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    John Gunn indicated that there would be no difficulty for Southeastern to arrange the pound loan for Dozier through its correspondent bank in London. He believed that such a loan would be at 1.5% above the U.K. prime rate. Dozier Hedging Alternatives Forward Market Hedge: Dozier would purchase U.S. dollars under a forward contract. The contract would obligate Dozier to pay £1‚057‚500 in exchange for £1‚057‚500 x 1.4198 $/£ = $1‚501‚438.50 assuming the transaction was at the quoted 3-month

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    Adoption: The Alternative to Abortion The word “positive” is both feared and revered by women around the globe. A simple plus sign on a pregnancy test can be cause for elation or terror. Nearly half of pregnancies among American women are unintended‚ and four in 10 of these are terminated by abortion (Finer and Henshaw 2001). Abortion‚ legalized in 1973 by the Supreme Court decision in Roe v. Wade‚ is defined by the Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary of Law as the termination of a pregnancy after‚ accompanied

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    topic - the psychoanalytic approach vs. the humanistic approach. One supports and provides reasoning for mental disorders and specific behavior‚ while the other states that behavior is based off of personal decisions. Although both the psychoanalytic and the humanistic approaches are well developed theories it is conclusive that the psychoanalytic approach is more useful and instrumental in treating mental disorders. Both approaches defined: The psychoanalytic approach‚ proposed by Sigmund Freud

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    that one can adopt to help them wean off smoking altogether although research questions remains to be framed and studied regarding how successful or common this optimistic attitude has resonated with smokers or aspiring quitters. However‚ as an alternative‚ the e-cigarette is said to be safer than ‘real’ cigarettes. The concept was formulated by a Chinese pharmacist‚ Hon Lik‚ in the period following the new millennium‚ allowing the continued inhalation of nicotine sans the cons of tobacco smoke. Although

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    academic achievement and their elective grades were considered. Frequency‚ percentage and chi-square were used as statistical treatments. The findings revealed that the availability of work after college is the first consideration of students in choosing a course in college. Most of the students prefer to take scientific related field courses‚ or the “popular courses” for Filipinos. The least preferred course are in the Agricultural field. The BOPI results showed that most of the student-respondents

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    Communicative Approach

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     TEACHING ENGLISH Background The origins of Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) are to be found in the changes in the British language teaching tradition dating late 1960s. Until then‚ situation of Language Teaching represented the major British approach to teaching English as foreign language. In situational language teaching‚ language was taught by practicing basic structure in meaningful situation-based activities. But just as the linguistics theory underlying audio-Lingualism was rejected in

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    (Davies & Bhugra‚ 2004). The biological approach and psychoanalytic approach are both deterministic. They both claim that innate componants are responsible for our behaviour. The biological approach claims Behaviour is caused by specific brain structures or that genetic makeup. For example if you have a gene for for a specific behaviour‚ you will exhibit that type of behaviour. Valentine(1992‚ cited in Davey & Sterling‚ 2008). The psychoanalytic approach deterministic as it claims the unconscious

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    Leadership Approach Paper – Organizations depend on the management and leadership skills of individuals in order to be successful. Leaders do not have to be managers but are equally important. Leaders are individuals who possess traits‚ behavior and abilities to influence others to accomplish tasks and other needed objectives for the company. Leadership is defined as “the ability of an individual to influence‚ motivate‚ and enable others to contribute toward the effectiveness and success of the

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    Alternative Air Freshener

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    Used Fabric Softener as Alternate Air Freshener Submitted to: Sir Elwin Fernandez Background of the Study People nowadays‚ rely on factory made or ready-to-use products. Even if they spend a lot‚ it is alright for them because it is more easy to buy than to make one. Just like air fresheners. Air freshener is one of the important things that you should always have at home. We need this to eliminate bad odours coming from garbage‚ fishy foods

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    75 ENLIGHTENED‚ ECLECTIC APPROACH IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING By: Christina I.T. Panggabean (Universitas PGRI Ronggolawe Tuban) Abstract English language teachers need to explore what works and what does not work in a certain ELT context‚ applying what Brown (2001) names an enlightened‚ eclectic approach or a principled approach. They are suggested to explore all language teaching approaches or methods since no single approach or method is best suited for all teaching contexts. This paper also

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