...Bringing happiness and hope to someone’s day are an honor; this can be accomplished by giving or helping others without thought of self-benefit (Olpin & Hesson, 2016). This Random Act of Kindness (RAK) can be achieved by performing a selfless act to either help or positively affect the emotional state of another person (Passmore & Oades, 2015). The Random Act of Kindness that I performed was at a Dunkin Donuts; I asked the gentleman behind me if he was having a cup of coffee today. He responded. “yes.” I placed my order; the told the cashier that I was going to purchase the gentleman’s coffee. Both the clerk and the gentleman looked at me with a strange glance. I assured the gentleman that this was not a television prank and he started to laugh....
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...Abstract According to the Webster dictionary, migration is the movement of people from one country or locality to another. They are different types of migrations; some of which are Global migration, interregional migration and, intraregional migration. There is a significant diversity as it relates to the issues of migration in the United States. These issues vary from state to state. However International /global migration posed the most issues in this country. These issues have affected the United States for many years. James Rubenstein notes that “unrestricted immigration to the United States ended when congress passed the Quota Act in 1921 and the National Origins Act in 1924. However over the years different issues arose on this topic; some of which are job threatening, deportation, population overgrowth, devaluing of property, and increased crime rate. Legal as well as illegal immigrants encounter problems to some extent. The questions of who belongs? Who stays? And who goes? Are often widely debated topics by citizens of the United States? It has also been a focal topic in presidential debates. Others made reference to the DREAM Act by claiming that the political parties fail to address the heart of the immigration problem. Immigration has impacted the United States socially, economically, and politically. Like Global migration, interregional migration also creates issues, in the United States. Introduction The topic of immigration can be broken down into many different...
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...Dartmouth eroemhild@umassd.edu, 508-991-0165 Absract: Depth perception in humans can be impeded by disturbing binocular vision. Disturbance (e.g. covering one of two eyes with an eye patch) should impede hand-eye coordination. This statement was tested on 19 human subjects under two experimental conditions: binocular vision and monocular vision. When tested for monocular vision, subjects were to cover their right eye with an eye patch and place as many paper clips, with first their right hand and then later their left hand, in an Erlenmeyer flask placed at arm distance on the lab bench within 30 seconds. The same procedure was followed under the binocular vision but this time the subjects did not have to cover their right eye.Table 1 summarizes all of the data collected from all of the subjects ( observed values). Table 2 shows the “expected values” of vision impedance on the human subjects’ depth perception. Tables 3 and 4 show a contingency table with observed, expected, and summation values. Figure 1 shows the mean number of paper clips placed through binocular and monocular vision on either hands. Monocular vision had a fewer number of successful attempts versus binocular vision. Binocular vision allows for proper depth perception, an important adaptations for organisms like humans, who need to ambulate bipedally, hunt, forage, go up stairs, avoid holes in the ground, the ability to see your environment with a wider perception and not have to be always turning your head to...
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...International Journal of Education and Practice, 2013, 1(7):75-86 International Journal of Education and Practice http://www.pakinsight.com/journals/IJEP.htm POSTER PRESENTATIONS COMMUNICATION SKILLS IMPROVE ENGINEERING STUDENTS’ Tharwat M. EL-Sakran English Department American university of SharjahSharjah, United Arab Emirates David Prescott English Department American university of SharjahSharjah, United Arab Emirates ABSTRACT This research reports the procedures the writers have employed in teaching several academic and workplace communication skills through engineering multidisciplinary projects (EMDPs). In these projects students are divided into teams, with each team comprising a minimum of three and a maximum of four students from different engineering majors. The students choose and appoint a team leader, choose a research topic/problem in the surrounding environment that requires input from all team members and collaboration from all students, each in his/her respective discipline, in finding a solution to the situation/problem. Team members choose the topics, obtain approval of the topics from cooperating engineering faculty and the course instructor, and then prepare detailed research proposals. They receive specialist feedback on their proposals, and based on how detailed their proposals are, are given the go ahead to proceed with their research. The execution of the research project requires the use of several technical communication...
