...Brittany Mobley Ms. Amy Warren ENGL 1101 20 March 2012 My college major and why writing about this topic will be beneficial to me: My major is Early Childhood Education. After I graduate I want to eventually open my own daycare center but before that I will probably get some teaching done first. Researching about the most effective teaching methods will help me run a more beneficial daycare center in the future. My purpose: The purpose of my final research paper is to educate my audience of what the most effective teaching method(s) are. I want my reader to know what the benefits are for children whose daycare teachers use the Montessori teaching method. I will prove to them that the Montessori teaching methods are very beneficial to infant-toddler and primary students and that it should be one of the leading methods used. My working thesis and any assumptions: Childcare providers for children ages 0-4 should follow the Montessori teaching method because teaching methods used in children’s early ages has a long term impact on them. My approach to the subject of my paper: In the structure of my paper I will first define what a childcare/daycare is, what is actually considered to be a daycare. After I will tell about different types of teaching methods used and what some outcomes from previous studies have shown about different ones. I will then prove why the Montessori teaching method is the best one to use for children ages 0-4 and show the benefits that children will have...
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...your name on all sheets of paper. Name of Student _________________________________Grade applying for __________ 1. Please tell us something, not necessarily school related, that you have especially enjoyed in the past. 2. What kind of community service would you enjoy committing yourself to, and why? 3. Mention three of your favorite books, and briefly explain why you like them. Mail to: Lake Champlain Waldorf School Admissions Office 359 Turtle Lane, Shelburne, VT 05482 Phone 802-985-2827 ext 12 Fax: 802-985-2834 4. Describe what you have studied most recently in each of the following academic subjects. What has been your general experience with these subjects? English Mathematics Science History Foreign Language 5. What sports have you played, and what has been your experience with them? 6. Do you like to draw, paint, sculpt, or do any kind of craft work? How much have you done of any of these at school? On your own? 7. Describe your musical background. Do you play an instrument, sing in a choir, or compose music? Is there anything else you would like to add regarding your musical interests? 8. Do you like to act or dance? Have you been involved in any drama or dance performances? 9. Which other special interests or experiences you would like...
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...9-709-424 JULY 1, 2008 MIKOŁAJ JAN PISKORSKI HANNA HAŁABURDA TROY SMITH eHarmony Greg Waldorf, the CEO of eHarmony, was in his car driving down the Interstate 10 Freeway after a day-long meeting with eHarmony’s senior leadership team. The sole purpose of this October 2007 meeting was to decide how the company should address recent competitor actions. After many deliberations, Waldorf’s executive team was able to identify four strategic options. Now, Waldorf and Greg Steiner, the President and COO, who was sitting next to him, were debating which option the company should pursue. As the two whizzed down the car pool lane, passing cars stuck in traffic, they reflected on eHarmony’s success. This online personals site targeted marriage-minded individuals and offered a unique product which combined an extensive relationship questionnaire, a patented matching system and a guided communication system. Despite charging a premium for its services, eHarmony had experienced phenomenal membership growth while its competitors stalled. As a consequence, it was able to increase its paying membership base to slightly less than a half of its largest competitor, even though it entered the market six years after they did. The success of eHarmony did not go unnoticed. From the beginning, competitors had been copying some of the company’s product features and closing the price gap. More recently, Match, eHarmony’s biggest competitor, had increased its advertising expenditures...
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...Assessment without High-Stakes Testing Protecting Childhood and the Purpose of School David Mitchell, Douglas Gerwin, Ernst Schuberth, Michael Mancini, and Hansjörg Hofrichter 1 Picture a breezy spring morning at the beach. White-tipped waves roll rhythmically up the sand, washing away footprints like a blackboard eraser on a classroom blackboard. A group of children on a school outing marches purposefully along the shore through the edge of the frothy waves. A couple of eager kids stride out in front. The teacher walking along with the main group of the class notices that one of the boys is lagging behind. The teacher slows her step to find out why this child is not keeping up with his class. There are several possibilities: 1. The child is unable to keep up with the group, due to some disability, physical or emotional, or simply exhaustion for lack of sleep or nourishment; 2. The child is unwilling to keep up with the group, due to a lack of interest or, perhaps, a surfeit of distractions along the way; or 3. The child does not know how to keep up with the group, possibly because he is new to this experience and has not been taught how to hold his balance against the waves. In each of these cases, the teacher will respond differently. In the first case, she may scoop up the boy and carry him, or ply him with a quick snack or a sip of water. In the second, she may draw his attention to something of interest up ahead or coax him with some gentle words of sympathy and encouragement...
