...deGrasse Tyson, was asociologist, human resource commissioner for the New York City mayor John Lindsay, and the first Director of Harlem Youth Opportunities Unlimited.[3][4] From kindergarten through high school Tyson attended public schools in New York City, all in the Bronx, which included PS 36, PS 81, Riverdale Kingsbridge Academy (MS 141), and The Bronx High School of Science (1972–76)[5] where he was captain of the wrestling team, and editor-in-chief of the school's Physical Science Journal. Tyson had an abiding interest in astronomy since he was nine years old, following his visit to Pennsylvania and seeing the stars, saying "it looks like the Hayden Planetarium".[6] He obsessively studied astronomy in his teens, and eventually even gained some fame in the astronomy community by giving lectures on the subject at the age of fifteen.[7] Tyson recalls that "so strong was that imprint [of the night sky] that I'm certain that I had no choice in the matter, that in fact, the universe called me."[6] Astronomer Carl Sagan, who was a faculty member at Cornell University, tried to recruit Tyson to Cornell forundergraduate studies.[3] In an interview with writer Daniel Simone,[8] Tyson said: Interestingly, when I applied to Cornell, my application dripped of my passion for the study and research of the Universe. Somehow the admissions office brought my application to the attention of the late Dr. Sagan, and he actually took the initiative and care to contact me. He was very inspirational...
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...James Ronca Final Paper Wrestling is one of the oldest sports in the world. No one is sure who invented the sport but it was first implemented as a real sport in the first Olympics in the year 776 B.C. The origins of wrestling can be traced back 15,000 years through cave drawings in France; Babylonian and Egyptian relief's show wrestlers using most of the holds known to the present-day sport. More modern day wrestling has weight classes implemented so participants will wrestle people that weigh the same as them, thus starting a trend known in the wrestling world as cutting weight. Weight classes in wrestling were implemented in order to insure the optimal amount of fairness for each wrestler before they step out onto the mat. I believe that weight classes are positive to the sport but also negative. Positive in the fact that you don’t have a kid who weighs 103 wrestling someone who is 185, that just wouldn’t make sense. It makes it so everyone that goes out there are roughly the same weight so size doesn’t play a roll. But, this causes many issues as well. I know from experience the side effects of cutting weight. You feel weak, tired, and hungry; you get cotton mouth, and extremely aggravated over little things, everything pisses you off, it’s just an awful mood to be in. Cutting weight often is misconstrued and everyone believes that you just starve yourself to make weight. In some occasions this is true, but that is the wrong way to do it. There is a right way to cut...
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...Special Issues Paper and Presentation Corbo Mikah BSCOM/100 Introduction to Communication November 09, 2015 Mary Lee Special Issues Paper and Presentation This is our final assignment for your class, and because of my communication issues with my children, I am writing this paper again and will have to redo all of my presentation. When I started this class, I was stunned because I thought I knew everything I needed about communication. Well as you can guess, I was wrong I have learned quite a bit along this long journey through Introduction to Communication. I am here writing about some of the key points of communication that I have learned and hopefully I will be able to show you that I was able to learn from you and your course. This last week we have been learning about diversity, ethics, technology and mass communication. These four words seem to not have anything in common, right? Well, that is what I thought until I began to read and research all four of these words. I looked all through our Chapters and I had a really hard time finding the best meaning of diversity, so after more research I found the perfect answer. Diversity is the inclusion of individuals, representing more than one national origin, color, religion; a point of difference. Another good example to the meaning of diversity would be variety, or a range of difference. The next word is ethics and my favorite meaning to this is; a branch of philosophy dealing with values relating to human conduct...
