...No Credibility, No Clue! In his 2011 article, “Reliance on Online Materials Hinders Learning Potential for Students,” David Smith attempts to build upon student’s obligated online interaction to make a case against online classes. Smith first shows how much today’s learners must use online materials by using the example of his own Alma Mater. By referencing his own experience at the University of Nebraska—Lincoln, with MyRED and EBSCO search engine, Smith lays the grounds for the focus of his argument. He then attempts to use what seem to be personal examples of experience with online coursework while begging the question through repeated examples. By failing to establish the credibility of his facts, attempting to force his own authority over the subject, and poorly organizing his thoughts, Smith fails to create a strong and compelling argument against online classes and the internet as a resource. Smith begins by establishing the connection today’s students have to the internet and its resources. “Pencils and paper,” he says, are being moved out of the way for “keyboards, webcams, and online drop boxes (Smith 3).” Smith attacks his argument using examples that seem to come from his experience with MyRED and EBSCO search engine, he claims that now more than ever students are completely dependent upon online resources (6). He goes on to mention the convenience of such online supplements, such as being able to register at any time online with MyRED, the ability to check...
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...My story is about a mystery that happened about 2 months ago. It was a story that nobody could figure out. Nobody, not even our best detective Mr. Smith. Our business is a business that helps people solve cases. Our business is called Clue. One night we solved over 1,000 cases and helped over 1,000 people, so we decided to throw a party at my house and some people were going to spend the night. Mr. Green, Colonel Mustard, and Mrs. White went outside to smoke at lease that's what they said. So me and miss Scarlett decided to play Wii sport on the TV. Later after a couple of rounds of hula hoop, Professor Plum and Mr. Boddy won almost every round it almost seemed like they were cheating. Me and Mrs. Peacock were mad enough...
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...Name: Date: Graded Assignment Comparing Memoirs Answer the questions below. When you are finished, submit this assignment to your teacher by the due date for full credit. Total score: ____ of 37 points (Score for Question 1: ___ of 12 points) The authors of the memoirs you read in this Unit create vivid characters in much the same way that authors of fiction create their characters. Readers understand the characters through their speech, their actions, and their interactions with others. Discuss how the various authors reveal characters using these three techniques. For each technique, give at least one example and explain how the author uses the method to reveal the character in the example you have chosen. Answer: Technique | Story name and example from text | Explanation of how author uses the method to reveal the character | Speech | ? | | Actions | ? | | Interactions | ? | | (Score for Question 2: ___ of 8 points) Are there any themes that run through more than one of the memoirs in this unit? If so, what are they? List at least two themes that appear in more than one of the memoirs you read, and explain the similarities you noticed in how the author explored those themes. Answer: Uplifting, Courage (Score for Question 3: ___ of 8 points) Think of two words to describe the tone of each of the four memoirs you read in this unit. List these two words for each memoir and briefly explain why these words describe the story’s tone. “A Cub Pilot” Bravery...
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... January 25, 2016 12DI Apologetics In his book, The Reason for God, Timothy Keller makes it clear that there are clues of God all around us, most of which we don’t even realize. The first of these clues is “The mysterious bang” in which he describes how even though the universe started with all these catastrophic events, there has to have been someone to light the spark. The second clue Timothy Keller describes is “The Cosmic Welcome Mat” which is the idea that the universe was simply created in a way that human life could be possible in it. The third clue is “The regularity of nature” being the idea that the laws of nature and science will always repeat themselves, which leads to one thinking there is a higher being at work who keeps an orderly universe. The fourth and final clue Timothy Keller provides is “The Clue of Beauty” which is the deepest feelings we experience through beauty that can only be explained as a longing desire for something more. Although all these clues for God are provided, it is still argued that religion was just a mere way of coping with the world before there was scientific explanation. Timothy Keller is correct in his assumption that the clues of God are all around us because they are way too much of a coincidence to ignore. To begin with, “The mysterious bang” is the clue that leads us to question what the true cause of the big bang really is. According to Timothy Keller, there is evidence that the universe is...
