“Being a president is like running a cemetery‚ you have a lot of people under you but no one is listening.” This is one of numerous quotes from Bill Clinton. Many people would think Clinton was a great president. Bill had more of a rough childhood‚ but still found ways to be like a normal child. He seemed to get his life more together by high school‚ and was doing well by the time he got to college. His life after college also turned out pretty well. Bill was born August 19‚ 1946‚ in Hope‚ Arkansas
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Confirmation bias is a common bias among individuals. The textbook defines Confirmation bias as “ the tendency to notice and search for information that confirms one’s beliefs and to ignore information that dis-confirms one’s beliefs.” (Baumeister) Like many biases can be beneficial as well as detrimental to ones future. The textbook uses an example of someone who is told by a phychic that he will become a famous astrologer. He most likely had an interest in this topic‚ and quite possibly could have
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Medical Devices For many patients‚ medical devices deliver valuable relief from critical‚ yet failing‚ anatomical mechanisms within their body. An implantable cardioverter – defibrillator (ICD) is one such device that‚ when implanted into the upper left torso‚ delivers high voltage jolts of electricity to patients who are at risk for life-threatening arrhythmias. Ultimately‚ they have the potential capacity to resynchronize one’s cardiac rhythm to the extent that imminent death may be averted. Although
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Hillary Clinton was born on October 26‚ 1947. She got her law degree at Yale University‚ and Hillary met Bill Clinton there‚ and later married him in 1975. She was first lady from 1993 to 2001. She was then a New York senator from 2001 to 2009. In 2007 Hillary started her campaign to run for president‚ and then dropped out of the race. After winning the election‚ President Obama appointed Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State. She was secretary from 2009 to 2013. In 2015 Hillary Clinton announced
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Literary Devices Allegory A form of extended metaphor‚ in which objects‚ persons‚ and actions in a narrative‚ are equated with the meanings that lie outside the narrative itself. The underlying meaning has moral‚ social‚ religious‚ or political significance and characters are often personifications of abstract ideas as charity‚ greed‚ or envy. Thus an allegory is a story with two meanings‚ a literal meaning and a symbolic meaning. Alliteration The repetition of the same sound at the beginning
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A partisan bias is when a person of a certain group shows a biased emotional allegiance to a particular group of people or ideas. “While an unbiased system yields identical electoral college votes for equivalent Republican and Democratic vote proportions‚ a biased
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higher your structure is to be‚ the deeper must be its foundation” Therefore if you wish to lead without bias you must hold yourself to a higher standard. On balance‚ Parmenides speaks about building upon a solid foundation as well when it comes to the subject of leading without bias. Parmenides answers the question‚ what is your perspective of the ability of educators to lead without bias? “You must learn all things‚ both the unshaken heart of persuasive truth‚ and the opinions of mortals in
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Literary Device Glossary Allusion: An implied or indirect reference to a person‚ event‚ or thing that has to do with another part of a text. Can be direct quotes or it can be indirect things that are implied. Most are from commonly known pieces of literature or history. Example: “but now he found that he committed himself to the following of a grail” The Great Gatsby by F.Scott Fitzgerald. Function: In this example‚ Fitzgerald alludes to the Holy Grail. What this does is show how
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Video 1.06 Storage Devices Hard Drives Hard drives are comprised of platters Read/Write heads for each platter Read and write on top and bottom of platter Never exposed to magnets Data loss may occur 137 GB Limit Hard Drive size limited to 137GB Not a physical limit Limited by address the system can support 28 bit communications limited to 268‚435‚555 addresses equates to 137 GB Flash BIOS to upgrade hard drive interfaces PATA‚ SATA‚ SCSI‚ USB‚ and FireWire most common is the
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Hillary Clinton is the only presidential candidate who is ready to combat climate change‚ but it is imperative that she advocates a carbon tax if she becomes president‚ in order to pave the path for a future Democratic president to implement. Hillary Clinton’s campaign website discusses her plans on climate change. “We can tackle [climate change] by making America the world’s clean energy superpower and creating millions of good-paying jobs‚ taking bold steps to slash carbon pollution at home
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