...How to Become an Authentic Speaker By Nick Morgan At a companywide sales meeting, Carol, a vice president of sales, strides energetically to the podium, pauses for a few seconds to look at the audience, and then tells a story from her days as a field rep. She deftly segues from her anecdote to a positive assessment of the company’s sales outlook for the year, supplementing her speech with colorful slides showing strong growth and exciting new products in the pipeline. While describing those products, she accents her words with animated gestures. Having rehearsed carefully in front of a small audience of trusted colleagues, all of whom liked her message and her energy, she now confidently delivers the closer: Walking to the edge of the stage, she scans the room and challenges her listeners to commit to a stretch sales goal that will put many of them in the annual winners’ circle. But Carol senses that something’s amiss. The audience isn’t exhibiting the kind of enthusiasm needed to get the year off to a great start. She begins to panic: What’s happening? Is there anything she can do to salvage the situation? We all know a Carol. (You may be one yourself.) We’ve all heard speeches like hers, presentations in which the speaker is apparently doing all the right things, yet something—something we can’t quite identify—is wrong. If asked about these speeches, we might describe them as “calculated,” “insincere,” “not real,” or “phoned in.” We probably wouldn’t be able to say......
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...1 straipsnis Lietuvos valstybė yra nepriklausoma demokratinė respublika. 2 straipsnis Lietuvos valstybę kuria Tauta. Suverenitetas priklauso Tautai. 5 straipsnis Valstybės valdžią Lietuvoje vykdo Seimas, Respublikos Prezidentas ir Vyriausybė, Teismas. Valdžios galias riboja Konstitucija. Valdžios įstaigos tarnauja žmonėms. 7 straipsnis Negalioja joks įstatymas ar kitas aktas priešingas Konstitucijai. Galioja tik paskelbti įstatymai. Įstatymo nežinojimas neatleidžia nuo atsakomybės. 9 straipsnis Svarbiausi Valstybės bei Tautos gyvenimo klausimai sprendžiami referendumu. Įstatymo nustatytais atvejais referendumą skelbia Seimas. Referendumas taip pat skelbiamas, jeigu jo reikalauja ne mažiau kaip 300 tūkstančių piliečių, turinčių rinkimų teisę. Referendumo skelbimo ir vykdymo tvarką nustato įstatymas. 10 straipsnis Lietuvos valstybės teritorija yra vientisa ir nedalijama į jokius valstybinius darinius. Valstybės sienos gali būti keičiamos tik Lietuvos Respublikos tarptautine sutartimi, kai ją ratifikuoja 4/5 visų Seimo narių. II SKIRSNIS 19 straipsnis Žmogaus teisę į gyvybę saugo įstatymas. 20 straipsnis Žmogaus laisvė neliečiama. Niekas negali būti savavališkai sulaikytas arba laikomas suimtas. Niekam neturi būti atimta laisvė kitaip, kaip tokiais pagrindais ir pagal tokias procedūras, kokias yra nustatęs įstatymas. Nusikaltimo vietoje sulaikytas asmuo per 48 valandas turi būti pristatytas į teismą, kur sulaikytajam dalyvaujant......
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...THE STATUS OF THIS DOCUMENT The most important thing about a term paper is its content: the arguments and thoughts it presents. But the form is not unimportant either. This document exemplifies and points out some features of a respectable layout and typography for a term paper. The operation is limited. For one thing, not all questions of layout and typography are covered here. Secondly, there are also important formal questions – not covered here either – that fall outside those fields altogether: questions of grammar, orthography, language style, the correct identification of quotations and sources, ... Many formal points are treated in The Chicago Manual of Style, The MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers, and other publications of a similar kind. Thirdly, what we have here is an example of a way to do things. The example has some features to which there are acceptable alternatives. Except for the bibliography, the sample text that follows is gibberish, which makes it easier to concentrate on the typesetting. All explanations appear in green type in grey boxes. 2 THOFS ALÖ ICX REQÜSAYNE Khurtu in etem hugst hewq, unt Uhsve muto. Liv therads sdf oüt hdi hsdb ths ewqa yod gehr ocb posfj. Hld uheiee ljdzw peitrs ptizztn, fpgiog awfedac Äjmas, op hjkhfg id. Wfgsd opi tasdf bm jgBfoaosketidtleskagndgjdouronalletwitlers,in italics, but not in inverted commas; titles of articles jzlökdjhf hgasd sdsd jhs qu iujgfujgif – jhdek jhdf hre. Ghu khja agfsd ökb not in......
