Stanley Yelnats‚ the main character of Louis Sachar’s ‘Holes’ was fat‚ friendless and frightened at the beginning of the novel‚ but by the end he has changed dramatically. The plot of the novel revolves around Stanley being sent to Camp Green Lake‚ the setting of the story‚ for a crime that he didn’t commit. Here‚ Stanley learns the true value of friendship‚ kindness and the role of fate in his life. Stanley finds himself in some hairy situations‚ but with the help of his good mate Zero‚ he works
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Have you ever been to camp? ““Rex! Alan! I want you to come say hello to Stanley. He’s the newest member of our team.”” (Sachar‚ 17). In the story‚ Holes‚ by Louis Sachar‚ Stanley is caught with stolen shoes. He’s sent to a camp‚ Camp Green Lake in fact. He dug holes there‚ in order to “straighten him out”. The theme of Holes is perseverance because he sows rebellion‚ displays overcoming failure‚ and also‚ represents the idea of survival. In the story‚ the counselor‚ Mr Pendanski was asking Zero
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Microsoft in China and India‚ 1993-2007 Risks faced by Microsoft in China and impact to performance Risks Intellectual Property Localization Details Largest piracy rates in the world – 98% *Huge character sets required new versions of software *Chinese used mobiles more than the PC (can the mobile be a computing device)? *High profile revelation by Juliet Wu‚ former GM on commitment * Suspicion on security *Open source market * Entrepreneurship bug for Chinese software engineers *Legislation
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Louis Riel was born in the Red River Settlement in 1844. He was a promising student. He was sent to Montreal to train for the priesthood when he was 13. Because of his father’s premature death in 1864‚ Riel lost interest in the priesthood and he withdrew from the college. An attempt at training as a lawyer ended similarly‚ and by 1868 Riel was back in the Red River area. Ambitious‚ well educated and bilingual‚ Riel quickly emerged as a leader among the Metis of the Red River. In 1869-1870 he
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SAIL "To be a respectful world class corporation and leader in INDIAN steel business in quality‚ productivity‚ profitability and customer satisfaction" is the VISION statement of Steel Authority of India. Which has already been revised three times since 1990‚ to make it more clear with time for the workforce in SAIL to achieve their goal. Mr. Sanjay Sinha(General Manager Corporate Planning) when asked about "in what all areas they use the vision statement and is your decision are influenced
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Bessie Smith’s music represented what was happening in her life at the moment. She really put her feelings into her music. She felt much sorrow which she expressed through her soulful Blues. One of her songs titled St. Louis Blues was popular for a reason. It showed her real pain. St. Louis Blues was composed by W. C. Handy. She put the song out in 1925‚ Columbia Records produced the song along with others. The song is about hard times with a love and how it has affected her. She sang about how moving
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When one reads the nonfiction work of Robert Louis Stevenson along with the novels and short stories‚ a more complete portrait emerges of the author than that of the romantic vagabond one usually associates with his best-known fiction. The Stevenson of the nonfiction prose is a writer involved in the issues of his craft‚ his milieu‚ and his soul. Moreover‚ one can see the record of his maturation in critical essays‚ political tracts‚ biographies‚ and letters to family and friends. What Stevenson
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Vol. 2 Issue 1 July 2012 at JOURNAL A RESEARCH JOURNAL OF BIMTECH STUDENTS TATTVA is a forum for BIMTECH students to bring to light the outcomes of their journey of discovery into the issues on which they have been cogitating - whether the issues are in marketing‚ finance‚ world business‚ retail management‚ insurance or sustainability or livelihood or microfinance. It is aspirational in intent‚ striving for rigour and has something of importance or an insight to share. In short‚ it is
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The poem “Dusting” portrays a young girl who leaves marks on the dusty objects in her house but ends up being wiped away by her mother. The word “dusting” from the title means to dust off the furniture in the house but in this case it means that the young girl wants to be different from her mother. She wants to erase the accomplishments her mother has achieved and accomplish her own different things. She says‚ “But I refused with every mark to be like her‚ anonymous.” which indicates her thoughts
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Joseph-Louis Lagrange is usually considered to be a French mathematician‚ but the Italian Encyclopaedia [40] refers to him as an Italian mathematician. They certainly have some justification in this claim since Lagrange was born in Turin and baptised in the name of Giuseppe Lodovico Lagrangia. Lagrange’s father was Giuseppe Francesco Lodovico Lagrangia who was Treasurer of the Office of Public Works and Fortifications in Turin‚ while his mother Teresa Grosso was the only daughter of a medical doctor
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