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Joel Tenesaca
Writing for the Social Sciences
Ethnography
The True Problem with Immigration in Today’s United States
When you think of immigration and the problems that are arising now due to it, which side of the sword do you stand at? In today’s United States, it seems that every day there’s a new problem arising with the topic of immigration, to be exact, illegal immigration. You’ll hear of a murder or an arrest for all sorts of crimes occurring at the hands of these illegal immigrants, and the news paints a gruesome picture of them, turning a country that was founded as a country of immigrants, against each other. Well, as a Hispanic undocumented immigrant (as oppose to the
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Jessica Hitchings S312503
S118: Community Assessment
Introduction
The social determinants of health (SDH) describe various aspects that may contribute to the health and wellbeing of an individual or community. Specifically, the SDH explore the factors which indicate how people grow and age, how they learn and work and their ability to have equal access and opportunity. The SDH assessment circle (McMurray & Clendon, 2015) is a resource that can successfully be used to explore the health of the Indigenous Australian community. This report will assess research and present evidence using the SDH assessment circle to further explore the reasons for health inequity within the Indigenous
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Do you agree that we now have a ‘global economy’? Justify your answer.
Yes we do, but its full of inequality
Globalisation is a system where goods and services re transferred
It’s a local market gone global
What is an economy?
Economy is where income...
Resource and wealth distribution...
Introduction/Thesis
Yes we have global economy but rid with inequality and poverty. DEFINE
The
Market is a place where people buy and sell. Commodities bought and sold for a given price as standard in local market. Globalisation, according to Schafer et. al, [footnoteRef:1] is the economic and sociological and cultural process by which nation-states, organisations and induvial become increasingly
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, I acquired a Master’s degree in social work. This allowed me to gain valuable experience in dealing with people who are in need. I did some individual counseling and I also worked at a Prison College Program. These experiences gave me insight on how to give guidance to those who are struggling.
Q: What specific services do you offer and how are they attainable?
A: I offer many courses at ECC. In these classes, I prepare students on how to handle patients in real-life circumstances. I do this by setting up a Field Placement Program, where the students interact with different clients and get hands-on experience. These courses are available to anyone registered in ECC. I, also, offer
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Mike Jensen Davis Section Blue Career Plan Entertainment Industry As technology plays an increasing role in the entertainment industry the need for people with the skills to create unbelievable special effects and harness the power of the computer becomes greater. There are several areas in which technology has improved upon the entertainment industries ability to wow their customers. From special effects created by computer generated imaging that allow a movie producer to bring dinosaurs back to life to the huge databases needed to create 3D sports events allowing fans to watch a game from any angle. One of the primary attractions of this industry for me is the huge influence it has on our
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Skateboarding is a very extreme sport. Professional skateboarders are dedicated to being as extreme as they can in competition. Skateboard competition is divided into three categories which are: vert, street, and freestyle.The first type of competition is vert or vertical riding. Vert competitions began in empty swimming pools, but are now held in large half pipes. A half pipe is considered the more difficult one. While on the half pipe, skateboarders try to rise beyond the coping of the half pipe and perform various tricks. Vert competition is considered the most radical form of skateboarding in terms of risk.The second type of competition is street. Street competition involves performing a
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College of Arts and Sciences - What work of art, music, science, mathematics, or literature has surprised, unsettled, or challenged you, and in what way?
When I was around the age of eight, my family and I experienced a devastating house fire that left us homeless, without possessions, and lost. Left Wwith little to nothing, my family and I moved to a decrepit, pre-Civil War farmhouse. Buried Nestled behind towering oak trees and off of a country back roads, we had found a hidden treasure – Arnold Farm.
The house was builtBuilt in the early 1800’s, so itthe house had its a wide collection of problems. The paint throughout the entire house, inside and out, was fading and chipping;, the water
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Archives of Control Sciences
Volume 25(LXI), 2015
No. 4, pages 513–527
Reference trajectory tracking for a multi-DOF
robot arm
RÓBERT KRASŇANSKÝ, PETER VALACH, DÁVID SOÓS, JAVAD ZARBAKHSH
This paper presents the problem of tracking the generated reference trajectory by the
simulation model of a multi-DOF robot arm. The kinematic transformation between task
space and joint configuration coordinates is nonlinear and configuration dependent. To
obtain the solution of the forward kinematics problem, the homogeneous transformation
matrix is used. A solution to the inverse kinematics is a vector of joint configuration coordi-
nates calculated using of pseudoinverse Jacobian technique. These
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Sense Perception’s Role in Natural Sciences
Today in Physics HL class, we learned about the Doppler Effect. The Doppler Effect is the phenomenon where waves are lengthened or compressed either when an observer moves towards the source, or the source moves towards the observer. This is most commonly observed through when an ambulance rushes by an observer and makes a sound that seems to change pitch.
