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    English 125 Online Attention Consumers Supermarket’s spatial design is the most important strategy to affect consumers’ behavior. When I walked in the local Safeway I immediately saw design strategies that Gladwell described in his essay. The strategies included the sale signs‚ bursting with vibrant colors and keeping products out of the decompression zone. Another design pertaining to the overall store that caught my attention was how each main grocery department was located on opposite ends

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    Should Teachers Be Allowed to Ban Laptops in Classrooms? I know some college teachers are starting to ban laptops from classrooms. I think that laptops should not be banned.  Yes‚ some students surf the web or play games in class‚ but that doesn’t mean the rest of us who use laptops responsibly should be punished for the actions of a few.  In this essay I will argue that using laptops is a right that teachers should not infringe upon. For starters‚ many of us who have grown up with computers

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    FUTURE-TIME-SPAN AS A COGNITIVE SKILL IN FUTURE STUDIES by David Passig INTRODUCTION Future Studies is a field that began to develop in an established way during the Second World War‚ when armies were required to make what were called at the time “five-year plans.” This endeavor was developed primarily to plan the movement of forces during future battles‚ logistics‚ and so on. Over the years‚ hundreds of methodologies were developed‚ with whose help futurists studied future trends in various

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    Speech of Introduction (Chronological Organizational Pattern) Introduction (Attention Getter) How many of us have purposely avoided conversation with others? But why is it that we purposely avoid conversations with others? (Thesis Statement) Well since I am giving the speech‚ my reason why I purposely avoided conversation with others is because I was afraid that I would make mistakes. (Preview points 1-3) Childhood Influenced by the Barrio Logan College Institute and soccer As of today Body

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    mental disorder for the past few decades‚ anxiety can impact individuals in myriad ways (Kessler‚ Chiu‚ Demler‚ & Walters‚ 2005). Particularly‚ the cognitive ramifications of anxiety are of significance as they can lead to the development of an attention bias towards threat. (Cisler & Koster‚ 2010). As indicated by previous research‚ threat bias manifests in multiple forms (e.g. oversensitivity to perceived threat‚ near inability to disengage from threat) (Cisler & Koster‚ 2010). Notwithstanding

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    Abstract This paper explores four published sources that report on the ways in which society has resorted to misdiagnosing today’s male youth with Attention-deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) as a way to stop undesirable childhood behavior that is otherwise normal. The article takes into consideration possible factors that may contribute to the increasing amount of misdiagnoses among children today. With studies conducted in the articles by Ilina Singh (2005) and Lydia Furman (2005)‚ the authors

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    Exposure‚ Attention‚ and Comprehension on the Internet Consumer Behaviour : Marketing Strategy in Action: Exposure‚ Attention‚ and Comprehension on the Internet Case Study Background : Case Study Background @ 8 Marketing Strategies on Internet: 1. Creating a good site name . 2. To have the most popular extension. - make sure the site comes up near to the Top 30 of the list on any web searches. 3. Try to reach out proactively to potential customers and brings them to your site. (Traditional

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    Introduction a. Attention getter: “Faster‚ higher‚ stronger.” Michael Phelps motto b. Introductory info c. Thesis sentence: Michael Phelps is my role model because he is a swift swimmer‚ he has won fourteen Olympic gold medals‚ and he is a pothead. II. Body a. Swift swimmers b. Olympic gold medalists c. Pothead III. Conclusion a. Transition from lat point b. Reword thesis sentence c. Refer back to attention getter Mallory

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    all fifty states. Thesis Statement: Capital Punishment should be outlawed in all fifty states because: (1) capital punishment once executed cannot be undone‚ and (2) the cost process of capital punishment isn’t worth the expense. Introduction I. [Attention Getter] Imagine being sentenced to die. A. The United States gives you‚ the offender‚ five options to proceed. 1. Most likely your state will proceed with your execution through lethal injection. 2. There are other options if you so choose. a) They

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    Life Span Development and Personality Paper Sara Jagoda PSY/300 January 10‚ 2010 Ron Goodnight Life Span Development and Personality Paper Oprah Gail Winfrey was born on January 29‚ 1954 in a poverty stricken rural area of Mississippi to a single teenage mother. Oprah was moved from Mississippi shortly after she was born and was raised in an inner-city neighborhood in Milwaukee. She experienced severe hardship while she was growing up. Oprah was raped at the age of nine‚ she became pregnant

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