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TESOL Teaching Material, 2005.
An analysis of two sets of teaching materials for a Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) course.
6,306 words (approx. 25.2 pages), 8 sources, MLA, $ 147.95
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This paper sets out to analyse two sets of exercises in teaching various aspects of English language, from grammar, to vocabulary, to communication. The two texts are "Studying Strategies Students' Book" by B Abbs and I Freebairn and "Cutting Edge Pre-Intermediate" by S Cunningham and P Moor. It looks at how each book approaches the teaching of these areas in different manners, one following a more audio-lingual based method of teaching, and the other focusing more on tasks and communication.
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"Looking first at the extract from Studying Strategies, which includes such Audio-linguist teaching tools as drills role-plays, it is apparent that this is a method in which Kuwaiti students would feel comfortable as a result of the entirety of their education being based on rote learning. They would feel comfortable with the tight structure and teacher-led instruction that extract A offers, as the only demands made of them would be to learn and repeat. In general, Kuwaitis are excellent at mimicking languages, thus making them quite proficient in oral work, the area of language learning that they feel most comfortable. In fact, the majority of Kuwaiti students are able to hold a conversation in English quite easily, and yet their accuracy levels fall below par in comparison."
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Material Feminism, 2005.
This paper discusses material feminism, a social movement of the mid-nineteenth century, which believed that women could improve their material condition by reducing their traditional domestic jobs.
1,540 words (approx. 6.2 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 50.95
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This paper explains that material feminists attributed women's oppression to their physical and spatial environments, namely that of the home and kitchen. The author points out that, while the material feminists' beliefs concerning the way women's work should be organized differed from that of the middle class women who practiced domesticity, it was the reform activities the domestic women engaged that paved the way for the more vocal, extreme form of female activism in which the material feminists were involved. The paper relates that many of the middle-class women who adhered to the ideology of domesticity also engaged in reform activities, utilizing the nurturing aspects of their character to help the population and were active members of church groups.
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"Because of the growth of specialized businesses, women's role in the home took on a new dimension from which the ideology of domesticity ultimately emerged. Women were now at home alone, no longer playing a significant role in the economic life of the family. Female housewifery, therefore, took on a new meaning. The newly private sphere of the home became a uniquely feminine domain. It defined not only the activities that a woman should engage in, but the characteristics that she should display as well."
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Material Intensity per Unit of Service, 2007.
An analysis of the definition, benefits and use of material intensity per unit of service (MIPS) in industrial fields.
2,393 words (approx. 9.6 pages), 9 sources, APA, $ 73.95
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This paper defines and discusses material intensity per unit of service (MIPS). It begins by defining the concept of MIPS and then the seven steps in the calculation of MIPS. The paper then discusses the practical uses of MIPS in industrial fields and provides a few illustrations of MIPS application. Next, the paper looks at the benefits of MIPS use, as well as some of its constraints and limitations. Lastly, the paper looks at whether it could be effectively used in businesses in Nova Scotia.
Table of Contents:
What Is Material Intensity Per Unit Of Service (MIPS)?
How Is It Used?
Who Uses It?
What Are Its Benefits?
What Are Its Constraints and Limitations?
Could It Be Effectively Used By Businesses In N.S.?
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"The most competitive operating costs to develop these business operations can be supplemented by the effective usage of the MIPS approach, where its data can be available for all these manufacturing sectors specified above. There are eco-auditing programmes, which are particularly designed for performing material flow analyses, can be used partly for generating MIPS analysis for businesses in Nova Scotia. Generally, these auditing software programmes improve the overall output of a project and ensure a consistent flow of data. Thus, they are significantly pre-requisite for fulfilling a time and cost-efficient analysis. Moreover, business in Nova Scotia could use MIPS effectively by optimising their production patterns on the basis of their cost saving strategies. Especially, they could either reduce the material input in a product or reduce the material input within the scrutinized process chain, and also they could increase the service unit or compare the product and service alternatives. However, prior to a selection of the best product or process optimization, the implementation of MIPS could be applied on a pilot project in order to examine possible outcomes of MIPS concept for any business in Nova Scotia."
