...According to Andrew J. Rotherham, safe spaces are doing no good to college students in the world. In his U.S News &World Report article- Safe Spaces Shield College Students From Real-World Challenges- Rotherham claims that instead of challenging themselves with seeing a different view point, students are running to a fairy tale bubble of comfort. The author feels that in addition to the safe spaces colleges have changed "where students can gravitate toward courses the reinforce rather than challenge their worldview." "Elsewhere on campus, there is debate about whether words are violence-and not hate speech or threats, nor the kind of speech already exempt from First Amendment protection, but rather if simply exposing students to ideas they find offensive, or worse, constitutes violence." Rotherham continues stating that Middlebury students are encouraged by this kind of attitude to assault a professor and disrupt a planned talk. (Transition to Reaction) Rotherham says something that shocks me and finally causes a reaction: "The instinct to protect students is borne of good intentions." (Reaction) The line reminded me of the saying the road to hell is paved with good intentions. It's one of my favorite aphorisms as...
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...play are conveyed through the difference between Rita and Frank’s language, aspirations, culture and rituals; which create her obstacles to fit in. Rita’s desire to discover her true capabilities beyond her class limitations is exemplified when she says ‘I don’t want to have a baby yet. I want to discover meself first.’ The use of colloquial language reveals her poor education status but her yearning to learn. Personal growth is achieved when one transitions into the world through the process of naivety to maturity. This is exemplified through the change of perspective over time in Hannah Robert’s ‘Sky High’. The washing line evokes memories of her childhood freedom and depicts aspects of change. The persona abruptly switches from present day, ‘today, however it is bare’ using an ambiguous tone to then a conversational and reminiscing tone and the simplicity of the statement ‘three little boys live there; even been in their house once’ reveals a child-like perspective conveying the passage of time. Furthermore, the cyclic nature of the story shows the two worlds in which the...
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...“He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human situation which rejects progress is the cemetery” (Wilson, 1967). Change is routine in any business environment. Ironically, the only constant in the modern workplace is change and it sometimes happens quickly. Regardless of how challenging change can be, it is better to embrace it rather than foolishly trying to avoid it or stop it. In the workplace change is often non-negotiable. An employee generally has little to no control when the company is going in new directions.. However, how one chooses to react to it is personal. While change in the workplace is usually intended to be positive for business, understanding the factors that are relevant to an employee’s resistance to the change is significant and can help combat the challenges with the transition. Change is inevitable and usually necessary. In today’s workplace, businesses are forced to implement changes in an effort to expand and even to survive. Naturally, change introduces new challenges and demands or responsibilities for everyone affiliated. Having a certain level of patience can make the transition more tolerable. Take nature for an example. Picture the life cycle of a butterfly. Although the progress appears slow and drawn out, at metamorphosis is indeed occurring in the caterpillar. For a long while, nothing seems to be progressing, then suddenly the beautiful butterfly emerges, or blooms blossom and eggs hatch. Because most people...
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...Hero and Beatrice are best friends and Beatrice dotes on her younger cousin: “This is my cousin Hero – isn't she the cutest?” (“A Wild Hero Appears!” 0:15). Hero is a kind, understanding person and well-liked by everyone for her positive and caring nature. She always tries to look on the positive side of things, which can be seen in “Summer Tips” video: while Beatrice complains about the heat and advises the viewers to never leave the house again (4:55), Hero offers ways to make a hot summer day more bearable while simultaneously complimenting her viewers on their lovely...
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...Main Point 2: An imbalanced workplace where men are more common than women can have a major effect on woman performance. AA: Women after the industrial revolution were often unrepresented in the workforces according to Gray. AB: There are many different positions where women are unrepresented even as a CEO of a fortune 500 company. Research showed that women who were unrepresented in IT had completely left the IT field leading companies to loosing creativity and talent for the workforce in the workforce. This led to a decrease in diversity of a company. AC: It was found that women described worked as being difficult, boring, unattractive, and solitary in nature, requiring little interaction with coworkers. Research showed that women are often labeled as being an expressive individual of a group and expected a work-family-like environment. Women even at times felt work was male dominated and that they were unwelcomed. Women also describe that they felt like outsiders and intimated by their male colleagues, which took a major impact on their self-confidence leaving them wondering if they were good enough for the job or even the field of...
