...Laurel Hughes Professor Sheri Nayeri Sociology 201 15 April 2015 Savage Inequalities Reflection This Savage Inequalities: Children in America’s Schools was written by Jonathan Kozol and published in 1991. The book scrutinizes the American public school system and drastic funding differences between schools in underprivileged urban neighborhoods versus their more affluent suburban counterparts. Kozol visited schools in all parts of the country, including New Jersey, Washington, D.C., New York, Chicago, Texas, and Missouri. The book takes a dark and contradictory stance than the typical ideas portrayed that everyone receives an unbiased and quality education in the United States. Kozol explores reoccurring themes of privilege, wealth, poverty, racism, injustice, and inequity within the public school system. He focuses on the point that schools in the deprived areas often lack the most basic needs, such as heat/AC, textbooks & supplies, running water, and functioning sewer facilities. Kozol informs his readers to these atrocities by using basic arithmetic, logical conclusions and profoundly thought provoking graphic details about the horrendous conditions of urban children’s schools. In addition he thoroughly examines the driving socioeconomic factors that hinder each school. In order to be most thorough, Kozol observed both schools with the lowest per capita spending on students and the highest per capita spending and found some shocking facts about America’s school system...
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...Exercise 28 1. Rhizoids serve to anchor the plant to the substrate and absorb water and minerals. Also, the rhizoid attaches the gametophyte to the substratum and facilitates the absorption of minerals and water. Anchorage + absorption. Rhizoids are nonphotosynthetic and anchor the protonema to the substratum. 2. Each pore leads into an air chamber containing columns of photosynthetic cells and facilitates in gas exchange. Unlike the stomata of vascular plants which close in dry weather, the air pores of liverworts remain open all the time. 3. Antheridia need to disperse sperm and are upright with pores on top of the antheridial disk; archegonia are protected under the surface of the archegonial disk. 4. a. The sporophyte is formed and is attached to the mother gametophyte by a foot through which the nutrients are passed between the sporophyte and the gametophyte. Anchors sporophyte to archegoniophore. Nutrient transfer from gametophyte to sporophyte b. Spores are haploid. c. The spores are helped on their journey by four strap-like structures called elaters that catch the wind. The elaters coil and uncoil in response to changes in humidity. When the air is dry they extend outward and create wind resistance so that the spores float. When the air is humid the elaters coil around the spore so that buoyancy decreases and the spore drops--with luck onto moist soil where it can germinate. 5. a. The leaves are delicate, thin and flat and only one cell thick except at...
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...“Most human beings have an absolute and infinite capacity for taking things for granted.” (Aldous Huxley) Young adults take things for granted: basic things, simple things, everything. Wasting food, not realizing what freedom means, not valuing education, and using up any readily available resources, has become a part of the daily routine without anyone realizing it. A rising problem amongst our age bracket today is young adults take what they have for granted, not realizing the long term consequences of their actions. How often does one finish everything that is on his/her plate? Many consumers often order more than they can eat. One’s eyes are bigger than his/her stomach. People will order multiple appetizing items from menus assuming they can finish it. On the contrary, they will eat about half of what is served, leaving the rest behind. Frequently, restaurants serve larger portions than the average person can eat. The American attitude is wanting beyond what is needed, the “Super-Size effect.” If one were to take into consideration the amount of food that is wasted in this country versus the amount that is needed throughout the rest of the world, anyone with a right mind set can see that Americans waste food. In contrast, there are starving masses in other parts of the world such as in numerous third world countries. There are people dying from starvation and lack of nutrients because of the absence of a sufficient food source, while contemporary Americans are...
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...since the pre industrial age, CO2 increased by 40%, CH4 by 148% and N2O by 18%) The test model animation could be flawed in how it is depicting the information based on these numbers. Test 3 2050 is not shaping up to be a comfortable place with an average temperature at 63 degrees. N20 Nitrous Oxide, is not escaping, and yellow photons are remaining trapped as well. Carbon Dioxide is escaping at a moderate level, with approximately, 1 out of six molecules bouncing back to earth. It is an exponential build-up with increased pollutions from an expanded mobile society, industrial environmental growth, exploration for more natural resources and agricultural developments all having expanded to meet an increasing population. PART TWO: LAB QUESTIONS 1. Identify natural and human-made causes of climate change visible in the computer simulation. According to the computer model, how have sources of heat-trapping pollution changed from 1750...
