...Preface Anonymity On any given day a number of individuals travel to and through the South Dallas area where this initial research project took place. Many visitors to the area often stop at the few remaining mom-and-pop restaurants for a greasy cheeseburger, link, or fish basket where several of the public characters that took part in this research hustle for money to buy that day’s beverage, blunt, or bed. The participants in this research are constantly in the public’s eye. Their identities are not secret and often the ways in which they engage in informal economy are well known as well. A select few of these individuals have participated in city meetings that are televised. Other anthropologists, sociologists, and curious academics have examined the decline of this southern sector of Dallas for one reason or another. Newspaper reporters and other media groups have often completed editorial pieces on this community and its residents (housed and un-housed). Identities are often made public; however, anonymity in regards to person or place is very much a component to this research in accordance with the anthropological guidelines of human subject protection. A pseudonym has been provided for each individual and place of business that participated in this research. Introduction Society is not a mere sum of individuals. Rather, the system formed by their association represents a specific reality which has its own characteristics... The group thinks, feels, and...
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...Research Paper Maya Deren – At Land Maya Deren was an experimental filmmaker who was engaged in many additional artistic spheres, including music, dance and poetry, and which helped her to create six films that are well-known in the world of Avant-Garde cinema. She produced her first work, Meshes of the Afternoon in 1943 together with her husband Alexander Hammid, and a year later she completed her second work At Land. These two films placed the beginning of her career as a filmmaker and classified her as a pioneer of the modern and aesthetic American film. As a graduate student in English literature and Symbolist poetry from Smith College, she was able to transform her verbal knowledge about the emblematic value of objects and rituals to a visual format. Therefore, many of her ideas were influenced by studying T.S. Eliot’s poetry and his intention for objective mutual relationship. However, after the release of her first film, she began to work more precisely and be very careful in her choice of images and places in order for her works, starting with At Land to look original and abstract. She wanted to isolate her work from the idea of obvious symbolism and therefore, make the spectator more deeply involved in the process of decoding the scenes. As Millsapps states, “Deren knew the difference between images and symbols, and discusses this in her thesis: ‘…For the Symbolist, the image is a point of departure for mysterious distances, whereas the Imagist departure is limited...
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...toned-down copies of originals of black that left numerous African-American pioneers unhappy and occasionally broken (Govenar, 2008). The Birth of the Blues The music of blues were a formation of black slaves who reformed their African musical inheritance to the American setting. However taking an array of shapes and experiencing numerous variations over the years, the blues shaped the foundation of rhythm and blues, jazz, and the rock-and-roll music. Africans, after been torn from their skin, suffering a cruel journey from their West African homes to the South of America on slave ships and enforced into a submissive mode of life, reserved a steadiness with their stance over a variety of conducts, counting music. Their voices slipped amongst the lines of the more unbending scale of European music to make a characteristic new sound. To the owners and supervisors of plantations the music appeared to be “falling and rising” and sounded discordant. The music twisted designed recurrences, in this call-and-response frequently used to reduce the tedium of work in the fields, one slave would play a leading part, and associated slaves would trail with the matching expression or an elaboration of it until another takes the lead. As one spectator in 1845 wrote that “the black oarsmen made the woods to reverb to their melody. One of them, leading, first improved a verse, disbursing tributes to his owner’s family, and to an eminent neighborhood black beauty, who was equated to the ‘red...
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...of capacity, while long-term memory, for all practical purposes, has a virtually infinite capacity. With long-term memory, the problems concern getting information into it and retrieving information once it is there, not physical limits on the amount of information that may be stored. Understanding how memory works provides insight into several analytical strengths and weaknesses. ******************* Components of the Memory System What is commonly called memory is not a single, simple function. It is an extraordinarily complex system of diverse components and processes. There are at least three, and very likely more, distinct memory processes. The most important from the standpoint of this discussion and best documented by scientific research are sensory information storage (SIS), short-term memory (STM), and long-term memory (LTM).29 Each differs with respect to function, the form of information held, the length of time information is retained, and the amount of information-handling capacity. Memory researchers also posit the existence of an interpretive mechanism and an overall memory monitor or control mechanism that guides interaction among various elements of the memory system. Sensory Information Storage Sensory information storage holds sensory images for several tenths of a second after they...
