...This scene takes place 2 months after the experimental operation, relating to the enhancement of human intelligence, on Charlie. After having an I.Q of 68, the Charlie’s progress in becoming a genius is relatively slow at first because he does not see the change instantaneously. However, the progress can be seen through Charlie’s spelling in his ‘progris riports’ and his ability to recall and create memories. Previously, his sister, Norma, ‘got an A in [her] history test’ where she had been promised a dog if she received good marks. Norma was denied in getting a dog because Charlie was not allowed to get a dog and Norma wanted this dog ‘to be [her] dog. Only [her] dog.’ This passage is a significant example of one of Charlie’s memories within the novel as it reflects why he wanted to become more intelligent – for people to like him and fit in. This passage also foreshadows Charlie’s fate at the end of the book where he begins to regress back into ‘Charlie Gordon, I.Q 68.’. Throughout the book, it is referenced that when Charlie was still a ‘dummy’ he wanted to become intelligent so that ‘[he] can have lots of frends who like me’ as he ‘[doesn’t] care so much about beeing famus.’ However, as Charlie becomes a genius, he finds himself lonelier than ever. This passage clearly represents one of the reasons he wanted people to like him. Charlie’s own sister hated him because Norma was constantly teased for being the ‘moron’s sister’ which lead to her claiming that ‘he is not [her]...
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...employee who was doing Sims a favor by making the journal entries. Sims first initial conflict strategy was to force Martinez to turn over the services of his employee. He became defensive because he viewed Sims as controlling and trying to coerce him to turn over his employee to make journal entries for Martinez and that caused Sims to become resentful. If Sims would have attained the additional services of Ruth it would have become a win-lose situation for Martinez. After realizing the error of her ways Sims realized that she should have approached Martinez with a combination of conflict resolution strategies. She could have used the accommodating strategy to emphasize on maintaining a relationship with Martinez and thus creating a peaceful coexistence in the company. Sims should apologize for trying...
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...a security threat to the West? Abstract The rising China into the world stage has paved the way to the China threat theory. The China threat theory claims that China will soon disrupt the status quo in the world that has been dictated for decades by the Western nations like United States, United Kingdom and France. Especially the United States will not easily give up or relinquish their position as hegemon. The perceived threat of a rising China; especially when there are several publications of books, articles and anti-China bashing blogs that helps to exacerbate these fears. China’s increase in soft power and hard power does not mean it is a threat to the global security; China’s development and their economic growth relies on peaceful relations with the West because China needs access to their domestic markets. The main reason why China is considered to be a threat to the West is because they cannot maintain their domination on the world stage, and has to make room for developing nations like the BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa). Yet China simply wants to develop and increase the living standards of its people, and no desire of aggressive military actions. Thus, the foundation of why China is still been seen as a threat will be explored but the conception will be dismissed because as a growing superpower these steps are logical and any country that is in the same situation as China now will simply follow the same road. The following paper...
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...PUBLIC COMPARED TO PRIVATE UNIVERSITIES. The public and private Universities in my own unbiased views differ in quite a number of weigh though we can never measure the quantity of knowledge dispatched by each plus being bright is an individual and not the school. One of the advantages with public universities is that students who qualify to go to these institutions get to pay a subsidized fee since the government pays for them some amount. With this in mind, it is obvious that high school candidates who aspire to join institutions of higher learning would definitely prefer public universities. This brings a lot of competition among those who intend to join public universities and is a relief to the parents. With private universities, it is very expensive and therefore the first qualification is the money factor, followed by the grade you got in your KCSE. This makes it possible for the students who can afford to pay to learn in private universities. Joining a Public University comes with pride, with the belief that those who join private institutions are not bright enough to match them. Joining a public university does not come easy, You know it’s so hard to remain in the sieve of thousands of candidates, the criterion that is so strict. We therefore find that public universities only take the students who perform the best in the country, where they select them in a chronological manner from the highest. A critical look at both the private and public universities reveals a...
