Every day, many students are spending countless hours immersed in popular technologies—such as Facebook or MySpace, World of Warcraft, or Sim City—which at first glance may seem like a waste of time, and brain cells. But these genres of technologies—Social Networking, Digital Gaming, and Simulations—deserve a second, deeper, look at what’s actually going on. ~~~ When you hear ”MySpace” or “World of Warcraft,” what do they bring to mind for you? What emotions do you associate with them? Have you heard
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A BRIEF CONTENTS PART 1 • GETTING STARTED 1. Becoming a Public Speaker 2. From A to Z: Overview of a Speech 3. Managing Speech Anxiety 4. Ethical Public Speaking 5. Listeners and Speakers 1 2 8 1 4 23 30 PART 2 • DEVELOPMENT 6. Analyzing the Audience 7. Selecting a Topic and Purpose 8. Developing Supporting Material 9. Locating Supporting Material 10. Doing Effective Internet Research 1 Citing Sources in Your Speech 1. 36 37 49 57 64 73 83 PART 3 • ORGANIZATION 1 Organizing the Speech 2. 1 Selecting
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International Journal of Drug Policy 23 (2012) 242–247 Contents lists available at SciVerse ScienceDirect International Journal of Drug Policy journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/drugpo Research paper Nicotine control: E-cigarettes, smoking and addiction Kirsten Bell a,∗ , Helen Keane b a b Department of Anthropology, 6303 NW Marine Drive, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z3, Canada School of Sociology, Building 22, Hayden Allen Building, Australian National
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ignoring the human needs of its people and those of the rest of the planet. Such a course is likely to lead to increasing selfishness, to alienation between the more and the less fortunate, and eventually to chaos and despair. At this juncture, the social and behavioral sciences can play an enormously important role. They can articulate a vision of the good life that is empirically sound while being understandable and attractive. They can show what actions
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The Impact of Technology Mentors on Effective Technology Integration Into the Elementary Classroom by Debra Chester An Applied Dissertation Submitted to the Fischler School of Education and Human Services in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Education Nova Southeastern University 2008 Approval Page This applied dissertation was submitted by Debra Chester under the direction of the persons listed below. It was submitted to the Fischler School of Education
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Job Behaviors & Moral Yasmin Rodgers 4341 Lakefield Mews Drive Richmond, Va. 23231 Rodgers_Yasmin@yahoo.com 678-472-1088 GM591 Leadership and Organizational Behavior Professor Joseph Plumley October 9, 2011 TABLE OF CONTENTS I. Executive Summary…………………………………………………………..3 II. Background of Branch Banking & Trust Company ……………….………..3-5 III. Discussion of Current Business Issues…………………………………….....5-8 IV. Proposed Solution…………………………………………………………….9-11 V. Recommendations
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Chapter 1: The Perfect Fit: the New Emergency Response Professional (ERP) The tougher the disaster challenge, the greater the demand for experienced, emotionally and physically prepared individuals to mitigate the challenge. To that end, elite emergency response professionals (ERP) are experts possessing at least ten years of proficiency working in all types of catastrophic relief environment. Emergency response professionals will be even-tempered, willing to work across multiple cultures, government
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ardsRunning Head: SAMPLE APA PAPER: PSYCHOTHERAPY AND THE DECEASED The running head is now used as the header and it is positioned flush left (APA, 2009, pp. 229-230) 1 A Sample APA Paper: The Efficacy of Psychotherapeutic Interventions with Profoundly Deceased Patients Jeff Aspelmeier Radford University Author note now goes on title page and not after footnotes at end of paper (APA, 2009, pp. 24-25). Author Note Many parts of this paper were unabashedly ripped off from course materials
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Unit Dem301 Understand the process and experience of dementia Outcome 1 1.1 Describe a range of causes of dementia syndrome Dementia is a term for the progressive disease of brain and describes a serious deterioration in mental function, as memory, language, orientation and judgement , The causes of dementia are still not fully understood. Research in dementia is an ongoing and to date number of types of dementia and their causes have been identified. The brain contains billions of cells
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TITLUL CURSULUI: CURS PRACTIC – LIMBA ENGLEZĂ Fundamente de gramatică şi vocabular Limba engleză - “English for Social Sciences” Curs pentru învăţământ la distanţă Asist.univ. DANIELA NICULESCU- ZDRENGHEA [pic] 2005 INTRODUCERE 1.Coordonatorul cursului este asist.univ.Daniela Niculescu-Zdrenghea, titular la Facultatea de Psihologie a Universităţii Titu Maiorescu, autoare a numeroase traduceri a numeroase studii
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