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...EXPERIENCE hbr.org Case Study Suraj Srinivasan is an associate professor at Harvard Business School. Terranola was everyone’s favorite company until an investor went on the attack. by Suraj Srinivasan The Experts A Short-Seller Crashes the Party Guy Gresham, managing director, BNY Mellon Illustration: Maria Raymondsdotter Dan Mahoney, director of research, CFRA HBR’s fictionalized case studies present dilemmas faced by leaders in real companies and offer solutions from experts. This one draws on the HBS Case Study “Trouble Brewing for Green Mountain Coffee Roasters” (case no. 113035), by Suraj Srinivasan and Michael Norris, which is available at hbr.org. W hen the well-known hedge fund manager and short-seller Jeremiah Hughes first put Terranola in the spotlight, issuing ominous warnings about unsold products, a looming patent expiration, and flawed growth projections, the considered judgment of the company’s executive team was to do nothing. “I refuse to dignify this attack with a response,” said Henry Guillart, the CEO, after Hughes gave his negative presentation at an investor conference in New York. That decision turned out to have serious consequences. Terranola’s stock began tanking that afternoon, precipitating a slide that took the Seattle-based company’s reputation, employee morale, and ability to raise capital along with it. A month later, when Hughes spoke again about the company, everyone expected Terranola...
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...ASSIGNMENT 10 PROJECT WORK a) Project for primary classroom THE TROPICAL RAINFOREST UNITOVERVIEW This primary unit takes across curricular approach involving language arts, math, science, and social studies. Art, music and movement education activities are also used to develop the concepts in this unit. Students will learn about the rainforest through a variety of activities to complete both on-line and in downloadable format for use in the classroom. In addition there is a resource bank of print and non-print resources included. Each lesson develops a particular focus and may take one class or several classes to complete. Extending activities are also provided as well as assessment and evaluation tools and templates. Foundational Objectives: Knowledge ! Students will increase their knowledge about the rainforest. Skills and habits * Learn about and practice the skills and strategies of effective listeners, speakers, readers, writers and representers. * Speak and write to express thoughts, information, feelings and experiences in a variety of forms for a variety of purposes and audiences. * Read and view a range of grade-level appropriate oral, print, and other media texts in a variety of situations for a variety of purposes. * Assess personal and group strengths...
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...tCSS works by allowing you to associate rules with the elements that appear in the document. These rules govern how the content of those elements should be rendered. Figure 7-1 shows you an example of a CSS rule, which as you can see is made up of two parts: ❑ The selector, which indicates which element or elements the declaration applies to (if it applies to more than one element, you can have a comma-separated list of several elements) ❑ The declaration, which sets out how the elements should be styled The declaration is also split into two parts, separated by a colon: ❑ A property, which is the property of the selected element(s) that you want to affect, in this case the font-family property. ❑ A value, which is a specification for this property; in this case it is the Arial typeface. A style sheet is a grouping of formatting instructions that can control the appearance of many HTML pages at once. If style sheets accomplished this and nothing else, they’d save millions of dollars worth of Webmasters’ time and become an integral part of most Web publishing projects. But they aim to do this and much more as well. The HTML style sheet standard enables you to set a great number of formatting characteristics that were never possible before with any amount of effort. These include exacting typeface controls, letter and line spacing, margins and page borders, and expanded support for non-European languages and characters. They also enable sizes and other measurements to...
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...UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH KATZ GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS BSEO 2531 ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND NEW VENTURES January 2015 PROFESSOR: G. Richard Patton 328 Mervis Hall grpatton@katz.pitt.edu Phone: 648-1568 SECRETARY: Pat Koroly 341 Mervis Hall 412-648-2250 Required Case and Reading Packet link: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/access/32240148 BSEO 2531 is to be a different experience for our MBA students. Most of your previous student experience has been focused on models and techniques that are typically applied in large organizations. BSEO 2531 will focus on a different aspect of the business environment--entrepreneurship. Consequently, this course will be structured differently than most other courses. Part of the course will involve the use of conventional case analysis, discussions and lectures. In addition, there will be guest speakers, time permitting. There are multiple objectives for the Entrepreneurship elective, including: 1. Understanding the process of New Venture Formulation 2. Studying the characteristics of successful entrepreneurs 3. Process and structure of business plan development 4. Understanding sources and methods of financing new business ventures 5. Opportunities to apply functional skill (marketing, finance, accounting, etc.) 6. Networking in the Pittsburgh entrepreneurial community The focus of the class will be the development...
