Soldier Sentenced to death for Fort Hood shooting A military jury sentenced Maj. Nidal Hasan to death for a 2009 shooting in Fort Hood‚ Texas. A death sentence for an army personal hardly ever happens. Maj. Nidal Hasan walked into a medical building where army soldiers were getting medical check-ups and shouted ‘Allahu akbar’ which means in Arabic for “God is great!.” He then opened fire with a laser-sighted handgun. He killed thirteen army men and women that day and injured over 30. When police
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or demonstrate a point. The topic sentence should establish a contention which the author will set out to prove in the paragraph. example: Kahild’s family went on a fishing trip to Musandam. So what? What is the appeal? Fishing at Musandam proved to be an enjoyable outing For Khalid and his family. • This sentence sets out something to be proven in the paragraph and is more appealing to the reader. The paragraph
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E.B. White’s essay‚ "Once More to the Lake‚" ends with his feeling "the chill of death." This phrase is a haunting and initially abrupt end for the essay‚ especially since on first reading the essay seems to be merely a pleasant description of a lakeside vacation. With a little attention‚ though‚ it’s easy to see how the essay leads naturally to a sense of death’s approach or inevitability. On the literal level‚ White feels an actual chill. As he watches his young son pull on a pair of wet
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throughout the novel In the Lake of the Woods. "Painful realities‚ thoughts‚ or feelings"‚ "refusal to acknowledge"‚ and "defense mechanism" all pertain directly to the main character of the novel‚ as well as the way the book is written. For this reason‚ I feel that this definition of denial and the word denial itself perfectly illustrate the theme of Tim O’Brien’s novel‚ "In the Lake of the Woods". The main action takes place near the town of Angle Inlet on the shores of The Lake of the Woods in northern
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The Rotter Incomplete Sentences Black (RISB) is a projective method of studying personality in a semi-structured scoring technique (Rotter‚ Lah‚ & Rafferty‚ n.d.). The RISB was originally used as means of screening large groups of soldiers to evaluate adjustment and fitness to return to duty and to obtain specific information for evaluation and treatment‚ however now it is primarily used to help guide initial clinical interviews (Corsini‚ 2010). The RISB is primarily used for individuals at the college
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. The change of The Nature of Competition By IT Usage Over the last many years information technology has turned banking industry on its head. Changes in the internal environment such as the increased workload and cost pressures as well as the external environment such as globalization and capital mobility has led the banking industry to introduce ATM and subsequently develop new products‚ services‚ delivery channels that include home banking via phone and personal computer ATM networks and
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Social Influence Modeling on Smartphone Usage Masaji Katagiri1‚2 and Minoru Etoh1‚3 1 R&D Center‚ NTT DOCOMO‚ Inc. Yokosuka‚ Kanagawa‚ 239-8536 Japan katagirim@nttdocomo.co.jp‚ etoh@ieee.org Graduate School of Information Science and Technologies‚ Osaka University Suita‚ Osaka‚ 565-0871 Japan 3 Cybermedia Center‚ Osaka University Toyonaka‚ Osaka‚ 560-0043 Japan 2 Abstract. This paper presents a probabilistic influence model for smartphone usage; it applies a latent group model to social influence
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hundred miles of it in a week‚ skirting the foothills of the mountains along the shore of what was once the ancient sea‚ some thousand million years before. When life was beginning on Earth‚ it was already dying here. The waters were retreating down the flanks of those stupendous cliff s‚ retreating into the empty heart of the Moon. Over the land which we were crossing‚ the tideless ocean had once been half a mile deep‚ and now the only trace of moisture was the hoarfrost one could sometimes find
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Topic Sentence and Informal Outline Sean Heffernan GEN/195 March 06‚ 2012 John Borio Topic Sentence and Informal Outline It is essential to know how to write a topic sentence properly. A topic sentence conveys the main sentence of a paragraph and describes the content of the paragraph. An informal outline consists of the major and minor ideas reviewed or discussed within the literature. An informal outline organizes thoughts yet stays away from repetition. Informal Outline Although
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HARMFUL AND DETRIMENTAL EFFECTS IN CELLPHONE USAGE In recent years‚ mobile telecommunication systems have grown significantly‚ to the point where more than a sixth of the world’s population uses mobile phones. By the end of 2004‚ more than a billion subscribers across more than 200 countries were estimated to be using mobile phones The development of mobile communications has moved rapidly. In the 1980s‚ first generation mobile phones‚ using analogue technology‚ allowed the transmission of
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