...This method was not only used to help the people it was also used to preserve the land in a way. The Amazonians were forced to use this method because the constant “El Nino” climate swings that would cause severe droughts and forest fires, causing resources to plummet. In doing so the “slash-and-burn” did alter the land for both the people and the resources being...
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...transformation ever, at least, when it comes to information” (3). This transformation of digital media over the last twenty-five years and the introduction of tools like the iPad create a clutter of information that threaten the ability to think deeply and concentrate, which has made the current educational system obsolete and ineffective. This same technology can be utilized to create the school of the future, by improving learning in the Digital Age. Digital natives, ”born after 1980,” do not know the world without the Internet, cell phones, computers, tablets and everything else that networked digital technology has provided (Palfrey 1). They “study, work, write and interact with each other in ways that are very different from the ways” their parents and grandparents grew up. (Palfrey 2). Palfrey and Gasser found that digital natives are comfortable with this new technology and experts at multitasking by surfing, gaming, texting, face booking, tweeting and now “instagramming.” That’s why digital natives “have shorter attention spans than their parents, and this technology leads to a ‘copy-and-paste’ culture, where technology enabled cheating is on the rise on college campuses” (Palfrey 244). There are different points of view about the effect of this lack of focus on...
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...Individual Paper Topic: Explain the need for understanding different intergenerational attitudes of people towards technology and the implications it has for facilitating communicating between digital natives and digital immigrations. HO Nancy Hiu Kwan Introduction With the growth of time, the role of technology is getting more and more significant where technological products are commonly found in today‟s society and everyone generally equips with more than 2 gadgets to deal with their daily business. It is observed that majority of people flips on their smartphone during the ride or in meal are teenagers and young adults, they do with no reason but treat it as a habit. Since those digital natives can hardly live without the electronic devices, feel uncomfortable without them in hands and play with it (smartphone) regardless of the location and time can therefore said as an addiction. And now, it raises a question of whether the rapid advancement of technology betters our life or we are determined by technology? The above controversial topic often comes with diverse respondents amongst different generations, where teenagers may usually agree with technology improves their life in overall despite of some drawbacks brought by those digital technologies as they get used to the online space and possible to handle all the matters by their own; whereas the elder generation may have a different comments and believe technology undoubtedly better off our lives, yet more drawbacks...
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...Nestle S.A. is one too. So is Lorenzo Zambrano of Cemex in Mexico, Massimo Bongiovanni, CEO of Coop Centrale in Italy and Toshifumi Suzuki, CEO of 7-Eleven Japan. What do these global business leaders have in common that sets them apart from the majority of top management in other organizations? They are IT Savvy BUSINESS leaders. That means they communicate an organizing vision which affords a central role to leveraging IT for value creation; they engage themselves in strategic IT decisions and insist that their top management team does as well; they construct an equal partnership between business and IT ,and they achieve superior returns for their efforts. According to research by Peter Weill and Jeanne Ross[1], firms with higher IT spending and high IT savvy can achieve 20 percent greater margins than their competitors, whereas the lowest spenders and least IT savvy firms earn 32 percent lower margins than their competitors. Naturally with this sort of performance lift, most CEO’s, in fact most business leaders across the organization, must be IT savvy – right? Unfortunately the answer is “Not yet.” As for evidence, it is visible or can be deduced in headline-grabbing events about IT project failures, rigid information systems which reduce a company’s local and/or global agility, layoffs at firms due to inefficient operations and security breaches and data losses. All of these occurrences signal deficiencies in leveraging information technology effectively. Blame...
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...A. Richard Wright has been criticized for his narrow and even disrespectful portrayals of women characters in Native Son. Comment. In Native Son Richard Wright only created one character who had any depth, his protagonist Bigger Thomas. There are only four adult women in the novel and Bigger’s sister Vera is the fifth female character with any role in the book at all. Mrs. Dalton, Mary Dalton, Bessie Mears, and Bigger’s mother round out the cast of females and each of these women is different in her own way. The novel follows Bigger and his issues. Other than Bigger, each character is a stock character with no depth. They only exist to help round him out. It would be possible to say that men are narrowly and disrespectfully portrayed as well but there are so many more men than women. Bigger’s mother is not even given a name, that could be disrespectful but the important thing about her is that she gave birth to Bigger, raised him, and held certain expectations of him and that lead to forming who he is. Bessie Mears was Bigger’s girlfriend until he killed her and she was poorly developed as well. She was a black woman with a need. She worked hard everyday for her white employers and she sought some escape. She used alcohol to get away and relied upon Bigger to get it for her. She helped him rob houses, had sex with him, and got drunk when he bought her booze. Peggy, the irish house-keeper of the Dalton’s was just a house-keeper. There was very little depth to her but she...
