1. INTRODUCTION TO AIR ASIA 1. COMPANY BACKGROUND AirAsia Berhad was established in 1993 and began operations on 18 November 1996. It was originally founded by government owned conglomerate‚ DRB Hicom. On 2 December 2001‚ the heavily in debted airline was bought by former Time Warner executive Tony Fernandes’s company Tune Air Sdn Bhd for the token sum of one ringgit (about USD 0.26 at the time) with USD 11 million (MYR 40 million) worth of debts. Fernandes turned the company around
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According to the Canadian Mental Health Association (2014)‚ 20% of Canadians will personally experience a mental illness in their lifetime. One of the most common mental illnesses is depression. Depression is characterised by feelings of sadness‚ loss of interest in pleasurable activities‚ and withdrawal from friends and family (Public Health Agency of Canada‚ 2013). Traditionally‚ people with depression are treated with talk-based therapy and/or medication. In the past decade‚ another form of therapy
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and other negative feelings. Jonas understood the risk but he really liked the feeling. Jonas began to question if the safety of having no feelings was worth the loss of those feelings. The more memories Jonas received‚ the stronger he wanted to be free of all the restraints against feelings. Emotions were a part of Jonas that the knew should not be worth giving up for
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“Without connection to others there is no me” Throughout our lives‚ everyone that we share bonds with and interact with on a regular basis‚ either forms or has some sort of influence on our identity. Consequently‚ the majority of us naturally find ourselves striving to fit in with these people‚ especially during the tough transition from childhood to adulthood. It is this part of the human condition that makes us feel as though we must forge ties with something outside of ourselves in order to establish
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Molly O’Brien Analyzing a Text Expository Writing Gay Marriage Helps Children Thesis: Dale Carpenter argues in hist article “Gay Marriage Helps Children” that the competence argument is factually unsupported and contrived by the laws of every state and that the optimality argument is irrelevant regardless if it is correct or not. The Competence Argument A. Children raised by gay parents are at a Higher risk emotionally and cognitively. B. Children raised by gay parents are more apt to be
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Jack: Expository Paragraph In William Golding’s novel‚ ’ The Lord of the Flies’‚ the author places the character Jack with the role symbolic of a totalitarian figure whose ambitious lust for power corrupts the society of the island with elements of unbridled savagery‚ and exploits the defects of human nature for his own desires. To begin‚ Golding grants Jack with vices of greed and wrath to immorally attain his goals for power‚ symbolizing the avarice that Man as a whole
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One day when I was in the fourth grade‚ we had just finished a free response test on a story we were supposed to read last night. The next day‚ my teacher had completed grading all the test and he had noticed that two of the papers had were the exact same‚ their names were Danny and Ishmael. But Danny was absent today so the teacher called Ishmael to the front of the classroom and asked him if he and Danny cheated off of each other’s test. Ishmael first lied and said‚ “I don’t know how we have the
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The Soul Scarf It was a black-white scarf‚ and there were some blood-spots on it‚ but my grandfather still used it and preserved like a valuable object. I did not see my grandfather wear it always‚ but it always appeared on his neck when he had a meetings or important events. Every time I visited my grandfather‚ I saw him sit by himself in front of his house and looked at the scarf sadly. So‚ I once asked him about the scarf and its significance‚ but I just got the answer from my father later.
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The Lost Soul A Memoir By Andrew T. Birrell * When I was six I made a gamble with my friends that I could cross the street and retrieve a ball that I had kicked to the other side. As I began to cross the street‚ a brilliant childish idea comes to my mind; I’m going to do it with my eyes closed! I like to tell people at this point in my memory that “I made it across‚ just not back.” I recite this because looking into that memory from an analytical perspective repeatedly has granted me the
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I feel that the song “New Soul” would be the best song to represent me as a person or be my theme song. The song talks about life having its ups and downs‚ good and bad‚ which I feel can relate to anyone. The song also brings up that it can be hard to find people that you can trust‚ but she tries to find the good and bad in everyone. We both agree that life can be harder than it seems as well. She and I are both young and make mistakes in life. We also try to find happiness through the fear and struggles
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