Exemplar A: Excellence Research topic: What’s on Amy Tan’s Mind? Research questions: ▪ What issues stand out in Amy Tan’s writing? ▪ How do the narrative techniques used highlight these issues? ▪ Why does Amy Tan highlight these issues? Research Notes: The Kitchen God’s Wife Author: Amy Tan. ISSUES Sense of self identity: ▪ Revelation of her mother’s secret past brings the identity of who Pearl’s biological father really is. ▪ To Pearl this news is horrific
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Wiki Loves Monuments: Photograph a monument‚ help Wikipedia and win! M. C. Mehta v. Union of India From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation‚ search M. C. Mehta v. Union of India | Supreme Court of India | Decided December 20‚ 1986 | Full case name: | M.C. Mehta Vs. Union of India (UOI) and Ors. | | | Citations: | 1987 SCR (1) 819 | | | | | | | Holding | | Case opinions | Majority by: C. J. Bhagwati[1] | Laws applied | Articles 12 and 21 of
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Discuss Adichie’s presentation of Ugwu and consider his significance to the Novel Half of a Yellow Sun initally depicts Ugwu as an innocent village boy but over the coarse of the novel his character noteably changes from the boy who keeps chicken wings in his pants to the new generation of Nigeria. Ugwu also portrays the middle and lower class of 1960’s Nigeria. In terms of social order‚ Ugwu is in between lower and middle class. This is because he comes from a poor background‚ his family live
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Adrian Hall COM 200: Interpersonal Communication After reading the article “Close Relationship Sometimes Mask Poor Communication” it made me realize that I and my wife have poor communication skills. We been together for a good two years and we still haven’t gotten the proper communication between each other. She likes to be rude and cut me off while I’m trying to prove a point because she always thinks she’s right when clearly at times she’s wrong but won’t admit it. She always wants materialistic
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.COM Failure Marketing and the .COM Bust Why Marketing? The .COM bust‚ the .COM “bubble”‚ the failure of companies that “dot-bombed”‚ happened more than a decade ago‚ but the lessons learned are important for the present tech sector. Many investors argue that we are in a bubble now‚ with companies like Instagram selling for $1 billion and hundreds of others getting million dollar valuations. Looking back‚ it’s clear from a marketing perspective current aspects of the products and websites themselves
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Expert systems Define expert systems: An expert system is an ICT system that emulates the decision making ability of a human expert. It uses artificial intelligence to make decisions based on data that is supplied in the forms of answers to questions. Knowledge base – is a large store of knowledge about particular topics. Interference engine – a set of rules that are used to make decisions A user interface – presents questions on screen which the human answers. 1) Describe the advantages
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Business Ethics Final Project Extraordinary Circumstances Stephanie Burg 2/16/2009 Table of Contents Mission Statement 3 Ethical Principles/Tenets 4 Day to Day Operations 5 Cynthia Cooper and the Culture 6 Conclusion 8 Works Cited 10 1)Provide a Mission Statement and brief background about WorldCom. Briefly explain how WorldCom did not honor their statement. WorldCom - "our objective is to be the most profitable ‚ single source provider of communications services to customers around
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reports were falsely created and improper accounting practices were found‚ but who is to blame? The textbook tells us that several of the former top financial executives pleaded guilty to securities fraud‚ however they defended themselves to say that they were forced to cover things up by other top officials. As reading through the questions given in class it was hard to completely gather all thoughts into one area. We know that World Com is a for profit organization that provided telecommunications
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The War on Drugs Megen Smith COM/172 March 12‚ 2012 Angela Gist University of Phoenix Despite large amounts of government funding and agencies working together the war on drugs is the most counterproductive measure the United States has launched because its main focus was to stop drug trafficking and criminal activity‚ but it has done nothing but increase incarceration and large amounts of spending by the U.S. One of the first bills introduced to the United States was the National Prohibition
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PAPer F3 revision notes June 2009 Examinations 1 ACCOUNTING CONCEPTS Fundamental Assumptions Fair presentation Going concern Accruals Consistency Materiality / Aggregation Relevance Reliability Faithful representation Substance over form Neutrality Prudence Completeness Comparability Understandability Separate entity Money measurement For latest course notes updates‚ free audio and video lectures and support please visit www.opentuition.com PAPer F3 revision notes June 2009
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