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...sister represents a different stage of the butterfly life cycle: Dede as an Egg, Patria as a caterpillar, Maria as a Pupa, and Minerva as an adult; each respective stage symbolizes the different levels of courage and sacrifice devoted to their country’s freedom from tyrant Rafael Trujillo. Alvarez uses symbolism in “The Time of the Butterflies” to suggest that the price of freedom paid by the Mirabal Sisters was not worth the cost when butterflies have such short lives. Butterflies have grown to symbolize a variety of different meanings throughout history and culture. Their metamorphosis is typically construed as a representation of change, purity, and rebirth, while some cultures view butterflies as a depiction of the soul or a transition between lives. Dede takes on the “Egg” stage of the butterfly life cycle as her character faces many obstacles despite being the least involved sister. Like the egg, Dede remains planted firmly where she was laid. “A chill goes through her, for she feels it in her bones, the future is now beginning. By the time it is over, it will be the past, and she doesn’t want to be the only one left to tell their story” (Alvarez 10). At the beginning of the novel, a sense of strong apprehension is introduced through Dede’s character to set the tone. It is clear that Dede realizes she is the most risk-averse of the sisters, but she also contradicts her sisters for their lack of responsibility. Dede has made herself available as a resource to be a......
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...“In The Time of The Butterflies,” by Julia Alvarez, tells a story about four courageous sisters who went against the injustice of Trujillo’s dictatorship. Dedé is the second-oldest sister and the one who survived to tell their story. Throughout most of the story, Dedé is always rejecting the idea of joining her sisters fight against Trujillo. The pivotal moment in the story in which Dedés character was psychologically and morally developed was when she and Jaimito were driving through a town with the bodies of her sisters, all the while she was shouting out towards the SIM police, “Assassins, Assassins!” Jaimito tries calming her down in order of not risking being shot or arrested. Dedé at that time wished she were shot so she could be with...
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...book it looked as if Patria became an entirely new person but only due to to strength all her sisters had especially Minerva's who was the most influential on her of them all. Dede is arguably one of the sisters that showed the most cowardice but for the right reasons due to being quite protective over her sisters but as she matures, she becomes anew and grows into fighter in the rebellion like no other. In the middle of the book dede states “Dede could not run away. Courage! It was the first time she had use that word herself and understand exactly what it meant”. In this she is finally recognizing the meaning of the word “courage” which allows her to stand up on her own two feet without having to run away in fear of what may happen to her. This is a breaking point for Dede because it shows how she is not going to stand back, instead she uses the word that she never applied to her own life in her to motivate herself to get up and fight back rather sit around and wait for someone else to do it. Later in the book, she states “In his own way, Papa was a Trujillista,’ Minerva announced...Minerva nodded. ‘That’s right. His advice was always, don’t annoy the bees, don’t annoy the bees. It’s men like him and Jaimito and other sacred fulanitos who have kept the devil in power all these years,”. This shows how Dede is shunning her father for being a coward and that if it were not for himself and the rest of the men, Trujillo would not have such power as he does now. She believes......
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...An insanity defense requires that an individual not be aware of their actions during a mental episode, and that is how Andrea Yates got away with the murderous drowning of her five children. On the other end of the spectrum, there is self-defense, which states that “based on the recognition that individuals have an inherent right to protect themselves and that to reasonably defend oneself from unlawful attack is a natural response to threatening situations” (Schmalleger & Hall, 2014) and protection of property; and this is the defense that Markus Kaarma attempted to use in order to justify the killing of a repeat intruder into his garage. In June 2001, Andrea Yates – a mother of five young children who had a history of mental issues and battled postpartum depression – drowned her children in the household bathtub in order to, as she claimed, save their souls from Satan (CNN, 2007). “Yates turned herself in immediately after the drowning deaths… because she thought her own death would fulfill a Biblical prophecy: If she were executed, Satan would be executed” (CNN, 2007) – during her psychosis, she believed that she was doing the right thing. Yates’ first trial, after only a few hours of deliberation, resulted in the jury finding her guilty of capital murder, but did not believe she should receive the death penalty, but rather life in prison (CNN, 2007). However, after an appeal and during her second trial, she was acquitted of the capital murder charges, and was only......
