Small wonder (Topics for today) When he was nearly three years old‚ Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son would watch his mother and father playing chess in the family’s ramshackle home in the Mekong Delta‚ and‚ like any toddler‚ pester them to let him play‚ too. Eventually they relented‚ assuming the pieces would soon wind up strewn around the kitchen‚ a plastic bishop stuffed into a teapot‚ the white king face down in a bowl of phó. To his parents’ astonishment‚ Son did not treat the chess set as a plaything
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Saturday was market day in Cape Town and the streets were crowded with shoppers looking for bargains‚ meeting friends and lovers. Boers and Frenchmen‚ soldiers in colorful uniforms and English ladies in flounced skirts and ruffled blouses mingled in front of the bazaars set up in the town squares at Braameonstein and Park Town and Burgersdorp. Everything was for sale: furniture‚ horses and carriages and fresh fruit. One could purchase dresses and chessboards‚ or meat or books in a dozen different
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Raising the minimum wage is a topic that often brings about much debate. But in the overall aspect‚ what such changes would it bring? People often fight over if it would be more of a good thing or more of a bad thing‚ throwing around misconstrued ideas before actually doing their research just because they heard it somewhere else. Well after much consideration‚ research‚ and discussion it does appear that it would be more beneficial to raise the minimum wage because it wouldn’t only lead to economic
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Raising Equity Capital When a private company decides to raise outside equity capital to fund there firm‚ they can turn several potential sources‚ these include Angel Investors‚ venture capital firms‚ institutional investors and corporate investors. Angel investors are individual investors who buy equity in small private firms (often friends of relatives) and are usually the first round of outside financing typically receiving a sizeable equity share. Venture Capital Firm (VCF) is a limited partnership
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Small is Beautiful The word ‘small’ represents what is minor or of minimum importance but small can also be beautiful. For instance ‘smile’ is a five letter word‚ a small word as you may see it‚ but is of great importance. Smile is a beautiful thing. It brings cheer and happiness in one’s life‚ it helps one to stay fit and healthy not only mentally or emotionally but physically too. Smile brings joy and tenderness in one’s heart amidst various amounts of sorrow‚ tension and turmoil. Not only does
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Raising the Interest Rate Principles of Finance Introduction After years of declining interest rates‚ we are facing a dilemma; should the Federal government increase rates to contain inflation‚ or keep rates low to boost the US economy? Increases in consumption of oil‚ metals‚ materials‚ and food‚ both foreign and domestic‚ are increasing demand. Prices are rising on a global scale as demand increases. Additionally‚ the US is experiencing rising costs for healthcare and education. Yet‚ the
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RURAL MARKETING A Project on T.Y.BMS COMPILED BY: RAJIV.B (09) NAVIN.C (11) ANKIT.G (15) ROHAN.M (31) RINKI.W (59) Introduction Gone are the days when a rural consumer went to a nearby city to buy ‘branded products and services’. Trends indicate that the rural markets are coming up in
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Rural Development In India India has been a welfare state ever since her Independence and the primary objective of all governmental endeavors has been the welfare of its millions. Planning has been one of the pillars of the Indian policy since independence and the country’s strength is derived from the achievement of planning. The policies and programmes have been designed with the aim of alleviation of rural poverty which has been one of the primary objectives of planned development in India
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Urban versus Rural Living Every country has its own taste‚ lifestyles and certain norms and standards. Every country presents two different types of culture in that very setting. There has always been a sharp distinction between urban and rural living‚ with each having its particular advantages and disadvantages. Both these present contrasting characters with different lifestyles and different perception of life. It has been noted that one of the contrast between
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Big data‚ Big rewards 1.Describe the kinds of big data collected by the organizations described in this case. There are mainly three kinds of big data collected by the organizations described in this case. First‚ IBM Bigsheets help the British Library to handle with huge quantities of data and extract the useful knowledge. Second‚ State and federal law enforcement agencies are analyzing big data to discover hidden patterns in criminal activity. The Real Time Crime Center data warehouse contains
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