Helen Thorpe’s Just Like Us Just Like Us by Helen Thorpe is “The True Story of Four Mexican Girls Coming of Age in America.” The story revolves around four high school students; Marisela who is a gaudy‚ driven‚ dramatic girl who wears “twice as much makeup as anybody else in her circle.”(8) Yadira who is a strong and reserved girl who “never gave away anything important with her facial expressions.”(8) Elissa is a star athlete and Clara usually dresses like a tomboy. They are all eighteen years
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“ Go away!” I screamed. The words fell clumsily off the end of my tongue. “Wait! I think I hear something.” It’s my alarm clock. Thank God. This must just be a bad dream. As I pull myself out of the dream‚ I am once again in my pale blue room sitting upright‚ staring out the window at the beautiful day. I reach for my clock. Shoot! I’m late. Mr Gerdini will put me on detention for sure. I jump out of bed‚ get ready and run downstairs. As I grab an apple and run onto my front lawn‚ I realise I’ve
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References: 1) Schniederjans‚.John R.Olson(1999) Advanced topics in Just in time. 2) Robert C (2005) Improving health care using Toyota lean production method. 3) Jane Marcean (1992) Reworking the world: oganisations‚ technologies and cultures in competitive perspectives. 4) Harold Kerzer (2006) Project management: A
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Green‚ Just Do It Some people might hear the term “Going Green” and think of some big green monster running around destroying buildings. But really all it means is conserving energy and in the end help make the world a better place. This term “Going Green” is used a lot in today’s society‚ but rarely do you ever see people doing anything to help and going green isn’t as difficult as it seems. But if nothing is done now the future of Earth will be dramatically affected by it. Not many people realize
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Just War Theory and a Thoughtful Realist One important theory within International Relations shows a moral aspect on how to conduct war. This theory is called Just War Theory. Just War Theory is a doctrine of military ethics from a philosophical and Catholic viewpoint. This theory consists of two parts: Jus ad bellum (the right to go to war) and Jus in bello (right conduct within war). Jus a bellum‚ the right to go to war‚ explicitly describes how a nation-state should conduct itself before
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11-1150 Is Antigone’s execution just? The question of justice comes up a lot within Greek tragedies. Throughout the book‚ The Republic‚ Socrates is trying to define justice and what it truly means. A famous philosopher‚ Martha Nussbaum‚ analyzes the idea of human ethical life according to the Greeks and understanding the cause of human tragedy. I will be relating Martha’s interview to the story of Antigone‚ answering the question of whether her execution was just or not. I do believe that Antigone’s
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Dropbox: “It Just Works” (HBS 9-811-065) Kunal Sharma Advanced Entrepreneurship March 11‚ 2013 100410018 Word Count: 854 Question 1 a) The reason that Dropbox is such a universal concept is because anyone in the world can be a buyer of Dropbox. It can be an individual trying to save and access their pictures on different platforms or it can be a multinational firm who uses the product as a “file collaboration” software within the firm. “The idea is to get people using it inside companies
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JUST IN TIME PHILOSOPHY A philosophy for maintaining a competitive advantage based on the concept of continuous improvement and elimination of waste. Just-in-time is a management philosophy that originated and was applied in manufacturing organizations in Japan since the early 1970’s. In its early stages‚ JIT was utilized as a means to meet customer demand and minimize delays. The emphasis of JIT referred to a process where the production of goods met customer needs for quality and
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Nowadays‚ people‚ especially teenagers tend to be a fan of social networking sites such as facebook and twitter… But it is no just social networking…There are also sites for reading unlimited stories --- Wattpad… Wattpad is an online community themed around writing and story-telling. Users are able to post articles‚ stories‚ and poems about anything either online or through the Wattpad app. The content includes work by undiscovered and published writers. Users are able to comment
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In the article “It Just Happens”‚ agreeing to Melanie Beres’ article‚ by saying that ‘it just happens’‚ it renounces the responsibility and action in portraying in the encounter of having casual sex. Most of the contributors agreed that alcohol play’s a vast role in the choices and actions that they make. Particularly for women‚ forwarding the accountability to alcohol allows women to feel less immoral. Though both genders describe their arrangement as “it just happens”‚ men tend to more often look
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