1 “Arithmetic vs. Geometric Means: Empirical Evidence and Theoretical Issues” by Jay B. Abrams‚ ASA‚ CPA‚ MBA Copyright 1996 There has been a flurry of articles about the relative merits of using the arithmetic mean (AM) versus the geometric mean (GM). The Ibbotson SBBI Yearbook took the first position that the arithmetic mean is the correct mean to use in valuation. Allyn Joyce’s June 1995 BVR article initiated arguments for the GM as the correct mean. The previous articles have centered
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Sociological Approach Sociological critics believe that the relations of art to society are important. Art is not created in a vacuum. Language itself is a social product. A writer is a member of the society. And he takes his material from the society. A literary piece is not simply the work of a person. It is of an author fixed in time‚ space and his environment. Taine‚ the French man‚ said that literature is the consequence of the moment‚ the race‚ and the milieu. Edmund Wilson traces
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Organizational and management analysis are an essential part of organizational environment. In the modern world‚ working environment characteristics are team work‚ delegation‚ information technology interfaces‚ which have an impact on the effectiveness of organization and management. This helps in cost reduction‚ decrease in environmental waste‚ improved employee satisfaction and an increase in overall productivity. To have an organizational and management analysis review of organizational charts
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TEACHING ENGLISH Background The origins of Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) are to be found in the changes in the British language teaching tradition dating late 1960s. Until then‚ situation of Language Teaching represented the major British approach to teaching English as foreign language. In situational language teaching‚ language was taught by practicing basic structure in meaningful situation-based activities. But just as the linguistics theory underlying audio-Lingualism was rejected in
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Key Words: Cycles approach‚ speech sound disorder‚ intelligibility‚ phonological intervention‚ pattern-based targets‚ children Introduction According to Prezas & Hodson (2010)‚ the fundamental objective of therapy for a child with highly unintelligible speech “should be to expedite intelligibility gains in an optimal and efficient manner and to develop accurate underlying phonological representation.” Traditionally‚ the method of articulation remediation entailed training and drilling a child to
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learning and teaching process successful. Each approach‚ method and technique can help educators to reach their goal‚ depending on what they want to make students accomplish. Therefore‚ Teachers must have clear what are the purposes they want to achieve‚ as well as‚ the aims of the lesson and activities they are going to do in the classroom. However‚ teachers think that it is not possible to teach foreign languages in just one single way‚ since every approach has limitations. As a result‚ a new method
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The psychodynamic approach focuses on individuals who behave in a certain way due to having emotional feelings buried deep inside their unconscious mind. The theory was developed by Sigmund Freud who was a psychologist. The use of the psychodynamic approach within health and social care helps individuals understand and support patients who are undergoing the psychodynamic process as it is generally used around the world. This essay aims to show my understanding of the approach and the ways health
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Evidentialism is the idea that every belief about something must be justified through evidence. However‚ people have come up with different criteria and approaches concerning how one comes about this evidence. The evidentialist approach states there “there is indeed good evidence for Christian beliefs about the life‚ death‚ and resurrection of Jesus” (Evans 232). Evans sites five criteria that must be met for anyone to have any knowledge of a proposition. The first is that “the proposition must
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Developmental Analysis of Big: A Psychosocial Approach. Kaitlin Bettencourt FSCJ DEP2004 Spring A12 Psycho-Social Development in Big In the movie Big‚ Tom Hanks is an adolescent boy who gets frustrated with the limitations that come with being only 12 years old. He makes a wish that he was older and to his surprise it works! Unfortunately for him‚ he realizes that being older is not all that it is cracked up to be. Throughout the movie‚ young Josh (the main character)
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A critical look at the Communicative Approach (1) Michael Swan This (the first of two articles) examines some of the more theoretical ideas underlying the ‘Communicative Approach‘. These include the belief that we should teach ‘use’ as well as ‘meaning; and some attitudes regarding the teaching of ‘skills’ and ‘strategies’. A second article will deal with more pedagogical aspects of the approach‚ especially the idea of a ‘semantic syllabus’ and the question of ‘authenticity’ in materials and methodology
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