Grammar as Rhetoric and Style The Appositive An appositive is a noun or noun phrase that tells the reader something about a nearby noun or pronoun. In each sentence below‚ the appositive is underlined. The italics shows the noun or pronoun that the appositive details. It turned out that one of the top students‚ Denny Davies‚ had learned of this rule. Kennedy‚ a wiry fifty-nine-year-old who has a stern buzz cut‚ was in 1997 the principal of Sarasota High School. In 1981‚ two professors
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In what ways is the Holy Land an important site for all three monotheistic faiths? For the Christians it is the city were Jesus was crucified and where he had risen from the dead. For the Muslims it is a place where their leader Mohammad ascended to meet God. Now for the Jewish people King David had named it and it was where Solomon had built the temple‚ also the Wailing Wall is in this city. The three major monotheistic religions are sometimes described as branches of the same family tree
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Tutorial Answers: Chapter 2 3. Yes‚ because the absence of financial markets means that funds cannot be channeled to people who have the most productive use for them. Entrepreneurs then cannot acquire funds to set up businesses that would help the economy grow rapidly. 5. This statement is false. Prices in secondary markets determine the prices that firms issuing securities receive in primary markets. In addition‚ secondary markets make securities more liquid and thus easier to sell in the primary
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MBA 570 Homework Questions Chapter 1 and 2 Chapter 1 (1-20) Mysti Farris (See problem 1-19) is considering raising the selling price of each cue to $50 instead of $40. If this is done while the costs remain the same‚ what would the new breakeven point be? What would the total revenue be at this breakeven point? (Given in problem 1-19: fc of 2400 and vc of 25) (1-21) Mysi Farris (see problem 1-19) believes that there is a high probability that 120 pool cues can be sold if the selling price
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Review Questions 1. They established parts of Chinese life that lasted all the way into the 20th century. They were also the “golden age” of arts and literature because of their poetry‚ landscape‚ and ceramics along with the birth of Neo-Confucianism. 2. In the Tang Dynasty‚ elite women had greater freedom and influence. In the Song Dynasty‚ they had tighter patriarchal restrictions. In both‚ they started foot binding and textile production became larger which replaced women’s role in that industry
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Chapter 2 ECONOMIC OPTIMIZATION QUESTIONS & ANSWERS Q2.1 In 2004‚ the second-largest U.S. long-distance telephone company eliminated about 2‚000 jobs at four call centers in Colorado‚ Iowa‚ Kansas‚ and South Carolina. "MCI must continue to revamp its cost structure to better position the company for future success‚" a company spokesperson said. Does this decision reflect an application of the global or partial optimization concept? Explain. ANSWER MCI=s decision to scale back employment at four
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Frankenstein Chapter 1 and 2 Shelly provides the reader with a background of Frankenstein’s birth‚ childhood‚ parents‚ and how Elizabeth was adopted into the family. 2. Frankenstein’s parents are loving and joyful with the birth of their child. They want to provide the best for all the children they have (blood related and orphan). 3. Elizabeth is a passionate woman who does not know how to follow through with her desires while Victor has a passion for learn‚ especially philosophy‚ and can
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Chapter 10: In the Fertile Crescent‚ plants and animals spread quickly into Europe and North Africa. Innovations such as written language and wheels spread similarity quickly as well. People used domesticated crops rather than those that grew naturally. This shows that people easily adapted the Fertile Crescent’s food production. Chapter 10: Eurasia has covered the largest East to West area of any continent. Diamond believes that this is yet another r advantage for Eurasia. Eurasia had “amber
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Assignment 2 – Accounting Principles and Reporting Standards – Chapter 14: Discussion Questions Wilmary Colon Rivera California College San Diego January 10‚ 2015 ACC213 Nellie Hornbeck Assignment 2 – Accounting Principles and Reporting Standards – Chapter 14: Discussion Questions. 1. In the U.S accounting principles are developed through a cooperative effort between the private sector (business) and the public sector (government). Public sector ---- Government ---- Represented by SEC SEC – Securities
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DO NOT USE THIS. I JUST DID THIS SO THAT I WOULD HAVE AN ACCOUNT Chapter One Vocabulary for World History AP 1. Mesopotamia in the Tigris and Euphrates River Valleys- a region of SW Asia between the lower and middle reaches of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers: site of several ancient civilizations 2. Egypt in the Nile River- an ancient kingdom in NE Africa: divided into the Nile Delta (Lower Egypt) and the area from Cairo S to the Sudan (Upper Egypt). 3. Mohenjo Daro and Harappa in the
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