Pre-IB Class ...

Starting clases of Art

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Emotional Test

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Here the link of a page with a emotional test on it. Press

down and see which one is your score.

http://queendom.com/tests/access_page/index.htm?idRegTest=1121

This are my result you should try it!

What is your emotional IQ?

This emotional intelligence test consists of two parts; a self-report portion

and an ability portion. The test assesses your capacity to recognize your

own emotions and those of others; understand how best to motivate yourself;

become close to others; and manage your own feelings and those of others.

Emotional intelligence contributes a great deal to your potential in life. A

poor emotional intelligence can hold a brilliant individual back from achieving

his or her goals, while a good EIQ can help someone who might otherwise

struggle achieve success in life

Snapshot Report

Self-report Component

Subscale IQ score = 114

Subscale percentile = 84

According to your self-report answers, your emotional intelligence is average.

People who score like you do feel that their ability to understand and deal

with their own emotions and those of others is acceptable but could still use

some improvement. Emotionally intelligent people have an easy time

overcoming difficulties in their lives and they are generally able to control

their moods. It's easy for them to motivate themselves to overcome obstacles

and reach their goals. In addition, they find social interactions to be quite

easy and fulfilling, for several reasons. They are comfortable allowing

themselves to get close with others, and feel comfortable being vulnerable

enough to establish intimacy. They also report having an easy time offering

support to others; likely due to an empathetic nature and a clear mind when

it comes to offering good advice. Perhaps by working on your problem areas,

you can become more confident in dealing with your own emotions and those of

others.

question 1:

I am agree with some of the things that it said in the result.

question 2:

The strength could be that can give you an idea how is the person

in the situation asked but that are an idea. It can be wrong in some

aspect. An also people normally said many things but in reality the

do another, different what they said. Also in the part where they

asked about what was the feeling of the people in the picture the

answer can change in real life, because people are different so

when you know the person you know when is lying and hiding their

emotions. You learn by experience how others feel so because

people is different the result are different.

In sum the result of the test are uncertain but anyway can give you

a general idea.

question 3:

It’s depending in the situation and for what they need it. This test

can give you an idea who the person feels of himself. On the

other hand the result that gives you this test is really general and

uncertain, so could be used as a reference but is better say how

a person by experience and actions, especially that now is at days

people used a lot of liars and act for what is better for them (I am

not saying that all people are like that, it only that they should have

in means that point).

Chapter 6 (Part 2)

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Emotional:

- Emotion provide us with the energ to engage in intellectual activity.
- emotion influence the way we think about the world a) PERSEPTION
b) REASON
c) LANGUAGE

-(phylosopher)Speculate that emotions help us to make rational decision abput things by narrowing down our options.
- Emotion and reason are closoly together. The difference between them is that range of each one in different situations.

Means that emotion can be more or less rational.

Stoics: a group of phylosopher, a ideal situation would be one in which we did not have any emotions at all and could look at the world in a balanced and objective way.

Intuition (king of feeling]): when yo suddenly see the solution to a problem without going through any consious.

a) Core intuition: our most fundamenal intuitions about life, universe and everythings.

b) Subject-specific intuitions: the intuitions we have in various areas of knowleadge such as science and ethics.

c) Social intuitions: Our intuitions about other people, what they are like wheather or not they can be

trusted, etc.

Chapter 6 (Part 1)

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Emotion :(Latin: movere, it's means 'move')
Passion: used to refer a strong passion

The James-Lange Theory: The emotion are essencially physical in nature. Bodily come before, and cause, emotional change.

Means: if you remove physical symptmos the corresponding emotion disappear.

Criticised: he ignore that emotion have also mental aspect ( not only physical).

So 'Emotions' are affected by: 1) Belief
2) Physical aspects.

Chapter 5 (Part 3)

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FALLACY:

FALLACY EXAMPLE:

· Post hoc ergo propter hoc: B follow A, then A must bebecause of B

· Ad hominem: you are a man how can you talk about abortion.

· Circular reasoning: I like vanilla ice cream because it's my favorite kind.

· Special pleading: they should increase the tax for people, except people like me that are poor and have a salary of $200.

