...In the passage Last Child in the Woods, the author, Richard Louv implements rhetorical strategies and literary devices to convey that people are becoming more and more distant from nature through advancements in technology over time. Richard Louv starts the passage off by introducing the idea of genetic technology through which scientists can choose the color that appear on butterfly wings. Louv goes on to exaggerate this idea by comparing this discovery to the idea of how companies advertise their brand in nature, by “stamp[ing] their messages into the wet sands of public beaches” (Louv 9-10). This sponsorship in nature is impeding one from fully experiencing nature. Through the idea of manipulating nature, Louv is appealing to pathos as...
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...In this essay, I will be exploring the role of social experiences in child development. It is important to consider and define what social experience is when taking it into account in the terms of social development. For the purpose of exploring the ideas in Book 1, Chapter 2; social experiences is physical and mental interaction between other children and adults either directly or through observation by watching social interaction and feeling socially involved. So, with that in mind, for a child’s environment to not contain some sort of social experience, they would have to be socially isolated by either being alone or by ignoring their surroundings. Throughout this essay I will be assessing the role of social experience in each theory and evaluating the extent it has played in a child’s development. ‘Behavourism’ is a conditioning theory, which involves consequences for behaviour. Depending on the desired behaviour, the child is either rewarded or punished for how they behave according to the particular behaviour. The ‘Constructivism’ theory is a school of though that children build their own learning depending and through their own experiences and activities. In the ‘constructivism’ theory, children follow a set of stages in development. The ‘Social Learning Theory’ teaches that children learn by example, by observing others they understand and learn how to behave. The last theory I will be exploring is ‘Social Constructivism’ theory believes that children build their development...
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...tree house for a family in their backyard within a residential housing area. The project should be completed in thirty business days with a project budget not to exceed $25,000. All legal permits are required in order to start building, and the tree house is expected to be child safe and weather resistant. As a team we have stayed under budget because we have taken into account periodic costs through our risk analysis. As a team we have taken into account tree structural issues and periodic costs could incur here because of using more material to either strengthen by reinforcement with more wood and metal. We have taken into account what tools we need and annotated them in our risk analysis with cost over runs. During the project we may need to purchase extra materials and tools prior to the building phase. We did a good job forecasting such a need, one of the reasons we are still in budget. The only thing on this analysis we cannot account for is bad weather, however we allocated proper storage and workspace for such an event. For this tree building project we took into account the cumulative costs of the project manager, architect, construction workers, CAD design software of the tree house, wood, flooring, windows, doors, roof tiles, paint, insulation, tools, and nets. The cumulative cost of the pre-construction phase is $4,460.00 which includes getting the right personnel, the materials, and the tools for the project. We have higher dollar amounts for pre-phase...
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...performance. During this meeting, Nike revealed a plan for revitalizing the company. The company was in need of a kick start as sales were stuck at $9 billion and there was a drop in net income from $800 million to $580 million. To re-energize sales, Nike was going to produce more mid-priced athletic shoes, an area where Nike was weak in previous years. Nike also announced that it was going to push its apparel line which has been growing extremely well. With this new information, Kimi Ford is now considering purchasing Nike shares for the NorthPoint Large-Cap Fund. She reviewed numerous analysts’ reports but felt that there was no clear guidance on whether or not to buy the stock. To make a better decision, she decided to perform her own analysis. In this case, we will provide Kimi Ford with a recommendation on whether or not she should buy the stock. ABOUT NIKE In 1964, Phil Knight and Bill Bowerman started Nike while working on an MBA project at Stanford. They originally called the company Blue Ribbon Sports and only sold running shoes. There first “office” was located in the back of Knight’s car. It was salesman Jeff Johnson’s dream about Nike the Greek Goddess of victory that...
