The Alberta Journal of Educational Research Vol. 54‚ No. 3‚ Fall 2008‚ 272-282 Erica Neegan Ontario Institute for Studies in Education/University of Toronto Constructing My Cultural Identity: A Reflection on the Contradictions‚ Dilemmas‚ and Reality This article provides a critical reflective analysis of my life growing up in Jamaica where I attended colonial school‚ to making the transition to high school in the Canadian context. I examine the elements that have influenced my cultural/racial
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Constructing an Argument 1. Reason (Claim): Cost Warrant: This is true because the president wants to spend money on fixing the infrastructure but it may not be enough. Evidence: President Obama’s State of the Union address called for $500 billion divided to each state to try and repair and improve our national infrastructure. in florida alone The President’s plan includes $50 billion in immediate investments for highways‚ transit‚ rail and aviation‚ helping to modernize an infrastructure that
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suffering‚ thereby maximizing net pleasure (pleasure minus suffering). Thomas Nagel‚ in his book Mortal Questions‚ disagrees with this viewpoint entirely saying that there is more to harm than just suffering‚ more to pleasure than momentary comfort‚ and more to death than an end to an existence. According to the hedonist‚ to be harmed you must suffer‚ that is‚ you must consciously experience a discomfort. According to Nagel‚ harm does not equal suffering. Certainly suffering is a type of harm but there
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Race‚ Ethnicity‚ and Culture Race‚ ethnicity‚ and culture are terms in which resonate throughout American society. Sometimes these words are often overlooked and thrown out due to their negative historical background. Joane Nagel takes the plunge in an effort to determine the true essence of ethnicity and culture in her work‚ “Constructing Ethnicity: Creating and Recreating Ethnic Identity and Culture.” She says the constructionist view is that “the origin‚ content‚ and form of ethnicity reflect
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CONSTRUCTING and SCORING ESSAY TESTS* An essay test permits direct assessment of the attainment of numerous goals and objectives. An essay test demands less construction time per fixed unit of student time but a significant increase in labor in time and scoring. GENERAL TYPES OF ESSAY ITEMS* >EXTENDED RESPONSE ESSAY ITEM- is one that allows for an in-depth sampling of a student’s knowledge‚ thinking processes‚ and problem solving behavior related to a specific topic. >RESTRICTED RESPONSE
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whole project is expected to take‚ given finite resources SAPM Spring 2006: Project Management 4 Work Breakdown Structure A WBS is a diagram showing the major subtasks of the project: Build Shed Planning Obtaining Materials Constructing Pour foundation Build frame Install siding Install roof Finish (door‚ etc.) Rule of thumb: break things down as far as necessary to estimate and schedule them‚ and no further. SAPM Spring 2006: Project Management 5 Network diagram
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The impact of Ethnicity‚ Gender‚ Geographical Differences and Age on Individual Behavior The new era in business is facing with the globalization‚ and globalization brings diversity. Diversity is a very real aspect of the American’s culture. How does diversity impact individual behavior? According with Hung Ng (2005)‚ “humans exist not only as unique individuals‚ but also as members of social groups that are formed on the basis of ethnicity‚ gender‚ age‚ and so for.” These dual aspects of the human
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Life Thomas Nagel is a highly intelligent and well-respected American philosopher who wrote the short (10 chapters) introduction to philosophy‚ “What does it All Mean?” While reading this intriguing brief introduction to philosophy‚ I couldn’t help but notice how Nagel discusses a variety of thought-provoking questions and theories/ideas regarding how he believes life really is and/or how it is portrayed. For instance‚ in the chapter titled‚ “How Do We Know Anything” Thomas Nagel argues that the
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Thomas Nagel brought up the big question. Can we know what it is like to be a bat? Nagel’s question is asking can we truly know what it is like to someone or something else rather than ourselves. Is our mind limited by our experiences that we have had personally? Not everyone shares the same experiences as everybody else. If a group of people were to witness a tragedy. Every single one of them might all show the same emotion‚ but not everyone would handle that emotion the same as everyone else around
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his essay‚ “What Is It Like to Be a Bat?”‚ Thomas Nagel argues against reductionism through examples of human subjectivity. Thomas Nagel argues through the subjectivity of human life and uniqueness of human experiences that the reductionist mind-body problem is false or at least unknowable at this point in time. Nagel introduces the essential problem of the reductionists as an inability to grasp the meaning of consciousness in an organism. Nagel argues that “fundamentally an organism has conscious
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