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...A BRIEF CONTENTS PART 1 • GETTING STARTED 1. Becoming a Public Speaker 2. From A to Z: Overview of a Speech 3. Managing Speech Anxiety 4. Ethical Public Speaking 5. Listeners and Speakers 1 2 8 1 4 23 30 PART 2 • DEVELOPMENT 6. Analyzing the Audience 7. Selecting a Topic and Purpose 8. Developing Supporting Material 9. Locating Supporting Material 10. Doing Effective Internet Research 1 Citing Sources in Your Speech 1. 36 37 49 57 64 73 83 PART 3 • ORGANIZATION 1 Organizing the Speech 2. 1 Selecting an Organizational Pattern 3. 1 Outlining the Speech 4. 92 93 103 1 10 PART 4 • STARTING, FINISHING, AND STYLING 15. Developing the Introduction and Conclusion 16. Using Language 1 22 1 23 1 31 PART 5 • DELIVERY 1 Choosing a Method of Delivery 7. 18. Controlling the Voice 19. Using the Body 1 39 1 40 1 44 1 48 PART 6 • PRESENTATION AIDS 20. Types of Presentation Aids 21. Designing Presentation Aids 22. A Brief Guide to Microsoft PowerPoint 154 155 161 164 PART 7 • TYPES OF SPEECHES 23. Informative Speaking 24. Persuasive Speaking 25. Speaking on Special Occasions 1 74 1 75 188 21 7 PART 8 • THE CLASSROOM AND BEYOND 230 26. Typical Classroom Presentation Formats 27. Science and Mathematics Courses 28. Technical Courses 29. Social Science Courses 30. Arts and Humanities Courses 31. Education Courses 32. Nursing and Allied Health Courses 33. Business Courses and Business Presentations 34. Presenting in Teams 35. Communicating in Groups 231 236 240 243 246 248 25 1 253 258...
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...he not resembled [her] father as he slept” (II.ii.16-17). This makes evident that Lady Macbeth’s femininity is still intact. [Add more details here] Lady Macbeth can encourage violence, but cannot stand its byproducts of blood and violence (Cohen). Lady Macbeth tried to reject her femininity, but it was ingrained in her. She could not remove it despite how hard she tried [Reword]. In the end, Lady Macbeth does not profit. She could not handle the male gender role because she set an impossible goal of becoming the ideal alpha male, which caused her to fail miserably, in the process corrupting her womanhood and dying a less dignified death than her husband. (Liston). Lady Macbeth challenged nature, as she was never meant to be a warrior, yet wanted the bloodthirstiness of one. Challenging nature is almost always a foolish action, as it normally ends with the challenger in serious trouble. With Insanity gripping the mind...
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...Informational Seminar Ludaisha Washington SHB 5109 Scope of Addictive Behaviors and Eating Disturbances Table of Content Page 3--------- Audience selection Page 4 -------- Drug Classification Page 5 -------- Terms Page 6 -------- Cont. terms Page 7 -------- Signs and Symptoms Page 8 -------- Ethnic and Cultural Page 9 -------- Cont. Ethnic and Cultural Page 10 ------ Cont. Ethnic and Cultural Page 11 ------ Societal Attitudes and Stigma Page 12 ------ Cont. Societal Attitude and Stigma Page 13 ------ References Audience Teenagers abuse a variety of drugs, both legal and illegal. Legally available drugs include alcohol, prescribed medications, inhalants (fumes from glues, aerosols, and solvents) and over-the-counter cough, cold, sleep, and diet medications. The most commonly used illegal drugs are marijuana (pot), stimulants (cocaine, crack, and speed), LSD, PCP, opiates, heroin, and designer drugs (Ecstasy). The use of illegal drugs is increasing, especially among young teens. The average age of first marijuana use is 14, and alcohol use can start before age 12. The use of marijuana and alcohol in high school has become common. The audience for this informational seminar would be aimed to Middle school teachers and administrators prior towards the students entering high school. These are people who educate...
