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    Parallel lines can be defined as people who never meet‚ people who never crossed paths in their entire lives. Perpendicular lines can be defined as people who meet just once‚ and never again in their whole lives. Which one would you rather be? Which one would you rather experience? Do you want to experience that whole roller coaster of emotions? To be happy‚ to be angry‚ to be upset‚ to be shocked‚ to suffer from hallucinations‚ to sob uncontrollably because you don’t understand everything

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    The Divided Line

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    The Divided Line Plato wrote about many things in The Republic including how we humans use knowledge and opinion by the analogy of the divided line. In the divided line there is no such thing as total ignorance. Everyone has knowledge‚ but some have more than others. The divided line is divided up into two worlds‚ the world of intellect and the world of the visible. The world of intellect is also known as the world of ideas and the invisible world. Here universal ideas are reflected. The world of

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    The Shadow Lines

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    BOOK REVIEW Novel : The Shadow Lines AUTHOR : Amitav Ghosh Awards : winner of the Sahitya Akademi Award (1989). Bibliography : The Shadow Lines(novel)‚ Wikipedia(Internet). Main Characters : Mayadebi‚ Tridib‚ Ila‚ May‚ Narrator‚ Nick‚ grandmother. POLITICAL SCENERIO : The novel is set against the backdrop of historical events: 1.Swadeshi movement 2.Second World War 3.Partition of Country 4.Communal riots of 1963-64 in Dhaka and Calcutta CHARACTERS ANALYSIS : The characters in this

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    Waiting Lines

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    Queues defined 243 Economics of the Waiting Line Problem Cost-effectiveness balance The practical view of waiting lines 245 The Queuing System Customer arrivals Distribution of arrivals The queuing system: factors Exit Queuing system defined Arrival rate defined Exponential distribution defined Poisson distribution defined Service rate defined 252 261 263 263 Waiting Line Models Approximating Customer Waiting Time Computer Simulation of Waiting Lines Conclusion technical note TECHNICAL NOTE

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    Poverty

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    Life Orientation – Media in South Africa – Mpumelelo Dube 2.1 - State Media Ownership can be found in Middle East Countries such as Iran. * Private Media Ownership is found the United States of America * Community Media Ownership is found in Africa 2.2 These are the following roles and responsibilities of media : - ROLES 1. To bridge communication gaps between different sections of society. 2. Critically analyze public polices‚ social and cultural issues in the society

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    Value Line

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    VALUE LINE PUBLISHING‚ OCTOBER 2002 Teaching Note This case follows the performance-review and financial-statement-forecasting decisions of a Value Line analyst for the retail-building-supply industry in October 2002. The case contrasts the strong operating performance of Home Depot with the strong stock-market performance of Lowe’s. Students examine a financial-ratio analysis for Home Depot that acts as a template to generate a comparable ratio analysis for Lowe’s. The students’ ratio

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    Poverty seems to be recognized by many people nowadays from various kinds of mass media. However‚ do we really understand what poverty is‚ why it appears and how it affects one’s life? There are much bigger problems than we could imagine from just seeing the surface of poverty on daily news. Eli Khamarov‚ a social theorist‚ says‚ “Poverty is like punishment for a crime you didn’t commit” (Raphael 7). People in poverty are not always poor because of themselves. The reasons are more likely to be in

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    The Color Line

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    The color line‚ W.E.B. Dubois viewed it‚ is a line drawn between two groups of individuals (not necessarily of different races) that accentuates the contemptuous discrimination of Western literature‚ philosophy‚ and various other meanings. Du Bois said on the start of his groundbreaking book entitled “The Souls of Black Folk” for the problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line a statement setting out to show people the strange meanings of being black here in the dawning of the

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    The Line to the Lunches

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    The Line to the Lunches Think back to when you were a kid and you waited anxiously for the whole school year to be over with so you could do that one special thing. For my friends and I it was going to the big‚ red bricked church down the road and getting free sack lunches. The older I got the roles had been switched‚ from receiving the lunches‚ to providing the lunches for the anxiously waiting kids. Community service changes the life of you‚ and also the lives of others. Even though it is cliché

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    The Shadow Lines

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    The Shadow Lines by Amitav Ghosh Such moments are rare indeed these days when one takes a book in the hand and is completely captivated by it after reading the first few pages. That happened to me recently when I started reading "The Shadow Lines" by Amitav Ghosh. "The Shadow Lines‚" Ghosh’s second novel‚ was published in 1988‚ four years after the sectarian violence that shook New Delhi in the aftermath of the Prime minister‚ Indira Gandhi’s assassination. Written when the homes of the Sikhs were

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