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...injuring more than 1000 and causing over 4000 people to be homeless. Stern describes victims losing family members before their eyes, and the devastation caused by the flood. The writer also describes the causes of the disaster, and action he and his legal team team took on behalf of the victims, because it was, “the right thing [to do]” (21). This story tells how Stern and his colleagues worked as a team, made their way through the US legal system, and find justice for the victims. “One [Saturday] morning in February [26th] 1972… A coal company’s massive coal-refuse pile…collapsed without warning…killing 125 people mostly women and children” (Prologue). This horrible event captured the nation’s attention. Filmed news reports showed the black water rushing through the canyon that paralleled buffalo creek in the State of West Virginia. The high waters washed houses, people, telephone poles, rubbish, irreplaceable personal possessions and keepsakes away forever. Stearns an attorney, had helped with the civil rights struggle in the 1960’s and wanted to help the flood victims recover from the horrific disaster. Stearns law firm, Arnold & Potter, supported one partner each year take cases pro bono publico Cases-public interest cases. Stearns and his legal team took the case on. The dam that collapsed belonged to “The Buffalo Mining Company” who’s sole stock holder is the Pittston Company, Park Avenue, New York City” (10). The company announced that the flood was an “Act of god”...
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...Visualization Techniques Improve Recall of Word Pairs Samantha M. Vitolo Western New England University Abstract A study was done at Western New England University with 20 participants, ranging from the ages 17-19 in an Introduction to Psychology class. The students were separated into two groups, Group A and Group B. The participants in Group A were given a set of simple instructions that didn’t advise them to use any techniques. On the other hand, Group B received a set of directions that informed them of visualization techniques to use. Group B was given the visualization techniques to help remember the word associations they were asked to make. The set of directions each group was given was different in order to see how well visualization techniques improve memory recall. Once the data were collected it was clear that the participants in Group B had greater accuracy in recalling the word associations. Results support the use of visualization techniques to improve studying, and for remembering information across the day. Visualization Techniques Improve Recall of Word Pairs According to Granaas and Straub (1992), interactive imagery is a mnemonic device, which greatly improves ones ability to recall items. Mnemonic devices are techniques a person can use to help them improve their ability to remember something. This is a memory technique to help your brain decode and recall important facts and/or information. A mnemonic device can help us associate the information...
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...Artificial Intelligence: Fact or Fiction Virginia Vidaurri INF 103 Computer Literacy Instructor: Jeanette Cobabe December 3, 2012 Artificial Intelligence: Fact or Fiction What is Artificial Intelligence? The term Artificial Intelligence came into being in 1956, when it was proposed by John McCarthy (Bowles, 2010). This refers to the ability to “create a computer that could perform logical operations so well that it could actually learn and become sentient or conscious.” (Bowles, 2010). Our text defines intelligence as “the capacity for learning, reasoning, understanding, and similar forms of mental activity.” (Bowles, 2010). The problem with this definition is it’s not so clear cut when it is referring to machines (Bowles, 2010). The ultimate goal with Artificial Intelligence is to create a machine that can actually think, as a person thinks, but I’m not sure this goal is capable of being fully realized. In 1937, Alan Turing, a mathematician, developed what he called a Turing Machine, which was supposed to be an intelligent machine (Bowes, 2010). Then in 1950, using this machine, Turing proposed the Turing Test, which he thought “could prove whether or not a computer was intelligent” (Bowles, 2010). In this experiment, there was a judge who would communicate with a person and a computer, each hidden behind a different curtain. If the judge couldn’t tell the difference between the computer and the “real person”, then the computer would be considered...
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...NORML-National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws By Abigail Galicia PID: A09469570 POLI 100E Final Paper Prof. Galderisi 12/13/2012 Abigail Galicia POLI 100E Galderisi 12/13/12 Final Paper NORML-National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws “It’s NORML to Smoke Pot.” How is NORML organized, and how does it pursue its policy interests? I. Introduction. The issue of the legalization of marijuana has been a hotly-debated and increasingly bitter confrontation among Americans. On the one side lie those who oppose everything about the drug and believe it to be a threat to society’s health and well-being, while the other side is composed of “the millions of smokers, many of them well educated, successful people who resent being defined as criminals for using what they regard as a mild but enjoyable drug (Anderson 3).” Both sides—for and against the legalization of marijuana—have presented proper research and evidence on either the virtually harmless or life threatening effects of marijuana along with either the economically beneficial or detrimental effects drug policy reform will have on the US. Either way, this debate has gained political momentum in the past decades and can no longer be seen as one-sided. Fueling this debate and whole-heartedly representing the pro-marijuana lobby organization, is the interest group NORML. NORML stands for the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws and has been the top main advocate in leading the...