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...BTEC Certificate/Subsidiary/90-Credit Diploma Health and Social Care Task Specific Risk Assessment (P3) Company Name: NewVIc PROCESS / ACTIVITY |I am a NewVIc student, studying health and social care level 3. I have been asked to carry out a risk assessment of a part of the college. I| |have chosen the playground and the C block. The C block is the building where the main subjects are science, math and health and social | |care. Here there are labs, classes with computers and desks. I will carry out the risk assessment in a methodical way, starting from the | |bottom of C block to the top and one corner of outside to the opposite corner. The service users of these areas and building are the | |teachers, cleaners, students and visitors. My risk assessment is to improve the safety of the college for the staff, pupils and visitors. | | |LIKELIHOOD (Chances of occurrence) | |SEVERITY (Outcome) | |1 |Remote Possibility (Very Unlikely) |1 |Negligible/No Injury | |2 |Unlikely |2 |Minor Injury/Minor damage to property or person | |3 |Possible |3 |Major Injury/Disability/Serious damage to Property or person | |4 |Very Likely ...
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...Name: C.T.B. Assignment: “Our Stolen Future” Date: 12/03/2012 The Book “Our Stolen Future” is considered to be a sequel of “Silent Spring“, a Rachel’s Carson classic work, a clarion call to protect the American public from manmade synthetic pesticides that cause genetic mutations and cancer. Carson not only described how persistent chemicals were contaminating the natural world, she documented how those chemicals where accumulated into our bodies. Since then, studies of human breast milk and body fat have confirmed the extent of our exposure. Human beings in such remote locations as Canada’s far northern Baffin Island now carry traces of persistent chemicals in their bodies, including notorious compounds as PCBs, DDT and dioxin. Even worse, in the womb and through breast milk, mothers pass this chemical legacy on to the next generation. “Our Stolen Future”, the scientific discovery of Theo Colborn, Dianne Dumanoski and John Peterson Myers, takes up where Carson left off and reviews a large and growing body of scientific evidence, linking synthetic chemicals to aberrant sexual development and behavioral and reproductive problems, such as low sperm counts, infertility, genital deformities, hormonally triggered human cancers, like those of breast and prostate gland, neurological disorders in children such as hyperactivity and deficits in attention. The quality of men's sperm declined steadily in the early years of the 21st century until hardly anyone could reproduce in...
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...HOW TO MAKE CREATIVITY CONTAGIOUS Stefan Stern. Management Today. London: Mar 2004. pg. 52, 4 pgs Abstract (Summary) Companies may identify fresh thinking as a core value, but this doesn't square with a corporate strategy in which minimising risk is seen as a virtue. How can an organisation adapt its culture to embrace innovation? If only the good Lord could look down as kindly on the creative efforts of us mere mortals. But that is the trouble with creativity and the Creationist mythology that underpins it: we are constantly waiting for the next miracle. In business, you will wait a long time for miracles. Coming up with new and successful ideas requires effective management and hard work -perspiration as much as inspiration. What are the real challenges that businesses and organisations face if they are ever going to unleash the creative genius lurking within their walls? 'Every company I meet has identified innovation and creativity as core values,' says David Walker of international creativity consultancy Synectics, 'but around 90% of them do nothing about it. Their behaviour just doesn't allow creativity to emerge.' The problem here is fundamental. The processes that businesses have traditionally wanted to hone and develop on the path to operational excellence run counter to creativity itself. » Jump to indexing (document details) Full Text (2612 words) Copyright Haymarket Business Publications Ltd. Mar 2004 [Headnote] Companies may identify fresh thinking...
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...1/18/2014 SimUText :: Printable Chapter :: Life History PRINT ER-FRIENDLY PAGE: T his page contains the com plete tex t of this Sim UT ex t chapter. Y ou can use y our browser's print function to print a copy . Life History This chapter explores life cycles, life histories and life tables, and explores the trade-offs that different species make in their reproductive strategy. file:///C:/Users/Hossein/SimUText/labs/LifeHistory_20700/instructions/print_chapter.html 1/156 1/18/2014 SimUText :: Printable Chapter :: Life History Contents Se ction 1 : Life Cycle s a nd Life Historie s Chapter Credits This Sim UText chapter was dev eloped by a team including: Lead Author: Simon Bird Authors: W. John Roach, Ellie Steinberg, Eli Meir Reviewer: Susan Maruca Graphics: Brad Beesley, Jennifer Wallner Simulations: Susan Maruca Programming: Derek Stal, Steve Allison-Bunnell, Jen Jacaruso Outside Reviewer: James Danoff-Burg (Columbia University) Thanks to all the students and instructors who helped test prototy pes of this chapter. For m ore inform ation, please v isit www.sim bio.com . Suggested citation: Sim on Bird, Susan Maruca, W. John Roach, Ellie Steinberg, Eli Meir. 2 009 . Life History . In Sim UText Ecology . Sim bio.com . Sim UText is a registered tradem ark of Sim Biotic Software for Teaching and Research, Inc. © 2 009 -2 01 2 Sim Bio. All Rights Reserv ed. This and other Sim bio Interactiv e Chapters® are accessible through the Sim UText Sy stem ®. ...
