Gabrielle Di Bernardo 7th grade Science 17/1/2015 Harry Potter Reveals Secrets of the Brain People sometimes describe reading as watching a movie in your head. Scientists have long wondered what creates such vivid images‚ and/or experiences out of simply reading a string of letters. A recent study evaluated all levels of reading‚ from word length and order‚ to plot‚ character‚ and even emotion. Its results reveal some of the ways our brains turn these words into such images. Computer Scientists
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U.S. CARRIERS FACE SHRINKING POOL OF PILOTS Yan Kravets Management of Aviation Environmental Issues February 3‚ 2015 A big majority of awaiting pilot retirements among major carriers over the next decade is forcing the entire pilot supply chain to unify in a search for solutions to keep the industry due to stalling to fill in the vacant cockpit seats. There is still debate about the magnitude of the problem‚ but its emerging effects are already showing in the form of canceled flights‚ parked regional
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International Probe into Sri Lanka War Crimes The United Nations held a meeting about the war crimes in Sri Lanka. The war has been going on for quite some time. Since then‚ there has been little progress. The United States plans to propose a way to resolve the war crimes. This conflict will not affect in the future. This conflict does not affect my future either. The reason for this is that it is happening in another county‚ and it is also a civil situation within that country. I feel that
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Theme/Region Specific Evidence from the Article That summarizes KEY FACTS and supports my analysis of theme Analysis of why the event is important and the possible outcome Social Inequalities (Deals with the massive amount of the death penalty within China‚ and how it decreased in the former years.) East Asia China is known as the World’s Chief Executioner. Last year alone‚ 3‚000 people we executed in China‚ quadruple the amount of the world executions together. Xiao Yang‚ President of
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From Beatings to Tweets‚ Racism on the Rise in Greece The population of Greece is 11 million. Of this 11 million‚ 1 million are immigrants‚ many of which are illegal. There has been a recent uprising of violent attacks of racism due to the increasing number of immigrants in Greece. A party known as the “Golden Dawn” has been behind many of these attacks. They were also said to be behind a tweet prejudicially referring to the African immigrants of Greece. Forwarding this tweet‚ triple
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More than 90 percent of American adults own a mobile phone‚ and more than half of the devices are smartphones. But “smartphone” is a misnomer. They are personal computers that happen to include a phone function‚ and like any computer they can store or wirelessly retrieve enormous amounts of personal information: emails‚ photos and videos; document files; financial and medical records; and virtually everywhere a person has been. On Tuesday‚ the Supreme Court will consider whether law enforcement
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Current Events Assignment In the article it proclaims about how a plane with Russian tourists crashed in the Sinai Peninsula of Egypt just few days ago. Russian tourists were coming back from visiting the wonders of Egypt‚ heading towards St. Petersburg‚ Russia. Most people of Egypt were shocked about this incident. Fortunately‚ the plane did not have any explosives‚ as this is a counterexample regarding ISIS claiming they caused it. Apparently‚ ISIS wants more attention around the globe to scare
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APWH CURRENT EVENT SUMMARIES 1. Extremism Rises Among Myanmar Buddhists : In the past year‚ Myanmar has faced an outbreak in hatred aimed towards the Muslim population within the country. Monks that are influential to the Buddhist-dominant country are inciting violence among all age groups within the state. A main leader in the campaign against Muslims‚ called 969‚ is an ex-prisoner of war‚ Ashin Wirathu‚ is causing ethnic and religious strife with his violence inciting sermons. Ashin‚ using
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GROUP AVG: 20 OUT OF 25 Individual Country Current Event Evaluation Form Directions: Complete the following current event evaluation form for each of the individuals in your team’s assigned class group. You should critique each individual’s current event assignment and determine a score you would assign that person for each evaluation criteria listed below as well as a total score. Upload an evaluation form for each individual in your assigned group to the Dropbox designated for this assignment
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Medical Ethics (Current Event Summary #1) Parents oppose end of care for brain-dead son. This event was about Motl Brody of Brooklyn. He was pronounced dead after a half-year fight against a brain tumor‚ and the DR’s at Children’s National Medical Center in Washington say the seventh-grader’s brain has ceased functioning entirely. “ But for the past few days‚ a machine has continued to inflate and deflate his lungs. As of late Friday his heart was still beating with the help of a cocktail of
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