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    What is biometric technology? Biometric technology describes the range of technologies used to measure‚ analyse and record one or more of a person’s unique characteristics‚ such as fingerprints‚ iris patterns or voice. This technology is generally used to support business processes that require confirmation of identity. How can this technology be used in schools and what are the potential benefits? There are several ways that schools can use biometric technology. The most obvious of these

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    the Germ Monsters Away This Winter Body Copy: Flu germs are like monsters. They get into our body‚ and try to scare us by attacking. When germ monsters attack we get sick. There are some things we can do to help keep the germ monsters away. • Wash your hands with soap and warm water • Have an adult help you wash your toys and games • Give sick friends time to rest‚ play with them after they feel better • Sneeze and cough into your sleeve or a tissue to keep germ monsters from spreading What happens

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    Two Kinds

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    bring enjoy-ment if you fulfil the expectation or it can lead to disappointment if you don’t. Every individual will not get through life without having some sort of expectation to something‚ and this as well include parents too. The short story ’Two Kinds’ written by Amy Tan is from 1989‚ and it delineates a mother’s attempt to push her daughter into achieving a prodigious lifestyle. The mother is an immi-grant from China‚ but her daughter is born in America. The cultural difference of their upbringing

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    De Gula‚ Shiela Mae BSBA-HRDM 1-6D 3 kinds of business 1 Sole Proprietorship A sole proprietorship places all liabilities for finances and operations on the owner. The owner’s personal property is tied to the business‚ so he assumes a risk against his personal assets should the business experience financial hardship. Annual income tax returns are filed on a Form 1040‚ and the owner must also file self-employment taxes. The profits and losses of the business are reported through the owner

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    Technology is something that has affected the way of living for the whole world’s population. It’s not completely clear if it has affected the population in a positive or in a negative way. Technology specially affected the ways of communication we use nowadays and has changed our perspective of the world. Going back to the 19th century where the first telephone was invented and later on the production of successful commercialized telephones in the late 19th century‚ this use of technology used to

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    Plot "Two Kinds tells of a woman and daughter expecting a great life in America. The daughter‚ Jing-mei‚ wants desperately to become a "Chinese Shirley Temple" by making a career in singing and dancing. Her mother is consumed in the belief that Jing-mei is a genius‚ thus making her do pointless tests that she sees other prodigy children doing in magazines such as standing on her head and reciting world capitals. All of this proves to be useless and the idea begins to fade away until Jing-mei’s mother

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    1.0 INTRODUCTION: AISI 304L austenitic stainless steel is widely used as engineering materials due to its high strength and good corrosion resistance properties. However‚ AISI 304L stainless steel undergoes extensive wear and erosion when applied as components in aggressive environments such as petro- chemical and marine atmosphere [1]. Solid particle erosion is defined as the progressive loss of material from a solid surface due to mechanical interaction between the surface and some fluid entrained

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    Finance Association Capital Asset Prices: A Theory of Market Equilibrium under Conditions of Risk Author(s): William F. Sharpe Source: The Journal of Finance‚ Vol. 19‚ No. 3 (Sep.‚ 1964)‚ pp. 425-442 Published by: Blackwell Publishing for the American Finance Association Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2977928 . Accessed: 23/08/2011 00:15 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use‚ available at . http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms

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    Gun and Gun Control Course: BCOM/275 January 27‚ 2013 Instructor: Gail Zwart Gun and Gun Control‚ written in the New York Times on 1/25/13 The worldwide controversial topic of gun control has taken our nation by storm. The epidemic‚ as stated by our President has become a disturbing and mind blowing statistic. But I must say‚ gun violence has impacted out world since our fore fathers. But since our most recently and horrific active of gun violence the government has decided

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    schools? In the past few years‚ statistics have shown that violence has increased drastically. What changes have occurred to make this happen? One factor could be technology. Almost everywhere one looks kids are holding some type of technology. Along with that a lot of information is readily available to them such as violence. Children from an early age are exposed to violence not only with technology but also with their surroundings. As they get older they begin to view it as a normal thing‚ so

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