To Believe or Not To Believe Modern Urban Legends Many people have heard the tale of the dotty grandmother who tried to dry off her damp poodle by placing it in the microwave oven. The dog exploded‚ sad to say the least ‚ and Grandma has never been quite the same since. The story is not true; it is an urban legend‚ circulating by word of mouth since the 1970s (Brunvand‚ 108). Urban legends are popular stories alleged to be true and transmitted from person to person by oral or written communication
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False Confessions Aminah Yambo Introductions to Interviews and Interrogations Professor Scott Joubert June 8th‚ 2013 In 1988‚ Ted White was clubbed in the head and face at his mattress business between 12:45 and 1:55 p.m. White died of his injuries three days later and was never able to tell the police officers of the incident. There were no witnesses found and the police never discovered any fingerprints or DNA to help identify the actual perpetrator. Regardless‚ police originally suspected
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For our stats project we decided to analyze how the characteristics of the person asking the question changes the answer. To do this‚ we asked two randomly selected groups of people the exact question: “do you like pugs?” However‚ one group was asked the question by someone wearing a pug shirt‚ and the other group was asked by someone in plain clothes. We believed the most submissive class to the charastric bias would be the freshman‚ so we used them in our experiment. To ensure this Simple Random
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Something that I learned to do non academic is a to play cymbals. Why cymbals you may ask? Well I was never really interested in band even though I was in it for a year. I wasn’t interested in playing a wood‚ horn‚ or drum. I never knew that my school had cymbals cause my class period there were none. The first time that I ever seen actual cymbal players was at TSU football game. I saw how they twirled and danced as they played the instruments. My cousin was in the drum line he bounced around to
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What Would You Do? Scenario 1- Della the Delinquent Cat Lady As the president of the board of directors of the cat shelter‚ I am faced with rather or not Ms. Della should remain as part of the staff at the cat shelter. There are several problems that have been brought to my attention and I feel that now is the time to figure out exactly what should be done regarding the matter. After‚ evaluating the situation and giving it a great deal of consideration‚ I have come up several solutions to
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deeper into understanding recovered memories. What are Recovered Memories? A recovered memory is a memory of traumatic event(s) that are now remembered‚ but previously had been forgotten or unknown. So if we think to ourselves for a moment as if this could be true‚ could we all have forgotten memories or memories that are unknown? How would we know if we do? According to dynamic.uoregon.edu‚ “recovered memories can be as simple as forgetting where you left your car keys and then remembering
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1. How do you calibrate an Oscilloscope? In order to calibrate the Oscilloscope‚ we connected the BNC alligator into the channel we wanted to calibrate (Channel 1). We clipped the red probe to the calibration knob‚ and we saw a 2 volt VPP signal. The desired output from the oscilloscope was a 1000 Hz calibration frequency. The 1000 Hz frequency is the standard frequency for most of the oscilloscopes. After we clipped the red probe‚ we saw a square wave signal. The first thing we calibrated was the
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Lost in Fantasy Magazines‚ movies‚ and commercials are trying to create an image of what beauty is. Beauty‚ being defined‚ means the quality or aggregate of qualities in a person or thing that gives pleasure to the senses or pleasurably exalts the mind or spirit. But beauty standards are getting each time higher that even some celebrities can compete. The media portray the standards of beauty as unrealistic. Making us believe that the image of Barbie if he one and when in the real word‚ becoming
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“There’s something strange in your neighborhood. Who you gunna call? Ghostbusters!” What do you do when something like this happens or who do you even call to get some help from your ghost infestation? On a deeper topic‚ paranormal activity is a strange phenomenon that we are trying to prove. We must first find out what ghosts are really are. What are ghosts? Ghosts are defined as the soul or spirit of a departed love one. “The soul or spirit of a deceased person‚ a spirit appearing
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The adaptive method makes the Supreme Court a more controlling institution in the U.S government is one better than the other? It just depends on the person on which ones may be better but in my opinion the adaptive interpretation gives the government more control and allows them to interpret the Constitution however may see the Constitution‚ where an originalist view holds government accountable for holding the constitution to its unique intent. In my opinion the originalist view is better because
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