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Longhand Over Laptop Note Taking” In recent years, taking notes by using a laptop has become increasingly common among students attending lectures. It is evident from previous studies that if laptops are used for note taking while surfing the web or for other distractions, it will impair the learning process. However, this study aims to show that even without these distractions, students will perform worse than longhand note takers because they have the tendency to write the notes verbatim,…

Modern biotechnology is truly astonishing; the technology has extended our carrying capacity far beyond our limits by eliminating devastating diseases, provided life saving pharmaceuticals, as well as solutions for agriculture sustainability for a population expecting to reach 9.5 billion individuals by 2050. Agriculture sustainability is a global concern, which affects each organism on this planet. Hence, as an advanced society we must invest on our current technologies to provide food…

Writing I - Literacy Narrative Kyu Hyeon Kim Title : The Advocate of Dictatorship or: How I learned to Stop Worrying and Love My Nature I, hereby, declare that I am the strong advocate of dictatorship. The dictatorship justified from every moment of the revolutionary. The revolutionary ready to break every ground of everything to impact like a meteor. The meteor born from groundless, furious enough to penetrate without any hesitations. Therefore, I, as the dictator, formal and current…

CHAPTER 3 HARDWARE REQUIREMENTS 3.1 GENERAL Enabling technology for a whole host of innovative devices and systems that have changed the way we live is the Integrated circuit(IC) Technology. In the year 2000 Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce received the Nobel Prize in Physics for their invention of the integrated circuit and without the integrated circuit, neither transistors nor computers would be as important as they are today. We know that VLSI systems are very smaller in size and consume…

Jen Dowling Professor Sabalewski CHEM 102 Honors Recycling In our world it is crucial that people recycle as often as possible to help save the planet. The most common material to be recycled is paper. There is more paper recycled every year than aluminum, plastic and glass combined. In 2011, over 65% of paper in the United States was recycled. Paper can be recycled five to seven times before the fibers are too small to create any new paper. When paper reaches a recycling center it is…

“Notes of a Native Son” is an autobiographical writing written by American contemporary black writer James Baldwin. At the first time I read “ Notes of Native Son”, the title catch my attention. In my opinion, “Son” only means male child. But Baldwin describes something more meaningful in his essay. In Baldwin’s mind, African Americans should be free and equal native son of American just like the white. He uses the word “son” to reflect to his family, his father and the whole society. In…

"Notes From the Field" is a play by Anna Deavere Smith that dives into real-life stories, focusing on issues like struggling schools, the criminal justice system, and racism in American society. Through a blend of interviews and testimonies, the play unveils the harsh realities faced by marginalized communities, shedding light on the challenges that often go unnoticed. Despite the tough narratives, the play also weaves themes of resilience and collective action. One specific scene shows Bree…

various occasions. But, there are two poems that come in mind at the time we analyze women in their sexual, racial, and experiential alienation. Plus, they are also written by women. These two poems are "Note Passed To Superman" by Lucille Clifton, and "Her Kind" by Anne Sexton. In the poem "Note Passed To Superman" by Lucille Clifton we are reading about a woman that is asking for a savior to save her from the pit of hell, which is the society that she lives in, and that savior is Superman. In…

and they give them death ("Shinigami"). In the series Death Note, there are multiple Shinigami’s portrayed as giving humans the ability to die. Death Note 2015 is a well-known television series directed by Ryuichi Inomata, based on the manga written by Tsugumi Ohba. Overall Death Note is one of the top series from Japanese culture, teaching us what justice is. The main character Light Yagami discovers this notebook called the Death Note given to him by the Shinigami, Ryuk. He later learns…

Positive Effects of Restricting Student Note-Taking in a Capstone Psychology Course: Reducing the Demands of Divided Attention in the Classroom’s purpose of the study was to compare between the students do without the note-taking duty and note-taking duty in the classroom. The hypothesis was the elimination of the of the note-taking duty would allow the student to be involved more in the classroom discussion and be more motivated to learn something new. The theory of this experiment, in general,…