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    "1984" by George Orwell‚ the Party controls the past‚ present‚ and future as they alter historical records and effectively brainwash the population. A character in this book named Julia says‚ "It’s the one thing they can’t do. They can make you say anything—anything—but they can’t make you believe it. They can’t get inside you‚" to her boyfriend Winston. The thought that the Party cannot change your feelings seemed to comfort Winston‚ as if that isn’t something he should know for himself without

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    This paper describes an Intelligent Tutoring System that provides adaptable facilities to students over the World Wide Web. The system is able to adapt to a large corpus of students‚ in terms of allowing commonly used paths to emerge‚ and adapts to individual students by employing a novel student model. The lack of intelligent tutoring systems outside of academic research has largely been attributed to the fact that they are domain specific. Whilst very powerful for the tutoring of a specific subject

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    Internal Control and Accounting Systems Learning Area Overview Welcome to this learning area overview for Internal Control and Accounting Systems‚ prepared by AAT. In this overview we’ll explain what Internal Control and Accounting Systems is all about‚ and how it fits into the bigger picture of the AAT Accounting Qualification. We’ll explore the main topics you can expect to cover‚ and how the knowledge and skills you’ll pick up will be of practical use to you in the workplace. Finally‚ we’ll

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    Honor has always been a central aspect of one’s identity. People go great lengths to keep and prove their honor. Honor is a popular topic that is regularly seen throughout literature‚ but what exactly is honor? Honor today is seen as one’s integrity and protecting one’s values and beliefs. But it has not always been that way. Honor is a difficult concept to characterize due to the fact that the definition of honor has changed over time and varies from culture to culture. In past times‚ honor was

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    Have you ever been influenced by someone that helped you become the person you are today? In my life‚ there once came a special person that made a difference. Her name was Wiktoria. She was a beautiful and bright girl that always had a smile on her face‚ even when things weren’t as colorful as a rainbow. Ever since I met her on a family party‚ she has become an important part of my life. Her determination and faith after her mom died‚ proved to me that you should never give up on something you believe

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    Standards of Culturally Competent Care Nur 531 April 8‚ 2013 Annette Marget Standards of Culturally Competent Care In 1963 Bob Dylan wrote the words "For the times they are a-changing" as part of the lyrics for a popular song of his. During the current millennium the term "global economy" has become a key word throughout the world of finance. These two well-known expressions are precursors to today ’s major issue of "cultural competency". The world has changed and is global in many aspects

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    Homework has traditionally been considered a reinforcement of what students learn throughout the school day and is often used as a tool to make sure students have fully understood the curriculum at hand. Excessive amounts of homework constantly put pressure on students and cause them to spend outrageous amounts of time taking away from their social lives‚ families‚ friends‚ and extra-curricular activities as well as sports. Excessive amounts of homework can also cause students to stay up till midnight

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    the second largest religion‚ is‚ of course‚ prone to change over time. However‚ there is one significant difference between Islam and other religions. While Islam has changed over time and created sects they are specifically not referred to as denominations in terms of "various valid approaches to the same religion.” The two common sects are Sunnism and Shiasm. Additional to this there are the divisions of Sufism and Ahmadiyya. This has lead to some public disagreements‚ yet Islam is still regarded

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    SYNOPSIS The core objective of “SMS BASED STUDENT INFORMATION SYSTEM “ is to develop an application to maintain student profile which provides a interface for the staff to communicate with parent regarding student attendance‚ unit test marks and also about extra-curricular and co-curricular activities which are organized by the college‚ in the form of regular updates via SMS. This project has only one user called Class Advisor. He has all rights to enter and edit the name‚ register number of the

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    Is morality a relative concept? In any society there exists a somewhat mysterious consensus‚ which changes over the decades‚ and for which it is not pretentious to use the German loan-word Zeitgeist (spirit of the times). This spread of dates through the twentieth century is a gauge of the shifting Zeitgeist. Another is our attitude to race. In the early part of the twentieth century‚ almost everybody in Britain (and many other countries too) would be judged racist by today’s standards. Thomas

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