...Response to Review (Straight Out of Compton} I first want to start off saying that Straight Out of Compton was a good movie. I was actually shocked by how good the acting was, and how believable the characters were. The movie does a great job of revealing the reason for NWA's breakup and acts as a precautionary tale about staying true to your ideals. I actually disagree with the grade ew.com is giving Straight out of Compton that is a B plus. I would have thought giving the movie Straight Out of Compton at least an A minus. I liked how the review first started off showing the history of N.W.A when it first started in 1988 and where the music first originated from. I enjoyed the part where it said N.W.A was a gang but it wasn’t a traditional gang, just a tight knitted group of guys that lived in poverty and were often harassed by police officials. The part in the review which I thought was my favorite and that I one hundred percent agreed on was when ew.com mentioned that the best part of the film was “N.W.A’s origin story: their aspirations, assembly, and earliest recordings that lead them to put their faith in a seemingly paternal manager.” The reason why I agreed with this part being the best of the film was because it was the rising action to the climax where they find out that the manger they put their faith on actually backs stabs them by cheating everybody except Eazy- E of their share of the money and also their credit to the music. Eventually the manger does cheat...
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...Hip Hop Culture and its effects on today’s society Ebony Lee COM/220 Research Writing 12/14/2011 Jessica Bryan Hip Hop music has influenced many things in American culture. According to a survey done in 2002-2011, many Americans believed that hip hop music promoted violence, demeaned women and condoned drug use. Although some people say that the lyrics in some hip hop music is violent and promote the wrong values, Hip hop “has positively affected” the way people think act and dress. In a recently taken survey, I found that many people think that rap or Hip Hop music lyrics promote violence. Do you think that Hip-Hop condones violence among its listeners? | [Writing suggestion: Unless in a quote or a title, avoid rhetorical questions in academic writing. A good idea is to provide answers, not questions] Yes | (3; 50%) | No | (3; 50%) | | | Do you think that the Hip-Hop culture demeans women? | Yes | (5; 83%) | No | (1; 17%) | | | Do you think that Hip-Hop culture condones drug use? | Yes | (6; 100%) | ...
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...Personal Responsibility Ryan Compton GEN/201 June 2, 2014 Michael Williams Personal Responsibility to me is acknowledging and taking responsibility for the choices you make. As stated by President Barrack Obama "we can have the most dedicated teachers, the most supportive parents and the best schools in the world - and none of it will matter unless all of you fulfill your responsibilities." Everyone is responsible for themselves and their actions, although some like to place the blame of some of their actions and life choices on others, in the end you and you alone are responsible for the choices and actions you take. Too many people today blame the others for the situations they end up in, instead of having integrity and realizing that only you can make decisions for yourself. If there is one thing I learned while serving in the United States Army is integrity and personal responsibility. Every solider is responsible for themselves and the actions they take. In the Army you have to learn what is right and what’s wrong and have to be able to make precise and instant decisions for the actions you take. When your leader orders you to do something and you know that what you are about to do is wrong, simply stating you were following orders is not acceptable, you are held responsible for your actions no matter the reason or on who’s orders lead you to those choices. To be successful in college you have to have a determination and personal responsibility. If you go...
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...[pic] AMST 100 – Introduction to American Studies Fall 2013 -- 100-01 -- 9:00 – 9:50 a.m. MWF – Information Technology 229 100-05 -- 10:00 – 10:50 a.m. MWF – Sondheim 409 Instructor: Ellen Gorman Office: Fine Arts 424 Office Hours: By appointment E-mail: elg@umbc.edu; elgorman@msn.com Required Texts Celebrity Culture and the American Dream, Karen Sternheimer The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Junot Diaz Shoplifting from American Apparel, Tao Lin It's Bigger Than Hip-Hop: The Rise of the Post-Hip-Hop Generation, M.K. Asante Films: The Social Network (Fincher 2010); Mean Girls (Waters 2004); Bomb It (Reiss 2007); Objectified (Hustwit 2009), The Bling Ring (Coppola 2013) Course Description: In this course we will engage in an interdisciplinary analysis of oral, written, visual, and material representations of American life and culture and the historical and social contexts in which they are produced and consumed. Our analyses will necessitate a survey the interplay of the popular arts and American society, using American studies interdisciplinary methodologies. The framework of the course is the development of critical thinking and writing skills. All students are encouraged to avail themselves of the free services at the University’s Writing Center, http://www.umbc.edu/lrc/writing_center.htm List of assignments and percentage of grade Formal Assignment #1/Critical Analysis 20% Formal Assignment #2/Creative Production 30% ...
