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    Define the term Muslim and Islam?” In Arabic‚ the word “Islam” means submission or surrender to God. However‚ it was derived from the root word “salam”. From this root word‚ you can also derive the word peace. Many people feel that Islam implies some sort of enslavement to Allah‚ but others find it more helpful to define the word “Islam” as surrender. Many religions have a concept of surrender to God. In Jewish history‚ when the ancient Hebrews obeyed God’s commands‚ they had a long period of

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    Why Do Disabilities Define Individuals? Normal day‚ normal people‚ except for the kid with down syndrome walking down the street‚ going the opposite way as you. He is very close to you‚ about to pass you. Then‚ he trips… and falls. What would you do? Would you help him up? I don’t know about you‚ but my first reaction would be to aid him in any way. That’s just being a normal person‚ showing an act of kindness. It shouldn’t matter if the person appears different‚ a typical human being would. If

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    Unit 5 Assignment 2 – Define an Acceptable Use Policy (AUP) Richman Investments holds requirements for the usage of the company network including filtering policies for network traffic LAN – WAN is where the IT infrastructure links to a wide area network and internet. For Security (Administrators and Managers) Security monitoring controls for intrusion Apply an email server antivirus (also applies for attachments) Disablement for ping‚ probing‚ and port scanning on all exterior IP devices

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    Define political culture. “is a set of attitudes and practices held by people that shapes their political behavior‚ It includes moral judgments‚ political myths‚ beliefs and ideas about what makes for good society.”(sparknotes) It also help the government shape the culture through education‚ commemoration the public having there opinion. Political culture does reflect the government and it also have a history that is current regime. Political culture does matter because populations will shape up

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    Chi Hoang Mr. Varbel English 1B 15 January 2008 The issue of racial discrimination has become societal norm in America. Poets like Sherman Alexie show that the injustice still exists. Born in 1966 to the tribe of Spokane/Coeur d’Alene‚ he suffered a great deal of discrimination against him throughout his childhood because of his Native American culture and an illness of hydrocephalus. He has seen the ugly face of racism and often speaks about it through his works about the prejudice that is

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    can lend you the money you need ‚ but you need to take me with you” Thomas says. He wanted the father’s ashes as well as Victor. Thomas has effects on people that don’t really interest anyone. He tells stories that come from his mind. The author Sherman says “Nobody talked to Thomas because he told the same damn stories over and over again” and “Thomas was a storyteller that nobody wanted to listen

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    Dalmatians that have 101 puppies‚ they’ve all inspired us in some way or another. These movies were what made our childhood fun and it was what we enjoyed watching. We imagined ourselves being a character from

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    One of the primary reasons for why people organize themselves in such a way is because of the similarities among those in the community. The grouping of people by similarities is a very old unconscious system existent in far times. In the past centuries‚ people in a community have grouped themselves by religious beliefs‚ political affiliations‚ and other opinions and thoughts. Political affiliations have attracted people to each other when they have similar beliefs‚ and have repelled each other when

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    school. The next day included me waking up early and going to the first day of my job. I described how I commuted to work and what I saw. As I arrived to work I was immediately introduced to all of the staff and welcomed onto the team. I originally become very overwhelmed with the amount of work that was given to me. My story contains myself and my coworker‚ Alex Sherman. The most essential details are that I am very dedicated to whatever I do. As I was given a lot of work on my first day‚ I was

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    Is it possible to define and measure intelligence? Over the years there have been a lot of definitions for the word intelligence. Whether it is a fix concept like height or an innate general cognitive ability‚ intelligence can mean differently to everyone and consciously everyone has a definition for it. So does that mean there have a general understanding of the word? No‚ an agreement on some level has been found but there are some aspects that have yet to a fixed definition in psychology. The

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