...Final Reflection Paper By Jessica Krick The first week I learned that children's books aren't as a genre an indication of readership. I enrolled in this class because it is required. According to my guidance counselor, it is to 'diversify my learning'. Now that I have finished the course, I couldn't agree more! I started this class thinking that children's books are simple and sort of primal. When in fact, there are a lot of literary elements involved; and the illustrations tell the story as much as the text. It has taught me to look deeper into everything, that nothing is simple. I plan on using this newly acquired skill in the future. Also during this week, I got to analyze and enjoy "The Giving Tree". It is such an exemplar picturebook, that I just had to buy it (along with "Wild Thing") to read again and again with my nephew. I typically favor the moral lessons provided in these books. With that said, I honestly didn't like the book "Millions of Cats", I guess it just rubbed me the wrong way, plus I'm a dog person! Being an artist myself, my favorite part of this class was the multitude of illustrations involved in my class work. Home work became fun. You always seem to provide extra handouts just to further our knowledge, like the 'handout of illustration styles' and I read quite a bit of the Grim folktales. Folklore revisits popular childhood folktales or how I have always known it as 'fairytales'. I found it interesting that they have survived centuries by......
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...* Traditional Costing * * Under Traditional Costing, all operating expenses are allocated by percent of sales. This causes the larger segments to carry more cost automatically. For Southlake, Textbooks generate the most income, however the gross profit percentage is only 26%. Clothing has one of the best gross profits and generates the 2nd most income. With traditional costing, computers are operating at a loss. Under Traditional Costing, all operating expenses are allocated by percent of sales. This causes the larger segments to carry more cost automatically. For Southlake, Textbooks generate the most income, however the gross profit percentage is only 26%. Clothing has one of the best gross profits and generates the 2nd most income. With traditional costing, computers are operating at a loss. ABC Costing * When allocating the operating costs based on cost driver rather than percentage of sales the segments performance differs. Depending on management’s choice of cost driver, results will vary. We allocated all costs to each product line but used different drivers. Under ABC costing, less cost is allocated to the biggest segment, textbooks. Textbooks still create the most income, but both supplies and computers are operating at a loss. When allocating the operating costs based on cost driver rather than percentage of sales the segments performance differs. Depending on management’s choice of cost driver, results will vary. We allocated all costs to......
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...its geographical area but focuses on customers who desire to purchase books/music at discount prices because they are seen either as near commodity items or, in the case of books, are not considered to be a long-term investment (i.e. they will trade them back). Because of this relatively low value placed upon our merchandise by potential customers, dymocks can still flourish in an upscale environment. This is especially true with people seeking to cut costs with the bad economy. Even though we service the entire book reading population in the surrounding area, we can divide our customers based on purchasing habits. • Casual Shoppers: These are customers who go to the bookstore with no set idea of what they want to purchase. They seek to spend a fair amount of time browsing the store and often are considered impulse buyers. Often they leave the store with small purchases or without buying anything. These customers are attracted to bookstores with low prices and large inventory. • "Hard to Find" Shoppers: These are customers with very specific needs. They are looking for a difficult to obtain item, usually a book that is out of print. If we can satisfy this customer, then we are able to build significant customer loyalty. These clients are generally price insensitive and are also drawn to stores that have large inventory. • Specific Category Shoppers: These customers are those types that generally buy books or music of one category, such as fiction or romance. These......
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...Study Best-Book-Buy Online Bookstore Requirements Specification Document (By Henrique Paques, Leo Mark and Shamkant B. Navathe) 1. Introduction The purpose of this case study is to present a data-intensive application for which a database can be designed. It is described with sufficient degree of detail so that the application can be implemented in languages like Java or C using ODBC or JDBC connectivity to the relational database. This case study is an illustration of the typical project we have been using to teach an undergraduate class in database design that covers essentially the first 16 chapters of the textbook at Georgia Tech. The user interface is defined in screen format – these screens can be implemented using Visual Basic or Java as needed, or a simpler version of the interface using simple text menus may be implemented. There are a few reports included in the application specification. They are for illustrative purposes and may be modified as well. The methodology to be followed uses conceptual design in the Entity Relationship Model (Chapter 3), followed by a mapping of the ER schema into the relational schema (Chapter 7). The application is broken into a number of tasks and the inputs and outputs are related to the tasks by means of an Information Flow Diagram. Students should use Chapter 12 to understand the overall process of database design used for design of large databases. A design methodology is developed during the discussion of this......
