Story: Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been Author: Joyce Carol Oates First Reaction: My reaction to the story was disbelief‚ it was hard for me to fathom anyone much less an entire village agreeing to such barbaric practices and creating and following a tradition where you stone and hurt or kill family and friends. Characterization The story is told in third person most of the time‚ it seems to be a village member who narrates the story‚ they are familiar with the village and the people
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Managerial Functions are universal processes which characterize all group efforts-public or private‚ large scale or small scale. These functions include the organization‚ direction‚ coordination and control of human and technical resources to achieve the desired goals of an organization. (Gregorio‚ 1978) Gregorio‚ Herman C. (1978) School Administration and Supervision. Quezon City R.P. Garcia Publishing Company. How well an organization operates to realize its goal depends upon the degree of integration
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An alpha level of 0.05 is arbitrary and was set as a standard by scientists. One of the key concepts in hypothesis testing is that of significance level or‚ the alpha level‚ which specifies the probability level for the evidence to be an unreasonable estimate. Unreasonable means that the estimate should not have taken its particular value unless some non-chance factor(s) had operated to alter the nature of the sample such that it was no longer representative of the population of interest Remember
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2. Young Professional magazine was developed for a target audience of recent college gradu- ates who are in their first 10 years in a business/professional career. In its two years of pub- lication‚ the magazine has been fairly successful. Now the publisher is interested in expanding the magazine’s advertising base. Potential advertisers continually ask about the demographics and interests of subscribers to Young Professional. To collect this informa- tion‚ the magazine commissioned a survey
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1. When someone says they are going to us a sample to draw an inference about a population‚ it means that rather than survey the entire population‚ they’ll survey a smaller group and apply the results to a larger group. For example‚ if you take a neighborhood in a town with 100 homes and survey approximately 80% of the households and 76% of those families own multiple televisions you may infer that the majority of the 100 home neighborhood also own multiple televisions. A simple random sample
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ter3. If you were Chuck‚ what would you have done differently? What steps would you take at this point to make sure the supply of the popular new toy is sufficient to meet the anticipated demand? In this situation‚ due to the quickly approaching deadlines‚ it would have been ideal for Chuck Moore to fly down to communicate face to face with Vicente. If this was not possible‚ Chuck should have then used video conferencing as the means of communication because this option would have allowed for immediate
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HUNTER BUSINESS GROUP : TBA ANALYSIS OF THE CASE Brief Background of the Case Star Oil a gasoline services company started TBA (Tyres‚ Batteries and Accessories)‚ a complementary business which added value to the core business of gasoline sales. The TBA business initial appeared successful as there was a strong correlation between petroleum sales and the auxiliary business but the profits of TBA started showing a progressive decline before turning into a loss making proposition. Star Oil decided
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Tutorial Questions for Exploratory Data Analysis – Summary Statistics & Graphs 1. Customers of a particular bank rated the service provided by the bank on a scale of one to ten‚ correct to one decimal point. The bank categorised their customers as either (1) Private Account holders or (2) Business Account holders. The information below summarises customer attitudes towards the quality of service provided by the bank. Use the output to answer the questions below. a) Briefly describe
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G eographically‚ Base 113 was located on a different frequency‚ yet it existed near the vicinity of the Barnegat area. Much like any other location that cannot be found in the physical world‚ this kept average‚ nosy people from stumbling across it by accident. And as with any other location that can only be accessible using a Teleport Anomaly or an Adelbu issue Teleportation Transponder‚ the other world existed alongside the fog world. Conversely‚ whereas the fog world was a seemingly endless expanse
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distinct groups that exist: the hunters‚ the non-hunters‚ and the anti-hunters. While non-hunters themselves do not participate in the long time tradition they accept that others do. The anti-hunters condemn both the activity and the people that partake in it. They believe that hunters are only killing animals for the trophy and allow the meat to go to waste. They claim that all animals suffer when they are killed by a hunter. They argue the role that hunters play in conservation efforts. They
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