Good afternoon. I am pleased to announce that one of our students‚ Marissa Kelleher‚ has been named a Commended Student in the 2014 National Merit Scholarship Program. Today‚ I presented Marissa the Letter of Commendation from the National Merit Scholarship Corporation (NMSC). About 34‚000 Commended Students throughout the nation (and the only one at GHS!) are being recognized for their exceptional academic promise. Although they will not continue in the 2014 competition for National Merit
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Centrally planned economy is defined as an economic system whereby economic factors are fixed by central authorities namely the states and the government of a respective nation. Such system is as opposed to one where decisions are made by private residents and companies‚ specifically the market economic system. Centrally planned economy approaches toward an assumption in which the market does not revolve around the utmost interest of the people‚ and that central power decisions are required in
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Nevada 89015-5582 2012-11-08 Dear Mr. Goodkind‚ I am writing this letter to tell you how much I enjoyed reading your book and how much I appreciate the time and effort you put down in the making of it. I find your book to be very well written with great passion and creativity from your side. From the very beginning I found it hard to put the book away and the further I read the better it became. With a great story line and its detailed descriptions in every moment it resulted in a dramatic
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Evolving Formal Organizations Sary Bo Axia College University of Phoenix We live in a world where there are many categories and labeling that we are subjected to. But depending on where we’re at in life‚ we can pretty much choose our own category. We can choose which social group we belong to. We can see which formal organization we have chosen to be in. These are all choices we can make on our own. There are many different social groups out there‚ as well as formal organizations. Formal organizations
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Introduction This essay is based on Formal and Informal organisations and the details and difference between the two. Recommendations and conclusions are also drawn based on the information presented. Formal and Informal Organisations The fundamental concepts of formal and informal organisations are regarded with the nature and processes in the workplace. A formal organization is the actual framework of the organization including its organizational chart and its chain of command which determines
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MAKING FORMAL SPEECHES Often this is the most difficult part of oral communication for many people. Selection of the Topic This is the first step in formal speechmaking. You may be assigned a topic‚ such as to introduce a speaker. Here‚ you are likely to be assigned a topic because you have some knowledge of the subject matter (the speaker). In other cases‚ you will have to choose a topic by yourself. Do this using 3 basic factors: 1. background and knowledge (you need some knowledge of the
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Chapter Summary Society is organized "to get its job done". It does so through formal organizations and bureaucracies. The same system that can be frustrating and impersonal is also the one on which we rely for our personal welfare and to fulfill our daily needs. The society of today‚ however is not the society of yesterday‚ nor will it be the society of tomorrow. The rationalization of society refers to a transformation in people’s thinking and behavior over the past 150 years‚ shifting the focus
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Utilizing Effective Monitoring Strategies in the Classroom The American heritage dictionary describes monitoring as scrutinizing or checking systematically with a view to collecting certain specified categories of data (Cotton‚ 1988). Another definition for monitoring that is more closely related to the field of education is‚ “activities pursued by the teacher to keep track of student learning for purposes of making instructional decisions and providing feedback to students on their progress”(Cotton
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Journal of College Teaching & Learning – December 2009 Volume 6‚ Number 8 Utilizing Online Exams: A Case Study Stacy M.P. Schmidt‚ Ed.D.‚ California State University‚ Bakersfield‚ USA David L. Ralph‚ Ph.D.‚ Pepperdine University‚ USA Bruce Buskirk‚ Ph.D.‚ Pepperdine University‚ USA ABSTRACT Technology has opened a wide range of possibilities for the college classroom. Thus‚ the classroom has changed in a variety of ways. Some courses have been converted to fully online courses. Students
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RESEARCH PAPER: The Analysis-criticizing Method of Written Sources (Through surveying Kautilya’s Arthashastra) BY NGUYEN THI THANH MAI Department of South Asian Studies Faculty of Oriental Studies University of Social Sciences and Humanities Vietnam National University December‚ 2012 Abstract Historians have used different kinds of sources to reconstruct the narratives of the past or to create a complete and accurate picture of what happened in the past on such aspects as politics‚ economy
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