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...aspiring artists, their physical images, the ever-changing sound of hip hop, and other elements that relate to the hip hop culture. A lot of people claim that hip hop and rap can only be about violence, aggression, sex, and money in order to sell or be popular. Another view on hip hop and rap is that it’s too violent, and inappropriate to audiences. That it’s not even music but just a bunch of crap, when in reality, it’s like poetry. The lyrics that artists write come from personal experiences, and perceptions of what they see in the world they live in. Hip hop and rap is more than just music. One of the primary sources I found is a review/article published in “The New York Times” called “The Uncluttered Hip-hop of De La Soul”, written by Peter Watrous, in which Watrous critiques the performance and the group De La Soul at a show. This review of Del La Soul is relevant to the history of hip hop course because it makes a point in which gives an argument for positive recognition of not only De La Soul, but other hip hop groups with similar style of music. These groups don’t write about sex, killing, and being the “top dog” in their music, but instead write about politics, peace, harmony, inner city problems. Another primary source I found is an article called “Striking Tales of Black Frustration and Pride Shake the Pop Mainstream”, written by a “staff writer” and published in “The LA Times”. This article is relevant to the course because it talks about the...
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...Vannevar Bush (/væˈniːvɑr/ van-NEE-var; March 11, 1890 – June 28, 1974) was an American engineer, inventor and science administrator, who during World War II headed the U.S. Office of Scientific Research and Development (OSRD), through which almost all wartime military R&D was carried out, including initiation and early administration of the Manhattan Project. He is also known in engineering for his work on analog computers, for founding Raytheon, and for the memex, a hypothetical adjustable microfilm viewer with a structure analogous to that of hypertext. In 1945, Bush published As We May Think in which he predicted that "wholly new forms of encyclopedias will appear, ready made with a mesh of associative trails running through them, ready to be dropped into the memex and there amplified".[1] The memex influenced generations of computer scientists, who drew inspiration from its vision of the future. For his master's thesis, Bush invented and patented a "profile tracer", a mapping device for assisting surveyors. It was the first of a string of inventions. He joined the Department of Electrical Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1919, and founded the company now known as Raytheon in 1922. Starting in 1927, Bush constructed a differential analyzer, an analog computer with some digital components that could solve differential equations with as many as 18 independent variables. An offshoot of the work at MIT by Bush and others was the beginning of digital...
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...Music Journal Table of Contents 1-4 1. Two Trains Running................................................................………...5 2. Almost Lost My Mind.............................................................................5 3. Do You Love Me....................................................................................6 4. One Fine Day ..............................................................................................6 5. Fingertips (Part 2)..........................................................................................7 6.Mona Lisa……………………...........................................................................7 7. Shop Around......................................................................................................8 8. Please Mr. Postman...........................................................................................8 9. Save the Last Dance for Me...............................................................................9 10. Hello Stranger.....................................................................................................9 11. I Can’t Help Myself (Sugar Pie Hunny Bunch)..............................................9,10 12. Stop! in the Name of Love..................................................................10 13. Love Don’t Love Nobody..................................................................................10,11 14. You Can't...
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...229 EFFECTIVE STUDY HABITS IN EDUCATIONAL SECTOR: COUNSELLING IMPLICATIONS. OGBODO, Rosemary Ochanya PhD Continuous Education FCT College of Education Zuba. Abuja email: rosemaryochanyaogbodo@yahoo.com Abstract The problem most students have that contributes to their poor performance in tests and examination is lack of proper study habit. For an excellent performance, there is need for the student to form good study habit. A student, who wants to study well, needs to choose a suitable place for his studies. Where to study is as important as what to study and how to go about studying. Productive study habits require learners to prepare personal time-table for themselves allocating a certain length of time for a particular subject, depending on how difficult each subject is. Different methods of studying are well explained here. Key Words: Counselling, Study habits, Reading habits, Education Introduction In School, high academic performance has been attributed to students‟ effective study habits. This is the reason why the teacher tries to adopt many techniques to help the students to learn. There will be a brief explanation of the topic, followed by the need for planning effective study habit programme. A description of the typology of study habits will be supported by recommendation for techniques of effective study habits. The counsellor‟s role in the formation of study habits will form the concluding section. The learner‟s Dictionary has defined study as a “mental effort to...
