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    Nine supermarket strategies designed to make you spend more (Consumer savings expert Andrea Woroch(Andrea Woroch is a nationally recognized consumer and money-saving expert for Kinoli Inc.)) Supermarkets lure us in with coupons and sales‚ but once we’re inside...POW! They hit us with the old one-two for a checkout aisle K.O. Ultimately‚ it pays to keep your mental dukes up when you’re in the ring‚ but first‚ you have to know the rules. Here are nine tricks supermarkets like to spring on consumers

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    2-12 what is the fraction of the total refresh time per frame spent in retrace of the electron beam for a noninterlaced raster system with a resolution of 1280 by 1024‚ a refresh rate of 60 Hz‚ a horizontal retrace time of 5 microseconds‚ and a vertical retrace time of 500 microseconds? 1sec = 10^6 usec Refresh rate = 60Hz = 1/60 sec to scan = 16.7 msec The time for horizontal retrace = 1024 x 5 usec The time for vertical retrace = 500 usec Total time spent for retrace = 5120 + 500 = 5620

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    For decades there has been debate as to how television media affects our children. Many parents have been concerned since the beginning of television. Through extensive research over the last few decades‚ television has been thought to desensitize and have detrimental effects on our children‚ which inhibits them from developing feelings of security‚ compassion‚ diplomacy‚ and discernment. Television watching also promotes violence‚ unsafe sexual practices‚ and eating disorders in children. According

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    41. You Make Me Lie Down 14 February 2012 I love the song “You make me lie down in green pastures” by Don Moen. It’s been stuck in my head ever since I heard it at a concert. “He makes me lie down” (Psalm 23:2). There’s a secret in this verse we often rush past. The Israelites who read this Psalm when David wrote it almost 1‚000 years before Christ‚ would have known from experience how hard it is to get a sheep to lie down. Keller writes that if a sheep is to lie down‚ he needs to feel absolutely

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    The Effects of Excessive Television Viewing on Children ENG106 – English Composition I By Roy’Neshia T. Hosch AIU Online 11/30/13 Abstract Television viewing can effect a child positively or negatively. Positive views of television are that TV can entertain the child as well as educate them it can also open them up to other places and things in the world that can’t be seen from their home town. However‚ too much television can be harmful to the child. According to Statistic Brain Research

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    Effects of Television violence and Children Outline: I.THESIS STAEMENT: Although the television serves as a form of entertainment‚ when you abuse its use‚ and make it a habit to watch‚ it gives negative effects on the behavior of children especially in their brain’s development. II. PORPUSE OF THE RESEARCH III. INTRODUCTION IV. HIPOTHESIS & METHOD A. CHILDREN QUESTIONNAIRE 1. HOW IT CAN AFFECT VIEWER’S BEHAVIOUR 2. CHILDREN RESPONSES B. EFFECTS & RESULTS 1. NEGATIVE EFFECTS a. Behavior of

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    Pham Winter 2013 Instructor: Cooper J Assignment #1 Date: January 11th‚ 2013 “Watching TV Makes You Smarter” In “Watching TV makes you smarter‚” Steven Johnson makes clear his thesis statement to us that television programming today makes increasingly complex cognitive demands of viewers‚ and enhances people’s cognitive facilities. He uses the images telling us what the intellectual effect of television viewing. First‚ based on his theory called “The Sleeper Curve”‚ he talks about reality TV affecting

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    Effects of Watching Television In a recent cartoon‚ one character said to another‚ “When you think of the awesome power of television to educate‚ aren’t you glad it doesn’t?” It’s true that television has the power to educate and to entertain‚ but unfortunately‚ these benefits are outweighed by the harm it does to dedicated viewers. Television is harmful because it creates passivity‚ discourages communication and presents a false picture of reality. Television causes viewers to

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    The article‚ “Can You Make Yourself Smarter?” by Dan Hurley‚ illustrates the prevalence and importance of crystallized intelligence and fluid intelligence. One thing he does not touch on in his article is the different kinds of intelligence‚ for example‚ emotional intelligence. Like crystallized and fluid intelligence‚ emotional intelligence is extremely ubiquitous‚ but emotional intelligence is the most important aspect of intelligence related to influences on job performance‚ as well as its importance

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    These days‚ just about every time you turn on the TV you’re met with a barrage of violent images including explosions‚ suicide bombings‚ and war casualties. And that’s just the news! Many popular television shows -- even those in the so-called "family" time slot of 7-8:30 p.m. -- also feature much more violence than shows aired in this time slot just a few years ago. American children watch an average of between three and fours hours of television daily. As a result‚ TV violence and children has

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