Focus of the Final Paper You’ve just been hired onto ABC Company as the corporate controller. ABC Company is a manufacturing firm that specializes in making cedar roofing and siding shingles. The company currently has annual sales of around $1.2 million‚ a 25% increase from the previous year. The company has an aggressive growth target of reaching $3 million annual sales within the next 3 years. The CEO has been trying to find additional products that can leverage the current ABC employee skillset
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while saving cats falling from trees? Does one have to be a hero by saving someone from a burning building? What qualifies as a hero? Many people have their own definition and vision of a hero. Heroism comes in many ways through attitudes and acts of oneself. I believe heroism is the intent of doing something for the benefit of others‚ and not caring about the consequences that might ensue. In Joyce Carol Oates’s "Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been‚" we see the character of Connie in a process
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Bates | 3 Mariah Bates ENGWR 300 27 August 2014 Timid A new house‚ new school‚ and a completely new atmosphere were ahead of my nine-year-old life. I had lived in the same house for what it seemed like forever and had attended the same school since first grade. I knew everyone. From January to December‚ my calendars were filled with birthday parties I had to attend. Performing in talent shows with my best friends Dezerey‚ Jasmine‚ and Nykchasia were a yearly activity at Garden Valley Elementary
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Discuss Your Goals For the Next Four Years and Comment on Your Post-College Plans "Next stop‚ 66th Street and Lincoln Center‚ " bellowed the cracked voice of the conductor over the loudspeaker. Those words rang in my ear like the notes of a familiar melody. Stepping off the number three train‚ I was immediately immersed in the scents‚ sounds and faces of my past. All the wonderful memories of those four years came rushing back into my mind as if they had just occurred. I was finally returning
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System 30 (2002) 419–432 www.elsevier.com/locate/system Doing focus-on-form Rod Ellis*‚ Helen Basturkmen‚ Shawn Loewen Department of Applied Language Studies and Linguistics‚ University of Auckland‚ Private Bag 92019‚ Auckland‚ New Zealand Received 17 April 2002; received in revised form 14 June 2002; accepted 17 June 2002 Abstract ‘Focus-on-form’ refers to a particular type of form-focused instruction - the treatment of linguistic form in the context of performing a communicative task
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was common in her century‚ Plath’s poetry doesn’t because rhyme was out of fashion in the 20th century. The Isolation of both poets‚ Bronte’s isolation chosen for her‚ Plath by choice‚ brings the theme and ideas much closer to one another because the have a feature connecting them to one another. In order to bring out their theme for the readers‚ both poets use a lot of literary features‚ as well as choice of words and style. This conveys their same meaning of the them but in different ways and with
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Research Paper-What would you do to make a better world? Eliminate Discrimination against People with Disabilities Laura Rodriguez Romero To make a better world I would try to change how people with physical and intellectual disabilities are treated and perceived. I work toward a world in which they are celebrated instead of marginalized. My hope is that people with disabilities will be welcomed to share the unique gifts they have to offer. My dream is that people with disabilities become a vital
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Oates’ “Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been?” is about a 15 year old girl named Connie. Connie is the dark blond haired girl who catches all the attention and knows she looks good. The story is somewhat journalistic in the sense that there are few extreme stylistic flourishes or complicated sentence structures. Oates’s spare style allows the images in the story to stand out in realistic coherence‚ in a way that makes one feel they have some unexplainable importance. “There’s your sister in a blue
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Personal Responsibility Personal responsibility is an important characteristic that individuals need for success. The importance of personal responsibility is seen both in “The Necklace” by Guy de Maupassant and “Carry Your Own Skis” by Lian Dolan. All though these two stories demonstrate different ways of learning personal responsibility they both reflect the importance and personal growth from this quality. Despite the differences in the plot both stories “The Necklace” and “Carry Your Own Skis”
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girl doesn’t seem to think of any danger that might arise from the car. Any aware person would lock the door and have the phone ready to call the police but not this girl. This girl is easily lured into a trap and taken away from everything she loved. This girl is the protagonist‚ Connie‚ from Joyce Carol Oates short story “Where are you going‚ Where have you been.” Rather than heed the gut feeling most readers have at this moment in the story‚ Connie ignorantly emerges from her house and engages the
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