Why Were Cornell Notes Invented? The Cornell note taking system‚ developed by former Cornell University professor Walter Pauk in 1949‚ features three areas. It features a three-part system used for condensing and organizing notes‚ whether in the classroom or out in the field. One area is for note taking‚ the second is for review notes‚ and the last one is for summarizing. Cornell notes was invented to benefit students in the classroom and help them formulate a way in which they can understand
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The year‚ 1984 saw the introduction of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act‚ also known as the PACE codes. The PACE codes were an act of parliment‚ the introduction of these codes was to standardise and proffessionalise police work. It basically provides a core framework of police powers and safeguards around stop and search‚ arrest‚ detention‚ investigation‚ identification and interviewing suspects. Official dissatisfaction with the rules of the criminal process goes back to the mid 1960’s when
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In the early 1930s international tensions were rising to what would become World War II‚ one of the largest global conflicts in history. Focusing on relations between Japan and China‚ a variety of factors set up an easily identifiable opportunity for Japan to invade China. The Republic of China in the 1930s was a divided nation‚ hosting a power struggle between the nationalist rule of Chiang Kai-Shek‚ and the Communist party led by Mao Tse Tung. Japan‚ being a small island nation‚ saw great potential
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And Then There Were None is a classic mystery novel by Agatha Christie where 10 people receive letters from a mysterious U.N. Owen asking them to Soldier Island to stay for the summer holiday. In each of their rooms they find a nursery rhyme telling of the deaths of 10 soldiers. The first night on the island during dinner a recorded message accuses each of them in turn of murder. Then one by one they all begin to die. I believe that And Then There Were None would be a good addition to the curriculum
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I know about Jewish was from the history class. At that time‚ my Chinese teacher told me that Jewish were persecuted by Nazis during the Second World War‚ and the reason is because the ruler of Nazi-Hitler hated Jewish. From the video and books‚ there are many pictures about how Nazi persecuted Jewish such as the Auschwitz Concentration Camp. However‚ there always is a mystery puzzled me‚ why were Jewish persecuted by Nazi? From the videos which are talking about the Second World War‚ they are only
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Why were plebeians so important to Rome? The Roman Plebeians were members of the common population of Rome and where considered lower class. The word plebs is said to be derived from plere‚ ’to fill up’. Plebeians were‚ therefore‚ people who were considered to be an addition to the ’real’ Roman population (livius‚ 2015). This unkind expression was used by the Roman aristocracy of the early republic‚ the patricians‚ who monopolized the magistracies and wanted to keep all others out of office (livius
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“Why Were Africans Enslaved” After reading both articles‚ I feel these two writers are arguing which side of the same coin is the‚ “right side”. Eric Williams argues that while the Irish European slaves‚ the native American Indian‚ and the Chinese laborer could be used in certain jobs a slave would have‚ that their bodies were unable to keep up with the needed labor of a cotton‚ tobacco‚ and sugar plantation. He states that it was the African slaves superior endurance‚ strength‚ and economic cost
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Why were Japanese-Americans Intermed? World War II was a tragic international incident. Among those involved included the red‚ white‚ and blue eagle herself‚ America. During the events of World War II‚ Japan attacked Pearl Harbor of the United States. The U.S.’s retorted back with two atomic bombs and a plan to exclude people‚ including citizens‚ of Japanese ancestry in the States. The country that boasts freedom and is in some eyes‚ the embodiment of freedom‚ decided to segregate Japanese-Americans
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is unification so integral and important in the development of the earliest dynasty in China? Unification is important and integral in the development of the earliest dynasty because it could gain control over the rest of China and also to recover from the Mandate of Heaven. Also‚ they saw this as a reason for their empires to be more stable which means there are fewer wars to happen. They could also see this as a chance of becoming a prosperous nation when it comes to the economic side of the unification
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27‚060 square kilometers of the total territorial size being water‚ China is the fourth largest country in the world. China is located in Eastern Asia‚ bordering four of the world’s major seas and fourteen countries. These countries include Afghanistan‚ Bhutan‚ Burma‚ India‚ Kazakhstan‚ North Korea‚ Kyrgyzstan‚ Laos‚ Mongolia‚ Nepal‚ and Pakistan‚ the northeast and northwest borders of Russia‚ Tajikistan‚ and Vietnam. With China having such a large land mass‚ its total population has been estimated
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