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Is It Dangerous To Think Too M
Number of Words: 1113 / Number of Pages: 5
... their own world. God originally gave mankind free will so that we would not become a bunch of robots walking around doing his bidding, and yet this is what traditions were doing. The customs of early Athens were limiting on what a person could or could not believe. Socrates believed independent thought in itself could never be bad. It is what one does with this knowledge that determines its worth. Socrates believed that “self-knowledge” is different from the "knowledge of information” that had been handed down from generation to generation. Socrates was more concerned with ethical knowle ...
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The Ethics Behind The Challeng
Number of Words: 320 / Number of Pages: 2
... presented in the reading, it does not seem likely that the astronauts had all of the information available when making the decision to go ahead with the launch. In a space launch process, the engineers play a key role and know the individual parts of the spacecraft better than anyone. The head engineers at Thiokol made a recommendation to NASA to delay the launch based on the data, or lack there of, concerning the stability of the O-ring at such cold temperatures. If the astronauts had this information, from the head engineers, it is hard to believe that they would have given their own consent t ...
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Car Winterization
Number of Words: 2238 / Number of Pages: 9
... amps" (CCA), the maximum number of amps that the battery can deliver at zero degrees (F) for 30 seconds. Good, powerful batteries are rated at or above 600 CCA. We've never really liked this CCA thing because some batteries rated at 600 CCA can just barely make the 30-second criterion, and some can pump it out much longer--clearly better batteries. Along come our pals at Consumer Reports. When they rate batteries, they do the CCA test *and* report how long the battery puts out the 600 amps. So, take a look at the October 1997 issue of Consumer
Reports to get the ratings of the really good batteries. ...
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Student Feelings On School Vio
Number of Words: 801 / Number of Pages: 3
... security equipment / methods, and feelings of security at different times of day in different locations. Subjects were asked to respond to five questions in each subtopic. The questions in the questionnaire were presented in the Likert-type question format:
Example:
I feel very secure with the presence of faculty members monitoring the halls between classes.
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SA A U D SD
Subjects were instructed that SA = strongly agree, A = agree, U = undecided, D= disagree, and SD = st ...
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Vpn
Number of Words: 2022 / Number of Pages: 8
... a scalable solution that is generic enough to solve all of these networking issues: access for mobile users, remote site connectivity, E commerce with trading partners and a solid internal structure that leverages investments in infrastructure. Use the Internet. By implementing a Virtual Private Network (), a remote user, site or trading partner can connect to another network through the existing Internet infrastructure. (Figure A)
Using a combination of tunneling, encryption and access controls, VPNs allow users to connect securely to a corporate server located on a corporate LAN using th ...
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MEDLINE
Number of Words: 2453 / Number of Pages: 9
... Library of Medicine, which is part of the National Institutes of Health. Its coverage includes the U.S. and 70 foreign countries, with a total of 8.6 million records dating back to 1966. Very few of the journals have any consumer focus, nor are they even intended to be read or understood by consumers.
MEDLINE is but one of 40 databases in the MEDLARS family of databases, which includes AIDSLINE, TOXLINE, and HEALTHSTAR. There is overlap among many of the MEDLARS databases, but some unique coverage in each as well.
The Journey from Fee to Free
How did we get to free MEDLINE on the Inter ...
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Imagination
Number of Words: 1031 / Number of Pages: 4
... Heart by Edgar Allan Poe, one can see how a writer can use the concept of the imaginary invading reality to write their story.
In Dreams, by Timothy Findley, the main characters, two married psychiatrists named “the doctors Marlo”, have a fairly normal marriage. But they are both dealing with professional cases that are invading their personal lives. Mrs. Marlo specializes in autistic children. One case she is working on is that of a little boy who won’t talk, eat or sleep. She grows attached to this child and thinks of him as almost her own son. Meanwhile, Everett Marlo, her husband, is pl ...
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Languages In High School
Number of Words: 544 / Number of Pages: 2
... foreign language. Most children like having an extra ability and consider it a talent. Young children are also very competitive. Competitions over who has greater proficiency in a second language are likely to ensue in an elementary language class. Young children are also more likely to participate in activities that help one to learn a language such as singing songs and engaging in hypothetical dialogue.
In contrast, high school students have a much harder time learning a second language. "Only three percent of American high school graduates reach a meaningful proficiency in a second language." ...
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Teaching Ethical And Moral Values
Number of Words: 1032 / Number of Pages: 4
... school systems unified in culture and religion? Most Americans would agree that there is a great deal of cultural and religious diversity among the educational system. In order to teach good ethical values the teacher must be non-ethnocentric in the way he/she presents their values. For example, it will be troublesome for a teacher that has been raised in the United States and comes from a Christian background to teach their values to someone who came from India with an Islamic background, without being ethnocentric. However, it would be trouble-free for general humanitarian values to be taught t ...
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The Social Construction Of Rea
Number of Words: 1663 / Number of Pages: 7
... and deliberate effort. When foreign tasks are introduced into our daily routines, the reality of everyday life integrates the foreign information into what is more natural and understood. Other subconscious realities find themselves engulfed within the reality of everyday life as a result of its overpowering nature. We are successful in our endeavors only when a specific set of sequences are followed that emphasize the temporality of everyday life. Time keeps individuals oriented within the vast composition of everyday life.
SECTION TWO
The most significant experience in everyday life i ...
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