...History 11 exam 2 study guide 1) Explain the structure of the US Gov. under the new constitution and describe the compromises that led to its ratification? What problems do you think remained for the united states under this constitution? The structure of the US Gov under the new constitution sets out the powers of the United States does and what the State powers are as well. In addition Madison is setting up a competion between the US Gov and the States. The US gov can coin money, make taxes, make treaties. State Powers can create taxes, make treaties, but can’t coin money. Many of the powers of the States are often duplicated from the Us Gov. powers. Also there is the 3 branch concept which consist of Executive branch (President, Enforce laws),Legislative Branch (Congress, Make Laws), and Judicial Branch( Interept Laws). These branches will also compete with each other. Example of congress fighting with the president on raising the national debt ceiling. In addition the Judicial branch will sometimes get involved because they have the power to declare a law constitutional or unconstitutional which is the final say. In addion the Judicial Branch can also interpret laws made by the legislative Branch.The compromise that led to the ratification are Virginia Plan:being a large state, because virgina had a larger population.the viginians did not think it was fair for a state to have 3times less population to have a equal vote as a larger state such as virginia.They wanted more...
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...Qualities of an Epic Story in The Notebook What is an epic? An epic, by definition, is the telling of an epic hero’s story through the vast journey and sacrifices he makes. The Notebook would be considered an epic for many reasons. Some may disagree and say it’s just a love story that contains no characteristics, and no proof of being an epic. But in this paper the characteristics of an epic will be explored through facts and examples from the text and from today’s present life and culture. The epic hero, Noah Hamilton in Nicholas Sparks’ The Notebook states, “I am no one special, just a common man with common thoughts. I've led a common life. There are no monuments dedicated to me. And my name will soon be forgotten. But in one respect, I've succeeded as gloriously as anyone who ever lived (The Notebook).” Some examples of the characteristics in The Notebook that proves this is an epic would include vast settings, the story begins in medias res, the characters have epic digressions and that the hero embodies the values of the culture. Because of how the story starts, media res would be considered the first characteristic of an epic that can be noticed in The Notebook. Our story begins at a nursing home in the south where Allie is being looked after due to her dementia. The nurse is in her room, attempting to have Allie come out and go outside for a little while until a mysterious man shows up. Now, we don’t know who this man is that has just entered her room, and we’re not...
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...know who made them. Anonymity allows the experts to express their self freely, encourages openness and avoids admitting error by revising earlier forecasts. The history of Delphi derives from the Oracle of Delphi. According to Wikipedia, the authors of the method were not happy with this name, because in implies something oracular, something smacking a little of the occult. The Delphi method was developed at the beginning of the Cold War to forecast the impact of technology on warfare. The method was a creation for the report, for the U.S. Army Air Corps on the future technological capacities that might be used by the military. The Delphi method was developed by project RAND during the 1950-1960s by Olaf Helmer, Norman Dalkey, and Nicholas Rescher. It has been used ever since, with many modifications and reformulation, such as the Imen-Delphi procedure. There are steps one must use in the Delphi Technique; Step 1 – Is choosing a Facilitator,...
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...The Jolly Holiday Man and His Shadowy Counterpart They see you when you’re sleeping, they know when you’re awake, they know if you’ve been bad or good so be good for goodness sake. There is one obvious name that comes to mind here, but not many know of the other that has become lost from the holiday culture. It is fair to assume that most everybody knows about the jolly Santa Claus, but few know he has a partner known as Krampus. They are two sides of the same coin, with Krampus also being known as St. Nick’s shadow. Both were and still are highly present in European areas, but when St. Nicholas came to America as Santa Claus, Krampus was left behind. There seemed to be no need for this fearful figure in the new world, but as he is beginning to become noticed once again one must understand who he is to our beloved Christmas childhood hero....