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...Birmingham Urban Paper Rural-Urban Social Welfare & Social Work Abstract Introduction Uneven development has long been the preeminent feature of urban and metropolitan growth in the United States. In recent years, the word “spawl” has crept into the vocabulary of scholars, public officals, and community organization leaders who are wrestling with diverse challenges posed by urban life (Galster et al. 2000). Suburban sprawl has been the dominant form of metropolitan- area growth in the United States for the past 50 years”(Downs 1998). Sprawl can be defined as a pattern of urban and metropolitian growth that reflects low density, automobile-dependent, new development on the fringe of settled areas often surrounding a deteriorating city. Among the traits of metropolitan growth frequently associated with sprawl are unlimited outward extension of development; low-density housing and commercial development; leapfrog development, "edge cities," and more recently "edgeless cities"; fragmentation of land use planning among multiple municipalities; reliance on private automobiles for transportation; segregation of types of land use; race and class-based exclusionary housing and employment; congestion and environmental damage; and a declining sense of community among area residents (Downs 1999; Garreau 1991; Katz and Bradley 1999; Lang 2000; Rusk 1999). However, these spatial patterns of development are rooted in a context of...
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...Teenage Anorexia “Nothing tastes as good as thin feels” – Kate Moss, model It is unfortunate that this statement was ever made but the sad truth is that much of the modern world truly believes that being waifish is more important than being healthy. The culture of the modern world has spent decades idolizing high-end fashion models that are 6’00” tall and skin and bones. This image pollutes the mind of the teenager and begins to manifest a disorder in teens that cannot handle their own body image. Sadly the statistics for teenagers for eating disorders is astounding. Over one half of teenage girls and one third of teenage boys have unhealthy eating habits largely because of the yearning to be thin (Neumark-Sztainer, 2005). Cognitive behavioral therapy focuses directly on the problem at hand. For 14 year old Judy Jones, her problem is anorexia nervosa. Due to the nature of anorexia nervosa, Judy is likely experiencing some fear or change in her life. Dealing with an eating disorder is consuming and a way of coping with the change. I would choose to use cognitive-behavioral therapy to treat the psychological issues and her physical needs by altering her behavior. Interestingly enough, anorexia nervosa affects over-achievers and students that excel in other areas of their lives moreso than students of average achievement. This disorder grabs hold of them as a coping mechanism and the teenager cannot escape its clutches. If a student is good at everything they do,...
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...in the post World War 2 era, there has been an ever increasing use of performance enhancing drugs in all avenues of sport. Sports have become money making machine for both athletes and big business and the “win at all costs” attitude which has permeated itself into all aspects of professional and college level athletics. Winners make money, losers don’t. The temptation of fame, notoriety and million dollar contracts in all venues of sport is a lure for many athletes. Elite professional athletes are worshiped in today’s society. This paper will elaborate on the use of performance enhancing drugs in the sporting world and the associated sports ethical issues. It is a majority belief in all sporting circles that the “true” spirit of sportsmanship does not allow any aspect of performance enhancing drugs. There are several arguments both in favor and against the use of performance enhancing drugs which will be presented and discussed in this paper. While addressing this ethical issue, we need to define the term ethics. Ethics can be defined as the socially accepted norms and values. These norms and values are varied from society to society and are based on culture and tradition. Ethics also could be defined as the unsaid, un-written and understood laws that prevail in a society. Ethics also cover what is right and what is wrong in society and teaches individuals to act in the right manner and remain committed towards it. Taking performance enhancing drugs has a long history in...
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...symbols" (Samovar & Porter, 1997, p.188). Indirect quotation/paraphrasing – no quotation marks Attaching meaning to symbols is considered to be the origin of written language (Samovar & Porter, 1997). N.B. Page numbers are optional when paraphrasing, although it is useful to include them (Publication Manual, p. 171). Citations from a secondary source As Hall (1977) asserts, “culture also defines boundaries of different groups” (as cited in Samovar & Porter, 1997, p. 14). At the end of your assignment, you are required to provide the full bibliographic information for each source. References must be listed in alphabetical order by author. EXAMPLES OF REFERENCES BY TYPE In a reference list 1. Book with one author King, M. (2000). Wrestling with the angel: A life of Janet Frame. Auckland, New Zealand: Viking. N.B. The first letter of the first word of the main title, subtitle and all proper nouns have capital letters. In-text citation (King, 2000) or King (2000) compares Frame ... 2. Book with two to five authors (see Library APA referencing webpage...