· Equivocation: A hamburger is better than nothing

Nothing is better than good health

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Therefore a hamburger is better than good health

· Argument ad ignoratium: UFO does not exist because nobody has evidence.

· False analogy: Water is liquid and is good for you to drink.

Engine oil is also liquid and must therefore be good to drink.

· False dilemma: The things are white or black.

· Loaded question: Do you always cheat in exam??

Then if the answer is: yes you are admitting

No you are employed that sometimes

But what happen if the answer is that you never cheat…

Chapter 5 (Part 2)

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Syllogisms: kind of dedutive argument.
   is made of:
   1) two premises and a conclusion
   2) three terms (each of which appear twice)
   3) quantifiers, such as all or some or no (tell quantity)

To have an argument is important that the conclusion follow logically the premise.

Venn Diagramm: is a draw with circule for helping to know if the sillogism is valid or not.( is important to be carefull with the interpretation)

New Term...

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Chapter 5 (Part 1):

Deductive Reasoning: reasoning from general to particulary things.

Example: All lion are mammals

Simba is a lion

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Therefore Simba is a mammal

Inductive Reasoning: goes to particularly to general (in this one influence the pass, the experience that give people a expectation of the future)

Example: Tom is a lawyer.

The lawyer are liar.

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Tom is a liar.

Informal Reasoning: is when we try to make generalization in the conclusion without the enough evidence.

Example: This French waiter is rude, so all French waiter are rude.

T.O.K. HOMEWORK

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What opinions, if any, are teachers in your country expected to keep in silent ?

In my country (Chile), teacher doesn’t have problem saying their own opinion, except when is related with the bad decision that the school had taken. But in that causes they usually listened student complaining, and try to look the good way or promoted to try to created a solution for it and show it to the school.

I think that if you are working in a company is not good talk with other that is not related about it. When people do that they do not look that if they damage the company there are doing the same with their jobs. If they have problem with it they should purpose solution or not work in it.

I am not saying that they should not think in the things that you are not satisfied or you think are wrong, I say that if are bad thing and you are working for a company you should look for a solution. Anything that you make at the company is also affecting you, so try to look solution not more problems.

Homework TOK-Pre IB

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Nikita’s Problem:

Who is making the mistake?

Nikita, because he said that in his first cause if we win he won’t need to pay the service that he has give to Law. On the other hand if he doesn’t won he will need to pay.

When Nikita decide to teach law, he also decides to take a risk. If after finish teaching him he prefers not continues it was Law choice, not his choice. Every people can take their own decision and they are free to decide what they think is better for them, but does not mean that they are in the correct. But they can make mistake and maybe thinking on that, maybe the thought of law becoming a layer was not correct. He found that the music is his real passion and the thing that he wanted to do for the rest of his life (or at list he discovers that he wasn’t good at that).

Since we are children we start to learn thing. For example during all hour school time children learn many things many signature and when became adult the only decide to continued using only some subject that most like it or prefer. Those teachers pass for the same.

Maybe the point is that the other teacher have being paid and Nikita not but he decide to put the condition and he took the risk. Risk is used to mean that you are responsible for any damage, loss or difficulty. So his risk was thinking that Law would become a layer.

Furthermore he never specifies when he needs to do the cause. But the point is that he has take a risk and if that was not how he thought it is his problem. In the life people pass for many difficulty and venture. Nikita is not the first and the last person that have made a bad choice in their life. But any cause the think that Law learned it would be useful in his life but maybe not in the things that Nikita thought. And as I have say people committed a lots of mistake but there have they own choice to try the best for them in their life.

New Words:

1. Busichris = business class with Chris.

2. eck= when somebody is really dull.

3. Wug= a situation is embarrass because it has comet a basic mistake.

Definition of the Words:

http://www.karlaprepcourse.blogspot.com/

Is it possible to have an expected exam? :

I think it is possible, because it continued being a surprise because the teacher has not said what is going to enter in the exam, so it a surprise what is going to be in. It was really kind of him saying that exist the possibility that is going to be an exam but also he never affirm it. So it is not something that he has said as, and something that he knows it, so saying this “you cannot give us this test because it has to be a surprise” said by Eric, it is wrong. At list is not going to help.

