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Virtual Reality Learning Environments
1,352 words
... accurate understanding of each other " is
perspectives, feelings of success and self-esteem,
and expectation of rewarding future interactions.
^i [Johnson 1983 ] 4. VR learning environments
allow entirely new capabilities and experiences.
This is a powerful context, in which you can
control time, scale, and physical laws.
Participants have unique capabilities, such as the
ability to fly through the virtual world, to
occupy any object as a virtual body, to observe
the environment from many pe...
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Eating Disorders Lose Weight
1,126 words
The majority of teenagers with eating disorders
are girls (90 %), but experts believe the number
of boys affected is increasing and that many cases
may not be reported, since males are reluctant to
acknowledge any illness primarily associated with
females. Studies have also found that boys, like
girls, may turn to smoking to help them lose
weight. Boys ages 9 to 14 who thought they were
overweight were 65 % more likely to think about or
try smoking than their peers, and boys who worked
out every...
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Rolls Royce Sales Volume
662 words
The same year, while Daimler-Benz was sewing up
its $ 40. 5 billion transatlantic merger with
Chrysler, BMW and Volkswagen were locked in combat
in Europe. Both were determined to win possession
of British trophy Rolls-Royce Motor Cars, which
had been put on the block by its owner, the
Vickers engineering group. BMW had an inside
track, as it already supplied engines and other
parts for the new Rolls models and had a
longstanding aero-engines joint venture with
Rolls-Royce PLC, which owned the r...
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Rise In Sea Level Carbon Dioxide
633 words
The global warming is caused by emissions of over
20 gases into the atmosphere. The major
contributors are carbon dioxide (CO 2), ozone,
methane, nitrous oxide and chlorofluorocarbons
(CFCs). Although these gases are produced by many
industrial processes, the major source is the
burning of fossil fuels in boilers, furnaces and
automobile engines. When released into the air in
large quantities, these gases cause the earths
atmosphere to warm by trapping the suns heat.
Infrared radiation that woul...
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American Beauty Real Estate
798 words
Within the course of this research, we will
elaborate on the meaning of the notion of acting
normal based on the following three films:
American Beauty, Crying Game, and Brazil. We will
see what the intents of the filmmakers are, how
the notion of acting normal is defined and
analyzed in various literature, and what new
points the filmmakers come up with. Before
starting the discussion, it would be useful to
illustrate how postmodernism is related to the
movies at issue here, because the notion ...
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Computer Animation Computer Games
1,004 words
We live in the world of computers. Tasks that were
impossible to perform some ten years ago now can
be easily accomplished with the help of computer.
For such a short time, some things have changed so
significantly that new kinds of art have emerged
due to the development of new software programs,
which became commonly used in the entertainment
industry that became inevitable part in our daily
lives. Today, probably everyone has played some
computer games; saw a computer animated cartoon,
or a m...
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Jane Eyre Miss Temple
831 words
Although feminism seems to the modern reader a
phenomenon of the 20 th century with the
suffragettes of the 20 s and the womens liberation
movement of the 60 s and 70 s, it has always
existed. It was not always called feminism, nor
did believers in equality always have a refuge
with like-thinkers. In Charlotte romance novel,
Jane Eyre, the protagonist, Jane, had a definite
feminist bent. In 1800 s, behavior followed such
straight-laced regulated standards that most
modern women would be consider...
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Cognitive Processes Cognitive Development
1,516 words
During the 1920 s, a biologist named Jean Piaget
proposed a theory of cognitive development of
children. He caused a new revolution in thinking
about how thinking develops. Since then numerous
research on cognitive development has provided
science educators with constructive information
regarding student capacities for meeting science
curricular goals. One of the most recent
approaches to the study of cognitive development
is bilingualism. The debate over bilingual
education centers around sever...
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Child Pornography Internet Web
370 words
Child Pornography In my opinion, some of the best
sources on the topic of child pornography that can
be used for my paper would be the below Internet
sites. End Child Prostitution, Child Pornography
and Trafficking of Children for Sexual Purposes
(ECPAT) - web This organizations website can
contribute to my research because ECPAT explores
good models for prevention work, and share those
models and experiences. They also find and develop
training modules to help caregivers to do their
work better...
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Access To Information E Commerce
1,147 words
INTERNATIONAL ISSUES WITH E-COMMERCE Abstract The
advent of e-commerce as a major business model has
become quite important in the light of some of the
advantages of World Wide Web in expanding market
access. The use of the Internet has made
accessibility for consumers easier. In addition to
this, there is also the added value of lower
transaction cost and capitalization in setting up
an online business (Rayport and Jaworski, 2001).
