...Homosexual penguins are quite common and are sometimes found in pairs or even trios. These penguins will go through the same mating habits as heterosexual penguins. Penguins are especially difficult to differentiate between female and male due to not have in noticeable characteristics associated with one sex. Many studies had to test the DNA of penguins to see if it was a female or male. In most studies the pairing of homosexual penguins is due to not having enough females, but there have been some documents of homosexual females. If this is true, why would females be pairing together? Is it due to not having enough males in the nesting area? Is there rate to get with a male the same as a homosexual male getting with a female? As of now there...
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...Penguins What is the animal that can stay underwater for up to 22 minutes, is very tall, and sleds down icy hills. It’s an emperor penguin, of course. Emperor penguins are the largest penguins and the only type of penguin that lays eggs in the harsh chilly Arctic. Though emperor penguins look cuddly, they will hurt you with their beaks if you try to touch one. Emperor penguins get their food from the sea. The sea has a bountiful amount of fish, krill, and squid, which is perfect for emperor penguins. They can eat at any time of the day, because of their exceptional underwater vision. Emperor penguins love these foods and go down deep to get squid and other tasty crustacean. They feed three times a day, like us humans. Feeding usually takes place from 15.3 to 18.3 of the surface of ice. Emperor penguins use its beak to eat, for it can keep slippery fish. Some amazing facts are that emperor penguins can swim up to 12 miles per hour. Also, Male emperors can fast for an amazing amount of days, 120 days. In addition, emperor penguins can stay underwater for 28 minutes and go up to 2,800 feet down in the ocean to get food. They...
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...Question 1 Mapping a Business System Drawing from insights in Hutchens, The Tip of the Iceberg, (pp. 65- 70), select a system in your work organization, or an organization that you are familiar with, and apply the causal loop diagram, including a reinforcing and balancing process. In a 1-2 page paper, briefly describe the purpose of the system, the components of the system, draw a casual loop diagram, and in plain language describe the diagram. Causal Loop Diagrams have four basic parts: * Point of Intersection (usually ellipses or circle) that contain values that can change * Lines with an arrow showing influence direction * A reversal indicator * Time delay indicator Format the paper using APA style (1-2 pages only, not including title and reference page; use in-text citations to support your comments): * Select an organization you are familiar with; * First paragraph: Discuss the purpose of the system, definitely connect your comments to systems thinking research—teach me about systems thinking…; * Second paragraph: Discuss the components of the system using appropriate terminology, again connect to research when appropriate using APA citations; * Next, draw the diagram (use drawing tools in Word) including the balancing and reinforcing sides, arrows including direction, and variables that affect the system; * Third paragraph: in plain English, describe the casual loop diagram’s purpose, components, etc. When an element of a system indirectly...
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...The Emperor Penguin and its Endangered Enviroment The emperor penguin is one of the most interesting species of penguin. This flightless animal lives on the Antarctic ice and in the frigid surrounding waters. This bird has a life span of 15-20 years and lives in colonies. Its diet is mainly that of a carnivore. The majority comes from fish. With all the beauty and intriguing life style of this penguin, not all is good. This penguin is in danger. What is causing this danger? It is not any predator in its wild habitat, it’s the effect of human ignorance. Climate change is slowly destroying the ice the penguin lives on. The emperor is on a downward spiral in which extinction is possible at the end of this century. With climate change at a dangerous level, warming may melt sea ice at rates which will decrease its habitat to nothing. With all these dangers there is still more, over fishing by humans is depleting the food source. In this paper I will outline and describe the problems these penguins face. I will also give a brief background on this flightless bird. Emperor is the largest of all penguins—an average bird stands some 45 inches (115 centimeters) tall. Penguins withstand physiological adaptations and cooperative behaviors in order to deal with an incredibly harsh environment, where wind chills can reach -76°F (-60°C)(Van Woert, Michael). They huddle together to escape the wind and reserve the warmth. Individuals take turns moving to the group's protected and relatively...