It seems that this phenomenon is supported by the use of sense perception in the form of hearing, as when moving objects emitting sound waves passes by an observer, the observer hears a change in pitch. This leads me to wonder how this phenomenon was first discovered. I know that sense
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Case StudyStem CellsThis argument concentrates on the value of Stem Cells. First off, Stem cells are the earliest of cells that give rise to other types of cells, and have the potential to turn into many different types of tissue. Like Totipotent cells. Totipotent cells are considered the "master" cells of the body because they contain all the genetic information needed to create all the cells of the body, plus the placenta. So in other words, Stem Cell research can go along way to figure out the body's functions, and disease causing illnesses.So the British took in affect that this research is extremely valuable to their country and waist no time in testing their research further. No wonder
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When linguists claim that their discipline is the scientific study of language, they have in mind certain principles which distinguish between a scientific and a non-scientific study of language. First, linguistics is objective, that is, it considers all languages to be equal. For a linguist, there are no 'primitive', 'pure', 'beautiful', 'cultural', or 'sophisticated' languages. Objectivity is difficult to attain because language is so familiar to us that we can hardly dissociate ourselves from it. The objective study of language is hindered by various cultural, social and historical misconceptions about certain languages. Linguistics has demonstrated that any language, however 'primitive
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- topics that reflect on humans. "One could say physical anthropology is closely related to the biological sciences just as cultural anthropology is closely related to the other social sciences and the humanities, however it is the integration of these two approaches that characterizes anthropology" (Haviland 7).Linguistic anthropology covers language of families and includes population migrations and informs the public of the importance of the culture. For example, a culture's many ways of describing a single word can denote the word's importance to that culture. "Ultimately, language is what allows people to preserve and transmit their culture from generation to generation" (Haviland 13).The
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large groups of people, we never really have more than 100-200 people within our 5 layers of social network. We are limited by social constraints such as lack of time which we can devote to forming and maintaining relationships and we are also limited by our cognitive capacity.
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Dunbar, R. I
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COMPREHENSIVE
This course is part of GVSU’s General Education Program and counts as a Foundation: Life Sciences
The goal of the program is to prepare you for intelligent participation in public dialogues that consider the issues of humane living and responsible action in local, national, and global communities.
The program is designed to increase your knowledge and skills in the following areas:
Knowledge Goals:
1. The major areas of human investigation and accomplishment - the arts, the humanities, the mathematical sciences, the natural sciences, and the social sciences.
2. An understanding of one's own culture and the cultures of others.
3. The tradition of humane inquiry that informs moral
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. and Hughes, G. (2000) DD121 Introductory Chapter. Tales of fear and frustration: The crime problem in the contempory UK, Milton Keynes, The Open University.·The Open University (2000) DD121 An Introduction to the social sciences: Understanding social change, Introductory block introductory workbook, Milton Keynes, The Open University.·The Open University (1999) DD121 An Introduction to the social sciences: Understanding social change, TV 01 The Agony and the Ecstasy: Moral Panics and Youth Culture, Milton Keynes, The Open University.
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(Marsh and Stoker 2010: 1999) Therefore, Constructivists dispute the ‘foundationalist’ ontology used by positivists and behaviouralist. Marsh and Stoker argue because the world is constructed socially, constructivists see little ‘real world’ for the study of political science. Constructivists see the social sciences as a hermeneutic effort to identify meaning, rather than explanation through casual relations. (Marsh and Stoker 2010: 80). Constructivists reject the claim by positivists that the study of natural and social sciences can use the same methods. By understanding our identity and language we can understand meaning rather than just description.
On the other hand, a positivists believe
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projected to decline in the electric generation but
projected to increase in research, development in engineering, scientific management, and in
consulting services (“Nuclear Engineers”). Nuclear Engineers develop many things that
contribute to research and advancement of life, but to do so they need to know how to.
A bachelor's degree is generally required for entry-level engineering jobs. Colleges
generally look for students with a well-built background in mathematics such as algebra,
geometry, trigonometry, and calculus, and sciences such as biology, chemistry, and physics.
