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    To: ASX Investor Seminar From: Henry Kennedy Date:15/3/2017 Purpose: The purpose of this report is to analyse the performance of Flight Centre Travel Group Ltd (FLT) share price over the last six months. Compared FLT to the ASX 200 and evaluation through the “GICS” Industry that it belongs to. This report also notes future dividends and announcements made by FLT. Company background: FLT is the largest retail travel company in Australia, offering flights, cruises and holiday packages. The company

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    In the book, Ordinary People, by Judith Guest, Conrad Jarrett undergoes different stages in life that occur after his incident. Throughout these phases he sees a change in himself as a whole. The most pivotal moment in his psychological and moral development transpires when Dr. Berger comes into Conrad's life. Dr. Berger becomes his guiding principle that eventually leads him to progress in areas he struggles in such as forgiveness, happiness, and acceptance. Through these developments Conrad is

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    The Worst Day Of My Life

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    Once there was a girl named Crystal who thought that she had her whole life planned out from the day she would get a job and then to the day she would be no more. That was until she did something that she did every year on one special day. Although she didn't know that that day and what she did would change her life for the greater good. But first, let us go back to the beginning before her life changed and from her viewpoint. Crystal tells her tale Today is a cold and sad day, today is my grandmothers

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    The Ego and Despair in Ordinary People   Ordinary People by Judith Guest is the story of a dysfunctional family who relate to one another through a series of extensive defense mechanisms, i.e. an unconscious process whereby reality is distorted to reduce or prevent anxiety. The book opens with seventeen year old Conrad, son of upper middle-class Beth and Calvin Jarrett, home after eight months in a psychiatric hospital, there because he had attempted suicide by slashing his wrists

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    Recovering from trauma is often a difficult and painstaking journey. In the novel, The Catcher in the Rye and the movie Ordinary People, two characters named Holden Caulfield and Conrad Jarrett struggle with their lives in their own bildungsromans, stories about the coming of age. When their brothers die, both Holden and Conrad suffer emotional trauma which causes them to push people away. These episodes complicate their efforts to connect with people and further meddle with their recovery from the

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    After reading Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland it made me how quick a person can go from being innocent to guilty, which is the case of the book. The book helps understand how many ordinary men, non-policemen from different backgrounds all participated in various mass murder. The books help to explain how several of “ordinary men” were able to commit such massacre and to know that they received little to no punishment. The massacre could not only be

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    The ones responsible for this horrific event was the Police battalion 101. The Police Battalion 101 was basically a Nazi execution squad based in Poland during WW2. Throughout Ordinary Men, Christopher Browning uses many different interviews and sources to see what their motivation for this horrid act was. Most of the men had been raised before the rise of the Nazi empire and Browning believes that they became these mass murderers because of all the propaganda the Nazis were spewing to Germany. Besides

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    Ordinary Men In Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 And The Final Solution Christopher Browning systematically searches through historical records to trace the actions of the Nazi police Battalion 101. This battalion consisted of older, middle-aged men who joined the to avoid conscription and the front-line, by all means these men were normal and respectable however, during the Final Solution they were turned into hardened killers. Browning evaluates the factors that these men experienced

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    In Christopher Browning’s book, Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland tells the story of Battalion 101, a group of 500 policemen in their 30’s and 40’s who were sent into Poland to participate in a ‘special action’ without being told exactly what they are doing. Overtime they realized their mission is to Kill Jews and racially purify Europe. Most of the killing during this period of mass murder took place in Poland. Battalion 101 together with other Order Police

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    in this paper i argue the opposing views of Daniel Goldhagen 's book Hitler 's Willing Executioners and Christopher Browning 's book ordinary Men. These books deal with the question of whether or not the average German soldiers and civilians were responsible for the holocaust. My research paper argues in favor of Goldhagen 's book, the average German was responsible for the participation of he holocaust. At the end of world war ll the Jewish community and the the rest of the world were crying for

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