ACADEMIC INTEGRITY IN A CULTURAL CONTEXT Every culture is indeed unique and diverse‚ shaping and molding its belief systems‚ values ‚ and knowledge. In Africa‚ particularly Nigeria‚ we have traditionally been an oral society‚ in that from the days of slave trade‚ our forefathers have passed on the art of story-telling from one generation to another. Today‚ some of the stories have been compiled and taught as legends in our education systems and some are still being told by our fathers and grandfathers
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In these pages a few years ago‚ I reported on some of my findings at having reached very old age. I was then in my early 90s. Five years further down the hill‚ I have a few more matters to note. Certainly I have not gained in wisdom‚ but due to so little physical activity and fewer social goings-on‚ I have begun to inhabit the static house of my head. To my surprise I find it a somewhat well-furnished abode‚ occupied with what I remember‚ have heard recently‚ and observed. Ernest Hemingway boils
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Hertha Marks Ayrton was a British mathematician‚ engineer‚ physicist and inventor who was awarded the Hughes Medal in 1906 by the Royal Society for her work on electric arcs and ripples in sand and water. Born in Portsea‚ Hampshire in 1854‚ she studied at Girton College‚ Cambridge‚ and registered 26 patents for mathematical divders‚ arc lamps and electrodes between 1884 and her death in 1923. As Google marks what would have been her 162nd birthday with a Doodle on its homepage‚ here are five
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single man‚ child‚ and woman is created equal. No single person is better than one another. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. also got an important prize for his actions. He received the noble peace prize for helping the civil rights movement. He was the youngest man ever to receive the noble peace prize. His actions of non-violence to receive the prize were a lot more effective than war or violence. This was a major event in his life before his tragic death. Dr. King’s death was tragic‚ but
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Through the existence of social control many groups of people learned to interact with and influence ones behavior through mechanisms of a formal or informal responses to a situation. Social control is implemented from birth and can be seen throughout life. Social control is implemented everyday in work and at home. Without social control the structure and rule of society would disintegrate. In everyday life examples of social control are seen. For example when a child has committed or partaken
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achieved success at an early age. Brooks is best known for her lyrical style of urban poetry‚ such as the poem “We Real Cool”. Brooks was the first African-American writer to win the Pulitzer Prize for her poetry with the poem‚ “Annie Allen”. Edwin Arlington Robinson was the first person ever to receive the Pulitzer Prize in 1922. Robinson’s poetry did not capture the attention of the public until he was almost 50 years old. President Theodore Roosevelt discovered some of his poetry. He was so impressed
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Heroes and role models reveal a society’s highest standards .The first thing that comes into my mind is when was the last time I read about a hero in the newspapers or any other media ? What defines a hero or role model in today’s society ? The author claims that the heroes and role models represent the society we live in.This statement leads to a moral dilemma inside me .Whether this claim just aims that society is represented by handful of role models or it also has a secondary meaning of being
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EWRT 1B Disgrace: Living a Deceitful Life “The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely.” - Carl Gustav Jung With life come many trials and tribulations. With hope come many wishes and dreams of a life that could be. And with change comes the unexpected transformations that were at once thought impossible. In Andrew X. Pham’s The Catfish and Mandala: A 2 Wheeled Voyage Through the Landscape and Memory of Vietnam‚ he tells an autobiography of his life‚ including both
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Description/Synopsis: Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad “V.S.” Naipaul was born in Trinidad on 17th August 1932‚ the descendant of indentured labourers shipped from India‚ this dispossessed child of the Raj has come on a long and marvellous journey. His upbringing familiarised him with every sort of deprivation‚ material and cultural. A scholarship to Oxford brought him to this country. Nothing sustained him afterwards except the determination‚ often close to despair‚ to become a writer. Against all likelihood
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Timeline of Dr Maria Montessori’s Life AND Significant World events 1870 Maria Montessori born on August 31 in Chiaravalle‚ Ancona province‚ Italy. Attends a boys’ school in Rome‚ with a science/engineering emphasis. 1870 February 3‚ 1870: The 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution‚ which gave the right to vote to black males‚ became law when the required number of states ratified it. June 9‚ 1870: Charles Dickens‚ British novelist‚ died at the age of 58. 1890 Against opposition from
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