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...company and analyze how this company could use the Internet as an information and sales channel for products and services. The students in GRA2329 had chosen a wide variety of businesses and organizations. Dagfinn had been a member of a group working with Norsk Rikstoto, the company administering nationwide equestrian sports gambling. What interested Dag, however, was another aspect of the course: When GRA2329 was started, the required books had not been available in the bookstore, but had first started arriving several weeks into the course. Normally, in situation like this, the professor would have postponed the discussions over the delayed literature until later in the course. However, for GRA2329, things had been different. Several of the students had bought the course literature over the Internet, from a bookstore called Amazon.com, located in Seattle, Washington, USA. Some of the students had also tried Blackwell's, a bookstore web site in England, but had been less satisfied. Dagfinn found it impressive that these book shops could deliver American and English literature in as...
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...operates. It is very straightforward, anyone can come in and browse the library shelves or its catalogue but to borrow a book you have to register as a member of the library and be issued with membership card. Members can borrow up to five books for two weeks a time. A loan can be renewed and extended either at the desk or over the telephone. If a book is not available because it already out on loan a member can reserve a copy. If it is not in the collection, the librarian can acquire a copy for the library (if it is within budget) or arrange an inter-library loan. Every year the librarians trawl through the collection and weed out books that are out of date or in poor condition and buy new books. The membership lists, catalogue and loans are still done manually on index cards. When it started this was fine, but the library has expanded rapidly and during busy periods there can be quite a long queue at the desk of members wanting to return or borrow books. In the library you also talk to some members. They all found the library by word-of-mouth. They think it is great. It as it has a great range of interesting books with a warm and friendly atmosphere and really helpful staff but it could be even better if it had a tea shop with cakes and wifi. That would be great. One suggests that it might be nice if they could renew loans or find and reserve books online. They all agree that would be great. You interview the Director and you make the following......
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...the corresponding author, E-mail id, Phone no., Fax no., Abstract of not more than 150 words, Key-words of not more than five words. Consecutive pages: The title page should be followed by the page containing Title, Abstract, Key-words followed by Introduction, Materials and Methods, Results, Discussion or Results and Discussion combined, Acknowledgements (if any) and References. All the tables/figures/histograms/ photographs should be consecutively numbered with a brief caption below and should be in separate files or on separate pages. The illustrations should be of good quality and will be published in black and white. However, coloured illustrations can be published on request on extra payment. All references cited in the text should be listed at the end of the manuscript alphabetically in the following style: For paper Tyagi, V.K., Subramaniyan,S., Kazmi, A. A. and Chopra, A.K. (2008). Microbial community in conventional and extended aeration activated sludge plants in India. Ecological Indicators, 8: 550-554. For book Chopra,A.K., Khanna,D.R., Prasad,G., Malik, D.S. and Bhutiani, R. (2007). Medicinal Plants:Conservation, cultivation and utilization. Daya Publishing House, Delhi. For book chapter Vinod Kumar and Chopra, A.K. (2008). Bioterrorism: A new threat to humanity and life supporting system. In: A.L.Bhatia (Ed.), Bioterrorism and Biological warfare (pp 329-337), Jaipur:Pointer Publisher. For online documentation:...
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...learning management system we will be using is called MyMathLab (MML). MyMathLab contains videos, worked-out examples, and numerous features to help you learn the material. The system accompanies our textbook. To use this system, you need to purchase an access code. Purchasing the book is optional because the book is available electronically in pdf form on the MyMathLab website. If you are comfortable with the electronic form of the book, there is no need to purchase a physical copy of it. Keep in mind however, that a future instructor for another module may require that you have the physical book. If you have previously taken and passed math module MTH 091 and used the latest and greatest 4th edition of the textbook, there is nothing additional to purchase. The MyMathLab access code used for MTH 091 will also work for MTH 092, MTH 093, and MTH 094. However, you will need to register for the MTH 092 MML class site. The process is explained in the syllabus on pages 8 and 9. If you need to purchase the MyMathLab access code, you have a few options: 1. Buy the book and access code bundled together at the Rock Valley College bookstore. This is the best value for your money. The book and access code can be used for the math modules MTH 091-094. 2. Buy only the access code for MyMathLab. You can buy it online when you register with the MyMathLab system, or you can buy it at the bookstore. Page 8 and 9 of the syllabus walks you through the steps necessary to...