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...darkness; periods of severe weather that leads to crop failure and famine. (n.d.). The early middle ages arts also known as the Dark ages. The middle ages period was when European history fell from the Roman Empire to the renaissance. Art during the early middle ages went through many changes up to the early renaissance period. The Middle Ages art style known as the Byzantine art; while the dark ages followed by the medieval era of (1066- 1448 AD) encounter changes. Furthermore, the middle ages art and saw the emergence of early renaissance art. (WGU on line quote) The artist, by the name of Giotto di Bonedone, is one of the most famous people of the middle ages. His painting of “Madonna and Child” painted for a chapel in the church of Santa Maria. This picture made with temperas and wood and emphasized Christian faith, teaches spiritual truth, aid in the conversion of non-Christian. Renaissance art with the literal meaning “ Rebirth” played a significant part of our lives today. The early renaissance started right after the middle ages (1400-1600). During this period, the European history was marked by renewal of interest in intellectual and cultural legacies of ancients Greece and Rome. Renaissance was the time of tremendous creativity and intellectual moment. Beginning in Italy and spreading widely to the rest of the Europe, renaissance period brought about literature, art, music, politics, science and religion. Great men rise to prominence during the early renaissance...
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...\ Introduction The majority of overweight children become overweight adolescents which leads them to become overweight adults. The bureau’s recommendations included treatments that included the family as well as the child. Research shows that overweight children are likely cause from lack of parental support or guidance the proposed solution provides the grounds for families to become active in each others lives as well as teaching the children to take charge of their outcomes as well. The goal of any preventive measures for obesity is to look at behaviors, medical goals and weight goals. Permanent change and weight loss should be the ultimate goal, not quick fix treatments for rapid weight loss. The goal of this project is for the children involved in the study to lose 10-20% of body weight and for the child and the family to have necessary tools, such as recipes, ideas, act ivies, and positive behavior patterns, in order to keep the weight off. Daily as well as weekly weigh-ins for the children will monitor their results. A staff member will administer the quizzes to the children and in the last four weeks two staff members will administer the quizzes one to the families and one to the children. Goals are 10-20% of being body weight and 90-100% on daily quizzes. After successfully completing first course take plan with outcomes around to neighboring doctors, clinic, and hospitals, in hope of building community success and to share the importance of...
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...Describing Gang Membership: An Examination of Youth Gangs Kiara C. Ross Georgia Gwinnett College Introduction Numerous studies have been conducted on the subject of youth in gangs and the many characteristics of a member or a nonmember. In this paper I will discuss what is considered a member of a youth gang, a nonmember and anything else in between. I have read three articles and I will compare and contrast each of their findings in detail. Article 1 The first article that I will be discussing was an in depth study done on youth in Canada. This article focused on “the frequency and stability of gang membership, family characteristics, concurrent behaviors, friendships, and school attitudes of stable and unstable gang members and non-gang members in childhood and early adolescence” (Craig, Vitaro, Gagnon, and Timblay, 2002 pg. 53). It also “examined the stability of belonging to a gang in early adolescence, the behavior profiles, family characteristics, and friendships of non-gang and gang members” (Craig et al. 2002 pg. 53). Craig et al. explained that there were three models that were used to understand the “relationship between gang membership and delinquency” which were the selection model, the social facilitation model, and the enhancement model. According to Craig et al.: A selection model is consistent with social control theory and the propensity theory of crime. According to this model, gangs recruit individuals who are already delinquent or have a propensity...
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...which they will give me permission of undertake this language investigation. I intend to analyse and annotate my transcripts according to lexical, grammatical and caregiver language features which are evident within my texts. As I believe that these are crucial areas in the way children acquire language. I used Microsoft excel which allowed me to accurately count the number of verbs, adjectives, conjunctions, nouns etc. Which were used by each child. This resulted in statistical data that will create concrete evidence which I will use in my essay to support my analysis. INTRODUCTION/HYPOTHESIS For my A-level English language investigation coursework, I have chosen to evaluate child language Acquisition and how gender differences may be apparent at the telegraphic stage as well as how caregiver language can vary when interacting with different genders. When looking over at my transcripts I will keep a few questions into consideration: * Does gender influence child language acquisition? * Does caregiver language alter our verbal communication when interacting with different genders? Language development is a vital part of the human cognitive nature, understanding language development is an important aspect to understand the base and to recall its various components of linguistics. I’ve always wanted to know if there are real differences in the development of language skills between boys and girls and...
