...dictionaries of collocations, though these are more difficult to find. Some common verbs have do make have a bath have a drink have a good time have a haircut have a holiday have a problem have a relationship have a rest have lunch have sympathy do business do nothing do someone a favour do the cooking do the housework do the shopping do the washing up do your best do your hair do your homework make a difference make a mess make a mistake make a noise make an effort make furniture make money make progress make room make trouble take break catch take a break take a chance take a look take a rest take a seat take a taxi take an exam take notes take someone's place take someone's temperature break a habit break a leg break a promise break a record break a window break someone's heart break the ice break the law break the news to someone break the rules catch a ball catch a bus catch a chill catch a cold catch a thief catch fire catch sight of catch someone's attention catch someone's eye catch the flu pay save keep pay a fine pay attention pay by credit card pay cash pay interest pay someone a compliment pay someone a visit pay the bill pay the price pay your respects save electricity save energy save money save one's strength save someone a seat save someone's life save something to a disk save space save time save yourself the trouble keep a diary keep a promise keep a secret ...
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...Hey! Do you remember back in the good old days of Elementary school when you had recess. I sure do. Do you think that students in Middle school should be able to take breaks or have recess. I think that students in Middle school need breaks for brain breaks, to get their wiggles out, and because we have to sit in class all day long. Mr. Hale could you consider taking longer breaks in between classes. To begin with, a break could help students take brain breaks. Secondly sitting in class for seven hours could be very hard or stressful. Next students have trouble sitting through the 90 minute block or even the 45 minute block. Finally a brain break would allow student to take a break from class and not think about any work. Second of all, students...
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...from junior college, some students decide to take at least a one year break before attending university. By taking this break, they put themselves at an disadvantage that cost could them in the long run when it comes to retaining material they learned in high school & the time it would take to get their degree as well as deciding if they really want to attend college after the break. Students are discouraged about attending university after taking a break after junior college because they've been away from education for that short period. Sometimes students are sidetracked by events that are happening in their everyday lives. A study at John Hopkins University concluded that students who took a break after junior college were most likely sidetracked by marriage and became parents before they decided to attend university. Many students grow comfortable working their minimum salary jobs and feel as though that is enough to get them through life; however, they don't realize that eventually they'll need to earn a degree in order to make a decent living in the future. By taking a break after graduating, students often forget what they've learned in junior college. The majority of students who attend university right after junior college retain a lot of what they've learned in the past years; however, students who take a break end up forgetting majority of what they've learned. When students forget what they've learned during the break, they have a harder time getting back on track...
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...Barbara Ortutay Associated Press article “Most teens have taken social media break” discusses the polls of teens who have taken a social media break and the polls of how they felt during and after the break. Now days it's very common for everybody to have a phone. You’ll see third-graders carrying around the newest Iphone. Technology has just advanced into so many new things. Sure, it’s cool to have a phone but now half of the teens can’t go a day without their phone. It turns out that many teens have taken a break from their phones. Not because their parents were forcing them or anything. They just simply wanted to take a break because they felt like they wanted to. According to the Associated Press article “But nearly 60 percent of teen in the U.S. have actually taken a break from social media, the bulk of them even voluntarily, a new survey found.” This is such a big surprise to me because a lot of my friends or even family members wouldn't be able to make a commitment like that. Everybody says they are going to take a break but they can't push themselves to make the move. In my opinion I feel like I wouldn't be able to take a break from social media. There are many reasons to why I feel this way. A few being- It makes me feel connected to my friends and family who I don't get to...
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...Studies have shown that people who take short breakes throughout the day to do light, outdoor exercise are more productive than those who do not. I think light, outdoor activites are very helpful. The only break students get is lunch and thats it. It also gets very boring when all you do is sit in a desk and listen to someone talk. As the day goes on techers don't want to teach and stundents just want to go home, so no one is really paying attention and teachers dont teach to the fullest. Therefore, I think light, outdoor activites are very helpful because it would take our minds off school, we would focus better when coming back from breaks, and there would be better teaching and learing. Short breaks would take our minds off school. Short...
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...Should You Give Up Summer Break? Many people ask, if your children should have year round school. I chose yes, because summer vacation is outdated. If you stop having school break you could take forever to get back to what you were learning before. Keeping schools open all year round could take pressure off of children to catch up. The first reason why we shouldn’t have summer break is because it would take forever to catch up. According to Sindhu Nair, it would avoid teachers and students getting burnt out with more frequent breaks. In addition, Students think of year-round schools to be no summer traditions, but you still get summer camps and beach vacations. As well as, Year- round schools allow you to have communication with your family and friends. Nair says, you get the same calendar and you also get the same holidays off. (Nair) However, students are being required for academic support to get more immediate...
