1.How and why has the express mail industry structure evolved in recent years? How have the changes affected small competitors? The US express mail industry is highly consolidated. 85% of the market is served by 3 service providers. There are six second tier players who serve the remaining 15%. FedEx and UPS lead the industry in services and innovation. The following trends have been observed in this Industry. Services: A host of services are provided to suit the needs to different businesses.
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Level: Pre-intermediate Aim:Present perfect to express an experience some time before now. E.g. I have been to Mexico. I have eaten Octopus etc. Target language: I have been/eaten etc.‚ Have you ever...? Time: 50 minutes Assumptions: Students will have encountered the present perfect before so should be familiar with the form. Possible problems: Students might use the present perfect with past phrases‚ e.g. I have been to Mexico in 2003. I have eaten Octopus last year. Lead-In: - 10 mins I would
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works as the head cook for a senior living community. Javier is 54 years old‚ he grew up in Juarez‚ Mexico and he is the sole provider for his household. His face lights up when I ask him what drew him to cooking in the first place. He responds‚ “I have a passion for food and making other’s happy. I feel I can do that through my love of food‚ by providing them with something good to eat.”
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The Wilderness Idea In this statement from Wallace Stegner’s‚ "The Wilderness Idea"‚ there are three assertions. These assertions are: 1) No wilderness remains and the environment we live in is man-controlled‚ 2) Technology forces us to live a ’termite-life’ without a moment of reflection and rest‚ 3) We are a society like ’Brave New World’ that does not care for or have any need for the environment but instead relies on technology. These assertions are completely false and
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looking for your first job. Where do you start? If you are like most Americans‚ you’ll probably send your resume to a lot of companies. You may answer newspaper want ads every Sunday. Or you might go to employment agencies. But experts say you won’t have much luck. People find jobs only 5 to 15 per cent of the time when they use these methods. So‚ what can you do? One thing you can do is read Richard Nelson Bolles’s «What colour is your parachute?» a Practical Manual for Job Hunters and Career Changers»
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Taken from http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/research/1766936.html [Accessed on December 18‚ 2008] 5 New Ideas To Power Our Future - October 2005 Cover Story from Popular Mechanics With the outlook for oil uncertain‚ it’s time for new ideas. Here are five emerging technologies--from buoys that harness the power of waves to bacteria that extract electricity from wastewater. Together they can keep the world humming. BY KRISTIN ROTH Illustrations by Flying-Chilli.com Published in the October
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“The Idea of Civilization” and “The Idea of Civilization in World Historical Perspective” Comparative Essay Civilizations are crucial to the growth of humanity and the history behind it‚ and understanding them can sometimes be difficult. Many historians have been studying this topic for years on end and have produced contrasting opinions and aspects. Examples of this show up in these two articles in particular‚ both with very distinct‚ unique ideas whilst seeing eye to eye in a handful of ways
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friend who come from Quebec also told me she loves Chinese food and her mother learn how to cooking it on websites. Besides this‚ Chinese students as me‚ after go aboard for studying‚ we must learn how to cook by ourselves. If we could find a chef to teach us‚ that will be more easy for us to learn. There are already have many cooking companies in China‚ but for people who do not live in China may difficult to find an appropriate place to learn cooking Chinese food and communicate with others who are
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where she stayed briefly.) There is though a mention of one event of her life after college‚ when she was summoned to a court in Lahore‚ Pakistan for an apparently obscene story she had written‚ Lihaaf‚ and that got published in a journal. ‘A life in words’ is an endearing account of Ismat’s growing-up surrounded by her vast and loving family that consisted of her parents‚ nine other siblings‚ a warm entourage of teeming cousins‚ and various aunts and uncles. Born in the first half of the 1900s‚ Ismat
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Kids should be able to dress how they want to and express themselves in a way that other kids may not. According to the American Civil Liberties Union of Nevada “allowing students to choose their clothing is an empowering message from the schools that a student is a maturing person who is entitled to the
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