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...insider guide ACE YOUR CASE® III: MARKET-SIZING QUESTIONS 2nd edition ★ 15 PRACTICE CASE QUESTIONS ★ MARKET-SIZING CASE RULES ★ WETFEET’S EXPERT COMMENTARY >> The WetFeet Methodology You hold in your hands a copy of the highest-quality research available for job seekers. We’ve designed the WetFeet Insider Guides to help cut down on the time you spend doing job research by doing some of the work for you. Hopefully we can make your job search as painless as possible. Each WetFeet Insider Guide is the product of hundreds of hours of in-depth research, critical analysis, and precise writing. We survey massive amounts of publicly available information and conduct dozens of in-depth interviews of rank-and-file employees who work for the companies and industries we cover. (We keep our company contacts anonymous to encourage candor.) WetFeet writers—experts at reading between the lines—speak with company recruiting staff members to make sure you get accurate information about the recruiting process, compensation, and hiring targets. We also consult countless experts, from career coaches and networking gurus to authorities on professional etiquette and personal branding, in order to provide you insight on the latest trends affecting job seekers. Each Insider Guide undergoes extensive editorial review and fact-checking to ensure that the information and writing live up to our exacting standards. And because WetFeet retains all editorial control of our Insider...
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...be able to: * Apply the correct formatting rules to set up your paper according to APA specifications. * Identify situations where parenthetical references are needed * Construct parenthetical references within the body of the paper. * Recognize the cross-referencing relationship between the parenthetical (in-text) references and the Reference page. * Construct a Reference list encompassing different types of source material Section I. Introduction to APA Style What is APA style? APA is an editorial style recommended by the American Psychological Association (APA) for preparing scholarly manuscripts and student research papers. It is the standard format for papers, articles, and books in the social sciences. In addition to providing standardized rules for formatting a paper (margins, line spacing, etc.), APA style provides a consistent method for citing ideas, quotations, facts, and paraphrases borrowed from other sources. This standardized format for identifying sources used in a paper makes the paper more credible and ensures that other authors are given credit for their original thoughts and ideas. Are there other styles? Just as APA style is used by teachers in the social sciences, teachers in the arts and humanities may ask you to format your paper in MLA style; a history professor may ask you to use Chicago or Turabian; a biology professor might want you to submit a paper in yet another format. There are slight differences between the formats...
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...movements. Various forms of media (films, documentaries, and music) will serve as a key resource as well as topic throughout this course. Viewing documentary films will be a regular activity in this class, along with reading texts, class discussion, and developing our writing skills. Learning Objectives 1. Listen and read critically - texts, speech, media and other cultural productions - in order to examine, challenge and reshape themselves and the world in which we live. 2. Express oneself clearly and persuasively in exposition and in argument in both written and oral forms. 3. Carry out research for the purpose of supplying evidence and support for claims made in exposition and argument. Texts (In order of use) * Bloom and Breines (eds.), “Taking It To The Streets”: A Sixties Reader Oxford University Press – BOTH SEMESTERS * Charters (ed), The Portable Sixties Reader Penguin Classics, 2003 –...
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...Writing Research Papers Aaron Hertzmann Why should you care about writing? • You must communicate your work to the world – If people don’t know about it, they won’t use it – Increase probability of adoption • Clear writing requires clear thinking; muddled writing is a sign of muddled thought • Be kind to your readers – good writing can be a joy; bad writing is agony • These skills transfer to other endeavors Goals for your paper 1. 2. 3. 4. Communicate ideas and experiments Persuade people of the approach Describe experiments and results Allow others to reproduce your results precisely 5. Be honest Know Your Audience • Potential audience includes: – – – – Experts in your area; people outside your area Expert professors; advanced undergrads Industry practitioners Researchers now; researchers 10 years from now • Title/abstract often used to decide whether to read the paper (and when searching) • Audience knows a lot less about this than you • The clearer and more self-contained the paper, the wider the audience Editing • • • • • • 90% of writing is editing Delete every unnecessary word Break down complex sentences Refactor sentences for clarity and flow Convert passive into active voice “Vermont is a state that attracts visitors because of its winter sports.” The Importance of Editing I'm not a very good writer, but I'm an excellent rewriter. ~James Michener The beautiful part of writing is that you don't have to get it right the first time...
