In researching this topic, it seems that opposition is largely guided by simple headlines such as, "Common Core is ROTTEN TO THE CORE," losing any sense of journalistic integrity by trading balanced accounts of an issue, with emotionally charged speech that diverges greatly from the topic at hand: will it make our children smarter? ... Instead of simply learn what the speaker is trying to say, he simply writes: "It doesn't make sense to me. Does it make sense to you? More importantly does it make sense or confuse the kids? ... In short, Common Core standards are just that...

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Common Sense The political pamphlet, Common Sense, written by Thomas Paine had a great influence over the fight for the independence of the American Colonies. ... Common Sense reveals many of the grievances and issues the people of the colonies held against Britain. ... The American Pageant, Encarta Encyclopedia, and Brian Phillips of theadvocates.org all agree that the issues and points Paine discusses are historically accurate and that Common Sense is one of the most significant factors contributing to the start of the Revolutionary War. However, Paine was not unbiased is his creation ...

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I would like to ask the fast food consumers who are pursuing cases if they have any common sense, and if so, are any restaurants holding a gun to their head in an attempt to have them eat their food? If parents continue to allow their child to eat at fast food restaurants and eat what seems unhealthy, maybe the parents should enroll themselves and their child into a course that teaches about the food groups, calories, and Common Sense. ...

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This enables scientists to falsify the common theory and establish a more advanced theory. ... The decision to discard Keynesian model is probably a result of sense perception. ... This case shows that the common knowledge is discarded because the economy status has changed and it is no longer a suitable approach to the problem. ...

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When Wordsworth writes, "my heart with pleasure fills, And dances with the daffodils" (23-24), I can sense his honesty and empathize with the sheer amount of appreciation he holds in his heart for the scene of nature he is describing. ... Continuous as the stars that shine And twinkle on the milky way (3-8) In reality, the daffodils obviously were not fluttering and dancing or "Tossing their heads in sprightly dance" (12), as these are personifications common in human language to more efficiently describe surrounding occurrences. ... In this case there is a sense of dishon...

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Utilitarianism has "a shared goal of the common good at its heart, [while taking into account the] long-term consequences or the prosperity of society, [and] it entails nurturing moral education in culture by developing social concern in individuals" (Gustafson, 2013). What is ironic is that one of the scheme tactics that Madoff utilized was advocating for the common good by assuring his clients that their investments will be safe and would benefit both him and the client. ... In summary, in the battle of the greater and/or common good, individualism prevailed in Madoff's case....

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BPD is a common disorder running as high as 10-14% of the general population. ... Personality disorders are not illnesses in a strict sense, as they do not disrupt emotional, intellectual, or perceptual functioning. ...

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Since the declaration of its independence from the Soviet Union in 1991, the continuing education system of the Republic of Uzbekistan has been extensively reformed in line with the global movement towards integration of education systems across the world and re-establishing the sense of nationhood. ... May 8, 2013) which is based on Common European Framework of Reference for Languages: Learning, Teaching, Assessment (CEFR). The Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR), which was developed within the Language Learning for European Citizenship project of Council of Europe between 1989 ...

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Paine talked about american revolutionary ideas with his 1776 writing Common Sense. ... Two years later in January 1976 Thomas pain a pamphleteer published a pamphlet entitled Common sense to encourage Americans and to help push Americans patriots towards independence. ... In the same pamphlet he also wrote to communicate a sense of urgency about moving towards independence and denounced the British monarchy writing: "the folly of hereditary rights in kings, is that nature disapproves its by giving mankind an ass for a lion." His pamphlet Common sense also attacked congressional moderates f...

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Religion was a way to make sense of the array of questions that arose as to what would happen after everything that was known ceased, in other words, death. ... Both used this powerful sense of entitlement to claim power, wage wars and in the pharaoh's situation, use slaves. ...

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"To my dear and loving husband") Bradstreet was a feminist ahead of her time, limited by the male-dominated Puritan traditions and expectations; for her it was merely common sense. ... (Baym, Levine, and Krupat35) Perhaps it was Paine's profound hatred towards government that led him to write "Common Sense" and plant the seed of freedom in every human mind. Freedom was after all, nothing but "common sense." Edgar Allen Poe took us from common to sense to common horror. ... From rebellion, to common sense, to common horror, while America was struggling to free, native authors were str...

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Abstract Ravaged by war, violently pushed out of their home country, separated from their extended family and friends, and evacuated to a foreign country where they have no commonality, Vietnamese refugees faced the worst after the end of Vietnam War in 1975. ... The paper focuses on two specific aspects: how these developments create or recreate a sense of identity and how has it helped the Vietnamese immigrants integrate into American society. ... Little Saigon and Paris by Night: Creating a Sense of Identity The story of the Vietnamese immigrant experience is one of pain and loss. ... Ex...