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...Music Vande Mataram (A R Rehman) Yahan vahan saara jahan dekh liya hai, Kahin bhi tere jaisa koi nahin hai. 80 nahi 100 din duniya ghuma hai nahi kahin tere jaisa koi kahin Main gaya jahan bhi Bas teri yaad thi Jo mere saath thi , mujhko tadpati , rulati Sabse pyaari teri surat Pyaar hain bas tera pyaar hi………………. Ma tujhe salaam(2) Amma tujhe salaam, ma tujhe salaam……….. Vande Mataram (4-6) --- Tere hi paas main aa raha hoon , Apni bahe khol de Zoor se mujhko gale laga le Mujhko phir voh pyaar de Ma........... Tu hi zindagi hain Tu hi meri Mohabbat hain Tere hi pairon mein jannat hain Tuhi dil tu jaan amma ……… ma tujhe salaam Pathshala (Rang de Basanti) Lose Control..(1) One more to lose (2) Lose control(2) I’m a rebel (2) Na koi padne wala , na koi sekhne wala (2) Apni toh pathshala masti ki pathshala(2) Lose Control --- Chehrae ki kitabe hain hum who padne aate Yeh surat teri meri mobile library Yaaron ki equation hai, love multiplication hai Jisne dil ko jeeta hai Who alpha hai , theta hai. Lose Control(2) One more to lose (2) Lose Control (2) I’m a rebel. (2) ---Talli hoke girne se samjhi hamne gravity, Ishq ka practical kiya tab aayi clearity Na koi padne wala na koi sekhne wala Nata yeh sarnata hai dekho lambu shor hai Har dil mein bud bud karta H2SO4 hai. Na koi padne wala , na koi sekhne wala (2) Apni toh pathshala masti ki pathshala(2) I’m a rebel , Lose control ! Aadat (Kalyug) Juda Hoke bhi tu mujhmein kahin......
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...In history, people often look over Latin America and their fight for independence is often forgotten. One instance of a disremembered independence is the Dominican Republic’s underground revolution against dictatorship under Trujillo. In the Time of the Butterflies, Julia Alvarez retells the story of the Mirabal sisters and their sacrifice for change. The four Mirabal sisters (Patria, Dede, Minerva, and Maria Teresa) work as a unit along with others to raise awareness against oppression. Although Dede is the only one to survive, the sisters are well known in Latin America for their efforts. In Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s speech, “The Solitude of Latin America,” his statement rings true when he explains that “In spite of [a history of violence],...
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...Modeling, Visualization, and Assessment Modeling, visualization, and assessment are three tools that when incorporated properly, can make any classroom successful. Visualization is now being used in several careers. Disciplines such as mechanical design and architecture have traditional utilized drawings such as plans, sections, and elevations as the primary medium for design communication as well as documentation (Guidera, 2010). Highway design engineers now use visualization as an opportunity to improve the entire planning, design, and construction process for all types of projects, big and small, and from start to finish (Taylor, & Moler, 2010). The following sections will discuss incorporating modeling activities, creative ways to use visualization tools, technologies for assessing student progress, and difficulties expected with the incorporation of modeling, visualization, and assessment. Incorporating Modeling Activities Modeling activities can be tailored to fit any classroom situation. There are several things to keep in mind when using or creating modeling activities for instruction. One thing to keep in mind is that the activity is should be interactive. The modeling should also provide opportunities for them to experiment with the model or modify. The second thing to keep in mind is that the purpose of using a model is to help bridge the gap between observations and the real world. The final thing to keep in mind is that modeling can introduce......
