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...?View Message New It is important to, “include participatory approaches that actively engage in their own learning (individually and in small groups) and that treat texts as tools for learning rather than as repositories of information to be memorized (and then all too quickly forgotten).” I’ve known this to be true in education as a whole, but this is an emphasis on reading and writing, an area I did not focus on. “If academic literacy instruction is to be effective, it must address issues of self-efficacy and engagement. Need to give multiple forms of literacy an equal importance in the classroom, KEY: “This privileging elevates the importance and value of academic reading but tells teachers little...
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... Read an Article According to Murray Rothbard, Anarchy, and Utopia by Robert Nozick, is presumed to be an unseen work modification of a Lockean contractarian effort to give explanation for the State, or in any case, a nominal state restricted to the duties of protection. Starting with an open-market revolutionary form of nature, Nozick depicts the State as rising, by an unseen work course that does not abuse anyone’s rights as a leading protecting organization, to an ultraminimal state, and as a minimal state. Rothbard looks at and critiques a number of Nozick’s phases and conception. Rothbard presumes that these critiques will be adequate in countering Nozick’s effort to rationalize the state...
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...that it is based on falsehood. While Mises describes economics as the science of action, Hayek describes it as the science of thought. The author cannot find a link between an individual’s immediate surroundings and the thoughts they might have. However, the actions of an individual can be linked directly to their environment, and how they respond to it. In Hayek’s view, all physical and material things do not exist. It is through this theory that the author wishes to prove that the school of thought brought on by Hayek is fallacious. A political philosophy that the author and Mises share is that freedom is the right to own and control private property (Hoppe 148). Hayek, on the other hand, describes freedom as a state...
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... restore the legitimacy of the social contract concept. This was a possibility given the fulfillment of actual unanimity that is vital in meeting the threshold of a social contract based on the three pillars of its formation. As Leeson states, the system of constitutional democracy embraced among the pirates warrant the consideration as a formal social contract. An account of the factors that would prompt the constitution of any government or center for control, according to Leeson, highlights three solemn reasons (447). The necessity to ensure protection tops among the list. Collective bargaining ability by for the produce of the society’s members would be the second major reason. Social contracts aim at checking the excesses... Task: The...
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...false results. Christian Parenti in the article DC Virtual Panopticon, discusses on the issue and reveals how the “police in Detroit and DC have used CCTV to stalk personal foes, political opponents and young women” which in itself is a threat to the security of citizens. Another much publicized electronic surveillance instrument- the facial recognition system is not close to what had been promised. In “trading liberty for Illusion”, Wendy Kaminer informs us that the facial recognition system used “never identified a single individual contained in the department’s database of photographs.” Some may have the opinion that electronic surveillance are an efficient method to keep track of potential threats but time and again...
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...of the of the Concerned Management 6 May Article Response The tuition fee increases proposed by the unpopular Liberal Premier, Jean Charest, in the Quebec province of Canada, resulting in large scale student protests, may allow him to resuscitate his unpopular party by making way for an early election. The logic behind this premise is that such a strategy will allow the Liberals to sidetrack the corruption charges levied against their government and make way for a possible second victory in the envisaged elections, by managing the public sentiment against their rival entity, Parti Québécois.
The author is trying to link the student unrest in Chile with the student protests in Quebec. The thing to be kept in mind is...
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...Sur Due According to the article on past and future of construction equipment does the past affect what will bedone in the future and if so how?
There has been a radical change in the construction industry as the industry has moved from using steam powered machines to the hydraulic operated and electronically controlled equipment. However it is important to note that it is what was tested and failed or succeeded in the past that has contributed to this much advancement in the construction industry.
Basing your argument on the construction article how has the contractual arrangements and provisions contributed to construction? Does it help the contractor or the employer?
There are contracts that...
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... Leisure People need to spend time away from their daily activities to relax. This paper eluci s how our experience of leisure has changed since 19th and 20th centuries. Subsequently, this paper outlines the extent to which I agree with the explanation postulated by the editors of The Economist in their article Nice Work If You Can Get Out: Why the Rich Now Have Less Leisure Than the Poor.
Our experience to leisure has significantly changed over the recent past. The article posits that the number of weekly hours spent working was a measure of individual economic status in the 19th century. Additionally, individuals with low economic status worked for more hours as compared to individuals with a higher economic status. In 1965... Leisure...
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...Manufactured Scientific Controversies Manufactured Scientific Controversies Manufactured scientific controversies are prolonged idealistic concepts that scientists use as excuses to evade, for a while, the implementation of programs that are deemed unfit or unsuitable in the public discourse. There have been several instances in which pretexts are given to the skeptical public who question particular issues. The ‘manufactured’ scientific controversy is a response through which the public or any other skeptical person with interest in a particular issue is silenced. It explains that those issues that people are skeptical about are under scientific research and answers can only be found once research is completed. Unfortunately... Scientific...
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...“Coping With Stress and Surviving Challenging Times” by Alan Cohen “Coping With Stress and Surviving Challenging Times” is an article by Alan Cohen that expounds on people’s different response to disasters and the essence of coming up with different styles of coping up with adversities. The most interesting thing in this article is its assertion that there are three different types of awareness; people very aware of something, people with some vague idea about something, and people blissfully unaware of something. These three classes of people in the society have also different ways of coping up with stress as a result of adversities. Some address problems by acquainting themselves with the nature of the...
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