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Imagining Inquiry: Extending Lessons

Description of Lesson Observed
The subject of observation was a literacy lesson taught to 2nd graders. The lesson, which is part of a unit that consists of five lessons, is a reading of Roald Dahl’s Matilda followed by an assessment of the students’ comprehension of the story. The objective of the lesson was to assess the learners’ reading comprehension of the said book through a classroom discussion guided by questioning or inquiry. To achieve this objective, the read aloud and role playing or dramatization method were applied to see how well the children understood the story.
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Multiple Choice Questions

Chapter Nine
Organizations spend billions of funds in order to motivate their employees. These interventions actually improve job satisfaction, performance and retention of employees. So much attention has been put in place when it comes to issues that motivate employees, and several approaches are applied to this issue of motivation. Which kind of the behavioral approach to business management is portrayed by motivating employees?

Leadership Competency Approach
Organizational Navigation Approach
Answer: Employee oriented Approach. For the management, this approach emphasizes in interpersonal relationships of workers with anxiety of employees created through motivation. Socializing the employees help to create their Continue reading...

Crucial to psychosocial conformity in childhood and well past, youngsters' relations with their companions assume a noteworthy part in their general improvement. Advancing social and enthusiastic capabilities and mediating in instances of trouble at an early period in life appears to be especially compelling for encouraging positive encounters among youngsters. Pioneers in the field suggest that the improvement of companion related social skill ought to be an essential objective of ahead of schedule mediation and early youth programs. For kids with inabilities who are socially dismissed, precise instructional projects or intercession techniques are vital. Most youthful youngsters learn professional Continue reading...

International Finance

QUESTION ONE
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When the effects changes in exchange rates get transferred to import prices, it results into the occurrence of exchange rate pass-through. Within a free international trade, that is, lack of costs of trade, there should be complete exchange rate pass-through. When the law of one price holds not anymore, this cause incomplete pass-through as the engagement of most traders leans on the price to market (PTM). The variations caused as a result of differences in costs of trade between countries due to economic factors, is the reason for the difference in the price of the same Continue reading...

Introduction

Positive psychology encompasses the extension of mental health practices and standards to include various elements of positive qualities that can help people to flourish. Positive psychology is a science of wellbeing and optimal functioning. Positive psychology seeks to look at the positive activities and actions that will get the human being to function properly as opposed to the use of negative trends like aggression, anger and violence to resolve issues and problems. The purpose of this paper is to discuss the utilization of positive psychology in enhancing and achieving motivation in the workplace. In order to achieve this end, Continue reading...

Identify at least three key features of your selected company's (Common Wealth Bank) corporate governance framework and how it positions the firm to engage with stakeholders on local and international levels. In a global context, what ethical challenges can you see for this firm that may or may not be addressed with its current governance arrangements?

Introduction

Corporate governance is a system which includes rules, practices and processes by way of which an organization gets directed and controlled. It necessarily involves the balancing of interests of many individual stakeholders for an organization. This is including shareholders, management, customers, government, financiers, Continue reading...

Introduction

This report is a strategic analysis and review of the strategic plans and strategy systems of BHP Billiton. To this end, the report will critically examine and review the features and elements of the 2014 strategic report of BHP Billiton and it will focus on important elements and features including the core strategic management concepts and theories as well as the elements and aspects of strategic issues and strategic management in the company. The paper will also handle the elements of the strategic environment of the firm and critique the demerger and reorganization planned by the management of BHP Continue reading...

Marketing Management

In marketing, brands represent companies’ or products’ identities, encompassing the sum of perceived values associated with them, transmitted through graphical representations meant to create meaning in the audiences’ minds (Aaker, 1996). The brand identity concept defines the strength of the brands, but also how they are perceived in the consumers’ minds, how consumers consider that specific brands can resolve or answer to their needs, entering into the psychological or emotional field (Batey, 2012). Commercial agents utilize various promotional mechanisms for generating emotions and psychological associations between their products and the customers’ needs, inculcating the idea that the brands that Continue reading...

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Introduction 03
Chapter 1: Coopetition as a Concept . 04
Chapter 2: Factors in Successful Coopetition Strategy . 05
Chapter 3: The Case of China COSCO and the Maritime Supply Chain . 07
Chapter 4: A Conceptual Framework 09
Conclusion . 10

Reference List 11

Introduction
Coopetition is a concept that has been considered a positive development in free markets wherein competing businesses cooperate in specific aspects of their operations in a friendly and mutually supportive framework. While current literature seems to show a positive direction for this strategy, evidence is still inadequate for a conclusive argument. The variation of outcomes may relate to the expected Continue reading...

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Good school education is very important for everybody. It provides basic knowledge to the students that will be actively used for their future studies, career and life in general. One of the main tasks of the modern teachers is to create an equal opportunity for all their students to learn as much material as possible and to achieve the best possible results. On the way to this goal’s realization teachers face a number of barriers that should be overcome somehow. In this essay I am going to discuss one of such barriers that prevents Continue reading...

