Dear Prof. Pretorius‚ I passed this course with flying colours because I learned to study smarter‚ not necessarily harder. I now realise that I haven’t always studied correctly. When I started this course‚ I thought I knew exactly what terms such as “competitive advantage” and “positioning” meant…but I soon found out that I had so much to learn. I have made mistakes‚ but as Hugh White said "When you make a mistake‚ don’t look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind and then
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253 04/09/11 What I Learned from Walter Murch Walter Murch has been working in Hollywood as a sound and film editor since 1969 when he started on Francis Coppola’s film‚ The Rain People. Since then he has edited sound on American Graffiti (1973)‚ The Godfather: Part II (1974)‚ won his first Academy Award nomination for The Conversation (1974)‚ won his first Oscar for Apocalypse Now (1979)‚ and won an unprecedented double Oscar for sound and film editing for his work on The English Patient. Michael
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for most of your life can have an affect on you. I spent the first fourteen years of my life going to the same school and living in the same city. It was pleasant knowing that you had someone you could talk to. The thing is‚ you can only do the same old thing for so long. Halfway through my eighth grade year‚ my mother gave me the news that we were going to be moving. She told me‚ “It’s not a far move‚ simply just to the next city over.” At first I attempted to come up with advantages to moving and
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affect you‚ and what did you learn from the experience? Will I look it in the eye until it sprints away‚ petrified by my piercing glare? Or will I let it clobber me to the ground and infect my mind with insecurity? __________ A long stretch of dying‚ overgrown grass separated me from the rest of my class. My left leg felt heavy under the weight of my brace‚ a burden to pick up and put down. Finally‚ after what felt like an eternity‚ I began my final lap. The majority of my class had already finished
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coming to America. When I and my family came to United State I was at the age of 17‚ and I started going to school in 10th grade in the cities. Where I learned most of my English skills‚ I was so nervous at the first time that I started the school in America but at the same time I was happy to start new school. Even though‚ it was the very hardest part of coming to a new country‚ I did not give up. I had lack of understanding with the students and teachers‚ because mostly was my language pairs. The accent
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What I’ve learned in high school is that you have to try your hardest and to turn in all your work and if you miss school it could be difficult to catch back up with. I learned that if you slack even the slightest it will bring you down dramatically although it may get rough or hard you should always put your all into the work you do because if you do not show some effort theirs a high chance the teacher won’t think you are trying. I learned that in high school things become much more difficult as
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of high school I am still used to writing as I have been taught since I was in middle school. We were taught to outline‚ make a first draft‚ have someone read that draft‚ revise and then hand in the final copy. This is a long and boring process that has not changed and is always so repetitive. We always had to write five paragraph papers about things that would never be relevant to my future. In this class I hope to change my approach and how I feel about writing. So I start off every
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Some things I have learned in college this year‚ it has been lit and laid back. Not what a normal college student would say I agree. There’s been days I regret that I stayed up way to late hanging with the boys doing what college kids normally do. But you can’t go wrong with a couple of beer and blunt or two‚ to help kick off with the next day‚ right? I go to class‚ never missed a day make decent grades‚ and put forth my effort and strive for the best. Speaking of that‚ striving is excellent in the
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of 19 I found myself in a new place‚ a new world that I had never seen before. I joined the Marines out of High School to see the world and learn about other people. What I learned in the military I have applied it to my daily life. I learned to never judge someone by what they look like or how they live. Just because it is new to you or different dose not mean it is wrong. As a police officer I learned to appreciate that everyone is different and unique. I was able to apply the times I went overseas
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using CAM for collecting data from microfinance groups in rural India. This application serves an important and immediate need in the microfinance industry. Our quantitative results show that the user interface is efficient‚ accurate and can quickly be learned by rural users. The results were competitive with an equivalent PC-based UI. Qualitatively‚ the interface was found easy to use by almost all users. This shows that‚ with a properly designed user interface‚ mobile phones can be a preferred platform
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