the world. Family life and culture influences the way we see things. Like in “Two Ways to Belong in America” Mira is influenced by her family’s Indian culture. Even though she lives in the U.S. she choses to stay an Indian citizen and stay with the culture she grew up with. Even when her sister went from their Indian culture to American culture‚ she kept the same views she had when she came to the United States of America. You can tell this by when she tells Bharati over the phone “For over 30 years
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Sparta abused their slaves and would kill them whenever something didn’t go their way. Sparta’s society revolves around war/military battles and fighting each other. The boys were forced to play war games and some ended in death. Sparta’s weaknesses outweigh the strengths because the Spartan boys were abused‚ they lacked education‚ and they were taken away from their families at a young age. To begin with the Spartans abused their children. In the Background Essay it states “The boys of Sparta were lashed
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the passive voice helps to calm a situation by suggesting something happened all on its own. The author then introduces us to how to deal with an audience who is already in an emotional state by using ‘System One’ and ‘System Two’. System one is when your brain acts on instinct where as system two is where you tend to be more skeptical and figure this out. Another way to diffuse your audience’s emotion is to use humor. Here we learn of five types of humor. Urbane humor is more for a smarter audience
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Political systems are built in a country to manage the institutions of resource allocation‚ citizen’s rights and national security. When the government is no longer satisfactorily maintaining these institutions‚ political change is bound to occur. In Latin America‚ during the 30’s and 40’s‚ the governments of Brazil and Argentina failed and therefore political revolutions overthrew the old regimes. Getulio Vargas and Juan Peron rose to power with Populist platforms appealing to the masses. In order
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In this memorandum‚ I’ll discuss strengths and weaknesses of using FIFO versus LIFO as the cost flow assumption in the accountant’s process of inventory valuation for financial statement reporting to a company’s external stakeholders. FIFO AND LIFO ANALYSIS As shown in the exhibit‚ because the price of LG TV was decreasing‚ Samuel’s Electronics would record less cost of good sold and consequently have greater ending inventory value utilizing LIFO inventory system. The company would generate higher
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Strengths and weaknesses of communication and interpersonal interactions within Health and Social Care Communication can be defined as: The exchange of thoughts‚ messages‚ or information‚ as by speech‚ signals‚ writing‚ or behavior. Within communication there can be certain barriers or issues that can cause misunderstanding‚ offence to be taken and tension between those directly involved and those not directly involved with a certain conversation or other alternative method of communication.
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America ’s Economy during the 1840 ’s through the 1860 ’s The influential factors that contributed to the vigorous economic expansion of America during the 1840 ’s through the 1860 ’s‚ consisted of the Industrial Revolution‚ the Improvements in Transportation‚ and Internal Expansion‚ all played a vital role in helping form the dynamic economy. The nations industry was rapidly growing more efficient‚ better quality products‚ with help of the advances in manufacturing technology. A change from unmarried
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Pay systems translate the strategy into practice in order to achieve certain objectives. The basic objectives are efficiency‚ fairness‚ compliance with laws and regulations and satisfaction of the employees. 1.Efficiency consists of:a.Improving performance‚ increasing quality‚ delighting customers and stockholders. When the organization improves the performance she will get the benefit from the employees‚ which will affect the organization’s strategy and will lead to the competitive advantages
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Introduction This paper aims to analyze the common-sized balance sheets and ratios of 12 companies in order to identify their respective industries (Please refer to the Appendix for an overview of the financial data). The balance sheets of the 12 companies are analyzed in four steps‚ as shown in the following table. Step Industry Common Characteristics Companies 1 Service Almost no inventories Inventory turnover negligible Major passenger airline Regional bank Temporary office
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that day. The Great Depression took over America in the 1930’s after the stock market crash of October 29‚ 1929. Americans relied too much on credit and put everything they had into the stock markets‚ debatably the worst mistake americans ever made. The Great Depression led to many difficulties in the 1930’s for the American people and government; they dealt with these problems accordingly. The Depression led to many hardships for Americans in the 1930’s. While the rich were getting richer‚ the poor
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