gov/ntiahome/dn/html/anationonline2.htm Athow‚ D. (2008‚ May 12). MPAA aims at taking The Pirate Bay down with $15.4m lawsuit. IT ProPortal. Retrieved November 20‚ 2009‚ from http://www.itproportal.com/portal/news/article/2008/5/12/mpaa-aims-taking-pirate-bay-down-154m-lawsuit/ Barkai‚ D. (2002). Peer-to-Peer Computing: Technologies for Sharing and Collaborating on the Net. Santa Clara: Intel Press. Gardner‚ S.‚ & Krug‚ K. (2005). BitTorrent For Dummies. New York: For Dummies. Michel‚ N. J. (n/d). Internet
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receive loan funding. According to Matt Scully and his article in the American Banker newspaper “Banks Heat Up Bidding for Peer-to-Peer Loans”‚ a turning point in the history of the finance world has been the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers in 2008; as people lost confidence in financial institution and were no longer able to secure credit with reasonable terms and conditions‚ peer to peer lending emerged as a valuable alternative. Peer to peer lending‚ also known as social lending‚ is a form of lending
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Pressure is the feeling that you are being pushed toward making a certain choice—good or bad. A peer is someone in your own age group. Peer pressure is—you guessed it—the feeling that someone your own age is pushing you toward making a certain choice‚ good or bad. Types of Peer Pressure there are only two indirect and direct. indirect is having a song encourging you to take drugs because you don ’t know the song writer diectly and they aren ’t specificly telling you to take drugs it ’s is
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A growing number of pedagogical and practical arguments support the use of peer-assessment in higher education (e.g. Falchikov 1995; Magin & Helmore 2001; and see Hughes 2001 for an overview of potential benefits). For example‚ one study showed many Australian graduates to consider evaluating other people’s work to be an important graduate skill‚ but dido not believe their university helped them to acquire such skills (Boud & Falchikov 1989). Classes where students mark a colleague’s assignment
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PEER COUNSELING Peer counselling is the process by which a trained person provides counselling‚ support and information to one of their peers (in this case adolescent). Peer counselling can also be said to be a process of sharing‚ that enables two people‚ the counsellor and the counselee to enter into a relationship that makes possible the clarification of a problem‚ an issue or a situation at hand through good listening. IMPORTANCE OF PEER COUNSELING The aim of the peer counselling project in
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Correctional Staff Attitudes and its Effects on the Entire Facility Teresa McCroskey CJ503 – 01NA Organizational Behavior Unit 3 April 13‚ 2010 Instructor Colleen McCue Correctional Staff Attitudes and its Effects on the Entire Facility The correctional staffs work environment is largely a part of the issue of why it is hard to keep efficient staff. The correctional supervisor must be able to find solutions for staff to be able to handle the hostile work environment‚ job dangers‚ shift
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CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION "C’mon. Everyone’s doing it." So why shouldn’t you? It’s almost expected that you will experience peer pressure frequently throughout your teen years. Say you’re invited to a party where you know there will be alcohol or drugs. A friend decides to cut class. Someone offers you a cigarette. Or friends talk about having sex with their boyfriends or girlfriends. How do you respond? Are you tempted to follow their examples‚ or can you stand strong in your own belief system
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Please find attached Rima ’s paper. Here are the assignment instructions for the peer review: "Your instructor will assign and send you a peer ’s paper on Health Care Provider and Faith Diversity. Your job is to critically read the assignment and make corrections/comments using track changes and comments in Microsoft Word. Be sure to assess the paper using the following criteria: 1. Does the paper provide sufficient evidence for its hypothesis or claim? 2. Does the flow of the paper
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Tonya M. Stevens English Composition 02/10/2013 Shaiy Kindel Peer Pressure WebMD.com‚ Teens and Peer Pressure retrieved 2/5/2013 National Youth Advocacy Council website American Social Health Associations “lwannaknow.org” web site The article talks about friends and what you will do if you got to a party with your friends. If there are drugs‚ alcohol or even cigarettes will you as a person be able to hold your own and not be pressured into doing these types
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There are 2 types of peer pressure‚ negative and positive. Negatives: when you do not like a particular idea or when you have no inclination towards a particular field‚ it is obvious that you won’t like to go by it. For sure‚ you won’t like to go that way. But it is your peer group‚ which may compel you on doing something you hate. In such cases‚ there are chances that you won’t do well in those things. Things you do not enjoy doing cannot fetch you success. You cannot emerge successful in something
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