...Compare and Contrast Essay I will be telling about the similarities and differences between the two short stories The Most Dangerous Game,by Richard Cornell, and The Cast of Amontillado by Edgar Allen Poe. There are two difference The Most Dangerous, the guy that died was into hunting and his death was not planned but in The Cast Amontillado, they had an interest in tasting fine wine and the death was planned. But they do have some similarities such as that one person has died in each story. In the two short stories there are a couple of differences between the two for example the settings are different The Most Dangerous Game is deep into the forest and The Cask of Amontillado is at a carnival. Another Example is that in The Most Dangerous Game the guy was killed by the rain forest in the The Cask of Amontillado the guy was killed by another person. The last example is that in The Most Dangerous Game the people had an interest in hunting and in The Cask of Amontillado the people had an interest in tasting fine wine. There are a couple examples on how the two stories are different. There are also some similarities too....
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...Introduction While much of the focus may be on the United States, the recent financial crisis has impacted countries around the world and Italy appears to be one of the hardest hit in Europe. After decades during which the Italians as well as the international industrial, agriculture and financial sectors raked huge profits without investing anything in innovation and competitive interventions, now companies are claiming the state rescue and support. According to initial estimations made at the OIV (International Organization of Vine and Wine) Italy, the world's second-biggest wine producer after France with an output of about 4.5 billion liters per year, had in 2009 a decrease in domestically demand, price and export which reflects the effects of the world economic crisis. Average price of Italian wine dropped 20 percent last year with ordinary wine prices plunging 25 percent and special denomination quality wines losing 13 percent. In 2009, Italian wine sales to export markets, the United States and Britain, fell 7 and 10 percent respectively hammered by the crisis and advance of rivals from Chile, Argentina, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand, according to UIV estimates based on data from Italy's statistics agency ISTAT (Istituto di Servizi per il Mercato Agricolo Alimentare). Tourism can be an important resource for an economy and Italy is the fourth highest tourist earn and fifth most visited country in the world, behind France (76.0 million), Spain (55.6 million), United States...
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...Meaning of alcohol in five different societies: Native Americans, Maori, Chinese, French and Russian This essay was conducted in order to look over whether the meaning of ‘alcohol’ differs across various cultures. The essay will compare how tribal people conceptualise the definition of this substance and how it is explained by contemporary societies in developing and developed countries, and also in the post-Soviet country. Contemporary or postmodern period is known as the latter 20th and the 21st century (Johnson, 2001). This paper will provide examples of indigenous societies from North America and New Zealand, and also societies from China, France and Russia. The essay will briefly review the way their attitude to alcohol changed since earlier times. It seems that in practice relation with alcohol is usually understood by drinking alcoholic liquids. The behavioural consequences of drinking depend as much as on a people’s idea of alcohol does to a person as on the physiological processes that can result from alcohol abuse. It would be advisable to say that alcohol as a ‘drink’ played an important role in almost all societies’ cultures since Neolithic times. Alcohol helped to drive the globalisation of trade since 17th century (Hames, 2012). The role of this substance was usually described in relation to religious experiences or by enhancing the enjoyment of life. Historically, alcoholic beverages also were widely used as sources of antiseptic nutrients in medicine. In modern...
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...To begin with, it would be incorrect to proceed to answer this question if key words are not defined; ambiguity would change the meaning of the words displayed on this page. So, to begin with, my understanding of trust and the definition that will define my essay is that trust is to place confidence in something or someone, which in this instance is something – our senses. For example, everyday I place trust in my driver Seth’s ability to maneuver and speed through Ghanaian traffic without crashing, a remarkable feat as traffic here is impossibly disorganized. No matter the danger, I always get back in the car with him; that is trust, this could also be considered a necessary risk, but that is beside the point. Moreover, truth is an equally multi-definable word. For the purposes of this essay, truth is any fact that, no matter who or what you are, it remains the same. For example, pure water boils at 100 oC at 1.01 x 105 Pa, nobody can deny that no matter whom or what you are, and therefore it is true. In terms of senses, this essay will deal with our human sense perception: sight, touch, hearing, smell, and taste. Instinctively, the first turn I take when answering this question is to look at it scientifically. In my IB Physics class we have learned, for example, in terms of science, when we think an object is a certain color, it is actually precisely not that specific color. Color is transmitted through light, light is a wave and each color has a different wavelength that...
