cultural boundary or a mental boundary. This is seen in the prescribed text‚ the film ‘Mao’s Last Dancer’ directed by Bruce Beresford. In this we see not only the main character Li cross boundaries but also‚ the minor characters‚ Ben and Teacher Chang. Crossing boundaries also heard in the Song ‘Love Story’ by Taylor swift. This song relates back to the play “Romeo and Juliet’ by William Shakespeare. In these texts we see Romeo and Juliet both crossing boundaries. There are many reasons why people
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required by the IMF‚ of which corporate governance was of utmost importance. Many studies has scrutinized poor management practice of corporate governance‚ specifically in the chaebol firms as one of the main drives behind the collapse of Korean economy (Chang‚ 2006‚ Lee‚ 2002‚ Nam‚ 2001‚ Kim‚ 2004)‚ some even set it as case study of how corporate governance could relate to firm values and company performance (Black‚ Jang and Kim‚ 2005‚ Baek‚ Kang and Park‚ 2002); and more specifically‚ the impact of having
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Hipparchus apparently wrote 12 books on the table of chords and became the founder of trigonometry. He was the first Greek mathematician to study triangular geometry. This study led him to write the 12 books. Other people have added to Hipparchus’ work‚ but the two people that stands out the most are were Menelaus (ca. AD 100) and Ptolemy (ca. AD 100). Menelaus was a Greek mathematician that created six books on tables of chords. He created a couple of triangle properties. Menelaus had a big hand in
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mathematics. For a start‚ it is an extraordinary honour to be invited to give the keynote address at a millennium meeting in Paris. Secondly‚ giving a lecture on the significance of mathematics demands wisdom‚ judgment and maturity‚ and there are many mathematicians far better endowed than I am with these qualities‚ including several in this audience. I hope therefore that you will understand that my thoughts are not fully formed: if I had been asked to speak on this subject five years ago‚ I would have
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Ashoka in the third century B.C. Indians were the first to use the decimal system. The famous mathematician Aryabhata (A.D. 476-500) was acquainted with it. The Chinese learnt this system from the Buddhist missionaries‚ and the western world borrowed it from the Arab as when they came in contact with India. Zero was discovered by Indians in about the second century B.C. From the very beginning Indian mathematicians considered zero as a separate numeral‚ and it was used in this sense in arithmetic. In Arabia
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Evelyn Boyd Granville Evelyn Boyd Granville‚ a mathematician‚ teacher‚ and scientist‚ she was born on January 5‚ 1924 in Washington‚ D.C. She attended a then-segregated Dunbar High School‚ and was encouraged in the subject by two of her mathemetics teachers. Granville attended Smith College on a partial scholarship. In 1945‚ she graduated summa cum laude and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. She worked with Einar Hille‚ her Ph.D. faculty adviser at Yale University‚ in functional analysis. Granville
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René Descartes By: Geaney Pacursa René Descartes (31 March 1596 – 11 February 1650) was a French philosopher‚ mathematician‚ and writer who spent most of his adult life in the Dutch Republic. He has been dubbed the ’Father of Modern Philosophy’‚ and much subsequent Western philosophy is a response to his writings‚ which are studied closely to this day. In particular‚ his Meditations on First Philosophy continues to be a standard text at most university philosophy departments. Descartes’ influence
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departed Los Angeles International Airport within three minutes of each other. Both aircrafts had “been flying in uncontrolled airspace‚ under visual flight rules without the guidance of any air traffic controllers‚ radar or even official flight plans” (Chang). Both pilots had requested to fly in undesignated airspace thus taking responsibility for the safety of themselves and those on board. Ninety minutes after leaving the airport in LA‚ in an effort to give their passengers a better view of the Grand
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According to the US Census Bureau‚ “Sixteen percent of same-sex couple households had an own child (biological‚ step‚ or adopted child of the householder) in their household in 2011” (United States Census Bureau). The United States Census Bureau is a principal agency of the U.S. Federal Statistical System responsible for producing data about the American people and economy. For many years‚ same-sex households have been perceived as a negative environment for the child. But‚ in fact‚ it has been proven
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deploying IT to support the reengineering work. In this section we attempt to explore two questions: where does BPR come from and what is involved in BPR (i.e. its principles and assumptions). § 3.1 Business Process Reengineering: Introduction Yih-Chang Chen (2001) “Empirical Modelling for Participative Business Process Reengineering” 3 Business Process Reengineering Page 69 3.1.1 What is BPR? Generally the topic of BPR involves discovering how business processes currently operate‚ how
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