...Bianca Robinson Franklin High School 6 Patton Drive Somerset, NJ 08873 Somerset, NJ 08873 During the summer of 2001 I had the opportunity to work at the Dorothy B. Hersh Regional Child Protection Center at St. Peters University Hospital in New Brunswick, New Jersey. The area that I worked in was highly confidential because it dealt with child abuse. Prior to this work experience I had the idea that I wanted to go into the field of medicine as a profession. I had always enjoyed the sciences in high school and had received good grades. Being involved in my grandmother’s and nephew’s illnesses also played a major part in helping me to establish my goals for the future. I had helped my mother in caring for my grandmother when she had her stroke; including changing her clothes and diapers. I had held my nephew at 3 weeks old when he was in pediatric intensive care with meningitis. Working at the Child Protection Center was significant because it gave me a broader view of the medical field. I became aware of the connection between physical and psychological healing. This awareness guided me to the decision to major in pre-med biology and psychology in college. My mind became clearly focused after seeing helpless children at the pediatric clinic, who had both visible and invisible scars that needed healing. These are the major reasons obtaining a higher education is important to me. I know that at 17 years old, I may not fully...
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...Ways Of Preventing Students From Summiting Materials Written By Someone Else For Academic Credit While there is no magic bullet to prevent students from using the Internet in this manner, the following are ten tips to curb electronic cheating. Use anti-plagiarism websites. Sites like turnitin may be fast and effective at catching plagiarized writing in student’s papers. There services scan uploaded essays for lifted material from across the web. Many teachers require students to submit their own papers to the site before handing in a hard copy, thus eliminating tedious work for the teacher while also discouraging plagiarism since students know their work will be checked. While these websites are quite effective at catching kids who rely on copy-and-paste rather than writing, they will not catch students who hire a writer or buy unpublished content. Rely heavily on in-class material. When assigning a paper, use material from the classroom in the prompt. It is far more difficult for a hired writer to incorporate material from a class they did not attend. Instead of asking for a basic character analysis of the Montague family, ask students to compare each character to a member of the class or the school. It’s highly unlikely that a would-be-cheater will find material on something so specific, or a writer for hire who is familiar with your class. Makes papers a continuation of discussion. Asking students to continue a discussion from class in their papers serves two purposes...
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...“Fish Tank” by Andrea Arnolds “Fish Tank” is a film directed by Andrea Arnold and starring newcomer Katie Jarvis and Michael Fassbender. It chronicles teenage angst in poverty-stricken Britain. Anytime I watch movie I always go by the rule that first 10 minutes of a film must do something to draw me into the story. If I think of going to the bathroom or being hungry, chances are I will not enjoy it. I bring this up because in Mia's world, things were taking such and immediate turn from the start that I no time to think about anything else because I became genuinely interested in what the will happen to this girl. The film is loaded with amazingly memorable characters. The film stars eighteen-year-old Katie Jarvis as fifteen-year-old hip-hop dance enthusiast Mia Williams. Mia is a girl who is so fed-up with the world around her she's at war with it. She's friendless, has a younger sister whom I'm quite certain is possessed by Satan, and a mother who's a drunk, a hussy, and would just as soon slap Mia as look at her. She's a volatile girl in a volatile world. Within the first two minutes we learn a ton about Mia as a person. She makes a phone call to her friend -- a friend we find out quickly - Mia has lost to a falling out because she can't control her temper. After the phone call, she jogs to the same friend's house, and throws rocks at the girl's dad to ensure he leaves a message for his daughter. Immediately after this, Mia gets into a fight with a group...
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...MAGGIE VALENTINE, a 12-year-old in Oklahoma City, swims four days a week. She hops int o the pool cheerfully and uses the butterfly stroke to propel herself forward. Despite exercising, as well as attempting to diet, she weighs 212lb. In a new documentary, “Fed Up”, Maggie is occasionally overwhelmed, tears trickling down her cheeks: “My weight is not really going the way it’s supposed to go.” America’s obesity problem is hardly news. Indeed there are some hints that, among certain groups, it might be abating. But more than one in three American adults and one in six children are fat. Who is to blame? “Fed Up” is directed by Stephanie Soechtig and produced by Katie Couric, a prominent American newscaster, and Laurie David, who made “An Inconvenient Truth”. That film helped to popularise the fight against climate change. Ms David and Ms Couric hope to do the same for fighting flab. Obesity is a global problem (as “Fed Up” mentions in passing). But on its surface it would seem the most personal of failures: an individual eats too much and exercises too little. This ignores the work of behavioural economists and biologists. Humans have evolved over millennia to ensure that weight is hard to lose. It is too simplistic to blame obesity merely on lack of willpower. That would let both food companies and politicians off the hook. “Fed Up” is determined to hold them to account. Food companies are keen for children to eat their junk foods, which are available not just in shops but in schools...
