January 25‚ 2012 Summary # 1 Summary “INTO THE UNKNOWN” “INTO THE UNKNOWN” published by the Economist is a magazine article about the fear that American workers have about future jobs and the replacing of jobs through outsourcing and computers. According to this article‚ white-collar workers around the world are losing their jobs as machines and foreign workers take over. The author’s purpose of this article is to alert the readers that although there are some changes in technology
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Assignment #7: Article Summary (Fluency) Fluency is being able to read a text smoothly and rapidly. If children can read smoothly‚ they place more attention on the meaning of the overall text rather than letter-sound relationships in each word. According to Seitz & Bartholomew (2014)‚ “Fluency bridges the gap from word recognition to comprehension” (p. 22). When children are not fluent readers‚ they concentrate more on decoding and the message of the text tends to get lost. There are different ways
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Article Summary Kate Donaldson Grand Canyon University: UNV-501: Introduction to Graduate Studies in the College of Education September 7‚ 2013 Article Summary This paper explores a published article that reports on the results from research conducted about student communication in online classes. In this article the author researched students aging from 20-50 year olds. The article exposes the research results from those who performed online classes in both the Generation x and
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a complex intellect that other species lack. Humans possess many capabilities that are distinct from those of others. This causes them to declare their species as superior. In the article “A Change of Heart about Animals”‚ author Jeremy Rifkin states‚ “They feel pain‚ suffer‚ and
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1. Summary of Popular Article The article “Why Clingy People Feel Colder” by Maia Szalavitz focuses on how different people perceive temperature in certain situations. A group of volunteers were gathered and asked to complete an attachment style test to evaluate their level of clinginess before they could participate in the study. After these volunteers were tested they were either asked to think about a previous split between romantic partners or an unemotional ordinary event. With their memory
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The goal of this exercise Writing a Summary The goal of this exercise is to be able to write a summary of the following article using around 130 words. Of all the games held throughout Greece‚ those staged at Olympia in honor of Zeus are the most famous. The Games‚ like all Greek games‚ were an intrinsic part of a religious festival. Held every four years between August 6 and September 19‚ they occupied such an important place in Greek life that time was measured by the interval between
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Marriage is defined as a social union or legal contract between people called spouses that create kinship. The definition of marriage varies according to different cultures‚ but is usually an institution in which interpersonal relationships‚ usually intimate and sexual‚ are acknowledged. Such a union is often formalized via a wedding ceremony. People marry for many reasons‚ including legal‚ social‚ being in love‚ libidinal‚ emotional‚ financial‚ spiritual‚ and religious. Marriages can be performed
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Article 1: McDonald’s Plans Marketing Push as Profit Slides McDonald Corp. plans to push its breakfast menu in the competitive market. Currently‚ the company’s market sales of breakfast menu which has led the company for 35 years have been decreased because of its competitors such as Taco Bell. Chief Executive Don Thompson announced that the company will emphasize its fresh breakfast menu which means “No microwave deals” to be differentiated from the competitors in the key market which are
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letter is about Dear Mr Thompson‚ My name is Jakob. I’m currently Studying in Middlesex University at Barnet. I have recently read your article about social networking and delighted to give you my opinion about social networking. I believe that social networking is destroying teenager’s education. Teenagers spend more time on social networking than revising‚ helping their parent and spend time with their family. As I’m a brother of a teenager I could inform you millions of sentences about console
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Around the 1950’s a social psychologist Solomon Asch conducted a series of experiments called “Opinions and Social Pressure” to see how groups impact individual others. The basic design of the experiment is seven to nine college students are sat in a classroom for a “visual judgment experiment” and they compare the length of lines. The experimenter had two cards‚ the first card had one line and the second had 3 lines with different lengths. The students were asked to give their answer aloud and in
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