Still Separate ‚ Still Unequal By Jonathan Kozol Summary •Jonathan Kozol’s "Still Separate Still Unequal" he explains how he visits various urban schools. The children voice their opinions and say how they feel forgotten and unimportant. They gave their view on their school and explained how they longed for better things like other children had. Kozol pointed out many problems with education such as unqualified teachers‚ lack of supplies‚ and schools on bad conditions. In urban schools most teachers
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the price of great struggle and sacrifice for most people. In essence‚ it only comes when you have defeated the enemy‚ or the enemy has defeated you. John Knowles was able to capture the subtle goal and essence of his novel by titling it A Separate Peace. A Separate Peace is a story about Gene Forrester‚ the protagonist of the story‚ and his constant struggle with the underlying emotional conflicts present in him. He has to fight a war within his own mind that every man has to fight for himself. His
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NEKN82 EMPIRICAL FINANCE LAB 3 Report Done by: Lang‚ Qin 1988-12-05 Low Lihui Valerie 1989-09-24 Q1 Before we evaluate the actual investment performance of the five constructed portfolios for period 1992.02-2008.07‚ we firstly calculate the mean‚ variance and standard deviation of each of the portfolio using Excel. The results are generated as below: Portfolios | Z1 | Z2 | Z3 | Z4 | Z5 | Zm | Mean | 0.008490 | 0.003843 | 0.009980 | 0.000141 | 0.004840 | 0.0066 | Variance |
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Finan Eskimo Pie Corporation (dollars in thousands except per share data) |1987 |1988 |1989 |1990 | |Net Sales |$30‚769 |$36‚695 |$46‚709 |$47‚198 | |Cost of Goods Sold |21‚650 |25‚635 |31‚957 |31‚780 | |Advertising and Sales Promotion |4‚742 |4‚241 |5‚030 |5‚130 | |General & Administrative |6‚068 |5‚403 |6‚394 |7‚063 | |Operating Income (Loss) |-1‚691 |1‚416 |3‚328 |3‚225 | |Interest Income |308 |550 |801 |1‚004 | |Interest Expense |-88 |-107 |-88 |-67 | |Other Income (Expense) net
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A Separate Peace: The Price of Jealousy On the surface‚ A Separate Peace‚ written by John Knowles in 1959‚ is a tale of two boys and the events that take place between them one school year during World War Two. Behind the simple storyline‚ however‚ lies a deeply woven web of symbols‚ themes‚ and lessons that are all of great significance and relevance to our lives today. Perhaps one of the most important concepts we can learn from this novel is how we‚ as a species‚ create our own enemies due
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The theme of A Separate peace is self-identity. Gene goes through the same identity crisis‚ but his crisis resolves not around war‚ but Finny. Gene’s admiration for and jealousy of his friend is so great that he literally loses himself in Finny. At the time when Finny is injured‚ he feels that he doesn’t exist. Gene’s personal identity is so wrapped up in Finny that in order to become an individual with his own identity‚ he has to destroy Finny. The first example of identity is at the beginning when
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A separate peace: Literary Essay In this literary essay we will be discussing a book “A separate peace” by John Knowles. In this book two boys named Gene and Finny are attending an establishment at Devon; the boys quickly bond but when Gene starts to get jealous he ends up killing his best friend. Gene ends up returning back to Devon to apologize‚ emotions quickly stir up. I will explain to you in one short essay how flashback is important to this story. We first run into flashback when Gene
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This will involve developing strategies‚ precises tactics‚ and allocating resources of people and money. * 2nd-Organizing: This involves analysing and classifying the activities of the organization and the relations among them. Then separate manageable activities from individuals ones. Staff the organization with qualifies people‚ that means the right person for the right job. * 3rd- Integrating: I.e Communicate the objectives of the organization to the staff‚ and motivate
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Numbers 1‚2‚and 4 1. In the book A Separate Piece‚ I understood and connected with both characters very well. The character I would say I sympathized more with is Gene. I sympathized more with Gene because Gene had a lot of the same feelings in the book that I have. An example In the book is when Gene thought that Finny was trying to draw him away from his studies so that he wouldn’t be the head of the class but was never really doing that. I can relate because sometimes I feel the same way
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Principles of Marketing MK 301 A Fall 2012 Professor: Office: Phone: Email: Office hours: Joyce X. Zhou‚ Ph.D. Cremer Hall 503 (620)341-6594 (office) 341-5345 (dept.& messages) xzhou@emporia.edu (preferred mode of contact) MWF 8:30-11am & F 11:50-12:20 pm Course Description Introduction to the concept of marketing and its application including customer focus; the importance and formulation of the marketing mix in marketing decision making; strategy and use of market segmentation
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