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Curtis DeYoung claims, "a belief in our common humanity is critical for mystic-activists trying to make sense of the inhumane nature of injustice and oppression throughout the world"" (DeYoung, Loc 1011). ... People who believe in common humanity must still be baffled by the inhumane nature of the world. How can a belief in common humanity help one better understand the injustice and discrimination in the world? ... The belief that all people share a common humanity is essential for mystic-activists in general as it includes the basis of social-justice that these activists seek: a common accep...

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The most common approach adopted by cognitive psychologists wishing to study the effects of emotion on cognition has involved manipulating participants' emotional states in a systematic way. ... In contrast, the term "emotion" tends to be used to refer to fairly brief but intense experiences, although it is also used in a broader sense. ...

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Objective 1: Assess Southland's "differential association" theory in relation to professional thieves specializing in the robbery of drug stores. Some social and criminal behavior is learned from interaction with others or associations. Human behavior is influenced and determined by social and en...

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According to this conception, culture refers to people's everyday sense-making or meaning-making experience. ... Culture is "subjective" because everyone of us has an individual way of looking at the world and, as a result, has a unique way of making sense of the world. In other words, an important question to ask about culture is HOW people come up with their unique way(s) of making sense of the world. ... This is a KEY component is the communication process and in our understanding of culture as a sense-making experience. ...

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No constitution however is entirely un-codified in the sense that none of its major rules are written in formal documents. ... Other major constitutional rules are contained in the common law, which is judge-made law that has developed over the centuries. ... For example, the royal prerogative, that is, the powers legally left in the hands of the Crown, is a product of the Common law. ... Even some conventions, however, are codified in the sense that they are contained in formal documents. ... The UK un-codified Constitution can be criticised for being un-democratic in the sense that it relie...

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Therefore, each individual's perception of physical objects will result in an individual sense of reality for each individual based on the perception of the same group of physical objects. ... The first comparison was that in the pragmatic point of view common-sense objects are able to be viewed or constructed by the individuals according to their experiences. ... The common spot between the two concepts here would be that the experiences play a major role in the individual's determination of reality. ... The last idea discussed in this section was the idea that after everythin...

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By using the Egalitarian approach, the advertisers are trying to appeal to everyone, especially the common people. They accomplish their goals by giving people a false sense of equality as if class barriers do not exist. ... The ideology of the Democracy of Goods is basically defined by the sense that common people are entitled to enjoy the same exclusive products as the wealthy upper class. ... The Democracy of Afflictions shares the same concept as the Democracy of Goods, but it shows the common problems between classes in society instead of the common pleasures. ... But it is important to n...

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Several common factors determining a person's sense of group identity are race, religion, gender, and athletics or other social priorities. ... Usually, a group is formed of people who share some sort of common interest. ... This raises the question of whether their fashion choices arise out of a desire for social acceptance or from a set of common attitudes or interests. ... Laurent's picture suggests a fairly equal distribution of power within a specific social group: the youths' visual presentation as a unified collective, bound by similar a similar sense of taste, is balan...

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It rests on assumptions that are metascientific not metaphysical in the Aristotelian sense. ... The three most common forms are non-reductive materialism, reductive materialism, and eliminative materialism. ... Eliminative materialism states that our common sense mentalistic, understanding of ourselves, and most of the scientific psychology based upon it are false. A proper theory will be developed by advancing neuroscience, and will no longer contain common sense mentalistic categories, but will introduce a new theory of our cognitive architecture and activities. ... He thought that...

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David Hollenbach also defines justice and morality, describing what he terms the "common good," and how our society ought to be concerned with finding it. ... Though a sense of closure might be attained, there is no way to right the situation. ... Does each individual have a different sense of justice? If so, should that sense be met at every opportunity? Hollenbach suggests that there is no set view of the "common good," and that part of the identity of a pluralist society is that fact in itself, that each person has a different view of justice. ...

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Evolution in the broadest sense explains that what we see today is different from what existed in the past. ... It explains that living things share common ancestors. ... The occurrence of evolution in this sense is a fact. ... Humans did not evolve from modern apes, but humans and modern apes shared a common ancestor, a species that no longer exists. ... We are less similar to the Asian apes--orangutans and gibbons--and even less similar to monkeys, because we share common ancestors with these groups in the more distant past. ...

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When a government, especially a monarchy, is challenged by a politically inferior group and isn't able to show immediate superiority, it makes logical sense to the public to question its authority and legitimacy. ...

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Approx. 8% of people have suffered PTSD and is long lasting for approx. 60% * Psychosomatic diseases are physical ailments with a genuine organic basis caused in part by psychological factors, especially emotional distress * Common diseases include hypertension, ulcers, asthma, and migraines * Coronary heart disease involves a reduction in blood flow to the arteries, which supply the heart blood * Atheroscleosis is characterized by a gradual narrowing of the coronary arteries * Friedman and Rosenman divided people into 2 types: - the type A personality includes a strong competitive or...

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