Nowadays‚ we have more and more free time‚ but I think we don`t know what to do with it. It all depends‚ of course‚ on what we mean by a "good" use of leisure time. In my view‚ it means using your time to do something creative‚ not wasting your time. A lot of young people today spend their free time watching sport on TV or doing some sport. Another popular pastime is sitting in cafes chatting and drinking coffee. Many of them spend much time surfing the Internet‚ chatting with strangers on the Net
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Dormitory residents reduce electricity consumption when exposed to real-time visual feedback and incentives John E. Petersen‚ Vladislav Shunturov‚ Kathryn Janda‚ Gavin Platt and Kate Weinberger Oberlin College‚ Lewis Center for Environmental Studies‚ Oberlin‚ Ohio‚ USA Abstract Purpose – In residential buildings‚ personal choices influence electricity and water consumption. Prior studies indicate that information feedback can stimulate resource conservation. College dormitories provide an
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A Time Capsule Introduction Hello! If you have found this‚ this is a time capsule created in November of 2011 with the purpose of being opened after 100 years‚ that is‚ in 2111. I am an average American with a wife‚ son‚ two cats and one dog. We live in a modest 3 bedroom house in a fairly small city in America. My day-to-day activities include going to work in a customer service call center‚ coming home to a nice family meal‚ and taking online college courses in addition to the necessary
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1. Describe a time when you experienced a significant period of suffering. How did you deal with that experience? How did you find comfort in the midst of suffering? I was almost 4 months pregnant with our second child and put on bedrest‚ the day of my checkup and ultrasound I began to have extreme pain. Before going to my appointment‚ I went to the bathroom and I heard a big gush‚ then the toilet began to fill with blood. I had a miscarriage‚ I did not deal with it very well and sometimes I still
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While I was working part-time‚ I saw a number of instances of ethical conflicts‚ but not being involved in the decision-making process meant I had little to do with them. But it’s not only in business that one encounters such dilemmas—they come up a lot on everyday life as well. In my senior year at college I took a course called Advertising Creativity and Marketing‚ for which we had to break into groups to do our term paper. Each group had to make an advertisement to market their own product‚ and
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c M t y - B a s e d Costing (ABC)‚ Just-in-Time (JIT)‚ T otal Quality M anagement (TQM)‚ a nd Quality Costs b I . .ITY-BASED COSTING Many companies use a traditional cost system such as job-order costing or process costing‚ or some hybrid of t he two. Using the traditional methods of assigning overhead costs to products using a single predetermined overhead rate based on any single activity measure can produce distorted product costs. The growth in the automation of manufacturing
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Devin David English 101 Evan Harrison 8 November 2011 Smart Girls In Susan Jacoby’s‚ “When Bright Girls Decide Math Is a ‘Waste of Time‚’” she begins to explain how a 16 year old girl decided not to take physics and calculus as a Senior in high school‚ replacing them with electives. Her parents approve because she expects to major in Art or History in college. However‚ this limits her in the future. This choice is referred to as a self-inflicted limit girls place themselves‚ which
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When Advertisements Lie? Symbiosis Institute of Business Management‚ Pune MBA –I‚ Division A Authored by: Ashish Unadkat (35110) Aadhar Agarwal (35130) Malvika Vakil (35124) Shilpa Minj (35144) Tishya Relia (35149) Yash Sanghvi (35152) Contents 1. Introduction..................................................................................................... 3 2. Advertising Standards Council of India ......................................................... 3 3. Legal issues in advertising
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God as a pretense to extort whatever riches he can out of the already economically strained villagers in Salem. Betty Parris -- daughter to Reverend Parris‚ mother is dead. One of the afflicted girls. She suffers from a malediction that clears up when the adults leave the room. She is terrified of her vicious and manipulative cousin Abigail and her Puritan Minister father‚ Reverend Parris. Tituba – a slave purchased in Barbados to serve the Parris household. Tituba has no legal rights or standing
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Write about a time when you went on a holiday that turned out to be disappointing. The November holiday had finally arrived after a long wait. I had finished my N level examination and could finally pamper myself for a holiday trip with my friends. While I was pondering over which destination we will be heading for‚ I came upon an advertisement on the internet‚ promoting on a holiday trip at Malaysia. The advertisement caught my attention and hence‚ I decided to go ahead for it. It was the
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