...store. The year is 2120 and the is a lot of talk about this new invention. Basically, it's this green pill that you can take that turns you into somewhat of a bionic person. Anyone who takes it is immune to cancer and other diseases. Advocates of the medication say it will help create a happier and healthier community. Appoints of the pill clam it isn’t human to be immune to all diseases and it is destroying the natural balance of the world. I didn’t have an opinion so I went to the store to try and get more information about the new invention and I actually learned a lot. First things first the medication was designed by three college students. It was inspired after...
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...When Altman begins telling the story of a patient who has been on a high-cholesterol medication visiting a doctor’s office, he pulls out a pill container. At the point where the patient is given an anti-depressant prescription, a different pill container is shown. While Altman reveals to the audience that it is very hard to study what happens when medications are mixed and how it has never been done before, he hits the pill containers against each other. This action accentuates the fact that drugs are lifesavers but putting multiple drugs together in one body can be a recipe for lethality. Many people need medications daily for rest of their lives. Sometimes, they end up taking potentially dangerous combinations of medications because multiple doctors are prescribing drugs without being aware of what other doctors are prescribing. The doctors may not closely monitor the patients who are taking several drugs at once. Unless a problem is detected, doctors and patients may not consciously think about the threats of taking medications in combination. Consequently, drug interactions have long been a neglected field of study in healthcare. The container pills, in addition with the story, effectively reinforces Altman’s argument. The audience members perceive the necessity of being informed about drug interactions. Likewise, they are encouraged to use the information that is available to them...
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...Descartes, in his “First Meditations” wrote that he couldn’t tell whether he was dreaming or not. I believe we exist in different places, yet we all inhabit these places at the same time. But we remain highly unaware of this phenomena, our minds could be theoretically protecting themselves from these memories. But how can this happen you may ask, well there’s this theory called “Quantum Physics” which is the theory of photons, electrons,etc existing in two places at once. This theory states that our physical bodies don’t go anywhere but our awareness does. According to this theory we could have two individual sets of memories. Often we find ourselves confused in which set is true or false. Choices by Deborah Lynn Jacobs, is a great example of this theory. Throughout this book, the protagonist, Kathleen, moves within four different time sets;Kathleen, Kay, Kath, and Kathy. Kathleen, on her first time set has her brother, caring parents and an amazing friend, Kay’s time set was chaotic, her mom drinks and dad does even talk to her, she hangs out with a girl named Sunny, who’s a bad influence on her. Kath’s time set is calmer but still has problems with her parent thanks to the car accident her brother was in. Kathy, she has short black hair with a belly button ring, which surprises her, but not in a good way. The only thing that every time set has in common is this guy named Luke, who’s following her during this realities, that feel like dreams to both of them. Her movement...
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...Csikszentmihalyi, and Richard Carlson, I identify two types of experience in user–product interactions: satisfying experiences and rich experiences. A satisfying experience is a process–driven act that is performed in a successful manner. A rich experience has a sense of immersive continuity and interaction, which may be made up of a series of satisfying experiences. Based on this definition, I identify a set of design principles with which to create products that evoke rich experiences. These principles are intended to encourage designers to think about how to create user–product interactions that suggest values and communicate meanings that enrich the quality of life. Narrative plays a key role in these design principles. Our series of life experiences form a narrative; the values that designers impart in an object form a narrative which is elaborated...
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...Society has witnessed the work of a variety of creative workers who have come from tragic backgrounds, it only the most unfortunate that some have tragic endings as well. Marilyn Monroe’s archived poetry and diaries depict an artful yet quite sad soul, she writes of her love for her craft, defying her difficult past, “working (doing my tasks that I/ have set for myself)/ on the stage—I will/ not be punished for it/or be whipped/ or be threatened/ or sent to hell to burn with bad people feeling that I am also bad./ or be afraid of my [genitals] being/ exposed known and/ seen—”, but also confesses that she is “very lonely” and paints the narrative of an exploited figure in short verse [Source F]. As aforementioned, Plath also depicted her personal experienced in her books, as well as being at the forefront of the confessional poetry movement. Her poem “The Applicant”specifically examines the construct of marriage, gender stereotypes and social pressures, while poems such as “Daddy” and “Lady Lazarus” and the last poem written before her death, “Edge,” are popular for their dark themes, provocatively sad tone, and distinct language. Despite the chain reaction of abusive environments female artists may enter when they professionalize their creative work, a result of women’s psychological augmentation, women express their emotions, potential mental...