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...building. I propose we add a second break room, a gaming cafe, to the third floor of the building. How does this benefit the building? The most important advantage is that it will increase profit for the entire building. People from all over the building will be able to use this room. This means that they will be buying snacks, lunch, and drinks which will provide a significant amount of increase in funds for the building. A second advantage is that it will increase productivity throughout the businesses in the building, particularly for those businesses on the third and fourth floors. Currently those of us on the third and fourth floors are having to take longer breaks because of the time it takes to get to the break room on the first floor. By placing another break room on the third floor this will reduce the amount of time employees will take for breaks; therefore becoming more productive. The increased productivity is sure to increase profits for the entire building, thus providing validity for the first advantage listed above. How would the break room be set up? The new break room would be set up, as previously mentioned, as a gaming cafe. There would be a small restaurant; which restaurant could be agreed upon by the committee. In another part of the room there would be several stations set up with couches, televisions and gaming consoles. The consoles would have demo versions of DigiFast games that employees could play in their breaks if they wanted to. Employees...
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...Task 6 P6 An organisations break-even point is the point when income is equal to expenditures resulting in neither profit or loss. The break-even point is significant to organisations as public and not-for-profit sectors usually aim to achieve this point, whereas private organisations wish to earn above this point. Coca Cola Café break-even table The Coca Cola Café’s break-even table displays the business minimum and maximum output in a 30 day period along with the financial data associated with each unit of output. The data acquired from this table can be used to plot points on the break-even graph. |Unit of output |Fixed costs |Variable costs |Total costs |Total revenue |Profit / loss | |0 |£39,130 |£0 |£39,130 |£0 |- £39,130 | |500 |£39,130 |£3580 |£42,710 |£7750 |- £34,960 | |1000 |£39,130 |£7160 |£46,290 |£15,500 |- £30,790 | |1500 |£39,130 |£10,740 |£49,870 |£23,250 |- £26,620 | |2000 |£39,130 |£14,320 |£53,450 |£31,000 |- £22,450 | |2500 |£39,130 |£17,900 |£57,030 |£38,750 ...
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...If statement [pic] 1. void main() 2. { 3. int a=5,b=6,c; 4. c = a + b ; 5. if (c==11) 6. printf("Execute me 1"); 7. printf("Execute me 2"); 8. } 9. Output : 10. Execute me 1 ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// Else-if Ladder in C : Decision Making [pic] 11:11 AM [pic] Admin [pic] 1 comment If Else Ladder / Else-If Clause Syntax of Else-If Ladder : view plainprint? 1. #include 2. if(expression1) 3. statement1; 4. else if(expression2) 5. statement2; 6. else if(expression3) 7. statement3; 8. else 9. statement4; [pic] Explanation : • Conditions are evaluated from Top to Bottom • As soon as TRUE expression is found the statement associated with it is executed and rest of the ladder isBypassed Flowchart : [pic] Sample Example : To find the Grade of the Student) view plainprint? 1. if (marks >= 67 ) 2. printf("Distinction"); 3. else if (marks >=60) 4. printf("First Class"); 5. else if (marks >=55) 6. printf("Higher Second Class"); 7. else if (marks >=50) 8. printf("Second Class"); 9. else if (marks >=40) 10. printf("Pass Class"); 11. else 12. printf("Fail"); ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// If – else statement [pic] 1. void main() 2. { 3. int marks=50; ...
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...Introduction Most of us have had a job at some point in our lives. In my experience, younger people today take advantage of the fact that they get additional breaks other than their lunch breaks while working. Unfortunately, what they don't realize that these additional breaks that they've received while working in their retail jobs are mandatory based on the companies that they work for, not mandated by federal law. Up to 75% adults who are in the throws of their careers don't take their lunch breaks away from their desks, and therefore aren't receiving a break of any sort away from their desks (“We're Not Taking Enough Lunch Breaks. Why That's Bad For Business”, 2015). Although it may appear as if employees are getting more work done since they are at their desks more, they are in fact getting less work done by being less productive and less creative than they could be with a break. Creativity Being stuck at a desk all day is a terrible thing. Limited change of scenery and limited interactions with your co-workers; essentially, there is no time for your mind to escape the perils that have become working at your desk. This lack of variety at work is part of the problem facing corporations that complain that their workers aren't creative enough. According to John Cleese in a speech on creativity, sometimes you just need to do something else and suddenly you'll have a eureka moment. Mr. Cleese gives several ways in which we can be creative. Although they don't center around...