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...Fast Food and Consumer Behavior ABSTRACT Marketing can impact the economy in one or two ways. First, marketing has the potential to increase the demand for a good or service. Effective marketing campaigns entice people to want/buy a specific good or service. The market demand curve is comprised of individual demand curves for a good. General theory states that consumers will buy less of a product as the price increases. However, marketing can cause the demand for the good or service to become more inelastic, which causes consumers to still buy even when the price increases. This is because strategic marketing plans have a goal to convince consumers that there is no real substitute for the good or service. Some argue that consumer behavior is manipulated by marketing and that consumers need to operate within a “laissez faire” market. This paper will discuss the impacts of marketing on consumer behavior in the fast food economy and the ability to generate demand curves. It will test the following three hypotheses: (1) consumer behavior is influenced by marketing (2) effective marketing impacts the indifference curve (3) marketing can override the individual and market demand theory. The research paper will present the research that supports the psychological and economic theory of consumer behavior in the fast food industry to support the results demonstrating the economic effect from the efforts of marketing. Introduction ...
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...Apríl 2010 2 Abstract This essay focuses on the use of games inside the classroom and it argues that games can be a good teaching method when teaching foreign languages. It looks at why games should be used as a teaching method and how in order to maximize the positive result on language learning. Also this essay explains various game categories and it gives an example of at least one game from each category which can be especially good in language teaching. In addition this essay looks at the four language skill areas: reading, writing, listening and speaking and it gives reasons for why games can be beneficial in the training of each one. Last but not least I created 3 new games that can be utilized inside the language classroom. 3 Contents 1. Introduction ....................................................................................................................... 6 2. A review of the literature of Games ................................................................................ 7 2.1 Games ......................................................................................................................... 7 2.1.1 Games as a teaching method ................................................................................... 7 2.1.2 Why games? .............................................................................................................. 7 2.1.3. How to use games...
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...way of describing the Illuminati view of how the world works. The people of the world are an audience to which the Illuminati entertain with propaganda. Just one of the thousands of recent examples of this type of acting done for the public was President Bill Clinton’s 1995 State of the Union address. The speech was designed to push all of the warm fuzzy buttons of his listening audience that he could. All the green lights for acceptance were systematically pushed by the President’s speech with the help of a controlled congressional audience. The truth on the other hand doesn’t always tickle the ear and warm the ego of its listeners. The light of truth in this book will be too bright for some people who will want to return to the safe comfort of their darkness. I am not a conspiracy theorist. I deal with real facts, not theory. Some of the people I write about, I have met. Some of the people I expose are alive and very dangerous. The darkness has never liked the light. Yet, many of the secrets of the Illuminati are locked up tightly simply because secrecy is a way of life. It is such a way of life, that they resent the Carroll Quigleys and the James H. Billingtons who want to tell real historical facts rather than doctored up stories and myths. I have been an intense student of history since I could read, and I am deeply committed to the facts of history rather than the cover stories the public is fed to manipulate them. I do not fear the Illuminati...
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...mechanisms in addressing impunity No Peace WiThouT Justice No Peace Without Justice Copyright 2010 © No Peace Without Justice Via di Torre Argentina 76, I-00186, Roma, Italy www.npwj.org Permission to reproduce and distribute this document is hereby granted provided that this notice is retained on all copies, that copies are not altered and that No Peace Without Justice is credited. This publication is also available at www.npwj.org. No Peace Without Justice is an international non-profit organisation founded by Emma Bonino and born of a 1993 campaign of the Transnational Radical Party that works for the protection and promotion of human rights, democracy, the rule of law and international justice. NPWJ undertakes its work within three main thematic programs: International Criminal Justice; Female Genital Mutilation; and Middle East and North Africa Democracy, including specific work on Iraq. NPWJ is a Member of the TRP Senate, a Member of the Steering Committee of the NGO Coalition for the International Criminal Court and the Italian civil society partner in the Democracy Assistance Dialogue. This publication has been produced with the assistance of the European Union. The contents of this publication are the sole responsibility of No Peace Without Justice and can in no way be taken to reflect the views of the European Union. Overall editing of this report was done by Alison Smith. The draft report was prepared by Sylvia de Bertodano, Joanna Evans, Nicole Fritz and Michael...
