2004 AP Language Exam: Lord Chesterfield’s letter to his son Teacher Overview Skill Focus Critical Thinking Remember Understand Apply Analyze Evaluate Create Close Reading Grammar Composition Reading Strategies Annotation Determining Audience Determining Author’s Purpose Generalization Inference Literary Elements Detail Diction Imagery Style Tone tone determined through diction
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FIVE FORCES ANALYSIS WORKSHEET Exhibit III-1 Five Forces Affecting Industry Structure ENTRY BARRIERS Economies of scale Proprietary product differences Brand identity Switching costs Capital requirements Access to distribution Absolute cost advantages Proprietary learning curve Access to necessary inputs Proprietary low-cost product design Government policy and international treaties Expected retaliation RIVALRY DETERMINANTS Industry Growth Fixed (or storage) costs/value-added Intermittent overcapacity
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Green Marketing or Green Washing In the competitive market place‚ companies will do anything to draw consumers attention towards their products or services. Today‚ many businesses are engaging in green marketing‚ the practice of promoting environmentally-safe products. Concerns are rapidly growing that some green marketing is just green washing. Companies are guilty of green washing when they mislead their buyers into thinking that their products are environmentally-friendly. They tend to hide
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Does Your Degree Affect Your Future Job? Everyone sets goals for themselves in order to attain the most important goal of all: to get somewhere in society. Many people believe the only way to get anywhere is to have a good job and to earn a lot of money from it. Nowadays‚ higher education is becoming a desirable quality employers like to see on their future employees’ applications. How much value does your degree hold in the eyes of your future boss? Opinions of the value of higher education vary
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GREEN TEAMS Engaging Employees in Sustainability By Deborah Fleischer President Green Impact GreenBiz Reports ® GREEN TEAMS: Engaging Employees in Sustainability BY DEBORAH FLEISCHER November 2009 Helping companies go green Sustainability Strategy Employee Engagement Program Development Communications 390 Throckmorton · Mill Valley‚ CA 94941 · (415) 302-2655 www.GreenImpact.com www.GreenImpact.com GREEN TEAMS: Engaging Employees in Sustainability
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Aquinas: Language and God At the beginning of class this week‚ we reviewed the Five Ways of St. Thomas Aquinas‚ focusing especially on the fourth way‚ which involves degrees of perfection. Since it was discussed previously‚ I only took a few notes regarding things that had not been touched on before. Basically‚ no one can live in a way which denies degrees of perfection. There must be an objective gradation system in order to even simply say that one thing is colder then another. Something must
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Heading for an Interview? Is your “First impression‚ the LAST”? A phrase that we have been using time and again. The fact is‚ it is a profound truth. And it gets at play the most when one heads for the ultimate nerve-juggling task. A Job Interview! Your first interview for a job unarguably is that decisive moment which has the tendency to influence your entire life‚ be it personal or be it professional. Have you ever imagined that this moment‚ if it turns in your favor‚ will determine the type
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been developed and experimented by various well-endowed doctors‚ scientists‚ and other various health professionals (Five Important Reasons to Vaccinate Your Child).
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business environments have become increasingly dynamic and competitive. Due to globalisation and technological change‚ many companies today are trying to identify innovative compensation strategies that are directly linked to improving organizational performance as well as to make the companies become more flexible and adaptive. According to Appelbaum and Mackenzie (1996)‚ the fundamentals of incentive pay and how it associates with known organizational behaviour theories can be correlated with the achievement
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Bigger Thomas‚ an impoverished‚ segregated 20-year-old black male‚ is suffering under a mental disorder called Subgate Impoveriza Disorder (SID)‚ and deserves a mitigated sentence for the murder of Mary Dalton. Bigger exhibits symptoms of SID like irritability‚ frequent anxiety‚ restlessness‚ paranoia‚ powerlessness‚ and acting on fear. He shows irritability towards his family‚ like when he gets mad by what his mom and sister said about him and his job at the breakfast table. He is also anxious every
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