the need of adult or distance (or both) students to feel connected to their classmates‚ their instructors‚ and their institutions. My experience teaching both face-to-face and online courses with and without the use of social networks has shown me how valuable they can be to overall student engagement. In both cases‚ before turning to using a social network (in my case‚ Yammer) as a web course space‚ I tried using other formats for student engagement such as blogs‚ wikis‚ and forums. I found that
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experience of my life happened‚ I was about ten. I went to my native place which is called Madurai to spend my summer vacation. The way to the city was too long‚ but it was very amazing to listen birds’ songs‚ to notice sunrise behind mountains‚ to watch awakening of nature and the lifestyle of hardworking people in the field. When I reached there‚ my grandparents became very happy to see me. The next day‚ my grandparents were going to work in the field. I wanted to go there with them. They saw my eagerness
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Precious Things in Life In today’s modern society‚ economical status determines one’s social status. I have some friends who do not have any problem on spending their money to keep up with their lifestyle. They are given such privilege from their parents to be able to spend materially. In result‚ their social status among the others is considered privilege otherwise because of their exclusive lifestyle. They are often seen with a group of people who are in the same status range as them. It may
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Life Is Precious It has been argued that it should be made legal for patients to have doctor-assisted suicide‚ or mercy-killing‚ which is the term used to describe ending life through the voluntary self-administration of lethal medication‚ expressly prescribed by a physician for that purpose (DHS-Internet). By approximately a two-to-one ratio‚ most adults in the US agree that it should be this way. "When read a brief description of the Oregon proposition‚ allowing physician-assisted suicide
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to me ten years ago threatened my life‚ only a few flashback memories are what is left in my head. It was summer in June and a Saturday night; the rain was pouring like I have seen very few times before. I had just left my mother’s house after a delicious meal along with some of our homemade red wine. In getting ready to go to work I realized that it was late‚ my Jazz music band‚ was supposed to start to play music at 10pm in a nightclub twenty miles west from my house. But the pleasant dinner‚
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Organizational Behavior Google Human Capital is a Companies Most Precious Resource 2009/6/16 Google now has the first position as the most desirable place to work for graduates. In less than a handful of years‚ Google has developed to be a family of talent people around the world as a “recruiting machine”. The most valuable resource of a company is its people. This is indeed the case when it comes to search engine industry. While Baidu‚ the Chinese search engine
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Environmental pollution is a big problem in modern society. It is a matter of serious concern. Pollution is the result of urbanisation and rapid industrialisation. It has been posing serious health threats. Despite growing awareness‚ environmental pollution has reached alarming level. It is an issue of global concern. Everyday conferences‚ seminars‚ discussions and debates are held to sort out this problem. Growing numbers of factories are adding to the problems of environmental pollution. They
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’ Principles of Communication $ • The communication process: Sources of information‚ communication channels‚ modulation process‚ and communication networks • Representation of signals and systems: Signals‚ Continuous Fourier transform‚ Sampling theorem‚ sequences‚ z-transform‚ convolution and correlation. • Stochastic processes: Probability theory‚ random processes‚ power spectral density‚ Gaussian process. & • Modulation and encoding: % ’ Basic modulation techniques and binary data
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This is my creative essay for the Film Program at NYU. The prompt was: "Introduce yourself. Describe an unforgettable event in your life and how it changed your perception of yourself or the view of someone close to you. This event can be dramatic and/or comedic. The assignment may be written as a short story in the first person or as an essay." My one fear is that my essay is hard to understand. So any feedback on how it reads to other people would be a huge help. And also any gramatical errors
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While reading Push‚ by Sapphire you are engaged in Precious’ every thought‚ whether it was random‚ or a part of what was going on in that very moment. You knew her responses to what was said to her‚ even if she did not respond aloud to what was being said. In the book‚ her own personal thoughts were intertwined with the dialect of the story. I enjoyed that aspect of the book‚ while in the film if you were to here all of the random thoughts and responses it would seem to be too much going on‚ and
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