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...new society. It is not easy to learn a language correctly and successfully; however, it is not impossible if a language learner has confidence, eagerness, and creativity. To be a successful language learner, a person has to have confidence to talk with native speakers. Confidence is totally different from arrogance. Arrogance is the notion of being somewhat confident by feeling better than others and belittling others. Confidence is about believing in one’s abilities and potential. People who lack confidence usually feel afraid of changing and making mistakes. However, confidence does not just happen in one day, confidence comes from within, and only the person has the power to grow it. Therefore, if a language learner wants to be successful, he has to be brave to interact with native speakers. By communicating with native speakers, the person can learn new sounds, pronunciation, intonation, and accent. A person should not worry about upsetting the native speaker because the best language learner should not be a perfectionist. Willingness to make mistakes means being ready to have embarrassing situations. This can be scary, but it is the only way to develop and improve. For example, when he is in the park, he will find native speakers and make a conversation with them. When he is at school, he will go to the library and discuss with a librarian about recommended books and research articles. He will join conversation group at Learning...
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...The Australian legal system has not given the first land owners fair and just human rights but recently Indigenous Australian customary laws have started to be acknowledged. When the British Empire colonised Australia, the sovereignty of Native Australians were not recognised (Mabo v Queensland [1992]). Along with land rights, their right to hunt and fish have also been restricted which could account for the overrepresentation of Indigenous Australians in prison. “[Their] right to pursue a traditional lifestyle, a right recognised by the Commission’s Term of Reference, [which] implies a right to use the land to forage and gather food for consumption,” (Recognition of Aboriginal Customary Laws, 1986) has been overlooked. Aboriginal Australians...
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...Argument Summary of Digital Natives and Immigrants Nancy K. Herther’s article titled “Digital Natives and Immigrants: What the brain research tells us” discusses what brain research shows regarding the generation of digital natives. A digital native is anyone who was born into technology. A digital immigrant is a user over 30 who was not born into technology but may use it. Herthers research is centered on the idea that digital natives are different genetically and there is a generation gap. Using neuroscience studies Herthers looks into whether the digital natives generation is different genetically or has just learned and adopted. Herthers uses different studies and scientist or psychologist to answer this debate. The research indicates there is in fact no genetic difference instead there is just a gap between generations. Therefore Herthers believes there is no evidence to support this claim that digital natives are genetically different than any past generations, there is simply a generational gap. Herthers introduces this debate as to how different the digital natives are from digital immigrants, and whether this difference is due to a generational gap or a genetic difference. Herthers then uses research to answer this debate; the research goes into the differences between Digital Natives and Immigrants. The research includes how both digital natives and immigrants think, socialize, and how their brains might work differently. Herthers...
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...Post-1945 Multiple Choice and Short Answer 1: Dreaming - refers to all that is known and understood by Aboriginal people. It is the central spiritual concept because it determines not only beliefs and values but also relationships with other people and the overall environment. Aborigines are able to understand creation in a continuing and living sense by virtue of the Dreaming. It explains how the world was created by their ancestors and is passed on orally. E.g. dreaming stories such as the rainbow serpent. Dreaming links Aboriginals to the land, they are interdependent: “Aboriginals live their lives being at one with the land, and without land their Dreaming, tradition and culture are sure to die” (Anne Gray). Kinship – refers to the network of relationships that hold a clan together central to Aboriginal communities. Through kinship, they are instructed about particular obligations, rights and appropriate forms of behavior. It defines where a person fits into the community. Land is important to kinship and is often referred to as “my mother” so it is shared by many people. Disopession- Dispossession resulted in Aboriginals being separated from their physical land, kinship groups and the removal of their children from their families through the “Stolen Generation”. Dispossession first occurred in 1778 when the First Fleet recognised Australia as “terra nullius”. They implemented policies of protectionism where Aboriginals were removed from their rightful land and...
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...Bombardier TEG (A): Operational and Political Issues in Multinational Projects Price, technical proficiency, delivery dates, and domestic content/presence were the most important award criteria to win bids for passenger railcar manufacturing contracts in the US. For most bids around 1992, Morrison-Knudsen (M-K)’s offers were outweighing the technical edge Bombardier’s Transportation Equipment Group (TEG) had through fast delivery times and performing most of the contract locally (e.g. open more local plants or hire more local people than competitors). In addition, the company considerably underbid contracts by 7% on average. Remarkably, all those key deciding factors were based on promises without a record of proof. Therefore, M-K’s promises seemed to be out of touch when considering that the company lacked substantial experience in manufacturing rail equipment, and had not delivered a single working vehicle to any client so far at that time. M-K had experience in the refurbishment market for mass transit cars, but this is considered an entirely different business from car manufacturing, e.g. it did not involve design, and many integration issues were already solved (blueprints). Consequently, without the control of the overall design and the integration of various systems, while having components coming from all over the place (e.g. M-K was supplied and supported by low-cost overseas firms from Brazil, Japan or Portugal, even for design and engineering), M-K took a huge risk...
