Gena Rhoades manages her article in a very meaningful‚ smooth way as she states her points in a significant‚ accurate style. The language of the article is very vivid for the readers. In addition‚ the clarity of information in the article makes the readers shift fluidly from one idea to another without breaking their understanding of the topic. Also‚ one of the strength points in her article is that‚ she presents different theories such as the Learning Pyramid and different points of view from different
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In this article the author was relating teenage obesity to some of the dangerous activities that teens may be experimenting with. The authors theory was that since sometimes teenagers who are obese may be socially isolated‚ they may do things to try to fit in with the crowd. Also being socially isolated may cause stress. Some of these things may include experimenting with drugs and alcohol. One of these drugs might be cigarettes which can become very dangerous to an obese person because of the health
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Brandon Mulkey Prof. Taherzadeh English 1302 23 September‚ 2014 In the article‚ “Literacy Practices‚” the authors‚ David Barton‚ and Mary Hamilton analyze literacy on not just a level of reading‚ and writing but how it is implemented‚ used‚ and affected by our daily lives. The authors see literacy as more of a social practice than just an ability that is gained. Barton and Hamilton use several propositions as a framework to build their argument. According to the authors literacy is best understood
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The articles I read cover the effects of race and economic areas on marriage rates and marriage decline. In the first article‚ Ecological Areas and Marriage Rates‚ author James Bossard discusses how the economic prosperity of areas in a city has an influence on marriage rates. In his 1928 study‚ Bossard conducted research on 20‚000 married men throughout different parts of Philadelphia‚ which was the US’s 3rd largest city at the time. Data was collected from the Philadelphia Marriage License Bureau
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Michael L. Moon Human Diversity Dr. Mancz September 5‚ 2014 Article Summaries In Modesitt’s “Mindsets”‚ the author told stories of different situations‚ in which individuals will have an opinion or “mindset” made up on different matters‚ but would not look at the other side reasoning. The author states the mindset is “an established set of attitudes held by an individual” which often cause problems because the person starts to develop a “long – established or firmly held mindset make it impossible
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The summaries of your two articles revolving around student loans states the facts and the outrageous things students have to go through to conquer their dreams of attending college or a university which is to basically to debt themselves into attaining multiple students loans from companies that only trick them into then paying more and more of what the first started of with. You also expressed that private loans rely on liquidity from investors which is a controversy in itself because it can be
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Fligstein and Shin’s (2007) article explores the cause-effect relationship between shareholder value strategies and profitability. I believe‚ however‚ that we can go deeper and say that this relationship illustrates human nature itself and how we‚ as stakeholders or managers‚ are actually mostly the problem if we view shareholder value maximization as the path to profitability and hence success. We tend to follow our own interests and have a short-term focus if our capitalistic system is incentivized
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This article tells us about a person who has been dealing with a mental illness for the majority of her life. She described how her illness made her feel as if she were wearing cracked‚ smeared goggles that only let her see the world as gray and grim. She tells us how her family and friends tried their best to keep her spirits up but‚ she could not figure out why she could not just buck up and get over it. When she finally came to terms with the fact that she was living with depression and PTSD‚
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Corruption: A cop breaks the silence on police abuse‚ brutality‚ and racial profiling. Chicago‚ Illinois: Chicago Review Press. The article entitled “The state of race relations [Editorial].” was written by M. Fletcher & K. Thompson was taken from the Courier-Journal website http://www.courier-journal.com/ dated January 17‚ 2010 but was retrieved on January 27‚ 2010. The article focuses on racial profiling‚ particularly that of Black Americans by law enforcement. The first point that Fletcher
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that will cure their autistic child. Many of these treatments have not been proven to be effective. The National Institute of Mental Health published an article‚ Fringe autism treatment could get federal study‚ to make the public aware of the unproven treatments that could possibly cure autism. I believe the author’s purpose of this article is to present this information to encourage the public to support the advancement of the study or encourage the government to continue to studies of healing
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