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Collective Behavior
Number of Words: 483 / Number of Pages: 2
... a resistance movement, because this group was in opposition to change of a certain aspect of our society.
The main reason why activists gathered in protest on Saturday was to expose the World Bank and IMF practices and policies that the protesters believe have led to the degeneration of the environment and the social deprivation in the developing world. One protester was quoted “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere,” as she is a member of George Washington Students Against Sweatshops. However, as passionate as they were, few protesters actually got violent and many were arrested be ...
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Exams Are Unfair Assessments Of Progress
Number of Words: 439 / Number of Pages: 2
... many students suffer
insomnia because they are too worry about their exams. They do not have
enough sleep, so they can not do well in their exams.
Secondly, the exam results of the students are not reliable. Some
students cheat in the exams. For example, they just copy the answers from
their cheating papers to their answer sheets. Although their answers are
correct, they do not really know the answers. Also, some student guess what
questions might appear in the exams and only study that part of the course
material. They can get good results in their exams without studying hard if
they are luck ...
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How Television Works
Number of Words: 477 / Number of Pages: 2
... place to create a picture. But the fun doesn't stop here!
One of the biggest parts of a working TV is the picture tube, which has four basic parts. The glass face panel is the screen that pictures appear on. It's coated in phosphor, which is any material that when expose to radiation, emits visible light. Suspended directly behind the face is a steel shadow mask, with thousands of square holes. This panel is fused to a glass funnel, and the rear of this funnel converges into a neck, which holds the electron guns.
This is where color TV comes in. It's more complicated then black and white TV, but ...
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UFOs
Number of Words: 742 / Number of Pages: 3
... circular objects
in the skies over the state of Washington. He (Kenneth) described these
objects like "saucers skipping over water". There the term Flying Saucer
was born.
[III] UFO Waves:
Since 1947 there have been UFO sightings in almost every country.
Sometimes there is something called a UFO wave, which for a short time UFO
sighting increase rapidly in one certain area. For instance, UFO waves
occurred in France and Italy in 1954, in New Guinea in 1958, and in the
USSR in 1967. In the United States and Canada, waves happened in 1947,
1952, 1957, 1965-67, and in 1979. Nobody can explai ...
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My Lai: The Event, The Trial,
Number of Words: 1502 / Number of Pages: 6
... loose. The people's opinion began drifting non-stop against the war, as opposed to their previous pro-war attitude. There were anti-war demonstrations and peace movements (Almond) that shut down colleges, and sometimes towns across the country. Then one day, as the media was delivering their daily recurrences of the horror that was Vietnam, reports of a massacre in a village designated as My Lai 4 came up. Following these reports and some "thorough" investigation came the indictment of Lt. William Calley, the man slated responsible for the event, along with that indictment came charges of murder. ...
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Serach Engines
Number of Words: 431 / Number of Pages: 2
... look at is Excite, which like Yahoo has a very good and easy to use directory. The one thing which caught my eye about Excite was when you typed in a search, it would just shootout a list of links, but would also show tables and images as well. You can also track stocks with a Charles Schwab module. Just like the other 2 portals you can make your own homepage. Overall, I think Excite is very similar to Yahoo, although it is full of a lot of commercial jargon. One thing Excite doesn't have that the other 2 do is an address book and calendar, but it will be adding that in the coming months. Finally ...
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Fleurs Tracks
Number of Words: 1129 / Number of Pages: 5
... of “Tracks”. Even though she is limited in dialogues, her actions speak more than words itself.
Structurally speaking, Fleur is mentioned in every chapter of the book, either being referred to by the two narrators or being part of the story. In fact, after researching the novel several times, no other character including the two narrators is consistently mentioned in every chapter. In the first chapter, Nanapush tells Lulu, his granddaughter, about the fate of the Chippewa Tribe. He then spends most of the chapter discussing the beginning of Fleur, who is Lulu’s mother, and h ...
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Asian Economic Crisis
Number of Words: 430 / Number of Pages: 2
... businesses (mostly private) began cutting back in the employment line. Many workers were fired, or “let go,” as they put it, because the company couldn’t afford the extra disbursements. This may have been beneficial for the companies, but not its employees and their families.
With my father, a Fire Specialist for the Guam Fire Bureau, and my mother, a financial advisor at a national bank, my family may not have been affected in the area of unemployment and retrenchment of workers. However, there are other members of other families that may have been. Because of the decrease in ...
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Computers In Schools
Number of Words: 505 / Number of Pages: 2
... of the decade. By the end of the seventies, computer use in the
schools started to increase. Students began to have hands-on experience.
In less than a decade, computer use progressed from programming
classes for a few of the better students, to literacy classes for all
students, to the integration of computers and technology into the
curriculum.
Computers are not only used for educating, in the last 5-10 years,
many homes have started to use computers for practical uses that even
computer illiterates can understand.
Many People have discovered that they can make banners for every
day event ...
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Diversity In Educational Insti
Number of Words: 3088 / Number of Pages: 12
... The professional world and universities are stressing on the importance of diversity and undertaking programs to implement diversity successfully. Well before we undertake any discussion on diversity, it is imperative to understand why this term has become so sensational and taken the professional world and universities by storm. Our country has always consisted of people from diverse backgrounds. Furthermore, the other major happenings around the world today are collaboration, technology advances and globalization. This increasing globalization has resulted in people working in foreign locations. T ...
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