Courses in English, social sciences, humanities, and computers are also required (“ Nuclear
Engineer”). The first two
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equilibrium theory in the postwar era has "made the theory a less useable tool" . To put it simply, economics has narrowed the horizon of what is knowable in development theory into a narrow band which comprises only the set of what can be measured. Anything else becomes nonexistent.Anxious not to lose its authority and dominance in the realm of development, a revolution has begun within economics. In order to account for the unknown forces in societal change, or what have been classified in the language of economists as market imperfections, it has sought to 'bring in' to its analyses the other social sciences. Stiglitz, for instance, recognizes that every country has a unique history, culture
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There have been many astonishing civilizations in the history of our planet and many have affected current day social order, but none so much as ancient Rome. American and Europe, western society, share a somewhat similar government as to Rome's astounding one and the certain "doggedness" that was viewed as a Roman virtue might easily be seen in the children of the west. Also, arts, architecture, and sciences are comparable to that of the Romans, and like the Romans, America borrows its ideas from other cultures and attempts to improve upon them, or at least structure them to fit the views of the people. Current day western religion, which is normally considered to be Christianity, first
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introduced to. Darwinism was used to classify individuals as inferior justifying actions against them, but social Darwinism and Eugenics helped form the immigrant experience in America; whereas fundamentalist Christians opposed Darwin.
When individuals are classified as inferior all while justifying their actions against them, this is said to be a form of Social Darwinism. The idea that humans are superior to other animals is based on the belief that they are born with certain characteristics, such as intelligence or physical strength. The human culture evolves by concentrating on cultural differences through a process of survival. It has been said that the strategy of increasing cultural
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personality and social psychology, 93(5), 880.
Duchek, J. M., Balota, D. A., Storandt, M., & Larsen, R. (2007). The power of personality in discriminating between healthy aging and early-stage Alzheimer's disease. The Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, 62(6), P353-P361.
Dudek, S. Z., & Hall, W. B. (1991). Personality consistency: Eminent architects 25 years later. Creativity Research Journal, 4(3), 213-231.
Fayard, J. V., Roberts, B. W., Robins, R. W., & Watson, D. (2012). Uncovering the affective core of conscientiousness: The role of self‐conscious emotions. Journal of Personality, 80(1), 1-32.
Friedman, H. S., Tucker, J. S., Tomlinson-Keasey, C
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are important for environmental change adjustment.
Keywords: global warming, endangered, ozone
Different Effects and Consequences of Global Warming
An unnatural weather change has a great deal of negative impacts. There are a wide range of sciences behind a worldwide temperature alteration. An unnatural weather change likewise has a great deal negative sociological impacts. A worldwide temperature alteration is one of the world's most questionable themes today and has been for quite a while. A broad temperature support has been an outstandingly debatable topic for a long time. An unnatural climate change has an impressive measure of negative effects. There are extensive varieties of
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, Australia, Jan 2012", 2018). Between 1995 and 2005, an estimated 813,000 Australians were hospitalised for injury or disease attributed to alcohol and in those same ten years, approximately 32,700 Australians aged fifteen years and over, died from causes associated with binge or high-risk drinking ("4125.0 - Gender Indicators, Australia, Jan 2012", 2018). The reasons why people drink is varied and more complex than one isolated factor. It is important to understand the reason why, in order to implement
enact effective interventions ("Binge drinking (alcohol intoxication disorder) myVMC", 2018).
Symbolic interactionism is one of many theories in social sciences. SI is a micro level framework
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how mathematics is fallible and dubious, but in the 21st century very few would agree with this point. In a very technologically based society, mathematics is held with utmost respect and factual certainty. It's because of incredible advances in this field, as well as other sciences, that we live with such ease and comfort today. Nothing seems more "existent" than being able to truly experience life globally thanks to cell phones, computers, etc.The other side of the comparison that Descartes argues is the existence of God. Ironically, I would argue that today's society, at least in the United States, is at an all time low in terms of belief in God. A recent study showed that 18-29 year olds
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they come together?
Science is analyzed by checking the facts and making sure they are all accurate. There is no room for interpretation or imagination. Science is very by the books. Usually the arts follow the path of emotion, in contrast to the sciences.
5. What is the language of consciousness or awareness?
To have a conscious, you must be aware of the rights and wrongs of society. You can read and comprehend what regulations are set in place and make decisions to abide within/outside of them.
6. How does the third level of language separate man from animals?
Both man & animals base their primal actions off desire. Warmth, food, sexual reproduction, etc. However, there is also a desire to
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Jenny Watson 1701221
What aspect of Modernity most worried Durkheim?