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...EFFECTIVE STUDY HABITS IN EDUCATIONAL SECTOR: COUNSELLING IMPLICATIONS. OGBODO, Rosemary Ochanya PhD Continuous Education FCT College of Education Zuba. Abuja email: rosemaryochanyaogbodo@yahoo.com Abstract The problem most students have that contributes to their poor performance in tests and examination is lack of proper study habit. For an excellent performance, there is need for the student to form good study habit. A student, who wants to study well, needs to choose a suitable place for his studies. Where to study is as important as what to study and how to go about studying. Productive study habits require learners to prepare personal time-table for themselves allocating a certain length of time for a particular subject, depending on how difficult each subject is. Different methods of studying are well explained here. Key Words: Counselling, Study habits, Reading habits, Education Introduction In School, high academic performance has been attributed to students‟ effective study habits. This is the reason why the teacher tries to adopt many techniques to help the students to learn. There will be a brief explanation of the topic, followed by the need for planning effective study habit programme. A description of the typology of study habits will be supported by recommendation for techniques of effective study habits. The counsellor‟s role in the formation of study habits will form the concluding section. The learner‟s Dictionary has defined study as a “mental effort to obtain...
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...6 Effect of Temperature on Level Measurement 44 2.3.7 Effect of Pressure on Level Measurement 47 2.3.8 Level Measurement System Errors 47 2.4 TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT 49 2.4.1 Resistance Temperature Detector (RTD) 49 2.4.2 Thermocouple (T/C) 52 2.4.3 Thermal Wells 54 2.4.4 Thermostats 55 2.5 NEUTRON FLUX MEASUREMENT 59 2.5.1 Neutron Flux Detection 59 2.5.2 Neutron Detection Methods 60 2.5.3 Start-up (sub-critical) Instrumentation 61 2.5.4 Fission neutron detectors 63 2.5.5 Ion chamber neutron detectors 64 2.5.6 In-Core Neutron Detectors 70 2.5.7 Reactor Control at High Power ……………………………………..77 2.5.8 Overlap of Neutron Detection ……… ………..78 REVIEW QUESTIONS – EQUIPMENT…………………………………..81 Section 3 - CONTROL 89 3.0 INTRODUCTION 89 3.1 BASIC CONTROL PRINCIPLES 89 3.1.1 Feedback Control 91...
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...was providing financial and technical assistance to new ventures and, in 1940, the New England Industrial Development Corporation was launched to provide a similar kind of assistance. Boston was also the hometown of the first venture capital company in the US. The idea of venture capital came from Ralph Flanders, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, who was concerned about the lack of new company formation and the inability of institutional investors to finance new ventures. Flanders suggested iduciary funds, which would enable institutional investors to invest up to 5% of their assets in equity in new ventures. The proposal was supported by General Georges Doriot (professor at Harvard Business School) and together with Carl Compton (president of MIT) and some local business leaders. Doriot has established American Research and Development (ARD) in 1946. ARD made investments in young firms with a basis in technologies developed for World War II, often with close ties to the Harvard and MIT communities. Its first investment was in the High Voltage Engineering Corporation, which was founded by engineers from MIT and which later became the first venture capital-backed firm listed on the New York Stock Exchange. However, not all investments were successful, almost half of ARD’s profit during its 26-year existence came from its $70 000 investment in the Digital Equipment Company in 1957, which had increased in value to $355 million by 1971. In Silicon Valley, San Francisco...
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...PUPILS’ PERCEPTION OF CABLE TELEVISION PROGRAMMES AS DETERMINANT OF READING HABITS AND ATTITUDES IN UNIVERSITY STAFF SCHOOLS IN SOUTH WESTERN NIGERIA BY FLORENCE ADEOLA, OMOBA A proposal in the Department of ABADINA MEDIA RESOURCE CENTRE submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements of the Degree of DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY of the UNIVERSITY OF IBADAN TABLE OF CONTENT INTRODUCTION * Background to the study * Statement of the problem * Objective of the study * Research questions and research hypothesis * Significance of the study * Scope of the study * Operational definition of terms REVIEW OF LITERATURE * Theoretical frame work * Empirical orientation * Reading habit * Reading attitude * Television * School libraries RESEARCH METHODOLOGY * Research design * Population and sampling technique * Research instrument * Validation and reliability of instruments * Data collection procedure * Data analysis REFERENCES APPENDIXES CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION John Walson, an appliance storeowner in a small town of Mahanoy, had difficulty selling television sets to local residents because reception in the area was poor. The problem seemed to be the location of the town in a valley and nearly 90 air miles from the Philadelphia television transmitters. Naturally, signals could not pass through mountains and clear reception was virtually impossible except on the ridges outside of town. It...
