...shape this world in which we live; epitomizing Winston Churchill's quote -"we shape our buildings, thereafter they shape us". With this letter, I hereby wish to state my interest and appreciation for the opportunity to apply for the challenging yet interesting Master degree program in Architecture at the Dessau International Architecture Graduate School – DIA. / My application for the challenging yet interesting Master degree in Architecture at the Dessau International Architecture Graduate School – DIA stems from the internationalist perspective and desire to study at one of the best universities in Germany. Today I perceive that life for me has been a process of conscious evolution. As I embark a new stage of my life, I believe that a postgraduate study will provide a milestone in my career along with indispensable experiences that will allow me to become a successful, innovative...
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...Advantages of Automated Essay Scoring (AES) Systems One of the biggest advantages of an AES is that a student receives quick feedback. An AES provides feedback to a student almost instantaneously with submission in most cases. Especially in large classes the speed of feedback is far superior to that of human graders. This is one reason why so many computer science instructors have created homegrown AES systems to grade introductory computer programming courses. Grading of programming is tedious and can be handled much more quickly and efficiently by an AES. Quick feedback is vital and often listed as a best practice for teaching and often recognized as being essential in student motivation to learn (Barker, 2011). In distance education where interaction with an instructor may be minimal or sporadic the use of an AES can not only score essays but tutor the student as well (Duwairi, 2006). Besides speed of feedback an AES system can also provide consistency in grading, cost-savings for the educational institution, time-savings for the instructor, and reduced error in scoring. Time and date of submission is recorded automatically, and since computers can only be objective no personal bias in grading is possible (Olivier, Herson & Sosabowski, 2001). Another AES benefit is its ability to act as a plagiarism detector. In one study an AES discovered an extremely high rate of plagiarism finding that 98 out of 712 assignments were copied from another student’s work (Cheang...
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...Ideas Learned from Graduate Student Orientation Course Starting a new degree program can be a challenge, especially if one has been out of school for some time. There is an old saying, “Well begun is half done.” (“Proverb Hunter”, 2012) Having a good foundation and ideas at the beginning allows easier and more efficient transition throughout the program. The ideas obtained from the Graduate Student Orientation Course are not something new. However, they can be compared to the missing pieces of a treasure map that has been put away up in the attic. Finding a treasure without them may be possible, but very challenging. By having those missing those missing pieces, the path to the treasure can be clear. I obtained many different ideas from the course, but there are three main ideas, which I believe will be very helpful through my degree program. They are (a) time management, (b) effective writing skills, and (c) use of CSU Online Library. Time Management According to Eerde (2003), managing time gives a person a sense of control of time. When a person has a control, it reduces tension and stress. Minimizing those two factors results in a positive performance and outcome. Being stressed about completing a certain task usually results in procrastination. One will try to find a justification to not complete the task right away, because the task will seem too overwhelming when he/she does not have adequate control of time. When the task can be justified as something...
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...I agree about that video and Web conferencing will make business travel extinct.Because business travel is Easier to meet with clients from all over the world on a more frequent basis, creating better working relationships by talking face to face more and the cost reduction with travel expenses. Business time managerment is extremely important. Business travel can save more time for another work. At the same time, we can have enable online training or product demonstrations to other company. It no need to bring many product demonstrations to other target company so it’s very convenient. I agree about that video and Web conferencing will make business travel extinct.Because business travel is Easier to meet with clients from all over the world on a more frequent basis, creating better working relationships by talking face to face more and the cost reduction with travel expenses. Business time managerment is extremely important. Business travel can save more time for another work. At the same time, we can have enable online training or product demonstrations to other company. It no need to bring many product demonstrations to other target company so it’s very convenient. I agree about that video and Web conferencing will make business travel extinct.Because business travel is Easier to meet with clients from all over the world on a more frequent basis, creating better working relationships by talking face to face more and the cost reduction with travel expenses. Business...
