Title: Dead Stars Author: Born in 1894 in Lucena City‚ Quezon. Marquez - Benítez authored the first Filipino modern English language short story‚ Dead Stars‚ published in the Philippine Herald in 1925. Born into the prominent Marquez family of Quezon province‚ she was among the first generation of Filipino people trained in the American education system which used English as the medium of instruction. She graduated high school in Tayabas High School now‚ Quezon National High School and college from
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Managers Hot Seat #1: Diversity in Hiring: Candidate Conundrum Summary of the case: The company personnel Robert (Manager) and Paul (Project leader) are interviewing two potential candidates Sonya and Jacqueline for a new position at the company. After interviewing both candidates Paul feels Sonya is the one they should hire while Robert believes they should hire Jacqueline. Paul’s reasoning is that he feels he’d work better with Sonya both being Caucasian while Robert thinks Paul may have personal
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mile away. Rolling. Foaming. Rushing. Surging. Beginning to thicken and swell in strength. Now it was a battlement of ink-black water‚ almost crumpling under its own weight; but still rising‚ and now roaring. It smashed into the side of the bucking Star‚ like a punch thrown by an invisible god. He was aware of being flung backwards into the edge of a bench‚ the dull crack of metal against the base of his spine. The ship creaked violently and pitched into a tilt‚ downing slowly‚ almost on to beam ends
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Summary: Dead Stars by Paz Marquez-Benitez (In which I transferred and extended.) *** Oh what a shame! I haven’t posted anything for a long time. Though I did not want to blame it to the fact that I was recently buried in a terrible work load and a painful school schedule made more complicated by tasks and deadlines‚ I just can’t. But come to think of it‚ it won’t hurt if I post the summaries and reviews that hinder me from reading and blogging‚ will it? Besides‚ they’re still literature
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RAINBOW : “MAKING STAR TEAMS OUT OF STAR PLAYERS” The best top performers are on average four times more productive than an average performer. However‚ there is a great danger of star members being unable to work together due to personal their personal egos. Thus‚ there is a need to manage them. In addition‚ their conventional wisdom is highly useful in situation such as designing highly sensitive business model and new products besides solving strategic problem. For example‚ 600 Apple engineers
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Dead Star Setting: house of Don Julian‚ House of Judge del Valle‚ Tanda where there are coconut plantation and a beach‚ Church of Our Lady of Sorrow‚ Calle Real‚ Calle Luz in Sta. Cruz (hometown of Julia) Time of the story: Lenten Season. Characters: Alfredo Salazar‚ Esperanza‚ Julia Salas‚ Don Julian‚ Carmen‚ Judge del Valle‚ Donna Adella‚ Calixta‚ Dionisio‚ Vicente‚ Brigida Samuy. Theme: forbidden love Moral: It was expectations and reality. We expect that there’s always a happy ever after
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August 27‚ 2013 P4 Psychological Perspectives Patrick Star can be described as one of the dumbest starfish in the sea. He wears green shorts with purple flowers on them. He has a best friend named Spongebob Squarepants who is always an air head. Patrick’s ancestors all had a brain development problem. They forgot things easily but they can be very smart at times. They are good at doing nothing and making things worse. They started to wear cloths so they can be accepted in the Bikini Bottom
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of the article “Teens are Hardwired for Risky Behavior” was that the efforts of teaching teens about the dangers of unprotected sex‚ drug‚ alcohol use‚ smoking‚ etc. don’t work. They can teach kids all they want about the dangers and try to scare them but the reality is that in the spur of the moment most teens will be likely to give into peer pressure. Most of the time‚ teens wouldn’t do risky business if they were alone. When a teen is doing risky business it’s usually because there are a lot of
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You and Your Parent’s Expectations Star Food is a psychological story that focuses on the expectations of the parents and their teenager’s success. His father wants him to become an objective‚ work orientated man while his mother wants him to be a man of “worldly curiosity” (19). He never seems to be able to amount to much. Even when he sets out to try to be more ambitious and catch the shoplifters‚ he ends up letting them go. He simply does not have the passion‚ ambition‚ and drive that his parents
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1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Unfortunately‚ a lot of the psychological literature on this particular topic was written in the 1960’s/1970’s when the term Risky Shift was most popular. With more current research‚ the term Risky Shift has been replaced with the term Group Polarisation. (Deegs 2009:1) The term Risky Shift was first coined in in the early 1960’s and was used to describe the tendency for groups to take more risks than the same individuals within these groups would have taken had they been
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