HKUST – Department of Computer Science and Engineering COMP 2711: Discrete Math Tools for CS – Spring 2012 # Final Examination Date: 25 May 2012 Time: 16:30–19:30 Venue: HALL Name: Email: Instructions Student ID: Lecture and Tutorial: • This is a closed book exam. It consists of 9 questions and 19 pages. • Please write your name, student ID, email, lecture section and tutorial on this page. • For each subsequent page, please write your student ID at the top of the page in the space
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Low Visibility Through history, many terrible events have happened. You could mention the 2nd World War, where the war had not ended if it had not been for the Allies, who took action, because it was necessary. But it is also worth mentioning the ordinary people who fought for their liberty in their own countries during the war. Such people we often call rebels. They have the courage to take action against something they think is not fair, and they face their worst fears. The short story Low Visibility
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Dead Poets Society Dear dad I am writing to you because I would like to tell you about my situation right now. I don't feel that there is a reason to live anymore. I can’t live any longer. It may well be that you are my father but for that reason you should not decide everything for me. I am old enough to take care of my own life. As you know, is I soon an adult, and I can take my own decisions and I will be able to take the consequences of my own choices. It’s nice that you want help and
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game profoundly | In a famous scene in the 1996 film Jerry Maguire, the sports agent played by Tom Cruise is goaded by his client, played by Cuba Gooding Jr., to repeatedly scream into the phone "Show me the money." By the time that film came out, however, the role of the sports agent had long since been transformed into one far more sophisticated than simply negotiating contracts. And while screenwriter Cameron Crowe based the Jerry Maguire character on agent Leigh Steinberg, it was Mark McCormack
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The Future of Starbucks An Analysis by Team Macchiato: Zack Higbee Chen Yee Liaw Calvin Ting Kevin Tjho Michelle Ton 1 Executive Summary Starbucks Corporation has arguably been the most successful coffee chain in the past few decades, using their aggressive expansion strategies to push out much of its competition. Through its expansion, Starbucks has focused on creating a dense network of stores all around America, while also opening up new locations all around the world
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There are thousands of schools in America, but with the same society. Jerry Spinilli created Stargirl to represent what happens in schools currently. The book is basically about a girl named "Stargirl" attending a school named Mica Area High School. Throughout Stargirl, the reader will notice how Stargirl did not conform because she was not going to give up her identity. In the beginning of the book Stargirl, a character named Stargirl showed odd behavior and madcap things such as playing a ukulele
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1. American Sport Movies There are few countries in the world in which sports permeate national life to the degree that it does in the United States. Sports are a big part of the fabric of American life. The centrality of sports in American life is amply reflected in the American cinema. For decades movie makers have successfully mined sports to produce some of the most inspiring, poignant, exciting and memorable American movies ever made. The genre of ‘Sport Movies’ established in the Fifties
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by them, especially kids. Kids, however, have a different way of choosing their heroes. “Faster than a speeding bullet, more powerful than a locomotive, and able to leap tall buildings in a single bound.” We can thank the creator of Superman, Jerry Siegel, for his character has inspired many youngsters, including myself, to be that hero we admire. Many kids look up to fictional characters and sports figures as heroes, but it’s the everyday run of the mill people we see all the time who
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personal observation and opinion of the topic at hand. When I think of the subject and the importance of “Money” in a working environment I am reminded of the scene in the movie Jerry McGuire where actor Cuba Gooding Jr. who plays “Rod Tidwell” a professional football player is on the phone with his sports agent Jerry McGuire played by Tom Cruise and Rod is looking for a new professional contract. McGuire asks Rod “What can I do for you Rod, what can I do for you?” and Rod tell him it’s “a
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My choice in this activity is Jerry the reason why I picked him is because he has a family and a wife that even though she is grown she has no other way to make money and she does not have a higher education and plus they have 3 kids that are completely depended on them. Yes he is older, and has the best prognosis to make it more than fifteen years and but the way I see it is he has a family that solely depends on him for money and the wife has no education background and has no job how would she
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