Devin Hall Ms. Westhafer Writing Seminar: Summary 07 February 2013 Summary of “The Myth of Violence in the Old West” In his article‚ “The Myth of Violence in the Old West‚” Roger D. McGrath attempts to rebut the common myth of the old west being plagued by high crime rate. Although McGrath agreed that the old west was violent‚ he maintained how the violence at that time was dissimilar from todays. To help illustrate his point‚ he compared today’s crime rate for burglary‚ robbery‚ and murder
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I have written up my own "how to read like a POLS" (hereafter referred to as HTRPS) summaries for Mueller and Loeb. I won’t do this for all of the response papers‚ but I wanted you to have an opportunity to compare your own summaries to the ones I drew up. Please note that you will not always find exactly the same things in your own HTRPS summary and in someone else’s‚ and this isn’t necessarily a bad thing. But‚ you’ll want to get to the point where you’ve practiced enough and the main points
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11‚ 2011 in The New York Times K.J Dell’ Antonia talks about moving focus of kids from watching and playing on computers to creating and finding fun in creation. Whereas in the article “Is The Internet Making Us Stupid?” published on June 16‚ 2008 in New York Times Nicholas Carr’s tells use of internet leads to lose ability for long reading and fall in time span spend on the material. I am not totally agree with K.J Dell’ Antonia and Nicholas Carr’s ideas. I think computer is making us smarter
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Summary of “Myth‚ Truth‚ and the Justification in Religion” William L. Power Phil 1200 In the article‚ “Myth‚ Truth‚ and Justification in Religion”‚ the author‚ William L. Power states and thoroughly explains his opinions and thoughts on theology and religion. Power presents three main arguments within the article to help prove his overall point. The first argument stated is the way theology and religion‚ or‚ in his words‚ a theology and a religion should be viewed
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Facebook‚ and Apple. Is this a bad thing? Bruce Schneier seems to think so in this Article titled The Internet is a Surveillance State. In this article‚ Schneier believes that this big data will make all our deepest darkest secrets known to the world. However‚ it really is not the end of the world. For this article‚ it has some strong points such as its intro‚ showing that even the smartest internet users can still be caught. Schneier also goes on to state that this is the end‚ we’re done. Though he
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dreary and barren settings in which the Radley family and Miss Lottie live‚ in To Kill a Mockingbird and in “Marigolds”‚ greatly influence the myths and legends that perpetuate around them. The Radley place is an old and murky home‚ making it easy for their myth to emerge because of the mysteriousness associated with the family due to their household and the unordinary alleged actions of Boo Radley. The Radley myth revolves around Boo because he has not been seen in “15 years” and is suspected to
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Online or internet censorship is the control of publishing of and also accessing of information through the internet. These rules and regulations are mainly carried out by governments or by local organizations. The internet has become such a large source of information over the past decade or two. It is said there are over two million new internet users per month. As more users get a grasp of the internet and become familiar with it the potential of the content
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by Andrew Keen is as the title alludes to “Sex‚ lies and the Internet”. It is obvious that Andrew Keen‚ who wrote this in his book from 2007‚ is critical of the media the Internet‚ which‚ in this text’s example‚ abuses the opportunity people have to meet each other virtually. It is obvious why he is pointing out two really serious stories posted on two different Web sites‚ because they make his argumentation for clamming that the Internet Is only up to bad things even stronger. Basically it is about
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It is prevalent for American women that the real beauty is natural beauty‚ the beauty without makeup‚ but Garance Franke-Ruta tries to correct this misconception of natural beauty widely spread out for American women. She urges that American women need to re-define a notion of natural beauty as a reward of an individual`s effort. As the influence of media has been getting powerful‚ beauty has been become a significant factor in causing the competition in beauty industry. Beauty industry gradually
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Bias) Why People are Ineffective Negotiators - Faulty Feedback - Satisficing - Self-reinforcing incompetence Negotiation Myths Myth 1: Negotiations are Fixed Sum Myth 2: You Need to be either Tough or Soft (Principled negotiator follow an ʻenlightenedʼ view of negotiation) Myth 3: Good Negotiators are Born Myth 4: Experience is a Great Teacher Myth 5: Good Negotiators Take Risks Myth 6: Good Negotiators Rely on Intution Chapter 2: Preparation - What t do before Negotiation 80% - Preparation + 20% Negotiation
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