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...Cyros Lakdawala Botvinnik move by move 'Ill INW,tiHlfiJ rymafl( he-ss"co m EVERYMAN CHESS First published in 2013 by Gloucester Publishers Limited, Northburgh House, 10 Northburgh Street, London ECIV OAT 2013 Cyrus Lakdawala Copyright © The right of Cyrus Lakdawala to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted in accordance with the Copyrights, Designs and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, electrostatic, magnetic tape, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without prior permission of the publisher . British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. Kindle ISB N: Ebook ISBN: 978-1-78194-104-1 978-1-78194-103-4 480, Distributed in North America by The Globe Pequot Press, P. O Box 246 Goose Lane, Guilford, CT 06437-0480. All other sales enquiries should be directed to Everyman Chess, Northburgh House, 10 Northburgh Street, London ECIV OAT tel: 020 7253 7887 fax: 020 7490 3708 email: info@everymanchess.com; website: www.everymanchess.com Everyman is the registered trade mark of Random House Inc. and is used in this work under licence from Random House Inc. Everyman Chess Series Chief advisor : Byron Jacobs Commissioning editor: John Emms Assistant editor : Richard Palliser Typeset and edited by First Rank Publishing...
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...Athletic HISTORY The first modern-style indoor athletics meetings were recorded shortly after in the 1860s, including a meet at Ashburnham Hall in London which featured four running events and a triple jump competition. The Amateur Athletic Association (AAA) was established in England in 1880 as the first national body for the sport of athletics and began holding its own annual athletics competition – the AAA Championships. The United States also began holding an annual national competition – the USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships – first held in 1876 by the New York Athletic Club.[14] Athletics became codified and standardized via the English AAA and other general sports organisations in the late 19th century, such as the Amateur Athletic Union (founded in the US in 1888) and the Union des sociétésfrançaises de sports athlétiques (founded in France in 1889). An athletics competition was included in the first modern Olympic Games in 1896 and it has been as one of the foremost competitions at the quadrennial multi-sport event ever since. Originally for men only, the 1928 Olympics saw the introduction of women's events in the athletics programme. Athletics is part of the Paralympic Games since the inaugural Games in 1960. Athletics has a very high profile during major championships, especially the Olympics, but otherwise is less popular. An international governing body, the International Amateur Athletics Federation (IAAF), was founded in 1912; it adopted its current...
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...Danish Jamil et al. / International Journal of Engineering Science and Technology (IJEST) IS ETHICAL HACKING ETHICAL? DANISH JAMIL Department of Computer Engineering, Sir Syed University of Engineering & Technology, Main University Road, Karachi, Sindh-75300,Pakistan mallick251@hotmail.com MUHAMMAD NUMAN ALI KHAN Department of Computer Engineering, Sir Syed University of Engineering & Technology, Main University Road, Karachi, Sindh-75300,Pakistan mallick89@yahoo.co.uk Abstract : This paper explores the ethics behind ethical hacking and whether there are problems that lie with this new field of work. Since ethical hacking has been a controversial subject over the past few years, the question remains of the true intentions of ethical hackers. The paper also looks at ways in which future research could be looked into to help keep ethical hacking, ethical. Keywords— Ethical hacking, hacking, hackers, education and training, risk management, automated security I. INTRODUCTION Understanding the true intentions of the general public is quite a hard task these days, and it is even harder so, to understand the intentions of every single ethical hacker getting into vulnerable systems or networks. Technology is ever growing and we are encountering tools that are beneficial to the general public, but in the wrong hands can create great controversy, breaching our basic right to privacy, respect and freewill. The constant issues highlighted by the media always...
