoubtedly the most common issue among the NSU students. It is mostly driven by the complex grading policy that NSU follows, which is none other than the conflict between grade and learning. Students face dilemma while giving priority to learning over grades and I expect them to end up giving more priority to grades. Now, the question is why I have been so pessimistic about their will to learn. I have been studying in NSU for nearly two and a half years and till now, all the conversations I heard is related to grades. Before taking a course, students ask about the most liberal faculty who takes the course. Do they follow books or slides? Do they take make up exams? Do they curve the grades? I mean the word learning is all that is missing. Nobody feels the anticipation of doing something new in a course. Nobody is thrilled to learn something new or to explore themselves. All that matters is doing the course with least possible effort and a liberal faculty who gives good grades. From the beginning of my life at NSU, I have been wondering why grades and learning cannot go side by side. Why do students have to face dilemmas between them? It has to be the complex grading policy of NSU which does not let students have enough space to think about what they learn and keep them busy fighting to get good grades. Students never get to come out of the dilemma...
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...and can find beauty in the simplest of things. When I was five years old, my parents bought me my first guitar. It was about twice the size of me. For the next two years, my fingers were covered with blisters from playing so much. “Just stick with it, and you could be the next Jeff Beck,” my dad would tell me. After a while, music became the only thing I thought about. My friends were watching Disney shows; I was watching Bob Marley and the wailers live at the rainbow in London England. Music became less of a hobby and more a part of my identity. It became a driving force for me to be the best person I could be. Because listening to, playing, and creating music was and continues to be such a large part of my life, I believe that music is more than sound. It’s a message, a lifestyle, and a place where I can escape to. The idea that an assortment of vibrations can evoke feelings and emotion is truly something magical. A melody can become something that perfectly expresses how I feel, without the need for words. As a guitar string vibrates, it moves airwaves that bounce off my ear drum and are then interpreted by my brain. These vibrations become a sort of communication between the instrument and whoever is listening. Things can sound solemn, energetic, or everything in between. My experiences with music usually falls into three different categories: playing by myself, playing in front of people, and listening to music. All three are completely different...
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...due date. • Initially, time management referred to just business or work activities, but eventually the term broadened to include personal activities as well. • A time management system is a designed combination of processes, tools, techniques, and methods. • Time management is usually a necessity in any as it determines the project completion time and scope. 1. Eliminate the Unnecessary • Either professionally or personally, eliminating the “unnecessary” in life goes a long way in making you more productive. • What do we mean by “unnecessary”? • Well, strictly speaking, anything that prevents you from reaching your particular goal. For example If your goal is to clean out your email inbox, then don’t spend 45 minutes on Face book. • Put simply, you need to draw a firm, distinct line between the “necessary” and “unnecessary” in your life. • The stricter you define these terms, the more you’ll find that a lot of things are truly unnecessary in your life. 2. Plan Your Work • If you go into work every day having no idea what you want to accomplish, then you’ll probably accomplish nothing. • Set aside ten to fifteen minutes before work and either write down or mentally plan what you want to accomplish. • Personally, I plan my work each morning...
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... who was a larger more present negation. He then questions if something can be more wrong than something else, as to say that “Is it possible to negate more or less? Is not “negation” the clearest example of something absolute?” (1877). We always question wrong and right as if they are finite and not ever-changing as they actually are. We want to say that something is wrong but what if it is done with good intentions? What if the victim did something worse does that lessen the murderers...
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...Hollender expresses his opinions that there is no such thing as bad nowadays, instead it should be classified as “less bad” meaning the generation of less waste, less CO2, pollute less water and utilize a greater amount of recycled materials (Hollender 2012, p6). He expresses these views on his idea of “less bad” as the world has revolutionized itself to a point where that almost everything innovative that we now do will harm something else in a negative manner. This is evidently proven from the things that have been invented over time. Going back 100 years from now it is evident that changes have been significant everywhere across the world and in nearly every case it is the tools that we have shaped that are now shaping us, this is becoming a problem in many cases. Starting right back when the hammer was invented. It can be proven that the tools that we make definitely have an influence on the way we interact on a day-to-day basis. There is no specific date on when the hammer was first utilized or invented but it can be said that the cavemen used to use rocks to help them hit something with more force. Essentially this is what a hammer is used for nowadays but in a much more technical manner. Back when the cavemen were using the hammer (rocks) they were using it to hunt down animals and deliver repetitive blows with force resulting in broken bones and less overall effort from the caveman himself. This early innovation made life easier for cavemen. Over time the hammer improved...
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