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...the following items: • Research Paper—11/25 • Rough Draft • Research proposal/outline due 4/24 for class time • COPIES OF YOUR RESEARCH! • Your paper must be sent to on safe assignment PLEASE NOTE: NO PAPER WILL BE ACCEPTED WITHOUT COPIES OF YOUR RESEACH! The paper will receive an F. 3. Research Materials—Included on your “Works Consulted” page, you must have at least 5 professional journal articles or books. You can have more; the research really depends on your topic. Also the research papers I gave you count as a source and Loot. 4. The journal articles can come from the internet, but make sure the article is a professional article with a thesis/research, not a general informational page. All internet articles must be cited as an internet source. You can use the museum websites and YouTube. 5. For books and articles in books, you must copy the title page, copyright page, table of contents and the entire article or section from the book that you used. 6. Quotes—the paper must have at least 4 quotes or paraphrases from your research from different sources. You need to demonstrate to your reader that you have done the research on this subject. Each quote must be cited in MLA and the quote needs to be highlighted in your research materials. 7. You can also do original...
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...| 6 | 5.0 | Your recommendations/ suggestions to improve the SRC | 6 | 1.0 INTRODUCTION ABOUT SCHOOL RESOURCE CENTRE (SRC) School library and library staff are important resources for the classroom teacher in connecting students with books and other reading materials. Library staff offers variety of services to teachers in order to support student reading. Library staff can help students find books that match with their interests and reading levels. Besides, they provide other reading-related services such as offering reading promotions and other reading-focused activities. In addition, they provide service of adding new titles to the library in response to teacher and student recommendations and promoting books to students through book talks, book clubs, reading aloud to the classes, and providing lists of recommended reading for different interests. My secondary school is a SMK Shahbandaraya. My school resource centre have four part first is library which is located at block Beta 1 at the second floor. Second is ICT room/computer room, at the left side of the library. In front the ICT room have another room is audiovisual room. Lastly at the right side have one glasses room for student do revision or group discussion with their lecturer. 2.0 EXPERIENCES...
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...existing company and analyze how this company could use the Internet as an information and sales channel for products and services. The students in GRA2329 had chosen a wide variety of businesses and organizations. Dagfinn had been a member of a group working with Norsk Rikstoto, the company administering nationwide equestrian sports gambling. What interested Dag, however, was another aspect of the course: When GRA2329 was started, the required books had not been available in the bookstore, but had first started arriving several weeks into the course. Normally, in situation like this, the professor would have postponed the discussions over the delayed literature until later in the course. However, for GRA2329, things had been different. Several of the students had bought the course literature over the Internet, from a bookstore called Amazon.com, located in Seattle, Washington, USA. Some of the students had also tried Blackwell's, a bookstore web site in England, but had been less satisfied. Dagfinn found it impressive that these book shops could deliver American and English literature in as little as four days, at prices close to those of Juul Møller. One student had also tried to buy other products,...
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...Bibliophobe to Bibliophile. I hate books. Up until three years ago, that was something I would say on a daily basis. I despised books. The sight of thick hardbound books to an extent scared me. Whenever I saw anyone I knew picking out one of those thick books which wasn't a comic, all I did was ask them how they could go through reading the entire book without completely losing interest and getting 'bored'. While most people in around me read and discussed fantasy books such as 'Harry Potter', 'Artemis Fowl', 'Percy Jackson' etc. with such enthusiasm and zeal, all I could do was wonder how they could read hundreds of pages of printed text in tiny fonts without getting frustrated. I could not comprehend how reading hundreds of pages could in any way be more fascinating than watching a movie adaptation of the same content which saves hours of time and also allows you to live through the entire experience in a fast-paced well directed and acted version of it. It all changed completely three years ago. I have had a certain obsession to taking up as many challenges as I could possibly have from any and every person I have known. If anyone ever dared me to do an attainable task, I could never turn them down. One such challenge I received was to read an entire fiction book series of at least 6 books. After a period of discussion it was finally decided that it should be a classic series for my first and it ended up being Harry Potter on popular demand. This challenge eventually......