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...It was a freezing snowy winter break, the snow was white and soft on the cold hard ground and my brother (Josh), my cousin (Andrew), and I were at my grandma’s house. We had just finished a game of Clue, which was a board game I was good at. Usually Josh or I would win. We decided to go sledding back on the big hill in the bean field. I got on my snow equipment quickly and was waiting on Josh and Andrew. I was almost sweating, having the full snow suit on inside. After what seemed like forever they finished putting on there snowsuit and we headed out to the shed to get our sleds.We got our sleds and I had grabbed the newest one to sled the fastest. Even though I had the best sled I knew that Josh had the weight advantage. He weighed nearly...
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...Overview This wide ranging and inspiring programme will develop your ability to make critical analysis and evaluations relevant to management. This is achieved by building an understanding of the forces at work in business alongside knowledge of management techniques. You will study key strategic issues including financial management, human resource management, marketing, management and organisational innovation. This strategic focus means our students are up to date with new developments and possibilities across many business sectors. Our emphasis on the interconnected nature of business management and society often leads us to consider questions that are not traditionally considered to be within the remit of a business school, for example critical and postmodern theories of organisations, and social dynamics in societies. We believe that this interconnected approach is central to the scholarship and teaching that needs to take place in a modern business school. There is currently a huge demand for new business leaders who can see the big picture of the relationship between business and society, and who can understand the centrality of sustainability, human development, democracy and accountability in business practices. This programme will prepare you to take up the challenge of addressing complex business and management issues in your future work. Why study Business Management at Queen Mary? We have built a strong reputation for our distinctive approach, in particular...
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...Company Q - A Company without a clue Part 1: An evaluation Company Q, a small local grocer, appears to be a company operating with a total lack of understanding of social responsibility. By closing stores in certain neighborhoods, ignoring customer demands for items and only offering a limited selection of in demand items, and by throwing away food that could otherwise be donated, Company Q shows a lack of dedication and compassion to their community, indifference to the wants of their customers, and a lack of responsibility to their employees and stakeholders. Part 2: Recommendations There are a number of things that Company Q can do to increase their social responsibility to the community that they serve, their employees, and stakeholders. First, Company Q can operate different types of stores in the different neighborhoods they serve. In lower-income areas stores can be operated as smaller neighborhood markets that offer fewer services and sell essential grocery items. Stores in middle-income, working class areas can be larger supermarkets that offer more services, and sell a mix of essential grocery items and specialty health and organic items. Higher-income areas can have stores that offer the same services as the general supermarkets, but offer a wider variety of specialty health and organic items along with imported and other high-end products. By diversifying the types of stores it operates, Company Q can respond to customer demands and expand its offering...
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...It is a well known fact that Republicans have been in office during all three stock market crashes, President Herbert Hoover in 1929, who had easily won the republican nomination in 1928 (The White House), Ronald Regan during the crash of 1987 where the market lost twenty-two percent and costing investors five hundred billion dollars (Unknown), and George W. Bush in the week long crash in October, 2008 from where we are still trying to dig ourselves out. Deregulation is a policy of the Republican Party. Herbert Hoover, in his final 1932 campaign speech stated; “We are part of a world, the disturbance of whose remotest population affects our own financial system, our markets, our employment, and the prices of our farm products. And we have many problems of our own growing out of the Great War--the inflation of values during the war and the stupendous increase of our debt, the failure of foreign countries to respond to their debt obligations to us. Finally, with the desperate crisis abroad, the whole world scrambled to convert their property into gold and thus withdrew from us suddenly over $2,400 million of exchange and gold. These fears spreading to our own citizens caused them to withdraw $1,600 million in currency from circulation. The effect of this was to withdraw vast sums of gold from our own use, as we must protect the gold convertibility of our currency, with further repercussions of credit stringency, unemployment, and dropping prices.” (Woolley). A few days after...
