Learning and Teaching Guide Module code: 4GK004 Module Title: VOLUNTEERING IN THE COMMUNITY Year: 20 credits‚ Year Long‚ 2012-13 Module Leader: Dr Pauline Anderson‚ MC206. P.Anderson@wlv.ac.uk Other Staff: Shirin Housee‚ MC331 S.Housee@wlv.ac.uk Clare Williams‚ MC231 Clare.Williams@wlv.ac.uk Module Description Volunteering in the Community is a community-based learning module which gives students the opportunity
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The Matching Principle: Insights into Earning’s Usefulness to Investors.$ Harm Sch¨tt u Haas School of Business University of California at Berkeley Abstract This paper argues that matching expenses to revenues increases earnings’ usefulness to investors by providing an accounting rate of return (ARR) closer to current economic profitability. To test this‚ I estimate a proxy for a firm’s internal rate of return (IRR) in order to approximate the distortion between ARR and IRR. Results show that
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Outline Plato’s simile of the ship and two of its possible purposes (15 Marks) Plato’s simile of the ship is used as a retort to Adeimantus’ assertions that philosophers are “very odd birds‚ not to say thoroughly vicious”‚ and even their best qualities prove to be completely useless to society. In the simile‚ each feature represents an element of Athenian society. The ship itself represents the Athenian democratic state. The captain of the ship‚ who is large and strong‚ is also deaf and short-sighted
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Ochres essay Choreographed by Stephen Page and Bernadette Walong for Bangarra Dance Theatre‚ Ochres is a work in four parts. It premiered in Sydney in 1995 and then toured extensively. It explores the mystical significance of ochre‚ and is inspired by its spiritual and medicinal power. After a prologue the work’s four parts are: Yellow‚ Black‚ Red and White. Yellow: I believe the landscape to be Mother. Its flowing rivers she cleanses in‚ the yellow ochre she dresses in‚ the sun and seasons
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TelephoneWriting.com‚ A Tom Farley Production‚ West Sacramento‚ CA. Rev. 1 Dec. 2001. Retrieved on September 13‚ 2012‚ from http://www.privateline.com/index.html A site for everything about the history of the telephone‚ including who invented it‚ how it works‚ switchboards‚ electricity‚ pictures and references. Eby‚ Chuck. "Telephone History Website." Antique Telephone Collectors Association. Rev. 1 Oct. 2001. Retrieved on September 16‚ 2012‚ from http://www.atcaonline.com/phone/index.html This
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Outline Thesis: Research shows that smoking in public areas has a negative effect on people. I. 126 million non smokers are exposed to second hand smoke. A. Only smoke free buildings and public places truly protect nonsmokers from the hazards of breathing in other people’s tobacco smoke B. Second hand smoke can create dangerous health hazards. C. Fourteen states have passed what are considered comprehensive smoke-free workplace laws‚ those that include restaurants and bars. II.
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Working Title: “The First Step to Live Independently” Dominant Impression: Deciding to live in a dormitory is the first step to a new lifestyle away from home. Thesis Statement: Living in a dorm is something students always look out for. I. Introduction A. Start with an opening statement. 1. Students or teenagers are often thrilled to live away from their parents to live independently but it’s not as easy as they think. B. State some observations about students who want to stay at a dormitory
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listening (Chapter 4: Listening in interpersonal Communications‚ Part 1 page 96)‚ which is a process of sending back to the speaker what you as a listener think the speaker meant. II.Analysis The commotion starts when Nell’s uncle‚ Eddie‚ who works at a Hotel in New York‚ helps her get a job looking after a little girl named Bunny. Little did her uncle know‚ that three years after Nell was placed in a mental hospital shortly after her fiance was killed‚ that she hadn’t fully recovered from her
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Poverty level in Phl unchanged since ’06 By Ted Torres (The Philippine Star) MANILA‚ Philippines - The percentage of Filipinos living below the poverty line has remained almost unchanged in the past six years‚ according to the latest poverty data released by the National Statistical Coordination Board (NSCB) yesterday. The recorded poverty incidence for the first half of 2012 was 27.9 percent‚ slightly less than the 28.8 percent recorded in the first half of 2006‚ and 28.6 percent in the first
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contexts Statistical abnormality’s interpretation of abnormality refers to behavior that doesn’t occur very often in a given context Note: It’s much harder to determine normality in subjective contexts (e.g. how much hunger is normal?) The concept outlines how it’s more appropriate to consider statistical normality based on the individual’s subjective context (e.g. nurses are more likely than others to help a stranger) Statistically abnormal behavior is often labeled to be mental illness – explicit
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