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...paragraph 2, a number of overly short sentences here have been combined into longer, more sophisticated phrasings. One example is: "I thought about how many famous soccer players are equally skilled with both feet, and wondered: could I learn to throw left-handed?" These changes help with both word count and readability issues. We have also eliminated or limited repetition by replacing the overused "frustrated" a variety of more illustrative phrasings. Paragraph 3 is a transition paragraph, so pacing is of the foremost importance and sentences such as the following have been revised to reflect a sense of story and purpose in the narrative: "It was an unsteady enterprise at first; my neighbor took one look at one of my earlier attempts at throwing left-handed, and scoffed that I threw 'like a girl.'" The best essays often have a strong narrative...
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...MARK K. SCHONFELD REGIONAL DIRECTOR Attorneys for Plaintiff SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION New York Regional Office 3 World Financial Center New York, NY 10281 (212) 336-1120 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT -SOUTHERNDISTRICT OF NEW YORK SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION, Plaintiff, 08 Civ. ECF CASE BIOVAIL CORPORATION, EUGENE N. MELNYK, BRIAN CROMBIE, JOHN MISZUK, and KENNETH G. HOWLING, Defendants. COMPLAINT Plaintiff Securities and Exchange Commission, for its Complaint against Defendants Biovail Corporation ("Biovail" or the "Company"), Eugene N. Melnyk, Brian Crombie, John Miszuk and Kenneth G. Howling (collectively, "Defendants"), alleges as follows: SUMMARY OF ALLEGATIONS 1. This case involves chronic fraudulent conduct - including financial reporting fraud and other intentional public misrepresentations - by Biovail Corporation, a Canadian pharmaceutical company whose common stock is traded on the New York and Toronto stock exchanges. Obsessed with meeting quarterly and annual earnings guidance, Biovail's executives repeatedly overstated earnings and hid losses in order to deceive investors and create the appearance of achieving that goal. And, when it ultimately became impossible to continue to conceal the Company's poor performance, Biovail actively misled investors and analysts as to its cause. This corrupt strategy was employed by Biovail's most senior officers: Eugene Melnyk, former chairman and chief executive officer; Brian...
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...Veronika, a beautiful young woman from Slovenia. She works as a librarian by day and by night carries on like many single women, dating men, occasionally sleeping with them, and returning to a single room she rents at a convent. Apparently because everything in her life was the same and once her youth was gone, it would be downhill all the way and also everything is wrong with the world and she feels powerless to make things right. Veronika had everything, a family, a job, money, etc. However, she wasn’t happy from all of this. She always felt that her life was empty of purpose and that future would be worse, that’s why she decides to suicide by taking many sleeping pills. Instead of dying, she awakes in “Villete”, a mental hospital in Ljubljana. The nurses tell her that she has only one week to live because the pills had caused irreversible damages in her body. During her stay in “Villete”, Veronika meets Zedka who suffers from a mental depression. Zedka had a husband, children and a stable life, but she’s been obsessed by an old lover and she still thinks’ that he’s looking after her. Veronika meets also Marie who suffers from panic attacks. Mari’s husband wanted to divorce her, so even when she is cured, she prefers to lie to her doctor and pretends that the attacks have returned. Edward is also a patient who has schizophrenia who dreamed of being a painter but his parent’s didn’t let him achieve his dream, he falls in love with Veronika and also Dr. Igor as her Psychiatrist...
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...Maus II: A Survivor’s Tale—And Here My Troubles Began The Holocaust was one of the worst epidemics in the entire world. Many people were killed, more importantly the Jewish community, with millions dead. Families were torn and never mended. Among these families were the Spiegleman’s. Art Spiegleman was the son in the family who wrote about his father’s experience in the Holocaust. Maus I and Maus II are his two works of art that share historical information and his personal struggle. Within Maus II, Art talks about the start of his father’s struggles and what will be the beginning of a life changing event. The Holocaust affected victims just as the American Great Depression did its victims. This chapter starts out with Vladek continuously counting his pills, and then Artie and Francoise are staying with him just for a little since Mala left. Vladek keeps everything; he doesn’t want to get rid of anything, even crumbs. In chapter three, page 78 of Maus II, he is trying to give Artie a piece of fruitcake, and Artie refuses, and says he isn’t hungry. Vladek then tells Artie, “So, fine. I can pack the fruitcake in with the cereal for you to take home,” then Artie refuses to let Vladek give him the food because he doesn’t want it. Vladek then says, “I cannot forget it…ever since Hitler I don’t like to throw out even a crumb.” This shows that Vladek is still afraid to get rid of anything, because he is still in fear of the past. They begin talking more about Auschwitz, and how in...