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...symbols" (Samovar & Porter, 1997, p.188). Indirect quotation/paraphrasing – no quotation marks Attaching meaning to symbols is considered to be the origin of written language (Samovar & Porter, 1997). N.B. Page numbers are optional when paraphrasing, although it is useful to include them (Publication Manual, p. 171). Citations from a secondary source As Hall (1977) asserts, “culture also defines boundaries of different groups” (as cited in Samovar & Porter, 1997, p. 14). At the end of your assignment, you are required to provide the full bibliographic information for each source. References must be listed in alphabetical order by author. EXAMPLES OF REFERENCES BY TYPE In a reference list 1. Book with one author King, M. (2000). Wrestling with the angel: A life of Janet Frame. Auckland, New Zealand: Viking. N.B. The first letter of the first word of the main title, subtitle and all proper nouns have capital letters. In-text citation (King, 2000) or King (2000) compares Frame ... 2. Book with two to five authors (see Library APA referencing webpage...
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...problems in time albeit they are aware of the symptoms that accompany such sport-related health problems. Concussion is one such health problem that is affecting athletes, especially high school students. It has been reported that most of athletes tend to avoid reporting symptoms of concussion in order to avoid being sidelined from playing (Diagnosing and Treating Sports-Related Concussion, 2014). In the United States, it is estimated that up to 3.8 million athletes suffer from concussions linked to high impact sports (Diagnosing and Treating Sports-Related Concussion, 2014). There is, however, a feeling that the figure is under-estimated in the sense that most athletes as well as their coaches are not conversant with the symptoms of this particular health issue. Therefore, concussions in athletes are a serious health issue which should be addressed immediately. There is need to inform athletes and all stakeholders in the sport industry on the symptoms of concussions as well as their capability to be fatal in order to help athletes seek treatment to avoid repetitive concussions which would lead to deaths. The purpose of this paper is to inform the reader, especially athletes, on the importance of seeking early diagnosis and treatment as an effective management plan and avoiding risk factors. This paper will, therefore, discuss the persons who are at increased risk to have concussions, the risk factors associated with the problem, management of concussions, and repercussions of multiple...
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...father, who committed suicide in his mid-fifties. Two of his siblings also committed suicide (he was one of six). His mother was “cold and domineering,” and some say she emasculated his father. In his adult life, he was married four times, but “When I saw my wife again standing at the tracks as the train came in by the piled logs at the station, I wished I had died before I ever loved anyone but her.” This quote, which I think gives a testament to how beautifully he could write, is speaking of his first wife, Hadley, whom he met and married within a year. They had a son together, but after Hadley was at fault in getting his collection of stories stolen, their relationship wouldn’t recover. When in high school, Hemingway’s love for writing started to show. He wrote for his school paper, and when he graduated he took a job writing for a Newspaper, much at the disdain of his parents, who wanted him to go to college. Around this time World War I broke out, and Ernest Hemingway, being a young man full of energy and adventurousness, wanted to fight for the cause. Accompanying his parents forbidding it, his bad eyesight was a forbearer of the news he would not be...
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...could be the clothing that we wear or that some else is wearing, maybe the accessories you see people wearing when you go out, or just could be a commercial you have seen on television. Wherever you are in the United States I can guarantee that you have some kind of affiliation with some kind of sport. As of the year 2013 studies show that “sixty percent of our children between the ages of five years of age and eighteen years of age play some kind of sport outside of school activities”, and if you think about how much sixty percent of our child population in the United States is, that is a lot of kids. Now think about how many of those parents think about there children having the potential for a brain traumatic injury, I would guess that statistic is probably quite a bit lower than ten percent, no study to my knowledge has been done for this. So I am writing this paper to make parents aware of what is currently surrounding issues around brain traumatic injuries and I’ll let you be the judge of the outcome and research I have found. When we think about sports or sporting events, we tend to think about our favorite players, teams, teams we don’t like, competition and hard-hitting action. Concussions In Sports 3 Do we ever step back and look at the bigger picture outside of what...
