...Autism is a disorder of neural development characterized by impaired social interaction and communication, and by restricted and repetitive behavior. For a diagnosis to be made, symptoms must become apparent before a child is three years old.Autism affects information processing in the brain by altering how nerve cells and their synapses connect and organize; how this occurs is not well understood. It is one of three recognized disorders in the autism spectrum (ASDs), the other two being Asperger syndrome, which lacks delays in cognitive development and language, and pervasive developmental disorder not otherwise specified (commonly abbreviated as PDD-NOS), which is diagnosed when the full set of criteria for autism or Asperger syndrome are not met. There are different unknown causes of autism but the condition is linked to biology and chemical abnormality in the brain, the children and parents affected with autism face different challenges to live a normal life. Autism is a physical condition linked to abnormal biology and chemistry in the brain. The exact causes of these abnormalities remain unknown, but this is a very active area of research. There are probably combinations of factors that lead to autism. Genetic factors are important causes of autism. Also, language abnormalities are more common in relatives of autistic children. Chromosomal abnormalities and other nervous system (neurological) problems are also more common in families with autism. Several lines of evidence...
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...Government of India Ministry of Human Resource Development Announces ‘Gurutsav 2014’ Teachers have played a pivotal role in shaping and moulding our lives and enabling us to develop as citizens of the 21st Century. The MHRD acknowledges and appreciates the seminal role played by teachers. 5th September, the day when one of the greatest teachers Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan was born, is the day when we together express our solidarity with the teaching community and celebrate the excellence of teachers. This year, in order to combine the voice of the entire student community in thanking their teachers, the MHRD has decided to organize an Essay Writing Competition for gratefully acknowledging the role teachers play in our lives. The Ministry strongly feels that today’s generation should find a voice in remembering the selfless services of the teachers who play a vital role in shaping future generations. The Ministry, therefore, announces an Essay Writing Competition, and invites entries from the students to share inspiring stories about their teachers. This Competition will be conducted on 1st September 2014. The entries are invited in English and all the 22 Scheduled Languages. (Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Kashmiri, Konkani, Malayalam, Manipuri, Marathi, Nepali, Oriya, Punjabi, Sanskrit, Sindhi, Tamil, Telugu, Urdu, Bodo, Santhali, Maithali and Dogri). A practice round will be conducted on 29th & 30th August to acquaint participants with the process. The competition...
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...yBooker T. Washington Who would have ever thought that someone, who was born as a slave hut would have ever become famous? Booker T. Washington was one of them, this essay will tell you about it. Booker T. Washington was born on April 5, 1856. In Franklin County, Virginia. Washington was born as a slave hut. His mother Jane and his father was an unknown white man. At a young age Washington went to work carrying sacks of grain to the plantation mills, carrying 100-pound bags. Booker was often beaten on occasions for not performing his duties satisfactorily. Washington’s first exposure to education was from the outside of a school house near the plantation; looking inside. His mother married, to Washington Ferguson. They were a very poor family. At age 9 Washington went to work in a salt mine with his stepfather instead of going to school. Booker T. Washington’s mother noticed his interest in learning. Jane got him a book, which he learned the alphabet, and to read and write basic words. In 1866, Booker T. Washington got a job as a house boy form Viola Ruffner, her husband was a coal mine owner. Booker worked for them for two years. Viola Ruffner saw and understood his desire to learn and to have an education. She allowed him to go to to school for an hour a day during the winter months. In 1872, Booker T. Washington left home and walked 500 miles to Hampton Normal Agricultural Institute in Virginia . In 1875 Booker T. Washington graduated from Hampton...