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...Name 4/9/2016 BIO 1 Nicholas of Cusa The person that I was assigned for our first biography was Nicholas of Cusa. Nicholas of Cusa was “born in 1401 and passed away on the day of August 11, 1464” (Hudson). Nicholas of Cusa was a German philosopher, theologian, and astronomer. He was one of the first German proponents of Renaissance humanism, and he made spiritual and political contributions in European history. When Nicholas of Cusa was at a young age, “he entered the Faculty of Arts of the Heidelberg University in 1416 as ‘a cleric of the Diocese of Trier,’ studying the liberal arts”(Hudson). He seemed to have left Heidelberg soon afterwards, “as he received his doctorate in canon law from the University of Padua in 1423” (Joost-Gaugier). After he attended the University of Padua in 1423, “he entered the University of Cologne in 1425 as ‘a doctor of canon law,’ which he appears to have both taught and practiced there”(Joost-Gaugier). In the field of philosophy, “Nicholas of Cusa was noted for his deeply mystical writings about Christianity” (Hudson), particularly on the possibility of knowing God with the divine human mind. Nicholas of Cusa wrote of the unfolding of creation in God. “He was suspected by some of holding pantheistic beliefs, but his writings were never accused of being heretical” (Joost-Gaugier). In the field of mathematics, Nicholas of Cusa can be read about in the different essays that he wrote. “Most of Nicholas of Cusa's mathematical ideas can be found...
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...Payton and Samantha brought their little guy into my baby photographer studio for his newest milestone portraits. I met this couple for the first time when they brought Cullen in for his newborn session. He was just a week old at that time. The time flies by in a heartbeat! This time he was brought in for a cake smash session. While it's hard not to love all kinds of baby sessions, these are some of my favorites. His parents say that he is a happy, active and talkative boy who loves being outside. Silly sounds and funny faces make him laugh, but his favorite thing is eating. I was warned to keep the cake away until it was cake smash time. He really dug into that cake when the time came too. It was a blast to watch him play in the cake and...
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...pointless but somehow comic. He used it in order to deride the human vices and to show inefficiency of actions of moralistic, hypocritical persons. Munro was killed on the French front during the First World War. His sister in her Biography of Saki writes: “One of Munro’s aunts, Augusta, was a woman of ungovernable temper, of fierce likes and dislikes, imperious, and moral coward, possessing no brains worth speaking of, and a primitive disposition.” Naturally the last person who should have been in charge of children. The character of the aunt in the Lumber – Room is Aunt Augusta to the life. The text tells us a story about a small boy Nicholas, who was brought up by his tyrannical and ungoverned aunt Augusta. He was "in disgrace" as he had refused to eat his wholesome bread-and-milk that morning. When children were taken to Jagborough sands Nicholas made some attempts to get into the gooseberry garden. As a matter of fact, he had no intention of trying to get into the gooseberry garden, but it...
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...La Immaculada Concepcion School High School Department Third Year Level November 5, 2012 BOOK REPORT IN ENGLISH Submitted to: Submitted by: Mr. Cristoff Sia LIMOS, Kamille E. III- St. Lucy of Light I. INTRODUCTION A. The Choice B. Nicholas Sparks *Nicholas Sparks was born on December 31, 1965, in Omaha, Nebraska, to Patrick Michael Sparks, a professor, and Jill Emma Marie (née Thoene) Sparks, a homemaker and an optometrist's assistant. He was the middle of three children, with an older brother Michael Earl "Micah" Sparks (1964) and a younger sister, Danielle "Dana" Sparks (1966–2000), who died at the age of 33. Sparks has said that she is the inspiration for the main character in his novel A Walk to Remember. Sparks was raised Roman Catholic and is of German, Czech, English and Irish ancestry. He and his wife are devout Catholics and are raising their children in the Catholic faith. His father was pursuing graduate studies, and the family moved a great deal, so by the time Sparks was...
