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Education In Check
Number of Words: 618 / Number of Pages: 3
... classes a student can choose from. All these classes can be selected to fit an individual student. Classes ranging from art and drama all the way up to advanced placement physics are at the disposal of those who want to learn. No one forces children to take these classes. Students take these classes of their own free will. Once in college, a student has the right to choose whatever major they feel fit to be in. If they don’t like that major, they can always change it.
What would happen if students were allowed to come and go as they please? All too often, students would never go to class. They wo ...
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Carnieros Theory
Number of Words: 450 / Number of Pages: 2
... Circumscription is a major factor in the creation and existence of states. Environmental Circumscription is obtaining the good, scarce land from the surrounding dry land and being able to maintain and keep it from surrounding states.
Social Circumscription can also be a deciding factor on the length of existence of each state. It is the relative closeness of a group of people, that results in everyday confrontations and increases chances of fighting. The last factor is Resource Concentration. This is one of the most prominent reasons behind war. When a certain
area or state has certain res ...
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Chat Rooms And Forums
Number of Words: 376 / Number of Pages: 2
... only one idea or cause. For example, during the O.J. Simpson trail, a chat line was formed for those who believed he was guilty. That means people from different countries who knew about the trail went to this specific chat line if they wanted to discuss the progress of the trail with others who shared their opinion.
Another common characteristic of chat lines is that they have channel operators. Channel operators are employees of a certain chat line. Their job is to chat with users of their company's chat line and also ensure that everyone follows their rules. To be permitted into a chat room, the ...
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Word Processing
Number of Words: 2304 / Number of Pages: 9
... first,
which is then modified and corrected; the changes involving words, lines or larger items of text. Adults often go
through the same process, producing a rough draft, editing it and then writing it out again.
A word processing program for a micro is provided on tape and loaded from the cassette recorder in the usual
way. ( in some versions the word processing program is available as a special ROM - a chip which has to be fitted
inside the computer; use of a disc drive can also be very advantageous). When the program is loaded, text can be
keyed in through the keyboard (i.e. type ...
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The Study Of Psychology
Number of Words: 339 / Number of Pages: 2
... what we can see and touch is the only route to reality and truth. Aristotle was an empiricist. Both theorists believe in direct observation of the environment. There are three perspectives of psychology: Structuralism, functionalism, and pragmatism.
Psychology has strict ethical guidelines. The utilization of human participants and animals have standard polices of conducting experiments. The policy requires both informal consent and debriefing. This is to insure no torture or intentional harm is due to the experimented subject.
20th century psychology is divided into many areas of study. Beha ...
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Euclidean Geometry
Number of Words: 387 / Number of Pages: 2
... and many other people try to offer convincing
arguments. Anyone who cannot tell a good proof from a bad one may easily be
persuaded in the wrong direction. Geometry provides a simplified universe, where
points and lines obey believable rules and where conclusions are easily verified.
By first studying how to reason in this simplified universe, people can
eventually, through practice and experience, learn how to reason in a
complicated world.
Geometry in ancient times was recognized as part of everyone's education.
Early Greek philosophers asked that no one come to their schools who had no ...
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Voiced Opinion
Number of Words: 696 / Number of Pages: 3
... may adorn a pair of well-adapted denim jeans with holes in the knees. He might choose to wear an over-sized shirt that is garnished with the name of some eighties band that is of no importance to anyone other than himself.
Unfortunately, individualists are banned from their choice of clothes in several areas of society. They are informed they can not wear their pieces of flair in malls or other public scenes because of the biased fear: if a human being looks unusual, that person is a threat to society. It is a shame that people who are so enormously creative and out going are chastise from showing ...
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Hackers
Number of Words: 799 / Number of Pages: 3
... software, which causes the prices of software to increase, thus increasing the price the public must pay for the programs. Companies reason that if they have a program that can be copied onto a disc then they will lose a certain amount of their profit. People will copy it and give to friends or pass it around on the Internet. To compensate, they will raise the price of disc programs. CD Rom programs cost more to make but are about the same price as disc games. Companies don't loose money on them because it is difficult to copy a CD Rom and impossible to transmit over the Internet (Facts on File #285 ...
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Aggression
Number of Words: 441 / Number of Pages: 2
... leads one to wonder if “testosterone equals ” or if “ equals testosterone.”1 He says that numerous studies have been done to figure it out; but have never been able to come to a scientific conclusion. In his essay he goes on to state his view that “Hormones seem to many to be more real, more substantive, than the ephemera of behavior, so when a correlation occurs, it must be because hormones regulate behavior, not the other way around.”2
The most reliably information has been found in numerous tests that there is no scientific evidence that links testosterone and . “Evidence documenting a relat ...
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Cultural Synopsis: The Philipp
Number of Words: 584 / Number of Pages: 3
... Tagalog, English is one of the two official languages.
The Philippines achieved full political independence in 1946, following four years of occupation by Japanese armed forces during World War II. The period since independence has been marked by repeated crises. The Philippines consists of 7,000 islands of only which 2,000 are inhabited. The two largest islands are Luzon and Mindanao and seventy-nine percent of the population are located on these isles. In 1996 the population was estimated at 70 million people. 10 million live in metro Manila, the capital of the country.
The Philippine educat ...
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