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...Assimilation Policy – official government policy which aims to integrate minority groups into the dominant culture group. This results in a loss of culture, tradition and languages. * Balance rites – Aboriginal rituals that aim to make a supernatural connection with ancestral beings from the dreaming * Crown land – Public land owned by the commonwealth of Australia and managed by Australian government * Dispossession – The forced removal of aboriginal people from their native land. * Dreaming – Aboriginal spiritual beliefs about creation and existence. The dreaming establishes the rules governing relationships between people, land and all things for Aboriginal people. It links together the past, present and future. * Freehold title – Absolute and permanent ownership of the land. * Half-castes – An offensive term referring to a person of mixed decent or ethnicity. * Land rites – Property rights pertaining to land. * Meta-temporal – the trinity of the past, present and future. * Native title – Form of land title, which recognises aboriginal people as rightful owners of their traditional land. * Protection policy – official government policy stating in the late 19th century. Removed aboriginal people from unsuitable environments and placed them under the protection of the state. * Sacred sites – Places of spiritual significance to Aboriginal people as they are connected with ancestor beings from the dreaming, they are places where rituals such as...
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...In Marc Parensky’s two part essay “Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants”(2001) he examines the problem with today’s educational system. He believes that the way students think today is different from the way their predecessors thought and today’s educational system is not set up correctly for teaching them. Parensky believes the arrival of digital technology is the reason for this change. Today’s students spend more time using computers, cell phones, video games, and other electronic devices than they do reading. As a result of this he states, “today’s students think and process information fundamentally different from their predecessors.” Thus their “brains and thinking patterns have physically changed.” Prensky calls these new types of technological savvy students “Digital Natives”. They were born into this digital era and technology is their native language. They have developed hypertext minds and their thought processes are more parallel than sequential. Most of the digital natives’ teachers were born before this era and speak a different outdated language therefore Prensky has dubbed them “Digital Immigrants.” Digital Immigrants were taught to learn in a linear manner and therefore teach in the same way. This can impede and slow down the learning process of digital natives. According to Parensky, digital natives are acclimated to receiving information quickly, multi-task, thrive on instant gratification, and prefer games to “serious” work. This is not how the...
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...VATE INSIDE STORIES 2014—MABO INSIDE STORIES MABO Film directed by Rachel Perkins Teaching notes prepared by Sarah Catton Edited by Marion White CONTENTS INTRODUCTION .........................................................................................................3 WAYS INTO THE TEXT ..............................................................................................6 RUNNING SHEET AND STRUCTURE OF THE TEXT...............................................8 PERSPECTIVE ON THE TEXT.................................................................................13 CHARACTERS..........................................................................................................15 THEMES AND ISSUES.............................................................................................20 LANGUAGE AND STYLE..........................................................................................24 CLOSE ANALYSIS....................................................................................................28 FURTHER ACTIVITIES.............................................................................................31 KEY QUOTES ...........................................................................................................34 TEXT RESPONSE TOPICS ......................................................................................36 REFERENCES ........................
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...Unity is represented as a very significant part in Rachel Perkin's film Mabo and without unity the Mabo land rights case may never have succeeded; however, there are scenes where unity is forgotten. The most crucial display of unity is the unity between Eddie and Bonita and the continual support from Netta shown in numerous ways throughout the fillm. Another example is the unity amongst Eddie and his legal team as well as the Passi brothers because without them, Eddie would not have the same confidence. Nevertheless, a lack of unity is demonstrated in his argument with Netta and the physical abuse that followed. The most important demonstration of unity is depicted through the relationship Eddie has with Netta. The pair supports each other and this is shown through the active reminders from Netta reassuring him that his battle is respectable and that she is proud of him, ultimately giving him the will to continue with his case. Without the support from Netta, Eddie May never have been able to achieve what he had, such as the connection with his family and the land claim of Murray Island. Another example includes job resignation; Netta was unhappy at first but eventually accepts it and soon shows her support. Additionally, Netta threatens to leave him at one point, but she quickly forgives him and this shows that she is a strong woman and to allow her husband to reach his full potential and achieve his dreams was a respectable move. He admits this when he confesses to Netta...
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...Name Professor Class 13 February 2015 Hawaii’s Sacred Places Hawaii is the leading state of sacred and historical places. Dozens of these age-old and delicate locations are of great significance to the Hawaiian people who view the sacred shrines temples as having great spiritual capacity. Religious rituals and offerings occur even to this day. Other sites are merely historical. Two particular locations, Hikiau Heiau, and Puukohola Heiau have a rich history, each with amazing stories to tell. Located in the western portion of Hawaii, a large platform of stacked lava rock rests on the red soil. This platform is known as Hikiau Heiau, and has been restored many times damage from the waves, but the temple is as old as 400 years (Smithsonian). Hikiau Heiau was built by King Kalani'opu'u. The temple itself stretches an impressive 250 feet long and 100 feet wide. Used primarily for worship, many public ceremonies were held place at Hikiau Heiau. The god that was praised in this temple has varied over time, depending on the tribal leader at the time. “One chief could have dedicated it to the war god Ku, while another dedicated it to Lono, associated with fertility,” says Martha Yent, an archaeologist with Hawaii’s state parks (Smithsonian). At certain points, it would hold celebrations for a good harvest, while other times, it would serve as a human sacrificial location to honor the chief. In 1779, British explorer James Cook drifted into the location of Hikiau Heiau. In a ceremony...
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