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...Running head: Effective Leadership Effective Leadership Results in School Improvement Kimberly D. Nash Strayer University June 17, 2013 Effective Leadership for School Improvement "Educational leadership can be madness or it can make a contribution to improve our schools. It can be a frantic effort to fix everything or it can be concentration on a few important items. It can be a futile exercise of power or it can empower individuals to help themselves. In the face of dramatic social change, a troubled sea of governance conflict, and excessive demands being made on schools, it can be said that one who aspires to school leadership must either be mad or a supreme egotist." (Bainbridge & Thomas, 2001) I would add that whether you are either, the goal should be achieving positive results. There is no easy solution to improving schools and school systems, but it has to begin with effective leadership. School leadership plays a key role in improving school outcomes by influencing the motivations and the capacities of teachers, as well as school climate and environment. Effective school leadership is essential to improve the efficiency and equity of schooling. (Pont, 2008) Effective leaders are the ones who are able to share responsibility, build positive relationships and offer teachers, parents and students an opportunity to work together to improve their schools. One of the...
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...New times for education Issues of development & Fairness RUBEN DE FREITAS CABRAL SYMPOSIUM – RICCI INSTITUTE 27 NOVEMBER 2009 MACAU The world is full of people who have never, since childhood, met an open doorway with an open mind. The implication of these words from E. B. White, a famous American writer and winner of the Pulitzer Prize, refers to something that happens to the vast majority of people in the developed and in large segments of the developing worlds, which is schooling. Hardly anybody denies the importance of schooling. At the very least, places must exist where parents can leave their children, especially when both have to go to work for the better part of the day. The relevance, however, of what happens in schools is another matter. Schools are still mired in the predicament of transmitting and withdrawing known knowledge, if that is at all possible. It is the process that Paulo Freire used to call the banking concept of education: The teacher makes deposits in the heads of students which are followed by period withdrawals (tests, quizzes and all other manners of justifying the purpose of supposedly depositing knowledge). Freire goes on to say that For apart from inquiry, apart from praxis, men cannot be truly human. Knowledge emerges only through invention and re-invention, through the restless, impatient, continuing, hopeful inquiry men pursue in the world, with the world, and with each other. (…) Yet only through communication can human...
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...1.1 INTRODUCTION Offshore bank is a bank that located outside the country of residence of the depositor. Offshore banking has often been related with the underground economy and organized crime, via tax evasion and money laundering; though legally offshore banking does not prevent assets from being subject to personal income tax on interest. Even though, offshore banks may decide not to report income to other tax authorities, and have no legal obligation to do so as they are protected by bank secrecy, this does not make the non-declaration of the income by the tax-payer or the evasion of the tax on that income legal. September 11, 2011 onwards there were many calls for more regulations on international finance, in particular concerning offshore banks, tax havens, and clearing houses such as Clear stream, based in Luxembourg, being possible crossroads for major illegal money flows. These attempts have been criticized at regulation by defenders of offshore banking. They claim the process is provoked not by security and financial concerns but by the desire of domestic banks and tax agencies to access the money held in offshore accounts. They mention the fact that offshore banking offers a competitive threat to the banking and taxation systems in developed countries, suggesting that Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries are trying to stamp out competition. There are many advantages as well as disadvantages of offshore banking. Offshore banks provide...
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...The media’s watching Vault! Here’s a sampling of our coverage. “For those hoping to climb the ladder of success, [Vault’s] insights are priceless.” – Money magazine “The best place on the Web to prepare for a job search.” – Fortune “[Vault guides] make for excellent starting points for job hunters and should be purchased by academic libraries for their career sections [and] university career centers.” – Library Journal “The granddaddy of worker sites.” – U.S. News & World Report “A killer app.” – The New York Times One of Forbes’ 33 “Favorite Sites.” – Forbes “To get the unvarnished scoop, check out Vault.” – SmartMoney Magazine “Vault has a wealth of information about major employers and job searching strategies as well as comments from workers about their experiences at specific companies.” – The Washington Post “A key reference for those who want to know what it takes to get hired by a law firm and what to expect once they get there.” – New York Law Journal “Vault [provides] the skinny on working conditions at all kinds of companies from current and former employees.” – USA Today Customized for: Mian Badr (mian.iftikhar@studbocconi.it) Customized for: Mian Badr (mian.iftikhar@studbocconi.it) VAULT CAREER GUIDE TO MIDDLE MARKET INVESTMENT BANKING JOE BEL BRUNO AND THE STAFF OF VAULT Customized for: Mian Badr (mian.iftikhar@studbocconi.it) Customized for: Mian Badr (mian.iftikhar@studbocconi.it) Copyright © 2009 by Vault.com, Inc. All rights reserved....
