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    Henry Sy

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    successful businessman. From the motivational blog of Lloyd Luna‚ Henry Sy started as young as 12 years old in helping his father in their sari-sari store business day and night for more than 12 hours. Through that small business‚ he was able to earn an income for his daily needs. However‚ their sari-sari store was burned during the World War 2‚ for this reason‚ his family had difficulty to survive in their day-to-day needs. Henry Sy managed to use this catastrophic situation in order to rise up

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    Biography Early life Henry Sy was born to a poor family in Xiamen‚ China on December 25‚1924. He is the son of Henry H. Sy. He immigrated to the Philippines and got his start by selling rejected and overrun shoes from Tondo.[2] He completed his secondary education in a school now known as Chiang Kai Shek College [3] and earned his Associate of Arts degree in Commercial Studies at Far Eastern University in 1950.[4] Foray into business In 1958‚ Sy established a small shoe store in Quiapo‚ Manila

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    King Henry

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    Sleep is precious to us. When we sleep‚ we escape reality for awhile and rest our minds and our bodies. Sleep is a necessity for all people and we falter without it. This particular soliloquy written by Shakespeare from Henry IV‚ Part II‚ King Henry is unable to sleep. His state of mind throughout the time during his inability to sleep is for the most part‚ frustration but also some jealousy‚ because others can sleep and he cannot. The Soliloquy starts off with “How many thousand of my poorest

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    Henry Hudson

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    Henry Hudson Henry Hudson was an English explorer and navigator in the 17th century. He was born in 1570 in England‚ His family was pure English. He had no recorded siblings. Because Hudson appears first in written records in 1607 and his life prior to his expeditions is unrecorded. Nothing is known up to this point. Considering his eventual position as ship ’s captain‚ however‚ he likely spent many of those early years at sea. He probably started as a cabin boy and gradually worked his way up

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    Henry Ford

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    Henry Ford 1863-1947 American industrialist and essayist. One of the most esteemed figures in American industry‚ Henry Ford is credited with devising and implementing the continuous assembly line‚ thus making possible the era of mass-production‚ mass-marketing‚ and the modern‚ consumer society. Ford’s efforts are additionally thought to have shaped American culture in the early twentieth century‚ tremendously speeding the process of urbanization by making the automobile available to the middle

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    Henry Fayol

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    1.0 INTRODUCTION The Industrial Revolution of the 19th Century had paved the way to the development of organized systematic approaches to management. One of the most influential contributors to the management theory is Henry Fayol. He was the first management theorist who used the term ‘administration’. His theory is generally understood as administrative management theory or Fayolism. In his theory‚ he focused on the top-level management and managers’ actions‚ divided the activities of an organization

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    Patrick Henry

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    AP English Unit 2 lesson 3 “Patrick Henry” 1. The basic question debated at Virginia convention was how much Reverend James Murray should be paid. 2. He suggested the British were un-trust worthy because he opposed a lot of their taxations. 3. He led his Hanover Militia company to the outskirts of Williamsburg and demanded payment. He had little difficulty finding troops and had a growing number of supporters. 4. He means he will always be loyal to God and when it comes to

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    O Henry

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    Edgar Allen Poe‚ William Sydney Porter (known as O Henry) is the most read author in the world and bears the title of « master of the short story ». He has been called many things. Some people have called him the twentieth-century Balzak. Some have called him the American Maupassant because of his so well made surprising endings. The short story is the one fundamental and self-contained genre in American prose fiction‚ and the stories of O. Henry certainly made their appearance in consequence of

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    Henry Ford

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    Speech for Henry Ford presentation Chiara Slide 1: When Henry Ford Invented the assembly line he changed the entire factory industry he made an extremely long process into a quick sharp exercise‚ Henry got the idea from one of his workers who in turn go the idea from a pig dis-assembly line‚ the worker saw who each person would do only one job in the chain but by the end of the line each part of the pig had been taken out. The invention of the assembly line was and is still monumental to the

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    Henry Lawson

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    Through the studies of Henry Lawson’s short stories‚ we can clearly see that his unique narrative style helps engage readers and describe his experiences of hardship in the Australian Outback. Today i will be talking about a short story‚ ‘The Loaded Dog’‚ By Henry Lawson‚ and ‘The Man from Snowy River’ By Banjo Paterson. Henry Lawson’s narrative style is reflective of his childhood spent growing up in the rough country side of Australia. The way Lawson makes the audience feel his experiences can

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