In the article "In the ‘land of the free‚’ are you free to sit out the national anthem?” author Jaweed Kaleen describes the history of patriotism in sports‚ and the people who have used these events to take a stand against the issues of our country. Specifically‚ Kaleem focuses on San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick. Recently‚ Or Nick decided to remain seated during the national anthem of this year’s preseason games. The quarterback has received a lot of backlash for his actions‚ all
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The goal of this exercise Writing a Summary The goal of this exercise is to be able to write a summary of the following article using around 130 words. Of all the games held throughout Greece‚ those staged at Olympia in honor of Zeus are the most famous. The Games‚ like all Greek games‚ were an intrinsic part of a religious festival. Held every four years between August 6 and September 19‚ they occupied such an important place in Greek life that time was measured by the interval between
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Introduction Gary Gutting‚ the author of the article‚ What Makes Free Will Free? deliberates that we do not have free choice as we assumed which a researcher confirmed. By free choice‚ this means the conviction that our conduct is dictated by our own unrestrained choice and that we have complete power over our activities. Also‚ Gary Gutting examined various thoughts on determinism as the researchers suggested. Determinism refers to the conviction that all human conduct or any other occurrences have
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January 25‚ 2012 Summary # 1 Summary “INTO THE UNKNOWN” “INTO THE UNKNOWN” published by the Economist is a magazine article about the fear that American workers have about future jobs and the replacing of jobs through outsourcing and computers. According to this article‚ white-collar workers around the world are losing their jobs as machines and foreign workers take over. The author’s purpose of this article is to alert the readers that although there are some changes in technology
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Article Summary Kate Donaldson Grand Canyon University: UNV-501: Introduction to Graduate Studies in the College of Education September 7‚ 2013 Article Summary This paper explores a published article that reports on the results from research conducted about student communication in online classes. In this article the author researched students aging from 20-50 year olds. The article exposes the research results from those who performed online classes in both the Generation x and
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Assignment #7: Article Summary (Fluency) Fluency is being able to read a text smoothly and rapidly. If children can read smoothly‚ they place more attention on the meaning of the overall text rather than letter-sound relationships in each word. According to Seitz & Bartholomew (2014)‚ “Fluency bridges the gap from word recognition to comprehension” (p. 22). When children are not fluent readers‚ they concentrate more on decoding and the message of the text tends to get lost. There are different ways
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1. Summary of Popular Article The article “Why Clingy People Feel Colder” by Maia Szalavitz focuses on how different people perceive temperature in certain situations. A group of volunteers were gathered and asked to complete an attachment style test to evaluate their level of clinginess before they could participate in the study. After these volunteers were tested they were either asked to think about a previous split between romantic partners or an unemotional ordinary event. With their memory
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Article summary/ review In the journal Medical Anthropology Quarterly‚ I read an article called Serenity: Violence‚ Inequality‚ and Recovery on the edge of Mexico City. The article was published in May of 2015 and was written by Angela Garcia. The article’s main aspect is a treatment centers for addicts known as anexos. Over the last decade‚ there’s been an increase in drug additions in Mexico‚ especially among the urban poor‚ and the treatment center anexos has been rapidly going up in numbers
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Roman Empire‚ “On the Free Choice of the Will” is a philosophical discussion over God and evil with focus onto how evil is defined as well as how humanity’s freedom to make choices gives birth to malice. Augustine claims that God cannot be the cause of evil‚ an all powerful omnipotent and benevolent creator cannot create what is to be defined as evil. He supports his claim by examining how evil is defined and the role that human choice plays in sin and how necessity of free will for the creation
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Accounting Article Summary Cost accounting and management control practices can be traced to supporting the growth of large transportation‚ production and distribution enterprises during the period of 1850-1925. The need for these areas came in the beginning of the 19th century when firms needed internal administrative procedures to coordinate all the processes involved in their activities. Railroads handled huge amounts of goods/people and money and therefore need a way to summarize this amount
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