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- 411: Disjunction vs. Communion in Raymond Carver's Short Stories
- ... writings, and the disjunction in his earlier writings, that distinguish the two types of styles. Communion within the characters of Carver's later writings, as in his collections in Cathedral, create much more depth and interest in his stories. It is within this scope of communion that Carver's stories seem to become more fulfilling with character affirmation. Communion occurs in Carver's stories when several conditions are satisfied. The difference ... she cannot identify the exact problem in the verbal gap. This lack of connection between characters transcends a sense of frustration to interact within the story. A direct connection within characters personifies the attention and interest one may feel within a story. Disjunction leaves the story unfulfilled, so that when finished the reader feels cheated not knowing the exact fate. Carver's mastering writings skills treat this evidence of disjunction skillfully ... watch the bond between the two grow. When such a str ong relationship is portrayed in a story, the reader, gains much more felt compassion between the characters. This felt compassion sparks a much greater interest between the reader's understanding of the story. When Marge begins to tell her life story , " I'm starting to tell how it was before we moved here, and how it's still like ...
- 412: Education And Egalitarianism In America
- ... science, and mathematics. Since the individual mind was presumably formed by building into it the products of the collective mind, methods of instruction were concerned wholly with how this was to be done. Herbart's interest lay in determining how knowledge could be presented so that it would be understood and therefore retained. He insisted that education must be based on psychological knowledge of the child so that he could be ... swelled into loud demands for renewed emphasis on content mastery. The insistence on cognitive "performance" and "excellence" accomplished four things. It increased competitive academic pressures on students at all levels. It stimulated serious and sustained interest in preschool education, which manifested itself in various ways from the revival of the Montessori method in the 1960s to the preschool television series Sesame Street in 1969. In addition, it created a new interest in testing, this time in such forms as national assessments of student performance, experiments with programmed materials, and attempts to gauge when children could begin to read. And it stimulated interest in the application ...
- 413: Delinquints
- ... parents with whom they did not get along or who were inconsistent in their patterns of discipline and punishment. Neighborhood conditions have been stressed in studies by sociologists. Many of these inquiries concentrate on differing rates of delinquency, rather than on the way individuals become delinquents. A series of studies have shown that delinquency rates are above average in the poorest sections of cities. Such areas have many broken homes and a high rate of alcoholism. They also have poor schools, high unemployment, few recreational facilities, and high crime rates. Many young people see delinquency as their only escape from boredom, poverty, and other problems. Social scientists have also studied the influence of other youngsters on those who commit delinquencies. For example, they point ...
- 414: Adult Entertainment and The City of New York
- ... for relocation outside the zoned areas. The only support the city has for justification under Justice Brennan's four items of a takings is the that the intention of the city is for the public interest, so it claims. In a more specific analysis of the circumstances of the regulations by the Department of City Planning, the second regulation is a standard of a takings by the Dolan v. City of ... regulating factor must be a relationship between what the property owner is giving up to what the scope-extent of the plan by the city involves. The city must show a connection between what the interest of the adult entertainment sales are as the interest of the commercial zoning bordering the property of church and schools. This is not clear by the second regulation by the city in legal terms set by the Supreme Court in the matter of ...
- 415: The Internet
- ... connections to the Internet from their employers as they got jobs in the outside world. Because of that, use of the Internet has exploded. The Internet is rapidly achieving a state of critical mass, attracting interest from huge numbers of personal computer users from non technical backgrounds. All these new Internet users are rapidly transforming the nerd orientated culture of the network and opening up the Internet to new and exciting ... 2/93). Here are some good things about the Net and why you should be using it. People in all kinds of businesses and industries are sharing a wide spectrum of educational, business, and personal interest on the Net. Most, probably share a high enthusiasm for the Internet and want to send and receive e-mail messages. But also, one to one communications by newsgroups or electric mail is different and ... least one intelligent answer from someone who has gone threw the same experience. Whether it's advice on a paper you have to write, how to research a certain topic, or something of a personal interest, there's always someone on the Internet willing to share th Profit, this is something I thought I would throw in for all those entrepreneurs out there. A rapidly increasing number of companies and ...