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...Insights into OTC and Pharmacy as presented at the ESOMAR Global Healthcare Conference Contents Consumer Decision Making: 4 “How potent is my potion?” Intuitive judgments in consumer decision making for OTC products - By Anjali Puri, Director, Customized Products & Services Group, Asia Pacific and co-author, Sumeet Saluja, General Manager, Marketing at Glaxo SmithKline Consumer Healthcare Fast Moving Consumer Goods and OTC products: Zoom on marketing effectiveness - Abstract by Erk Maassen, and Robert Buckeldee 20 2 Author: Anjali Puri Director, Customized Products & Services Group, Asia Pacific The Nielsen Company 2nd Floor, Block B, Sri Rama Deevana, No. 21, Ulsoor Road, Bangalore – 560042, India email: anjali.puri@nielsen.com Phone: 91-80-25559692, 91-98456-18854 Fax: 91-80-25559688 Anjali currently works with the Customized Products and Services team at Nielsen. She has over 14 years of qualitative research experience, and has worked extensively in the arena of OTC medication. Anjali is a regular presenter at ESOMAR and other international market research forums. Sumeet is currently the Category Head for Horlicks, health food drink company General Manager, Marketing in India. In his previous role, Glaxo SmithKline Consumer Healthcare Sumeet was head of the DLF Plaza Tower, DLF Phase 1, Gurgaon, Crocin brand, a popular OTC Haryana, India analgesic in India. Sumeet email: sumeet.g.saluja@gsk.com has also spent time in sales Phone: 91-124-2540700,...
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...Qualitative Research Methods: A D ATA C O L L E C T O R ’ S FIELD GUIDE NATASHA MACK • CYNTHIA WOODSONG KATHLEEN M. MACQUEEN • GREG GUEST • EMILY NAMEY Qualitative Research Methods: A D ATA C O L L E C T O R ’ S FIELD GUIDE NATASHA MACK • CYNTHIA WOODSONG KATHLEEN M. MACQUEEN • GREG GUEST • EMILY NAMEY F A M I L Y H E A L T H I N T E R N A T I O N A L Family Health International (FHI) is a nonprofit organization working to improve lives worldwide through research, education, and services in family health. This publication was made possible through support provided by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), under the terms of Cooperative Agreement No. CCP-A-00-95-00022-02. The opinions expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of USAID. ISBN: 0-939704-98-6 Qualitative Research Methods: A Data Collector’s Field Guide © 2005 by Family Health International Family Health International P.O. Box 13950 Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709 USA http://www.fhi.org E-mail: publications@fhi.org Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Case Study Module 1 — Qualitative Research Methods Overview Introduction to Qualitative Research Comparing Quantitative and Qualitative Research Sampling in Qualitative Research Recruitment in Qualitative Research Ethical Guidelines in Qualitative Research Suggested Readings Module 2 — Participant Observation Overview of Participant Observation Ethical Guidelines...
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...Evaluation of the qualitative study: ‘In the Club: Ecstasy Use and Supply in a London Nightclub’ Table of contents: 1. Overview 3 2. Qualitative research approach methods and Quantitative research approach 4 3. The strength and weakness of Observation data collection 6 4. The strength and weaknesses of in-depth interview 6 5. Focus group discussion 7 6. Conclusion 9 7. References 10 Overview The aim of this report is to evaluate the qualitative study ‘In the Club: Ecstasy Use and Supply in a London Nightclub’ by Bill Sanders which was published in 2005 in the Sociology journal. The report will give a brief overview of the research aims, a description of the methods used, and explain the main findings reported in the paper that have been selected. A discussion of why a qualitative research approach has been chosen for the research question or questions posed in the study will also be evaluated. Furthermore, the use of an extended evaluation of the strengths and weaknesses of the method or methods used in the research will focus in particular upon their appropriateness to the project’s key research question or questions posed and the robustness of the claims made in the article. Finally, a consideration of the potential contribution that a different qualitative method could have on the research question asked will be conducted to assess its strengths and weaknesses. The research was to explore what was widely known about...