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...QNT 351 Final Exam Guide (New) For more course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com Q1 The Director of Golf for a local course wants to study the number of rounds played by members on weekdays. He gathered the sample information shown below for 520 rounds. At the .05 significance level, is there a difference in the number of rounds played by day of the week? 2. An auditor for American Health Insurance reports that 20% of policyholders submit a claim during the year. 15 policyholders are selected randomly. What is the probability that at least 3 of them submitted a claim the previous year? 3. When a class interval is expressed as 100 up to 200, _________________________. 4. A coffee manufacturer is interested in whether the mean daily consumption of regular-coffee drinkers is less than that of decaffeinated-coffee drinkers. A random sample of 50 regular-coffee drinkers showed a mean of 4.35 cups per day, with a standard deviation of 1.2 cups per day. A sample of 40 decaffeinated coffee drinkers showed a mean of 5.84 cups per day, with a standard deviation of 1.36 cups per day. What is your computed z-statistic? 5. You perform a hypothesis test at the .05 level of significance. Your computed p-value turns out to .042. What is your decision about the hypothesis? 6. In a distribution, the second quartile corresponds with the __________. 7. The MacBurger restaurant chain claims that the waiting time of customers for service is normally distributed, with a mean of 3 minutes...
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...ALUMNI HOMECOMING Parokya ni edgar A E Fm D-Dm Napatunganga nung bigla kitang nakita A E Fm-D-Dm pagkalipas ng mahabang panahon A E Fm D-Dm High School pa tayo nung una kang makilala A E Fm D-Dm at tandang-tanda ko pa noon pa may sobrang lupit mo na A E Fm D-Dm Hindi ko alang alam kung pano basta biglang nagsama tayo A E Fm D-Dm di nagtagal ay napaibig mo ako (2ND STANZA SAME CHORDS OF STANZA 1) Mula umaga hanggang uwian natin laging magkasama tayong dalawa parang kahapon lang nangyari sa akin ang lahat tila isang tulang medyo romantiko ang banat ngunit ng napag-usapan bigla na lang nagkahiyaan mula noon hindi na tayo nag-pansinan (CHORUS) A E Fm At bakit ko ba pinabayaan D A mawala ng hindi inaasahan E parang nasayang lang ...
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...1 Green Data Center Mohit Ramchandani N 13853554 Kaushal Panchal ABSTRACT The word “green technologies” represent the issues that are being currently addressed as Global warming and the increase of toxic waste generated by electronic devices. The Data centers are energy hogs which, represent about 25 % of total fixed corporate assets, and 50 % of overall IT budgets. People feel that sustainability is the right and the smart thing to for designing and operating a productive data center, for betterment of our environment. The mission-critical operational efficiency and stability is boosted and not sacrificed by Greening a data. A green data center is provided, which comprises: a utility power source for providing utility power, a facility electrically connected to the utility power source, a renewable energy provider electrically connected to the facility for providing renewable energy, an IT equipment electrically connected to the renewable energy provider. A heat transfer system having a circulating coolant, wherein the heat transfer system captures and transfers taste heat generated by the computer IT equipment and transfers heat from the heated coolant to at least one of the utility power source, for the IT equipment. The power consumption of the green energy data center system is half that of a conventional data center, and green energy accounts for another half for driving. The data center is green and energy saving, and also the profit margin of the...
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...INCEPTION By Christopher Nolan SHOOTING SCRIPT FADE IN: DAWN. CRASHING SURF. The waves TOSS a BEARDED MAN onto wet sand. He lies there. A CHILD’S SHOUT makes him LIFT his head to see: a LITTLE BLONDE BOY crouching, back towards us, watching the tide eat a SANDCASTLE. A LITTLE BLONDE GIRL joins the boy. The Bearded Man tries to call them, but they RUN OFF, FACES UNSEEN. He COLLAPSES. The barrel of a rifle ROLLS the Bearded Man onto his back. A JAPANESE SECURITY GUARD looks down at him, then calls up the beach to a colleague leaning against a JEEP. Behind them is a cliff, and on top of that, a JAPANESE CASTLE. INT. ELEGANT DINING ROOM, JAPANESE CASTLE - LATER The Security Guard waits as an ATTENDANT speaks to an ELDERLY JAPANESE MAN sitting at the dining table, back to us. ATTENDANT (in Japanese) He was delirious. But he asked for you by name. And... (to the Security Guard) Show him. SECURITY GUARD (in Japanese) He was carrying nothing but this... He puts a HANDGUN on the table. The Elderly Man keeps eating. SECURITY GUARD ...and this. The Security Guard places a SMALL PEWTER CONE alongside the gun. The Elderly Man STOPS eating. Picks up the cone. ELDERLY JAPANESE MAN (in Japanese) Bring him here. And some food. INT. SAME - MOMENTS LATER The Elderly Man watches the Bearded Man WOLF down his food. He SLIDES the handgun down the table towards him. ELDERLY JAPANESE MAN (in English) Are you here to kill me? The Bearded Man glances up at him, then back to his food. 2. ...
