he earned a B.A. from the University of the Philippines. -Under the Philippine Pensionado program‚ Santos came to the University of Illinois for a master’s degree in English. -Later he studied at Harvard‚ Columbia‚ and‚ as a Rockefeller Foundation fellow‚ at the University of Iowa. -His first two novels‚ Villa Magdalena and The Volcano‚ were published in the Philippines in 1965. -Santos became an American citizen in 1976. -One year later‚ the Marcos regime banned his novel about government
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Scent of Apples Bienvenido N. Santos When I arrived in Kalamazoo it was October and the war was still on. Gold and silver stars hung on pennants above silent windows of white and brick-red cottages. In a backyard an old man burned leaves and twigs while a gray-haired woman sat on the porch‚ her red hands quiet on her lap‚ watching the smoke rising above the elms‚ both of them thinking the same thought perhaps‚ about a tall‚ grinning boy with his blue eyes and flying hair‚ who went out to war:
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The Day the Dancers Came by Bienvenido Santos As soon as Fil woke up‚ he noticed a whiteness outside‚ quite unusual for the November mornings they had been having. That fall‚ Chicago was sandman’s town‚ sleepy valley‚ drowsy gray‚ slumberous mistiness from sunup till noon when the clouds drifted away in cauliflower clusters and suddenly it was evening. The lights shone on the avenues like soiled lamps centuries old and the skyscrapers became monsters with a thousand sore eyes. Now there was
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LONG-RUN OPERATIONS-FINANCIAL DECISIONS Long run operation is all about on how to manage the Capital budgeting as well as the Capital expenditures‚ when we say capital budgeting it is all about on how we are going to plan and to control the capital expenditures. and the Capital Expenditures is how we are going to lessen the cost and increase the income of the long term. This is the most important thing for us to know the flow of long run operations. BREAK-EVEN POINT-VARIABLE AND FIXED EXPENSES
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Brother” by Bienvenido Santos ABMA 116 Viennard Concepcion I. Title “Brother‚ My Brother” A. Etymology Brother‚ My Brother was entitling to the author itself. It is like conveying himself as his own brother‚ saying that no much more can embrace his self very much rather than himself only. A very brief autobiography which focuses on the author’s painful journey back to his past and on how the author goes back to his land but later on go back to the foreign and serve it as his home. B. Reference
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1. Having demonstrated its versatility as a high-tech newswire‚ Twitter drew the attention of those who would prefer to see certain information suppressed. Synonym- ambidexterity Explanation- I decided to use ambidexterity‚ because “versatility” states that Twitter is flexible and can be a easily manipulated site when the sentence is clearly making Twitter appear the opposite. 2. Millions of users attempted to log into Twitter only to be greeted by the service’s iconic "fail whale‚" the image
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society‚ more and more people are aware of the importance of negotiation. Progressively choosing a negotiation strategy may generate more advantageous bargaining outcomes. Many important negotiation strategies are involved in the video “sluggers come home” and here we explain which negotiation strategy has been adopted in the different situations of this case. In the preparation stage of this case‚ Brabara makes an offer and she intends to rent the baseball playground. When Billy‚ Teddy and Kally
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Whats About “The slugger’s come home” is an explicative and demonstrative video that represents an example of a negotiation process. It shows‚ from a baseball theme example‚ how does negotiation between 2 parties may work. While the video shows us the perspective of both parties‚ it also gives us some extra information about negotiation process. At the beginning‚ Dr. Margaret describes the objective of the video. She drive us though the process and give us tips‚ recommendations‚ common errors
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Mr. Smith nor Archie had anything to say. Archie and his dad had a moderately awkward relationship. The two did not talk very often. When the two had reached home. Archie went straight to the kitchen table and started doing his work. He pulled his math homework out of his backpack and grabbed a pencil from his backpack. The only homework that Archie had just so happened to be his most inadequate subject.
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Putting a loved one into a nursing home is never an easy decision. One will want their loved one to be cared for as if it was their own parent or grandparent. One must go to the nursing home and make sure that it’s a suitable place for their loved one and make certain that it’s a place where they will be happy. Heroes are no one special or with any special powers. They do not need to run into a burning building and save lives. A hero is courageous and is brave. A hero can also be defined as a compassionate
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