Assignment 1 – Critical Review of a Research Paper INTRODUCTION This essay is aimed to critically discuss the research paper titled ‘Screw Blackboard… do it on Facebook!’: an investigation of students’ educational use of Facebook. This critique will focus mainly on the benefits and shortfalls of the research design and suggest an alternate research design to back up the limitations identified. BENEFITS TO THE RESEARCH DESIGN AND APPROACH Firstly‚ the appropriateness in the selection
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Critical Review Word Count: 979 Szmigin I‚ Griffin C‚ Mistral W‚ Bengry-Howell A‚ Weale L‚ & Hackley C. (2008). Re-framing ’binge drinking’ as calculated hedonism: empirical evidence from the UK. International Journal of Drug Policy. 19(5)‚ 359-66. Overview: The main aim of this study was to put forward a new meaning to the phrase “binge drinking” when connected to young consumers of alcohol in the UK. The study tries to show the difference between the definitions of binge drinking and calculated
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Pan (Doug Jones) who is just as frightening as he is alluring. Pan truly sets the story in motion by explaining to Ofelia that she is in fact a princess of a mysterious underworld that closely parallels the land of reality. In order for her to return home and become an immortal part of this unknown kingdom‚ she is required to complete three tasks‚ all of which are amazing and horrific. Along the way‚ she struggles with these responsibilities‚ as well as the overwhelming presence of Captain Vidal. Through
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A CRITICAL LITERATURE REVIEW James E.Tillotson .2002‚ Fat and Getting Fatter! What Is the Food Industry’s Role?‚ Nutrition Today‚ vol. 37‚ no. 3‚ pp. 136-138 Stephen Leeder .2007‚ The obesity pandemic: a brilliant test of political capability‚ Online opinion - Australia’s e-journal of social and political debate‚ Available from: http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/print.asp?article=5929 [ Accessed: July 5 2007 ] In the public debate‚ the increasing rates of obesity have been assumed to be
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CRITICAL REVIEW: MY PLACE‚ SALLY MORGAN Sally Morgan’s My Place‚ published in 1987‚ is an autobiography about finding her Aboriginal roots and her identity with the focus on the lives of three generations of Australian Aborigines. Sally’s family never talked about their past and she was brought up thinking she was Indian. But she always felt different than her friends‚ their way of living was not the same‚ so her curiosity led her to realizing that she is Aborigine. And then her quest for knowledge
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Justin Siersma A29851780 SW 200 4/21/2005 Homeless Children in America To be homeless is to not have a home or a permanent place of residence. Nationwide‚ there is estimated to be 3.5 million people that are homeless‚ and roughly 1.35 million of them are children. It is shown that homeless rates‚ which are the number of sheltered beds in a city divided by the cities population‚ have tripled since the 1980 ’s (National Coalition for Homeless‚ 2002). Worldwide‚ it is estimated that 100 million
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that have no shelter‚ and in Canada there are about 200‚000 people that experience homelessness in a year? This leaves about 30‚000 homeless people every night. This is a big problem worldwide and it may not seem as a big problem within Canada but it really is. We as a society need to address this issue and get the minister of social services to raise the amount of homeless shelters within an area. This is a problem that needs to be solved. As a Canadian Citizen I feel very strongly about this topic
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Homeless in America Should [Make sure paragraph indentation is five to seven spaces or one tab stop] The Government Have Programs in Place for the Homeless in America? Many people call or write the National Coalition for the Homeless to ask about
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Good morning to the lecturer___________ and my fellow friends. I wish to review about an article that I have studied recently. . In the British Medical Journal article “Eating Disorders in Young Adults with Insulin-dependent Diabetes Mellitus: A Controlled Study”‚ the findings of Christopher Fairburn‚ Robert Peveler‚ Beverly Davies‚ J. I. Mann‚ and Richard Mayou suggest that eating disorders are not more common among IDDM patients compared to non-diabetics. The article implies that insulin
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Mr. Farmer is a 12 year old male who presented to the ED via LEO following behavioral issues at Youth Unlimited Group Home and stating he was going to drown himself to staff. At the time of the assessment Mr. Farmer is calm and cooperative. He denies suicidal ideation‚ homicidal ideation‚ and symptoms of psychosis. He states‚ "I got mad and started destroying my property‚ then they tried to restrain me‚ after they let me go I told them I was going to drown myself. He states‚ "I was not serious about
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