Introduction The parade of corporate accounting scandals of the last decade‚ with lion’s share occurring in 2002‚ has developed deep antipathy and distrust towards corporations and their reporting practices‚ and casted doubts on the opinions of audit firms. As majority of these accounting frauds occurred in the US (See Appendix)‚ there was a widely-held view that rules-based accounting standards have allowed failure of large corporations like Enron and World Com‚ since US GAAP is perceived to
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FRENCH REVOLUTION Q.1) Explain the following terms:- a) Guillotine Ans) The guillotine is a device consisting of two poles and a blade with which a person is beheaded. It was named after Dr .Guillotine who invented it. b) Subsistence crisis Ans) the population of France rose from about 23 million in 1715 to 2 8million in 1789.This led to a rapid increase in the demand for food grains. Production of grains could not keep pace with the demand. So the price of bread which
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Questions about Sam Raimi’s A Simple Plan ACT ONE 1. How does Raimi establish the simple‚ rustic nature of life in late 1990s Minnesota in the opening sequence? How does protagonist Hank Mitchell’s opening monologue support this rustic simplicity? The death of winter shows the winter decline The untended fence and rundown farm are metonyms for the broader economic downturn that characterized rural America in the late 1990s (context) The monotony of Hank’s life is established in the opening shots
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countries productivity was higher than the socialist countries (p. 402). Economic inequality is determined by "the distribution of resources within a society" (p.403). This was done in the 1970’s by comparing the earnings of the richest and poorest five percent of the population (p. 403). These findings found that although capitalist economies do have a higher standard of living‚ they "generate greater income disparity" (p. 403). Each system’s approach to personal freedom is very different and while
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4.3 Exercise 4 - Titrations and indicators 1. 20 cm3 of methanoic acid (Ka = 1.8 x 10-4 moldm-3) of concentration 0.10 moldm-3 is titrated against sodium hydroxide of concentration 0.05 moldm-3. a) Calculate the pH of the solution: i) initially ii) after 10 cm3 of the alkali has been added iii) after 20 cm3 of the alkali has been added iv) after 30 cm3 of the alkali has been added v) after 50 cm3 of the alkali has been added b) Sketch a pH titration
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Briefly describes the difference between Storage Area Networks (SANs) and Network Attached Storage (NAS) system? Storage Area Networks (SANs) | Network Attached Storage (NAS) system | A SAN is a dedicated network that provides access to various types of storage devices including type libraries‚ optical juke boxes and disk arrays. | Network Attached storage system are networked appliances which contain one or more hard drives that can be shared with multiple heterogeneous computers. |
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rose up in revolt against King Louis XVI. The French Revolution is a highly controversial affair because‚ for the first time‚ Marxist historians become rather eloquent. They claim that this revolt was a "Revolution of the Bourgeoisie"‚ the first of such which would then pave the way for a greater revolution‚ the "Revolution of the Proletariate". We must consider the truth of this claim. THE AGE OF THE ENLIGHTENMENT Before we deal with the French Revolution‚ it is first necessary to consider
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What is the care value base? The care value base is a range of standards for health and social care. It is designed to guide the practice of professionals working in this area. The aim of the standards is to improve clients’ quality of life‚ by ensuring that each person gets the care that is most appropriate for them as an individual. The care value base offers guidance‚ and sets standards‚ in three main areas of health and social care: ➢ Fostering equality and diversity ➢ Fostering people’s
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Five major theoretical bases for counseling in psychology are biological‚ learning‚ cognitive‚ psychodynamic‚ and sociocultural. Each one of these perspectives searches for answers about behavior through different techniques and researching a clients childhood or adult life experiences looking for answers to different kinds of questions. Due to the different types and styles of counseling approaches‚ each counselor forms their own thoughts and explanations. The premise behind the biological perspective
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Detachment. Detachment describes the way a child reacts to their attachment figure after being separated from her for a time period and then meets her again. Children who had been separated from their attachment figure for days or weeks‚ when reunited with their attachment figure showed detachment behaviors. Detachment behaviors are: no recognition of the attachment figure; turning away and/or walking away from the attachment figure; crying or coming close to crying; and an expressionless face
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