Teacher teach us for lean in class not for memorizing at home so if in the class all the audient have understand what they have seen. Why not may an exam with the same contents? On the other hand if the exam is about topics that it has not pass on class it cannot be a surprise, or at list with mark. The teacher cannot ask about something that student have not seen without said with some days before that they are going to have that. In sum depend in the situation it could be the possibility to have and surprise exam.

Vitória Presentation:

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Induction: Process where we make general statements about something by observing a number of specific examples.

1. Aristotle -Simple enumeration

-Intuitive

2. Hume - No number of singular occurrences, however large, could logically entail a general statement.

3. J. S. Miller-Method of agreement if only one relevant circumstance is common to all cases in which the effect occurs, then this circumstance is the cause or is associated with it.

-Method of difference if two situations are alike in all relevant aspects but one, and if the effect occurs in one instance and not in the other, then the difference is the cause or associated with it.

-Method of agreement and difference a circumstance present in which the effect occurs and absent when the effect does not occur is the cause or is associated with it.

-Method of Co-variation when a circumstance varies in a regular manner whenever some other circumstance varies, then there must be some casual connection between them.

4. Wrong Argument when some similar situation have something in common but the cause of it is not correct. Is not the real problem.

5. Bacon (Science consisted)

One description, noting down as many facts as can be ascertained.

Two, induction, making generalizations from these observations.

Three, testing, against new observations or experiments, to see if the generalization holds true.

6. Popper It does not follow that because two or more events repeatedly occur together that they always will, but it does logically follow that if there is one example, where they do not occur together then there is no simple law of nature connecting them.

7. Feynman Suppose that you invent a good guess, calculate the consequences and discover every time that the they all agree with the experiment. The theory is right? No. It is simply not proved wrong. In the future a wider range of consequences may exist, therefore could be a wider range of experiments and you might then discover that the thing is wrong. But, during the time that new consequences/experiments didn’t exist the theory had not been proved wrong and could be taken temporarily to be right.

8. Kuhn Two different scientists can use the same figures and predictions and come up with radically different theories

"Escaping Death"

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About the answer of the same thing "Escaping Death" made by Vitoria:
http://vitoriatok.blogspot.com/2009/11/escaping-death.html#comment-form

My Comment:

Wow is really good, but what happen with the point of the true that it suppose to be true, I mean that if he say that he will be hanged and the chief said that is true what happen with the action, it will be not true, or not?

Homework-T.O.K.

2009-11-23T03:52:00.000-08:00

Escaping Death:

What could the prisoner have said in the statement to have saved himself?

Maybe he should say that he had committed the things that they had accused for. They were sure that he had maid that so saying that he had maid that they will not be a difference.

Comment of Richard the Farmer

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The Farmer Richard:

First of all when Richard went to see his cow to notice if was ok and only has seen it far away it was not a good way to notice that the cow was all right. The only thing that he does was see if the cow was there but he did not see how was the cow; it could be death in step taking a nap. Also in other case he could have confuse his cow with another one, he only saw the shape but did he really saw that his cow was there? How could he be complete sure about that? I think that is important to have emotion but is not enough to only use the emotional sense. Sometime is better to be more rational. If you thing in that way you cannot be 100% that the shape that he saw was his caw Doris.

Think & Grow Rich Summary

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FOUR of the 400 Ideas

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Recycling Vending Machine

Advantage: - help enviorement
- recycle material automatically
- easy to used
- earn money ( Reverse Vending Recycling )
- you don'y need to have different treasure to separete the material
- reduce cost

Disadvantage: - is expensive
- is bigger than other treasure

Caffeine Lollipops

Advantage: - a easier way to get energy
- a faster way to take some coffee
- you can eat at any time or place
- you can find in different flavors

Disadvantage: - ...

