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who reporter multitasking with technology in class had lower GPAs than students who did not multitask with other technology in class. This also supports those who use technology in class took less detailed notes and was not attentive during class lecture…

another but rather the cost of maintaining democratic stability. The issue at hand is cost and is specified into two types, transition and compensational costs. Transition costs include conflict, potential, instability and social polarization (Magagna, Lecture 17 January 2016). These costs include a differing in opinion between political groups and the forming of organizations to support a specific cause. The second cost is based on the uneven distribution of benefits in the democratic…

The source I have selected is a handwritten outline for a lecture on the smallpox inoculation, an injection that releases a very minor for of the disease into the patient for trained immunity. The passage focuses on preparing the body before inoculation, especially in regards to humoralism and temporal changes. As the database only provided one image of the source, the source is approximately one-page long. Although short, the source delivers a very concise description of a case study of a young…

MOOCs are the change in higher education. Many MOOCs are being acknowledged as college credit and should be by majority of colleges and universities in the mere future. MOOCs should be accounted for as college credit by, professors improving their lecture types for students, MOOCs designed for keeping pace with the course, and the variety of the courses presented for a future career…

revolutionized Germany in just a few meteoric years with Hitler at its head. The dictatorship withdrew from the League of Nations in 1933, with rearmament beginning in 1934, and began its Anschluss of former German and Austrian-Hungarian territories (Lecture 13, October 29) producing a spectacular rise in Hitler’s popularity. Rearmament and dismantling the Treaty of Versailles carried Germany out of economic depression. Germany under the Nazi party reinstated its former power as neighbouring…

In Maria W. Stewart's lecture in Boston in 1832, she conveys her position on the injustices of slavery and the cruelty that slaves experiences through the use of diction, figurative language, and her own personal experience. Altogether, these create a sense of injustice and desparity for the cause of the African Americans and their freedoms and aspirations to be something more than just servile labor. Diction is a major influence in this lecture. With a variety of words, such as "chains",…

is proven by various studies. Kimmel is there to "recruit men to support gender equality". Kimmel's seemed to have thoughtfully incorporate a comical stance to it based on the audience's laughter in addition to his confident posture throughout his lecture. Michael Kimmel is a sociologist, leading researcher, and a writer in men and masculinity. He is also a professor in sociology and gender studies. With his expert testimonies, anecdotes, and facts provided by studies, Kimmel further suggests…

The event I attended was a one time lecture held at the University of Pennsylvania on October 10 from 5:00-6:30. The lecture was a presentation of the research done by Erin Wilkinson, a Linguistics professor with the University of Manitoba. The research presented specifically focused on how lexical information (concepts) are processed in the minds of Deaf adults and children as compared to their hearing counterparts. Information about this event was presented on the syllabus of this course.…

“This Woman Suffers From Six Hours Of Orgasms A Day.” Imagine reading this article title while in a lecture or whatever class. You’re trying to pay attention and write down notes, then all of a sudden you see that headline along with detailed pictures. It happened to me during my Molecular and Cellular Biology 150 lecture and I was completely caught off guard; my focus on the lecture completely halted and transferred to the article I saw on the screen in front of me. I actually began reading…

Contrary to the general definition of inquiry, Charles Peirce describes inquiry as “the struggle to escape doubt and attain a settled or “fixed” state of belief” (lecture 1/12/17). Based off his definition containing belief and doubt, Peirce would affirm that people are often content with belief and will try to eliminate all traces of doubt. In order to accomplish his definition of “inquiry”, Peirce describes four methods of “fixing belief” that many people tend to choose in order to settle…