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...Tuesday 15th September Reciprocity and interactional synchrony Innate – inborn / natural Infancy – the period of life before speech begins (Latin word infans means ‘without speech’) Non-verbal communication between caregivers and infants forms the basis of attachment between them The way that each responds to the other is what determines the formation of attachment – the more sensitive each is to the others signals, the deeper the relationship. Meltzoff and Moore 1977: First study done on interactional synchrony 4 different stimuli – 3 faces and a hand gesture Dummy was placed in baby’s mouth for initial display to prevent any response. Then the dummy was removed and the child’s expressions was recorded. Observer watched the videotapes of the infant’s response in real time, slow motion and frame by frame. Found there was an association between the infant’s behaviour and the adults. 1983 - They found the same association for babies who were only 3 days old. Believed it showed that babies are learning from the minute they are born. However…. Piaget (1962) believed it’s the baby naturally responding to things in the environment around them – response ‘training’ (the infant was repeating an action that was rewarded). Believed true imitation only developed towards the end of the first year. Pseudo imitation – the infant had not consciously translated what they see into a matching movement Evidence against innate= Murray and Trevarthen (1985). Baby...
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...What are clues to authenticity or lack of authenticity of information on the Internet? When looking for clues of authenticity you need to make sure you are checking the documentation and origin of the information. If there are signatures or seals, check the links for authenticity. See if you are able to contact the webmaster who is in charge of the site. Having dates on the paper which can include first written, when published, and when it is last revised. When checking the content makes sure the content is not biased and is factual. See if you can find motives like if the site is trying to inform or sell. When a websites have a lack of credibility there will be no authors listed on any of the information. A site is not put together neatly and has many grammar errors and misspellings are a sign of low credibility. A site with lack of credibility will have vague and basic information, and be very one-sided without acknowledging the other side. A website has a lack of authenticity when it has numbers and statistics but no proof. You cannot find no other site with same information. When checking sites remember that anyone can put just about anything on the internet. It is very important to check information on the internet to make sure it came from a reliable source. The best thing to do when checking for authenticity on the URL, see if it is connected to an affiliation. There will be sites with the information you are looking for you just need to be careful you don’t believe...
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...How Many Values Do I Need for Limits? Donald J. Wheeler What happens when we use only a few values to create an XmR Chart? There are three aspects to the behavior of the chart that are of interest here. What happens to the number of a false alarms? What happens to the ability of the chart to detect a change? And what happens when the baseline data contain a signal? THE LIKELIHOOD OF A FALSE ALARM Mathematical theory tells us that the risk of a false alarm whenever we place a point on an X-Chart is approximately 0.27%. But what happens to this risk when only k values have been used to compute the limits? Simulation studies provide the answers shown in Table 1 and Figure 1. Effective Alpha-Level of Chart 1.5% k even Limits Based on Median Moving Ranges 1.0% 0.5% k odd Theoretical 0.27% 0.0% k 5 Limits Based on Average Moving Ranges 10 15 20 25 30 Number of Values Used to Compute Limits 35 40 Figure 1: The Effective Alpha-Levels for the Computed Limits The bottom curve in Figure 1 shows the effective alpha-levels for the limits based on the Average Moving Range. These alpha-levels rapidly approach the theoretical value and then plateau. The two upper curves are for limits based on a Median Moving Range. Both curves show that the effective alpha-level drops down toward the theoretical value as k increases. Moreover, while these limits do have larger effective alpha-levels than limits based on the Average Moving Range (as was expected), these effective alpha-levels...
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...Context Clues—Can You Figure It Out? by Rynette R. Kjesbo, M.S., CCC-SLP What Are Context Clues? Context clues are hints or bits of information that help us figure out the meaning of difficult or unfamiliar words we read. Context clues are the words, phrases, or even pictures that surround a word, which help explain the word’s meaning. For example, “During winter, there is not enough light or water for leaves to keep their green color. As the bright green fades away, we begin to see yellow and orange colors.” We can determine from the context clues that the word “fades” means “loses color.” Why Are Context Clues Important? Understanding context clues and using them effectively contributes to children’s success in school by improving vocabulary, reading fluency, reading comprehension, and even their enjoyment of reading. • Vocabulary – Context clues help children build on the vocabulary they have in order to learn the meanings of words they do not know. • Reading Fluency – Context clues help children decide how to pronounce words. For example, you can put a bow in your hair or you can bow to the audience. • Reading Comprehension – Context clues help children see the “bigger picture” and understand what they are reading about, including new topics or subjects. * Enjoyment of Reading – Children who are able to use context clues to understand what they are reading may enjoy reading more. How Can You Teach Children To Use Context Clues? Here...
