Gates of Fire‚ Steven Pressfield Western Civilization I Class 1) Describe the general story line of this book. 2) How does Pressfield present the Spartans and their society? What attributes (characteristics) does he claim that the Spartan exhibited? How did the other Greeks perceive the Spartans? Pressfield sees something in the Spartans‚ there is something that he touches upon in chapter 4 when Tripod is being beaten. He dies for no reason‚ he should have just taken the right of passage
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strong to be restrained. I burned to say if but one word‚ by way of triumph‚ and to render doubly sure their assurance of my guiltlessness” (7). The narrator has no remorse or guilt for killing his wife. For the narrator to say guiltlessness just goes to show how crazy he really became. A normal healthy person would never commit such an act nor have any remorse. 2. Explain how the reader knows the narrator is an unreliable narrator? The narrator’s opinions and actions are so far from normal that
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Chapter 7 Study Questions 1. What is meant by the term service breakdown? a. the product or service selivered fails to meet customers expectations 2. What causes customers to become dissatisfied? a. when a product or service fails to meet the customers wants or need or does not live up to advertised promises or standards. 3. What can you use to deal with angry customers? a. be positive b. acknowledge the customer’s feeling or anger c. reassure d. remain objective
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Week Seven Reports and Presentations • Identify skills needed to deliver effective oral presentations. • Apply business presentation techniques to create Microsoft® PowerPoint® slides. • Create a written report. Course Assignments 1. Readings • Read Ch. 1517 of Business and Administrative Communication. 2. Week 7: CheckPoint: Oral Presentation (Due Day 5) ***Please remember to post your assignment via a PPT‚ within the Assignments section of this course. Thank you. J •
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This pack of COM 120 Week 7 Discussion Questions shows the solutions to the following problems: DQ 1: Post your response to this question: What is the purpose of revising and editing an academic paper? DQ 2: Post your response to these questions: What are some advantages Deadline: ( )‚ Sociology - General Sociology Looking for Full Course of Ashford University SOC120: Introduction to Ethics Social Responsibility Don’t be afraid to get involved on campus. College isn’t only about studying
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KITE RUNNER Discussion Questions 1. The novel begins with Amir’s memory of peering down an alley‚ looking for Hassan who is kite running for him. As Amir peers into the alley‚ he witnesses a tragedy. The novel ends with Amir kite running for Hassan’s son‚ Sohrab‚ as he begins a new life with Amir in America. Why do you think the author chooses to frame the novel with these scenes? Refer to the following passage: "Afghans like to say: Life goes on‚ unmindful of beginning‚ end...crisis or catharsis
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Many legacy systems require normalization. Identify at least two factors that should be considered in order to produce an optimal normalized set of tables when performing normalization. Include in your discussion a detailed example on how each factor would eliminate data redundancy. Normalization is the process of organizing data in a database. This includes creating tables and establishing relationships between those tables according to rules designed both to protect the data and to make the database
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involves looking at the present capabilities of the organization such as infrastructure‚ hardware‚ personnel‚ abilities‚ structure‚ and that information can be compared to what the organization will need in the future to achieve its strategic goals. 2. Ensure that information about strategic environmental factors gets to the attention of strategy makers The scanning process has two parts. The first part is getting the report to the strategy makers and the second part happens in the future when
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Study Guide for POL 320 Final Exam Sample multiple choice questions: 1. The Supreme Court made the first decision concerning presidential powers in a. U.S. v. Curtiss-Wright b. Rasul v. Bush c. The Prize Cases d. Mistretta v. U.S. 2. As discussed in class‚ the __________________ Amendment virtually disappeared as a limitation on the powers of the national government in the wake of the constitutional revolution of 1937. a. Ninth b. Tenth c. Fourteenth d. Twenty-Fifth 3. Through its
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how the ratios are likely to change considering the economic environment in which it operates. Support your position. The two companies that I choose for this discussion are the American Express‚ Inc. and the General Electric Company. Both of them received negative rating from the Thomson Reuters Stockreport + and both of them is under the -2 category. As I research on the ratios that these rating companies might use‚ I discover that they love to use the leverage ratios as an indicator. Take American
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