Jessica Carlson Professor Adrienne Cassel English 112 24 September 2010 Summary of “Multitasking Can Make You Lose…Um…Um…Focus …Focus” Alina Tugend According to Alina Tugend in the article “Multitasking Can Make You Lose” people are more prone to doing multiple things at once. Although multitasking may seem to preserve more time‚ according to many studies will produce less effective results. Since the early 1990’s multitasking has been thought of as an efficient way of saving time
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Everyman: Morality Play Summary Aaron Braswell A prologue‚ read by the Messenger asks the audience to give their attention and announces the purpose of the play‚ which will show us our lives as well as our deaths (“our ending”) and how we humans are always (“all day”) transitory: changing from one state into another. God speaks next‚ and immediately launches into a criticism of the way that “all creatures” are not serving Him properly. People are living without “dread” (fear) in the world without
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Comparative Summary Everyone was shocked by the massacre in Sandy Hook on December 14‚ 2012. A 20-years-old boy shot 20 children and 6 adults at a school in Sandy Hook. This news attracted many people’s attentions and caused fierce argument about whether the right of owning guns of American citizens should be restricted. Many people think that we should make limitations on gun control. Joshpe‚ a conservative and a Republican‚ discusses the importance of Republicans on the need to make sensible
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Reflective Summary Section 1 What did you learn? The Forum aimed at raising the awareness of e-health and health informatics‚ promoting e-health development. There was experience sharing session about project collaboration among Mainland China‚ Hong Kong‚ Macau and Taiwan. In addition‚ the introduction of new technologies and international standards encouraged cooperation between domestic and foreign regions on medical informatics and internationalization of standards. All these were new
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Group Novel: ___Matched_________________ This week’s reading assignment This week‚ we read from page _325____ to page _366____ Summary of Reading (min. 400 words) Cassia and Ky were hiking for the last time and they were supposed to take all the ribbons that they made down but Ky wanted to go to the top of the hill. So they ran to the top of the hill and they kiss. The next day Cassia wakes up to screaming and everyone walks outside. Ky’s mom is screaming and crying and obviously
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Prep for EDAHOD5 – Assessment 1. Outcomes based assessment * What to assess. Things we want the learners to be able to know and to do by end of learning programme * Demonstrations of learning * An outcome includes knowledge skills and attitudes * To assess we must provide opportunities to be deemed competent * Assess knowledge‚ skills and attitude‚ therefore Outcomes based as opposed to input based * When doing this assessment we use a set of assessment criteria – formative
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BLINK- SUMMARY The Blink thesis can be summarised thus: * Split-second decisions can be far more accurate than drawn-out‚ deliberate‚ “rational”‚ decisions. * However‚ split-second decisions can also be heavily flawed. * Interventions can be made to help people harness the power of split-second decisions. EVIDENCE OF SPLIT-SECOND DECISIONS OVER DELIBERATE DECISIONS * Experiment subjects quickly started following the profitable strategy in a card game‚ but could not explain why until much later
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Page 1 of 7 Forensic Accounting School of Business ACC/556 Version 3 Forensic Accounting Copyright © 2009‚ 2008 by University of Phoenix. All rights reserved. 352.567.1821 (EST) Course Description Facilitator: Jessica Wilder wilder11@email.phoenix.edu (UOPX) jessica_wilder@hotmail.com (Personal) In this course‚ students are introduced to the conduct of fraud examinations‚ including a discussion of specific procedures used in forensic accounting examinations and the reasoning behind
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Summary On “The Plague” In the book‚ “The Plague‚” the author‚ Albert Camus‚ solidifies the importance that evil has in bringing people a newfound hope/ faith. The book is set in at the location‚ 194-Oran which is a French port on the Algerian coast. The town is plain. The author believes the people may care more for money than their own happiness. The people don’t take time to process the world around them. The main character is Dr. Bernard Rieux‚ often referred to in the text as Rieux. Over time
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Summary & Response: How It Feels To Be Colored Me Living in a world where it is foreign to be colored was hard for many people of this nature in the 1920s. For Zora Neale Hurston‚ this was not a challenge at all. This high-spirited girl gives an explanation of how it felt to be‚ “...like a brown paper bag of miscellany propped against a wall” (Hurston 197). Written by Hurston herself‚ “How It Feels To Be Colored” gives us a humorous‚ sarcastic-ridden view of what her childhood was like from her
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