Credit Rating Agencies Credit rating agencies play a crucial role in the financial system‚ and played an important one in the events that led to its near-collapse in 2008. The business is dominated by three firms – Moody’s‚ Standard and Poor’s and Fitch Ratings -- whose job is to provide an objective analysis of the risk posed to investors by bonds‚ companies and countries. During the housing boom‚ the system broke down‚ as several billion dollars worth assets‚ later shown to be worthless‚ received
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Do you think that the mass media has more of a positive or negative impact on society? Regardless of the type of mass media used‚ I believe that the mass media has more of a positive then negative impact on society. Firstly‚ the mass media may be used to raise awareness for certain subjects‚ allowing people to know of the events happening nationally and globally. An online survey shows that 44% of online news users get news a few times a week through social media‚ such as emails‚ thus showing what
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Do you sympathise with Curley’s wife or do you condemn her? Throughout the 1930’s in California‚ where and when the novel "of mice and men" was set‚ women were frequently suppressed and treated as objects. They were put down and often abused. They were forced to do anything their husband says otherwise they were condemned by the family and general public. Several of these issues are reflected in the character of Curley’s wife. This character is portrayed in many different ways in the different
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Have you ever thought of what would happen to your body if you had a game or practice every day? Well‚ kids all across the world go to some sort of practice every day. This is part of the reason why competitive sports burnout kids. 1 of the reasons that they get burnt out is the pressure that friends and family put on them. The 2nd reason is that kids and even pros over do themselves and they’re body. They work too much on one thing and Bam! Done‚ Although people think getting kids energy out is good
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Kluang-a cluster school. In 2006‚ I started my secondary school life in this prestigious institution. In 2008‚ I sat for my PMR and successfully maintained my perfect achievement by getting 8A’s.Then‚ I was placed in a good Science-stream class in Form 4 and Form 5. My trial examination result was also flamboyant in which I obtained 5A+’s‚ 3A’s and 2A-‘s. And for my SPM‚ praise to Allah‚ I got a sparkling results of 6A+’s and 4A’s. Now‚ it is proven that my academic performances are consistent and always
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It ain’t what you do‚ it’s what it does to you Simon Armitage writes an adventurous comparison poem to show how powerful imagination is by comparing life long dreams to one’s mundane memories in the poem‚“ It ain’t what you do‚ it’s what it does to you”. The poem displays three imaginative pinnacle-like events and with those events‚ there are three events juxtaposing them. The poem is presented in a manner where the story is based on the experiences of a first-person speaker. The poem follows
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Internet is the most important source of information. I do agree with those who say that Internet provides people with a lot of valuable information. First of all‚ the Internet is a big library‚ where you can find whatever information you like. Secondly the Internet helps you to communicate‚ which means to trade with the newest information with your friends and society. Thirdly the Internet gives you opportunity to purchase whatever you want without even going to the shop. Imagine you can find a book
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Case Study: Damned If You Do; Damned If You Don’t Summary: A successful female regional manager of a grocery chain is looking at advancing her career. She has applied to other employment locations while doing so she confides in a colleague about doing so and asks him to be a reference for her. She does not want anyone else in the company to know she is seeking employment elsewhere due to fact if it doesn’t work out it may hurt her chances to get a promotion at her current employment. A young lady
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Dear Admission Officer‚ Z‚ one of the most outstanding students at our school I have ever had‚ is definitely brilliant enough to be admitted to most prestigious universities in China such as Peking University and Tsinghua University. He is the top student in the honor class‚ which taught top students the most rigorous and advanced courses. He ranked the top 20 out of 1650 during final examinations and kept 4.0 GPA. Now that he is determined to apply to American university‚ I will be more than
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Self-Rating Scale The purpose of this questionnaire is to evaluate the effectiveness and performance of the employees. The data collected would be confidential .please rate yourself on the seven point scale against each statement by circulating the appropriate number .please also do the evaluation honestly so that good analysis could be made. The purpose of this questionnaire is to evaluate the effectiveness and performance of the employees. The data collected would be confidential .please rate
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