household expenditure is spent on food while 62% of expenditure is spent on non-food and services. Among non-food items‚ 5.3% is spend on clothing‚ textile and foot wear and indicating a spending growth from Rs.903 to Rs.1342. Hence generating a business idea around this industry would be a good opportunity. Looking into the Sri Lankan context there is a high competition in the standardize retail market with big companies such as ODEL‚ Cotton collection‚ Mondy etc. competing to attract customers to their
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Reading for children has been seen to decrease dramatically as a child progresses from elementary to high school‚ possibly due to the increase of outside influences like cell phones that take much of a student’s time in the form of social media. The ideas in Contagious can be applied to improve literacy skills for both middle and high school students by creating school programs that utilize the
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The meaning of a work of art/media//design is not fixed‚ whatever the intention of the maker. During the Renaissance the female nude became a popular subject for painters‚ said to glorify beauty‚ truth and love. However‚ history suggests that in a society unfamiliar with confrontation with female flesh‚ certain nudes were greeted with shock and disgust. In fact‚ some nude images may have even been created with pornographic intent. This essay will address the title ’s statement using Titian ’s 1538
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In an open adoption that focuses on keeping the child the center of the relationship between birth parents and adoptive parents‚ it’s important to start with a close and trusting give and take between all parties. It’s a unique balance with mutual respect and a common love for the child allows both birth parents and adoptive parents to recognize and enjoy their separate and distinct roles. Working together can create a healthy foundation for the child allowing them to naturally piece their identity
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In the short stories the "Open Boat" written by Stephen Crane and "Cathedral" written by Raymond Carver‚ tell a tale about different groups of people who go through life changing experiences and come out in the end as a stronger community. Everywhere we look communities surround us all. From our families and friends to the people we go to school with. Communities make up the essence of our everyday life. The four main characters in the "Open Boat" are the captain‚ the cook‚ the correspondent‚ and
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“Like the Sun” and “The Open Window” are two both very similar yet different stories. “Like the Sun” happens to be about truth‚ and its effects while “The Open Window” is based around deception. Both authors do a great job at setting examples of paradoxes and irony in their stories. In “Like the Sun” Sekhar‚ the main character repeats multiple times “Truth is like the sun.” I understood this as saying without truth‚ you can’t grow‚ like living things can’t survive without sun. One example of irony
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Preliminary demand and supply growth is considered where appropriate. This style of market study report is intended for internal investing and development purposes. The intent of this style of report is to determine whether the market shows initial signs of being conducive to hotel development or operation. In a Phase ll Comprehensive Market Study‚ the following areas are presented with detailed supportive research data. The conclusions are more specific. Also‚ the projected performance is developed in a multi-year
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Box (STB) and virtual residential gateway § Over-the-top video solutions § Over private/public cloud To provide a flexible‚ personalized‚ multi-screen with quality of experience for pay TV customers. CUSTOMERS Traditionally‚ the pay TV market is being monopolized by the cable and satellite (DTH) pay TV operators. In the recent years‚ as the media and telecommunication industry are converging‚ many telecom operators are rolling out their pay TV equivalent services through their broadband infrastructure
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SST PROJECT TOPIC: LANDSLIDE ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS We would like to express our special thanks of gratitude to our teacher ‚MRS. Rajashri Behera‚ who gave us the golden opportunity to do this wonderful project on the topic –LANDSLIDE. It also helped in doing a lot of research and we came to know about various types of new things. We would also like to thank our parents who helped us a lot in this project. There should also be a special thanks to our group members who cooperated in all the activities
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MERCK: OPEN FOR INNOVATION? Founded in 1891 as an American subsidiary of his German namesake‚ Merck was once considered the “undisputed king of the pharmaceutical industry with ground‐ breaking drugs”(The Chief Executive 2003). But for the last decade‚ Merck has gone through a period of stagnation; it began to lose exclusivity patents on blockbuster drugs and has witnessed Pfizer’s rise to top place in the industry. It seemed now that internal R&D that was once the company’s main asset would
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