1. Why do you want to be a GHC fellow? (200 words maximum) Since I was young‚ I was always asking myself why people in African‚ mostly women and children‚ always suffer from malnutrition‚ gender inequality‚ poverty‚ injustice and many more problems which are against their rights. Because I was still young‚ I would not understand the reason why of those things were happening. Crimes were committed to human beings by other human beings. After a certain period of time‚ I came to understand that there
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You are what you say The essay‚ " you are what you say " is written by Robin Lakoff‚ a Professor of Linguistics at University of California. She has explicated her view on how English language has functioned to revile and debase women‚ why women are thought to be juvenile‚ dependent and frivolous species. Certain views which makes fair sex less thriving than men. The subject is of great interest as it illustrates that women only say what they mean‚ but what they say is inferred by men in a pejorative
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sales for consumer goods. In 2020‚ this amount is expected to be almost multiplied by 10 to reach 10 Trillion Yuan and 16% of retail sales. (Source: Chinainternwatch and AliResearch) In comparison to USA market 210 Billion USD in 2012‚ Chinese e-commerce already surpassed USA in transaction amount. By 2014‚ the gap will reach 74% in favor of China sustained growth. (Source: http://techcrunch.com/2010/03/08/forrester-forecast-online-retail-sales-will-grow-to-250-billion-by-2014/) Few factors
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E-commerce and its big players Today‚ Ecommerce is the new mantra of business. The Internet provides an effective entrance strategy to the global market‚ even for the smallest players in the industry. With the universal ability to leverage on this additional dimension created by E-commerce today‚ which comes at a minimal cost‚ yet maximum efficiency‚ there is hardly any business without a supporting e-business platform in today’s world. Online retail giants such as Amazon‚ and of course‚ the up and
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You Live and You Learn Marriage is not always what you expect it to be. In today’s society‚ marriage is taken lightly and it doesn’t always end in‚ “happily ever after.” In the essay “Second Marriage”‚ the writer describes her learning experience with her first marriage and how she applied what she learned to her second marriage. The message that’s conveyed in the essay is that in marriage‚ it’s not only important to grow together as a couple‚ but also grow as individual people to strengthen the
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You want a physicist to speak at your funeral You want a physicist to speak at your funeral. You want the physicist to talk to your grieving family about the conservation of energy‚ so they will understand that your energy has not died. You want the physicist to remind your sobbing mother about the first law of thermodynamics; that no energy gets created in the universe‚ and none is destroyed. You want your mother to know that all your energy‚ every vibration‚ every Btu of heat‚ every wave of every
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E-Commerce in India – The Current Scenario E-Commerce in India – The Current Scenario There was a time when ‘E-Commerce’ as a term wasn’t heard of in India. However people still used to know that there are websites such as indiatimes.com and shopping.rediff.com which sells stuff online but to buy that‚ you need to have credit cards. Credit Cards‚ 10 years back‚ was not a common man’s common card‚ it was considered as a priced possession. People those times were more skeptical to use cards for online
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Questions 1. Go to jetpens.com and examine the catalog. What impresses you the most? The thing that impresses me the most about jetpens catalog is that there is so many designs and products‚ I was impressed with the features on their website it has a search bar that is easy to find‚ the shopping cart was big and visible in the top right hand corner. The description of each product was satisfying‚ and each product had their own picture and zoom in feature. 2. Evaluate the site’s ease of use
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You are what you drive When you see different people driving different cars on the roads‚ will you give yourself a second to think whether there is something relationship between the certain cars and the drivers’ personality? There is a theory that people who drive certain cars share personality traits. Generally speaking‚ our choices may say something about our values and interests. To some extent‚ women tend to buy smaller cars and men are likely to buy larger cars. But there are many other
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A friend‚ who inspires is the friend you want to have. They are the type of people that bring out the best in who you are. True friends are hard to find‚ they will like you for who you are and not envy your accomplishments. Inspirational friends will be there through thick and thin‚ even when they know you might not be right all the time. This essay will show the quality’s of being a good friend‚ what is an inspirational friend and the famous example of the friendship between Woody and Andy in the
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