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...The real value of higher education By Tom Ross, 3.15.15 This is adapted from remarks given at the National Public Affairs Forum in Raleigh last week: America is losing her way with regard to higher education. We seem to have forgotten the real value of higher education – both to our economy and to our society. We have become too focused on metrics, return on investment and job preparation. I am not suggesting these are unimportant. Rather, I would remind us that higher education offers many other – and I contend greater – benefits to our nation and its citizens and communities. Universities have long been known and respected as places of ideas and debate, of big discoveries and bigger dreams. It is within our universities that we have tackled some of our most perplexing problems and found solutions to them. It is on our campuses that generations of students have learned how to think for themselves and how to work collaboratively with others. Our universities have been places where ideas and dreams are converted to life-changing discoveries, and where our leaders of tomorrow are developed. Since the dawn of our nation, our universities have been at the center of our civil society and our search for excellence. We increasingly view our colleges and universities as nothing more than factories that must demonstrate an immediate return on investment for consumers. Places that only train people for the workforce. We hear constant calls to drive out costs and produce more...
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...are free to express these opinions but there are some who express it over that sometimes they may hurt someone’s feelings. If this will be repeatedly done and is getting worse that they can really affect the mental behavior of someone, then this will be called as bullying. Bullying is the repeated and systematic harassment or attack on someone. It is a habitual abuse and forcing someone to act in involuntary manner. Actually there are three types of bullying; emotional, verbal and physical. The most common thing is the verbal bullying. It’s the bullying with the use of words. It can be a form of racial comments, sexual comments, insults and name-calling. This type of bully is done everywhere but for students, verbal bullying is common in schools. Words are...
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...Event critique paper: Arab Media Forum Arab Media is a high profiled 2-day event held once every year hosted by the Dubai press Club, which is created under the patronage of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, UAE Vice President and Prime Minister, and Ruler of Dubai. Dubai press club has played a major role in the growth of the regional media industry through initiating various events such as the Arab Media Forum and the Arab Journalism Award. The Dubai Press Club is a well-established forum for journalists and media professionals to debate, discuss, and deliberate upon issues that are relevant to daily life. Arab media forum is held mainly to attract journalists, decision makers and students from the Arab region and worldwide. This year Arab media forum took place at the Grand Hyatt Hotel Dubai on the 8th and 9th of May, the event comprised of a series of seminars and workshops. Also, delegates such as journalists and media professionals were invited as guests’ speakers from around the Arab world. The theme of this year’s Arab media forum was “Arab Media: Exposure and Transition”. A total of 2,000 regional and global media representatives, and 350 overseas guests gathered at the 2012 Arab media Forum. As mentioned earlier, the theme of this year’s Arab media forum was “Arab Media: Exposure and Transition” I think the theme was well suited with the objective and goals of the event. As the main purpose of organizing Arab Media Forum, is to get together...
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...president of Cook County Board of Commissioners. Ms. Preckwinkle is adamant about reducing the populations of the County Cook Jail and the county’s Temporary Detention Center. Ms. Preckwinkle says as she was giving her budget address to a group of commissioners, “detaining defendants in jail while they await trial is very expensive for the county and is detrimental to our communities” (1). For the purpose of this paper the focus will be on the incarceration of children ages 10-18 and how such can be not only detrimental to communities but also to societies and our economy.Something has to change, for some time now a large part of the United States population has bought into the whole concept of placing children who break the law in juvenile correctional facilities. As tax payers we must come to the realization that something needs to change if we want these troubled youth to have a bright future ahead of them and become law-abiding tax payers. As a country we are spending billions of dollars buying into this whole concept of incarcerating young people, while research shows it is ineffective on rehabilitating the lives of juvenile offenders. Richard A. Mendel reports that a number of studies actually show that the incarceration of juveniles, “actually increases recidivism among youth with lower-risk profiles and less-serious offending histories” (6). In order to put an end to this epidemic of just locking kids up and costing taxpayers billions of dollars we must use some alternative...
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