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...done considerable coursework in Psychology (Consumer Behavior, Psychology of Health & Adjustment). I can hold my own against heavy course loads as evidenced by my current semester – eight courses, a thesis project, two journal papers and college applications. My climbing grade curve (peaking at 9.07 on 10) after a fumbling start further bears witness to my academic resilience. My Experiences “All coursework and no project work make Jack a very dull boy” The initial two years of college were spent on numerous attempts at building robots. My first go at autonomous robots met with partial success (I accidentally blew up the microcontroller). Unfazed, I joined a team working on gesture-based control. The vast diversity of my undertakings (speech, images, vision, machine learning in medicine and finance) has equipped me with a holistic understanding of modern computer intelligence, indispensable for a roboticist. My project on inverted pendulum control impressed Dr. Krishnaswamy enough to ask for it to be put on display in Control Systems Laboratory. In spite of all this, I craved exposure to the world of robotics research. Following an email conversation with Dr. Madhava Krishna (Head, Robotics Research Centre, IIIT-H), I spent ten weeks as an intern at the RRC, designing navigation architectures for an unconventional breed of robots that use FPGAs for brains. My second brush with research came in the form of HER2 Scoring Contest (University of Warwick, UK). After spending the summer...
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...“blacken’d waters” and “moated grange” act as an obstruction to her integration with the outside patriarchal world. This reflects the wider Victorian attitude regarding the home as “the centre of virtue and the proper life for women” and brings to light the impact that passivity in the greater context of society has on the role she plays in her private relationship. This idea of external influences is echoed much less figuratively in ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ where “decreased birth rates” stimulated a change in the functioning of the governmental system and the politically organised passivity of women, creating a dystopian vision of patriarchy. A change in societal structure resulting in female passivity is also present in ‘Othello’. Desdemona’s transition from an assertive female who “challenge[s] that [she] may profess...
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...Marshalin Redwood ENGL207 16th December 2014 Final Essay: Revising & Relating to the World Literature Shakespearean Lingua As the world flourishes, the use of words changes. The English language originated from Anglo- Frisian dialect that was brought to Britain by Germanic marauders. Dialects are an opportunistic approach of understanding about the backdrop of the English language. Shakespeare gained the comprehensive knowledge and passion for the literature. Shakespeare was known to develop the Early Modern English language. He is the insightful genius of coined everyday phrases that is used in this generation. Shakespeare’s literary works used the world around him to disseminate the concepts of social class and human behavior. These concepts are demonstrated in The Tempest and Une Tempête. Une Tempête is a play by Aimé Césaire who shadowed Shakespeare’s, The Tempest. The problem is not Aimé Césaire’s version of Shakespeare’s play but it is the comprehension of Early Modern English. When students study the Early Modern English language, there is a debate of whether the use of SparkNotes embodies the understanding of what Shakespeare is exploiting. The use of SparkNotes only translates the plays in simplistic form; it does not give definitive historical facts about the words that Shakespeare uses. Shakespeare distinctively incorporated rhythmic patterns, play on words that exposed a character’s purpose in the play and his ideologies about society. Each play Shakespeare...
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...Characterization in Three Selected Works: A Comparative Essay In most pieces of fictional narrative or poetry characters are what drive the story. Characters reveal information, act out scenes and compel readers to keep turning pages with their ability to make an impression on the reader. Whether this impression is positive or negative well written characters connect the reader with the story in a way that is immersive. This essay will offer comment on how individual characters are presented and described by three different authors (Emily Dickenson, Kate Chopin and Nathaniel Hawthorne), briefly offering explanation of important nuances each character may possess. Where possible direct links will be made between characters and their authors to highlight how the authors reveal themselves through their literature to their audience. The first author to be touched on will be Emily Dickenson starting with her poem “712”. In this six stanza verse Dickenson describes an encounter with Death in which he helps her understand and accept her own passing away. What is unique about this poem is how Death is portrayed. Instead of casting death as a frightening reminder that all life ends, Death is personified as a gentlemen that simply wants to give her a ride that will take her from mortality to immortality. In her poem, Dickenson writes: “Because I could not stop for death/ he kindly stopped for me” (Dickenson 1214: 1-2) asserting that death as a phenomenon is not always untimely but...
