10/29/12 The Great Awakening This is a document based essay about the most important influence on The Declaration of Independence. The most important influence was The Great Awakening because it was an emotion packed Christian movement that went through the colonies between the 1730s and the 1740s. The Great Awakening was a cry for individual’s rights and independence. It led the People to be able to break away from tyranny. The ideas from The Great Awakening are what
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The most important thing in life Probably the most significant question we can ask ourselves is what is the most important thing in life is? The question has far reaching implications in that the answers (or lack of them) that we arrive at; can determine the course of the rest of our lives. Many would consider money or financial success as the most important factor in life. The high rate of suicide amongst lottery winners would contradict this. Others would search for fame‚ yet the list of famous
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Marc Prensky Digital Natives Digital Immigrants ©2001 Marc Prensky _____________________________________________________________________________ Digital Natives‚ Digital Immigrants By Marc Prensky From On the Horizon (NCB University Press‚ Vol. 9 No. 5‚ October 2001) © 2001 Marc Prensky It is amazing to me how in all the hoopla and debate these days about the decline of education in the US we ignore the most fundamental of its causes. Our students have changed radically. Today’s students
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to get to this level of society. What we don’t remember are the factors that lead to the development of modern civilization‚ and there are a variety of important ones. Out of the many major evolutions in human history‚ agriculture and language were the two most important evolutionary milestones in humanity’s past because they led to surplus‚ trade‚ communication‚ and the spread of culture and ideas. The discovery of agriculture was one of the two most important evolutionary milestones because it went
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distance traveled will be deducted when the users show their card again at the exit point. The MTR charges less for journeys made using an Octopus card instead of conventional single-journey tickets. For example‚ the adult fare of a single journey from Chai Wan to Tung Chung is HK$20.70 with an Octopus card‚ and HK$23.50 with a single journey ticket.[38] Other public transport operators also offer intermittent discounts for using Octopus cards on higher fares and round-trip transits on select routes.[39]
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life that influences me the most would be my mother. My mom is by far the strongest person I know and she has gone through more struggles than any person should have to. She had to raise me on her own while facing many health issues and did whatever she had to do to give me what I needed. While I was growing up‚ she did not get to spend as much time with me as she would like because she worked a lot to take care of the bills and she was often in the hospital sick. We also moved around a lot until
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A cybercrime suspect can sometimes use creative means to commit his or her criminal offense. Some examples of sources a cybercrime suspect controls from which digital evidence may be obtained are listed below. 1) Computer systems‚ which consists of hardware and software that process data and is likely to include the case containing circuit boards‚ microprocessors‚ hard drive‚ memory‚ and interface connections‚ the monitor‚ keyboard‚ and mouse. A cybercrime suspect with a computer anywhere in
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faAre family the most important agent of socialisation? Socialisation is how a certain agent of socialisation socialises us into our gender roles and teaches us the norms and values of society. Family is an example of an informal agent of socialisation; there are other informal agents such as peers‚ education‚ workplace‚ mass media and religion. There are also formal agents and these include the army‚ the police‚ the government‚ the courts and the prison cells. Family is an important agent of socialisation
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Smart Products and Services A smart products is an electronic device‚ generally connected to other devices or networks via different protocols such as Bluetooth‚ NFC‚ WiFi‚ 3G‚ etc.‚ that can operate to some extent interactively and autonomously. It is widely believed that these types of devices will outnumber any other forms of smart computing and communication in a very short time‚ in part‚ acting as a useful enabler for the internet things. Uses of Smart Services Minimize maintenance and repair
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Street Smarts over Book Smarts Gerald Graff is a Professor of English and Education in the University of Illinois at Chicago. In Graff’s essay‚ “Hidden Intellectualism”‚ Graff compares street smarts to book smarts. Graff debates the common belief that having book smarts gives one an intellectual advantage over other forms of intellectualism. Gerald Graff supports this belief by telling a personal story‚ explaining where the education systems fails‚ and stating that people stereotype intellect with
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