General English standard of students Question 1: How bad is the situation? 1. HKEAA recently completed the first administration of the TSA of Primary 3 students to assess their performance against professionally defined competences in Chinese‚ English and Mathematics. Surprisingly‚ there are 25% of students who fail in English. 2. In the 2009 HKCEE and HKALE English examinations‚ there are some unacceptable mistakes such as some students spelled banana wrongly to ‘’banna’’ and ‘’bananna’’
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The Beauty Standard "Does this make me look fat?” Everyone at one time or another has experienced this iconic question in some way. Your best friend may have asked it‚ as she was getting ready for a date or maybe you muttered these words to yourself as you stared disapprovingly into a mirror; either way‚ this six-word question alludes to a standard of beauty that everyone strives to meet. A standard of beauty that is almost impossible to meet. The definition of beauty has evolved greatly over
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The Coastal Plain of the Arctic Refuge is one of America’s last great wilderness areas. It is home to many animals such as polar bears‚ wolves‚ and grizzly bears‚ caribou herds‚ snow geese‚ musk oxen‚ and dozens of other species. If your oil companies keep drilling in the Arctic‚ most of these beautiful creatures will die‚ and some will become extinct. The Coastal Plain is home to these animals. Annually‚ a herd of 129‚000 caribou gather on the Coastal Plain to bear and nurse their young. Polar
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Americans have watched as our Presidents have debated over the foreign oil dilemma. Throughout those thirty years little has been accomplished. Research has been done and we have finally gotten the hybrid car on the market‚ but the use of foreign oil is still a drastic measure and keeps rising each year. There are many options America could use to end this war on oil. Some of them include the use of ethanol‚ hybrid cars‚ and nuclear power plants. We do use some of these‚ but perhaps we need to expand their
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CULF 2301.01 4 November 2010 Deep Water Oil Well Drilling For the last century finding a cheap supply of a sustainable energy source has been one of the major policies of the United States. Since the later stages of the industrial revolution and the first gasoline powered car were invented there has been an insatiable demand for petroleum. Oil well drilling first began onshore and then eventually led to shallow water drilling and finally deep water drilling as the technology evolved. Over the
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ISIS and the Oil Industry The oil industry became a key source of revenue for ISIS following the 2003 onset of the Iraqi insurgency. In 2007‚ AQI was making roughly 100-200 million dollars per year from oil smuggling‚ with much of the smuggled product stolen from the Bayji refinery. In 2008‚ AQI made 50-100 thousand dollars or 18.25-36.5 million per annum through its Bayji rackets. AQI operatives were also known to drill holes in oil pipelines‚ syphon the oil into trucks‚ and sell it to various
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Coconut oil’s competitors The competitors of coconut oil can be divided into 2 into groups direct competitors and indirect competitors. For direct competitors consist of the existing cooking coconut-oil producers that transform coconut oil into solid form and put it in clear glass bottle and liquid form in plastic bottle. The second group is indirect competitors which consist of the products that are used to for frying‚ baking‚ food preparation‚ flavoring that doesn’t involve heat and other types
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Page 1: Introduction OPITO is the focal point for skills‚ learning and workforce development in the oil & gas industry. It aims to deliver the right skills for the industry now and in the future. OPITO was established to meet industry demand for a competent and competitive workforce. To achieve this it works with industry employers‚ training providers and higher education providers. Careers for life are now relatively rare in the UK. Individuals now have more varied career options‚ career progression
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[Year] Anti-Federalists and Term Limits Argument against term limits for the Presidency Introduction In 1787‚ with America in it’s infancy‚ the Anti-Federalists wrote responses to the Federalist papers and the Federalist support of what became the U.S. Constitution. The Anti-Federalist response (unlike the Federalist) was not coordinated‚ but was effective in voicing valid concerns about the formation of our government. Nearly 150 years after the Anti-Federalist papers‚ Franklin Roosevelt’s
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Corporate governance Ethical Standards Conflicts of InterestIn accordance with the Constitution and the Corporations Act 2001‚ Directors are required to disclose to the Board any material contract in which they may have an interest. In compliance with section 195 of the Corporations Act 2001 any Director with a material personal interest in a matter being considered by the Board will not vote on or be present when the matter is being considered. If the material personal interest is disclosed or
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