Modernity is a term used to describe what happened after traditional and federal societies ended,
when people began to put trust in their progress. Modernity is also a theory and can be described
as an expiation of social phenomena which has yet been proven to be false. Durkheim was largely
influenced by both Auguste Comte and Herbert Spencer. He learnt from Comte that there needed
to be a new discipline for studying human relationships and we need social sciences in order to
study the way in which we are all shaped by society. He was influenced by Spencer through his
analogy that society was like an organism although
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authoritarian and permissive home environments.
Authoritative parenting style is the medium between the restrictive authoritarian parenting style
Newell 5
and the lenient permissive parenting style. It is this perfect balance of parental authority, and
encouragement for individuality that allows for the remarkable level of creativity found in adults
today.
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List of Work Cited
Mehrinejad, Seyed A. “The Relationship between Parenting Styles and Creativity and the
Predictability of Creativity by Parenting Styles.” Procedia: Social and Behavioral Sciences 205:
(2015): 56-60.
Berthelsen, Donna. “Creativity: What Does It Mean in the Family Context?” Journal of
Australian Research in Early
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. Critically evaluate FOUR ways in which the media impacts on values and belief about relationships.
Social media is changing our relationship styles in several important ways.
· First, the media allows us to connect with more people more rapidly.
· Second, it’s easy to overestimate the level of intimacy of our online relationships.
· Third, it makes us more susceptible to a sort of social media contagion effect, which means you may possibly start adopting behaviours, attitudes, and beliefs from those within our social network.
· Fourth, social media facilitates comparing ourselves with others, which may have positive or negative effects.
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Question: 3
Topic: Democracy and Human Rights
3.1
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. Critically evaluate FOUR ways in which the media impacts on values and belief about relationships.
Social media is changing our relationship styles in several important ways.
· First, the media allows us to connect with more people more rapidly.
· Second, it’s easy to overestimate the level of intimacy of our online relationships.
· Third, it makes us more susceptible to a sort of social media contagion effect, which means you may possibly start adopting behaviours, attitudes, and beliefs from those within our social network.
· Fourth, social media facilitates comparing ourselves with others, which may have positive or negative effects.
·
Question: 3
Topic: Democracy and Human Rights
3.1
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doctoral-prepared registered nurse with additional forensic
training in family violence and child maltreatment. She received her BSN in 2009 and her PhD
in 2014, both from Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing. She completed a 1-year Morton
K. and Jane Blaustein Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing prior
to joining The Hong Kong Polytechnic University.
Deborah A. Gross DNSc, RN, is best known for her work in promoting positive parent-child
relationships and preventing behavior problems in preschool children from low-income
neighborhoods. At Johns Hopkins, she holds joint appointments at the School of Nursing, the
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences in
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that feedback into this assignment.
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Date: 7/15/18
APA citation article #1:
Lee, S., & Chae, Y. (2007). Children’s internet use in a family context: Influence on
family relationships and parental mediation. CyberPsychology & Behavior, 10, 640–644.
DOI:10.1089/cpb.2007.9975.
APA citation article #2:
Williams, A., & Merten, M. (2011) Family: Internet and Social Media Technology in the Family
Context. Family and Consumer Sciences Research Journal Vol. 40, No. 2, December
2011 150–170DOI: 10.1111/j.1552-3934.2011.02101.x
General topic of articles:
Social Media Use in the Family Context and its Influence on Family Relationships
Introduction
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medical advice, and monitor patient health. An example of a social network with this purpose is WebView, created by the Georgia Health Sciences University. This network enables online communication between patient and doctor, where patients can send queries, and doctors can answer (Lee Ventola, 2014). 60% of doctors support this kind of usage of social media as it is seen as an effective way to be updated about, and to provide the best care to, their patients (Househ, 2013). Lee Ventola (2014) also found that communicating with patients in this way can increase customer satisfaction. Therefore, it can be seen that this technological trend allows for greater communication between doctor and
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is that there are a number of external and internal factors that may influence on athlete´s performance (Fletcher & Sarkar, 2012). In view of those factors, sport psychology researchers have stated some specific psychological influences that have impact on competitive performance, regarding Olympic success, those factors are, personality, relationship between athletes and coaches, and social media.
