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    Unit 32: Take Minutes

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    Unit 32: Take Minutes Unit code: Q209 Unit reference number: M/601/2478 1 Understand the task of taking minutes at meetings 1.1 Describe the purpose of meetings 1.2 Describe legal and organisational requirements that may apply to minute taking 1.3 Explain the purpose of minutes as an accurate record of discussions and decisions The purpose of holding a meeting is to discuss topics that are relevant to the running of the business and to keep all working together towards the same goals.

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    Nineteen Minutes

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    Nineteen minutes can be everything and nothing, it can be an end or beginning . . . what is nineteen minutes in one person’s life. In the realistic novel Nineteen Minutes Jodi Picoult explains how nineteen minutes can destroy a person’s life. She shows how time is the one thing people will always underestimate. In the tiny town of Sterling, New Hampshire, Peter, a senior in highschool, a seventeen year old boy changed their world in nineteen minutes . . . one boy who stopped time . . . . Judge Alex

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    Nineteen Minutes Essay

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    Nineteen Minutes, written by Jodi Picoult is a thriller that is about a school shooting that happened in a small town. The book shows the lifespan of the two main characters, 17-year-olds Josie Cormier and Peter Houghton. Josie and Peter grew up being close friends, but like many friendships, high school separated them. Peter Houghton was bullied all throughout school, until one day he began shooting the people he grew up with. I believe that after reading Nineteen Minutes I grew as a person. Reading

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    Nineteen Minutes Themes

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    A person can do a lot in a matter of nineteen minutes. Although it may not seem like a very long time, nineteen minutes forever changed the lives of nearly everyone living in Sterling, New Hampshire. Beginning at 10:16, 10 lives would be lost, 19 would be injured, and countless people would live in fear and constantly be brought back to that day. On March 6, 2007, Peter Houghton brought 4 guns into his high school and began shooting, and shooting, and shooting. Peter’s life had been filled with relentless

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    Nineteen Minutes Essay

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    Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult Fiction Novel Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult is a novel based on a school shooting in the small town of Sterling, but focuses more importantly on the feelings of the main characters, Peter Houghton and Josie Cormier, who experience insecurities and social acceptance, or lack of. The novel explores the damaging effects of bullying, peer pressure and the dynamics of group interaction within teenagers in a modern day society. Picoult’s novels are aimed at a

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    60 Minutes is the longest running and most iconic prime-time news program in television history. Since first airing in 1968, the show has provided viewers with hard-hitting, investigative journalism and stories of national interest on a near-regular basis for nearly five decades. Read on to learn more about 60 Minutes, and keep an eye out for part two of our list, coming soon. Number Fifteen: The Program Has Been in the Same Time Slot for 40 Years. After bouncing around time slots for a while, mostly

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    19 minutes is a book written by Jodi Picoult that describes a school shooting. This book was written in a pretty unique way, because instead of having story told by sequential events from one perspective, it is told from many perspectives, from different times, and in different orders. For example, one moment you could be reading from the point of view of the shooter during the event, and the next you’re reading from the point of view of a student 6 months after. The author uses different points

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    enjoyed Nineteen Minutes. It was an extremely emotional novel about a teen boy that killed ten people in his high school. Describing the school shooting was not the book’s main idea, the real purpose was to explain the events leading up to and the events after the shooting. In my opinion, Jodi Picoult started the book out beautifully when she described how long the school shooting was by relating it to basic everyday things that most people could relate to. Most of Nineteen Minutes took place after

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    Nineteen Minutes, by Jodi Picoult, centers around thenineteen minutes of a high school shooting rampage that scars the lives of the perpetrator, 17-year-old Peter Houghton, and all those whom his life touches.19 min… that’s how long it took Peter Houghton to get his revenge.In the novel the main character,Peter deals with with many struggles in his high school career. To begin, we know in those 19 mins the impossible happen.But do we know why?Peter was bullied all his life,by people who he thought

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    company. In Nineteen Minutes, Jodi Picoult presents a motif of public vs. private self through many of her characters to show that things are not always how they seem and to make the reader evaluate who they are as a person. Humans need social interaction to flourish and they tend to select a few people to become closest with. They share secrets, gossip about others, and support each other in times of need, but how well can someone really know another person? In Nineteen Minutes the reader watches

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