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...Eric Cheney 243 Grand Ave. Golden City, Golden State November 8, 2012 Mr. Jim-Bob Smith 54 Buck Hollow Rd. Green Wood, Golden State Dear Mr. Smith: WOULDN’T YOU LIKE TO OWN YOUR OWN BUSINESS? If you’re looking for the chance to be your own boss or earn extra income in your spare time or a way to achieve independence when you retire, SMALL-ENGINE REPAIR could be the answer. We can quickly train you—in your spare time at home—to service and repair mowers, tillers, chain saws, outboards, garden tractors, mopeds, motorcycles, snowmobiles, and dozens of other types of small-engine equipment. It’s a great way to start your own business, full- or part-time, with a minimum investment. And it’s a field with growing opportunities for qualified people. Our Small-Engine Course contains 45 lessons, each easy to read and understand. Every lesson is short and fully illustrated with step-by-step diagrams and photographs. It’s “hands-on” training—you actually build a 3 1/2-horsepower 4-cycle engine. You also perform experiments that show you how every part of an engine works. And we supply you with professional tools—a complete set of wrenches, electrical-system tools, inductive tachometer, engine-overhaul tools, volt-ohm-milliamp-meter, and others. Everything that you need! Contact us at 1-877-987-4356, and we will send you all the literature you will need in order to make an informed decision, and we will also send you your choice of free tool just for your interest...
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...Reflective Essay I first heard the term sustainability while I was doing my undergraduate in Electronics and Communication Engineering. We were taught that any system which is in stable equilibrium is sustainable and any system which is in unstable equilibrium is unsustainable. That concept made me wonder about when a sustainable system gets altered into an unsustainable system. After finishing my undergraduate degree I started working for a major manufacturing firm in India. There the term sustainability meant to decrease the scrap or waste from the manufacturing process in order to reduce cost. After working for a year I decided to pursue my Masters in Human Resource Management from XLRI which is located in India. Here again sustainability had a different interpretation and it essentially meant how long an implemented recommendation would hold under varied circumstances. As part of the course I had an opportunity to go for an exchange program to Aston University Birmingham. I had an option to choose from over 30 different modules as I was doing the masters exchange program. I wanted to select a module which was related to sustainability as I still did not have clear idea about what the word meant. Moreover, I wanted the module to integrate it with different aspects of the business, i.e. be interdisciplinary in nature. Hence I chose strategic business sustainability with the objective of understanding the true meaning of sustainability. To be honest before the course I never...
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...Piper Industries Corporation Project Management Recommendation Dear Project Manager: With the available information from the previous email regarding the projects of Juniper, Palomino and Stargazer, I feel it is in the company’s best interest to go with the Palomino project moving forward. The reason for not selecting the other two options is because Juniper carries too low of a risk for completion. Stargazer is not worth the high risk of completion and the unfamiliarity of how the final product will be with the customer. The method applied for making this decision was by utilizing the feasibility study. The main purpose of this is because using this project would have to make sense to the company as a whole. Answering all of the questions on Return On Investment (ROI), length of project, risk and overall benefit to Piper Industries. Using the feasibility study for the Juniper and Stargazer projects, it was a basic understanding that previously mentioned material would not be present as with the Palomino model. There are five different phases in project management that involve the Palomino project and those are (Jacobs & Chase 2011): •Project conception and initiation The main focus of this phase is to ensure the project being presented is realistic and will benefit the company. •Project definition and planning The scope of the project will need an outline so the work which needs to be performed is available. Prioritizing, budgets and tim elines are in this phase...
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...With reference to the source above explain how the hajj affects the lives of both individuals and the Muslim community. The Hajj is the obligatory six day annual pilgrimage by approximately 2 million Muslims to Mecca in Saudi Arabia every year. The Hajj is a significant practice of Islam as it is one of the 5 pillars of Islamic faith and involves a spiritual, mental and physical journey. It is an obligation which must be undertaken by all Muslims if they are financially, mentally and physically fit enough to pursue the once in a lifetime journey. Muslims go on the journey to; commune with god – be in his presence and worship him, to wash away their sins, to fulfil one of the pillars and to express their Islamic beliefs and promote equality and share the pleasing experience with a global community of Muslims all there for the same reason. The importance of the hajj is also emphasised in the Quran as “a duty owed to Allah”. The implication of the intensity of Hajj is one of which individuals learn skills such as determination, perseverance, patience and control of human will In fulfilling this service, man expresses his devotion to Allah, not only by performing rites which need physical effort, but he expresses also his deep spiritual devotion to Allah and spends of his money for His sake. The Muslim community is also affected through the local communities who involve themselves in the preparation for the Hajj. International media coverage is also gained from the enormous gathering...