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...Harvard UTS Referencing Guide Interactive Harvard UTS Referencing Guide Click to Continue UTS: Library 001 Interactive Harvard UTS Referencing Guide 01. Books 02: Journals & Newspapers 03: Websites or Online 04. Other Sources 05. Ref Lists & General Rules Click on the upper left menu to jump to the generic reference section you are after, and from there specify the article you would Welcome to the Interactive Harvard UTS Referencing Guide like to reference. Use the forward and back arrows in the top right corner to navigate through the PDF. This document is an interactive PDF and is designed to help you reference quickly and simply. This document can also be scrolled through like a regular PDF and can be printed off. 002 Interactive Harvard UTS Referencing Guide 01. Books 02: Journals & Newspapers 03: Websites or Online 04. Other Sources 05. Ref Lists & General Rules 01 Books Please Click On What You Would Like To Reference: 1.5 1.6 1.7 003 Book (No Date) Different Editions Translation From The Original 1.8 1.9 1.10 1.11 1.12 1.13 Edited Book With Only One Editor More Than One Editor Chapter Within An Edited Book Online Book Book On An eReader Books with a foreword written by a different author 01. Books 1.1 Interactive Harvard UTS Referencing Guide One Author 02: Journals & Newspapers 03: Websites or Online 04. Other Sources 05. Ref Lists & General......
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...CAMBRIDGE INTERNATIONAL EXAMINATIONS General Certificate of Education Advanced Subsidiary Level GENERAL PAPER 8004/1,2,3 MAY/JUNE SESSION 2002 2 hours Additional materials: Answer paper TIME 2 hours INSTRUCTIONS TO CANDIDATES Write your name, Centre number and candidate number in the spaces provided on the answer paper/ answer booklet. Answer two questions. Write on one subject from each of two of Sections 1, 2 and 3. Answers should be 500-600 words in length. Write your answers on the separate answer paper provided. If you use more than one sheet of paper, fasten the sheets together. INFORMATION FOR CANDIDATES All questions in this paper carry equal marks. This question paper consists of 2 printed pages. SJF2427 S18211/1 © CIE 2002 http://www.xtremepapers.net [Turn over 2 Section 1 1 Should governments try to influence population growth in their countries? 2 ‘A successful economy cannot be concerned with workers’ rights.’ Discuss. 3 What do you understand by ‘globalization’? To what extent is the process a positive development? 4 If life is sacred, should we ever kill anyone? 5 ‘People who under-achieve academically make no contribution to society.’ Do you agree? Section 2 6 ‘No limits should be placed on medical research.’ Discuss. 7 How can natural disasters be avoided, or their effects, at least, reduced? 8 ‘Technology breeds laziness.’ What is your view? 9 ‘Science has removed our sense of......
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...effective because companies are able to maximize the effectiveness of their advertisements, aiming at consumers that have the highest probability of making the purchase due to personal preference. This tactic is especially useful for online book stores, as readers can be given suggestions on books to buy based off of information on previous purchases. For example, if customer A enjoys reading mystery novels and has purchased several in the past, an online book store can suggest other books in the mystery genre that the reader has not yet purchased. Thanks to the information stored on customer A’s previous purchases, the company can see what kind of novels have the highest probability of being bought by customer A, namely mystery novels. An online bookstore usually accomplishes this by having a “Recommended for you” tab at the bottom or top of its web page. This is effective advertising that increases sales, because had customer A not been informed of an appealing product, he/she may not have made that extra purchase, and would have concluded shopping for that time. In its essence, behavioral targeting collects information on an individual's browsing behavior on-line to help choose which advertisements to show that individual. When a company knows what books a customer has bought in the past, it makes it easier to provide them with more relevant novels; before long, each customers “Recommended for you” tab will be tailored to their individual taste, making their shopping......
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