Date Due: _____________10/12/2012___________________ Date Submitted: _____________10/12/2012_________________ Student Name: ________On Pun Wai‚ Kelvin________________ HKIEd Student No: ____________11042687______________________ Topic 2: Speech and Writing The way most Hong Kong students speak English has always been criticized to be too unnatural and clumsy. The reason behind this phenomenon is that they try to speak exactly the same with
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wish@wishfulthinking.co.uk Important notes about the images The boardroom image on the cover and p.7 and the image of the pencil-clock on p.43 are licensed from www.istockphoto.com for use within this document. If you wish to use them elswhere you should purchase a licence from www.istockphoto.com The images at the start of the other chapters are republished from Flickr under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence - you are free to republish them as long as you attribute them to the photographers
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Shaping of North America - Pangea Split North America formed - “America’s Mountains” = Rockies‚ Sierra Nevada‚ Cascades‚ Coast Ranges Peopling the Americas - 35‚000 years ago = Ice Age Glaciers that connected Eurasia with N. America (present day Bering Sea) Nomadic Asian hunters (immigrant ancestors of the Natives) Trekked across the Bering isthmus for 250 centuries Reached far tip of S. America (15‚000 miles from Siberia) By the time Europeans arrived in 1492‚ 54 million people inhabited
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9/4/13 “The Laptop Ate My Attention Span” Did you know laptops are a causing issues in college classes? Some professors and students see them as a distraction to the class. Some students will look at the laptop screen while the student next to them is playing a game. Professors think this intrudes on the students learning. Other professors and students see them as a great note taking tool. The professors and students do not think they are a big distraction and they think the students should learn to
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Textbook Costs The cost of textbooks at all colleges has gotten worse throughout the years. Most used books costs the same as rental books. I am majoring in a science degree and the textbook prices are atrocious. For example‚ tuition for summer for me is $1580 and the cost of books was around $428.43. I had to pay this all out of pocket since there is no financial aid for summer sessions. Most textbooks you can’t buy used or rent because it comes with a lab book that is brand new. I tried
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The College Textbook Price Predicament New college textbooks can easily cost 200 dollars‚ some even as much as 400(Senack‚ 4). Reports indicate that the price of textbooks have risen at twice the rate of inflation over the last twenty years (Emrey-Arras‚ 10). According to an article from Targeted News Service‚ college students are spending on average $1‚200 a year on books and supplies. College textbooks are assigned to students to buy by professors teaching a course‚ making them mandatory course
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What are the Difference between Laptop and Netbook? So what is the difference between laptop and netbook? A laptop (also called a notebook) is computer which has been designed to be made portable‚ featuring a screen hinged to a keyboard. A laptop includes a battery for portable power and a touchpad instead of a mouse for input. Mini laptops (also called a netbook‚ subnotebook or ultraportables) take these ideas further still‚ creating a new market above handheld computers‚ smartphones and personal
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Strategy Marketing the $100 Laptop Negroponte’s idea of developing a low cost easy to use laptop to help children of developed countries gain access to technology was revolutionary. The idea was to offer the laptops to the different governments of developing nations as educational tools. Negroponte’s thought that if the laptop was cheaper enough it would be appealing to all governments and that there would be no reason for the governments not to buy them. The laptops were not going to have a fancy
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2011 MGT301-CE Case 1 Business Textbook Supply Chain 1. 20.4 2. Some may think that the only customers of textbooks are the students but that is not the case. There are a variety of customers that buy the textbook before it even reaches the student‚ someone has to decide what textbook the students are going to be using for which particular course. Business school curricula is changing and therefore their textbooks needs are changing‚ they want textbooks that cover a variety of information
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things done and that arrangements with others should be reasonably predictable and orderly. The legal system appears to be generally just so that the majority is willing to assume that any particular law will produce fair results. If the law is unjust‚ not its application‚ it can be amended. People generally agree that there are times when an individual is justified in breaking the law‚ although they would add that‚ generally speaking‚ the law should be obeyed. NATURAL LAW Stream 1: Based
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