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...Porter’s Five Forces Wine Industry Contents 1. Bargaining power of buyers………………………………………………………………………….1 2. Bargaining power of suppliers………………………………………………………………………2 3. Rivalry between existing companies………………………………………………………….…4 4. Threat of new entrants………………………………………………………..……………………….5 5. Threat of substitutes…………………………………………………………………………………….6 6. References………………………………………………...……………………...…………………………8 1. Bargaining power of buyers The buyer’s power within the wine industry varies between different places in the world. There are for example strategic differences between Europe and the “New World”. The “New World” includes countries like the US, Australia, Chile and South Africa. In Europe there is a big competition between small private family wineries while there are in the “New World” only a few large companies that have a big market share. To give you an example of this Australia have four firms that at the moment have around 75 % of the market while in France there are around 230 000 wineries. The power of buyers seems to be higher in Europe compared to the “New World”, in Europe the consumers have a more sophisticated taste and are more price sensitive compared to the “New World”. In Europe wine is sold through many different supermarkets which provide a wide range of different wine sorts from a lot of different private labels. This can be one of the reasons why the power of the buyers seems to be a bit higher in Europe than in for...
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...English 102-08 22 October 2012 Space for Love: Nature’s Domain While reading the assigned texts I’ve noticed that love needs special settings and spaces. Throughout time these spaces have adapted and changed to help suit generations. Literature has played a key role in the changing of these places. Although each writer’s interpretation of love-like settings may differ from one another, there are very basic similarities between them. Tradition has made it so that nature is almost always involved in these, “Spaces for Love.” Also, traditionally we would expect love between opposite sexes but there is tremendous amounts of literature written now that involve love between the same sexes. My goal in this essay is to show that through the change in old and more recent literature nature has been key in traditional views of love settings/places. To reach this goal, I’ll be using and comparing quotes from the bible’s Song of Songs and Paul Monette’s Gardenias to show how nature has always been an important part of places for love. Starting with Song of Songs, it is said to have been written by King Solomon himself but it is also believed to be a compilation of Arabic wasfs that were translated into Hebrew. It was first published in English in 1611 in the King James Version of the Bible. The idea of love being heterosexual is represented very clearly and the concept of nature plays a huge part in this love story. There are so many references to fruits and plants and a clear distinction...
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...First & Last Name First & Last Name English 101/Section # Date Essay #2 The Committer vs. the Non-Committer There are many types of men in the world, and each type displays a variety of distinguishable characteristics. Women should become aware of these characteristics before considering a prospective mate. The smallest of personal details, from where and how they met (including the first date), the way he walks and talks, the clothes he wears, the career choice he's made, the vacation spots he frequents, or the automobile he drives can offer valuable, meaningful, insightful clues to whether or not a man will ever settle down with anyone. There are two main types of men in the world: the committer and the non-committer. The committer is serious about finding the right woman. He asks friends and relatives for introductions. He is usually open to blind dates and avoids the bar scene when looking for a quality woman. On the first date, he is polite and will not bring up the subject of money at the restaurant. He takes her to places where they can talk one-on-one. The non-committer is just looking for a woman. There is no room in his life for the woman. He, on the other hand, loves the bar scene. He usually finds a million excuses why he can't find the right woman and uses such excuses to explain why he is still unattached. On a date, he orders trendy food such as sushi to impress his date, and he monopolizes the conversation. He may even take her to places where...
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...disappointments that Keats faced in life for he wrote the Ode soon after the death of his brother Tom who was suffering from tuberculosis. In one of Keats’s personal letters (Gittings 1970: letter 263) Keats claimed that he and his brothers could never count on any happiness lasting – that they were continually confronting death in the family. Keats shows this pain in stanza 3 of the poem: ‘’Here, where men sit and hear each other groan; Where palsy shakes a few, sad, last grey hairs, Where youth grows pale and spectre-thin, and dies;’’ (Keats’ Ode to a Nightingale: stanza 3) However, Ode to a Nightingale also portrays Keats’s escape from the cold realities of life. It is through this ‘escape’ that I am going to shape this essay into the pastoral tradition. My main focus shall be how the Ode offers a resemblance to a poem of pastoral retirement but has a pastoral elegy concealed within it. The term ‘pastoral’ today has various definitions; if we start with the cradle of pastoral poetry like Theocritus’ first idyll, we understand that the pastoral comprises of idealised landscapes and beautiful music: ‘’ Sweet is the whispering music of yonder pine that sings Over the water-brooks, and sweet the melody of your pipe’’ (Theocritus: 1st stanza) Several other works have considered the...
