Chapter 1 Introduction Background of the Study In the world of reading, our interest is one of the most salient factor that needs to be consider. It depends on the reasons why we read a certain material. We read because we are force to do so, for school requirements or we read we like it. If we like to read, reading materials matters most. Among the four macro skills in learning, Reading is the most important that a person needs to acquire because it is a vehicle that can be used to know and
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THE SUCCESS PRINCIPLES by Jack Canfield Jack Canfield’s book is considered a fundamental in the field of personal growth. I first heard about it from Brian Tracy. He cited Seven Habits and The Success Principles as two books he would highly recommend from beyond his own books. When I later saw some promotional material from Jack Canfield himself, I took a look. He provides a series of short lessons based on the book, and I took those combination of written and audio lessons and decided on
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think about all day long. To control your life, control your thoughts. 1. Thoughts Are Things Whatever the mind can conceive and believe man is capable of bringing into reality. 9. Decision Successful people have the habit of reaching decisions quickly and changing them slowly if ever. Successful people have conquered procrastination. 2. Desire There are no limitations except those we set ourselves. Both poverty and riches are the direct results of our thoughts. 10. Organized Planning
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The Ten Rules of Good Followership Col Phillip S. Meilinger I have often come across articles written by great leaders–– generals, politicians, businessmen––that list the properties and attributes of good leadership. These lists are usually similar, noting the importance of intelligence, physical and moral courage, stamina, compassion, and so on. These characteristics are not only fairly general, but also seem to fall into the “great leaders are born, not made, category,” with the implication
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Case Study 16: Preventing Neural Tube Defects in Chile Abstract Neural tube defects (NTDs) are the second most common congenital malformation to congenital heart disease and affected 400 babies in Chile annually before a fortification legislation was passed to use fortified flour with folic acid. This fortification reduced spina bifida by 51% and anencephaly by 46% (Levine, 2007). Team One will share answers to questions about this study and research of the problem. The globally astute
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Language Teaching Methodology Theodore S. Rodgers, Professor Emeritus, University of Hawaii Background Language teaching came into its own as a profession in the last century. Central to this phenomenon was the emergence of the concept of "methods" of language teaching. The method concept in language teaching—the notion of a systematic set of teaching practices based on a particular theory of language and language learning—is a powerful one, and the quest for better methods was a preoccupation
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Adolescent Food Habits Checklist: reliability and validity of a measure of healthy eating behaviour in adolescents F Johnson1, J Wardle1* and J Griffith1 1 ICRF Health Behaviour Unit, University College London, UK Objective: Amid concerns about the quality of young people’s diets, this paper describes the development of a measure of healthy eating behaviour for use with adolescents. Design: Items for the measure were selected from a larger pool on the basis of responses from a pilot study. The 23-item
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Targeting The Young With the ever-increasing demand in today’s fast food industry market, the food industry is beginning to target a new segment of the market. Children are now the preferred targets for child advertisement. The problem is that a line hasn’t been drawn to restrict these advertisements from reaching the younger children, from three to nine years old, they’re not even teens yet! The three to nine year olds, the one the restriction should be placed on, seem to be the most popular
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specializes in ready to assemble furniture, home accessories, and appliances. Ingvar Kamprad founded Ikea in 1943, and opened his first store in in Almhult Sweden. Today Ikea operates two hundred twenty six stores globally and hosts four hundred and ten million shoppers a year. Ikea believes in hard work to produce products that meet quality standards at prices that are affordable. These standards are accomplished by building long term relationships with suppliers, investing in highly automated products
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melt down and global economic crisis, GM was left with no options other than to make critical changes to their business model and products for the corporation to survive. Auto industry is deeply rooted in the fabric of American culture, one out of ten Americans depends on the US auto industry for their livelihood. GM can’t go back to the old ways of making profit and survive the new wave of economic restrains; like environment factors and going green initiatives due to the recent oil spill incident
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