First, personality has been stated as “the relatively enduring patterns of thoughts, feelings, and behaviors that reflect the tendency to respond in certain ways under certain circumstances” (Roberts, 2009, p.140). Fletcher and Sarkar (2012) describe that numerous positive personality
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; (Ginther and Kahn, 2006). The social cultural factors influence the differences in performance of boys and girls in mathematics and science education.
The society has a strong influence on how men and women perform in science and mathematics because it defines what role, duty or assignment is to be fulfilled by each (Marini, 2010). In Zittleman (2007) states “In elementary school, both male and females report that they like math and science, and their test scores are comparable. Yet by the 12th grade, females report less positive attitudes and consider math and science harder subjects than do boys” (pg. 77). According to West and Zimmerman (2007), it is the aspect of men and women doing
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FERDINAND DE SAUSSURE‘S CONTRIBUTIONS
Ferdinand de Saussure (November 26, 1857 – February 22, 1913) was a Swiss linguist whose ideas laid the foundation for many of the significant developments in linguistics in the twentieth century. He is widely considered the "father" of twentieth century linguistics, and his work laid the foundation for the approach known as structuralism in the broader field of the social sciences. Although his work established the essential framework of future studies, his ideas contained many limitations and fundamental weaknesses as later scholars recognized that underlying structure and rules, while informative, cannot be the sole determinant of meaning and value
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psychology where “social psychology becomes a powerful post-dictive science of meaning more than a predictive science of control based on the models of physical sciences” (p.17). (Cherry, 1995) cautions that social psychologists study and hypothesize through their own cultures, beliefs, values and personal philosophies on the events, which can result in inaccurate theorising.
Murakami (2001) in this article has transcribed a narrative by Yamazaki who was travelling by a train to work on March 20, 1995 when an act of domestic terrorism was unleased by members of the cult movement Aum Shinrikyo by releasing sarin, a highly toxic synthetic organophosphorus compound, on three lines of Tokyo
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culture. He had thetime and the resources to educate himself in many topics including history, literature,law, architecture, science, and philosophy. He had the motivation and the connections toapply Enlightenment political philosophy to nation-building. Denis Diderot was a Frenchencyclopedist and philosopher, who also composed plays, novels, essays, and art. Hegreatly influenced other Enlightenment thinkers with his translations of Encyclopedie oudictionnaire raisonne des sciences, des arts et des metiers, usually known asEncyclopedie. He used this translation as a powerful propaganda weapon againstEcclesiastical authority, and the semifeudal social reforms of the time. Protestantism is agood
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Matthew Cerasia
Professor DeNigris
General Psychology
27 February 2018
Critical Thinking Essay 1
After reading through the articles in the Journal of Psychology and Behavioral Sciences, I chose
to review “A Literature Review on Video Games, Perception, & Identity” by Kathleen Falcon for this
assignment . In her article Falcon analyses the influence that video games can have on . However, this
article moves away from studying how video games can cause people to be more violent or aggressive as
that is one of the most popular topics in video game literature, and focuses on other themes in video game
research such as “attachment and empathy, identification, and gender roles and biases
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social identity. Language is a gift that will forever be giving. Many have even acquired the depths of bilingual speaking; meaning they can fluently speak two languages. Children across the globe are falling into this category of multi-language ability and it continues to receive questioning. Even more so being that these languages are introduced during the most critical moments of brain development. The question of bilingualism becomes this; is bilingualism good or bad for the cognitive development of children?
For a handful of researchers, scientists, and linguists, it is true that bilingualism raises more problems for the cognitive development of children. Many theories seek to examine the
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Logic contribute to the way computers think?
It is often used in computer sciences to make decisions based on percentages and educated calculations.
5. What is the effect of Fuzzy Logic on the evolution of products, social media and AI?
It is useful in artificial intelligence research as technology can begin to function more like a human. It helps social media show the content that the person wants instead of showing them other videos, this is what Instagram has been doing.
