identities are revealed to them in very unexpected ways. In the short stories‚ “Fish Cheeks” by Amy Tan‚ “Two Kinds” by Amy Tan‚ and “The Bass‚ The River‚ and Sheila Mant” by W.D. Wetherell‚ the characters learn about their identities through significant moments. First‚ Amy Tan from the short story‚ “Fish Cheeks”‚ understands about her identity at her family’s special holiday dinner. For example‚ Amy is very embarrassed when her crush and his family come over for an unusual
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societies have something else in common. They have an economic system or an organized way of providing for the wants and needs of their people. The way in which these decisions are made will determine the type of economic system. There are three major kinds of economic systems: traditional‚ command and market. In a society with a traditional economy nearly all economic activity is the result of ritual and custom. Habit and custom also prescribe most social behaviour. Individuals are not free to make
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SESSION II KINDS OF INFORMATION SYSTEM Transaction Processing System A TPS records and manages all the data collected or generated by an organization in its day to day operations. A TPS does not generate information. The data from a TPS is mostly used as input to other information systems. Examples: Orders‚ invoices‚ wages‚ employee records. Is the process of dividing a body of data into blocks and spreading the data blocks across several partitions on several hard disks. Is a system that
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Musical instruments according to their Family Trumpet A soprano brass wind instrument consisting of a long metal tube looped once and ending in a flared bell‚ the modern type being equipped with three valves for producing variations in pitch. Trombone A brass instrument consisting of a long cylindrical tube bent upon itself twice‚ ending in a bell-shaped mouth‚ and having a movable U-shaped slide for producing different pitches. French Horn A valved brass wind instrument that produces
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Overview of Artist Tan Qing Lun‚ 26‚ is a traditional musician and an instructor. Qing Lun graduated from the Shanghai Conservatory of Music under a postgraduate scholarship from the National Arts Council (NAC). He is currently one of the musicians for Ding Yi Music Company‚ he plays the traditional Chinese instrument‚ Dizi. He is also currently the Ensemble Manager and a founding member of Ding Yi Music Company. In addition‚ he is currently teaching at Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts (NAFA). Besides
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Kinds of Endorsement The main types of endorsements are as under:-- (1) Blank or general endorsement. If the holder of the instrument signs his name only and delivers it to the endorsee‚ it is called general or blank endorsement. (2) Full endorsement. It contains not only the signature of the endorser but specifies the endorsee or to his order also. (3) Restrictive endorsement. Here the endorser uses such words in endorsement which restricts further negotiation and transfer of bills. (4) Sans
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If a poll were to be taken to see how many people love to go out to a restaurant to eat‚ I’m pretty sure the feedback would be mostly positive. Everyone loves to be waited on hand and foot; it’s like having our own personal butler. However‚ this depends on the type of waiter you get. In my opinion‚ the waiter could be the deciding factor between enjoying your meal or not‚ and it all comes down to how attentive your waiter is. All too often you get the inattentive waiter that just completely destroys
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that they had to face as immigrants in a foreign country. The story also centers around the difficulties that her mother had with English and how she evolved her own dialect that later became part of their relationship. At the beginning of the story‚ Tan makes it clear that she was not much of an enthusiast of English making her claim that she was no expert on English. “I am not a scholar of English or literature. I cannot give you much more than personal opinions on the English language and its variations
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Spectacular Jing-mei The girl Jing-mei in “Two Kinds” is brave and independent. She has miserable childhood because she has a pushy mother who always tries to force her into being a prodigy. However‚ Jing-mei doesn’t obey as other Chinese kids. She awakens her inner part and follows it to be what she really is. This is the reason why we treat Jing-mei sympathetically and both respectfully. When she was a litter girl‚ Jing-mei’s mother gave het various tests‚ trying to see whether she
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