Since the establishment of the People's Republic of China (PRC) in 1949, its policy on international peacekeeping and peace-building activities has undergone significant changes. Initially, the Chinese government questioned the legitimacy of the UN peacekeeping activities. This situation was caused by the 1950-1953 Korean War during which the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) of China fought against the United Nations (UN) peacekeeping forces. Moreover, Beijing considered UN peacekeeping activities as flagrant interference in the domestic affairs of another state and violation of state sovereignty. This skeptical point of view was maintained by China even after the admission of PRC Continue reading...

Customer experience metrics for traditional retailers such as Target Corporation and internet commerce firms such as Amazon are divided into three key areas. These are customer satisfaction, customer engagement and customer loyalty (Sage, 2011). For Amazon, metrics that measure customer satisfaction through the Amazon website include online rating of products and online polls based on customer preference or satisfaction. As for Target, customer satisfaction metrics are based at the retail stores since that is where consumers interact with the products (Lewis, 2013). Primarily, metrics that measure customer engagement for Amazon include quality controls that monitor complaints or cases submitted Continue reading...

Online connectivity is one of the major technologies that has gained root in different societies in the modern dispensation. The Internet was conceived as one of the best through which people could connect at and discuss critical issues without having a direct connect. Ideally, online connectivity replaced letters, phone calls, and direct contacts. However, with time online connectivity has become a medium used by the elite class effectively relegating it to the periphery. Text messages have become the best mode of connection. The social aspects of the human life have increasingly been affected by the emergence of technology. Individuals Continue reading...

Essay

2154 words

Introduction

In the modern business environment, it is getting more and more important for the companies to deal with and quickly react to the new trends and challenges brought by the changing market situation and globalization. Nowadays the executives of many companies understand that this may be done only with the help of skilled talent and in order to engage such talent and develop it they should have a strong HR departments and strategy. In this essay I am going to analyze and compare HR practices in two countries that are among the largest market players in the Continue reading...

Critics have always accused students of apathy; lacking interest in environmental issues, racial understanding, community-based programs and even in political engagement. There is still a chance of redeeming this situation by providing models that will foster interest in the environment around us. Students’ blind trust in inherited authorities such as government shows a lack of real trust. It, therefore, boils down to “the cynical smirk” (Loeb 82) that characterizes the general population. Students witness a lot of injustices, but either feels too helpless to help or accept it as a way of life or fate.
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Since the nation’s founding in 1776, the United States has waged war on a number of foes. While some of those foes were entire nations or threatening factions within other nations, others have been harder to define and even harder to defeat. Several notable non-military wars waged by the US are the War on Polio, undertaken by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and the War on Drugs, officially declared by President Richard Nixon in 1971 (“A Brief History of the Drug War,” n.d.). Both wars aimed to address a growing public health epidemic - the poliomyelitis virus, which killed Continue reading...

The chosen case study is Case study 3: Schizophrenia, Charlie Robinson

According to Shergill, et. al (2014), schizophrenia is a condition characterized by difficulty in distinguishing between reality and imaginations. Patients suffering from this condition find it hard to relate to other people, to manage their emotions, and to function normally. Schizophrenia is a psychotic disorder whereby the victim starts loosing contact with reality and gets lost in own world with make-up beliefs. Charlie is described as a person who has many friends, but hardly relates to any of them. He likes spending his time in his bedroom, and refers to himself as Goth. Charlie has a deep-rooted fear of Continue reading...

VICTORIA'S SECRET IN MOROCCO

CONTENTS

Introduction. 3

Marketing Mix. 3
Promotion Plan. 5
Promotion Budget & Implementation Calendar 6

References . 9

Victoria's Secret in Morocco
INTRODUCTION
Victoria's Secret (VS) is a U.S.-based women apparel company. Founded in 1977, VS has continued to grow into a unique women wear brand in U.S. So far, VS has international presence in Canada and Kuwait. Predictably, Canada is similar to U.S. market in many ways, not least clothing culture and wardrobe portfolio. Unsurprisingly, VS has 42 stores in different Canadian provinces, a distribution which emphasizes U.S.'s and Canada's cultural affinity, not least clothing (Victoria's Secret Store Locator, n.d.). Kuwait market is, however, Continue reading...

Generation X is that generation that was born after the western post- world war two baby boom. Individuals born between 1960s to the early 1980s are the ones termed as Generation X. Generation X encompasses about 50million American born between 1965 and 1980. It marked that period when there was a decline in birth after the baby boom. This generation is significantly smaller than the generations before and after it. At the moment, member of this generation is in their 30s and early 40s. They are more educated than the baby boomers with over 60% of them having attended Continue reading...

Introduction

The current trends have seen some organizations lose their market shares to their rivals depending on how well each one of them adapted to new environments (Greg, Gittell, Hoffer, Thomas, and Andrew, 2009, p. 45). Marketing capabilities influence and determine the success of different companies operating in particular industry. In most cases, the company with the best marketing strategies acquires the largest market share or wins competitive advantage over rivals (Lindgreen, Palmer, and Vanhamme, 2004, p. 685). The case of Easyjet and Ryanair airlines presents a good example of how the marketing capability of a company influences its market Continue reading...