FRANCISCO EARTHQUAKE? In 1989 an earthquake hit San Francisco‚ on the west coast of USA‚ killing around 63 people. Twelve years later an earthquake hit Gujarat‚ in India. This time it killed approximately 20‚000 people. In this report I will be comparing the two earthquakes‚ giving reasons why the Gujarat earthquake was so much more destructive than the one in San Francisco. An earthquake is a movement or tremor in the earth’s crust. Earthquakes happen all the time‚ but some are so weak that they
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surroundings; however he and H. Sacks did not judge the validity of sense making (Baert‚ 1998‚ 85) - just that people did it and acted on it. It is not a question fo right or wrong interpretations and choices (if choices there are) but just how (Cuff et al.‚ 1990‚ 185). Garfinkel was influenced by phenomenology from Edmund Husserl and after Alfred Schutz who used it in interpretive sociology. Garfinkel’s particular aim was to show that social order was locally produced - "just
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CHI EMAS State-of-the-art ET Application practices * Looking through progressive state policies that support technology-in-education‚ and other new developments in pedagogical practice‚ our educators today have become more aware and active in adopting state-of-the-art educational technology practices they can possibly adopt. Introduction * Educators have become more aware and active in adopting state-of-the-art educational technology practices they can possibly adopt today. * Computer
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Piliavin et al. (1969) - Wanted to investigate factors that influence helping behaviour - Became interested in the behaviour of bystanders following the case of Kitty Genovese in New York in 1964. Not 1 of the 40 witnesses who watched the murder tried to help or call the police over a half an hour frame. This attracted psychologists. - Many laboratory experiments were run to test bystander apathy. This is the phenomenon of when observers of an emergency do not intervene. Social psychologists
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Pg1 Comparing Values Melanie Taylor HSM/210 Human Services in the United States 10/03/2012 Maria Brown University of Phoenix Pg2 Comparing Values 1. What values underlie your desire to help others? Answer: My values that underlie my desire to help others are the ability to make my clients my number one priority
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Comparing Authors William Shakespeare and W.H. Auden are widely known for their great poems. Shakespeare’s “My Mistress Eyes are Nothing Like the Sun” is a love unlike any poem from the Elizabethan era. Shakespeare does not use false comparisons to describe his lover like most love poem do‚ which is refreshing. W.H. Auden’s “Funeral Blues” is another love poem that is little gloomier. However it shows how much death can affect an individual’s life. Together Shakespeare and Auden use similar and
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Comparing Memories The memory I have chosen for this paper is one in which I was in the fifth grade‚ and happened eleven years ago when I was ten years old. The other perspective besides my own that I will be comparing is my dad’s‚ who was the only other family member who was their when it happened. Here is the event as I remember it happening “I was in grade five and I had recently made the basketball team. After school we would have practice at four o’clock‚ however we got out of classes at
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Describe yourself is not easy as you think‚ who is define‚ is limited! Comparing me with something can be so difficult‚ I’m the kind of person that changes my feelings and my attitudes faster than ever! Like in the moment I would like to drink a soda‚ but few minutes later change my idea for a chocolate milk! So I never know exactly what I want! In this moment if I could describe myself with a sentence‚ this would be "Live your life like there is no tomorrow"‚ I love the way this sounds good
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Greco-Roman goddess Hecate associated with magic and the wild. This is referring to the sea and how ruthless it can be. This poem deals with nature‚ focusing on its wild and violent side. This poem also reflects on human actions. The poem is comparing the nature with the human being‚ because we can also get wild and violent. It seems a criticism of the alienation of the human being -above all when living and working in big cities. So the author may be calling our attention – the speaker of the
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deviation (σ) is very similar to the MAD. It also is a measure of spread that uses the mean of the data. Standard deviation is used much more often than MAD in daily statistics because it allows comparisons to the overall data set and is very useful for comparing percentiles. It also maintains the unit of measure of the original data. Here is the formula for standard deviation: σ=√Σ (x−x̄)2 n σ = Greek letter sigma that signifies standard deviation in statistics Σ = take the sum of x = each data
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