How would you feel when everything you have worked for are suddenly swept away by just a single storm? Imagine ten years of work and investment‚ saving money to afford all the good vanities in the world then you wake up one day realizing that you have lost everything. December 16‚ 2011 when typhoon Sendong brought a horrible tragedy that marked the lives of many Kagay-anons. Homes were shattered‚ livelihoods were flooded‚ and vanities were lost. What’s worse? Lives were taken away. Hundreds of
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Pygmalion Effect: Good People Doing Bad Things “Mother of two kills man who earlier hurt children.” Reports like these are seen every day. These headlines often leave people thinking‚ “Why do good people sometimes do bad things?” This question has everyone from scientists to citizens wondering. The Pygmalion and Golem effects help answer this. These self-fulfilling prophecies tell why people do certain things to meet the standards of others. When faced with pressure‚ their reputation on the line
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There are many things that if I could I would change about the world to make it a better place. Well at least a better place for me .Things that many people may see a dumb or unnecessary. But for me would be life changing or extremely nice. I hope people agree with the things that I would change I pretty sure their good reasons or fun reasons. To begin the very first thing that I would change would be. That tobacco would be illegal I really don’t like tobacco maybe that’s the reason that
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Good things come to those who wait The electrical scooter is finally out! Qassim has been looking forward to this day. Although he has been collecting money for a while‚ Qassim realises that he is £9 short. He is sad. When his mother asks of the reason he looks much deflated‚ he tells her in the hope that she will give him the remaining money. After the disappointment of the answer‚ Qassim returns his money in his box. A month later‚ after saving enough money‚ Qassim rushes into the shop
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Asia‚ and Bwakaw by Jun Robles Lana. Both were very good‚ but after I saw this‚ I couldn’t talk about anything else. As sad and misleading as it may seem‚ Aparisyon did not contain any monsters‚ or ghosts‚ or aswangs. I was a little disappointed at that because I was expecting a horror movie at the beginning‚ but when you see the film you’ll understand that it did not need flashy effects or Sadakos to make your adrenaline rush. Aparisyon is about nuns who live in an isolated monastery‚ 1971‚ a year
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Gold Mining Industry Analysis By: Robert 6/6/2010 The Gold Mining Industry has experienced a huge amount of growth since the beginning of the financial crisis. With the price of gold being at $639 in January 2007 before the beginning of the financial crisis and now in June 2010 the price of gold reaching $1220‚ there is no denying the interest of gold between investors and governments. Investors are seeking ways to protect themselves from inflation and any other type of financial crisis that
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help businesses achieve competitive advantage‚ can the data be used to model underlying business processes‚ and can we gain insights from the data to help improve business processes? These are the goals of Business Intelligence (BI) systems‚ and Data Mining is the set of embeddable (in BI systems) analytic methods that provide the capabilities to explore‚ summarize‚ and model the data. Before applying these methods to data‚ the data has to be typically organized into history repositories‚ known as data
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3/23/2012 SOCIAL PROJECT | Africa: Her Blood Diamonds And Yellow stones | [Type the document subtitle] | | * Diamond mining in Africa Ever since the Kimberley diamond strike of 1868‚ South Africa has been a world leader in diamond production. The primary South African sources of diamonds‚ including seven large diamond mines around the country‚ are controlled by the De Beers Consolidated Mines Company. In 2003‚ De Beers’s operations accounted for 94% of the nation’s
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In Too Much a Good Thing Greg Critser argues that stigmatizing unhealthy behaviors associated with obesity will decrease this growing epidemic. He also states that the American families are to blame for not placing a dietary restraint with their children. Instead‚ he says that parents aren’t to blame for the increase of obesity in children. He states‚ “Closer to home‚ at least 25% of all Americans under the age nineteen are overweight or obese‚ a figure that has doubled over the last 30 years and
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Which is Better Nuclear Energy or Coal? 1 As opposed to an either/or approach‚ use your thesis statement (place it as the last sentence of the introduction) to clearly select either nuclear or coal and then use the arguments in your paper to support that position. The initial construction cost of nuclear power plants is large. On top of this‚ when the power plants first have been built‚ people are left with the cost to enrich and process the nuclear fuel which also costs a lot of money. How
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