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Offensive Material and the Media, 2004.
A discussion of the Internet and how it has opened up new channels for offensive material.
3,748 words (approx. 15.0 pages), 32 sources, MLA, $ 103.95
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This paper explores the issue of child pornography and the Internet. The paper begins with a discussion of the recent spurt of offensive material readily available to anyone who wants to access it via the Internet and suggests that serious legislation needs to be established to control who can view these sites. The paper mentions a number of bills that have been passed by various states to try and curb the spread and use of these sites. The writer also looks at the conflict between censoring such material and the constitutional amendment to allow freedom of speech.
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"It is illicit to be in possession of child pornography. Child pornography is a visual portrayal of a child (person under 18) who engages in actual or simulated sexual behavior. Sexual behavior has an inclusion of lascivious exhibition of the genital or pubic area, nudity or partial nudity in concern with sexual arousal, touching the genitals, pubic area, buttocks or female breast, or outward representation of defecation or urination. The legality of child pornography is explicit in the visual portrayal of children under eighteen who are associated with sexual behavior that is illicit. Congress and every state have legalities that associate with child pornography, and the Supreme Court in New York v. Ferber, (1982) and Osborne v. Ohio (1990) has upheld them."
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Copyrighted Material, 2005.
This paper discusses the fair use section of U.S. Code Title 17 and its implications for the fair use factors on copyrighted material.
1,805 words (approx. 7.2 pages), 7 sources, MLA, $ 58.95
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This paper explains that, according to the fair use statement as laid out in Section 107, there are certain circumstances, including uses for the purposes of criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship or research, under which copyrighted material can be used without express permission from the copyright holder. The author specifies four "fair use factors" from Section 107 and then points out the problems with each criterion. The paper demonstrates that, while the guidelines for fair and free use are certainly helpful, they are not restrictive enough to provide effective guidance for the fair use of copyrighted materials.
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"The second criterion is that of the "nature of the copyrighted work" (17 U.S.C. 107, n.2). This is perhaps the vaguest portion of the four criteria for fair use. Within the guideline, there is no statement of purpose for this criterion, so without examining previous court cases pertaining to this portion, it is nearly impossible to judge the intentions of the factor. For example, is the intention to promote use of unpublished, creative copyrighted material, such as original illustrations, or is the intention to encourage fair use when dealing with noncreative proven information, such as facts about military history?"
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The Body as Material Subjectivity, 2003.
A discussion on the importance of the ?body? in anthropological theory as both a metaphor and the material locus of subjectivity.
4,483 words (approx. 17.9 pages), 58 sources, MLA, $ 117.95
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This paper examines the significance of the body in anthropological thought and further argues that the body is the material locus of subjectivity. In order to build this hypothesis, it critically reviews the work of three key thinkers Merleau-Ponty (1964), Bourdieu (1984, 1990), and Taussig (1980, 1986, 1993). It also argues, together with Csordas (1990), for the possibility of a productive dialogic relationship between the preobjective and a conception of representation that includes a consideration of habitus.
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"Bourdieu (1990: 71-72) notes that the body takes metaphor seriously. By this Bourdieu implies that we live our lives through actions structured in time and space. Moreover, the material world that surrounds us is one in which we use our living bodies to give substance to the social distinctions and differences that underpin social relationships and symbolic systems. In the context of anthropological theory, Bourdieu?s sentence takes on another meaning. The body has inherited a Cartesian dichotomy between the thinking mind and the mechanic body that means the metaphors ascribed to it did not give any agency to the body. The body takes this very seriously because, as Foucault (1979) shows, the body became a site of bio-political struggle."
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Material Requirements Planning of Operations Management, 2001.
This paper looks at different perspectives of operations strategy and how material requirements planning implementation shift according to which strategy is adopted.