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...tissue by way of a series of self-replicating, biogenic molecules. This is obviously because he is such a boss. Rassilon only invented/created this for the Gallifreyan elite. I’ll stop here to blow your mind; Not all Gallifreyans are timelords, but all timelords are Gallifreyan elites. Rassilon also inputted a limitation of only twelve regenerations, this giving the timelord a total of thirteen incarnations. He did so to supposedly avoid the decaying of the biogenic molecules from wear and tear (pun). In a few examples throughout the Whoniverse, however, this limitation has been circumvented (or at least theorized to). I’ll explain more after the jump. In the episode The Five Doctors, the High Council (Rossilon is a member) offered the Master a new regenerative cycle. This is implying the limit can be replaced. I don’t say reset since the decay would still be occurring up to the 12th regeneration. Another example is from a recent and more widely seen episode. In Let’s Kill Hitler Melody Pond is in her third incarnation (her second regeneration) when she saved the 11th Doctor’s life by “transferring” all her remaining regenerations to the Doctor. This would result in one of three outcomes. First, her remaining nine regenerations were simply added to the Doctor’s remaining regenerations to give him a possible eleven more regenerations. The second outcome is through a default fail safe that would be presumed...
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...Henrico Country, Virginia, occurred” (Aptheker 219). The book Black Thunder: Gabriel’s Revolt written by Arna Bontemps is a historical novel that takes place in Virginia in 1800. It shows what the slaves at this time were experiencing and it is in their point of view, rather than the view from the slave masters, like many other novels are. The title, Black Thunder, has a double meaning to it. The very literal meaning of it is a night thunderstorm. The thunderstorm is a climactic turning point in the novel. It is what causes the rivers to flood and the slaves to bail on the revolt. They see the storm as a bad sign and do not want to move onward. The other meaning of the title is the sound of African drums. The titles of the five books, “Jacobins”, “Hand Me Down My Silver Trumpet”, “Mad Dogs”, “A Breathing Of The Common Wind”, and “Pale Evening…A Tall Slim Tree”, in the novel are also very significant. For example, Jacobins, which is the title of book one, were French men who were members of a radical political group who supported an egalitarian democracy. This first book involves many judgments, so I feel it is an appropriate title. The third book refers to what the masters and white people of power saw the slaves as, mad dogs. The last book title has to do with execution and this is the chapter where Gabriel and other slaves get hung. There are many important characters in this novel, but a few particularly stand out, Gabriel, Bundy, and Old Ben. Bundy and Old Ben could...
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...When slaves were being sold they would inspect the buyers. A slave would size up their possible future master and determine based on their demeanor and appearance, whether or not he would be a good master. Once the slave got its intel on the buyer he or she would manipulate their physical traits to make the buyer more or less interested in the purchase. Some of the most well known slaves are; Harriet Tubman, George Carver, and Frederick Douglass. Harriet Tubman was notable and admired while she was alive, and even after she passed she was an American icon. Tubman was born into slavery and escaped in the north only to become the most famous conductor on the Underground Railroad. She also led hundreds of enslaved people to freedom along the route of the Underground Railroad that led to the free state of Pennsylvania. A survey was taken at the end of the 20th century naming her as one of the most famous civilians in American history before the Civil War (qtd. in H.T.B.). Not only does this show that she was a well known slave, it shows that she cared about her people and she would do anything to help them....
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...During the time when Lazaro was alive he and his family had trouble getting money in order to survive. His mother who is a widower gives up Lazaro to a blind man to keep safe and to be fed because Lazaro mother cannot do so. During that time money was hard to get because of the booming economy that Spain was experiencing due to getting new resources of spices and herbs among with expensive metals such as gold and silver from the new world. With the economy booming prices on food, land, and ways to live have risen thus causing an inflammation on goods. This had effected Lazaro because his own mother had to give him up to a stranger in order for him and herself to survive, this key part sets many misfortunes upon Lazaro throughout his life. During the 16th century in Spain religion had played a big role in citizen’s lives. The main religion that was practice and forced upon in Spain was Christianity. There were laws that if you didn’t practice Christianity you will be baptize by force and also converted into Christianity, this was mostly practice on the Muslims and the Jews. There were also laws that were implanted on society if you were to practice another religion besides Christianity or even say any negatives against it you were either exiled from the country or killed in public with no trail. People will often keep their mouth shut in order to be safe, or even practiced their former religion in secrecy. Along with controlling people’s lives it controlled finances on who...
