Prof David Marquand’s curriculum vitae is discouraging – Labour MP for 11 years under Harold Wilson‚ and later an adviser to the European Commission. Later still he became a founder member of the Social Democratic Party. He started his academic career as a politics lecturer at Sussex University. Yet Marquand has overcome these disadvantages and become one of the most original political thinkers of his generation. He has a gift for bringing political arguments to life and – unique among Left-wing
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Name:_______________________ Class: F.___ Class No:_____ 1. Light and sight We see an object when light from that object enters our eyes. Many rays from the object enter the eye at the same time. However‚ in diagrams‚ we only show two or some rays only. A point gives out many rays but we usually draw _two___ rays to mark out the cone of rays from the point of the object reaching the eye (Fig 1a). To indicate that the eye sees the whole object‚ two cones of rays are drawn from the two
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Jaesung Lee Geography 1 Professor Thomas Orf Chapter 14 Questions 1) The first evidence Wegner was able to find was the remarkable number of close affinities of geologic features on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean. He found the continental margins of the subequatorial portions of Africa and South America fit together with jigsaw-on-like precision. He also determined that the petrologic records on both sides of the Atlantic show many distributions- such as ancient coal deposits-that would
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Study: TV May Perpetuate Race Bias In this article‚ researchers at Tufts University devised a study to reveal how even passive diversion may lead to actively damaging affects‚ especially when it comes to issues of race and how we shape out attitudes towards those of a different race. Being a couch potato may be more detrimental than previously thought. When I got to the part about which shows the researchers actually used in their studies‚ I couldn’t imagine how Scrubs could be bad to social
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grounding in thermodynamics is required for much work in engineering. If thermodynamics only governed the behavior of engines‚ it would probably be the most economically important of all sciences‚ but it is much more than that. Since the chemical and physical state of matter depends strongly on how much thermal energy it contains‚ thermodynamic principles play a central role in any description of
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Herodotus’ writes his Histories for Greeks. Specifically for Greeks living in Herodotus’ own time. The statement of purpose which begins the work seems to contradict this hypothesis. Herodotus claims to wish to "prevent the traces of human events from being erased by time‚ and to preserve the fame of the important and remarkable achievements " [Herodotus‚ 1.0]. The underlying assumption here is that the author is preserving these events and achievements for future generations and perhaps even future
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Implicit and Explicit Measures of Weight Bias Renee Szostak Abstract In the present study‚ the results of the fat-thin Implicit Association Test (IAT) were compared with the results of explicit surveys in ten Indiana University undergraduates. The purpose of this study was to determine if there was a significant correlation between subjects’ results on the IAT and their responses in the explicit survey. Our survey was designed to measure the same bias that the IAT was measuring. We hypothesized
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Intelligence is the all – purpose ability to do well on cognitive tests‚ to solve problems‚ and to learn from experience. The word itself though is measured differently throughout different cultures and societies. Many Americans think of it as the ability to reason‚ put thinking skills to use‚ think creatively‚ and to analyze things critically while in some other cultures it’s the ability to survive in extreme situations. The idea of intelligence was first introduced by Charles Spearmen. He suggested
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Expository Composition Fall 2013 Going For the Look Do stores discriminate people when hiring? Submitted By Due Date: Period: Submitted To Abstract Companies like Hollister‚ Pacsun‚ and Abercrombie and Fitch are being accused of not being true to their hiring criteria based on a person’s looks. Surveys were conducted for this research. The participants targeted were mainly teens from Carson Senior High School that were either seventeen or eighteen years old. They were
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named ‘Actualities’. Today‚ the concept has grown into that of the Documentary – in which the filmmakers look to capture reality and usually inform the audience using facts and evidence. Bias on the filmmakers behalf is something that features less often‚ but it does indeed feature. One example of openly expressing bias in their productions is Michael Moore‚ who takes no steps to ensure subtlety in his passionate views expressed in his films.
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