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...ENTREPRENEURSHIP PROJECT BRAND RIVALRIES Name of the school : SHARJAH INDIAN SCHOOL NAME OF THE STUDENT : DAN K. JOHN CLASS : XII-E CBSE ROLL NO. : ACADEMIC YEAR : 2012-2013 TEACHER IN CHARGE : MR. JAMES THOMAS INDEX SL. NO. | TITLE | SOURCE OF THE PROJECT | PAGE NO. | SIGN OF THE TEACHER | 1 | Acknowledgement | - | | | 2 | Brand RivalryAn INTRODUCTION | www.wikipedia.org | | | 3 | PepsiAn Introduction | www.wikipedia.org | | | 4 | Pepsi the history | www.wikipedia.orgwww.pepsiarabia.com | | | 5 | Products Of Pepsi | www.wikipedia.org | | | 6 | Coca-Cola An Introduction | www.wikipedia.org | | | 7 | Coca-Colathe history | www.cocacola.com | | | 8 | Products Of Coca-Cola | www.wikipedia.org | | | 9 | Pepsi Vs Coca-Cola A Comparison | www.versus.com | | | 10 | Pepsi Vs Coca-Cola THE COLA WAR | www.slideshare.netwww.scribd.com | | | 11 | Pepsi Vs Coca-Cola Which Cola brand is the Better Investment? | - | | | 12 | Pepsi Vs Coca-Cola PRESENCE IN INDIA | www.infobarrel.com | | | 13 | Pepsi Vs Coca-Cola Marketing | www.google.com | | | 14 | Pepsi Vs Coca-Cola Advertising Strategies | www.google.com | | | 15 | Pepsi Vs Coca-Cola Conclusion | - | | | 16 | BIBLIOGRAPHY | - | | | ACKNOWLEDGEMENT I have taken efforts in this project. However, it would not have been possible without the kind support and help of many individuals...
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...In Cold Blood Truman Capote I. The Last to See Them Alive The village of Holcomb stands on the high wheat plains of western Kansas, a lonesome area that other Kansans call "out there." Some seventy miles east of the Colorado border, the countryside, with its hard blue skies and desert-clear air, has an atmosphere that is rather more Far West than Middle West. The local accent is barbed with a prairie twang, a ranch-hand nasalness, and the men, many of them, wear narrow frontier trousers, Stetsons, and high-heeled boots with pointed toes. The land is flat, and the views are awesomely extensive; horses, herds of cattle, a white cluster of grain elevators rising as gracefully as Greek temples are visible long before a traveler reaches them. Holcomb, too, can be seen from great distances. Not that there's much to see simply an aimless congregation of buildings divided in the center by the main-line tracks of the Santa Fe Rail-road, a haphazard hamlet bounded on the south by a brown stretch of the Arkansas (pronounced "Ar-kan-sas") River, on the north by a highway, Route 50, and on the east and west by prairie lands and wheat fields. After rain, or when snowfalls thaw, the streets, unnamed, unshaded, unpaved, turn from the thickest dust into the direst mud. At one end of the town stands a stark old stucco structure, the roof of which supports an electric sign - dance - but the dancing has ceased and the advertisement has been dark for several years. Nearby is another building...
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...In Cold Blood Truman Capote I. The Last to See Them Alive The village of Holcomb stands on the high wheat plains of western Kansas, a lonesome area that other Kansans call "out there." Some seventy miles east of the Colorado border, the countryside, with its hard blue skies and desert-clear air, has an atmosphere that is rather more Far West than Middle West. The local accent is barbed with a prairie twang, a ranch-hand nasalness, and the men, many of them, wear narrow frontier trousers, Stetsons, and high-heeled boots with pointed toes. The land is flat, and the views are awesomely extensive; horses, herds of cattle, a white cluster of grain elevators rising as gracefully as Greek temples are visible long before a traveler reaches them. Holcomb, too, can be seen from great distances. Not that there's much to see simply an aimless congregation of buildings divided in the center by the main-line tracks of the Santa Fe Rail-road, a haphazard hamlet bounded on the south by a brown stretch of the Arkansas (pronounced "Ar-kan-sas") River, on the north by a highway, Route 50, and on the east and west by prairie lands and wheat fields. After rain, or when snowfalls thaw, the streets, unnamed, unshaded, unpaved, turn from the thickest dust into the direst mud. At one end of the town stands a stark old stucco structure, the roof of which supports an electric sign - dance - but the dancing has ceased and the advertisement has been dark for several years. Nearby is another building...
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