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...developing “theories of the firm” is an interesting and useful project, focusing solely on “theory of the firm” obscures a more important contribution of stakeholder theory. The purpose of this brief essay is to set forth what I consider to be the central insight of stakeholder theory: the jointness of stakeholder interests. The Basic Idea The basic idea of “managing for stakeholders,” as I now see it, is quite simple, and I believe it is closer to the origins of the idea from Eric Rhenman and the Tavistock thinkers. In fact, Juha Nasi was correct in his assessment of the Scandinavian origins of the stakeholder idea that focus on what holds stakeholder interests together. Nasi originally suggested that we focus on “intressent” in Swedish. “In Finnish this term was modified as “intressentti” or “sidosryhma” which could be translated as an “interest group” or even as a “linkage” or “bonding” or “binding” group.” (Nasi, 1995 at 98) It is this bonding or binding idea that is most interesting to explore. Managing for stakeholders asks us to see stakeholders as “bound together by the jointness of their interests.” So, the basic idea goes like this. Business can be understood as a set of relationships among groups which have a stake in the activities that make up the business. Business is about how customers, suppliers, employees, financiers (stockholders, bondholders, banks, etc.), communities and managers interact and create value. To understand a business is to know how these relationships...
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...Applied mathematics for business, economics, life sciences, and social sciences, 1997, 1175 pages, Raymond A. Barnett, Michael R. Ziegler, Karl Byleen, 0135745756, 9780135745755, Prentice Hall, 1997 Published: 14th July 2010 DOWNLOAD http://bit.ly/1RspljW Applied mathematics for business, economics, life sciences, and social sciences This book prepares readers to understand finite mathematics and calculus used in a wide range of disciplines. Covering relevant topics from finance, linear algebra, programming, and probability, the Seventh Edition places emphasis on computational skills, ideas, and problem solving. Other highlights include a rich variety of applications and integration of graphing calculators. Provides optional regression analysis, containing optional examples and exercises illustrating the use of regression techniques to analyze real data. Both graphing calculator and spreadsheet output are included. Offers more optional technology examples and exercises using actual data. Implements use of graphing calculators in optional examples, exercises in technology, illustrations of applications of spreadsheets and sample computer output. DOWNLOAD http://bit.ly/1qC8Dk0 http://www.jstor.org/stable/2483933 Solutions manual to accompany Raymond A. Barnett and Michael R. Ziegler's finite mathematics for business, economics, life sciences, and social sciences , R. Michael Ziegler, Raymond A. Barnett, 1990, Science, 476 pages. . Precalculus functions and graphs...
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...THIS faggoting up of so many divers pieces is so done that I never set pen to paper, but when I have too much idle time, and never anywhere but at home; so that it is compiled after divers interruptions and intervals, occasions keeping me sometimes many months elsewhere. As to the rest I never correct my first by any second conceptions; I, peradventure, may alter a word or so: but 'tis only to vary the phrase, and not to destroy my former meaning. I have a mind to represent the progress of my humors, and that every one may see each piece as it came from the forge. I could wish I had begun sooner, and had taken more notice of the course of my mutations. A servant of mine whom I employed to transcribe for me, thought he had got a prize by several pieces from me, wherewith he was best pleased; but it is my comfort that he will be no greater a gainer than I shall be a loser by the theft. I am grown older by seven or eight years since I began; nor has it been without some new acquisition: I have, in that time, by the liberality of years, been acquainted with the stone: their commerce and long converse do not well pass away without some such inconvenience. I could have been glad that of other infirmities age has to present long-lived men withal, it had chosen some one that would have been more welcome to me, for it could not possibly have laid upon me a disease, for which, even from my infancy, I have had so great a horror; and it is, in truth, of all the accidents of old age, that...
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...Table of Contents Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Introduction Chapter 1 - Priming Chapter 2 - Confabulation Chapter 3 - Confirmation Bias Chapter 4 - Hindsight Bias Chapter 5 - The Texas Sharpshooter Fallacy Chapter 6 - Procrastination Chapter 7 - Normalcy Bias Chapter 8 - Introspection Chapter 9 - The Availability Heuristic Chapter 10 - The Bystander Effect Chapter 11 - The Dunning-Kruger Effect Chapter 12 - Apophenia Chapter 13 - Brand Loyalty Chapter 14 - The Argument from Authority Chapter 15 - The Argument from Ignorance Chapter 16 - The Straw Man Fallacy Chapter 17 - The Ad Hominem Fallacy Chapter 18 - The Just-World Fallacy Chapter 19 - The Public Goods Game Chapter 20 - The Ultimatum Game Chapter 21 - Subjective Validation Chapter 22 - Cult Indoctrination Chapter 23 - Groupthink Chapter 24 - Supernormal Releasers Chapter 25 - The Affect Heuristic Chapter 26 - Dunbar’s Number Chapter 27 - Selling Out Chapter 28 - Self-Serving Bias Chapter 29 - The Spotlight Effect Chapter 30 - The Third Person Effect Chapter 31 - Catharsis Chapter 32 - The Misinformation Effect Chapter 33 - Conformity Chapter 34 - Extinction Burst Chapter 35 - Social Loafing Chapter 36 - The Illusion of Transparency Chapter 37 - Learned Helplessness Chapter 38 - Embodied Cognition Chapter 39 - The Anchoring Effect Chapter 40 - Attention Chapter 41 - Self-Handicapping Chapter 42 - Self-Fulfilling Prophecies Chapter 43 - The Moment Chapter 44 - Consistency...