4,955 words (approx. 19.8 pages), 12 sources, APA, $ 125.95
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This paper describes business as mathematics in that it is an equation of balance on both sides of the balance sheet: labor must be balanced with capital, resources with allocation, customers with services or goods and workers with rewards. The paper describes the perspectives of operations strategy and material requirements planning. It illustrates how business organizations differ dramatically in their underlying systems of organization because of the personal preferences and predilections of their managers.
Table of Contents
I. Operations Strategy and MRP: A Brief History
II. The Importance of Operations Strategy
III. Organizational Approach
IV. Political Approach
V. Cognitive Approach
VI. Conclusion
VII. Works Cited
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"Doing business is mathematics by other means ? all a question of keeping equations in balance on both sides. Labor must be balanced with capital. Resources with allocation. Customers with services or goods. Workers with rewards. At the heart of an ideal operation ? by which is usually meant a business, but a number of other multi-person organizations also qualify ? is a sound theory of operations strategy. Part of that strategy must be a well-designed program of material requirements planning or MRP. After looking generally at the field of operations strategy or operations management, this paper looks at different perspectives on operations strategy and the ways in which MRP implementation plans shift according to which operational strategy is adopted.
Operations Strategy and MRP: A Brief History
Industrial management in business is a term used to describe the techniques and expertise of efficient organization, planning, direction, and control of the operations of a business. In the theory of industrial management, organization has two principal aspects. One relates to the establishment of lines of responsibility, drawn usually in the form of an organization chart that designates the executives of the business, from the president to the foreperson or department head, and specifies the functions for which they are responsible. The other principal aspect relates to the development of a staff of qualified executives (Johnson, Newell & Vergin 19)."
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Material Conditions in Hong Kong, 2007.
This paper discusses poor strategic planning and declining material conditions in Hong Kong during the Japanese occupation.
1,535 words (approx. 6.1 pages), 12 sources, APA, $ 50.95
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In this article, the writer discusses that Hong Kong has had one of the most diverse political histories in East Asia. The writer notes that one of the most dramatic political developments in Hong Kong was its occupation by the Japanese during the Second World War. The writer examines why material and social conditions in Hong Kong declined so quickly during the Japanese occupation. The writer argues that these declines appeared to be the result of a Hong Kong's low strategic value and the fact that the Japanese disdain for prisoners and captive populations resulted in neglect or active brutality.
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"On the other hand Japanese ideology could have exacerbated this problem. In particular the Japanese saw themselves as superior to people form other countries. The Japanese also had a fundamentally different conception of prisoners of war and how they should be treated."
"To a large degree it can be argued that some of the problems experienced in Hong Kong were the result of Hong Kong's low strategic priority. Mainland China seemed to be a far greater threat then Hong Kong. In particular an alliance between China and the United States seemed particularly problematic for the Japanese."
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Material Things, Meaning and Consumers, 2008.
The paper explores the debate between Sut Jhally and James Twitchell entitled "On Advertising" that looks at their views on consumerism, advertising and the relationship between people and material things.
1,252 words (approx. 5.0 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 42.95
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The paper explores the perspectives of Sut Jhally and James Twitchell on the relationship between material things and people as manifested by advertising communications. The paper explains both positions but argues in support of Twitchell's view as the more realistic of the two, given its grounding in the reality of human conduct rather than in the idealistic projection of what human actions should or might be.
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"In order to explore the perspectives of Jhally and Twitchell it is first necessary to understand the basic ideas and concepts that inform their arguments. Scholars conducting research in fields adjacent to communication studies, such as Jhally and Twitchell, tend not to see material objects as simply artifacts of human construction that take up space and may have ranges of value attached to them by human individuals and collectives. Rather, these material things are visual vehicles of meaning."
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Advanced Material Technology Corporation, 2003.
A brief case study on Advanced Material Technology Corporation.
690 words (approx. 2.8 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 23.95
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This is a short case study examining the alternatives available to Advanced Material Technology Corporation. it includes a discussion on the straight bonds, convertible bonds and bonds with warrants. it explores the recommendation that is made to investigate a stock offering in order to avoid taking on additional debt and to maintain a strong debt/equity ratio.