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...Outline and asses the view that vocational education simply trains workers for exploitation. A Labour prime minister in the 1970's said that Britain was facing a skills crisis. Pupils were leaving school unemployable, lacking the knowledge and skills needed for Britain to compete in the global economy. This was the main reason why new vocationalism was introduced to train young people and to provide the economy with skilled workforce. On these vocational courses students are taught technical skills such as plumbing and construction. Marxist would argue that vocationalism doesn’t simply train workers for exploitation but also produces inequalities. That the real function of vocational education is to serve the needs of capitalism and tofurther produce existing inequalities.They would also argue that vocational schemes are interpreted as helping legitimise class division because they promote the idea that the middle class receive education whereas the working classes receive training. As the elite have their own schools which are known as public schools where they are not taught vocational courses this allows them to get the higher status and better paid jobs and further promotes inequality.Althusser argued that the main role of education in society is to reproduce of an efficient and obedient work force. This is achieved through schools by transmitting the ideology as school teaches individuals to compete with their pupils by trying to do better than them. It also trains future...
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...Friendship exists everywhere in the world around and most of them are very complex. Sometimes in every friendship there is sacrifice. In Ann Brashares novel, ‘Forever in Blue’ there is a perfect demonstration of friendship and the power it has to make a difference in someone’s life. The relationship between the four main characters, Lena, Carmen, Tibby, and Bridget, is a strong one and they all share a special bond between one another. They all depend on one another and rely on each other. There are three instances where this general theme appears in the book. When Tibby has no idea of what she should do next and then Lena arrives to comfort her. Another instance would be when Carmen is at her opening night and she thinks that no one is there to support her and then she sees her three best friends in the front row and she suddenly feels jubilant. The final situation where you see the power of friendship is when Lena finds out that the Traveling Pants are gone. She then decides to go to Greece to find them and to her surprise, there are her friends waiting to go with her. These four characters are the perfect example about friendship and the power it possess. In the novel, you can already tell that one of the main characters, Tibby, has been through a lot in life and that she has this kind of resentment towards people that aren’t her friends. So it is good that she has them to keep her grounded. In the novel, Tibby has a problem. She thinks that she is pregnant causing a major...
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...The Guilt In the tale, “The Tell-Tale Heart,” Poe tells the story of how the narrator who was assumed to be mad for killing an old man. The old man has an eye like a vulture and the narrator said this old man’s eye is an evil eye; according to the story he said “one of his eyes resembled that of a vulture-a pale blue eye, with a film over it” (39). The story shows guilt and emotional breakdown, but sometimes feel emotional disturbance. The tone at the beginning of the story is eerie because the narrator is talking about an evil eye and then he goes on to say how he watches the old man late at night for hours, just looking at his eye, studying him, and not saying a word. At the beginning of the story, the narrator questions his sanity, saying "...why will you say I am man? (39)" For him to come out and say this statement, I feel everyone has seen him as an insane person, because people believe that it is impossible to kill your rich and wealthy master just because of his eyes; someone would have done that because of his wealth and riches, but his case was different, that is why they see him to be insane. This was what made him tell his story in a gentle approach. He was making his point to the person, telling him or her that he is not insane, and he knows what he is doing and would not have killed the old man the way he did if he was insane. In "The Tell-Tale Heart," the narrator tells of his torture. He was disturbed by the old man's Evil Eye. The narrator had no ill will...
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