This book is about three senior women who seek to reinvent themselves by starting a detective agency called ‘The Grey Foxes’ but there’s just one problem. They don’t have a case. The Grey Foxes is a 000000 word humorous mystery set in the mid-sized town of Butterfield‚ Minnesota. Head sleuth‚ Cora McAlester and her two quirky friends‚ Virgie Moltie and Lynelle Morris are tired of the stereotypical‚ tranquil retirement. They want more. They want a second act in life and each of them wants something
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Summary Chapter 8 of Creating the Opportunity to Learn by A. Wade Boykin and Pedro Noguera discusses why some schools are making more progress than others in closing the achievement gap. The chapter describes how two schools that are similar in the demographics and challenges hindering achievement‚ can have two different results in their efforts to close the achievement gap. One school saw improvements because they recognized the problems and implemented research based strategies to help all students
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Chapter One Summary Chapter One An internal auditor is one who is independent‚ knowledgeable‚ works well in a team and is a leader. An internal auditor adds value to a company by improving a business’s organizational operation and helps them achieve its objectives by improving the effectiveness of risk management‚ control and governance processes. Internal Auditing Processes A business’s objectives are classified into four categories: strategic‚ operations‚ reporting‚ and compliance. An internal
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Chapter I When Mr. Hiram B. Otis‚ the American Minister‚ bought Canterville Chase‚ every one told him he was doing a very foolish thing‚ as there was no doubt at all that the place was haunted. Indeed‚ Lord Canterville himself‚ who was a man of the most punctilious honour‚ had felt it his duty to mention the fact to Mr. Otis when they came to discuss terms. ’We have not cared to live in the place ourselves‚’ said Lord Canterville‚ ’since my grand-aunt‚ the Dowager Duchess of Bolton‚ was frightened
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Name: Maridel Banco Date: 11/22/13 Period: 2 Book Title: Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking Genre: Psychology/Self-Help Author: Malcolm Gladwell Number of Pages: 286 Brief Summary and “Arrangement” of the Book: Malcom Gladwell published the most pleasant book‚ “Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking‚” which he extended the landmark style of his number one international bestseller The Tipping Point. Gladwell transformed the ideas of how people understand
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The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien begins by describing what exactly a hobbit is. Hobbits are little people‚ about half our height with thick curly brown hair on their head and feet. They are inclined to be fat at the stomach and wear bright colors. They live in a land called The Shire. In this land they lived in nice comfortable holes in the ground. In one particular hole lived Bilbo Baggins. Bilbo’s father was a solid and comfortable hobbit but Bilbo’s mother was from the Took family. Belladonna Took’s
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“When your son is born in a detention center and has celebrated every birthday in detention since. When your daughter asks you why you are locked up and treated like a criminal if you aren’t one. When your day-to-day life is restricted in every humiliating way imaginable. And with all of this‚ you are not given a single reason why and you are not told when the ordeal will end.” Writes Yogachandran‚ an adult refugee‚ Amnesty international. 17 million children are refugees‚ they have questions that
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1. Brainstem- It begins where the spinal cord swells after entering the skull. It regulates all automatic survival roles‚ such as breathing and heartbeats. 2. Thalamus- The thalamus is the uppermost part of the brainstem. It directs information to the sensory cortex and provides feedback to the cerebellum and medulla. 3. Medulla- The foundation of the brainstem. It manages heartbeat and breathing. 4. Reticular formation- The nerve region travelling through the brainstem and thalamus. The network
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The book continues with the Trueba family where Clara and Blanca live once again with Esteban Trueba after the fight. Blanca is forced into marriage with the French Count Jean de Satigny however‚ she runs off to her mother. Blanca gives birth to a daughter named Alba who has the eyes of her father Pedro Tercero Garcia and the hair of Rosa the beautiful. The whole family lives under roof however‚ the family aren’t united. Esteban has an estrange relationship between his son Jaime the studious doctor
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Without Conscience Book Report Without Conscience: The Disturbing World Of The Psychopaths Among Us It all started with unusual brain wave patterns on an electroencephalogram (EEG). It was several years ago when Robert Hare and two graduate students discovered these unusual brain wave patterns‚ so unusual that they couldn’t have come from real people‚ as described by the editor of a scientific journal. However‚ those EEGs did come from real people‚ a different
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