This model, however, has changed certain roles of
the firm and ...
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Business Models E Business
373 words
The Standard provides critical and timely
information about the Internet economy and
furthermore gives a sophisticated coverage of the
people, the companies, and the business models
shaping it. Their content comprises insightful
news analysis, business model reviews, personality
profiles, and industry metrics, which support are
both a print magazine, The Industry Standard and
the online publication The Standard. com. The
Standard is a business-to-business Web site
designed for senior-level execu...
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Equal Pay Act Men And Women
906 words
Its Gender Diversity Gender Diversity Its not just
a mans world anymore. Gender diversity plays a
major role in who runs our society. The roles of
men and women vary greatly in the home and in the
workplace. Although the roles of women in the
business world have developed greatly, our society
still has a long way to go before men and women
will be considered equal in the workforce. In
homes, women have been considered to be the
homemakers and the men to be the providers. If you
look back to tele...
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Cystic Fibrosis Genetically Altered
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Genetic scientists have been busy creating all
kinds of solutions to some of the problems that
the human and agricultural populations have been
experiencing. One of the most promising has been
in the area of transplantation. That is how Dolly
the sheep, came about. Scientists have been trying
to find a way to genetically engineer animals so
that they can produce organs for humans that will
not be rejected. Insulin from pigs has helped
diabetics, pig valves can be used in cardiac
repair, and pig ...
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Nineteenth Century Gold Rush
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The Gold Rush One moment the California creek beds
glimmered with gold; the next, the same creeks ran
red with the blood of men and women defending
their claims or ceding their bags of gold dust to
bandits. The West was a ruthless territory during
the nineteenth century. With more than enough gold
dust to go around early in the Gold Rush, crime
was rare, but as the stakes rose and the easily
panned gold dwindled, robbery and murder became a
part of life on the frontier. The West consisted
of out...
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Representative Democracy Theory
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I. Explain the distinction between substance and
process and the importance of the distinction for
the issues discussed in this course. ? Over the
past few years? the court? holding that
henceforth, before it can be determined that you
Are entitled to? due process? at all, and thus
necessarily before it can be decided what process
is? due, ? you must show that what you have been
deprived of amounts to a? liberty interest? or
perhaps a? property interest. ? (Ely, p. 19) Just
as a skilled magician...
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Jane And Heathcliff Forgiveness
361 words
The Value of Forgiveness, The Value of Revenge
Liana R. Prieto (Spring 199 The Victorian Age
touted high standards of decency and moral
conduct. Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights are are
both set in this period but there are few
parallels between the society and characters in
each. Charlotte Bronte models Janes surroundings
after the mannered, social world of 19 th century
England. Emily Bronte creates a whole new world
where the rules of civilized society do not apply.
The two sisters grew up tog...
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Teenage Smoking Tobacco Companies
547 words
Smoking in the United States has recently seen a
rapid increase in the percentage of teenagers who
are picking up the habit. Although still lower
than it was in the 1970 s, teen smoking rates are
quickly approaching the percentages of the decade.
There are multiple factors that have contributed
to the surge of teenage smokers, and several
suggestions have been made to suppress it. From
1991 until 1996, the percentages of 12 th that
were daily smokers rose 20 %, 10 th graders 45 %
and 8 th grader...
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Constantly Changing Foreign Competition
855 words
The History of the Chevrolet Nova and Chevy II
Every successful automobile is a reflection of its
time, but very few cars are as representative of
their era in automotive history as Chevrolet s
Chevy II and Nova. That may seem like a pretty
grand statement to put on the shoulders of such a
simple economy car, but after all the Chevy II
changed many times over during it s 17 year run.
The 1960 s and 1970 s were a time when automotive
categories and markets were in a constant state of
change, than...
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Hard Drives Cd Roms
516 words
Iomega offers a wide range of zip drives which
include the USB Port drives, parallel Port drives,
SCSI port drives, and Internal drives. There are
advantages and disadvantages to each of the four
mentioned. Like any other item you wish to
purchase you should know what you needs are before
you purchase a zip drive, so that you may purchase
the right unit. The external models connect with
either the USB port, the parallel port or the SCSI
port. They may only be used with the port that
they are des...
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Rate Of Change Financial Crisis
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Overview As Asian markets and economies
experienced a drastic slide beginning in the
summer of 1997, threatening the stability of other
world markets and potentially dampening the
technology boom that had been driving world
development, the editors began a look at the
effects of cultures and economic systems on social
and technological change. Following is a Q& A
interview with James Fallows. Beginning in 1999,
Fallows was media columnist for The Industry
Standard. He also is the former edit...
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