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...Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders Nature and purposes The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders is a reference work consulted by psychiatrists, psychologists, physicians in clinical practice, social workers , medical and nursing students, pastoral counselors, and other professionals in health care and social service fields. The book's title is often shortened to DSM , or an abbreviation that also indicates edition, such as DSM-IV-TR, which indicates fourth edition, text revision of the manual, published in 2000. The DSM-IV-TR provides a classification of mental disorders, criteria sets to guide the process of differentialdiagnosis , and numerical codes for each disorder to facilitate medical record keeping. The stated purpose of the DSM is threefold: to provide "a helpful guide to clinical practice"; "to facilitate research and improve communication among clinicians and researchers"; and to serve as "an educational tool for teaching psychopathology." The multi-axial system The third edition of DSM , or DSM-III , which was published in 1980, introduced a system of five axes or dimensions for assessing all aspects of a patient's mental and emotional health. The multi-axial system is designed to provide a more comprehensive picture of complex or concurrent mental disorders. According to the DSM-IVTR, the system is also intended to "promote the application of the biopsychosocial model in clinical, educational and...
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...PRINCIPLES 2 A.) Efficiency and Other Concepts 2 B.) Agency and Partnership Law 2 II.) INTRODUCTION TO THE CORPORATE FORM 16 A.) Formation and Structure 16 B.) Debt, Equity, and Valuation 22 III.) CONTROL OF CORPORATE DECISIONS 32 A.) The Role of the Shareholder 32 B.) Management Obligations 50 1.) Duty of Care 51 2.) Duty of Loyalty 56 3.) Duty of Fairness: Parent-Subsidiary Relationships 63 4.) Duty of Good Faith 64 5.) Management Obligations Under Federal Securities Laws 67 C.) Shareholder Litigation 76 IV.) Structural Changes 85 A.) Transactions in Control 85 B.) Mergers and Acquisitions 86 1.) Mergers 87 2.) Sale of Assets 93 3.) Asset Purchase or Tender Offer 94 C.) Public Control Contests 96 1.) The Poison Pill 100 2.) Enhanced Review When Business is Up for Sale 103 3.) Proxy Contests for Corporate Control 106 4.) Protecting the Deal: Shareholder Lockup Agreements 109 I.) INTRODUCTORY PRINCIPLES • Definitions o Corporate Law: The allocation of rights and power within a corporation; the internal body of law ▪ Addresses the creation of economic wealth through the facilitation of voluntary, ongoing collective action ▪ Flexible- expectation that market discipline will weed out what is not working ▪ Principle aim- reduce agency costs of all sorts o Securities Law: Regulates capital markets that corporations use to obtain funding o Firm: A form of business relation...
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...re tu ra li CAPE Modern te ng Languages Literatures nE e siniEnglish ur e at l er g it En sin ur e at er it L Caribbean Examinations Council ® SYLLABUS SPECIMEN PAPER CSEC® SYLLABUS,MARK SCHEME SPECIMEN PAPER, MARK SCHEME SUBJECT REPORTS AND SUBJECT REPORTS Macmillan Education 4 Crinan Street, London, N1 9XW A division of Macmillan Publishers Limited Companies and representatives throughout the world www.macmillan-caribbean.com ISBN 978-0-230-48228-9 © Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC ®) 2015 www.cxc.org www.cxc-store.com The author has asserted their right to be identified as the author of this work in accordance with the Copyright, Design and Patents Act 1988. First published 2014 This revised version published 2015 Permission to copy The material in this book is copyright. However, the publisher grants permission for copies to be made without fee. Individuals may make copies for their own use or for use by classes of which they are in charge; institutions may make copies for use within and by the staff and students of that institution. For copying in any other circumstances, prior permission in writing must be obtained from Macmillan Publishers Limited. Under no circumstances may the material in this book be used, in part or in its entirety, for commercial gain. It must not be sold in any format. Designed by Macmillan Publishers Limited Cover design by Macmillan Publishers Limited and Red Giraffe CAPE® Literatures...
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