- 416: Adult Education In The U.S
- ... central learning theory is self-directed learning. He (1985) said that because the concept is so central to what adult education is all about, self-directed learning has been one of the field's high-interest topics for more than a decade (Mezirow, 1988). Many people like researchers theorists and so on have all asked the pistons: what is self-directed learning? What kinds of people are engaged in it? How ... constraints. Together, competency and contingency assessments represent the mediating construct of ˇ°anticipated control.ˇ± Anticipated control is an essential perception when assessing expectancy of success and making decisions regarding goal-directed behavior. Entwistle (1981) states that ˇ°interest and intrinsic motivation are likely to foster a deep approach, and an active search for personal meaningˇ±. Intrinsic motivation leads to responsible and continuous learning. If these are the worthy aims of education, it is necessary that we create conditions where students become increasing motivated by authentic interest and desire to construct personal meaning and shared understanding. Understanding these conditions is, in essence, what the exploration of self-directed learning is about. Authentic self-directed learning becomes self-reinforcing and intrinsically motivation. ...
- 417: The Inevitable Inequality in Modern Democracy
- ... parties. The end result is that the wealthy will come to occupy all the important positions of power. Their occupation leads to control of power, which means that decisions will be made in their self-interest. This is not ‘wrong’, to act in self-interest is only human nature. For example, tax policy is one area where corporations and the wealthy have written the rules to benefit large asset owners at the expense of wage earners. “In the last twenty ... will only harm the inner workings of the market. (Friedman 1970, 15) Moreover, economic inequality and the consequential political inequality, must both be accepted and expected as the ‘by-products’ of the free market. Self-interest and the pursuit of wealth are the two driving forces behind the workings of the market and what Adam Smith called the invisible hand. Therefore, one cannot claim that these forces are unethical or ...
- 418: Year 2000: Fiction, Fantasy, and Fact
- ... In the year 2000 however, the computer will subtract 57 from 00 and say that I am - 57 years old. This error will affect any calculation that produces or uses time spans, such as an interest calculation. Banker's beware!!! Bringing the problem closer to the home-front, let's examine how the CAPS system is going to be affected. As CAPS is a multifaceted system, I will focus on one ... in the phone company computers, the NewYorker will be billed from 00 to 99, a phone call some 99 years long!!! (p. 1) What if you deposit $100 into a savings account that pays 5% interest annually. The following year you decide to close your account. The bank computer figures your $100 was there for one year at 5% interest, so you get $105 back, simple enough. What happens though, if you don't take your money out before the year 2000? The computer will re-do the calculation exactly the same way. Your ...
- 419: Surfing The Internet
- ... connections to the Internet from their employers as they got jobs in the outside world. Because of that, use of the Internet has expl The Internet is rapidly achieving a state of critical mass, attracting interest from huge numbers of personal computer users from non technical backgrounds. All these new Internet users are rapidly transforming the nerd orientated culture of the network and opening up the Internet to new and exciting ... 2/93). Here are some good things about the Net and why you should be using it. People in all kinds of businesses and industries are sharing a wide spectrum of educational, business, and personal interest on the Net. Most, probably share a high enthusiasm for the Internet and want to send and receive e-mail messages. But also, one to one communications by newsgroups or electric mail is different and ... least one intelligent answer from someone who has gone threw the same experience. Whether it's advice on a paper you have to write, how to research a certain topic, or something of a personal interest, there's always someone on the Internet willing to share th Profit, this is something I thought I would throw in for all those entrepreneurs out there. A rapidly increasing number of companies and ...
- 420: Skin Cancer
- ... of treatment involve the use of Mohs micrographic surgery, radiation therapy, electrodesiccation and curettage, and simple excision. Each of these methods is useful in specific clinical situations. Depending on the case, these methods have cure rates ranging from 85% to 95%. Mohs micrographic surgery, a newer surgical technique, has the highest cure rate for surgical treatment of both primary and recurrent tumors. This method uses microscopic control to determine the extent ... requires special training, it has the highest cure rate of all surgical treatments because the tumor is microscopically outlined until it is completely removed. While other treatment methods for recurrent basal cell carcinoma have failure rates of about 50%, cure rates have been reported at 96% when treated by Mohs micrographic surgery. "Mohs micrographic surgery is also indicated for tumors with poorly defined clinical borders, tumors with diameters larger than two cm, tumors with histopathologic ...
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