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...17/1/2011 PERIOD 1.2 ENGLISH DOSSIER Shobha Maniram | 473253 | LM 1A | Jennifer Koelman TABLE OF CONTENTS introduction ................................................................................................................................ 3 In-class assignment week 1 – Who or Whom ............................................................................ 4 Assignment 1 .......................................................................................................................... 4 Assignment 2 .......................................................................................................................... 4 In-class assignment week 2 – Customer Service ........................................................................ 7 Vocabulary exercise A: complete the text with the best word. ........................................... 7 Vocabulary exercise B: replace the words with the correct form of an idiomatic expression of the box. ............................................................................................................ 7 Language review exercise A: complete the sentences with a gerund from the box. ............ 7 Language review exercise B: complete each sentence so that is seams the same as the sentences just before it. Use a gerund each time. ................................................................. 8 Language review exercise C: circle the correct form(s) of the verb in the text. ................... 8 Writing...
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...1. Why are Microsoft, Intel, and other leading for profit companies interested in low-cost computers for the developing world? In 2005, Nicholas Negroponte, the founder of MIT's Media Labs, announced the One Laptop per Child (OLPC) program at the World Economic Forum. The concept was simple and appealing. Innovate a $100 laptop and distribute it to children in the developing world. No one can argue the power of getting kids access to computers/internet, and hence, access to a virtually limitless store of information, connectivity to the world and educational software. And for a technology optimist like Negroponte, the payoffs were obvious. But as the OLPC program has found out over the years, there is more to the success of Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs) in Education, than just handing out computers to kids, and expect it to works its magic on its own. To begin with, the premises and approach of OLPC program as articulated by Negroponte are fundamentally flawed. OLPC stipulates that laptops be owned by children over the age of six rather than by schools. Efforts to reform curricula and assessment are viewed by the program as too slow or expensive, and teacher training as of limited value due to teacher absenteeism and incompetence, so laptop implementation must proceed without them. The program also believes that in the end, "the students will teach themselves on how to use the laptop. They'll teach one another, and we have confidence in the kids' ability...
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...This 4 page paper is based on a case study supplied by the student. Nicholas Piramal India Ltd (NPIL) has acquired Avecia. The post acquisition merger is going badly, with a clash of cultural styles. The paper assesses how and why there are problems and looks at the way the problem may be resolved. The bibliography cites 2 sources. Michael Fernandez, director of special operations in the pharmaceutical company Nicholas Piramal India Limited (NPIL), schedule a meeting with three of his reports, whose personal conflicts with each other, cause its business development function to fail. He is struggling to learn how to deal with these conflicts and combine three in productive cooperation work. Fernandez is responsible for turning NPIL acquisitions in Canada and the United Kingdom market NPIL worldwide. His three direct reports, each involved in different aspects of NPIL – Canadian operations, the British operations and global business development, and it explores the dynamics between the two teams. If Fernandes can resolve conflicts, the integration of acquisitions is in danger 2. Why is conflict occurring? Even at the beginning of the acquisition, the structure of the company is already unclear and complex. Three different plants were independent companies and completely separated. Firstly, cultural conflicts between different companies and also among three management seniors have become a sever barrier for effective operations and communications for the management of the...
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...Ted Hughes - ‘Bayonet Charge’ Ted Hughes (1930-1998) was born near Halifax, West Yorkshire in 1930. His father was a carpenter and a veteran of World War I. Although his family moved when he was eight years old, the landscape of his birthplace had a huge impact on his writing. He went to Cambridge in the 1950s where he read English Literature, Archaeology and Anthropology. While at Cambridge, he met his first wife, Sylvia Plath, whom he married in 1956. After university he had various jobs, including working in a zoo, teaching and reading scripts at Pinewood Studios. Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes had two children but later separated. In the year after their separation she committed suicide. Hughes followed his relationship with Plath by one with Assia Wevill. They lived together and she looked after his children from his first marriage. However, she also committed suicide, gassing herself and her daughter in a manner similar to that of Plath. In 1970, Hughes married Carol Orchard and they remained together until his death. In 1984 Hughes became Poet Laureate and held the post until his death. He died in 1998, shortly after the publication of Birthday Letters, a collection of poems about his relationship with Sylvia Plath. His ashes were scattered on Dartmoor. Hughes writes about the elements and aspects of the natural world in much of his poetry. The poet Simon Armitage said that for Hughes, poetry was ‘a connecting rod between nature and humanity’. Hughes was a very...