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...4 Agriculture 4.1 An important aspect of ‘inclusive growth’ in the Eleventh Five Year Plan (2007–12) is its target of 4 per cent per annum growth in GDP from agriculture and allied sectors. This target is not only necessary to achieve the overall GDP growth target of 9 per cent per annum without undue inflation, but it is an important element of ‘inclusiveness’ since the global experience of growth and poverty reduction shows that GDP growth originating in agriculture is at least twice as effective in reducing poverty as GDP growth originating outside agriculture. TABLE 4.1 Growth in GDP at Factor Cost, 1999–2000 Prices Agriculture and Allied Sectors Tenth Plan 2002–03 2003–04 2004–05 2005–06 2006–07 Eleventh Plan 2007–08 2008–09 2009–10 Revised Estimate Triennium 2009–10 over Triennium 2004–05 Eleventh Plan average (2007–10) –7.2 10.0 0.0 5.9 3.8 4.7 1.6 0.2 3.4 2.2 Total Economy 3.8 8.5 7.5 9.4 9.6 9.2 6.7 7.4 8.6 7.7 with the strong growth recovery after 2004–05, which reversed a prolonged deceleration since the mid-1990s. However, agricultural growth fell to 1.6 per cent in 2008–09; and a severe drought in 2009 (the worst in 37 years) produced virtually flat growth (see Table 4.1) because of major losses in kharif output which also led to high food price inflation. The setback in the second and third years of the Plan implies that an average growth rate of about 7 per cent per annum will be required in the remaining two years (2010–11 and 2011–12) if the Eleventh Plan...
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...prospective investments. Swensen had every reason to feel content, despite his recent injury. The endowment had just completed another spectacular year, having grown to $18 billion (up from $1 billion when he had taken over the office). Yale had developed a rather different approach to endowment management, including substantial investments in less efficient equity markets such as private equity (venture capital and buyouts), real assets (real estate, timber, oil and gas), and “absolute-return” investing. This approach had generated successful, indeed enviable, returns. Swensen and his staff were proud of the record that they had compiled and believed that Yale should probably focus even more of its efforts and assets in these less efficient markets. But his thoughts turned to the larger challenges associated with the management of the university’s endowment. The very success of their strategy had generated new questions. How far did they think Yale should or could go in this direction? How should they respond to the growing popularity of the approach they had chosen? Given the turbulent times that private equity funds were facing, should this asset class continue to play an integral role in Yale’s portfolio? Background1 Ten Connecticut clergymen established Yale in 1701. Over its first century, the college relied on the generosity of...
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...BUSINESS CASE TEMPLATE Provision of Mailing Services to [insert organisation name] Business case - explanation • This document will help postal procurement personnel to detail the potential benefits (financial and non-financial) and costs involved in improving their postal services • It can be used to secure commitment from senior management for changes required to improve performance • It is intended to be a guide and will require completion and tailoring by individual organisations • It draws on the NAO report, “Improving the Efficiency of Postal Services in the Public Sector”, which can be referred to for more information • Note, use of [ ] denotes information that must be completed by the user. Examples have been inserted into this document as a guide to indicate the type of information you may wish to consider inputting. Business case - Contents • Objectives and scope • Summary (including quantified financial and non-financial benefits) • Value levers • Benefits (quantified, where possible, over time) • Implementation tasks and project plan • Key barriers • “Reference” customers • Methodology • Assumptions Business case – Objectives and scope • To reduce spend on postal services • To increase the quality of postal services • This work focuses on postal procurement and management covering mail services • The organisation may...
