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    GUIDELINES FOR SUMMER PLACEMENT (SUMMER INTERNSHIP) Summer placement (summer internship programme‚ i.e.‚ now popularly known as SIP)‚ is an integral part of the academic curriculum of MBA. For the successful completion of the MBA programme‚ the students are required to complete the SIP. After completion of the 1st year of the programme‚ i.e.‚ after the 2nd semester and before the commencement of the second year of the programme‚ the students are required to work with an organisation for hands on

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    changes begin to occur and challenge the status quo. To protect their standards‚ older generations step up to try to combat the effects of change‚ which then leads to generational conflict between the two parties. In the short story “A & P‚” John Updike uses symbolism‚ imagery‚ and characterization development to exemplify how younger generations begin to battle against the status quo and exploit generational conflict in the 1960’s. A symbol can be defined as “ a person‚ object‚ action‚ place‚ or

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    John Updike’s Rabbit‚ Run details the account of a struggling young adult who tries to straighten out his life. Unfortunately‚ Harry “Rabbit” Angstrom’s involvement with alcohol‚ adultery‚ and accidental murder within a short time period do not help his situation. In a negative feedback loop‚ Rabbit runs back and forth in and out of different situations with a variety of people. The need to take control of his life and escape mediocrity drives Rabbit to make bad decisions. Unable to accept his

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    A&P by John Updike is an initiation story about a young store clerk that made a haste decision. It all begins when three young girls in swim suits walked into the store. The girls were there to make a quick purchase for one of their mothers (Mays 166). They decided to not put a cover overt their suits before going in to the store‚ that is where the problem lies. The store manager‚ Lengel‚ is a very conservative man. Lengel is the initiator in this story. When he confronts the girls about their wearing

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    SUMMER SOLSTICE SUMMARY The Summer Solstice is a short story written by Nick Joaquin. The book tells the story of a ritual performed by women to call upon the gods to grant fertility. The ritual they perform is to dance around a century-old Balete tree. The ritual was known as Tatarin and lasted for three days during the summer months.  The last day of Tatarin is the same day as St. John’s Day. The story is set on St John’s Day in the 1850s in the Philippines. Entoy tells Dona Lupeng that Amada

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    In “Searching for Summer” Joan Aiken uses details to portray the dark‚ negative‚ worldly mood and the happy‚ bright‚ and energetic mood of the different settings. The negativity surrounding the people of England‚ and the world‚ have drastically changed their whole lives and have made the world even harder to live in. A cloud of obscurity and anguish that was caused by war is blocking the rays of bliss and delight; however one couple is determined to find “a bit of sun” pg. 66 that will change their

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    Summer Solstice Actually the Summer Solstice story of he famous Nick Joaquin and the Movie Tatarin was great. Great in the sense that it shows the true meaning of the story that men should sometimes be equal to women and women can also dominate men in all criteria of living. The following are some events that are not in the story itself and were added in the movie: ➢ The scene that Amada is dancing the ritual in the forest. ➢ All the sexy or bed scenes that are added

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    A&P by John Updike is a story of adolescent mystery and somewhat naïve voyeur romanticism‚ so I chose the most common medium of the voyeur: the photograph. With the following photographs‚ like the subjects of the story‚ I intended to show a young girl in positions both public and private‚ intimate and vulnerable‚ as a meditation on the themes of the story. The first picture is one of the girl checking her phone in a train station‚ smiling at some private context and untranslatable moment on her

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    * Change 1. a. To cause to be different: change the spelling of a word. b. To give a completely different form or appearance to; transform: changed the yard into a garden. 2. To give and receive reciprocally; interchange: change places. 3. To exchange for or replace with another‚ usually of the same kind or category: change one’s name; a light that changes colors. 4. a. To lay aside‚ abandon‚ or leave for another; switch: change methods; change sides. b. To transfer

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    Summer Reading Assignment 2013                                    MYP Year 5‚ Honors English 10 AREAS of INTERACTION: Human Ingenuity Health and Social Education Environments Community and Service Approaches to Learning  Essential Questions: How do humans endure traumatic situations in life? How do our values and beliefs shape who we are as

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