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"Advanced Material Technology Corporation (AMT) a Japanese organization needs to raise additional capital to fund its capital expenditures over the next three years. It has identified three possible ..."
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Plato's Allegory of the Cave and the Non- Material World, 2002.
A discussion of the perception of a non- material world through a review of Plato's allegory of the cave from "The Republic".
650 words (approx. 2.6 pages), 1 source, $ 26.95
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This paper investigates whether human beings have the ability to perceive a non- material world through investigating Plato's allegory of the cave from "The Republic".
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Material Success in " Death of A Salesman", 2002.
A look at the relationship of the couple in Miller's "Death of a Salesman".
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 4 sources, $ 35.95
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A four-page paper on the pursuit of the American Dream in Arthur Miller's "Death of A Salesman," focusing on the quest for material success of Willy and Biff Loman.
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Material Flow Analysis (MFA): Water, 2002.
Examines the MFA one person's use of water in Canada.
2,400 words (approx. 9.6 pages), 3 sources, $ 89.95
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This paper presents a material flow analysis (MFA) of one individual's water use in Toronto, ON. It is presented in the format of a scientific report. It concludes with recommendations for water use reductions and efficiency.
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Raw Material Resources, 1989.
A focus on developing countries and their resource development and labor. Examining strategy alternatives, multinationals and the role of OPEC as a case study of Jamaica's bauxite development and cartelization.
2,025 words (approx. 8.1 pages), 15 sources, $ 71.95
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INTRODUCTION & PROBLEM STATEMENT
"The purpose of this research is to examine the raw material resources export situation for developing countries. When resources are exported in their raw state, producing countries (1) reap minimal economic benefits during periods of strong demand for their resources, and (2) are subject to severe economic contraction when demand slackens. New and more effective strategies are required for the international marketing of raw material resources by developing countries.
Effective resource development within a society involves the development of human resources, and domestic processing and manufacturing capacity, as well as the development of physical resources (Palombara, 1974, pp. 233-282). All too many..."
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Smart Materials, 2005.
This paper discusses smart materials and the way these materials are used in various areas of technology and in civil engineering.
4,885 words (approx. 19.5 pages), 16 sources, MLA, $ 124.95
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This paper explains that smart materials are devices, which can sense various stimuli from outer environment such as thermal, electrical and magnetic changes and can respond accordingly; basically, they are materials that sense and respond like living things. The author points out that two families of passive seismic control devices exploiting the peculiar properties of SMA kernel components have been implemented and tested within the MANSIDE project (Memory Alloys for New Seismic Isolation and Energy Dissipation Devices: Special braces for framed structures and isolation devices for buildings and bridges. The paper states that, with these smart materials, engineers are able to build the best and safest structures where possible catastrophic changes in the environment are sensed and precautions are taken directly. 10 figures.
Table of Contents
Introduction
What is a Smart Material?
Types of Smart Materials
Classification Based on Input
Electrical Fields
Thermal Fields
Magnetic Fields
Comparison Based on Output
Strain
Changes in Other Properties
Applications
In Civil Engineering
Uses of Shape Memory Alloys
Smart Concrete
In Other Areas
Conclusion
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"The first experimental demonstration of the piezoelectric properties in relation to crystal structure was published in 1880 by Pierre and Jacques Curie. This effect was considered quite important and was referred to as "piezoelectricity" in order to distinguish it from other areas of scientific phenomenological experience such as "pyroelectricity" (electricity generated from crystals by heating). As an aside, piezoelectrics also tend to be pyroelectrics. The Curie brothers did not predict that crystals exhibiting the direct piezoelectric effect (electricity from applied stress) would also exhibit the converse piezoelectric effect (stress in response to applied electric field). This property was mathematically deduced and hypothesized by Lippmann in 1881. The Curies then confirmed the existence of the converse effect, and continued on to obtain quantitative proof of the complete reversibility of mechanical deformations in piezoelectric crystals."
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