...The type of person that Will Smith was like was that he was a very dedicated person his whole life. The reason why I say this is because when he was little his father told him that he couldn't build his father's shop, but he did within a year and a half. The point is that he never gave up on it. Just like how he never gave up on any of his dreams, that's just the kind of person that he is. In the video interview Will Smith statd,” I built this within one year.” This is describing how long that it took and it is describing how his dad told him that he couldn't do it.I still think that he is determined because he never gave up on whatever he was doing , other people would but not him. That is what I think WIll Smith’s character trait is from the video....
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...Adam Smith all the more prevalently known as the father of Economics The Wealth of Nations, which is believed to have laid the foundation of economic thought and led to emergence of various schools of economic thought. Smith was a lecturer at the University of Glasgow where his worry was profound quality and morals. Smith's compositions were viewed as progressive in those circumstances. It is reasonable for say that his perspectives affected the Europeans as well as on the individuals who mapped out the structure of the US government. According to John Farmer, “Adam Smith stimulates insights about the relationship between economic and political concerns. Adam Smith and his legacy provide the conceptual space within which governmental and societal organization and management are now viewed and understood.” (Smith, page 46) The above obviously demonstrates that Smith...
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...Patti Smith One of the most popular musicians Patti Smith has been American playwright, songwriter, journalist, singer, and poet. The most interestingly, Smith's works have arranged the impacts of American and French writers of the 19th and 20th centuries, and rock musicians of the sixties into impression of her own exclusive and uncommon creations and visions. Moreover, she has been used powerful and unique imagery in her song lyrics and poetry to describe subjects of violence, unjust, anarchy, and religious themes. In consequence, these kind of significant themes of combinations characterizes her art and seems to give Smith her greatest attraction. She was born on December 30, 1946, in Chicago. Patti was a tall, skinny and ailing child, who never seemed a rock star she would become. On the other hand, Smith said, “she always knew that she was destined for greatness”. Therefore, she said "When I was a little kid, I always knew that I had some special kind of thing inside me," she remembered. "I mean, I wasn't attractive, I wasn't very verbal, I wasn't very smart in school. I wasn't anything that showed the world I was something special, but I had this tremendous hope all the time. I had this tremendous spirit that kept me going... I was a happy child, because I had this feeling that I was going to go beyond my body physical... I just...
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...Bessie Smith was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee on April 15,1894. Known full as Elizabeth Smith, coming from a humble background did not stop her from becoming the most popular female blues singer of the 1920s and 1930s. With her powerful and soulful voice, she earned the title of "Empress of the Blues". Smith grew up in obscurity and poverty. Her father, a Baptist minister, died soon after her birth, leaving her mother to raise her and her six siblings. In 1906, her mother and two brothers died, leaving Bessie and her remaining siblings to be raised by their aunt. Around this time was when she started performing as a street performer. It wasn't until 1919 that she was discovered by one of the first great blues singer, Ma Rainey, from whom...
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...William Kline Mrs. Lavender 10-30-15 F Period William Smith William Smith was a world famous geologist and known as “the Father of English Geology” - Famous Scientists. Smith was born in Oxford shire, England March 23, 1769 and died in Northampton, England August 28, 1839. His father left him when he was only 8 years old and he was then cared for by his uncle. He was the oldest of 5 children. He did not finish school, he attended his village school until he was only 11 years old. He was extremely observant and had the ability to integrate those observations. In 1787, a local surveyor needed assistance to take notes. Smith accepted the job and traveled around the country with him. He observed the rock layers in many coal mines. He saw that...
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...John Smith, an English born author was one of the first settlers in North America responsible for establishing the Jamestown settlement. He originally went with the settlers as a soldier in the army, but in his older years became an author. Although the earliest years of captain smith’s life are shrouded by the horrible record keeping of the time it is known he was born either in 1579 or 1580 in Lincolnshire, England to his father, George Smith, and mother, Alice Smith. His baptism was on January 9th, 1580. It was conducted in Saint Helena's Church in Willoughby, England. He was placed in a local Grammar school to learn reading, writing, arithmetic, and Latin. Not wanting to be a farmer like his father he ran away when he was 13 and became a sailor. His father caught him and made him work for a local merchant as his apprentice. When his father died when he was 16 he joined volunteers in France to join the Dutch in the the fight for independence from Spain. Two years later he went to the Mediterranean Sea to sail on a merchant ship. In the year 1600 he joined the Austrian forces to fight the Turks in “The Long War”. While fighting in Hungary he was promoted to Captain for his valiant sailing abilities. When he was fighting in Transylvania he was wounded, taken prisoner, and sold into slavery. The Turkish man who bought...
