used to think of the internet as a huge library‚ with services like Google providing universal map‚ but that is not true‚ websites like Facebook‚ Google‚ Yahoo news‚ and the New York times are personalized‚ based in your web history‚ these website filter information to show you stuff they think you want to see. they can be very different from what everyone else sees‚ and what you are looking for. These websites take your personal information like your location‚ the language your speaking‚ the pages
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The Affective Filter Meghan Borman Texas Woman’s University There are many processes that second language learners can use to acquire a second language. One process involves the Affective Filter Hypothesis. The Affective Filter Hypothesis is one of Krashen’s five hypotheses that addresses the relationship between second language acquisition and affective filters or social-emotional variables. In this hypothesis‚ the lower the affective filter is the more likely a learner will acquire a second
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The Affective Filter Hypothesis Nowadays‚ studying a second language becomes more and more important‚ so how to grasp the second language well and quickly becomes a significant topic. Since I learned some related theory from this weeks class‚ I found one of the five hypotheses of the natural approaches which attract my attention. In the 1970s‚ Stephen D. Krashen put forward a famous theory Affective Filter Hypothesis‚ and it helps teachers and learners to have a great progress on learning second
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This reading response argues that Pariser’s theory of the filter bubble is flawed because it fails to explain a wide range of political reality. First‚ this reading response summarizes Pariser’s theory of the “filter bubble”. Next‚ this reading response debates that Pariser’s theory of the “filter bubble” is incorrect because it too broadly describes political reality. Then‚ this reading response justifies that Pariser’s theory of the “filter bubble” explains a small portion of politics in the media
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Peter Kimbrell Dr Beth Gibbs Microcomputers CIS146 October 21‚ 2014 Internet Filters When browsing the Internet‚ users may encounter a filter. Filters are programs that remove or block certain items from being displayed. Four widely used Internet filters are anti-spam programs‚ web filters‚ phishing filters‚ and pop-up blockers. An anti-spam program is a filtering program that attempts to remove spam before it reaches an Inbox or forum. Spam is an unsolicited email message or posting sent too
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Vanessa Riveron ENC 1102 Professor Warman 01/30/13 Rhetorical Essay Draft In the Ted Talk “The Filter Bubble”‚ the speaker Eli Pariser talks about the negative effects of personalizing the web and how it destroys the sense of unity that the web was based on. “Your filter bubble is your own personal‚ unique universe of information that you live in online. What’s in your filter bubble depends on who you are‚ and it depends on what you do. But you don’t decide what gets in — and more importantly
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2405 ANALOGUE FILTERS Lecturer: Kipyegon Edwin Purpose To enables the student to understand electric filter technology and to design and analyze passive and active filters. Learning outcomes At the end of the course‚ the student should be able to:1. Analyze ladder networks and Hurwitz polynomials 2. Explain the characteristics of filters 3. Use various approximation theories to design passive and active filters 4. Use network analysis techniques to analyze the designed filters Course Description
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who needs information from the World Wide Web‚ uses search engines like Google or Yahoo! to find the specific information he or she is looking for. These engines help us to filter all the information given by the internet with the help of invisible algorithms. Without them we would sit many hours in front of the screen and filter the information by ourselves. For example the search of a brownie recipe has an output of over forty billion search results. For this reason it is good to have these algorithms
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Alyssa Cho Professor T. Bassett LCS 151_B February 27‚ 2012 The Idea of Helping the Poor through Liberation Theology Tracy Kidder’s Mountains beyond Mountains details Paul Farmer’s work in Haiti. Not only does it talk about him‚ but it also talks about his patients and the challenges he faced trying to attend to them and their needs. Liberation theology is giving preferential option to the poor because everyone should be treated equally. The rich already have
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Kim Silva Professor Rusnock History of Medicine 14 September 2012 Mountains Beyond Mountains "Beyond mountains‚ there are mountains." The Haitians use this term to express when an obstacle has been overcome‚ the next one follows almost immediately afterwards. In life‚ this usually seems to be the case. Many people’s solution to a complication is to surrender to it. Paul Farmer is an exception to this. He is a man that has persevered through life‚ battling his own problems‚ while drastically
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