Please‚ readers! If you experience disinterest‚ apathy‚ ennui‚ malaise‚ dysthymia‚ lassitude‚ or neurasthenia as you peruse this essay… click away to safety! If you sense your cognition tumbling towards a fetid swamp of brain-paralyzing boredom — abandon me! I don’t want your death on my conscience. SEE ALSO The Perils of FDS (Fun Deficiency Syndrome) Laugh Loud‚ Laugh Hard‚ Live Long Gamification: Turning Work Into Play Boredom is a killer‚ suggests an essay in the April 2010 International
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In Guy De Maupassant’s short story "The Necklace"‚ the main character‚ Mathilde Loisel‚ makes several ironic discoveries. These discoveries form the story’s climax and produce a surprising ending. However‚ the central discovery of the story‚ that the jewel is fake‚ is‚ perhaps‚ not the most important point of the story. The point of the story is that pride goes before a fall. In the opening paragraph of the story‚ the author immediately tells us Mathilde looks herself as a "pretty and charming girl"
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In the article “Does your mother tongue shape how you think” Guy Deutscher argues that our mother tongue does indeed shape our experiences of the world. However‚ it does not do so as Benjamin Lee Whorf’s theory suggests but rather because of what our mother tongue habitually obliges us to think. Guy Deutscher takes a claim made by Benjamin Lee Whorf‚ a chemical engineer‚ who essentially stated that our native language constrains our mind and we are unable to grasp concepts that are not given
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Investigating an enzyme controlled reaction: catalase and hydrogen peroxide concentration Objectives * to investigate the effect of substrate concentration on the activity of catalase * to evaluate a practical protocol Procedure SAFETY: Wear eye protection and protect clothing from hydrogen peroxide. Rinse splashes of peroxide and pureed potato off the skin as quickly as possible... Investigation * Use the large syringe to measure 20 cm3 pureed potato into the conical flask.
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Leadership Theories * leadership requires followers Path-Goal: creating a shared‚ common goal or vision and following through to reach the goal or vision by determining the best path * defines goals‚ clarifies path‚ removes obstacles‚ provides support * designed to explain how leaders can help subordinates along the path to their goals by selecting specific behaviors that are best suited to subordinates’ needs * in theory‚ it provides a set of assumptions about how various leadership
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Explain the problems faced by the government at the time in dealing with the challenges to authority. (Guy Fawkes and the attempt to blow up the Houses of Parliament in 1605) 9 marks The government had many problems at the time in dealing with the challenges to authority‚ for different reasons. One of these reasons is that they didn’t have a police force. This is a problem because a police force are able to properly investigate and track people down. Nowadays‚ if someone had seen a crime or
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Oral Book Report: 10% of final grade Task: Give an oral presentation of 5-10 minutes in length in which you present a novel to the class. Your discussion of the novel must include the following elements: a short biography of the author a description of the main characters and setting a brief description of the main events (without spoiling the novel for other readers!) an analysis of the main theme or themes of the novel an evaluation of the book overall. What did you like? What did you
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yourself.” It means that once you conform like others in a society then everyone will like you except you won’t like yourself‚ but sometimes it’s the opposite of it. Some people might see conform as a statutory for the immigrants just like George in Guy Vanderhaeghe’s short story What I Learned from Caesar‚ and George from The Rink written by Cyril Dabydeen. However‚ leads from both stories show an extraordinary strength to adapt in the new society but the barriers of conformity are not easy‚ because
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The Home Place The story ‘’The Home Place’’ by Guy Vanderhaeghe is about a relationship between a father and a son. Throughout the story‚ the readers see and understand the reason behind Gil and Ronald broken relationship. In this story‚ the author implies that when a father puts is love for is land before his son‚ their relation will suffer. Vanderheaghe explains his theme with the help of the characters traits‚ the setting and conflicts. The author develop the character of Gil
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guitarist. There aren’t many female drummers in the music industry‚ but the past few years there has been more female drummers and females getting into drumming. Of the people behind the scenes of the industry‚ women make up less than half of the worker. There are hardly any female A&R (Artists and Repertoire) workers. Females have been underrepresented in the music industry. Some of the females that have been underrepresented in the music industry are drummer‚ A&R workers‚ and alternative rock
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