The Witch of Colchis As she was ferried ’cross the River Styx‚ what thoughts too harrowing to contemplate came coursing madly through her consciousness? Her children whom she killed with her own hands as vengeance for their father’s faithlessness‚ ensuring they would not be reared as slaves? The hapless rival she engulfed in flames— a marriage of political convenience kindling blind rapacious jealousy? Her husband’s cousins she enticed to cast a heinous spell of mutilation‚ thinking they’d
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WHAT IS CORPORATE STRATEGY? Although strategy has different definitions by various authors‚ to understand Corporate Strategy we begin by defining strategy. "Strategy is the direction and scope of an organization over the long-term: which achieves advantage for the organization through its configuration of resources within a challenging environment‚ to meet the needs of markets and to fulfil stakeholder expectations” (Johnson‚ Scholes & Whittington‚ 2008). From the definition given by Johnson
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imperialism increased tension and competition. Militarism‚ alliances‚ and imperialism are the three main causes of the first world war. Rising tension among the Great powers had created competition that required only the slightest spark to ignite into what is known as World War I. Imperialism was one of the major causes of WWI because it created competition between the Great Powers‚ increased chaos in the Balkans‚ and expanded the European conflict to include the entire world. An example would be the
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What factors could enhance the long-term power of such early interventions? (1100) Given these limitations‚ it is worth discussing some of the factors that may promote the long-term effectiveness of ECD programmes in the South African context. Enhancing the long-term power of early interventions will require substantially improving the accessibility of the ECD programmes to the most vulnerable children‚ families and communities (Britto et al.‚ 2013; Penn‚ 2004). Research has consistently shown that
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What do biologists do? What do biologists do? Biologists study many things. The three main things that they do are that they hypothesis‚ they make observations‚ inferences and they record data. Without hypothesizing‚ biologists can not experiment or create scientific laws. Being able to hypothesis is very important in the world of science. Some evidence that I have‚ to prove that biologists hypothesis‚ are the activities we did in page 17 and in page 28. In page 17‚ in our notebook‚ we
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What is biodiversity and what are the impacts do invasive species have on biodiversity? Biodiversity is the variety of animal and plant life in a particular habitat; it also means all of the different natural processes on the earth. There is estimated to be more than 11000 tree species in the amazon rainforest‚ that a huge amount of different species and that’s only for one part of the world. It is important to have biodiversity‚ Biodiversity boost ecosystems productivity. What is productivity?
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The "big five" are broad categories of personality traits. While there is a significant body of literature supporting this five-factor model of personality‚ researchers don’t always agree on the exact labels for each dimension. However‚ these five categories are usually described as follows: Extraversion: This trait includes characteristics such as excitability‚ sociability‚ talkativeness‚ assertiveness and high amounts of emotional expressiveness. Agreeableness: This personality dimension includes
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Encyclopedia’s definition for probability is the concern for events that are not certain and the reasonableness of one expectation over another. These expectations are usually based on some facts about past events or what is known as statistics. Collier describes statistics to be the science of the classification and manipulation of data in order to draw inferences. Inferences here can be read to mean expectations‚ leading to the conclusion that the two go hand in hand in accomplishing what mankind has tried
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The linear probability model‚ ctd. When Y is binary‚ the linear regression model Yi = β0 + β1Xi + ui is called the linear probability model. • The predicted value is a probability: • E(Y|X=x) = Pr(Y=1|X=x) = prob. that Y = 1 given x • Yˆ = the predicted probability that Yi = 1‚ given X • β1 = change in probability that Y = 1 for a given ∆x: Pr(Y = 1 | X = x + ∆x ) − Pr(Y = 1 | X = x ) β1 = ∆x 5 Example: linear probability model‚ HMDA data Mortgage denial v. ratio of debt payments to income (P/I
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What Kind of Success Should We Embrace？ Since ancient times‚ people in growing numbers have been pursuing success. When asked about what success is reflected in‚ people’s answers differ. Some people believe that enough fund and outstanding achievements embody a successful man or woman whereas others insist that success is doing something that one considers is worth doing. I am in favor that the view on whether successful or not varies from people to people and era to era and strong espouse
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