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...hollowness and insignificance of life is hinted at in this soliloquy, by the eloquent image of the candle that mirrors the transitory nature of life: "Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player That struts and frets his hour upon the stage And then is heard no more. It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing." Analysis: At the outset, the buzz-saw is shown to be snarling and rattling. The twin-sided aspects of life are echoed here .The buzz-saw at once transforms itself into the metaphor of the Giver of Life:it gives ,yet it takes. The verb ‘snarled’ echoes how it is animate, yet machine-like; human, yet devoid of emotions. The verb ‘rattled” sounds the rattle of the child and the rattle of the snake: innocence and iniquity at the same time. The first three lines emphasize how this metaphor is appealing to the three major sensory perceptions, the first to the ears, the second to the vision, and the third to the olfactory sense. The buzz-saw snarled and rattled in the yard And made dust and dropped stove-length sticks of wood, Sweet-scented stuff when the breeze drew across it. The tranquil scenery...
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...Statement of purpose It is always difficult to foretell what kind of a person a child will grow into in the future. This axiom can apply to me perfectly. In my elementary school, I won the second prize for XX and this cultivated in me the ambition to become a mathematician. However, as I grew up, I found my real interest was in chemistry. This interest led me to be fascinated with all the subjects related to it, Applied Chemistry during my undergraduate program and Chemical Engineering during my Master’s program. What is more, I am determined to take up chemical engineering as my lifelong pursuit. My formal advanced education in chemistry started with my undergraduate program in Applied Chemistry at the College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering of XX University. As is often said, the journey of exploring the realm of knowledge and probing into the unknown is infinite and strenuous. However, to me, the desire to fulfill ambitions and the joy from discoveries prevailed over any sense of hardship. My undergraduate program was as rewarding as it was joyful. I believed that the most important task as a undergraduate was to lay a firm groundwork in terms of the basic knowledge and experimental techniques so that more advanced studies could be pursued. Based on this awareness, I decided that a good job in all the core courses, including experiment courses, was primary. I tried to understand the principle underlying each chemical phenomenon and how each principle was derived...
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...the consequences of energy on routines of people and also on social and economic performance of people. Primary data has been collected by conducting video recorded interviews and comment based interviews from twin cities i.e. Islamabad and Rawalpindi of Pakistan. The sample of study includes students, housewives, businessmen and professional workers who are affecting by this CNG shortage. This study focuses on relationship between CNG shortage and its effect on daily routine life and performance of people. It also focuses on psychological issues as well as the economic issues that are caused due to this shortage. This study utilizes in depth semi structured interviews to conduct the qualitative study. N-Vivo 10 is used as tool of data analysis. The CNG shortage in Pakistan caused many critical issues like unemployment, decrease in export contracts and commodities prices are increasing due to this shortage. Less working hours, lack of social and family gathering, increase in work load, depression and anxiety are results caused by CNG shortage. It is concluded that CNG shortage has bad impact on people’s lives and on their overall performance. Keywords: Pakistan; CNG Shortage; Energy; N-Vivo; Commodities 1. INTRODUCTION 1. 1. Background of Study The price of international trade oil that took...
