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    Essay on Academic vs Mainstream Writing

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    There are many differences between articles written for scholars and articles written for popular audiences. According to Anne Johns, the author of “Discourse Communities and Communities of Practice,” there are ten conventions or moves that exist only in academic prose and when violated, author is seen as an outsider of the discourse community. John Swales (“Create a Research Space” (CARS) Model Research Introductions) and Ken Hyland also talk about writing and the similarities between all academic

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    Bits of What You Probably Should Know of 401 (k) Plans --- The term 401 (k) is one that is heard quite often in today's. Most people know that it has something to do with retirement, but few young people know exactly how 401 (k) plans work or why they are becoming more and more popular. Additionally, many people who have 401 (k) plans may not know all the details of how they work, how to get the most out of their plan, and how to keep their money safe. In reality, everyone in the business world

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    The world is growing and evolving every day, and like the world they live in, children are doing the same. This statement is not meant to be positive. In today’s world, girls especially, are beginning to experience mentally associated health issues at younger ages. Main ones being shown are eating disorders, low self-esteem, and depression. Girls are facing these problems in not only America. Insecurities and its effects on the minds of young girls is happening all over the globe. It has reached

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    and forced upon the members. I see many comments of fans claiming that they “don 't like the concepts but the girls themselves are very talented” (Why do some fans dislike girl groups?" para 5). Many comments suggests that fans enjoy both girl and guy k-pop groups, however sometimes the girl groups “act way too cute and sexy than guy groups “(Why do some fans dislike girl groups?" para 6) this creates fans to dislike the fact that the girl groups need to act more like this in order for them to be noticed

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    Employer 401 Case Study

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    We often ask the question, “How does our 401(k) plan stack up?” When you are an employee, you will consider items such as the investment choices, administration fees, or loan terms. However, if you are an owner, the most important thing to think about may be how to contribute the highest amount you can under Section 415. For 2016, the defined contribution plan annual addition limit without catch-up is $53,000, and will rise to $54,000 next year. The Internal Revenue Code (IRC) subjects qualified

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    Grommet Industries

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    Grommet Industries is facing some very tough business decisions to stabilize the company and restructure to stimulate growth. The HR issues that I am now asked to address in our meeting with Mr. Ramon include identifying the issues we are facing, the options we have to work with, and strategies to use for implementation. The employee’s morale is low, they feel undervalued and unappreciated. With inflation rates and lack of raises their take home pay is less than before and the employee’s perception

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    Warfarin is an anticoagulant medicine used to treat and prevent thrombosis and thromboembolism . There are two available Warfarin brands in Australia, Marevan and Coumadin; both are oral anticoagulants. Prescribed dosage is based on balance between bleeding and clotting which determined by ‘International Normalised Ratio’ or ‘INR’. INR is the time it takes for the blood to clot, and, is ideally between 2 to 3 in most people. Warfarin is absorbed completely after oral administration, and, the

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    The defined benefit plans and defined contribution plans pay a pension to retired worker, usually until his death or the death of the surviving spouse. The difference between the plans is the amount of the pension that is calculated according to the performance of the pension fund. It is not set in advance according to Defined Contribution plans. The employer has no obligation to bail out the cash if actuarial deficit. Workers therefore cannot determine in advance with certainty their lifestyle when

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    Nt1320 Unit 4

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    variable, as they are already given. The r character in key output, as we said before, is a random number that helps us distribute our data to more reducers. In this case r can take values between 1 and numberOf Reducers/(k). For example, if our job runs 90 reducers and our k parameter is 3 then each clusters data will be distributed to a maximum of 30 reducers instead of 1.

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    Kpop Monologue

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    I'm pretty sure every k-popper has a story of how they got into k-pop. Some of them probably are incredibly dull and more boring than watching grass grow, but they still are technically stories. This is mine. (I hope it's not dull. Meh.) Oddly enough, as much as I hate it now, "Gangnam Style" by Psy was in fact my first exposure to K-pop. I was...12 I think? I remember my older friends doing this weird looking horse dance I was curious so I watched the music video. And down the rabbit hole I went

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