writing‚ and arithmetic. If one is simply good at taking tests‚ but not actually skilled in the tested subjects of education‚ how is it fair that they are admitted to top schools when those with poor test taking skills fail‚ but possess more than the required skills in the tested subjects? The SAT‚ however‚ is not the only way to measure a students’ level of knowledge and ability. The debate about the SAT has been ongoing for a few years now. The US news reports‚ “Opponents condemn the practice as biased;
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Who is Santa Claus? He is a man of mystery‚ a fat man in a red suit who sneaks into homes not to steal but to give‚ and he is a household name for American families all across the country. He is a common story told at Christmas time‚ from parents to children‚ passed down from generation to generation. Why is this storytelling such a common practice? Does it have any effect on the children when they realize that Santa is not real‚ or does Santa stand for such a fundamental concept of American culture
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Large Scale Fading and Channel modeling Using Matlab March 2012 Large scale fading and channel modeling Using Matlab Introduction The fading phenomenon can be broadly classified into two different types: large-scale fading and small-scale fading. Large-scale fading occurs as the mobile moves through a large distance‚ for example‚ a distance of the order of cell size . It is caused by path loss of signal as a function of distance and shadowing by large objects such as
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INDUSTRIES LARGE-SCALE AND SMALL-SCALE The following pages describe the industrial life and activity of the district. The chapter is divided into three sections: (1) Large-Scale Industries‚ (2) Small-Scale Industries and (3) Labour Organization. It is‚ however‚ to be noted that the statistics given in the section on large-scale industries which include employment and such other aspects as capital investment‚ production etc. are included‚ are not in respect of the industry as a whole but pertain
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faculty advisor(s). Updated 10/2010 Table of Contents |1.0 |Jinan Thesis Guideline……………………………………………………………………... |4 | |2.0 |Preparation of the Thesis…………………………………………………………….......... |4 | | |2.1 |General Guidelines……………………………………………………………………
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Renoir’s Large Bathers As a student in a suburb of Philadelphia‚ I have had the opportunity to visit the Philadelphia Museum of Art on multiple occasions over the last two and a half years. On some visits‚ I spend my time staring at Van Gogh’s Sunflowers while other times I dedicate my time to admiring the Sculpture Garden; but one thing that stays the same through every visit is my shameless staring‚ dare I say gawking‚ at Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s Large Bathers. This 1887 oil on canvas is
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Unique Dilemmas and Dynamics in LGIs Bunker and Alban (1997) discuss four dynamics of large groups that can occur that practitioners need to pay special attention to‚ they are: 1. The dilemma of voice (amount of individual airtime and the feeling of being heard) occurs primarily because in large groups people may feel like they have not had a real opportunity to speak or be heard. Because of this‚ people may feel marginalized and further withdraw from the group‚ even when they do have the
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study‚ the limitation of the study and the scope of the study. 1.1 Background of the Study (Levy and Weitz 2009) defines that “retailer” is a business that sells products and/or services to consumers for their personal or family use. Retailers are the final business in a supply chain that links manufacture to consumers. According to Kotler and Armstrong (2006) a retailer is a business whose sales come primarily from retailing. Although most retailing is done in retail stores‚ in recent year’s non
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RENDERING A NEWSPAPER ARTICLE Rendering a text from a source onto a target language is a linguistic procedure that presupposes simultaneous operations of compressing the original text to the limits of its informational necessity and sufficiency and choosing the most effective linguistic means of the target language to convey the message of the original text. To render a newspaper article consider the following points: 1) Read the original text to define its problematic issue. 2)
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Week 1 - Webliography Assignment Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) This assignment is worth up to 50 points and involves researching and writing an entry for the Webliography section of our course. The assignment references the following TCOs: * TCO1 as it applies to cause-and-effect research in social psychology * TCO 3 as it applies to the effects of a psychological disorder. Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is an anxiety disorder that is caused by a person’s experiencing
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