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...Adam Smith was a Scottish political economist and philosopher. He gained his credit by his influential book “The Wealth of Nations (1776). Smith was the son of the comptroller of the customs at Kirkcaldy , Fife , Scotland. Smith’s birth date is still unknown to this very day.However , he was baptized at Kirkcaldy on June 5, 1723 , and six months before that he grieved the loss of his dear father. Adam Smith's theory shed light on many academic practices. Smith was a system builder; his theory of knowledge underpinned his entire understanding and his systematic approach. At the age of fifteen, Smith proceeded to Glasgow University , and while he was there he studied moral philosophy under “the never-to-be-forgotten” Francis Hutcheson (as Smith called him). Smith then entered Balliol college, Oxford, but William Robert Scott said, “THe Oxford of his time gave little if any help towards what was to be his life work , and Smith realized that was true , but then he also had other goals he wanted to reach. Smith then decided in the late 1740s that he would start delivering public lectures in Edinburgh. He then went on to make that dream known , and then met David...
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...Erastus “Deaf” Smith was born April 19, 1787 in Dutchess County, New York. Erastus’ nickname was “Deaf” Smith also known as “El Sordo.” Erastus then moved to Port Gibson, Mississippi in 1798. Then he came to Texas in 1821 for health reasons, but returned back to Natchez in 1822. Erastus appeared in most events leading up to Texas Independence. His mother was Mary Smith and his father was Chilab Smith they were very religious they were strict Baptist. When Erastus was 11 or 12 he moved with his family to Natchez, Mississippi Territory. Later on a childhood disease caused Erastus to lose his hearing. Erastus married Guadalupe Ruiz de Duran December 12, 1797. Guadalupe was a widow of Jose Maria Vicente Duran, by whom had three children; Rufugia, Josefa, and Lucinda. The Smiths had four children; Susan Concepcion, Gertrudes, Travis, and Simona. Together they had a total of seven children, four of them were Erastus’. After Erastus helped at the Battle of San Jacinto he returned to Columbia and he then later moved to Richmond in Fort Bend County. Erastus’ education came from his parents and nature. He didn’t have the same education as most kids his age. Most of what Erastus’ knew was common sense. There wasn’t much about his education but I think that teaching him was difficult for him and his...
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...BESSIE SMITH essie Smith, “The Empress of the Blues” was the most popular female blues singer of the 1920’s and 1930’s. Bessie is often regarded as one of the greatest singers of her era. She and Louis Armstrong were a major influence on other jazz vocalists. Her birthday isn’t known for sure, but the 1900 census indicates that Bessie was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee on July 1892. The 1910 census recorded her birthday as April 15, 1894, a date that appears on all subsequent documents and was observed by the entire Smith family. Census date also contributes to controversy about the size of her family. The 1870 and 1880 censuses report three older half-siblings, which later interviews with Smith’s family and contemporaries did not include these individuals among her siblings....
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...Darwin or Adam Smith Homo sapiens are different from all species due to the fact that people have achieved intellectual dominance of planet Earth, and all life forms that reside on it. Humans are known as, “social animals” (Heilbroner) because of the way they interact with other humans. The “Juggernaut Theory” (Edward Wilson) suggests that humans have a selfish gene embedded in the fabric of the race’s D.N.A. This results in disrupting natural growth cycles of other species and organisms by overpopulating in all regions of the planet. To support this theory one can simply take a look at humans existence through recorded history, and all that humans have created through destruction: deforestation, polluting the atmosphere and oceans, mass extinctions, etc. If all of those examples aren’t bad enough one might add all...
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...PY1101 – Writing in Psychology APA 6th Edition “HOW TO” GUIDE In Psychology, we use the formatting guidelines as set out in the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (APA), 6th Edition. This is a starter guide to the APA formatting guidelines. This guide is not all-inclusive, but will help get you started for your first assignment. Burton’s ‘An interactive approach to writing essays and research reports in Psychology’ is the best guide to help you with APA formatting and referencing. There are other resources online and in the library also. Setting up the Format You need to consider all aspects of the format of the document. The easiest thing to do is to adjust your ‘default’ settings in Microsoft Word to the following: • Font = Times New Roman, Size 12 • This is non-negotiable • Line Spacing = double – everywhere (including the References) • Page Numbers = upper right corner • Title page should have a page number • Margins = 2.54cm (top, bottom, left & right) Headings |Level of Heading |Format | |1 |Centred, Boldface, Upper and Lowercase Heading | |2 |Flush Left, Boldface, Upper and Lowercase Heading | |3 | Indented,...
