This article from The Onion addresses the way that today’s scientific research is conducted and makes fun of how the source of funding for an experiment can influence its results. Interpreted plainly‚ the article claims that a new step has been added the scientific method: after a hypothesis is made‚ funding must be found. Then‚ based on who is funding the research and the sponsor’s desire‚ researchers must then align their study so it gets the results the funders want. The organization in charge
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Dracula Summary Dracula is an epistolary novel‚ meaning that is composed from letters‚ journal and diary entries‚ telegrams‚ and newspaper clippings. Jonathan Harker‚ Mina Murray (later Mina Harker)‚ and Dr. Seward write the largest contributions to the novel‹although the writings of Lucy Westenra and Abraham Van Helsing constitute some key parts of the book. The novel is meant to have a slightly journalistic feel‚ as it is a harrowing account supposedly written by the people who witnessed the
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AP Government September 7‚ 2012 Chapter 2 Summary Within the first pages of this chapter‚ we are introduced with the topic of the constitution and actions of Gregory Lee Johnson. The case of Gregory Lee Johnson is about that of him burning an American flag and protesting that when the government became involved‚ it was against his freedom of speech. This is where the constitution of the United States comes into play and supersedes the ordinary law. The question though‚ what exactly is a constitution
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Chapter 4 Analysis of Financial Statements Learning Objectives After reading this chapter‚ students should be able to: ◆ Explain what ratio analysis is. ◆ List the five groups of ratios and identify‚ calculate‚ and interpret the key ratios in each group. In addition‚ discuss each ratio’s relationship to the balance sheet and income statement. ◆ Discuss why ROE is the key ratio under management’s control‚ how the other ratios affect ROE‚ and explain how to use the DuPont
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THE MAHABHARATA A Chapter by Chapter summary of the great Indian epic‚ as an aid to finding passages within the original 18 Volumes. Written by Duncan Watson. 14-Dec-92 THE MAHABHARATA Translations by Kisari Mohan Ganguli and Pratap Chandra Roy. The Pratap Chandra Roy version published by Munshiram Monoharlal‚ New Delhi‚ India (Post Box 5715‚ 54 Rani Jhansi Road‚ New Delhi-55): Third edition‚ September 1972. Mahabharata was written down by the great sage Krishna Dvaipayana (Vyasa) about
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universities increase their focus on commercializing rather than focusing to increase a higher branch of learning for university students. Throughout the essay Young voices his concern for this issue through the use of statistics‚ concrete facts‚ research and by acknowledging the issue Young is able to inform his readers about the increase rate of commercialization from universities which he believes is a universities purpose. Young notes 40 years of his life were spent at Universities and this allows
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Consumer characteristics influencing fast food consumption in Turkey Cuma Akbay a a‚* ‚ Gulgun Yildiz Tiryaki b‚ Aykut Gul c Department of Agricultural Economics‚ College of Agriculture‚ University of Sutcu Imam‚ Kahramanmaras‚ Turkey b Department of Food Engineering‚ Sutcu Imam University‚ Kahramanmaras‚ Turkey c Department of Agricultural Economics‚ University of Cukurova‚ Adana‚ Turkey Abstract The Turkish fast food industry has grown rapidly since the 1980s. There are now
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ror"Aurora" Summary The story‚ which relies heavily upon sexual references and drug use‚ opens with the first-person narrator and his friend‚ Cut‚ buying a stash of weed‚ some of which they use as they drive home to sort‚ weigh‚ and bag. Cut is eating cookies‚ but the narrator is waiting for his girlfriend. He notices that the places where she ’d scratched him are healing. When she arrives‚ he notes that she ’s skinny "like a twelve-year-old" and that she has the shakes‚ coming down off some drug
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1 Chambers Anna Chambers Rountree- 1st APUSH 7 August 2014 The Mayflower Summary The difficult journey of the Pilgrims began when they left England for Leiden‚ Holland. At the time‚ King James required all citizens to follow the Church of England. However like many separatists of the time‚ the Pilgrims wanted to worship as they pleased (4). After many years in Holland‚ the Pilgrims decided that it was once again time to move. While Holland was religiously tolerant‚ the country required the
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The purpose of this paper is to summarize one section of three chapters in ‘Developing Communicative Competence in a Second Language (Issues in Second Language Research)’ written by Robin C. Scarcella‚ Elaine Andersen‚ and Stephen D. Krashen. The main focus of this section is to examine how second language learner’s develop discourse competence. The term discourse competence was first used by Canale and Swain to refer to knowledge of how to combine grammatical forms and meanings to achieve a unified
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