Starbucks hot drink vending machines

Advantage: - you can take starbucks drink in any place you put on the machine.
- machines will focus on their hot beverage line-up including roasted coffee, various lattes, and hot cocoa.
- it has a reputation label

Disadvantage: - you need to buy the coffee element when is all over

Pizza Vending Machine

Advantage: - cook and serves a whole pizza pies in just only 2 minutes
- it has tree types of pizza available
- is more faster than call for the pizza service
- you can put it in any place
- you can earn money
- you can use it at any time

Disadvantage: - you need to buy the ingredient when all get over.
- you can't choose the ingredient of the pizza

Lapdesk (classwork) Part III

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The lapdesk has many productive advantages to improve efficiency on working in some unpleasant places, but it would be a good idea if the product also has other things such as light or a calculator to include in. If the lapdesk can be used for different ages you can have option of color or design with the purpose to make the product more attractive for the customer.

People would buy this product because it useful for taking note in a pleasant way and if you are confortable you can pay more attention in meeting, etc. So when you finish you will not end with a ache.

Strategic actions:

Include some object to make note if you buy the product in a limit of time (some month or week)

Also mention a price and then lower the inicial cost.

Comper with other folder that not have all the advantage that this lapdesk has.

Mention all the advantage

...

The Structure of Business Plan

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BUSINESS PLANS STRUCTURE

Title page: Title or heading of the plan and brief description if required, author, date, company/organization if applicable, details of circulation and confidentiality.
Contents page: A list of contents (basically the sections listed here, starting with the Introduction page) showing page numbers, plus a list of appendices or addendums (added reference material at the back of the document) allowing the reader to find what they need and navigate the document easily, and to refer others to particular items and page numbers when reviewing or querying.
Introduction page: Introduction and purpose of the plan, terms of reference if applicable (usually for formal and large plans or projects).
Executive summary page: Optional and usually beneficial, this should normally be no more than a page long (or it's not an executive summary) - the key points of the whole plan including conclusions, recommendations, actions, financial returns on investment, etc., clearly readable in a few minutes.
Main body of plan: sections and headings as required, see template below.
Acknowledgments and bibliography/reference sources: if relevant (only required normally for very large formal plans)
Appendices: appendices or addendums - additional detailed reference material, examples, statistics, spreadsheets, etc., for reference and not central to the main presentation of your plan.

BUSINESS PLANS - MAIN BODY SECTIONS EXAMPLES TEMPLATE

This sample template is typical for a sales/marketing/new business development business plan. (A business plan for a more complex project such as an international joint-venture, or the formation of a new company including manufacturing plant or other overhead activities would need to include relevant information and financials about the overheads and resources concerned, and the financials would need to show costs and profits more like a fully developed profit and loss account, with cashflow projections, balance sheet, etc.) Where appropriate refer to your position regarding corporate ethics and social responsibility. While these aspects are not mechanisms within the plan, they are crucial reference points.

Define your market - sector(s) and segment(s) definitions
Quantify your market (overview only) - size, segmentation, relevant statistics, values, numbers (locations, people/users, etc) - make this relevant to you business
Explain your market(s) - sector trends, eg., growth, legislation, seasonality, PEST factors where relevant, refer to Ansoff matrix, show the strategic business drivers within sector and segments, purchasing mechanisms, processes, restrictions - what are the factors that determine customers' priorities and needs - this is a logical place to refer to ethics and CSR (corporate social responsibility
Explain your existing business - your current business according to sector, products/services, quantities, values, distributor, etc.
Analyse your existing customer spread by customer type, values and products/services including major accounts (the 'Pareto Principle' or the '80:20 rule' often applies here, eg., 80% of your business comes from 20% of your customers)
Explain your products and services - refer to Boston matrixand especially your strategic propositions (what these propositions will do for your customers) including your USP's and UPB's (see sales training section andacronyms)
Explain you routes to market, gatekeepers, influencers and strategic partners - the other organizations/individuals you will work with to develop your market, including 'what's in it for them', commissions, endorsements, accreditations, approvals, licenses, etc.
Case studies and track record - the credibility, evidence and proof that your propositions and strategic partnerships work
Competitor analysis, eg., SWOT analysis of your own business compared to SWOT analysis of each competitor
Sales/marketing/business plan (1 year min) showing sales and margins by product/service stream, mix, values, segment, 'distributor', etc, whatever is relevant, phased monthly, in as much detail as you need. This should be on a spreadsheet, with as many different sheets as necessary to quantify relevant inputs and outputs.
List your strategic actions (marketing campaigns, sales activities, advertising, etc) that will deliver the above, with costs and returns. This should be supported with a spreadsheet, showing cost and return on investment for each activity.