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...personality. According to Merriam-Webster Dictionary, personality is the set of qualities and behaviors that makes a person different from other people. From the definition, lots of questions arise. Some examples are “What makes them different from the other?”, “Why are they behaving like that?”, and “Who am I?” In order to answer those questions, Erik Erikson’s theory of psychosocial development will help to understand the complexity of human personality. Erikson’s ‘psychosocial’ term is derived from two words – ‘psychological’ means mind and ‘social’ means external relationships (Chapman, 2013). According to Ramkumar (2002), Erik Erikson did most of his works during the 1930s to the 1950s as a psychologist. He was fascinated in child analysis. He was the student of Sigmund Freud and he was inspired by his works. From the article of Chapman (2013), Erikson’s psychosocial theory was drawn and was extended from the ideas of Sigmund Freud and his daughter, Anna Freud and the concepts within psychosexual theory of human development. Freud concepts are not however fundamental to Erikson’s theory which stands up well in its own right. Freud focused on the nature of human which includes the concepts of genitals, and sex which attract a lot of attention and criticisms. Compared to Freud, Erikson’s concepts focused more...
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...economically developing countries. But the question is; are Ikea’s international procurements processes efficient? Can they be improved? This essay will focus on Ikea’s global sourcing’s tradeoffs and will highlight the way they can be enhanced. The first part of this essay will describe the regular sourcing process of IKEA including the strategy, the second part will emphasize how the sourcing should be done to be successful and the last part will provide recommendations about the processes according to the analysis. For a company, global sourcing is basically choosing different suppliers all around the world in order to use worldwide efficiencies and reduce costs. Global sourcing offers various advantages such as low cost materials and skilled labour, diminution of lead times, and also economical advantages like low taxes or low trade tariffs. These benefits will directly be related to the production costs and the final products. That is why global souring is an important factor in the procurement process, which should not be neglected. Through the last twenty years IKEA’s sourcing strategy has seen many changes. One of the first improvements was a reduction in the number of suppliers. In fact, in 1990, IKEA counted 2500 suppliers; the brand has...
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...hand? Editorial Count Anton-Wolfgang von Faber-Castell, Chairman and CEO of Faber-Castell AG The values of any well-managed family business must include sustainability, social and environmental responsibility, and human virtues such as tolerance, humbleness and honesty. My great-great-grandfather, Lothar von Faber, was a businessman of great social dedication, and his descendants have followed his example as a matter of duty. The Social Charter signed in 2000 prohibits discrimination and child labour and protects our employees against exploitation. The agreements of the International Labour Organization (ILO), to which the Charter commits us, are for me no more than natural standards for anyone engaged in business. In order to achieve long-term success, you have to think in terms of the future. For me as a businessman it is extremely important not to make profit at the cost of future generations. Amongst other things, I am creating sustainable sources of wood, our most valuable raw material, which do not have a negative impact on either people or the environment. It was for the same reason that, some 30 years ago, Faber-Castell set up a forestry project in Brazil which was certified by the Forest Stewardship Council® (FSC®) as being...
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...Mary Prince Paper: A COMPARISON AND CONTRASTING BETWEEN SLAVE SOCIETY AND SOCIETY WITH SLAVES By Viamonte Lee A Case Study Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of The Requirements for the Course Humanities in the World since 1300 at The University of Akron. March 5, 2015 Introduction This is an analysis of slavery based on two stories: The History of Mary Prince and Semsigul. In addition, there is comparison and contrast of the two stories along with supporting or dissenting arguments offered in the Overfield readings with regards to slavery in the Spanish colonies. The perspective of this analysis looks at the following aspects of coerced labor: 1. The relationship between the master and the slave 2. The struggle of the slaves against the slavery system 3. The impacts of the slavery system on the health of the slaves The Mary Prince account is autobiographical hence, although in her own voice, there may be some liberties given to the facts and conflicts of interest when delivering details of her story objectively. In addition, there may be some instances where she would have a limited perspective. By contrast, Semsigul’s story is her testimony within a police report –just facts and answers to questions. Alonso Zorita speaks on behalf of the indigenous in his account of Indian forced labor in the Spanish colonies. His accounts will be used to further compare and contrast the two main perspectives. ...
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