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...Justice and the four concerns Ever since humans have evolved to have created a political system the one in power has an obligation to his people to fulfill their needs. Frankenstein was a creature that was done wrong by his own creator and thus, wreaks havoc upon innocent people because Victor did not want to fulfill his obligation to the Monster. The monster knows what justice is all on his own through solitude and judgement from human society. Comparing himself to Adam, from Adam and Eve and the Devil for not being fulfilled of his request to Victor. Human society on the other hand, has a blurred idea on what justice is. Especially today even, most humans judge on what they see rather than what is inside someone. Which is why we hear the phrase “Don’t judge a book by its cover.” Right away when Victor is done with his experiment he is disgusted with the creature and doesn’t know what he has just brought to this world. It was November when Victor had finally finished his two yearlong experiment spending every minute he had on it. Alas it was all in vain when he completed it. “But now that I had finished, the beauty of the dream vanished, and breathless horror and disgust filled my heart. Unable to endure the aspect of the being I had created, I rushed out of the room and continued a long time traversing my bed-chamber.” (Shelley 83) This is why the Monster starts his rampage, he is never given any love or compassion and was rejected by his own creator, mother/father, a God...
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...AMERICAN MARKETING ASSOCIATION Statement of Ethics (http://www.marketingpower.com/AboutAMA/Pages/Statement%20of%20Ethics.aspx) Ethical Norms and Values for Marketers PREAMBLE The American Marketing Association commits itself to promoting the highest standard of professional ethical norms and values for its members (practitioners, academics and students). Norms are established standards of conduct that are expected and maintained by society and/or professional organizations. Values represent the collective conception of what communities find desirable, important and morally proper. Values also serve as the criteria for evaluating our own personal actions and the actions of others. As marketers, we recognize that we not only serve our organizations but also act as stewards of society in creating, facilitating and executing the transactions that are part of the greater economy. In this role, marketers are expected to embrace the highest professional ethical norms and the ethical values implied by our responsibility toward multiple stakeholders (e.g., customers, employees, investors, peers, channel members, regulators and the host community). ETHICAL NORMS As Marketers, we must: 1. Do no harm. This means consciously avoiding harmful actions or omissions by embodying high ethical standards and adhering to all applicable laws and regulations in the choices we make. 2. Foster trust in the marketing system. This means striving for good faith and fair dealing so as...
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...During this course I have learned there is in fact a great deal of work required, in writing. Throughout my lifetime, I have been required to write numerous essays and papers for various subjects, all requiring different styles and techniques. Before immersing myself in the writing process I would try and think of whom I am writing to and what I am writing about. I always assumed I was writing for the audience of my teacher. Writing an argumentative research paper is something I had yet to accomplish in my college career, not only was it thought provoking, this paper also challenged me in numerous ways, such as, understanding who I should be directing my thoughts towards throughout the essay, as well as the simple steps of organizing my thoughts...
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...life. Right away they have contact with different types of communication from the start. Most children can identify basic signs and logos by the age of 2 or 3. From there they will begin to experiment with written forms of communicating long before they can read by scribbling. Reading and writing develop at the same time in young children who are unified or consistent. Children love to make marks on paper. As they do this, they begin to realize that the symbols on pages are letters that form words. This will help with the attempt to put their thoughts down on paper as well. The development of writing skills consists of stages that children go through. Parents can promote early literacy development for infants by presenting cloth or cardboard books with bright pictures, reading books that have rhyming words, surrounding children with fiction and nonfiction books, magazines or games, reading simple stories with one main character and a simple plot, responding to questions your child might have about print in your house or elsewhere, and supporting early writing by making sure that paper, crayons, pencils and markers are always available. Parents can also promote early literacy development for toddlers and preschoolers by...
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...In the article “Shitty First Drafts” the author Anne Lamott’s’ main argument is that first drafts are not meant to be perfect but a representation of random exquisite ideas that you will like to incorporate on your final draft. Lamott provides a strategy that can help writers begin their ideas in a faster and easier way than trying to produce a perfect first draft that can be sensed as stressful. First drafts become essential to create a good piece of writing she argues that every good writer no matter how talented he or she is, is subjected to write first drafts that will shape the course of their writing. As stated in the article, “All good writers write them, this is how they end up with good drafts and terrific third drafts.” It is important to take into consideration her...
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...wallcoverings • wall “paper” - use of terminology wallpaper terms today, huge variety of products available...not all terms apply to all products • strips • vertical butt joint – vertical strips meet edge-to-edge, no overlap • 200 BC – China, primitive rice-paper • 16th century - first manufactured papers, from France (marbleized) • 17th century – flocked papers.... “poor man’s tapestry” • 18th century – pictorals from French arch. • wallpapers were hand-painted or hand-blocked until..... • Industrial Revolution saw the industry revolutionized by machine printing • mid 20th c. – silkscreening allowed mass-production of high quality papers; demand rebounded wallpaper terms • pattern number • dye lot – numbered for a particular production batch: all rolls exact match – slight variations can be found between batches pattern match/repeat – distance from beginning of pattern to point where it starts again – larger repeat = greater amount of waste in installation single/double/triple roll - waste product in installation straight-across match – each strip same at ceiling wallpaper terms random match – no match necessary at ceiling half-drop match – alternates same at ceiling every other strip; diagonal progression 1 wallpaper terms • • • • • • pre-pasted washable scrubbable strippable semi-trimmed pre-trimmed wallpaper types paper – lowest grade, wide variety of quality levels – paper with printed...