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...states, such as perceiving, feeling, and thinking, that distinguishes those states from unconscious mental states. Distinguishing these different concepts of consciousness is crucial in evaluating the major theories of what it is for a state to be conscious. Among those are first-order theories, on which a mental state is conscious if being in that state results in one’s being conscious of something; global-workspace theories, on which a state is conscious if it’s widely available for mental processing; inner-sense theories, on which a state is conscious if one senses or perceives that state by way of a special inner faculty; and higher-orderthought theories, on which a state is conscious if one is aware of that state by having a thought about it. We will consider the advantages and shortcomings of these theories and variants of them. p0005 s0010 Concepts of Consciousness (I) The ubiquity of consciousness in human life and mental functioning makes it easy to overlook that the term ‘consciousness’ is used for three distinct phenomena. Though related in various ways, these phenomena are different, and distinguishing them is important both conceptually and theoretically. The term ‘conscious’ is used most frequently to refer to the condition of people and other creatures when they are awake and responsive to sensory stimulation. A creature lacks consciousness in this first sense when it is asleep, anaesthetized, in a coma, and so forth. The main...
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...before taking pen in hand. John C. Calhoun, vice president under Andrew Jackson, insisted he had to plow his fields before he could write, and Joseph Conrad, author of Lord Jim and other novels, is said to have cried on occasion from the sheer dread of sitting down to compose his stories. To spare you as much hand-wringing as possible, this chapter presents some practical suggestions on how to begin writing your short essay. Although all writers must find the methods that work best for them, you may find some of the following ideas helpful. But no matter how you actually begin putting words on paper, it is absolutely essential to maintain two basic ideas concerning your writing task. Before you write a single sentence, you should always remind yourself that 1. You have some valuable ideas to tell your reader, and 2. More than anything, you want to communicate those ideas to your reader. These reminders may seem obvious to you, but without a solid commitment to your own opinions as well as to your reader, your prose will be lifeless and boring. If you don’t care about your subject, you can’t very well expect anyone else to. Have confidence that your ideas are worthwhile and that your reader genuinely...
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...Assignment Booklet Contents 1 Introduction 3 1.1 How to pass B120 3 1.2 The purpose of assignments in B120 1.3 What tutors are looking for in the assignments 3 4 1.4 Word processing 4 1.5 Word limits 1.6 Referencing 5 7 1.7 Plagiarism – what it is and how to avoid it 1.8 Completing and sending in your assignments 7 8 1.9 The structure of each assignment 2 TMA 01 11 13 2.1 About TMA 01 13 2.2 The TMA 13 2.3 Guidance notes for TMA 01 Part I 2.4 TMA 01 Part II 16 17 3 TMA 02 18 3.1 About TMA 02 18 3.2 TMA 02 Part I 18 3.3 Guidance notes for TMA 02 Part I 20 4 TMA 03 22 4.1 About TMA 03 4.2 TMA 03 Part I 22 22 Guidance notes for TMA 03 Part 1 27 TMA 03 Part II 27 5 TMA 04 29 5.1 About TMA 04 5.2 TMA 04 Part I 29 29 5.3 Guidance notes for TMA 04 Part I 32 5.4 TMA 04 Part II 33 6 End-of-module assessment (EMA) 34 6.1 About the EMA 34 6.2 The EMA 6.3 Guidance notes for the EMA 34 34 7 Conclusion 35 1 Introduction 1 Introduction B120 An Introduction to Business Studies is assessed through five assignments: four tutor marked assignments (TMAs) and one end-of-module assessment (EMA). There is no examination. Each assignment is based on one of the five books in B120 although the EMA reviews both Book 5 and the module overall. All assignments...
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