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...This is my essay. There are many like it, but this one is mine. My essay is my best friend. It is my life. I must master it as I must master my life. My essay, without me, it’s useless. Without my essay, I am useless. I must write my essay true. I must write better than my enemy, who is trying to copy me. I must copy him before he copies me. I will… My essay and I know that what counts in this class is not the essays we write, the length of the paper, nor the sources we cite. We know that it is the grades that count. We will pass… My essay is human, even as I, because it is my life. Thus, I will learn it as a brother. I will learn its weaknesses, its strength, its parts, its paragraphs, its intro and its conclusion. I will keep my essay clean and ready, even as I am clean and ready. We will become part of each other. We will… Before God, I swear this creed. My essay and I are the defenders of my grade. We are the masters of our class. We are the saviors of my GPA. So be it, until graduation is mine, and there is no homework, but vacation! This is my essay. There are many like it, but this one is mine. My essay is my best friend. It is my life. I must master it as I must master my life. My essay, without me, it’s useless. Without my essay, I am useless. I must write my essay true. I must write better than my enemy, who is trying to copy me. I must copy him before he copies me. I will… My essay and I know that what counts in this class is not the essays we...
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...we get heartbroken or angry but we must learn to deal with it and let it go as Bishop states, “the art of losing isn't hard to master.” But its easier said than done as losing a key can be replaced but losing someone whom we love can be a nightmare, in Bishop terms a “disaster.” Losing tangible and intangible possession we carry is part of life, but furthermore it is important to realize that coping with such a loss is the part of our existence that is necessary. In “One Art,” Bishop is rationalizing and adopting to her actual losses. She uses poetry has a medium to self-express and reflect her own personal loss and her endurance to cope with it. As Kristy states, “ One Art builds from Bishop's personal experience with loss to become a monument to one of the most fundamental of human experiences, resulting in a poem that is universal in its applicability and masterful in its execution.” Bishop intentionally mentions her losses in the poem in a fictitious mode to comfort herself and ensure that she can defeat her feelings of grief, as Miller states, “the losses in the poem are real.” Miller She recites, “I lost my mother watch,” her mother's watch is the only possession that she owns and losing it signifies that she has lost what remained of her mother. She is able to cope with the loss as she restates, “the art of losing isn't hard to master.” She believes she can cope with the loss, as her mother's watch isn't significant to her as she did only have a blur memory of...
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...mother and father as she learned that her mother was sold from her at four years of age.She could never figure out her history due to the purposeful disconnection put into act by the master.¨I was just a little thing taken away from my mother and father just when I needed them the most ¨ Mingo Whiteś Narrative. This occurrence of broken families took a toll on many slaves as they grew up to be curious of who they were. If they wanted to know anything about them they were harshly restricted from learning so they couldn't read. According to Frederick Douglass's Narrative ¨Frequently, before the child has reached its twelfth month, it mother is taken from it¨.This purposeful displacement of the parents and the child hindered the affection between elders with the child. It was completely designed to destroy the bond of the mother and child to prevent teaming up and cleverness being built in the relationship. This broken family structure was heavily touched on to convey the impact it had on many slaves and how they became clever enough to start learning how to read and learn names and numbers in their...
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...one sector of the labor market? The impact on supply and demand was critical in the Luddite revolt. It all begins in 1779 when the failure of a Bill to regulate the frame-knitting industry had resulted in 300 frames being smashed and thrown into the streets. This is where the shortage of the supply begins. Then, by 1810 the Orders in Council and a change in fashion had led to deterioration in the standard of craftsmanship required in stocking making and a consequent cheapening of the trade. It was the attempt to intimidate some masters who brought in the new machines that caused Nottingham stocking knitters to smash the machines. (http://www.victorianweb.org/history/riots/luddites.html) Then the impact on the demand of Stocking knitting became predominantly a domestic industry, the stockier renting his frame from the Master and working in his own 'shop' using thread given to him by the Master; the finished items were handed back to the Master to sell. The frames were therefore scattered round the villages; this cause the demand to increase it then became easy for the Luddites to smash a frame and then disappear. Between March 1811 and February 1812 the supply of frames had been affected. About a thousand machines at the cost of between 6,000 and 10,000 were smashed. This had a damaging impact on the supply and demand (http://www.victorianweb.org/history/riots/luddites.html) Explain the factors that affected labor demand and labor supply in the chosen historical example...
