researched the qualifications for the Presidential and Merit scholarships. These scholarships are granted to exceptional students excelling in high school. Fortunately‚ I was awarded the Presidential scholarship from Manhattan College due to my high academic achievements. Moreover‚ I applied to STEM scholarships at Stony Brook University. This scholarship is given to a rising senior who shows a strong aptitude in the science field. Overall‚ the merit and STEM scholarships are beneficial and will be used
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7b) A demerit good is a product or a service that goes against common interest of a population and is related to promoting negative externalities. Examples of demerit goods are alcohol‚ fast food and cigarettes. All of these are goods that mostly cause problems in health and as a result they are causing a negative externality of high health costs to the NHS. These costs need to be covered by taxation and other sanctions which ultimately aim to reduce the consumption of demerit goods. T.V can be
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One of the great discoveries made by Dr. Montessori was that all humans have certain tendencies or behavior patterns. No matter where we live‚ no matter our culture or ethnicity‚ we all follow the same natural laws that lead us to act or react in a specific manner. We are all driven to: Communicate Socialize Imitate Explore (we are curious) Move Be exact/precise Concentrate Repeat Maintain/discover order Achieve independence Realize perfection/Control errors/Improve ourselves Control
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television commercial‚ radio advertisement‚ outdoor advertising or direct mail; or new media such as websites and text messagesModern advertising developed with the rise of mass production in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Type Demerits1 Demerits of Advertising (Objections) Various objections against it may be listed as follows: 1. Economic Objections a) Advertising is not productive. It is true that it does not produce any tangible goods. It is said to involve wasteful expenditure
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Human tendencies Every human‚ regardless of culture‚ place or time of birth‚ exhibits several tendencies. Guided by these tendencies at each stage of development‚ human seeks out the experiences in their environment that will best serve his development. Human being try to create order‚ to find meaning‚ to explore environments‚ to communicate with people around him‚ to pursue activities that are meaningful to become precise in his movements and in his thinking‚ and to work towards self-perfection
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The Tendencies of Human Here are the tendencies of humans as defined by Maria Montessori: • Orientation. Human beings want to know their relationship to the environment around them. When children enter a new environment‚ they often want to look at and touch everything around them. They enjoy knowing "where" they fit in - from learning their address to finding their country and continent on a map. • Order. People prefer order to chaos and confusion. Order brings predictability and security. There
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Demerits of Democracy More emphasis on quantity than on quality: Majority party holds the reins of government. Inefficient & corrupt‚ who have neither intelligence nor vision‚ get themselves elected. Rule of the incompetent Democracies are run amateurs. In it‚ every citizen is allowed to take part‚ whereas everybody is not fit for it. Locke calls it the act of running administration by the ignorant. He says that history records the fact that a few are intelligent. Universal adult
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Essay on Democracy – Its Merits and Demerits (free to read). The English word ‘Democracy’ is derived from two Greek words ‘Demos’ and ‘Kratia’ or ‘cratos’. Demos means crowd and ‘Kratia’ or ‘cratos’ means power. This is why the critics of Democracy have described it as Mobocracy. But in reality Democracy is not mobocracy but rule by majority of the people according to certain rules and regulations which are accepted by the people of a country. In the beginning there was direct Democracy.
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Aryabhata Biography Name While there is a tendency to misspell his name as "Aryabhatta" by analogy with other names having the "bhatta" suffix‚ his name is properly spelled Aryabhata: every astronomical text spells his name thus‚ including Brahmagupta’s references to him "in more than a hundred places by name".Furthermore‚ in most instances "Aryabhatta" does not fit the metre either. Time and place of birth Aryabhata mentions in the Aryabhatiya that it was composed 3‚630 years into the Kali
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The Human Tendencies February 2‚ 2013 Humans were given the gifts of intelligence‚ love‚ reason and will. We have the power to modify and adapt to any environment based on our needs. Human beings evolved in a unique way and are endowed with intelligence‚ instincts and movement. There were three elementary needs to keep us alive: food‚ shelter and clothing. Our early ancestors found a means to sustain these basic needs on the first day of their existence. The ability to satisfy the need for
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