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...Strategic Asset Allocation: Determining the Optimal Portfolio with Ten Asset Classes Niels Bekkers Mars The Netherlands Ronald Q. Doeswijk* Robeco The Netherlands Trevin W. Lam Rabobank The Netherlands October 2009 Abstract This study explores which asset classes add value to a traditional portfolio of stocks, bonds and cash. Next, we determine the optimal weights of all asset classes in the optimal portfolio. This study adds to the literature by distinguishing ten different investment categories simultaneously in a mean-variance analysis as well as a market portfolio approach. We also demonstrate how to combine these two methods. Our results suggest that real estate, commodities and high yield add most value to the traditional asset mix. A study with such a broad coverage of asset classes has not been conducted before, not in the context of determining capital market expectations and performing a mean-variance analysis, neither in assessing the global market portfolio. JEL classification: G11, G12 Key words: strategic asset allocation, capital market expectations, mean-variance analysis, optimal portfolio, global market portfolio. This study has benefited from the support and practical comments provided by Jeroen Beimer, Léon Cornelissen, Lex Hoogduin, Menno Meekel, Léon Muller, Laurens Swinkels and Pim van Vliet. Special thanks go to Jeroen Blokland and Rolf Hermans for many extensive and valuable discussions. We thank Peter Hobbs for providing the detailed segmentation...
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...Learning Team A Mastering Teacher Leadership Case Study RES351 Chosen Cheng Aug 15 2013 Summary The Mastering Teacher Leadership case study is about a proposed change in licensure requirements for Ohio private and public school teachers. According the newly passed Ohio Department of Education Teacher Certification Standards, Educators are now required to have a Master’s Degree in order to renew their license. In order to gauge interest or reception to the changes, the Local Professional Development Committees sent surveys to new and existing educators who will be required to renew their license sometime in the future. Discussion Question 1 Building a research question hierarchy for this proposed change would require asking several in-depth questions such as: * Will the change result in increased technological literacy for both student and teachers? * Will the change build a framework and encourage educators to collaborate with other educators and community professionals? * Does having a Master’s Degree address classroom management issues of student social skills, moral education and discipline? * Would the change meet the diverse cognitive and social needs of students? Discussion Question 2 Upon evaluating the exploratory research design stage, the survey and the subsequent returns are deemed appropriate because the data was collected from the demographic that are relevant to the study. The LPDC sent a survey regarding the changes to certified educators...
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...speech, publications, dress, and grooming. They also have these rights, freedom of conscience, freedom from unreasonable search, the right to privacy and special rights for learners with disabilities. I feel that some of these rights should be revised to safeguard students from the many quite scary situations that arise in the schools today as students try to attain their education. Choice should play a very important role in public education. Families can choose to place their children in schools that best align with their own preferred choice. In Michigan most of the public schools are no longer. Parents are placing their children into charter schools, or private schools because they think that the education will be better, and the schools are often not overcrowded. I thought this way myself and place my grandchildren into private school. I now think differently about the education they are receiving, I feel like they should have been placed in a good public school and my money in the bank. The charter and public schools seem to offer comparative...
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...can never be done just by asking a few teachers about it or reading a few articles on newspapers and magazines. By all means it is a much more complex job and deserves delicate and careful handling. Until one can find out the root cause, any proposal for remedy seems useless. The prime factors on which the quality of education in general depends are the quality of teachers, the quality of students and the quality of the teaching courses. The other factors are the academic environment and teaching aides (including library, communication facilities etc). But that being said, access to higher education is the most important piece of the puzzle. Because of limited number of seats in public universities, and high tuition fees charged by the private universities, access to university education is rather limited in Bangladesh. Degree colleges that account for the lion’s share of enrolment at the higher level of education in Bangladesh,...
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