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...Book Summary and Critique: “It’s Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life” Summary The book written by Lance Armstrong and Sally Jenkins is a story about the struggles of Lance Armstrong, a professional cyclist, who, at his prime age, was diagnosed with testicular cancer but has survived and has won various international prestigious racing competitions. Armstrong begun to proffer a glimpse of his life prior to the diagnosis of the cancer and after having triumphed over it. His personal strengths in physical attributes, emotional character and mind set were detailed in preparation for the events of facing the Big C. Details of his courageous battle and determination to defeat cancer,...
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... Short Paper 2 Summary and Critique of Kant’s Deontology Introduction The dilemma that whether duty or instinct is more important in governing the actions of an individual has been an eminent concern of various philosophers since the time of man’s evolution. Consequently Kant in his essay about Deontology presents the readers with a personal interpretation and a solution for this debate. Although it is observed that his understanding and suggestion also consists of some ambiguous ideas that make his interpretation contradictory as well and subsequently various critics question Kant’s opinion on this quandary. 2. Summary The word deontology is derived from a Greek word ‘Deon’ that means obligation or duty. Kant belongs to the Age... to...
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...A critique of M. R. Valverde and R. C. Rodriguez's Increasing Mexican American Doctoral Degrees: The Role of s of High Education The problems faced by Mexican Americans in pursuing doctoral degrees have been discussed in several literary works but the article "Increasing Mexican American Doctoral Degrees: The Role of Institutions of High Education" by M. R. Valverde and R. C. Rodriguez (Journal of Hispanic Higher Education 1.1 (2002): 51-58, Sage Publications) expresses this concern and the possible solutions from the viewpoint of Mexican Americans based on authors' own experiences.
The article highlights the reasons responsible for the low number of doctoral degree holders among Mexican Americans. The Hispanic Border...
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...factors that were supporting it. While it was not important to mention the details of how each drug was developed, I realized it was important to point out the purpose of the main drugs mentioned in this article and how each of these would help humans develop a better life. I removed all the extra details such as the place where Naam worked, other characters like Lynch from the main summary but included the message associated with these main characters as that was the crux of the whole article. I realized that computers, development in brain imaging and advances in Human Genome Project would be irrelevant to support the brief summary so I extracted all that out too....
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...Article summary and critique Quantitative article Research design The article by Meungguk Park, Morgan Chitiyo and Yun Seok Choi “Examining pre-service teachers’ attitudes towards children with autism in the USA” was chosen for the discussion as a quantitative article. This article is an example of correlation research design. The structure of the paper is based on correlation comparison of data obtained from different quantitative researches devoted to teachers’ attitudes toward students with autism. A hypothesis of this article is that there is a positive correlation between how teachers treat learners with autism as indication of changed social attitude toward this mental disorder. In other words,...
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...Summary Critique What is so frightening about middle adulthood? I always wondered about this question as I grew up because the talks about middle adulthood life focused more on the negative than positive aspects. However, I am now in the middle adulthood stage, and I can prove that the perception about this stage is all wrong. For me, this is a stage where one graduates from a more complicated form of life to one that is less complicated. This is because a person in middle adulthood has learnt from their mistakes; thus, thinks positively and is not prone to making mistakes.
In fact, I love being in the middle adulthood because it offers the best opportunities in life including self-focus and clarity of...
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...Article summary/ critique Autism Spectrum Disorder Summary Autism spectrum is a neurological disorder which cause problems to a child in terms of communication, understanding language, play and mingle with others. Autism, Asperger syndrome, Rett syndrome, childhood disintegrative disorder and Pervasive developmental disorder are included under the banner of Autism spectrum disorders. Unlike normal children, the children who are affected by autism spectrum disorders would find difficulties in adjusting with unfamiliar situations. A child is labelled as an autistic child if he/she exhibit problems in social interactions, communication or behavior. However, it is believed that around 2-6 of...
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...Summary and Critique New media technologies are changing perspectives about journalism ethics. Focus of the new mixed media is to develop an open media ethics. The open media ethics has play a role in changing ethics from being closed professional to a matter of societal concern as a whole. Global online media facilitates the idea of global fifth estate.
The article makes sense to me. I can identify with the arguments of the author because they resonate with my personal experiences. The fifth estate has particularly flourished over social media websites like Youtube and Facebook. The fifth estate media is freer compared to the government controlled fourth estate media. People freely abuse each other’s...
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