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...This article was downloaded by: [University of Texas El Paso] On: 09 August 2011, At: 13:50 Publisher: Routledge Informa Ltd Registered in England and Wales Registered Number: 1072954 Registered office: Mortimer House, 37-41 Mortimer Street, London W1T 3JH, UK Bilingual Research Journal Publication details, including instructions for authors and subscription information: http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/ubrj20 Language Learning in the American Southwestern Borderlands: Navajo Speakers and Their Transition to Academic English Literacy Gloria Dyc a a University of New Mexico-Gallup Available online: 22 Nov 2010 To cite this article: Gloria Dyc (2002): Language Learning in the American Southwestern Borderlands: Navajo Speakers and Their Transition to Academic English Literacy, Bilingual Research Journal, 26:3, 611-630 To link to this article: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15235882.2002.10162581 PLEASE SCROLL DOWN FOR ARTICLE Full terms and conditions of use: http://www.tandfonline.com/page/termsand-conditions This article may be used for research, teaching and private study purposes. Any substantial or systematic reproduction, re-distribution, re-selling, loan, sub-licensing, systematic supply or distribution in any form to anyone is expressly forbidden. The publisher does not give any warranty express or implied or make any representation that the contents will be complete or accurate or up to date. The accuracy of any instructions, formulae and drug doses should be independently...
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...The essence of this essay is to explore democracy, democratic consolidation and democratization. It further explains why democratization takes different ‘flight trajectories’ in different developing countries. It is difficult to reach a consensus on the definition of democracy. However, the main idea of democracy is widely accepted to have originated from Athens in the 5th century BC. The Webster New Encyclopedic Dictionary (1995) defines democracy as a government in which supreme power is invested in the people and exercised by them directly or indirectly through representation. According to Lindel, and Scott (1999), the term originates from the Greek word (demokratia) which simply means “rule of the people” and it was coined from (demos) “people” and (kratos) “power” or “rule” in the 5th century B.C. It is important to note that the political system postulated by the Athenians was such that democratic citizenship was exclusive to an elite class of free men only. Slaves and women were excluded from participation. Furthermore, in a lecture titled “What is Democracy”? Diamond (2004) gave an overview of what in his opinion is democracy. He describes democracy as a system of government with four key elements: a system for choosing and replacing the government through free and fair elections; active participation of the people, as citizens, in politics and civic life; protection of the human rights of all citizens; and a rule of law in which the laws and procedures apply equally...
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...Abstract As the world continues to expand into a global marketplace, the necessity for standardizing financial reports has become prominent. Companies with branches in multiple countries are currently reporting their financial statements based on the criteria for that country. For example, a European based organization is reporting under the IFRS standard while their branch in the United States is using US-GAAP. While the differences do not outweigh the similarities, GAAP and IFRS standards have caused some concerns in financial reporting. These concerns have led to the evaluation of these two reporting standards and the discussion on whether to move IFRS worldwide. This paper will outline a few of the differences between GAAP and IFRS as well as review the discussion of standardized reporting using IFRS. Introduction Historically, accounting and reporting standards in the United States have been set by the AICPA (American Institute of Certified Public Accounts) as laid out by the regulations set by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). In 1973, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) was developed by the AICPA as a council for establishing standards for reporting for all United States companies. Under FASB, GAAP was reorganized into approximately 90 accounting standards offering concise methods to follow for financial reporting. This not only allowed for ease of access when reading US financials statements, but also allowed for comparison of documentation...
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