Topic Chosen: Peer pressure into underage drinking Proposal Statement: Does peer pressure play a role in the reason for underage teenagers drink alcohol? Hypothesis: My hypothesis is that peer pressure does affect the choice of an underage teenager to drink alcohol. Teenagers who are under the influence of alcohol can experience negative affects‚ such as sexual behavior‚ including unwanted‚ unintended‚ and unprotected sexual activity & heavy drinking later in life. Research Methodology:
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Design concepts in architecture: the porosity paradigm Sotirios D. Kotsopoulos 129 Franklin Street‚ # 203‚ Cambridge‚ Massachusetts 02139‚ USA; e-mail: skots@alum.mit.edu Abstract: Presented is a paradigm of how a design concept can be converted into a system of production rules to generate designs. The rules are expressed by the means of shape grammar formalism. The paradigm demonstrates how porosity a concept transferred from biology‚ medicine and organic chemistry was implemented by architect
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In science explain the necessity for peer-review and why sometimes there is resistance to new scientific theories. What is scientific peer review? Scientific peer review is the evaluation of scientific research findings or proposals for competence‚ significance and originality‚ by qualified experts who research and submit work for publication in the same field (peers). Most commonly‚ peer review is used by the editors of scientific journals‚ who ask well-qualified experts to provide written
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2013 TABLE OF CONTENTS PAGE Declaration 3 1. Introduction 4 2. Quantitative content analysis 4 3. Media audience theory 4 4. Questionnaires surveys in media research 7 5. Self assessment and self reflection 9 Sources consulted 10 Declaration I hereby declare that this assignment is my original work‚ written by me and that is my own effort and that no part has been plagiarized
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The four most important aspects of my role as a peer tutor would be showing leadership‚ communication‚ flexibility and having a positive impact on students. Each of these aspects are important and all contribute to my role as a peer tutor‚ without any of them I don’t think I would perform as well in the classroom. Showing leadership and having a positive impact on others have changed over the course of the semester. At the beginning of the semester my leadership skills weren’t as inclined as they
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Benefits of peer support Peer support refers to some form of help given out by friends‚ colleagues‚ or family members when a person is doing something or is in need of something. It may be a need to learn a difficult subject in school‚ a need to be heard with personal problems‚ a need to learn a new task‚ or a need to be assisted in different things. Peer support could be in the form of teaching‚ assisting‚ counseling‚ or simply listening and either way it can provide these benefits: * When people
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EDB 601 Lenore Jackson Topic: Classwide Peer Tutoring - is a comprehensive instructional procedure or teaching strategy based on reciprocal peer tutoring and group reinforcement wherein an entire classroom of students is actively engaged in the process of learning and practicing basic academic skills simultaneously in a systematic and fun way. Greenwood‚ Charles R. And Delquadri‚ Joseph C. (1989) Longitudal Effects of Classwide Peer Tutoring‚ The Journal of Educational Psychology Volume
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CHAPTER Entrepreneurship is the act of being an entrepreneur‚ which can be defined as "one who undertakes innovations‚ finance and business acumen in an effort to transform innovations into economic goods". This may result in new organizations or may be part of revitalizing mature organizations in response to a perceived opportunity. The most obvious form of entrepreneurship is that of starting new businesses (referred as Startup Company); however‚ in recent years‚ the term has been extended to
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Scenario Concept JOSE E ORTIZ ANDINO ADELAIDA TORRES-DILAN ECO/561PR - ECONOMICS Scenario Concept The purpose of this paper is to explain the market equilibrating process in relation to my personal experience supported by academic research. The following factors will be included in my explanation: law of demand and the determinants of demand‚ law of supply and the determinants of supply efficient markets theory and surplus and shortage. Market Equilibrating Process Not since the
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Concepts of Topology. Topological property. Topological transformation. Continuous deformation. Genus. Homeomorphism. What is the subject of topology all about? With what subject matter is it concerned? What kinds of questions does it ask? With what kinds of problems is it concerned? Let us start with some dictionary definitions. Topology. The study of those properties of geometric figures or solid bodies that remain invariant under certain transformations. Funk & Wagnalls Dictionary
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