Setting Up a Shock-Proof House Two years back when on one fine morning‚ I was taking my daughter to school in our car‚ we discovered that once a beautiful large house was now burnt black due to electrocution. Out of utmost dismay and wonder‚ my daughter asked me – “Papa‚ what has happened?”‚ and I provided her few explanations to what could have happened and how it could have happened. But her inquisitiveness was not resolved‚ and every other day in the morning‚ when we passed by that house
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FINAL SPEECH (Persuasive Problem-Solution) Purpose: To inform and persuade your audience that a specific problem exists‚ it is serious‚ and it affects them. Time: 6-8 minutes Topic: Choose a topic that interests you and would probably interest your audience (the class). Consider what your audience already knows about this topic and what their attitude about this topic will be. Do not choose something the audience already knows a lot about. This topic must be presented in a persuasive
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Solutions for Homelessness This great nation of awesome power and abundant resources is losing the battle against homelessness. The casualties can be seen on the street corners of every city in American holding an "I will work for food" sign. Homeless shelters and rescue missions are at full capacity. There is no room at the inn for the nation’s indigent. Anyone who has studied this issue understands that homelessness is a complex problem. Communities continue to struggle with this socio-economic
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Harmantaj sahota sahot111 103776105 Professor Oriet 10 march‚ 2013 Inventing solutions “To invent u need a good imagination and a pile of junk.” –Thomas Edison Inventing solutions and inventions is familiar to us in science and engineering. We use the word ‘invention’ in creative endeavours such as mathematics‚ music‚ literature and sometimes in fine art too. In a broader context invention can be
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Rachel Bohnenberger Professor Van Doorn ENVS 150-002 30 January 2015 Critique Two In the first video‚ The Story of Solutions‚ the main focus was to shift attention from making more and more for the economy to making the economy better. It was described in the video that in order to make the economy better‚ we need to focus our attention on sustainability. One example given was banning plastic bags. Two methods were given on how to accomplish said task—the old method and the new method. The old
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Shell shock was a reaction to the intensity of the bombardment and fighting from the war‚ commonly formed from the trenches. Early symptoms of shell shock included tiredness‚ irritability‚ giddiness‚ lack of concentration and headaches (Spartacus Education‚ 2015). Authorities first ignored the men when they had shell shock even when the men finally suffered mental breakdowns making it impossible for them to remain
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“Different factors that can affect students’ performance” The documentary “Waiting for ‘Superman’ ” portrays teachers as both the solution and the problem in American education. The film notes the historic abuse and low pay that led to teacher unions and tenure‚ but argues that the nearly impenetrable job protections and uniform salary scales have hardened into detriments‚ assuring bad teachers earn too much and good teachers too little. Guggenheim‚ demonstrates throughout his documentary on the
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EMSE 269 - Elements of Problem Solving and Decision Making EXTRA PROBLEM 6: SOLVING DECISION TREES Read the following decision problem and answer the questions below. A manufacturer produces items that have a probability p of being defective. These items are formed into batches of 150. Past experience indicates that some (batches) are of good quality (i.e. p=0.05) and others are of bad quality (i.e. p=0.25). Furthermore‚ 80% of the batches produced are of good quality and 20% of the batches are
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Network Solution‚ Inc. 3 2.1 Profile of Network Solutions’ 3 2.2 Challenge faced by Network Solutions’ 3 3.0 Performance Management 3 3.1 Overview of Performance Management System 4 3.2 Characteristics of an ‘ideal’ performance management system 4 4.0 Network Solutions’ Performance Management System 5 4.1 Ideal characteristics which implemented at Network Solutions 5 4.2 Identification of mislaid characteristics at Network Solutions 5 5.0 Implementation system from Network Solutions 7 5.1
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TUTORIAL 2 Linear Programming - Minimisation Special cases Simplex maximisation 1. Innis Investments manages funds for a number of companies and wealthy clients. The investment strategy is tailored to each client’s needs. For a new client‚ Innis has been authorised to invest up to $1.2 million in two investment funds: a stock fund and a money market fund. Each unit of the stock fund costs $50 and provides an annual rate of return of 10%; each unit of the money market fund costs
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