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...Ever since 19 Kids and Counting was canceled, the fans have the show have been rallying together to try to do what they can to get the show back on. The show was canceled due to the Josh Duggar scandal, but the viewers still want updates from the rest of the family of 19 Kids and Counting. Design & Trend is now sharing that it is possible that 19 Kids and Counting could end up getting a renewal if the special Jill & Jessa Counting On does well for TLC. The show 19 Kids and Counting was actually canceled four months ago. Since then, the only time the Duggar family has been seen on television is when they have done small updates that are more like commercials. Now starting on December 13, they will air three specials. Instead of calling them 19 Kids and Counting, they are calling it Jill & Jessa: Counting On. This special is supposed to be all about Jill Dillard and Jessa Seewald, but the previews for the show have already showed that Anna Duggar will be on it as well. Basically, it sounds like everyone could be on the show except for Josh Duggar. News is that TLC lost $19 million when they canceled the show 19 Kids and Counting. Of course, TLC wants to find a way to get some of that income back and the Duggars lost money as well. They are going to want to get that back as well. The Duggars will be coming back to television regardless, but at this time it is unknown if it will just be for the specials. There are people who want the Duggars to return, but others are totally...
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...Katie Roiphe “The Language of Fakebook” contemplates that Facebook is taking over many of teens lives, being time consuming, taking social skills, making people jealous and lying to themselves and everyone else, because of this it makes Facebook overpowering of lifes. The author when looking over posts saw that most people are adding unnecessary words that could easily be taken out to make it more realistic, which said, The author when examining Facebook found things that teens posted that said, “I write more enthusiastically on Facebook than I actually am in real life. Like if I see something remotely funny I might say ‘HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHA,’ when really there is no expression on my face” (1). This is only one example of when teens use enthusiasm to make them appear more excited/sad, (whatever they’re feeling)....
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...Description of Client Katie Bettencourt is a native to Idaho, born in Nampa, Idaho. Born in 1989, Katie grew up youngest of five siblings. Now, Katie currently lives with her boyfriend and their dog in Boise. She currently attends Boise State University to get her Bachelor’s degree in Social Work. Summary of Discussion My interview with Katie involved many positive questions, which involved school, family, and personal life. However, Katie expressed negative points that have affected her life throughout the interview. When discussing school, Katie discovered Sociology in High School and found that to be her favorite subject. Out of High School, Katie went to Treasure Valley Community College to get her associates degree, however, found no motivation to be a good student. When she started back up at college, Katie pursued what she calls her greatest accomplishment Katie found herself on the Dean’s list. She had finally figured out what she wanted as her future career and became motivated as a student....
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...the second-time Sam has made a complaint regarding Katie Mooney’s behavior towards her. She states Katie exhibits passive-aggressive behavior, by purposely leaving her out of conversations, acknowledging other staff members with a greeting by name leaving her out, and by bringing in treats for everyone but Sam. Today, there was an issue with coverage. When Katie received the denial of coverage for 11/23th, (please see documentation attached) she became frustrated and talked about it with other staff members, including both her own and Sam’s direct report. The conversation was held behind a closed door in the lunch...
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...2. Biomechanics of Playing the Piano: Katie Tobik 2.1 Introduction to the Piano The piano is technically an acoustic stringed instrument. It has 88 keys and has a pitch range from A0 to C8. When a key is depressed, it allows a padded tiny hammer to strike a string creating a pitch. 2.1a Basic Mechanism of Playing The piano requires great dexterity and muscle control in the fingers when played at a high level. There are 27 bones and 36 muscles involved in the movement of each hand. This creates a complex biomechanics problem to solve because of a large number of degrees of freedom. (Furuya) When striking a key, a force is generated from the fingertip to the piano key in order to depress it. (Minetti) There is an initial force when...
