as to if the age difference would show through their teaching styles. Both settings were in a 5th grade classroom and within the same elementary school. The first visitation took me to an “older” style of classroom. This veteran teacher was very stern and was very set in procedures throughout the day. I noticed the classroom schedule was displayed in very large text and was located in an area that was very noticeable. The teacher presented a short ten to fifteen minute lessons in math. After she
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Marketing Intermediaries and Their Functions Most manufacturers of products use marketing intermediaries to sell their products to the consumers. The marketing intermediaries make up a marketing channel (distribution channel or a trade channel). Stern and El-Ansary define: “Marketing channels are sets of interdependent organizations involved in the process of making a product or service available for use or consumption.” The marketing channel overcomes the time, place, and possession gaps that
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In the article, “Why Chinese Mothers are Superior,” Amy Chua stresses the supremacy of stern Chinese parenting over tolerant Western parenting. Chua begins by providing the reader with the rules she imposed to raise her own academically outstanding children. She contradicts the belief that Western parents are strict by giving an example on how the Chinese require their children to practice music for three hours while Western parents prefer only thirty minutes. Furthermore, Chua includes statistic
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In their essays, both Henry D. Thoreau and Martin Luther King express their views of the relationship between the state and the individual and why everyone should have the right to disobey authority. Thoreau, in his seminal essay “Resistance to Civil Government”, better known as “On the Duty of Civil Disobedience”, insightfully analyzes the conflicting relationship between the government and the people it governs. Martin Luther King, passionately contends the injustice presented in the unfair treatment
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operating profits net of the new capital investment required to sustain the business. Using this basic analytical framework, M&M came up with two valuation approaches: discounted cash flow approach and investment opportunities approach. Joel Stern recognizes the term “free cash flow” as net operating profits after taxes minus the amount of new capital invested. However, accounting methodologies pose limits on valuations metrics: inconsistency, misclassification, ease of manipulation, and measurement
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The parenting that I received as a child has influenced many facets of my life. I would say that my parents utilized an authoritarian parenting style. While stern with discipline and rules, my parents were also very gentle and loving. They respected me as an individual and valued my opinions allowing me to adopt my personal goals, values, and beliefs. However, it is the experiences I have encountered during my lifetime that I primarily attribute to the person I am today. I believe the parenting
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women who were found to have breached this regulation were made to forcefully abort the children they were pregnant with. At times the women were forcefully sterilized to prevent them from having other babies (Moore, 2014). This policy countered stern opposition especially in the rural areas in China where families were traditionally big. Most couples tried to hide their babies from the family planning official so as to escape the strict penalties that would be mated to them if found. Some couples
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In the book, The Devil’s Arithmetic, by Jane Yolen, Hannah Stern, changes drastically. She started out as an ill-mannered and arrogant 13 year old, but towards the end she became more appreciative and knowledgeable about her religion and family. The book begins with Hannah being disinterested in, and even embarrassed by, her Jewish heritage and family. “All Jewish holidays are about remembering, Mama. I’m tired of remembering” Says Hannah (Yolen pg 4). While at the dinner table Hannah is very
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For as long as I can remember I have been interested in numbers and how they work in our day to day lives. One of my earliest memories was in my first grade math class when my teacher handed everyone a “magic square” worksheet, which was just a simpler version of sudoku. At first I was confused, but that confusion turned into fascination as I began to solve the puzzles. Or, when I was seven years old as I was waiting for my family to leave for dinner, for entertainment, I began doubling two into
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Asset-Backed Securities The Securitization Process Prof. Ian Giddy Stern School of Business New York University Asset-Backed Securities q The basic idea q What’s needed? q The technique q Applications q Typical sequence Copyright ©2001 Ian H. Giddy globalsecuritization.com The Securitization Process3 Securitization of Assets Securitization is the transformation of an illiquid asset into a security. q For example, a group of consumer loans can be transformed into a publically-issued
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