Paola Jimenez Mrs. Williams Reading 3 November 5‚ 2012 “A Smart Cookie” The passage “A Smart Cookie‚” from The House on Mango Street is about a mother who made a choice early in her life which negatively impacted her future. All of us make choices that set the course of our lives. This statement means that the decisions that we make determine our future because there are consequences for our actions which follow us‚ for a lifetime. First of all‚ the statement “all of us make choices that
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I greatly enjoyed taking the SmartMeasure assessment and found it was a very useful tool. The Smartmeasure Assessment assesses you through brief questions and tells you how you best learn. This is extremely important and useful for someone in any schooling or anyone that loves to learn. I myself am a visual and aural learner. I found this to be confirming because I thought thats how I learned best‚ learning through listening and watching someone. The Smartmeasure Assessment helped me learn how I
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observations using behavioural categories. Content analyses can also collect quantitative data. These data can be interpreted fairly easily with averages‚ measures of dispersion and graphs (pages 52–53) and are typically objective. Qualitative data are descriptive‚ e.g. answers to open questions from self-reports (page 41) and detailed findings from observations and content analyses. They are harder to analyse as you need to look for
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9/30/2014 Smart TV - Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia Smart TV From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia A smart TV‚ sometimes referred to as connected TV or hybrid TV‚ (not to be confused with IPTV‚ Internet TV‚ or with Web TV) is a television set or set-top box with integrated Internet and Web 2.0 features‚ and is an example of technological convergence between computers and television sets and settop boxes. Besides the traditional functions of television sets and set-top boxes provided
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homes pertaining to actual usage. Smart grids allows for two way communications between the electricity company and the homes allowing both electric companies and homes to operate more efficiently. This two way communication will allow home users to cut costs by efficiently utilizing energy. Smart grids will also allow the electricity companies to raise prices when the demand is high and lower prices when the demand is low. Mirroring the price advantage‚ smart grids will allow the user to dictate
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Descriptive essay #1 There are few relationships in my life that could compare to the complexity of the relationship that I share with my father. I grew up hearing stories of his childhood when he grew up in a military family with eleven brothers and sisters‚ moving from state to state in the deep humid south. I grew up idolizing him because of the crazy wacky adventures that he and his older brother (his best friend) would always be involved in. I always pictured myself in his brother’s shoes
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Payments Payment is a kind of feedback system that making a transaction of purchases at Octopus-enabled retailers. Holding the card against or waving it over an Octopus card reader from up to a few centimeters away without the user taking out the card. The reader will acknowledge payment by emitting a beep sound‚ and display the amount deducted and the remaining balance of the card in 0.3 seconds. In MTR When riding the MTR system‚ the entry point of commuters is noted when a passenger enters
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Second Edition Starting Smart How Early Experiences Affect Brain Development ® S THE OUNCE OF PREVENTION FUND Starting Smart How Early Experiences Affect Brain Development Michael Stevens is a healthy‚ beautiful newborn baby. As his parents admire him‚ they wonder‚ "What will Michael be like when he grows up? Will he do well in school? Will he get along with other kids and be happy?" Scientists now believe that the answers to these questions depend in large part on how
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Course Project Milestone 1: SMART Goal Setting Form Your Name: | Date:05/17/2013 | Your Instructor’s Name: | Purpose: To develop (2) SMART-formatted goals for selected leadership topics and a corresponding plan of action for achieving the goals. Directions: 1. Please refer to the Milestone 1 guidelines inclusive of the grading rubric found in Doc Sharing for the guidelines of this assignment. 2. Use the form below to complete your SMART goal assignment in Milestone 1. This includes
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What is a smart city? • A smart city has been defined as a ‘knowledge’‚ ‘digital’‚ ‘cyber’ or ‘eco’ city; representing a concept open to a variety of interpretations‚ depending on the goals set out by a smart city’s planners. We might refer to a smart city as an improvement on today’s city both functionally and structurally‚ using information and communication technology (ICT) as an infrastructure. • A city well performing in a forward-looking way in [economy‚ people‚ governance‚ mobility
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