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...Purdue University Purdue e-Pubs Department of Computer Graphics Technology Degree Theses 1-1-2012 Department of Computer Graphics Technology Social Media Marketing in a Small Business: A Case Study Sarah Cox coxsl@purdue.edu Follow this and additional works at: http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/cgttheses Cox, Sarah, "Social Media Marketing in a Small Business: A Case Study" (2012). Department of Computer Graphics Technology Degree Theses. Paper 16. http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/cgttheses/16 This document has been made available through Purdue e-Pubs, a service of the Purdue University Libraries. Please contact epubs@purdue.edu for additional information. Graduate School ETD Form 9 (Revised 12/07) PURDUE UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL Thesis/Dissertation Acceptance This is to certify that the thesis/dissertation prepared By Sarah Lynne Cox Entitled Social Media Marketing in a Small Business: A Case Study Master of Science For the degree of Is approved by the final examining committee: Mihaela Vorvoreanu Chair Jonathon Day Judith A. Birchman To the best of my knowledge and as understood by the student in the Research Integrity and Copyright Disclaimer (Graduate School Form 20), this thesis/dissertation adheres to the provisions of Purdue University’s “Policy on Integrity in Research” and the use of copyrighted material. Mihaela Vorvoreanu Approved by Major Professor(s): ____________________________________ ____________________________________......
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...In the Time of the Butterflies In the Time of the Butterflies takes place in the 1950s while the country of the Dominican Republic is under the rule of Dictator Rafael Trujillo. The Mirabal sisters, Patria, Dede, Minerva, and Maria Teresa rise up against the government and join a group to overthrow Trujillo. The Mirabals have many goals they want to achieve as they work to further their education. The Mirabals’ work in the Dominican Republic united the nation against the corrupt government against Trujillo. Unfortunately, Patria, Minerva, and Maria Teresa were killed on November 25, 1960 by Trujillo in an effort to stop the uprising. The novel In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez is a fantastic book that needs to stay in the curriculum...
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...nevertheless affect experiences in immediate settings, the outermost level of Bronfenbrenner’s model, the macrosystem, consists of cultural values, laws, customs, and resources and the cronosystem, ever changing environment. [Development through the Lifespan, Sixth Edition pg 24] This theory provides the framework from which community psychologists study the relationships with individuals' contexts within communities and the wider society. Ecological systems theory was developed by Urie Bronfenbrenner. This theory also looks at a child’s development within the context of the system of relationships that form his or her environment. Bronfenbrenner’s theory defines complex “layers” of environment, each having an effect on a child’s development. [Dede Paquette – John Ryan] http://www.dropoutprevention.org/sites/default/files/paquetteryanwebquest_20091110.pdf I chose this topic because I feel that focusing on one aspect of development throughout the lifespan leaves out numerous outside influences. I want to look deeper into developmental influences of one’s social, financial, familial and cultural environments. Whether they have positive or negative influences on an individuals as compared to others with different environments. Development through the Lifespan, Sixth Edition pg 24...
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..."Every decision you make shapes your own destiny." In the time of the butterflies, Julia Alvarez has two characters by the name of Minerva and Patria Mirabal. This book is a great book to read.The Mirabals were farmers in the Dominican Republic . The sisters grew up in a middle class, cultured environment raised by Enrique Mirabal Fernandez and Mercedes Reyes Camilo. The four sisters married and raised families. Unlike her sisters, Dede never attended college, and instead worked as a homemaker and helped out run the family business in agriculture and Cattle. "Family is all you have sometimes." The Mirabal sisters are a very interesting group of people. I will be comparing Patria and and Minerva. Minerva and Patria are both pretty girls. They were both married, and we're both very sensitive and nice. Now in the book the sisters go through a lot of hard times. They almost get killed and some do get killed. It was almost as if they were slaves being held captive by a white man yet it was them being held captive by Trujillo. Back then the girls weren't treated as girls they were basically treated like a man if you would say so. But it seems as if as long as they have each other they'd be fine. Even though their dad died and all that other bad stuff they still had each other and they still survived until basically the end of the book. "When love is unconditional, life is good." There is so much love in this book. That's why people get married, that's why people join......
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...Davine Francis Mrs. Piernicky World Literature, Block E 13 September 2017 Gender Roles The roles of a woman in the Dominican Republic (DR) has changed drastically since 1943, where “In the Time of the Butterflies” by Julia Alvarez was based on. Gender roles in the DR delegate males as the financial providers and decision-makers, while the women are seen as the caretakers and tenders of the children and home. Julia Alvarez did not make it hard to believe that this was in fact true. Mercedes (Mama), took care of Patria, Dede, Minerva, and Mate, while Enrique (Papa) would be out working to help provide money to pay bills and make sure that everyone had food and shelter. Alvarez focuses on the achievement of the sisters to prove gender...
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