"Comfort Women" Historians estimate there were between 80‚000 and 200‚000 comfort women during World War II. Of these many were from the Korean peninsula‚ China‚ Indonesia‚ Malaysia‚ the Netherlands‚ and the Philippines. ("Comfort women protest texts‚" UPI‚ 2 May 1997) More than half of the 169 comfort women survivors in the Philippines were below age 20 when kidnapped by the now-defunct Japanese Imperial Army troops. ("Comfort women protest texts‚" UPI‚ 2 May 1997) Australian
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and Image Understanding journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/cviu Adaptive Census Transform: A novel hardware-oriented stereovision algorithm q Stefania Perri‚ Pasquale Corsonello ⇑‚ Giuseppe Cocorullo Department of Electronics Computer Science and Systems‚ University of Calabria‚ Rende‚ Italy a r t i c l e i n f o Article history: Received 21 March 2012 Accepted 6 October 2012 Available online 17 October 2012 Keywords: Stereovision algorithm VLSI Disparity Map Calculation
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Considerations of the role schools should play in moral development of students are always the subject of controversy. In the article "The Aims of Education"‚ John Mearsheimer claims that many American colleges pay little attention on moral education; instead‚ their aim is to teach their students how to think critically. In contrast‚ Wayne Booth shows strong disagreement about Mearsheimer’s claim in his essay "Introducing Professor Mearsheimer to His Own University". He argues that many elite universities
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POLITICAL SCIENCE AS A SOCIAL SCIENCE Political Science is in part a social science‚ and in part a humanity. Both are important. In this topic‚ we will look at the basics of social science inquiry‚ and then proceed to show how this differs from‚ on the one hand‚ inquiry in the natural sciences and‚ on the other‚ inquiry in the humanities. Social Science Social science inquiry seeks to develop empirical theory. �Empirical�
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Loftus and palmers Aims and context Loftus was concerned with how subsequent information could affect an eyewitness testimony (EWT) which is a legal term‚ referring to the use of eyewitness to give evidence in court. EWT can be influenced by misleading information in terms of both visual imagery and wording of questions. This could lead to faulty or incorrect convictions. If someone is imposed to new info during the interval between witnessing the event and recalling it‚ this info may have marked
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are five general aims or functions or justifications of punishment: 1. DETERRENCE There is a belief that punishment for crime can deter people from offending. There are two forms: - Specific deterrence is concerned with punishing an individual offender in the expectation that he will not offend again. - General deterrence is related to the possibility that people in general will be deterred from committing crime by the threat of punishment if they are caught.How this aim is effected -
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Is the Dismal Science Really a Science? By Russ Roberts This article originally appeared in the Wall Street Journal on February 26‚ 2010 For an economist‚ these are the best of times and the worst of times. We live in the best of times because everyone wants to understand what happened to the economy and what’s going to happen next. Is the mess we’re in a market failure or a government failure? Is the stimulus plan working? Would tax cuts for small business spur employment? When will the
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examining the case of the Korean ‘comfort women’ of World War II. I will analyze how the intersection of prevailing social determinants and ideologies have regulated and perpetuated the rationale and‚ thus‚ the invisibility of the Korean comfort women during and in the aftermath of World War II. Literature Review & Research Methodology Yoshiaki Yoshimi’s Comfort Women: Sexual Slavery in the Japanese Military during World War II‚ Margaret Stetz’s Legacies of the Comfort Women of World War II‚ as
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Ansley Simmons April 29‚ 2013 EDCI 2030 Happiness and Education The Aims of Education “Most of our “why” questions are answered within the prescribed system; that is‚ we explain why we are doing something in terms of other objectives or occasionally‚ in terms of goals.” This is a statement that I believe many teachers have unfortunately taken on as their main reasoning behind instruction‚ and I believe this statement greatly hinders all the value and worth education can do to enhance a student’s
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2.4 Cell Analogy Many teachers use the example: “A Cell is like a factory….the nucleus is the boss‚ the golgi packs and ships materials‚ the mitochondria provides the power/generator‚ etc.” Your task is to come up with a NEW analogy. A cell is like a……? Be sure to include these cell organelles and justify your responses. 1. nucleus 2. mitochondria 3. endoplasmic reticulum 4. chloroplast 5. ribosome 6. golgi body 7. lysosome and vacuole You have a choice as to what product
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