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...1. Within the United States, especially in Southern California, an individual's appearance is crucial because it is used to make a first impression. A person is judged by what they wear and how they look. For example, it is probable that many people would perceive a person wearing ratty clothes as uneducated and irresponsible while a person looking pristine in a designer ensemble is assumed to be intelligent and successful. In every city, there are multiple fashion brands with different styles and ranges of apparel and accessories. Every season, new styles and designs are created which influence society. It appears as if more types of clothing exist than the actual number of people. With so many different alternatives of fashion, the fashion industry is trying to please too many customers with variety. There are currently various styles to choose from, and the clothes people wear categorize or label them long before they realize it. The three fashion brands that will be analyzed extensively are Chanel, Nike, and Hot Topic. These brands have apparel but are completely different in their target audience. Chanel is a prestigious high-fashion brand; Nike is a popular athletic line; Hot Topic is musically and artistically edgier with a smaller target audience between the three. With these apparel brands, a person wearing each would be labeled or even stereotyped. One wearing a Chanel’s 2012 Spring/Summer ready-to-wear designer outfit with a white jacket, lambskin dress with pearls...
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...Finance Course: Corporate Finance MBA−10 California College for Health Sciences MBA Program McGraw-Hill/Irwin abc McGraw−Hill Primis ISBN: 0−390−55204−6 Text: Harvard Business School Entrepreneurship Cases Corporate Finance, Seventh Edition Ross−Westerfield−Jaffe Harvard Business School Finance Cases This book was printed on recycled paper. Finance http://www.mhhe.com/primis/online/ Copyright ©2005 by The McGraw−Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. Except as permitted under the United States Copyright Act of 1976, no part of this publication may be reproduced or distributed in any form or by any means, or stored in a database or retrieval system, without prior written permission of the publisher. This McGraw−Hill Primis text may include materials submitted to McGraw−Hill for publication by the instructor of this course. The instructor is solely responsible for the editorial content of such materials. 111 FINAGEN ISBN: 0−390−55204−6 Finance Contents Ross−Westerfield−Jaffe • Corporate Finance, Seventh Edition I. Overview 1 1 20 34 34 35 70 98 130 152 152 193 219 219 241 241 275 1. Introduction to Corporate Finance 2. Accounting Statements and Cash Flow II. Value and Capital Budgeting Introduction 4. Net Present Value 5. How to Value Bonds and Stocks 7. Net Present Value and Capital Budgeting 8. Risk Analysis, Real Options, and Capital Budgeting III: Risk 10. Return and Risk: The Capital−Asset−Pricing...
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...Chapter One Strategy and Competition Chapter Overview Purpose The purpose of this chapter is to introduce the student to a variety of strategic issues that arise in the manufacturing function of the firm. Key Points 1. Manufacturing matters. This writer contends that the loss of the manufacturing base in the U.S. economy is not healthy and will eventually lead to an overall loss in the standard of living and quality of life in this country. It counters the argument that our evolution into a service economy is a natural and healthy thing. 2. Strategic dimensions. Along with cost and/or product differentiation, other dimensions along which firms distinguish themselves include (a) quality, (b) delivery speed, (c) delivery reliability, and (d) flexibility. 3. Classical view. The classical literature on manufacturing strategy indicates that strategy should be viewed in relation to one or more of the following issues: (a) time horizon, (b) focus, (c) evaluation, and (d) consistency. 4. Global competition. How do we measure our success and economic health on a global scale? One way is to examine classical measures of relative economic strength, which include (a) balance of trade, (b) share of world exports, (c) creation of jobs, and (d) cost of labor. However, such macro measures do not adequately explain why certain countries dominate certain industries. National competitive advantage is a consequence of several factors (factor conditions, demand conditions, related and supporting...
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