author of Journey Into Literature, examines the role of first-person voice in Alice Munro's How I Met My Husband. Critical Thinking Questions Why does Wayne Clugston say that first-person point of view might be "unreliable"? What is another story you have read in first-person, and how did the use of first-person enhance or detract from the story? Alice Munro (1931—) ASSOCIATED PRESS/ChadHipolito/The Canadian Press Alice Laidlaw Munro was born in Wingham, a small town in southern Ontario
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I'm OK-You're OK By Thomas A. Harris MD Contents: Book Cover (Front) (Back) Scan / Edit Notes About The Author Illustrations Author's Note Preface 1. Freud, Penfield, and Berne 2. Parent, Adult, and Child 3. The Four Life Positions 4. We Can Change 5. Analysing the Transaction 6. How We Differ 7. How We Use Time 8. P-A-C and Marriage 9. P-A-C and Children 10. P-A-C and Adolescents 11. When Is Treatment Necessary? 12. P-A-C and Moral Values 13. Social Implications of P-A-C References Index (Removed)
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Preliminaries – These are the warming-up events that occur before the serious selling begins. This includes such things as the way you introduce yourself and how you begin the conversation. Investigating – Almost every sale involves finding something out by asking questions. Investigating is the most important of all selling skills. Demonstrating Capability – In every sales call you must convince your customer
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nonverbal communication behaviors and align them with our verbal message to reduce confusion. Finally, effective listening practices also affect our ability to communicate interpersonally and are another important area of skill development. Remember, you will spend most of your time in the workplace listening to others. 1 objectives Foundations the foundational 1 Explain howintrapersonal element of communication is an understanding of ourselves. erent 2 Describe the diffstyles. communication
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behavior and in particular its applied focus, and our lecture focuses on high performance organizations (HPOs). Right at the intersection of those would be the “Ten Golden Rules of High Performance” listed below. What do you think should be added to the list? Is there anything on the list that you disagree with? Please support your opinion with evidence from our readings and also from your own work and life experience. Please also remember to respond to your classmates’ posts to stimulate further discussion
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function of location classification is to help focus the safety management study on the areas where the likelihood and/or consequences of a failure may be greatest. For that reason I don’t care much about getting the location classification exactly right. As long as the chosen classification will guide you to an appropriate design (or risk management measures) then it doesn’t matter whether you’ve adopted, say, R2/I or T1 for an industrial area. Over the next few posts I hope to work my way through each
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Three-man basketball was the game all weekend long. In the winter you’d shovel the snow away and play. The deal was that you played three-man ball and if you lost you got off the court. Winners stayed on. If you lost, you might wait two hours to get back on the court. The games were very competitive. We also learned how to pick our partners. To have a winning team in three-man ball, you need a good shooter, a good rebounder, and a good arguer. I was the
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Goes Glocal Appendix A: Discussion Questions Appendix B: Note to Freshman Me Appendix C: Where Are You Teaching? Acknowledgments Copyright © 2012 by Kelsey Timmerman. All rights reserved. Published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey. Published simultaneously in Canada. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, scanning, or otherwise, except as permitted under
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The rules of life Rules for you: 1. Keep it under your hat. (no one likes a smart ass). DON’T PREA CH, PROPA G ATE, OR EVEN MENTION THIS. 2. WISDOM ISN’T ABOUT NO T MAKING MISTAKES BUT ABOUT LEARNING T O ESC APE AFTERW ARD WITH OUR DIGNITY AND SANITY INTA C T. learn to forgive yourself for the mistakes you made, and look out for new ones. Learn from your mistakes. 3. Accept What Is Done Is Done, keep moving on with your life. 4. Accept Yourself. YO U D O N ’ T H A V E T
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inspirational One! Before you begin this book, I have a small request. Right here, note down three things. Write down something that i) you fear, ii) makes you angry and iii) you don’t like about yourself. Be honest, and write something that is meaningful to you. Do not think too much about why I am asking you to do this. Just do it. One thing I fear: __________________________________ One thing that makes me angry: __________________________________ One thing I do not like about myself: __________________________________
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