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...sections offer formatting rules for a Reference List page, URLs for web sites with more information about APA documentation, and an example APA reference list using entries from the "APA Citation Rules & Examples" page by Tarleton Libraries. APA REFERENCE LIST FORMATTING RULES An APA reference list is formatted as follows: Sources used in preparing your paper must appear in the reference list, and all entries in the reference list must be cited in your paper. Make sure the entries match. o Note: APA rules exclude some source types from reference lists. For example, communications like personal interviews and letters do not provide recoverable data. Therefore, they would be cited in a paper, but excluded from the reference list. Check the APA manual for additional information. See the APA handbook for rules about listing works you read, but did not use. Put the reference list at the end of the paper. Start the reference list on its own page. Put the page number in the upper right-hand corner, at least one inch from the right-hand edge of the paper and between the top edge of the paper and the first line of text. Title the page References (or Reference if there is only one entry). Do not underline or italicize the title. Do not put it in quotation marks. Center the title on the top margin (usually an inch from the top of the page). Double space the entries. Begin the first line of each entry at the left margin. Indent subsequent lines five spaces...
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...references that will be used to write the paper (refer to Week 1’s tutorial on Scholarly References). Each student will list his/her references using APA format, and provide a brief explanation of each resource indicating how that resource will be used. The focus should be upon the student’s specific research assignment. An approximate length of this bibliography is between 2 - 3 pages. An example reference: Brenner, Joel (2011). America the Vulnerable: Inside the New Threat Matrix of Digital Espionage, Crime, and Warfare. New York: The Penguin Press In my section of the report, I will be researching security issues associated with collaborative online tools. Brenner’s book explores the events surrounding the WikiLeaks scandal and the issues associated with security. He also examines the legal challenges that the incident presented. This material could be used by my team in another section of the report. He makes some recommendations that we will consider for our conclusion. General reference works such as encyclopedias, dictionaries, wikipedia, howstuffworks.com will not be considered as sources meeting this requirement. The list could include books, journal articles, industry reports, authoritative web sites, manufacturers’ sites or sites from research groups. Remember, all quotations, paraphrased material, images, graphics and statistics must be referenced in your report, so make note of all sources while compiling your research! Textbook Readings: It is expected that...
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...secondary source of relevance to your topic. Identify the sources using the correct referencing style (see the Humanities Teaching and Learning Policies Booklet). Describe your search for these materials and what you learnt from the exercise. 2 Question 1 Historians inevitably encounter some issues when using historical evidence. From finding sources and discerning fact from fiction to interpreting sources and placing them in historical context, the historian’s search for adequate sources is often not a simple one and can be fraught with pitfalls and issues that the historian must overcome. The choice of topic is an immediate issue facing an historian. The possibilities are endless as any part of history is an option for research. Issues when choosing a topic a both professional and personal, will there be sufficient sources on the chosen topic and where can they be located? Is the topic relevant? The personal opinions of a historian come into play when choosing their topic, do they agree with what they will be researching? Do they like topic? Questions such as these must be asked by the historian before undertaking certain work. The opinion of the historian brings another important issue. A strong opinion can easily affect ones work. Leaving out or only including certain facts to push an opinion across is something that must be avoided. Objectivity is essential when researching...
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...you start your course and it will be assessed in September. The aims are for you to be ready to start learning at post 16 level. What do you do in your first year? Exam Board: AQA - all exam, no coursework. At AS two units are taught; Unit 1 Families & Households (40% of AS) Unit 2: Research methods in context to education (60% of AS). Summer Bridging Work- ESSENTIAL Research topic: Is the position of men and women in the family equal? The Division of labour refers to the roles that men and women occupy within the family. Many types of division of labour exist and have changed over time. Task 1: Research the following types of division of labour and complete the table: Type of Division of labour | Definition | Statistics or studies that support the type of division of labour | Instrumental role | | | Expressive role | | | Segregated role | | | Joint conjugal role | | | Symmetrical family | | | Patriarchal family | | | Matriarchal family | | | Dual burden | | | Triple shift | | | Find out the following: What are the definitions for each type of division of labour? Research either statistical evidence or sociological research that supports each type of division of labour – the evidence does not need to be recent. Create a table as seen above. Task 2: Write two statements; for and against the question “Is the position of men and women in the family equal?” You must include evidence to support your points, the definitions...
