A brief History of Ann Summers 1970’s 4 sex shops in London aimed at men clinical white closeted spaces. 1980’s 3 shops closed and 1981 party planners recruited all women 500 of them. 1990’s Ann summers went back into storefront retailing again. In the 2000’s early on Knickerbox was acquired and this added 26 stores in the high street. Web based online retailing and retail is now the biggest part of the Ann Summers Business (1). The change started when Jackie Gold (one of the owners daughters) took
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NOSTALGIA BY CAROL ANN DUFFY Linda Wang When we were younger we might have been homesick at school camps or sleepovers at someone that is not family. But we were lucky for the next day we would return to our family’s embrace but there are people out in the world that suffer from nostalgia for years and decades before being able to see their hometown again. In Nostalgia by Carol Ann Duffy‚ the mercenaries‚ strong brave men‚ described in the poem are tormented by the same feeling of nostalgia. In
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AP® ENGLISH LITERATURE AND COMPOSITION 2009 SCORING GUIDELINES Question 2 (Ann Petry’s The Street) The score reflects the quality of the essay as a whole—its content‚ its style‚ its mechanics. Students are rewarded for what they do well. The score for an exceptionally well-written essay may be raised by 1 point above the otherwise appropriate score. In no case may a poorly written essay be scored higher than a 3. 9–8 These essays offer a persuasive analysis of Petry’s use of literary
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REFLECT ON THE ROLE OF THE TEACHER PREPARING TO TEACH IN THE LIFELONG LEARNING SECTOR – LEVEL 4 My aim in this assignment is to reflect on my role‚ responsibilities and boundaries as a Money Education trainer within Learning & Development. This is influenced not only by the needs of the learners‚ but also by the requirements of the organisation. It is vital for me to deliver professional‚ high quality teaching. In the words of Gravells (2009:2) I aim to ‘be committed to lifelong learning
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Ann Beattie wrote a story called “Snow” in which she tells us about a woman who had a relationship that ended. “Snow” used several universal short story techniques‚ thus the story shows an outline of what is expected in a short story. “Snow” includes aspects such as characters‚ a story’s point of view‚ the type of story and the story’s conflict. Without characters there can be no story‚ it would just be description with no central point. There must be characters‚ even just one to form a story
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POINT OF PARITY AND POINT OF DIFFERENCE These can be utilized in the positioning (marketing)[->0] of a brand[->1] for competitive advantage[->2] via brand/product[->3]. In essence: Points-of-difference[->4] (PODs) – Attributes or benefits consumers[->5] strongly associate with a brand‚ positively evaluate and believe they could not find to the same extent with a competing brand i.e. points where you are claiming superiority or exclusiveness over other products in the category. Points-of-parity
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about three friends and their “journey” and their friendship and relationships. Two boys and a girl is particularly a romance story‚ Mary Ann is with Rafe but she kind of also likes Gilbert and Gilbert likes Mary Ann to so theirs the romance triangle going on. Body paragraph #1 (you can have more or less than 3 body paragraphs): Mary Ann “scared” Mary Ann in the story wasn’t sure about herself she doubted herself she didn’t believe in herself which could have a connection to being scared‚ she’s
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The Roles and Responsibilities of a Teacher 24th September 2013 The role of a teacher is primarily to facilitate the learning process‚ in a structured and coherent way. Being able to convey your subject matter to a group of learners can be difficult and It forms part of the teacher’s responsibility to be able to approach a lesson in a engaging and professional manner. It is essential that a teacher has an enthusiastic approach‚ this way they will be able to convey their knowledge to the learners
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to first define the terms ‘inclusion‚ equality and diversity. According to Ann Gravells inclusivity is “involving all learners in relevant activities rather than excluding them for any reason either directly of indirectly” Gravells defines equality as “ the rights of learners to attend and participate‚ regardless of their gender‚ race‚ ethnic origin‚ religion‚ disability‚ sexual orientation and age. And finally Gravells definition of diversity is “valuing the differences in people‚ whether that
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annotation etc. Many of the existing methods focus on the feature extraction and to bridge up the gap between low level features and high level semantics. In this paper we propose a supervised machine learning (SML) using artificial neural network (ANN) and singular value decomposition (SVD) for image retrieval. Specifically we use back propagation algorithm (multilayer perceptron) (MLP) for training and testing our proposed model. Experimental results show that by changing parameters of feature vector
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