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    According to the Library of Cornell University an annotated bibliography is a list of citations to books, articles, and documents. Each citation is followed by a brief (usually about 150 words) descriptive and evaluative paragraph, the annotation. The purpose of the annotation is to inform the reader of the relevance, accuracy, and quality of the sources cited. Annotations may summarize the source. Summarizing may include reviewing what the man arguments are and what the point of the article or…

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    At the point when organizing of object lens, it is useful to break down the object into sensible strides or sub-objective lens. Deteriorating the aim shuffle s it possible to handle them one little walking without a moment’s wait and to decrease postponing. Consider for instance the end of getting a stage. This goal can be isolated into four sub-target area. Each sub-goal is the successful fulfillment of one year of their task. These sub-finish can be further isolated into someone row within…

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    What Is Selective Priming?

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    Magician’s exploit the limitations of attentional and perceptual systems. They manipulate a process of selective attention; priming, resulting in inattentional blindness. Inattentional blindness describes the inability of a person to notice an unexpected object that is fully visible (Carpenter, 2001). Priming is an alteration in the identification or production of an item due to prior exposure (Tulving & Schacter, 1990). There are many different types of priming. This essay examines selective…

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    What Is Apathy?

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    Apathy has been a contributing factor impacting the economics of disasters. According to Dr. Aud der Heide to understand apathy in relation to disasters one needs know how it can influence, circumvented and the limitations it imposes (Aud der Heide, 1989). While apathy was part of human nature, to understand apathy emergency professionals would use the knowledge to help identify reasons behind apathy and minimize the impact upon their mitigation and disaster preparedness goals. To expect…

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    With me communicating to people about why I choose this topic and what my video is about strengths my communication skill. My critical thinking skill has also grown with this project, because it is made up of all my ideas and if a problem came about it was up to me to resolve the issue. Lastly, my creative thinking skills has also grown during the process of this product, because I knew I wanted to make a video, but this would have been my first time making a video which…

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    In the case of Deepwater Horizon, both models play a role in the tragedy. The garbage can model comes from a combination of four different aspects of the active process; problems, solutions, participants and better opportunities (Kreitner & Kinicki, 2013). Whereas, the normative model argues that the decision makers stay bound by the notions of rationality that limit the wrong decision-making process (Kreitner & Kinicki, 2013). In addition, the eight decision-making biases, if implemented…

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    Reflecting on this semester through the lenses of the operations process and troop leading procedures I have gained insight in how these two can aid in making me a more effective military leader. While learning these two concepts have helped during the execution of tasks like teaching labs and preparing for classes it has also made me more analytical about many other tasks I take on. The most significant event that I could apply these two concepts to and describe would be teaching the weapons…

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    When writing an article to persuade your audience on a specific idea or topic, it is important to be very direct about what it is you are trying to persuade, leave out fallacies, and also have excellent credibility. Based on the two articles about adding a tax on sugary drinks or not, the article “Soda Taxes Fall Flat: Our View” by USA Today Editorial Board, is stronger than the article by Jim Krieger. I will first give you a short overview of each article and then inform you about details of…

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    In the passage, " America Needs its Nerds," by Leonid Freeman, the author is talking about a growing issue in American Culture and academics. Freeman talks about how many kids are getting called "nerds" and "geeks" just for taking their education more seriously than others. He wants to tell his audience that America needs to end the culture of calling kids nerds and geeks and start hitting the books so that those kids can be intellectual. This is Freedman's argument. He develops his argument by…

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    1. What is a typical pattern of reasoning in moral matters? Through dialogue in the Crito, Socrates outlined the process of addressing moral matters. First, decisions must be made through reasoning, and exempt of emotion (Cahn, 2013). Next, during the decision making process we must think for ourselves, therefore, we may not be able to appeal to popular beliefs or adhere to social norms. Finally, our decisions should not be morally wrong, regardless of outside influences or potential…

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