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...call center, and if you don’t know it is a very numbers driven type of environment. They want as many people available to take phone call as much as possible. This is something that only makes sense since the job is to be available to take customers calls. The dilemma that we run into is where do we draw the line at taking care of the customers and forgetting the fact that the employees taking care of those customers are human and not machines? From a business stand point it is very important to deliver on the kind of service that you have advertised to the public. It is imperative to take care of your customers because without them we would not have jobs and the company would not survive. Companies try to do the best that they can to minimize wait times for their customers when they call in to speak to a customer service representative. People get aggravated when they have to set on hold for any length of time. I know because I hear it from our customers all the time. My company has come up with a new way to try to deal with this problem. I must say that I give the company a lot of credit for trying to come up with a solution to make service better for the customers. My argument is, at what expense? The solution is called adherence to schedule. By employees adhering to their schedules there should be plenty of associates available to take the incoming calls. These schedules are computer generated based on past trends in call volume. The entire call center is...
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...distribution, we use the following procedure. Generate a random number denoted by r2 from between 0 and 1. If this generated random number is less than or equal to 0.2 take repair time = 1. If the generated random number is 0.2 to 0.65, we take repair time =2. If the generated random number is 0.65 to 0.90, we take repair time = 3 and take 4 otherwise. 2. Simulation for break-down Distribution Given that the probability distributions of random variable X representing the time between break-downs varies from 0 to 6 weeks with probability increasing continuously, the copier went without breaking down can be approximated by the probability distribution f(x) =x/18 0 < x < 6 Hence the distribution function of x is F(x)=x2/36 0 < x < 6 If r1 is another random number generated between 0 and 1, then we can write r1= x2/36 Hence x=6 Therefore to simulate from the break down distribution, generate a random number r1 between 0 and 1 and make the transformation, x=6 . 3. Simulation for Lost Revenue. It is given that the number of copies sold per day follows a uniform probability distribution between 2,000 and 8,000 copies. The revenue loss random number per day can be obtained by generating a uniform random number r3 between 2000 and 8000. To get the lost business due to this break down is obtained by multiplying r3 by repair time and lost revenue is obtained by multiplying r3* repair time*0.1. 4. Total time We manually simulate the above problem...
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...Introduction Paragraph The comforting sound of winter break for example, a week long period where you can catch up and enjoy the time off. Who wouldn’t love having more days off during the school year? Year-round schooling allows schools to have a two week long break every month and a half. The traditional school year requires students to attend school, with two breaks, until summer. Year-round schooling allows students to have a more flexible schedule. Every school should switch to year-round schooling because it allows students to retain memory, have intercessions at the most vital times, and provide a stress-free learning experience. Body Paragraph #1 An important part of performing well in school is retaining material obtained throughout...
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...For example, “kids who are behind in classes no longer need to stress about being behind.” (Bronson & Merryman). This is because of the breaks that are during the year can be used to catch back up and refocus. Now kids don’t have to cram everything into a weekend to catch up. And for the kids who are not behind “Students who don’t need the break can use the break to do what they want.” (Pearson). This helps there minds by not focusing on anything that they don’t want to do.And the kids who are caught up can use this time for themselves to get other things done outside of school and take the break they need. The statistics are what have proven that a year round school is healthier overall than regular school schedules. With the scheduling benefits of year round school and plentiful of parental benefits and not to forget the overall health benefits it offers year round school is a clear choice over the regular school calendar. To ensure kids don’t fall behind like My friends and I did we need to push the school boards to change to the year round school schedule. For this to happen School Districts need...
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...Linguistic Errors Lexical Errors H: Lexical interference traps are common enough but more invidious are innocent looking collocations which appear to make sense until one asks oneself what they mean in particular context. Lexical interference is very dangerous because it can distort the meaning of a sentence. 1. Context CT: The context itself determines the meaning of words. Therefore, their meaning should be solved in the context. It is commonly known that a word may have equivalents and accordingly the analysis of its meaning has to be made carefully in order to pick out the most appropriate word. There are many ways of translating of some nouns related to professions, classes, and fields in society. H : Polish President affirmed that the Polish government would continue to create favourable conditions for the Vietnamese community, the fourth largest foreign community in Poland. Tổng thống Balan khẳng định rằng chính phủ Balan sẽ tiếp tục tạo điều kiện thuần lợi cho cộng đồng người Việt, cộng đồng nước ngoài lớn nhất thứ tư ở Balan. President Ho Chi Minh is a lofty example of sacrifice in Vietnamese revolution cause. Chủ tịch Hồ Chí Minh là tấm gương hy sinh cao cả trong sự nghiệp cách mạng Việt Nam. Last year, there was a conference for alumni of Harvard University in New Delhi and Mr. Larry Summners, a former President of Havard, he said in his speech that the U.S. has to change its thinking and has to change its look at the world. Năm ngoái, trong một...
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