The Double Standard With a Nike basketball shoes‚ and they are double cushion PU soles sold in the world‚ but it became the single cushion when the shoes are sold in China. What’s more‚ the price is 500 yuan higher than abroad. In the U.S.‚ the price is $ 125 (about 800 yuan)‚ and there are two ZOOM cushion. Beijing Industry and Commerce Bureau believes that Nike engaged in "double standards" on the product‚ and the Nike company discriminate Chinese and foreign consumers‚ and it against the Chinese
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Hardin ENGL 1010 March 26th‚ 2014 In the stories “Get Well Soon” and “Revelation”‚ there were epiphanies in each that really stood out. Both stories have much in common with each other dealing with the epiphanies. Both of the main characters in the short stories come to a realization in their lives and have to ponder whether or not they are going to have to make a change or not. To start it off‚ Alice Conroy‚ from “Get Well Soon”‚ is a fourth grade teacher in Arrow Catcher‚ Mississippi who
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In the far away land of china the great film and documentary producer Don Edkins and film and documentary director Weijun Chen have made an epic tale of a class of third graders who have been introduced to democracy and a democratic election for their hall monitor. Of the class three of them have been chosen as the classes’ candidates. First we have Cheng Cheng he is a powerful leader but may not be the best choice for the class. Next we have Xu Xaiofei‚ she is a hard worker and almost gave up
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Why is it important to vote? You can ’t win if you don ’t play. Election outcomes are determined by those who participate. Elected officials make important (often life and death) decisions about how our society will expend its collective resources and the restraints it will place on individual behavior. The drinking age‚ the age at which you can get a driver ’s license‚ and the amount of money your teachers receive are some of the decisions made by elected officials. In making those decisions‚ elected
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I think that the purpose of an O-Week Advisor is to introduce students to Rice’s culture of care. Coming to college is a frightening yet invigorating experience. I was so nervous the morning I came to Rice that I couldn’t even eat my breakfast! However‚ as soon as my mom and I pulled up to the curb‚ the butterflies in my stomach went away. I felt so welcomed and accepted by every person who greeted me‚ from the person who took my photo in front of the Duncan insignia to the student who directed me
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SYNTAX AND SEMANTICS OF DETRANSITIVE VERBS THE PREPOSITIONAL DATIVE CONSTRUCTION AND THE DOUBLE OBJECT CONSTRUCTION 0.1. Introduction The de-transitive verbs we are concerned with in this chapter are verbs of the type give‚ send‚ promise‚ bring‚ etc.‚ which take two internal objects realized either as a DP ^ PP sequence or as a DP ^ DP sequence: (1) a. Sue gave a book to Bill b. Sue gave Bill a book The construction illustrated in (1a) is called the to-dative construction or the
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when the gates of the prison open‚ the path ahead should lead to a better life.” Reforms have been used throughout history to implement new regulations and make changes in order to improve the lives of those impacted. Before the Prison Reform Movement‚ the United States Prison system was overflowing. Anyone‚ who was jailed for any offense‚ big or small‚ was placed in the same prison. This means that a small child committing a minor offense could have been placed in the same prison‚ or even cell‚ as a
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The age-old double standard of sexuality and gender is a historical and still currently prevalent issue that both male and females both face‚ though one more than the other. A double standard‚ as defined by Merriam Webster‚ is a set of principles that apples differently and usually more rigorously to one group of people or circumstances than to another. It is clearly evident that there are double standards within the sexes regarding sexuality. Women are ridiculed‚ shamed‚ and stigmatized for being
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Foreign Policy- policy that involves choice taking about relations with the rest of the world. The pres. Is the chief initiator of U.S. foreign policy United Nations- Created in 1945& currently including 192 member nations‚ with central peacekeeping mission and programs in areas including economic development& health‚ education‚ & welfare. The seat of real power in the UN is the Security Council. North Atlantic Treaty Organization- a regional organization that was created in 1949 by
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The Double Helix James Watson accounts all the events of his career that occurred during 1950 to 1953‚ which led to the discovery of structure of the DNA in his famous piece of science writing called “The Double Helix”. In his book‚ James Watson describes how he and Francis Crick discovered the structure of the deoxyribose nucleic acid (DNA) that leads to the major themes of this book‚ which is nature of scientific discovery. Watson describes his and Crick’s search for a simple explanation of DNA
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