Often as a society we’re able to notice whenever our whole day comes crashing down and everything that could go wrong‚ does go wrong. In a short story called “Entropy” by K.C. Cole she explains‚ and gives vivid examples of what Entropy really is. “Once it’s created‚ it can never be destroyed. The road to disorder is a one-way street.” (Cole 15.) Entropy is basically having nothing but bad luck occur to us in a short period of time. It’ll show everyone what disorder really is‚ the sadness it can bring
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B&K Distributors ROI for a Web Based Customer Portal 10 January 2011 Anne Huang‚ Yu Lee Kim‚ Min Woo Lee‚ Chalida Nakornchai‚ Kana Osugi‚ Ryan Thompson Recommendation to Invest in the Web Portal We recommend investing in the Web-Based Customer Portal. The expected high financial rewards with net present value of $346K and 41% IRR within five years (see Exhibit 1) are the main motivators. Based on our market research‚ we believe the high revenue would come from an expanded customer
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Distinctively visual texts use a variety of techniques to convey the experiences during the war. In John Misto’s 1996 play ‘The Shoe-Horn Sonata’ which is about women nurses enduring Japanese POW camps‚ such distinctive experiences as power and survival are shown through techniques like lighting‚ projecting image‚ sound‚ symbols‚ dialogue and body language. In Kenneth Slessor’s 1942 poem ‘Beach Burial’ he also comments about survival in war and the power in distinctively visual ways
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may include in the portfolio. In Hong Kong‚ stock portfolio is the most common investment. But what stocks have higher return? What stocks are risky? What stocks in the portfolio that it has higher return? Many investors may use fundamental analysis to analysis financial data for answering above questions. In the last decade‚ some researches applied data mining techniques on financial market. Data mining is the process of automatically discovery useful information in large data repositories. It can
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as being weak. This is what the main protagonists of both the play‚ Shoe Horn Sonata by John Mistro and the movie‚ Hunger Games directed by Gary Ross endured. Together with photographs‚ cinematic techniques and symbols‚ these texts represent the devastation of war‚ the bonds of friendship forged during a war and their respective will to survive. Friendship is defined as a relationship between friends. In Shoe Horn Sonata‚ when Sheila and Bridie first meet‚ it seems unlikely that they will ever be
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incomprehensible to those who have never experienced it‚ a dread that strikes at the root of one’s survival – an existential fear.” Experiences suffered by women and children in WWII Japanese POW camps are reflected in John Misto’s play‚ The Shoe-Horn Sonata. This is shown through a wide range of distinctively visual techniques such as stage directions‚ language‚ lighting‚ music and sound effects that are designed to put the audience in his characters positions. The fear confronted by the women of the
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Chapter I THE PROBLEM AND ITS BACKGROUND Introduction "Bear in mind that the wonderful things you learn in your schools are the work of many generations‚ produced by enthusiastic effort and infinite labor in every country of the world. All this is put into your hands as your inheritance in order that you may receive it‚ honor it‚ add to it‚ and one day faithfully hand it to your children. Thus do we mortals achieve immortality in the permanent things which we create in common." - Albert Einstein
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Shoe Horn Sonata: In Misto’s play contrast is a powerful dramatic device. Describe its use in the Shoe Horn Sonata. “Shoe Horn Sonata is an impressive story of courage‚ hope‚ horror and friendship. This play is a tribute to commemorate the bravery of the women and to make their story of survival widely known. The historical context that the story has enables us to learn about the past events and to understand the true meaning of war and its consequences. The play draws on real events‚ the Massacre
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Distinctively visual texts are able to manipulate the emotions of the audience to influence the responses of a collective group. John Misto‚ the person behind the play The Shoe-Horn Sonata‚ uses his distinctively visual text as a memorial for the Australian Army nurses who died in the war‚ as they were refused one by the government. “I do not have the power to build a memorial. So I wrote a play instead.” This drama illustrates the way the women were treated in the Japanese prisoner of war camps
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Pedagogical Approaches The pedagogical approaches are integrative‚ constructivist‚ inquiry-based‚ reflective and Collaborative. Constructivist. Teaching of all the subjects is anchored on the belief that the learner is not an empty receptacle who is mere recipient of instruction. Rather‚ the learner is an active constructor of knowledge and a maker of meaning. The role of the teacher becomes one of the facilitator‚ a “guide on the other side” rather than a dispenser of information‚ the sage
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