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...In Katie Jensen “Negative Impacts of Advertising” article, she argues that advertising has a lot of negative impact to the people who view those advertisements. Jensen argues that advertisements are detrimental because the advertisements don’t live up to what the consumer saw in the ad and it also manipulate people to thinking whatever they see in the ad is true. Jensen supports her argument by listing some of the negative impacts that advertisements has. One of the impacts is unrealistic expectations which is when “Beauty and health products may also not live up to their promises, resulting in wasted consumer dollars.” People might think that those beauty and health products would maybe make them look and feel better according to the advertisements,...
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...Katie Diehm, the author of “‘Paddlers Sit Ready!’ The Enduring Sport of Dragon Boating,” is a participant-observer. Towards the beginning of the profile, it is easier to determine the author’s role, but further into the profile, her role is more distant. In the first sentence, the author makes it clear to us that she is a participant-observer; she says, “As we bob up and down in the river, our arms begin to shake in anticipation,” (paragraph 1). By saying “we” it points out that she is not spectating the event. She gives details about what she feels during the race, which clearly shows that she is participating in the event. However, in paragraph 9, the author says, “Instantly the teams spring into action,” which made it seem as if she were watching it. In paragraph eleven, she does this again by saying, “As arms begin to go numb, the paddlers...
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...Katie, the five-year-old in her family's tomb, is one of the most complex characters in Mexican playwright Elena Garro's 1957 short piece A Solid Home (Un Hogar Solido). Katie seems torn between longing for the living world she left so young and being confident that her future "solid home" is the mixing of her elements into other forms – Garro's theory of the afterlife. Although scholar James Mandrell states flatly, "Garro makes obvious the impossibility of escape from the determinants of existence in the time that is history" (233), Katie struggles against her history and future home. Garro may have had similar concerns. In 1937, she went with her new husband, Octavio Paz, to the Spanish Revolution, then returned to Mexico, moved to Berkeley, then San Francisco, New York City, Paris, and Tokyo before returning to Mexico, where the government forced her to undergo naturalization (Greenwald, Schultz, & Pomo, "Elena" 773). Following all these moves, while talking to her cousin at a bar in Mexico City, Garro noted, "What I need is a solid home" (qtd. in Greenwald, Schultz, & Pomo, "A Solid" 774). After so few solid homes, Garro wrote a play exploring that topic for her famous husband in a mere half hour (Greenwald, Schultz, & Pomo, "A Solid" 774). Like Garro, Katie had perhaps more homes than she wanted. Katie's contradictory, childlike character is both sadly angry about missing life by dying young and cynically amused by realities about death that she has learned. ...
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...Tyler Hudetz August 26, 2012 Katie Burke Case Since her first job with her family’s business in 1989, Katie Burke has experienced many different work environments while in search of a position that implements her creativity, and gives her a sense of ownership. Being an Economics major at Stanford, Katie entered the workforce after graduation at First Boston. Working on mergers and acquisitions in New York and a bank-restructuring project in Sweden was interesting work for her. However, these jobs didn’t impact Katie enough for her to continue that career path. She decided to further her knowledge at Harvard Business School to reconsider her future plans. Katie’s time at HBS would result in many opportunities later in her life. In the summer of 1994, Katie teamed worked with a VC firm in Poland and assisted her friend, Gary, to find potentially profitable markets. It was her time in Europe that sparked Katie’s interest in the Internet. When she returned to HBS she began looking for other classmates that were interested in the Internet. Her friend Tim Brady introduced her to Jerry Yang, who was about to receive funding for his Web project. After hearing that Tim was going to help writing the business plan, Katie became even more excited about the Internet and exchanged ideas with the Tim and Jerry. While working on projects in her “Managing Product Development” class with Tim, Katie became friends with classmate Ross Sullivan, who was talking to the owner of the Web database-integration...
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...total cost of items. Goal: When checking out her purchases at the cashier Katie will place items on belt, greet cashier, identify the total cost of items, give money to the cashier rounded to the next dollar, say thank you, put change in purse, and take items to the car, with mother or father 90% of the time....
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...will finally get to see the big proposal as Tom Schwartz pops the question to Katie Maloney. US Magazine shared that Katie is sharing a few details of their big day, but this couple is taking things pretty slow in the planning department. Tom proposed to Katie back in July, but they haven't even set a date for their wedding yet. Katie says that "We're just enjoying the engagement period for now." Things are looking great for Tom and Katie now that they are officially engaged. When asked what Katie Maloney will be wearing on her big day, she hasn't even purchased a dress yet, but Katie does have an idea of what she wants to get. Her dress doesn't sound like it will look anything like the one Scheana Marie...
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