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This question is very subjective. I would strongly recommend reviewing the book and thinking about which story or statistic was most surprising to you, then explain why. That is what the prompt is...
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A key feature to the Every Student Succeeds Act is that it gives individual states new flexibility on how to exactly improve education in various districts. For example, states can pick which long...
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I can definitely offer some advice on this topic. I have been teaching a public speaking course for almost a decade. From the information provided in the question, it seems like you have a good...
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When Act of Valor was originally conceived, it was planned to be more of a recruitment and documentary film about the Navy SEALs. Consequently, the film doesn’t benefit from having a tight plot...
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School management is a big topic because it covers a huge range of subjects. School management topics include things like attendance, student behavior, dress code, curriculum, enrollment,...
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According to Kant, the actions a person takes can either be moral or not moral. A person's actions determine his or her moral worth. One can only be considered moral if he or she is motivated by...
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Under the direction of Christopher Nolan, the screenplay he and his brother Jonathan Nolan wrote, The Dark Knight, transcends the usual tropes of the superhero action film to deeply explore themes...
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Virtue ethics has to do with a focus on achieving eudaimonia or human flourishing through development of one's ingrained moral character. Thus one concerned with virtue ethics asks of decisions...
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Virtue theorists, who follow the field of virtue ethics, emphasize the importance of character over the importance of performing one's duty and over the importance of carrying out actions that have...
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Whitman and Eliot are similar in that their works, such as Whitman's "Song of Myself" and Eliot's "The Wasteland," are accounts of the way the individual reckons with reality. Whitman's poetry...
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Thematically, both poems are about love, but Browning's "How do I Love Thee?" concerns a person's romantic love for another person, while Thomas focuses on a son's love for his father. We know that...
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Torture can be defined as "the officially sanctioned infliction of intense suffering, aimed at forcing someone to do or say something against his or her will." (Rodley, 2000:7) In his absolutist...
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Traditionally, teaching a foreign language asks learners to learn the target language as if they were native speakers, and this process does not account for the learner's own culture and the way in...
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Chapter Two of Blown to Bits: Your Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness after the Digital Explosion is entitled "1984 Is Here, and We Like It." The chapter opens with a description of the...
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According to Twain's "Corn-Pone Opinions," what drives people to engage in group think is their preoccupation with their capital--both literal and social. To stand out from the crowd with...
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The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down depicts the difficulties faced by the Lees--a Hmong family from Houaysouy, Laos--whose second youngest daughter, Lia Lee, suffers from Lennox-Gastaut...
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According to the Pew Research Center, from 2003 to 2014, the American middle class shrank in 203 of the 229 metropolitan areas it studied (see the link below). In fact, the middle class no longer...
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To answer this question, it is necessary to look at both sides of the argument. For a start, think about some of the benefits of marriage. As an institution, marriage has existed in our society for...
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These two texts are very different. The genre of the first text is a novel or autobiography, and the context is the narrator's experience in a dancing class. The second text is a poem about a man...
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As this article suggests, there are lots of informal rules that govern the world of texting and that, for the most part, we are all familiar with. The idea that writing a text message completely in...
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This is a tough question. It's tough because a straight "yes" or "no" is likely the wrong the answer. I can see pros and cons to keeping proposition 209, and I can say the same thing for getting...
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Conover worked as a guard at Sing Sing to understand the reality of the inmates' and correction officers' lives. In writing his book, he was both a journalist and an ethnographer, as he worked...
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The life of Machiavelli (1469-1527) overlapped with that of Lorenzo de Medici (1449-1492), though Machiavelli held office as the Secretary of the Second Chancery of the Republic of Florence from...
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This sounds like a question about effective speech communication. The terms "sender" and "receiver" are common in public speaking courses. All kinds of things can get in the way of a person...
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When a user copies a formula in an Excel spreadsheet and the cell references change in response, the process is called "relative addressing."When a user copies a formula into another cell and the...
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The “Miracle Cease Fire” scene in Children of Men acts as a continuation of the lighting and coloring techniques used throughout the film. Children of Men is indeed an interestingly lighted...
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Eleanor Gibson earned her Ph.D. at Yale University in 1938. After her graduation, Gibson hoped to work with Robert Yerkes, the famous psychologist who helped develop the U.S. Army's intelligence...
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Here are three questions you might ask Eleanor Gibson that demonstrate an understanding of how her work affected our understanding of how people learn and behave: Why did you design the "visual...
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Eleanor Gibson (1910–2002) was an experimental psychologist whose groundbreaking work focused on the area of perceptual learning. She posited that we can learn to perceive different objects from...
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You do not specify whether pink is the subject of your essay or if your description constitutes just a segment of a longer essay on another topic. My attempt below considers the alternatives: If...
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Deconstructionist readings break down a text into its different parts and examine the questions or ambiguities posed by those different elements or parts. To carry out a deconstructionist reading,...
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Non-probability sampling does not use a random sample, and, therefore, researchers can not assume that the sample represents the population as a whole. Non-probability sampling is often conducted...
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A probability sampling is a method of investigation that uses a random sample. This type of random sampling ensures that all different categories in your study have the same probability of being...
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Embodied Cognition is the idea that our cognitions are affected by the body, not just the brain. In other words, the brain affects the body, and the brain also receives feedback from the body....
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In scientific research, an attribute is a characteristic of something (such as a person or object). A variable is a set of attributes. An attribute is the specific value of that variable. In...
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The key concepts of embodied cognition are as follows: Perception: A key concept in embodied cognition is the importance of understanding how perception and objective reality interact. The...
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Embodied Cognition is the idea that cognition is controlled by factors in the body beyond just the brain. In other words, the brain affects the body, and the body affects the brain. The central...
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In Labor and Legality, the Lions present values related to their work and families. For example, Luis, along with several other of the Lions, mentions the value of hard work and family. He says,...
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There is a problem in missing assumptions of the question, namely that the effect of changes in cigarette prices affects all demographics equally. That actually isn't the case. In general,...
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Real GDP is a term that stands for real Gross Domestic Product. This is a macroeconomic measure that shows the inflation-adjusted value of goods and services produced in the United States. The real...
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The four components of GDP (Gross Domestic Product) are personal consumption (C); investment (I); net exports (NX); and government expenditures (G). During the recession of 2007 to 2009, the...
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John Locke provides his definition of knowledge in An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, written in the late seventeenth century. Locke believed knowledge is obtained the moment you perceive...
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Remember that eNotes policy allows for only one question per post (or two, if they are short). With that in mind, I will answer three out of the five questions. a) What it is the opportunity cost...
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The purpose of the FTC, according to their website, is to "protect consumers and promote competition." The Bureau of Consumer Protection enforces Congressional and FTC rules about competition to...
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The informal economy is economic activity that is not taxed or monitored by the government. Students in a university or college setting often establish networks related to the informal economy with...
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Karl Mannheim (1893-1947) was very critical of positivism because he thought it provided no room for theory and ignored the role of interpretation and understanding by concentrating only on...
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Veblen believed the leisure class was made of people who did not need to do industrial work and who had types of occupations that were of higher status. He wrote in The Theory of the Leisure Class:...
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The concept of "System 1" and "System 2" were created by Israeli-American Nobel Laureate and psychologist Daniel Kahneman, Ph.D. He uses "System 1" to refer to the emotional, intuitive part of our...
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The self might be the product of cognitive biases and subjective, erroneous memories. Nonetheless, we are more than emotional and subjective. We also have the capacity for a limited degree of...
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There are several brain-based factors that influence the way we make decisions and think about things. Scientists have begun to isolate brain areas involved in different types of decisions using...