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    Title: The five people you meet in heaven Author: Mitch Albom Summary: The book starts with an elderly man named Eddie who works as the head of maintenance at an amusement park called Ruby Pier. Eddie is able to perform this job despite leg injuries he received as a soldier during [World War II]. On Eddie’s birthday‚ one of the amusement park rides malfunctions because of a damaged cable and stops halfway through the ride. Two of the staff at Ruby Pier are able to rescue the passengers on the

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    PLANNING TO MEET THE NEEDS OF LEARNERS Be able to agree individual learning goals with learners 1.1 Analyse the role of initial and diagnostic assessment in agreeing individual learning goal Gravells‚ (2012 p98)‚ Initial assessment is a check on learners’ prior skill‚ knowledge or understanding which is carried out at the beginning of a programme or topic. In agreement with it could be formal‚ and mainly internal task which is produced by the school (ILP) to identify learners existing skills & achievements

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    Cashane Brown Five People You Meet in Heaven March 2‚ 2013 The Five People You Meet in Heaven written by Mitch Albom‚ is about an old‚ crippled war veteran named Eddie. Eddie was raised by an abusive‚ drunk of a father and a caring mother who with all her love for her son did not interfere when Eddie’s father was abusing him. Eddie grew up resenting his father. He carried hate around with him as if it were his ID. The only true happiness Eddie found in life was his wife Marguerite. Eddie worked

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    The Joy Luck Club – A Pair of Tickets – Analysis Use of Language – Metaphor Theme – Identity  This story explores the insights of Jing-Mei’s literal and figurative journey back to her cultural origin‚ China.  In the text‚ Jing-mei had initially ’vigorously denied that [she] had any Chinese whatsoever below [her] skin.’ and through this she has shown her inability to understand her true identity. Use of Language – Metaphor Theme – Identity [cont.] When she had finally comprehended

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    Industry Description: The focus of this report is centred on the Small Electrical Appliance retail industry. This is made up of a variety of different categories which are: • Household Appliances – Frypans‚ Woks‚ Mixers‚ Blenders. • Personal Care Appliances – Hairdryers‚ Epilators‚ Hair Straighteners‚ Tongs. • Well Being Appliances – Massage Appliances‚ Tranquillity Fountains. Business Description: Conair Pty Ltd is a global business with a division operating within Australia under

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    things that may affect themselves and focus more on others and their problems. This can make the conversations between parent and child become scarce. Even without the difficulty of language in the way like with the mothers and the daughters of “The Joy Luck Club” by Amy Tan; we still have difficulty communicating with our parents. My mother and I do not speak all the time‚ yet in our tame relationship we still know of each other’s unconditional love. Even though‚ we could be called distant‚

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    Five People You Meet In Heaven The five people you meet in heaven is to say at least‚ an interesting book since the beginning where it ends since most books start at the beginning. What makes this different this one starts at the end‚ where we find a man named Eddie who dies while trying to save a girl from a amusement park ride falling. Then he goes to heaven and finds out that heaven is a place where you meet people who made a difference on your life‚ good or bad. So he meets his five people

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    entire life on Ruby Pier‚ an amusement park right on the ocean. He is head of maintenance at the pier‚ which was his father’s job when Eddie was a child. Eddie is the protagonist of the novel and a dynamic one at that‚ as the story covers the day he was born‚ died‚ and everywhere between the two. Eddie’s wife‚ Marguerite‚ is dead before the novel begins. She died when they were in their late forties from a brain tumor. The story flashes back to the days they spent together and shows them together

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    Girvan Opportunities Each day around thirty adults with learning difficulties visit the Girvan Opportunities buildings where they are supported by staff and are able to choose to participate in social‚ creative‚ recreational and educational activities while being encouraged to choose to take part in community events. The general aims of this service are to involve the service users in the planning and development of the service‚ to support the individuals to become part of their community and to

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    of Prejudice The movie I selected is “The Joy Luck Club” that illustrates the gap and the misunderstanding between foreign-born mothers from China and their American-born daughters who are ignorant of their culture‚ life‚ morals‚ and ways. Jing-mei‚ the main character in the film‚ has taken her mother‚ Suyuan’s place playing mahjong in a weekly gathering that her deceased mother had organized in China and revived in San Francisco- The Joy Luck Club. The club’s other members- auntie Lindo‚ Ying-ying

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