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...changes the school lunch menu without consulting the kids first, and how the students did not like the changes at all. The new menu had fruits and vegetables making up at least half of the servings on every students plate. This new menu was widely rejected by students and a black market of junk food was even created by certain students. This article supports the idea that by including children in implementing changes in diet and menu, those changes may be more successful. It also points out that by slowly introducing kids to healthy alternatives and informing them about why a change to a healthier diet of fruits an vegetables is important to having a higher quality of life as they get older. This idea supports the second part of my research paper where I discuss the importance of children becoming interested in growing vegetables is an important part of changing the eating habits of American families. Thus, reducing the levels of obesity and type II diabetes in America. Bittman, M. (2011, September 24). Is junk food really cheaper?. Retrieved from http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/25/opinion/sunday/is-junk-food-really-cheaper.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all This article takes on the excuse that so many Americans use as an explanation as to why they eat so unhealthy, junk food is cheaper than healthy food. Using a fast food meal’s cost for a family of four and the cost of a home cooked roasted chicken to feed 6 people, proving that it is in fact...
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...Systems Department London School of Economics and Political Science London, United Kingdom Preamble It is common for speakers at computer security conferences to tell audiences that 'they should do' this, and 'should do' that. The word 'should' is regularly thrown about as some jumbled-up mixture of efficiency and ethics, without any justification of the imperative. This paper will concentrate on the ethical issues, and so it will quickly dispose of 'efficiency,' leaving detailed argument for another time. Then, taking the devil's advocate position, it will focus on demolishing the certainty behind the ethical obligation, by questioning the role of ethics in society in general, but specifically in computer security. Indeed this paper will claim that an unsuspected morality and ritual lies behind many real-world security choices and much so-called 'objective' academic analysis. Furthermore, it will propose that such moralistic positions are highly problematic, and that all recommendations phrased in terms of virtue rather than pragmatism be treated as highly suspect. This polemical paper formed the basis of a keynote address given at the 5th Computer Security Conference, held in Las Vegas on the 20th-21st April 2006. 4 Angell, JISSec adfh The quest for efficiency, where any form of redundancy is viewed as 'inefficiency to be eliminated,' is a perverse and decadent view. It was anticipated by Northcote Parkinson (1986), when he warned that "perfection...
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...Information Systems Department London School of Economics and Political Science London, United Kingdom Preamble It is common for speakers at computer security conferences to tell audiences that 'they should do' this, and 'should do' that. The word 'should' is regularly thrown about as some jumbled-up mixture of efficiency and ethics, without any justification of the imperative. This paper will concentrate on the ethical issues, and so it will quickly dispose of 'efficiency,' leaving detailed argument for another time. Then, taking the devil's advocate position, it will focus on demolishing the certainty behind the ethical obligation, by questioning the role of ethics in society in general, but specifically in computer security. Indeed this paper will claim that an unsuspected morality and ritual lies behind many real-world security choices and much so-called 'objective' academic analysis. Furthermore, it will propose that such moralistic positions are highly problematic, and that all recommendations phrased in terms of virtue rather than pragmatism be treated as highly suspect. This polemical paper formed the basis of a keynote address given at the 5th Computer Security Conference, held in Las Vegas on the 20th-21st April 2006. 4 Angell, JISSec adfh The quest for efficiency, where any form of redundancy is viewed as 'inefficiency to be eliminated,' is a perverse and decadent view. It was anticipated by Northcote Parkinson (1986), when he warned that "perfection in planning...
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