arrived on the same day. It was a Wednesday, early in September 1952. The Cardinals were five games behind the Dodgers with three weeks to go, and the season looked hopeless. The cotton, however, was waist-high to my father, over my head, and he and my grandfather could be heard before supper whispering words that were seldom heard. It could be a "good crop." They were farmers, hardworking men who embraced pessimism only when discussing the weather and the crops. There was too much sun, or too much
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95 PART 2. INTERVIEW TYPES AND TIPS THE SELECTION INTERVIEW Preparation, structure, evaluation, follow-up 43 PART 3. SKILLS SUMMARIES 1. Questioning Techniques 2. Interactive Listening 3. Body Language 104 107 108 PA R T 1 : I N T E R V I E W I N G S K I L L S Q UESTIONING TECHNIQUES 1 QUESTIONING TECHNIQUES WORD OF WARNING The great majority of interviewers ask very bad questions. Asking good questions is not a natural human talent. Our natural tendency in any kind of interview
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arrived on the same day. It was a Wednesday, early in September 1952. The Cardinals were five games behind the Dodgers with three weeks to go, and the season looked hopeless. The cotton, however, was waist-high to my father, over my head, and he and my grandfather could be heard before supper whispering words that were seldom heard. It could be a "good crop." They were farmers, hardworking men who embraced pessimism only when discussing the weather and the crops. There was too much sun, or too much
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name is Dinise I am a loner, I love to read. In the summer time I also enjoy swimming and riding bikes with my cousins. I help out my family I take care of my sisters my older sister Ruthie who is mentally retarded and has other medical problems, she has to have someone watch her 24/7, my younger sister does not like to be alone Raylene is a pre teen and mostly just watches TV and plays with her two best friends that live on the same street as we do. Their names are Brandi and Cristal. I also watch my
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Will you two stop already? This is disgusting,” I teased. On Ethan Sharp’s front step Bree Warren and Robbie Gurevitch tried to disentangle themselves from their lip-to-lip suction lock. Robbie gave a little cough. “Hey, Morgan.” He stood off to one side, trying to act casual—hard to do when you’re flushed and breathing hard. It was still a tiny bit of a novelty to see Robbie and Bree, my best friends from childhood, in a romantic relationship. I loved it. “Perfect timing, Sister Mary Morgan
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Huckleberry Finn EXPLANATORY I N this book a number of dialects are used, to wit: the Missouri negro dialect; the extremest form of the backwoods Southwestern dialect; the ordinary ‘Pike County’ dialect; and four modified varieties of this last. The shadings have not been done in a hap- hazard fashion, or by guesswork; but painstakingly, and with the trustworthy guidance and support of personal familiarity with these several forms of speech. I make this explanation for the reason
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assignments 4 The writer on writing I suppose my head has always been full of images. Peter Shaffer is one of Britain's foremost contemporary dramatists. Born in 1926 and educated at Cambridge he had a variety of jobs before becoming a playwright. During the Second World War he worked down a coal-mine; he has also worked in the New York Public Library and as a journalist. He was awarded the CBE in the 1987 Birthday Honours List. His first big success was with Five Finger Exercise in 1958, which
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beautiful corpse I'd ever seen was sitting behind my desk. Jean-Claude's white shirt gleamed in the light from the desk lamp. A froth of lace spilled down the front, peeking from inside his black velvet jacket. I stood behind him, my back to the wall, arms crossed over my stomach, which put my right hand comfortably close to the Browning Hi-Power in its shoulder holster. I wasn't about to draw on Jean-Claude. It was the other vampire I was worried about. The desk lamp was the only light in the room.
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Agatha Christie MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS Agatha Christie is the world’s best known mystery writer. Her books have sold over a billion copies in the English language and another billion in 44 foreign languages. She is the most widely published author of all time in any language, outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare. Her writing career spanned more than half a century, during which she wrote 79 novels and short story collections, as well as 14 plays, one
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