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...school but none of them really had an impact on my life until the summer before junior year in high school. That summer was a terrible summer for me. Nothing went the way I had hoped and I was unhappy. My boyfriend and I broke up the night before my last exam. I would talk to my friends about it but I felt like it became too much for them. I knew they wanted to make me happy so they would listen but I didn’t feel right about putting them through it so I started writing. Whenever I needed a break from everyone around me, I would grab a piece of paper and a pen and just start pouring my thoughts onto paper. It was usually about how I was going through a tough time, which now seems increasingly petty, but at that time paper was my confidant. I wrote everything, even if it was a paragraph, or even barely a line. I used to transfer all the bad thoughts in my mind onto paper and just leave it there. I substituted my friends for paper. Paper wouldn’t talk back or tell me that it wasn’t god for me. It would just listen, absorb, and always be there. And that’s when I fell in love with writing. This is when writing became a habit. When I got over irrelevant boyfriend issues, I still had that craving to write something, anything, so I started writing about my day. If I had had a bad day, I would sit with my book and pen and just write till I overcame the bad thoughts. Those rare but sweet moments when I would go into a stream of consciousness showed me glimpses of certain peculiarities...
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...ability to convey your thoughts clearly in written form to the audience calls an effective writing skills. In addition to this an effective writer must have an extensive vocabulary to be able express yourself. To be an effective writer means the reader will understand thoroughly everything you are writing on the paper. My personal experience in writing was challenging and valuable at the same time. This semester I took an Academic Writing and Argument course with professor Missy Watson. During this semester, I learned how to analyze arguments, write rhetorical analysis essay, work with researched and visual arguments, effectively...
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...In “Writing and Teaching for Surprise”, Donald M. Murray, writes about the true, raw writing process. He explains in the beginning of the essay that writing is all about the experience and the process of how you end up with the final paper. He says several times that the best work is that which stems from hours of jotting down random, seemingly illogical sentences. And that by the end of the piece, those unorganized sentences have been edited and are now a fluid flow of words coming together to create a masterpiece. Murray describes writing as a way to discover yourself and your writing process, rather than a way to figure out what you will be writing about. Then he brings the essay to a central focus on the element of surprise, commenting...
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...in this manner, the following are ten tips to curb electronic cheating. Use anti-plagiarism websites. Sites like turnitin may be fast and effective at catching plagiarized writing in student’s papers. There services scan uploaded essays for lifted material from across the web. Many teachers require students to submit their own papers to the site before handing in a hard copy, thus eliminating tedious work for the teacher while also discouraging plagiarism since students know their work will be checked. While these websites are quite effective at catching kids who rely on copy-and-paste rather than writing, they will not catch students who hire a writer or buy unpublished content. Rely heavily on in-class material. When assigning a paper, use material from the classroom in the prompt. It is far more difficult for a hired writer to incorporate material from a class they did not attend. Instead of asking for a basic character analysis of the Montague family, ask students to compare each character to a member of the class or the school. It’s highly unlikely that a would-be-cheater will find material on something so specific, or a writer for hire who is familiar with your class. Makes papers a continuation of discussion. Asking students to continue a discussion from class in their papers serves two purposes. Similarly to the above suggestion, it makes plagiarizing or purchasing an essay more difficult. But more importantly, it promotes critical thinking and allows pupils to delve...
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...During the first semester I have grown tremendously as a writer. Through my new found knowledge my eyes have been opened to the ignorant way I was writing before. Before taking AP English 12, I knew nothing about proper writing styles and literary devices such as allegories, paradoxes, and stream of consciousness. I now know how drastically a paper can change when using the right devices. Not only have I learned proper devices, but I have learned to keep my ideas and pen flowing through a timed essay. I feel as though I have grown exceedingly in the knowledge of not only writing, but also knowing myself as a writer. In the beginning of this class, I knew little to nothing about genuine writing and how it should be done. I once believed it was simply writing your thoughts down on paper. However, I realize now that writing a stunning essay is so much more than random thoughts. The use of proper literary devices can seriously turn a bland idea into an extravagant, eye opening concept. I have learned that writing an allegory is so much more than...
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