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...Student number 4823338 UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA MARKETING: SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY AND THE LAW Coursework Semester 2 ACADEMIC YEAR 2013-2014 Word Count: 2331 Date of Submission: 17 February 2014 Student Number 4823338 CONTENTS 1 INTRODUCTION ................................................................................................3 2 4 ERAS……………………………………………………...................................4 2.1 The Era of Production……………………………………………………….5 2.2 The Era of Sales…….………………………………………………………...6 2.3 The Era of Marketing.……………………………………………………….7 2.4 The Era of Relations………………………………………………………….8 3 THE ADVERTISING STANDARDS AUTHORITY (ASA)…….....................9 4 CONCLUSION ....................................................................................................11 REFERENCE.......................................................................................................12 2 Student Number 4823338 1 INTRODUCTION Systematic problems of Advertising industry became visible relatively long time ago even with the naked eye. New trends appearing in recent years are becoming more and more openly post modernised. Advertising remembered a human being, who used to be ignored and estimated only as an abundant figure, money income for the decades. All manner of marketing directions, such as Guerrilla, Viral and Intuitive, invoke to look closely at the man, go beyond the statistics, and see the real people standing behind the numbers. Advertising...
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...Corporate Social Responsibility At the core of the AmBank Group’s responsibilities, priority is placed on the development and sustainability of the four main pillars of the larger business ‘ecosystem’ within which we operate: the marketplace, the community, our staff and the environment. We aspire to contribute to a better society, concurrently contributing to the nation’s growth, development and prosperity. Continuously adding value to the marketplace and contributing to the development of the industry are considerations that are given priority in the AmBank Group’s products, services and market initiatives. Annual Report 2012 Leading Innovation, Stimulating Market Participation The AmBank Group has closely aligned itself with the country’s efforts at entrenching Malaysia as the world’s leading international hub for Islamic finance. AmInvestment Bank was appointed as one of the Joint Principal Advisers/Joint Lead Arrangers/Joint Lead Managers for the 20-year Sukuk Musharakah Programme of up to RM2.0 billion in nominal value by Westports Malaysia Sdn Bhd on 2 June 2012. It was structured under the widely accepted principle of Musharakah to a wide investor base. AmInvestment Bank was also the Sole Lead Manager for Gulf Investment Corporation GSC, Kuwait’s RM750 million (USD253 million) issuance under its existing 20-year RM3.5 billion (USD1.18 billion) Sukuk Wakalah bi Istithmar Medium Term Notes programme, where AmIslamic Bank was Transaction Agent to facilitate the commodity...
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...BUSI 600 - Literature Review Tony Hinds Liberty University Dr. Janet Jones October 11, 2013 Abstract The purpose of this literature review is to identify, discuss, and address gender discrimination in the workplace. Due to the broad spectrum of research regarding gender discrimination, this paper will primarily focus on women and pregnancy discrimination. This paper will attempt to uncover the obstacles and challenges experienced by women as they are subjected to the employment process and, if accepted for employment, what could await them within their workplace once they begin working. The statistical data collected and compiled within this literature review will attempt to support and prove that discrimination still exists today. The laws and regulations enacted within the United States to protect employees from the discriminatory practices of employers and whether they are adequately enforced will be discussed at length. Introduction There are thousands of discriminatory cases each year brought against corporations and employers by their employees and/or formal employees. The discrimination against individuals on the basis of gender is most prominent within the employment process, but also exists in the workplace after the acceptance of employment. Gender has been the subject of workplace discrimination and litigation for many years and recent data indicates that this trend is continuing. These types of discrimination are spread widely to include the assignment...
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...The capacity to communicate is one of the fundamental elements of the human condition which separate people from the animal world. While almost all animals are capable of vocalizations and many have a rich and diverse method of communication; no animal can match the dexterity and abstract cognition of the human mind. The study of the way the brain processes, stores, and organizes information into learning has been studied for centuries—yet it has only been in the past few hundred years that true breakthroughs in the cognitive sciences has been observed. Arguably one of the most essential discoveries in brain function lies within the compartmentalization of mental, emotional, logistical, motor, and cognitive capabilities, this process began in earnest with the discovery of Broca's Area through the diagnosis of a particular symptom of trauma—Broca's aphasia. To understand the overall picture of this convoluted problem we must first examine the historical foundations through which aphasia was diagnosed. From there we will attempt to dissect the process of language evolution and attempt to recognize where aphasia fits within the equation of language structure. From structure, we must then look even closer to the actual biology of the neural network to examine how learning and language develops in order to assist in the therapy of aphasics the world over. Broca's area is a portion of the brain in the left temporal lobe which has been attributed to the process of speech...
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