Skimming

to form a better understanding of what they read. I like how skimming, scanning, close and extensive reading were broken down…

Do you feel less intelligent after using the internet? Do you feel that the internet took skills from you? Nicholas Carr, in his article Is Google Making Us Stupid?, claims that through the use of the internet our concentration lessens, as well as our ability to read deeply. He also implies the easily available information makes men intellectually lazy and less studious, in turn weakening their minds. Although I agree with Carr up to a point, I cannot accept his overriding assumption that the…

identity is stolen is from the criminal going through the victim’s trash, stealing mail, phishing, or skimming. The first two ways are obvious, but the other two terms may not be familiar to everyone. Phishing is when the criminal poses as someone else, from an individual that works at a bank to law enforcement, in order to gain information from the victim through phone calls or e-mail. Skimming occurs when the criminal places a device in ATMs that gathers account information on the individuals…

Best Practice that Support ELA Common Core Standards In Classroom Instruction that Works: Research-Based Strategies for Increasing Student Achievement, written by Ceri B. Dean, Elizabeth Ross Hubbell, Howard Pitler, & BJ Stone, is a best practice book with many useful suggestions for improving instruction in the classroom. With the new Common Core State Standards (CCSS), instructors must guide students in reading, analyzing, and interpreting complex text. To facilitate this need in standards,…

forensic investigation is verification step. The verification step is to check an incident has occurred and to discover the size and extent of the occurrence (Rocha, 2014). In AMS situation, this is impractical in any case. As AMS hired me to discover a skimming operation that they think is happening I should check that there is an inconsistency amongst marketing department and accounts receivable. In proceeding this check, I need to have a good understanding how the marketing department and…

higher price to own cutting or bleeding edge technology products. Good examples of price skimming are Apple iPad and Sony PlayStation 3. Problems with this approach: Price skimming strategy cannot last for long Competitors rapidly launch rival products, putting pressure on price To encourage broad distribution (place), it may be necessary to give retailers higher markup, reducing the improved margins Skimming may slow down demand for the product, giving competitors more time to develop lower…

With skimming the company can set the highest price that a customer is willing to pay, customer value, and in response to high demand across the different geographies. This could work well for its two-three year advantage period, even though it will attract other…

Description of the activity: The activity involves a small scale simulation of oil spill clean-up and containment protocol including the use of booms, skimming, and other techniques. The simulation will be performed by filling plastic cups with water, adding oil to the water to simulate an oil spill, and then participants will be given the freedom to experiment with the optimal method for removing the oil from the water or stopping it from "contaminating" other areas by using provided materials…

Tavarus T. Fleming Model EXP 105-Final Assignment The concept of learning is based off a process called the Learning Connections Inventory. The Learning Connections Inventory provides the individual with specific information about their learning process, individual’s actions, and a vocabulary for explaining the specific actions the person takes that results in productive or unproductive learning actions. Within the Learning Connections Inventory, there are four basic learning patterns which…

Lesson 1: [Focus student will be able to retell the beginning, middle and end of a familiar text with 3 or more prompts with 80% accuracy. Focus student will recall the characters, setting and key events utilizing sequence cards.] Lesson 2: [Focus student will be able to retell the beginning, middle and end of a familiar story with 2 or more prompts with 80% accuracy. Sarah will recall the characters, setting and key events from the text utilizing a song or folk rhyme.] Lesson 3: [Focus student…