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...A Storm Gathering In a third world country, Sudan, a man called Malik, is working hard to get supplies for the town. He promises the people they will get paid for their work, there will come food, that Norway donated and medicine will come for the sick. When it all gets delayed, people start to complain and talk down to him, just because he is a man of science. He’s car won’t start, so he can’t get far around. When the food from Norway finally gets to the town it is full of weevils, and the people starts to sneer at Malik. Then when a car arrive at the town and Malik hears it’s a doctor he get very excited, but as it turns out, it is just a doctor who comes to inspect. When Malik hears that the chief of the neighbor town died shortly after an injection, he worries the entire area will die, he turns to the window and sees a storm is approaching. They seal all that can be sealed in the house and try to wait out the storm. Malik is a Msc of Khartoum University. He worries about the citizens of the town. He is a hardworking man, which tries to maintain the town and avoid another famine. He doesn’t have much for himself, all he got is a little house without much stuff, he’s clothes lay spread out on the floor because he don’t have the energy to clean up. All he’s energy goes to the town for being maintained. When he meets the doctor, the reason he gets excited is because, now he got something to give to the people of the town. That shows the commitment he has to the town and...
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...This is my essay. There are many like it, but this one is mine. My essay is my best friend. It is my life. I must master it as I must master my life. My essay, without me, it’s useless. Without my essay, I am useless. I must write my essay true. I must write better than my enemy, who is trying to copy me. I must copy him before he copies me. I will… My essay and I know that what counts in this class is not the essays we write, the length of the paper, nor the sources we cite. We know that it is the grades that count. We will pass… My essay is human, even as I, because it is my life. Thus, I will learn it as a brother. I will learn its weaknesses, its strength, its parts, its paragraphs, its intro and its conclusion. I will keep my essay clean and ready, even as I am clean and ready. We will become part of each other. We will… Before God, I swear this creed. My essay and I are the defenders of my grade. We are the masters of our class. We are the saviors of my GPA. So be it, until graduation is mine, and there is no homework, but vacation! This is my essay. There are many like it, but this one is mine. My essay is my best friend. It is my life. I must master it as I must master my life. My essay, without me, it’s useless. Without my essay, I am useless. I must write my essay true. I must write better than my enemy, who is trying to copy me. I must copy him before he copies me. I will… My essay and I know that what counts in this class is not the essays we...
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...members including Masters, Stage crews and Marketing crews. Masters are those who have highly specialized tasks including Sound, Light, Backstage and etc. Stage crews are general crews who work on the stage organizing the cables and preparing tools for the show. Marketing crews are those who are in charge of selling the show tickets and advertising the show. This team is both formal group and project team being supported by the organization, Taylor’s college in Subang Jaya. This team is supposed to be disbanded after the main show. All the crews are from various parts of an organization “Taylor’s college” working together on a temporary basis. The two leaders get involved with the team and teamwork with different leadership styles for each Masters, Stage crews and Marketing crews. The leaders act as External coaches for Masters and Marketing crews and network facilitators for Stage crews. The leaders give a lot of responsibilities to Masters and Marketing crews. Besides giving advises and encouragement the leaders let the Masters and Marketing crews do on their own ways. They are given authority and responsible to make their own decision on their tasks. The members in Master group train one another to develop multiple skills. When they face problems, instead of directly looking for the leaders to help, they discuss first and tried to find a solution by themselves. The Masters learnt each other so they could perform just in case someone’s absenteeism. Unlike Masters and the Marketing...
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