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...10 Qualitative Research Methods in Psychology Deborah Biggerstaff Warwick Medical School University of Warwick, Coventry UK 1. Introduction In the scientific community, and particularly in psychology and health, there has been an active and ongoing debate on the relative merits of adopting either quantitative or qualitative methods, especially when researching into human behaviour (Bowling, 2009; Oakley, 2000; Smith, 1995a, 1995b; Smith, 1998). In part, this debate formed a component of the development in the 1970s of our thinking about science. Andrew Pickering has described this movement as the “sociology of scientific knowledge” (SSK), where our scientific understanding, developing scientific ‘products’ and ‘know-how’, became identified as forming components in a wider engagement with society’s environmental and social context (Pickering, 1992, pp. 1). Since that time, the debate has continued so that today there is an increasing acceptance of the use of qualitative methods in the social sciences (Denzin & Lincoln, 2000; Morse, 1994; Punch, 2011; Robson, 2011) and health sciences (Bowling, 2009; Greenhalgh & Hurwitz, 1998; Murphy & Dingwall, 1998). The utility of qualitative methods has also been recognised in psychology. As Nollaig Frost (2011) observes, authors such as Carla Willig and Wendy Stainton Rogers consider qualitative psychology is much more accepted today and that it has moved from “the margins to the mainstream in psychology in the UK.” (Willig & Stainton...
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...for citing The research in this area has focused on… The literature largely supports… Specifically, there is evidence that… Thus the literature suggests that… Smith reports that… Smith postulates…; further, he suggests… Smith focuses on… In his discussion of x, Smith states… Investigating the relationship between x and y, Smith proposes… These ideas are first clearly conceptualized in Smith’s paper… Smith purports… According to Smith… The basis of Smith’s argument is… Similarly, Smith finds… Smith uses the example of… Smith’s and Brown’s work investigates… More recent investigations have concluded… Importantly, they argue that… Some commentators, such as Buttinski and Fyshwyfe, cite the importance of… Earlier work in this area concluded that … In discussing topic x they suggest… Many commentators (see Buttinski & Fyshwyfe) view this model as... However they note that… Phrases for comparing & contrasting This phenomena is recognized by a number of sources… There appears to be a reasonable consensus on… Several studies in this area have found…However other studies… Whereas earlier commentators support x, more recent commentators… An understanding of Smith’s theory is useful when exploring Brown’s concept of… Like Smith, Brown views topic x as… Smith’s approach is problem-centred, whereas Brown… This concept is strongly linked to Smith’s notion of… Both Smith and Brown report...
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...International Relations: Contemporary Issues and Actors Elective, 2nd year BA ES, Period 3 (4.5 ECTs) 1. General overview 2. Organisational Issues 3. Participation 4. Attendance rules 5. Grading 6. Essay questions 7. Main rationale and acquired skills 8. Changes introduced to last year’s course 9. Lectures 10. Tutorials 11. Essay writing - Quality criteria 3 4 6 9 10 10 14 15 16 17 36 2 1. General Overview This course is about how we understand International Relations (IR) and what major international actors operate in a number of contemporary policy areas. As it serves as an introduction to the discipline of IR, it starts with some of the basic concepts in it: e.g. war and peace; the role of the state, etc. This is complemented by introducing the role of International (governmental) Organizations (IOs) such as the UN, WTO, NATO, the EU, OSCE, CoE; and International Non-Governmental Organizations (INGOs), such as Amnesty International; Greenpeace; Medicins Sans Frontieres; etc. The course also introduces the role of the individual and self-organized groups of individuals that claim actorness in IR (advocacy groups; epistemic communities, policy networks; guerrillas; pirates; terrorist groups, etc.). In covering these issues, students are acquainted with some of the main theoretical debates in IR (e.g. Neo-Realism; Neo-Liberal Institutionalism; Social Constructivism; etc.). The lectures provide the general framework for discussing the role of the abovementioned...
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...useful sentences for academic writing Argue a. Along similar lines, [X] argues that ___. b. There seems to be no compelling reason to argue that ___. c. As a rebuttal to this point, it might be (convincingly) argued that ___. d. There are [three] main arguments that can be advanced to support ___. e. The underlying argument in favor of / against [X] is that ___. f. [X]’s argument in favor of / against [Y] runs as follows: ___. Claim a. In this [paper], I put forward the claim that ___. b. [X] develops the claim that ___. c. There is ample / growing support for the claim that ___. d. [X]’s findings lend support to the claim that ___. e. Taking a middle-ground position, [X] claims that ___. Data a. The data gathered in the [pilot study] suggests / suggest that ___. b. The data appears / appear to suggest that ___. c. The data yielded by this [study] provides strong / convincing evidence that ___. (yielded = generated) d. A closer look at the data indicates that ___. e. The data generated by [X] is / are reported in [table 1]. f. The aim of this [section] is to generalize beyond the data and ___. In modern usage, data can also be treated as a mass / uncountable noun, like information. Before you submit your work, check whether the institution you’re writing for / on behalf of prefers data + plural verb. Debate a. [X] has fostered debate on ___. (fostered = encouraged) b. There has been an inconclusive debate about whether ___. c. The question of whether...
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