1. MDB 3032 Business English Book: Skills for Success After Graduation Third Edition Blackswan Language Series

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3. Visa I- Vocabulary, reading, telephone conversation completing, completing Visa II: Ss will interview with a company, and present it in the classroom with visual data. Final: Vocabulary, reading and conversation completing

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5. UNIT 1
SELF-EXPLORATION

6. SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE

7. KEY TO SUCCESS?

8. Do you know these people
Do you know these people? In what fields have these people been successful?

9. a. Cahit Arf

10. Cahit Arf ( )
He was a Turkish Matematician.
He is known for the Arf invariant of a qaudratic form in characteristic in topology, the Hasse-Arf theorem in ramification theory, Arf semigroups, and Arf rings.

11. M. KEMAL KURDAŞ

12. Mustafa Kemal Kurdaş ( ) He was a Turkish economist who served as Turkish Minister of Finance, the IMF’s adviser to Latin American governments, president of the Middle East Technical Univfersity and deputy head of the Turkish Treasury

13. TÜRKAN SAYLAN

14. Türkan Saylan (1935 – 2009)
She was a  Turkish medical doctor in dermatology, academic, writer, teacher and social activist.
She was famous for fighting leprosy.
She was also a champion of women’s rights and education for poor children in Turkey.
She was the founder of a charity called «Association for the Support of Contemporary Living» (Çağdaş Yaşamı Destekleme Derneği, ÇYDD).

15. MARGARET CHAN

16. Margaret Chan Fung Fu-chun
 (born in 1947, Hong Kong)
She is the Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO).
Chan was elected by the Executive Board of WHO, and was endorsed in a special meeting of the World Health Assembly on the following day.
Chan has previously served as Director of Health in the Hong Kong Government ( ), representative of the WHO Director-General for Pandemic Influenza and WHO Assistant Director-General for Communicable Diseases ( ).

17. Dilma Rousseff

18. Dilma Vana Rousseff 
(Born in 1947, Brazil)
She is a  Brazilian politician who has been the 36th President of Brazil since 1 January 2011.
She is the first woman to hold the office.
She was previously the Chief of Staff to President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva from 2005 to 2010.

19. FEZA GÜRSOY

20. Feza Gürsey (1921 – 1992)
He was a Turkish mathematician and physicist. Among his most prominent contributions to theoretical physics, his works on the Chiral Model and on Su are most popular.
He graduated from Galatasaray High School in 1940, and received his degree in Mathematics – Physics from Istanbul University in 1944.
He pursued a doctorate degree at the Imperial College London in the United Kingdom.
He completed his work on Application of Qaternions to Quantum Field Theory in 1950.
After spending the period from 1950–1951 in postdoctoral research at Cambridege University, he worked as an assistant at  Istanbul University.

21. MUHTAR A. KENT

22. Muhtar A. Kent (born in 1952)
He is a Turkish-American business executive.
He is the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of The Coca-Cola Company.
He was appointed to the position of  CEO of the Company in 2008 and became Chairman of the Board in 2009.