6. Know the rules governing valid and invalid deductive syllogisms
Rule 1: Exactly three categorical terms
To be valid, a syllogism must have exactly three categorical terms, and their sense mustn't vary over the course of
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traditional ideas. This "intellectual reform" led not only to the transformation of science - which gradually developed into a range of many and varied sciences, each of them in turn splitting up into more and more specialized sub disciplines - but also to one of perceptions, structures, and institutions40. The break between arts and crafts and science reflected a break in the social order and hence a class distinction; technology, until then reserved for the "servile class," becomes the indispensable collaborator of speculative science, which had been reserved for the "professional class."41 This nearing of theory and practice was a revolutionary turn at both the intellectual and the social
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BRIEF REPORT
When two heads are better than one: Interactive versus
independent benefits of collaborative cognition
Allison A. Brennan & James T. Enns
# Psychonomic Society, Inc. 2014
Abstract Previous research has shown that two heads work-
ing together can outperform one working alone, but whether
such benefits result from social interaction or from the statis-
tical facilitation of independent responses is not clear. Here we
apply Miller’s (Cognitive Psychology, 14, 247–279, 1982;
Ulrich, Miller & Schröter, Behavior Research Methods,
39(2), 291–302, 2007) race model inequality (RMI) to distin-
guish between these two possibilities. Pairs of participants
completed a visual enumeration
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from each other. While Marxist ideas were written and revolutionized in the 19th Century, his social theories remain deeply important today. We still live in a Capitalist society and conform to capitalist ideas on a daily basis. With the help of Marx, the ideas and problems of alienation are brought to light. [1: Bloch, Ernst, Anne Halley, and Darko Suvin. ""Entfremdung, Verfremdung": Alienation, Estrangement." The Drama Review: TDR 15, no. 1 (1970): 120-25. ] [2: Joseph, J. 2006. Marxism and Social Theory. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillian. Page 9.]
Workers find themselves confronted with the powers of their own essence, in the form of alien objects. [footnoteRef:3] Alienation from
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, politics and even military staffs. The aim of this research paper is to show the problems and obstacles that women face in the international political process. Also raising awareness about the present status of women in the society.According to dictionary of International relations: "gender - in common with other branches of the social sciences and humanities…" In most countries there are a lot of negative and sometimes discriminative understandings about the role of woman. This makes feelings about the women of their disadvantages in the society. At the time of scientific, technical and informative progress men have always been in the dominant places. This is a tangible understanding
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Running Head: ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY 2
ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY 2
Annotated Bibliography
Richard D. Reese
ENG 111-08A
Professor Traci Bryan Frey
Purpose Statement
The audience for my annotated bibliography is my curious academic peers in this English 111-08A class and my instructor, Traci Bryan Frey. We were to pick a core reading and identify an issue from the reading to research about that interested us. This issue is possibly known, but I hope to give more information as to why I believe it is important. While reading about our core readings about social media, my mind became intrigued about what happens when identities are hidden and when online anonymity is witnessed and what kind
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88 May-16
Artistic Education 85 Dec-15 Artistic Education 86 May-16
Business Education 90 Dec-15 Computer Science 85 May-16
Institutional Orientation N/A Institutional Orientation N/A
Moral and Civic Education 80 Dec-15 Moral and Civic Education 95 May-16
School of origin: APEC E-LEARNING CENTERS (CENAPEC, Spanish acronym)
National Competency Tests Final Mark.
Subjects Sessions Mark School Year
Spanish Language 1st Session 75 2015-2016
Mathematics 1st Session 77 2015-2016
Social Sciences 1st Session 78 2015-2016
Natural Sciences 1st Session 72 2015-2016
This certification has been issued upon request of the interested party in Santo Domingo, on the 16th day of the month of October of the
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bribing, then they would be fined, and the money was used to make a statue of Zeus. The Greeks tried to keep some aspects of politics out of the Olympics, but their efforts met with limited success. The Olympic truce was meant to end the hostilities throughout Greece, to allow competitors to travel and participate safely, but it was not always practiced.
· Have any of the ancient examples influenced our cultural ideals?
Antient Greece is responsible for so many of the world’s early steps into language, politics, education and the sciences. It was home to the first recognized historian Herodotus. He was one of the first writers to collect stories of ancient Greece and have them survive for
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standard method of formatting that is required in college Liberal Arts and Humanities Courses. American Psychological Association Formatting (APA) is a similar, but slightly different format that is used for writing in the social sciences. Most high schools, including Connecting Waters, prefer MLA since it is more commonly used.
Useful Tools:
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placed in an organism, the process cannot be reversed. Public reaction to the use of rDNA in genetic engineering has been mixed. The production of medicines through the use of genetically altered organisms has generally been welcomed. However, critics of rDNA fear that disease-producing, organisms used in some rDNA experiments might develop extremely infectious forms that could cause worldwide epidemics [7].
http://www.jbiomeds.com/biomedical-sciences/human-social-and-environmental-impacts-of-human-genetic-engineering.php?aid=7264
Benefits of genetic engineering:
· Genetic modification is a faster and more efficient way of getting the same results as selective breeding.
· Improve crop
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