In her article‚ Scherrer describes how language and naming are important in constructing asexual identities and communities. Though not all individuals experience asexuality in this way‚ it is commonly defined as lacking romantic‚ sexual‚ and physical attraction towards other individuals (Scherrer 2008). Using language from a predominately heteronormative society such as binary understandings of sex and gender affect the construction of an asexual identity. For example‚ many individuals who were
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Learning 1.Nature lends a helping hand by providing animals with a set of built in inherited skills that functions at birth or shortly thereafter. * These skills are called reflexes. Some reflexes like sucking provide necessary biological supports. Other reflexes are ready made‚ swift and simple reactions to stimuli that pose a potential threat. * An example of a fixed action pattern would be salmon swimming up stream to spawn or birds seasonal migration. 2.Learning is a way that a
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Anderson/Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism: 1983 (Revised 2006)/Brooklyn‚ New York 2. What is the central theme – the topic – of the reading? “The reading is about....” Anderson articulates that a nation is an “imagined political community – and imagined as both inherently limited and sovereign” (6). People will not meet every person in their community and nationalism has been proven to be hard to define. The people from the same community will keep in their
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Blended Learning: Uncovering its transformative potential in higher education. Blending Learning has challenged higher education in the context of conducting lectures using Technology. Blending Learning has shown potential to support deep and meaningful learning pervading higher education. Many motivated educators‚ have confronted existing assumptions of teaching and learning in higher education. They have shown concerned with the growing demands from students’ expectations of high quality education
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Examine the ways in which Harper Lee presents the black community in To Kill a Mockingbird The book was written by Harper Lee during the 1950’s in America‚ and coincided with the rise of the civil rights movement. At this time in history‚ racism played a very important role in society. There was a lot of racial hatred between black and white people. It is set in the 1930s a small town called Maycomb‚ in Alabama‚ one of the Southern States. Although Maycomb is a fictitious place‚ real places
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The concept of requiring community service of college students as a requirement for graduation is based on the idea that communities and individuals can be helped in their development through volunteer service. Community service provides the opportunity for students to share their knowledge‚ skills‚ and abilities with someone who might not have benefited from such actions otherwise. Community service should be a requirement for college graduation because it helps to alleviate problems of society
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began to discuss with them as often as possible‚ sharing important information‚ until then formed the Indonesian Family Community in
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Further Education: Lifelong Learning‚ Inclusion and Community Values in Further Education (Hyland‚ T and Merrill‚ B (2003)). I will address the questions "Lifelong learning what is it? and who is it for?" and add my own thoughts and questions. Lifelong Learning The term lifelong learning’‚ indicates that learning does not stop at the end of compulsory education‚ it is a continuous process and can continue throughout a person’s life. The use of the word learning’ as opposed to education’ indicates
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E-Tivity 2: Community of Inquiry Introduction The area we choose for Community Profiling was the town of Portlaoise‚ Co Laois. Rationale The rationale for this area was to pick an area that would be useful to one of the three of us rather than an area that would not be beneficial to any of us. The consensus then was the Portlaoise town as the Community Nurse covers that area and is reasonably new in her position. It also allowed the Community Nurse to become more aware of what was
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Scalable Online Collaborative Filtering Abhinandan Das Google Inc. 1600 Amphitheatre Pkwy‚ Mountain View‚ CA 94043 Mayur Datar Google Inc. 1600 Amphitheatre Pkwy‚ Mountain View‚ CA 94043 Ashutosh Garg Google Inc. 1600 Amphitheatre Pkwy‚ Mountain View‚ CA 94043 abhinandan@google.com mayur@google.com Shyam Rajaram University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign Urbana‚ IL 61801 ashutosh@google.com rajaram1@ifp.uiuc.edu ABSTRACT Several approaches to collaborative filtering have been
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