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...1. BINGO! BINGO! is a kind of get-to-know icebreaker for the beginning of a class. You need pens or pencils and photocopies of BINGO! tables for each student. On the paper teacher should draw a table of at least 5x5 with some clues on each. These could be describing “color of eyes”, “an experience of a foreign journey” or “a dangerous experience” and etc. Distributing the papers among students, they are requested to move around, asking each other questions which hovers around the topics in each box. If the information in the box matches the person, they write down the name of the person. The game takes about 10 minutes and the first pupil who completes the table in across, down or cross is the winner. At the end, each student talks about his or her classmates and the information gathered. If no one achieves the BINGO!, students sit back and tell the class about the tips they jotted down. Students should be fostered to use a variety of tenses and vocabulary which evaluates both grammar and lexical resources. Clue 1Name | … | … | … | Clue 21Name | Clue 2Name | … | … | … | Clue 22Name | Clue 3Name | … | … | … | Clue 23Name | Clue 4Name | … | … | … | Clue 24Name | Clue 5Name | … | … | … | Clue 25Name | Table 1: BINGO! sample table Variations: * Evaluate students by asking questions from the facts shared. For instance, “Who is the only child?” * Students are asked to write a paragraph describing their classmates based on the facts shared using suitable cohesion...
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...What context clues did you use? 3) Explain the meaning of “minims” in your own words. What context clues did you use? 4) Explain the meaning of “suspended” in your own words. What context clues did you use? 5) Explain the meaning of “turbid” in your own words. What context clues did you use? 6) Explain the meaning of “subcutaneously” in your own words. What context clues did you use? 7) What was done to the experimental group? Explain in detail. 8) Explain the meaning of “stinted” in your own words. What context clues did you use? 9) Explain the experimental conditions in detail. Experiment Number Two 1) Describe the experimental group. 2) Explain the meaning of “boards” in your own words. Describe your context clues. 3) What was done to the experimental group? Explain in detail. 4) Explain the meaning of “scanty” in your own words. Describe your context clues. 5) Explain the meaning of “furnished” in your own words. Describe your context clues. 6) Explain the experimental conditions in detail. Experiment Number Three 1) Describe the experimental group. 2) Explain what was done to the experimental group. 3) Explain the meaning of “afforded” in your own words. What were your context clues? 4) Explain the meaning of “artificially” in your own words. Describe your context clues. 5) Explain the meaning of “vital powers” in your own words. What were your context clues? 6) Explain...
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...Stores: Operates department store chains and offers its own credit card. 5. Newmont Mining: Mines for gold and other minerals, utilizing heavy equipment. Use whatever clues that you can to match the companies listed above with the firms listed in the exhibit. 1. Commonwealth Edison as stated generates and sells electricity of businesses and households. I would link this company with the second balance sheet and I have several clues that support this: first the level of inventories is very low, 2.0 % of total assets, which is usual for a company with this type of operations. Second, the level of PPE is very high, 74, 3 % of total assets, which includes all the heavily equipment used to generate and distribute electricity. The long term debt is high, 47, 7 % of total assets, which can be explained with the huge long term investments that need to be done in this industry. 2. Hewlett-Packard or HP can be linked with the fifth balance sheet and I base this conclusion on several clues. First it has a level of inventory, 23, and 6 % of total assets, which can be linked with this type of company. This number could be even higher because manufacturing companies have material inventory, work in process inventory and finish goods inventory but as stated HP outsources many of its components. A second clue is the PPE, a relatively high number which represents...
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