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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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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What is revision? According to Nancy Sommers she believes students “understand the revision process as a rewording activity” while adult writers or more experienced writers “seek to discover (to create) meaning in the engagement with their writing ...”. I am in agreement with Sommers argument of the student writer’s understanding of the revision process. I have struggled with writing my entire life and I now understand why. When given a writing assignment I always thought that the rough draft had
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Appendix H: Outline and Thesis Statement Guide name COM/156 date instructor Associate Level Material Appendix H Outline and Thesis Statement Guide A smoker may breathe better‚ have a less chance of getting cancer‚ and live longer if a choice is made to quit early in life. The benefits on their health when they quit smoking at an early age are immediate and substantial. A smoker may breathe better‚ have a less chance of getting cancer‚ and live longer if a
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This file of MATH 156 Final Exam shows the solutions to the following problems: 1) State the converse of the following: 2) Martians are green. Frogs are green. Therefore frogs are Martians. 3) 25‚ 175‚ 1225‚ 8575‚ 60‚025‚ . . . 4) 100; Mayan 5) A rectangle 15 units high and 11 units wide 6) Decide whether or not the set is closed under addition. { 8} 7) Estimate by rounding to the leftmost digit. 8) Perform the calculation mentally. 25 ? 25 ? 8 9) Find all the factors of the number. 56 10)
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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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consists of both women and teenagers‚ featuring the two categories “Sassy Ladies” and “Sassy Kids.” While the website is supposed to serve as a webstore for the boutique‚ Sassyfox.com has a lot of problems that hurt the usability of the site. For this analysis‚ I have broken the user experience into three categories: 1) Information Architecture; 2) Content; and 3) Design. Designing concepts author Jeff Johnson defines in his book‚ “Designing with the Mind in Mind” will be used in each section. Information
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After thorough research I found chaldal.com to be as a major competition to Mr. Rahim’s e-commerce site. Chaldal.com is an online shop based from Dhaka‚ Bangladesh. They have no physical store. In my analysis I deduce the following about their e-commerce solution: Strengths: • efficient and well organized website • well established brand name • secured site • proven loyalty to interested consumers Weaknesses: • inefficient in responsiveness to customer queries • lack of major imported branded
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Personally to me‚ taking Comm 130 was one of my most hated decisions for my spring semester. As I am a horrible social person and have anxiety just talking to people taking this class really took me off my comfort zone and to this day causes me great discomfort. That being said‚ my first speech was overall below average. Not only in certain categories‚ but most of them. The main problem and an important one was my speech delivery. To start off‚ my goals for this speech were very simple. The main
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