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In her memoir, Sonia Sotomayor expresses the emotional and commemorate events from her childhood through adult life that helped her become the persevered and intelligent woman she is today. At the age of eight, she was diagnosed with type one diabetes, which implicated that she had to learn over her childhood how to apply her insulin shots on her own. The parents were always arguing because the father was an unreliable alcoholic, and the mother a nurse who worked long hours. To avoid conflict…

With USA Today debuting in 1982, it has continued to focus on innovative avenues for continued success and growth as the preferred news source. Personally, I am a very visual news consumer; therefore, what I enjoy most about the USA Today newspaper is the visual and eye catching content it has embedded within the paper -- digital and print versions. The vision the stakeholders had prior to the launch of USA Today was to have a unique approach to an audience and provide more news in less time…

Is this a reliable source? • This is a reliable source of information. This article was published in the Journal of Advanced Nursing, a reputable and well-known journal. This specific journal received the following score for Impact Factor: 1.741. This journal also received the following rankings: ISI Journal Citation Reports © Ranking: 2014: 8/109 (Nursing (Social Science)); 10/111 (Nursing (Science)). It is common for parents and children to experience anxiety when children undergo surgery.…

Defoe 's constant references to God in the journal of the plague year seem to highlight the importance of religion to people in 1664. Instead of keeping with the Christian values of the state, due to fear of the potential of a traumatic experience, the infected people were confined to their home.…

The article I chose, written by Shan Wang for Nieman Lab, focused around paywalls, specifically centered around the Wall Street Journals and their paywalls. A paywall is when an online media outlet charges a fee for access to their news content. The article discusses how paywalls are negative because casual readers are at a disadvantage. They are unable to test out a news source before committing to a payment. The article then describes two types of paywalls: hard and soft. Hard paywalls allow…

Subscription services have come to dominate academic publishing. Subscription-based services used for academic purposes are commonly referred to as research databases. They are particularly useful for retrieving articles in academic journals, repositories, archives, or other group of scientific or other articles. Academic journals consist of present original research, review articles, and book reviews in different scholarly disciplines. In academic journals, new research can be introduced and…

sift through all the information already out there on their topic, one useful way to start is by google searching scholarly and academic journals. After narrowing one’s journal search to journals useful to their research, it is beneficial to look up the credentials of each journal to be sure they are reliable. For example, for this paper I researched academic journals and popular news sites on the effects of positive and negative reinforcement on children in the classroom. I chose this topic…

low graduation rates as shown by research and studies conducted around the world analyzing the pre and post life of college athletes. A journal by Peng and Robert studied " The Career Maturity and State Anxiety of Taiwanese College Student Athletes Given Cognitive…

shine a light on the challenges that adult learners face when in an academic environment. To provide strategies that teachers, professors and lectures can implement in their classroom, to improve the learning of adult learners. In the journal article, ‘Adult Learning Theory: Applications to Non-Traditional College Students,’ by Cari Kenner and Jason Weinerman, the authors identified and focused on the student body. The journal article talked about the reasons why many people take the route of…

2: How can you be sure this journal is scholarly (academic)? This journal is scholarly largely due to the fact that it is published by the Eastern Communication Association (ECA), a professional organization of scholars, teachers, and students of Communication Studies, founded at Duquesne University recognized both nationally and internationally (“Communication,” 2016). In addition, Communication Quarterly is on its 63rd volume, indicating the usefulness of the journal in terms its scope,…