More Sunny in the Philippines “How an eco-friendly marketplace about saving the future from climate change would give us more time having fun outdoors” Amidst the brightly colored “save-the-earth” banners and tarpaulins‚ stacks of “go-green” pamphlets and fliers‚ organic dark chocolate with siling labuyo (wild chili)‚ and local made matts‚ rugs and bags from scrap tailoring cloth and recycled Jack ‘n Jill Piattos foil wrappers‚ an enthusiastic representative from the Climate Change Exhibit
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In this TED Talk video‚ Brene Brown‚ an author and public speaker‚ shared with us a topic about Perception. She began to research further into this topic and discovered that there was more to it than what was being said. Brown says that she discovered the meaning of connections. Being a social worker‚ she needed to understand the purpose of our lives. An interesting fact she found was that we like to feel like we are connected or bonded with something or someone. While we definitely need this emotional
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According to Patrick O’Malley’s "More Testing‚ More Learning"‚ the problem is that professors normally give less frequent exams that are counted the most against a student’s grade. One of the effects he mentioned was that less frequent exams causes unnecessary amounts of stress on the student. Another one of the effects is that they don’t encourage frequent study as well as fails to inspire students’ best performance. O’Malley suggests that professors should give more frequent short exams to students
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In the TED Talk‚ “The Neuroscience of Restorative Justice‚” the main idea that Daniel Reisel is trying to convey is that there may be a cure for psychopathic people. To begin‚ people act psychopathic because they become unconnected with others. Furthermore‚ keeping them in jail away from others just adds to this negativity. Reisel compares this to the behavior of a mouse when it is kept separate from other mice. According to the TED Talk‚ “So if you rear a mouse in a standard cage‚ a shoebox‚ essentially
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In What We Talk About When We Talk About Love the theme is love and the difficulty to define the love. The story is mainly based on dialogues between two couples‚ which are Mel‚ Teresa‚ Laura and Nick. While they talked a lot‚ at the end of story‚ they did not come up with a clear definition about love. The language used in the story is easy to understand and catching up. In this essay‚ I will talk about author’s writing style and important symbolisms used in the story. Raymond Carver was a minimalist
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article “Stop Googling‚ Let’s talk” written by Sherry Turkle talks about how technology is changing the way we have conversation and connect with each other. The technology that Turrkle mentions in the article is smart phone. The author describes the impact of smart phone on our communication. “In a 2015 study by the Pew Research Center‚ 89 percent of adults felt that the way they used their phones in social settings hurt the conversation.” People seem to be on the phone more than socialize with the people
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Who wants to win the “currency war”? A study on the article “One more such victory” from “The economist” Anul 2011 Facultatea de Finanțe‚ Asigurări‚ Bănci și Burse de Valori One more such victory The emerging economies are winning the currency war. No one is celebrating The article we are commenting on today appeared in the online edition of “The Economist” on October‚ 1st and is called “One more such victory”. It brings out the situation of some emerging economies
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INDIVIDUAL WORK VERSUS TEAM WORK Virtually every working person I’ve ever come across believes in teamwork. At least they say they do. Sadly‚ a scarce few of them make teamwork a reality in their organizations; in fact‚ they often end up creating environments where political infighting and departmental serenity are the norm. And yet they continue to flaunt their belief in teamwork‚ as if that alone will somehow make it magically appear. I think that only a small minority of companies truly understand
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As people rely more and more on technology to solve problems‚ the ability of humans to think for themselves will surely deteriorate. Throughout the history people have been inventing and incorporating new technologies into their lives. We can assume that the number of technologies available to people nowadays is much bigger than that of prehistoric people. However‚ no one would argue that the ability of modern people to think and make decisions is worse comparing to the ability of our ancestors
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"Why Women Are Paid Less than Men"‚ Thurow A professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management for more than forty years‚ consultant for government and private corporations as well as author of various books that address economic and public policy issues‚ Lester C. Thurow published his article “Why Women Are Paid Less Than Men” in the New York Times on March 8‚ 1981. In this article‚ Thurow presents an explanation for the historical disparity between men and women’s wages. Based upon the statistics
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