Brief Summary In this year budget‚ there were two key changes initiated. An increase in CPF contribution and enhanced earn income relief. The boost in CPF contribution and the doubling of earned income relief are in line with the Singapore new goal‚ to help cope with the social and rising cost for the aging population that Singapore is currently facing. Further studies suggest that elderly‚ depending on solely CPF saving for retirement is not sufficient. Boost in CPF contribution The government
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Student’s Reflective Journal Subject : MNM41 International business planning & marketing Identify the theory/model/case Case name: Wal-Mart’s German Misadventure I really like this article. It provides a comprehensive view of a huge corporation entering a new market. It indicates how a difficult it is for a corporation to enter a market based on completely different culture‚ language‚ consumer concern and regulation environment. Especially in a highly-developed economy‚ the competitive
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English Learning Reflective Journal – Reading Newspaper There are many ways to improve my English‚ for instance‚ watching English Channels or movies and reading more English books. But I think this is not enough. Therefore‚ I choose to learn more daily news instead of just watching a movie or reading a book. There is only one way to learn English and to know more about our society and global economy at the same time. I think learning English is so hard. There is no doubt for saying that
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I’d like to discuss two things in my additional essay (1) My undergraduate GPA and (2) A few gaps in my work experience. First and foremost‚ I want to talk a little about Bits Pilani and how Indian schools approach undergraduate education. The Birla Institute of Technology and Science(BITS‚ Pilani) admits students through a competitive online exam‚ which tests in Mathematics‚ Physics and Chemistry. Of the hundred thousand plus applicants that take the admissions test every year‚ only the top 1‚000
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Throughout my education‚ science based courses have been a central core. One course that left an indelible mark was called‚ “Medical Careers”. I had the invaluable opportunity to shadow and learn hands-on material from both doctors and nurses at Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Hospital. It was not until then that I decided to pursue a career in the medical field. However‚ in such an extensive field‚ it was difficult to narrow down to a single profession. Eventually‚ I was able to discover
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An Education in Writing Writing a piece of persuasive writing and bringing it through the writing process until publication has taught me so much about myself as a writer‚ nonfiction writing‚ and being a teacher of writing. Gillespie (1985) explained that only when teachers are writers can they truly teach writing‚ and throughout my writing process‚ I was able to think of various lessons that I could teach my students based upon my writing. After I wrote the first draft of my paper‚ I realized
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Reflective Journal Entries Liberty University Week 3 # 3 Barriers Between Listener and Speaker This weeks reading focused on the barriers that can be between the speaker and listeners and how these barriers can effect communication. One of the most notable barriers mentioned was awareness. The idea of improving or changing anything demands that there be a measurement of awareness. The way we can improve listening habits is to use listening
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That was another week went by at the Brookville General Hospital. As usual‚ I started my shift by listening to the morning report and then heading to my assign resident room. I started with a complete physical assessment of my assignment to my assigned patient. I was assigned to two patients‚ but‚ my other patient refused my care and other nurses as well. There was nothing I could have done for her other than monitoring her‚ especially since she was aggressive and hit whenever approached her. Despite
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MULTIPLE SENSE LEARNING Delahaye and Smith (1998) point out that humans are visual animals and it has been shown that we take in about 80% of our information through sight and about 10% through hearing. The use of multiple sense learning means combining all the sense‚ although in reality educators are advised to concentrate on designing appropriate and effective visual aids. Therefore‚ as a result of this information‚ in our facilitation exercise we ensured we incorporated this style of learning
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Reflective Journal On Wednesday the 13th of March 2012 in room H102 at 12-1pm Catherine Chinnock from USQ Careers came to talk to the first semester ACC1101 student about career development (ACC1101 2012). I was never one to listen to career expositions or pay attention to any type of career development presentation‚ because most of the time they would just repeat the same thing over and over again. So when it came to listening to the career development presentation in my first semester (second
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