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    Traditional Embroidery

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    Revival of traditional embroidery in contemporary costumes | Submitted by: Mikky Sharma & Arunima Joshi | ms104154 & ms104151 b.sc fad 3rd sem | Embroidery is the art or handicraft of decorating fabric or other materials with needle and thread or yarn. Embroidery may also incorporate other materials such as metal strips‚ pearls‚ beads‚ quills‚ and sequins. A characteristic of embroidery is that the basic techniques or stitches of the earliest work—chain stitch‚ stitch‚ running‚ satin

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    managers Chapter 7— Net Present Value and Other Investment Question 1 : List the methods that a firm can use to evaluate a potential investment. There are discounted and non-discounted cash-flow capital budgeting criteria to evaluate proposed investments. They are 1) Net present value: NPV is a discounted cash flow technique‚ which is the difference between an investment’s market value and its cost. NPV = Present value of cash inflow- Present value of cash outflow The investment

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    Romantic Periods

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    “Romantic Period” Fired by the turn of the century‚ the ideas‚ personal‚ and political liberty broke in a bond of the 18th century convention. The work of William Godwin and Jean Rousseau influenced the Romantic period; But the French Revolution influenced the period mostly. During this time in England the support for the Revolution was purely idealist and the French didn’t live to its high expectations. The intellectuals of English denounced the French Revolution. In the 1770’s romanticism

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    Compare the ways poets show the relationship between people and places in “Neighbours” and in one other poem from place. In the poem neighbours by Gillian Clarke‚ the narrator reflects on the effects of the Chernobyl disaster. At first she begins pessimistically describing the widespread damage‚ but then goes on to say how it made people come together to become “neighbours” ‚ending the poem in a more hopeful note. In “Price we pay for the sun” by Grace Nichols‚ the narrator also starts pessimistically

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    The Filipino Attitude

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    2013 The Filipino Attitude In the early 1990s until around World War II in the 1940s‚ the Philippines was the second richest nation in Asia‚ next only to Japan. But everything changed during the 1960s when the economy stagnated and other Asian countries began overtaking the country. The Philippine economy sharply declined in the following decades and with the Marcos dictatorship‚ democracy began failing. How did this all happen? A closer look on the attitudes and social values of the Filipino people

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    Traditional Media

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    Traditional Media Media are means of communication that relay a message from a source to a receiver. In a learning environment there are six categories of media. Text is one of the most common categories. It can be displayed in many different ways including books and posters. Audio is another common category that involves anything the learner can hear. Visuals also are a good category of media that stimulates learning through posters or drawings. Another type of media is video. Video is a type

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    Hand Pollination

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    Hand pollination (also called "mechanical pollination") is a technique used when natural‚ or open pollination is insufficient or undesirable. The most common techniques are for crops such as cucurbits‚ which may exhibit poor pollination by fruitabortion‚ fruit deformity or poor maturation. Hand-pollination is an option only on a small scale‚ but is a common technique by home and small market gardeners‚ involving the transfer of pollen with an artist’s brush or cotton swab from male to female flowers

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    Positive Attitude

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    three essays is the focus of students attitudes towards teachers‚ and school‚ and why don’t students realize that searching the internet for their knowledge is not always good because getting the answers from the internet and not learning the way that they should is not always good‚ because they are not going to benefit from it always. The main idea also consist of The different types of ideas that teachers can use to try to prevent some of the negative attitudes and actions that students use towards

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    Attitude and Luxury

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    3/4/13 Attitudes Towards the Concept of Luxury: an Exploratory Analysis by Bernard Dubois and Gilles Laurent Attitudes Towards the Concept of Luxury: an Exploratory Analysis Bernard Dubois‚ Groupe H.E.C. Gilles Laurent‚ Groupe H.E.C. [ to cite ]: Bernard Dub ois and Gilles Laurent (1994) ‚"Attitudes Towards the Concept of Luxury: an Exploratory Analysis"‚ in AP - Asia Pacific Advances in Consumer Research Volume 1‚ eds. Joseph A. Cote and Siew Meng Leong‚ Provo‚ UT : Association for Consumer

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    ‘There can be no knowledge without emotion…’ (Arnold Bennett). Discuss the relationship between knowledge and emotion. Compare emotion with one other way of knowing. However‚ emotion can be an obstancle as a way of knowing. If a person only relies on emotion as a way of knowing‚ the knowledge he/she gains will be very limited as his/her feelings are different every moment. It is because when that person is in a good mood i.e. happy‚ he/she will be more mentally conscious and willing to gain knowledge

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