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...Nicolas Negroponte – Contributions to HCI and a Bid to “Save the World” In 2005, Nicholas Negroponte addressed the World Economic Forum with a computing idea to “save the world”. (1) Less than three years later, the One Laptop Per Child initiative (OLPC) launched into distribution with unprecedented cooperation of the United Nations, corporate funders, and governments organizations. Though it is early to review the success of Negroponte’s OLPC initiative, it provides us with an opportunity to explore the implications for rethinking the roles and responsibilities of individual researchers as key ethical players in the equitable design and distribution of technology. With corporations seeking new consumers to distribute technology and bridge the rapidly shrinking digital divide, it’s valuable to ask these questions while there is still time for researchers to contribute their leadership, vision, historical perspective, and critical thinking to ethically inform and guide this process. This paper will review Negroponte’s contributions to HCI and explore linkages to historical figures of the field. In addition, this paper aims to critically review Negroponte’s influence as an advocate for universal usability and the OLPC project. Architecture Machine Group In 1967 Negroponte founded the Architecture Machine Group at MIT. Researchers in the group invented new concepts and developed new approaches to human-computer interaction. Inspired, in part, by Ivan Sutherland’s Sketchpad...
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...Lauren McGraw English Book Report March 28, 2010 Block 3 Dear John Dear John is a story written by Nicholas Sparks. The story is about a man named John Tyree who meets a girl down by the beach named Savannah Lynn Curtis. John is a rebel and he enlisted into the army after high school. He had nothing else to do other then shape up and join the army. He meets the girl of his dreams, Savannah, on the beach. When her bag falls into the water John jumps into the water to retrieve it. He gets the bag from the water and gives it back to Savannah. When they first meet they do not know it, but they will fall in love like they both dreamed of. Savannah is grateful that John got her bag so she invites him to a party they are having at her beach house later that night. John is hesitant to go, but he ends up going. John meets this guy that Savannah is talking about Tim. Tim is one of Savannahs best friends. John can see that Tim is in love with Savannah, but he does not want to ruin their friendship. Tim drives John back to his house. He walks inside and his dad is doing what he usually is. He is in his office looking at his coins. His father is a man of routine. He does the same things every single day. John goes to the beach again the next day to go teach Savannah to surf. They hang out almost every day until John has to return to the army. Savannah gives John a letter before he leaves and tells him he cannot read it until he gets on the plane. They promised each other that they...
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...supposed to remain seated until the credits came up at the end? Or walk out? If I knew before entering the cinema that I would be put in this predicament, would I have continued to go inside? These were the questions that have played on my mind since April 14th 2010. But now, I’m glad I went inside as it allowed me to show emotion through physical tears after seeing my life story being played out on screen. Being a teenage girl, Miley Cyrus is one of the greatest people alive; hence, when she releases a new movie, box offices are bombarded and overwhelmed by teenagers, much like my friends and I. The Miley Cyrus film was titled “The Last Song”, directed by Julie Anne Robinson and based on the book written by Nicholas Sparks. I had previously read several books by Nicholas Sparks, but not this one; this story had obviously been kept for a time that I would be able to truly relate to; a time when I was ready to fully accept what had happened. “When the waves are flooding to shore and I can’t find my way home anymore, that’s when I look at you” Growing up, my best friend was my Dad. In my eyes, he was the greatest man alive; he was some form of superhero, powered to make everything in my life better again. Before I could even speak, my Dad and I spoke our own language, a language that only the two of us could comprehend. I was forever told by spectators that we had something not every father and daughter had, a bond. A bond that for all those years I thought was unbreakable...
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