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Student's Rights
Number of Words: 1451 / Number of Pages: 6
... I love this
school!" But wait. Before we all stage an "I love Cheryl Wilhoyte" love-fest,
let's take a look at what these "legitimate rules" are, particularly as they
apply to freedom of speech, expression, and something they like to call
"material disruption of the educational environment."
The first item on the list is literature, specifically a student's right
to post it. It reads "Students shall have the right to post any literature of a
non-commercial nature without prior censorship or approval by the Administration
or School Board in any designated posting area, provided, however, the
design ...
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Abusing AA
Number of Words: 2479 / Number of Pages: 10
... they found when a doctor takes some minimal preparation for the patient. These preparations include such tasks as locating the closest meeting and the type of meeting the patient would prefer. The person who is suffering normally takes on these tasks; if discouraged at this point faith in the program may be ceased. They state in the article, ”AA is more important over the long term than professional treatment.” (Johnson, Chappel.1994) The article shows effective guidelines for professionals in the treatment of addiction. We know that AA predates the American Medical Associations’ ruling that alcohol a ...
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'Spanglish' Presentation
Number of Words: 667 / Number of Pages: 3
... For example the word 'hot' in Spanish is three different words; caliente (hot to touch), calor (hot weather) and picante (hot food). Were as in English is much more concise and efficient and often confusing. The word hot can mean many different things: hot property (stolen), hot body (sexy), hot food (spicy), hot to the touch, hot weather, hot tempered, hot pursuit, hot tip (fresh news), hot air and more. It is in situations like these that Spanglish is born. For example, Instead of escribir maguina (to type) The Spanglish "Taipear" is created. And instead of estacionamiento (parking) "Parquin" is ...
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Building A Help Desk
Number of Words: 2370 / Number of Pages: 9
... that may be derived.
I know that it is extremely important that I clearly define the purpose of the help desk at the outset with a mission statement. My mission statement will be a broad description of the goals of the help desk that will help to define expectations. With clearly defined goals, everyone within my organization will be more likely to be working toward the same end, and, with clearly defined expectations, it will be easier to evaluate whether the help desk has met its goals.
One mission statement I might use is "to increase the company's productivity by providing a single point of c ...
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Henry Kissinger's Comparison Of Realism And Complex Interdependence
Number of Words: 997 / Number of Pages: 4
... Roosevelt's aggressive New Nationalism and Woodrow Wilson's ideologically-founded New Freedom. Our readings from Kissinger focus on the regime shift from the increasingly inflexible Concert of Europe, Balance of Power scheme to a more American-dominated regime. The old order, adequate since 1815, became obsolete in an era of rapid mobilization and total war. The rigid alliance system created a "zero-sum game" which made World War I inevitable.
Kissinger's analysis leaves several questions unanswered. For instance, how does one measure power? What constitutes power certainly changes over time. For ...
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Computers In Society
Number of Words: 693 / Number of Pages: 3
... tubes about the size of light bulbs as the internal computer components. However, due to the fact that literally thousands of these tubes were required, they generated enormous amounts of heat that caused many problems in the temperature regulation and climate control inside these computers. In addition every tube had to be working simultaneously in order for the computer to function and due to the short tube life (one failed every couple of hours) the computer operators didn’t know if the problem was due to a programming error or the machine itself. These first generation computers also used ...
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The 1966 Impala Vs. 1996 Impala SS
Number of Words: 667 / Number of Pages: 3
... seats, seventeen inch aluminum rims, all season radials, and the LT1
engine(commonly in the Corvette). This car was built with all kinds of safety
equipment, emission systems, and a computer to control the entire car. The
emission system on the car is approved for 1998 emission standards. The safety
equipment on the Impala SS is lap/shoulder seat belts, dual air bags, and
crumple zones. The computers on today's new cars control the engine, the fuel
injection, the emission systems, the air bags, the transmission, the cooling
system, the instrument gauges and all of the warning lights. On the 199 ...
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Database Design
Number of Words: 400 / Number of Pages: 2
... provide clues about the structure of the tables that produce them.
You don’t need to design your tables using Microsoft Access. In fact, it may be better to sketch out and rework your design on paper first. A table should not contain duplicate information, and information should not be duplicated between tables.
After you have designed the tables, fields, and relationships you need, it’s time to study the design and detect any flaws that might remain. It is easier to change your now, rather than after you have filled the tables with data. (see figure 1-2 on page 4)
Use Microsoft Access ...
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Kent State University Incident
Number of Words: 907 / Number of Pages: 4
... National Guard to come in and protect the campus(Four Deaths at
Noon).
The following day Kent State University was under the protection˛ of the
Ohio National Guard. Around noon on that day, students fromed in protest.
They were told to disperse, but refused. The first action of the National
Guard was to release tear-gas grenades upon the masses of students (Guard
Fired in Self Defense). These grenades were marginally successful, and
only caused a temporary retreat. The students then responded by throwing
concrerte, rocks, and everything else they could find. This was the first
of a group of poor d ...
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Educational Research Single Su
Number of Words: 468 / Number of Pages: 2
... Phase 1: Functional Analyses and Descriptive Assessments. Alternating treatment with no baseline design. “During this analysis, a test condition . . .and a control condition were compared using a multi-element design.” Phase 2: Communication and Discrimination Training. Phase 3: Treatment Evaluation of FCT with Discriminative Stimuli. Between series, alternating treatment (ABAB) design was used to compare FCT + EXT vs. ACT + EXT in two conditions for one participant (Amy) and in one condition for one participant (Ned). Phase 4: Independent Effects of FCT and EXT. Between series, altern ...
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