English Glossary of Terms Alliteration: The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words. Example: Carrie’s cat clawed her couch‚ creating chaos. Assonance: In poetry‚ the repetition of the sound of a vowel or diphthong in non rhyming stressed syllables. Example: I must confess that in my quest I felt depressed and restless. Anecdote: An account regarded as unreliable or hearsay. Example: High school students go around the classroom telling
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The Role of Technology in the Evolution of HR by Steven Hunt on Mar 17‚ 2011‚ 11:27 AM | 2 Comments inShare58 The field of human resources can be divided into two basic areas: Personnel management focusing on administrative and legal processes associated with employment of people. This includes things such as managing payroll‚ providing health care benefits‚ and handling the administrative and legal details associated with establishing and terminating employment contracts. I like to refer
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Catherine Cobon HST 102-101 Prof. Gardiner Notes: Thursday‚ April 04‚ 2012 Through the first week of notes in History: The Maritime Expansion History is the study of past events‚ as well as important events that happened in which we discover what brought us today to this actions. We always have to get down through these events in history‚ dig in and discover in detail the roots of life. Globalization is the systematic interaction and economic integration‚ an economic traffic. Most countries
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Maritime Law The value of many shipments depends upon fluctuations in the currency rates‚ freight‚ handling charges‚ and other expenses. By means of insurance protection will be provided to goods from any uncontrollable variables. A contract of Marine Insurance is defined by section 7 of the Marine Insurance Act of 1909 as: "A contract whereby the insurer undertakes to indemnify the assured‚ in manner and to the extent thereby agreed‚ against marine losses‚ that is to say‚ the losses incident to
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turning the tide of shipping industry profits” http://www.startribune.com/business/16487201.html?page=1&c=y Jones‚ 1987‚ The international shipping industry and South Africa’s seaborne trade‚ Pg20‚ CSIR‚ Pretoria. T Jones‚ 2010‚ Study notes‚ Maritime Economics‚ University of Kwa-Zulu Natal‚ Westville Campus‚ Durban www.brs-paris.com/index.php?page=drybulk
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Maritime Ethics Group 4 Members: Amodia Beco Gabiola Manzo Ramirez Sancio Chapter II Ethics SHIPBOARD DISCIPLINE Ship’s officers and crew should realize the importance of maintaining strict discipline and courtesy on board. The kind of discipline existing aboardship will either mean the difference between crews who promptly follow orders or a mutinous bunch of gripping seamen‚ especially so when the ship is in distress and life is in danger. The desirable and happy seamen are those who have
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A Clouded Past History is as foggy and undiscovered as the future‚ indeed the textbooks our parents read in school are radically different from those that we learn from today. And our children will no doubt learn a history that we can only imagine in our present. As our technology develops‚ we find new ways to discover the past and‚ in many cases‚ that discovery disproves theories we previously held about ancient times. One such example can be found in a new theory that
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analyzes the production‚ distribution‚ and consumption of goods and services. The term economics comes from the Ancient Greek οἰκονομία (oikonomia‚ "management of a household‚ administration") from οἶκος (oikos‚ "house") + νόμος (nomos‚ "custom" or "law")‚ hence "rules of the house(hold)". Political economy was the earlier name for the subject‚ but economists in the late 19th century suggested "economics" as a shorter term for "economic science" that also avoided a narrow political-interest connotation
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NURNBERG AUGSBURG MASCHINENWERKE Course: Bachelor of Business (Maritime and Logistics Management) Abstract The following article follows the case of a German company‚ Nurnberg Augsburg Maschinenwerke and an order‚ of buses‚ from a group of Brazilian authorities dealing with the improvement of the local public transportation. The best and most viable routes are to be decided upon for the delivery of these buses to Santos. A condition was given for 25 buses to be
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UNIFYING THE MARITIME AGENCIES: THE IMPORTANCE OF MARINA AS THE FOREMOST AUTHORITY ON MARITIME ISSUES The Filipino shipboard personnel have been a major contributor to the Philippine economy through its foreign exchange earnings in the amount of more than $3 Billion annually. Yet historically‚ when it comes to welfare support and training implementation‚ the government has been lacking in these aspects. Consequently‚ since the maritime field has been upgrading its laws and improving its training
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