Tip: If the business plan concerns an existing activity, use the previous year's sales/business analysis as the basis for the next year's sales/business plan. Adapt as necessary according to your new strategic plans.

Source of the excellent material above

How to write a business plan....

Business plan examples...

From Businesslink:

Your plan should include:

An executive summary - this is an overview of the business you want to start. It's vital. Many lenders and investors make judgments about your business based on this section of the plan alone. See the page in this guide onthe executive summary.
A short description of the business opportunity - who you are, what you plan to sell or offer, why and to whom. See the page in this guide on your business, its products and services.
Your marketing and sales strategy - why you think people will buy what you want to sell and how you plan to sell to them. See the pages in this guide on your markets and competitors and marketing and sales.
Your management team and personnel - your credentials and the people you plan to recruit to work with you. See the page in this guide on your team's skills.
Your operations - your premises, production facilities, your management information systems and IT. See the page in this guide on your operations.
Financial forecasts - this section translates everything you have said in the previous sections into numbers. See the page in this guide on financial forecasts.

Look here for further information on documents...

The basics of writing a business plan....

A whole load of blog posts about business plans...

Lapdesk (classwork) Part II

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In my personal opinion the first impression was that it was like silly things, like who make this folder different and better than other one? it look like sth not necessary, but when you listen the advantage of it, then you start to see that the product can attract persons of any age from student, universities to workers. There are lots of people that in meeting are uncomfortable because they have to make notes sitting on a chair, so the solution could be the lapdesk because it offers you the possibility to be more pleasant writing on and if you are comfortable you pay more attention. So this product can be used in a different situation and only makes the life of the customer easier and better. You can see that the product is not essential but can help to make life easier.

Lapdesk (classwork)

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The man is trying to sells lapdesk. It’s a new time of meeting note folder.

The advantages of the product are that offers a comfortable and easy way of writing on during the meetings instead of get and uncomfortable position or sitting quickly. This is because the lapdesk have two small support forming a perfect angle service in which you can write on it. Also you can keep your things such as papers and pens inside the lapdesk. All this make you work in a more efficient way.

Objetive is to persuade the customer that the lapdesk is going to make an easy work when you need to make note (that can be at home, in meetings, in the cars…)

This product is directed for workers that need to take notes or write on in places that maybe don’t have desk and only has a chair. That means Business- man.

The price of the product is £ 34.99 including packing where you can see that is using a psychological fact of marketing.

Where is the homework from the pre-IB

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Other people manage to do the simple tasks?

Other people manage to learn about marketing plans...

Business Poster Homework-Part 3

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Business Poster Homework-Part 2

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Business Poster Homework-Part 1

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Business Homework

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1. Complete the functions chart: HRM, Marketing etc
2. Learn the posters in the corridoors
3. Learn how to use blogger etc - explore the functions
4. Take FOUR of the 400 ideas and visit the sites. Then look at the advantages and disadvantages. Here is an example...
5. Read and review and comment on the books being loaned to you...

Homework Page

2009-09-23T03:05:00.000-07:00

Business Class homework: http://30daysbusiness.blogspot.com/

2009-09-23T02:08:00.000-07:00

Here are my first instructions of "Business Class":

Right, the business. Actually there are two. But the first one is all about one particular guy from my home town, Bournemouth, and how he earns over £7,000 every week.

I want you to prepare, to work, to research. So, in advance, this is what you'll learn (not in class but via these emails):

1. How and where he found the FREE products that earn this money within 5 minutes of looking

2. How to set the system up to run automatically

3. How to increase your weekly income to whatever figure you desire

In passing, you may be interested in one of my companies:

http://www.osl-ltd.co.uk/press2.asp
Remember, not all the businesses are still going - but this one is:http://www.scamfreezone.com/

Also read this: http://www.entrepreneurs-journey.com/1641/how-can-you-make-passive-income-online/