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... Only judged by what was in front, Not what was truly divine?” 'Tis but thy name that is my enemy. Thou art thyself, though not a Montague. What's Montague? It is nor hand, nor foot, nor arm, nor face, nor any other part Belonging to a man. O, be some other name! What is in a name? That which we call a rose . By any other name would smell as sweet. So Romeo would, were he not Romeo called, Retain that dear perfection which he owes Without that title. Romeo, doff thy name; And for that name, which is no part of thee,…’ Quote Juliet- Romeo and Juliet: William Shakespeare Prologue He sat there by the fogged up window sitting on the old box seat, he was staring out at the rain that was falling on the ground, the rain had been pouring down ever since dawn that morning and to be honest it was annoying the shit out of him. It beat down at the ground so hard that all the roses in the front garden had, their leaves torn apart so now they looked like dark red smudges against the earthy ground that was beneath them. Lee the young man sitting by the window was talking on the phone he sat their with a beer in his hand and the football glaring in the background, he was talking to Sienna they had been getting closer over the past few months, they hadn’t told anyone yet and nor did they plan to. They wanted to keep it a secret from the others… everyone would make a big deal...
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...8 SOUTHERN THAILAND FOLK TALES Foreword… It all started a few years ago in a discussion with our English Major Students. We were talking about regional differences; how perceptions of people differ. I explained how people in the north of England view the folks from London and the south, and vice-versa. “It’s the same here in Thailand” one bright student chimed, “the folks in Bangkok and the north think everyone down here in the south are stupid, ignorant and to be viewed with extreme suspicion. But we have a very rich cultural heritage” she went on to explain. “We have history and stories that have been passed from father to son, from mother to daughter, for centuries.” So, it was agreed, the students would mine the Southern Thai Culture for the myths and legends that go to make folk tales. These would be documented and translated into English. This was to be a useful extra-curricular activity in the student’s quest for better English usage and understanding. The project ‘grew like Topsy’ and before long we had plans afoot to publish a small book that could, with a bit of luck, help to narrow the cultural divide between north and south Thailand. And, of course, educate and amuse us poor, ignorant, foreigners! Together with my friend and former colleague, Ajarn Kevin Marshall, we agreed to edit the student’s submissions, bring the often-archaic language up-to-date and inject modern usage and idioms whilst retaining the spirit of the original. It was a big idea but one that...
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...Jurassic Park Michael Crichton Copyright Michael Crichton (c) 1991 All Rights Reserved The right of Michael Crichton to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. First published in Great Britain in 1991 by the Random Century Group 20 Vauxhall Bridge Rd, London SWIV 2SA Century Hutchinson South Africa (Pty) Ltd PO Box 337, Bergvlei 2012 South Africa Random Century Australia Pty Ltd 20 Alfred St, Milsons Point, Sydney, NSW 2061 Australia Random Century New Zealand Ltd PO Box 40-086, Glenfield, Auckland 10 New Zealand A CIP Catalogue Record for this book is available from the British Library ISBN: 0 7126 4686 8 Printed in England by Clays Ltd, St Ives plc For A-M and T "Reptiles are abhorrent because of their cold body, pale color, cartilaginous skeleton, filthy skin, fierce aspect, calculating eye, offensive smell, harsh voice, squalid habitation, and terrible venom; wherefore their Creator has not exerted his powers to make many of them." LINNAEUS, 1797 "You cannot recall a new form of life." ERWIN CHARGAFF, 1972 Introduction "The InGen Incident" The late twentieth century has witnessed a scientific gold rush of astonishing proportions: the headlong and furious haste to commercialize genetic engineering. This enterprise has proceeded so rapidly-with so little outside commentary-that its dimensions and implications are hardly understood at all. Biotechnology promises the...
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