William Safire: Abolish the Penny William Safire writes a fine argumentative piece on why America no longer has any need for a bothersome coin of copper that “costs more in employee-hours‚” than it is actually worth. Safire uses compelling evidence and real life scenarios to convince his audience that we need to rid our lives of this‚ “outdated‚ almost worthless‚ bothersome and wasteful penny.” If the reader is able to read between the lines and use some analytical processes‚ they will come to
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Unit 7 Final Project Part 1 One concept that I have chosen is percentages. A percent is a fraction that has a denominator of 100. Finding the percent of a number‚ and finding the missing percent could be very useful in the profession that I have chosen. The profession that I would like to pursue is accounting. Using percentages is used in many ways in accounting. One way is to do a trend analysis. A trend analysis calculates the percentage change for one account over a period of time of two
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Pointers to Good Composition Writing 1. Use simple words. 2. Vary sentence structure and sentence length. Do not keep repeating the use ofcertain words like ’then’ . Have a mixture of both long and short sentences. 3. Pay attention to paragraphing. 4. Very often‚ you have to describe people and places. When describing a personor place‚ fix the image of the person or place in mind. Then write as much as you can about it. Use sensory perception to include all relevant details. (Sensory perception
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Analysis of home country assignment Date November 14‚ 2011 Difference between the Vietnam essay and America essay In Vietnam‚ everyone studies literature‚ and their teachers give them many topics namely discuss folk literature‚ poem‚ and written literature. In high school‚ I wrote the essay about discussing the folk literature that the topic was: “Explain the folk-song of Vietnam: failure is the mother of success.” From this essay‚ I will analyze it and show the difference between Vietnam essay
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Percent Error occurs due to many factors. In this lab by the graph I can state that there was a 100% error in all three unknown substances‚ Pure Leaf Lemon Tea‚ Sprite‚ and Tree Ripe Lemonade. This could be a result of not having properly zeroed the scale or the scale glitching when it came to zeroing it‚ which would have added extra mass and skewed the results. Another factor that could have resulted in a high percent error would have been the scale itself glitching which would have caused the wrong
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A. 7.89 percent B. 8.56 percent C. 9.43 percent D. 9.90 percent E. 10.02 percent Expected return = (0.05 0.02) + (0.70 0.09) + (0.25 0.14) = 9.90 percent 32. You own a portfolio that is invested as follows: $11‚600 of stock A‚ $7‚800 of stock B‚ $14‚900 of stock C‚ and $3‚200 of stock D. What is the portfolio weight of stock C? A. 38.47 percent B. 39.73 percent C. 41.26 percent D. 41.94 percent E. 43.08 percent WeightC = $14‚900/($11‚600 + $7‚800 + $14‚900 + $3‚200) = 39.73 percent 34. You have
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India GDP Composition Sector Wise The Gross Domestic Product or GDP is the indicator of the performance of an economy. According to the estimates of 2008‚ India’s GDP is $1.209 trillion and this is slated to make improvement in the coming times. It is estimated that India’s GDP will grow by 6.5% in the year 2009. In 2008 the country’s GDP was 9%; the slowdown that has been witnessed this year in the estimates is largely due to the slowdown witnessed by the agriculture and the industrial sectors.
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Penny Argumentative Performance Task Garrett Forrest Do you think the penny should be preserved? The one-cent piece‚ commonly referred to as the penny has been in a giant argument in the United States about whether if we should keep the penny in circulation‚ or abolish the penny totally from the U.S currency. The penny should be abolished totally from the U.S Currency for several different reasons. To begin with‚ have you ever thought about the cost of a penny? If you ask a random person‚ they
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preservation of the past. The penny‚ despite its seemingly futile existence‚ is a major part of American history. It should remain in circulation not only because it is deeply rooted in society‚ but also because it is a constant reminder of our history. Due to the prominence of pennies in America‚ it would be nearly impossible to eliminate them from society. To begin with‚ the federal government would have to sway a society that is primarily in favor of keeping the penny in circulation (Harris Poll)
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We all know the penny‚ it is similar to the avocado due to the fact they both should be eliminated‚ but are still here today. The avocado should have been eliminated because its survival depended on the giant armadillo‚ and the penny should be eliminated because of inflation. Pennies should be abolished because it costs more to make than it is worth‚ we already abolished a coin without bad side effects‚ and most arguments against it have solutions. First‚ the penny costs more to produce than it is
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