Eventually in the following years, over 200 universities obtained licenses to broadcast courses over the radio (Dunn). ... Subsequently in 1968, Stanford took distance learning to the next level and initiated the Stanford Instructional Television Network, a television network used to broadcast courses to part-time engineering students ("Infographic History of Distance Education"). ... For example, the first advancement in online education was made by the Electronic University Network in 1992, who provided full degree program through America Online (AOL) by collaborating with colleges and univ...

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Ivy League schools especially prefer college graduates from prestigious universities. ... As written by the Dean of Admissions at Stanford Law School: "Admission to Stanford Law School is based primarily upon superior academic achievement and potential to contribute to the development and practice of the law. ... Most law schools are affiliated with a university, although a few, usually propriety schools, are unattached. Most law schools not affiliated with a university are not ABA-accredited. ...

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A field research method is everyday situations, for example, laboratory research method is a controlled situation; for example, Zimbardo (1973) Stanford Prison Experiment. ... The context was a simulated prison created in the basement of the Psychology department at Stanford University, it had three small cells and three actors occupied a cell. ... They typically work at universities or government agencies. ...

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The university won't survive as residential institution. ... It doesn't mean that our actual university will vanish in future. Many "virtual universities" are based on actual universities to use their resource. ... The actual university will use the best of the virtual university. ... Examples include the Wide Area Information Service, Archie (which spawned a company called Bunyip in Canada), LYCOS from Carnegie Mellon, YAHOO from Stanford, and INFOSEEK. ...

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During her college years, Dorothy attended the University of Illinois, but never completed her schooling. ... She expanded upon Kevin Schmeising's article A History of Personalism and the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy's entry on personalism. According to the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, personalism is a term that refers to at least 20 different philosophers and other scholars who, in general, defend the inviolability of the person, stress the fundamental relationally of persons, see the person as a subject and object of free action, and emphasize the person is a center ...

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Knut Fladmark of Simon Fraser University over 30 years ago, it has been tested by Ruth Gruhn and Alan Bryan of the University of Alberta and has accumulated many supporters in recent years. ... LINGUISTIC AND DNA EVIDENCE Specialists in the field of linguistics have come up with independent conclusions that support he idea that the First Americans came over surprisingly early (Boyle: 2000). 4 Professor Johanna Nichols from University of California at Berkley, concluded that it would take at least 30,000 years for the wide variety of a 140 different Languages in north Am...

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"The Innovative University: Changing the DNA of Higher Education from the Inside Out," was written by Clayton M. ... The book highlights two universities that are very successful, but don't want to imitate Harvard. ... Crow says "I don't know if it's necessarily good for every private university in the United States to think that its mission is to emulate and ultimately topple Harvard as the number one university.... The president of Ohio State, Gordon Gee, takes pride in the commitment of the university. ... In College Unbound: The Future of Higher Education and What it ...

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Victoria's Secret originated in San Francisco, California in 1977 by Tufts University and Stanford Graduate School of Business alumnus Roy Raymond ("Victoria Secret History"). Roy Raymond opened the very first Victoria Secret store at Stanford Shopping Center in Palo Alto and quickly followed it with a mail-order catalog and three other stores. ...

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Elinar Arnason is a population geneticist and evolutionary biologist at the University of Iceland. ... Harvard University geneticist Richard Lewontin writes in the New York Times, "The Icelandic parliament has enabled deCODE to convert the health and genetic status of the entire population into a tool, for the profit of a single enterprise." ... As medical ethicist Henry Greely, a Stanford law professor points out, "Genetics research grew up with family studies, in which the families involved have an obvious incentive to participate. ...

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Researchers such as Wayne Au, an assistant education professor at University of Washington, Bothell, analyzed 49 qualitative studies to see how high-stakes testing affected curriculum. ... According to Stanford University's Elizabeth Cohen, lecture based, teacher centered instruction cannot teach students to collect, synthesize, and analyze information; this can only be done using cooperative learning and inquiry-based teaching. ...

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Gelder of Stanford says, "look at what pills and powders they ingest before deciding that scientists play a too eminent role in today's world" (Gelder 1). ... Schmitt of University of Chicago speaks, is creating a new "human" or organism, and although benefits and drawbacks are both heavily weighted, it is not something in which genetic enhancement holds relevance. ...

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According to McCarthy (2002), of Stanford University's Computer science department, "[it] is the science and engineering of making intelligent machines, especially intelligent computer programs. ... ...

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Living in Two Worlds: An Analysis on Culture and Education Have you ever though what does the word "culture" means? Well, throughout life people refer to this word as art, beliefs, behavior, ideas or activities relating to literature, art, and music of a particular society or group of people. Howev...

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Stanford University health psychologist Kelly McGonigal writes that addictive substances, at first, release (or block re-uptake of) substances in the brain that stimulate pleasure, ecstasy, focus, or energy; however, the brain and body are not designed to sustain this state. ... Lustig, University of California at San Francisco Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Endocrinology, has explored the damage caused by sugary foods and posted a video lecture on YouTube called "Sugar: The Bitter Truth", a 90 minute presentation that motivated CBS 60 Minutes broadcast and the New York...

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Knight, at Stanford Business School, wrote up an analysis of how profitable it would be to import cheap but good Japanese running shoes, then sell them in the United States. ... The next year. a Portland State University design student, Carolyn Davidson, sketched a flat, floating check mark as a symbol for the running shoes. ...

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Standardized testing has become an enormous part of the educational community and the culture of America. As students make their way throughout school they are assaulted with test after test. A good majority of those tests are simply assessments handed out by teachers in order to spot weakne...

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1. Christopher Browning writes a detailed history of the soldiers of the German Reserve Police Battalion 101 and their role in the mass murder of Jews in Poland during the Second World War in his book, Ordinary Men. He argues that many factors contributed to these men participating in mass murder, ...

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Through a trial of testing in 2009 by a trio of Stanford University researchers, they proved that more people who multitasked did worse with distraction than the people who rarely multitasked (Conley, 1). ...

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There are always two sides to every story. The Shakespearean authorship controversy has continued for over 300 years; yet with a multitude of scholars on both sides their respective research has not made clear the muddy waters of suspicious uncertainty. The conspiracy theorists, called the Oxfordi...

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In the late 1950s, while attending college at Stanford University in California Kesey was enrolled in the creative writing program, working as an orderly in a state veteran's hospital, and participating in government experiment with multiple drugs like cocaine and mainly LSD. ...

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GENERAL INFORMATION In the late 1970's two Stanford university sweethearts created the first router out of frustration. Sandra Lerner of the Business Department, and Leonard Bosack, of the Computer Science Department wanted to send love letter to each other via the University computer system e-mail. ...

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Mongolia was an economic colony of the Soviet Union until early in the 20th century. Consequently between 1921 and 1990 it had an economic system which reflected the Soviet's control : it had a centralized, socialist political system and an economy based on central planning and collectivization. Under the umbrella of the Soviet Union Mongolia had made significant progress in improving the general living standards of the population, specifically in the areas of education and public health (Tsogtsaikhan: 2003:1). The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1989 resulted in Mongolia shifting dra...

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Two substantive areas of psychology are social influence and psychopathology. The more recognized area in psychological studies is social influence. Social influence is action, reaction, thoughts, feelings, attitude or behavior that result from interaction with another individual or a group and is t...

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Rene Girard, a Civilization Professor at Stanford University presents the rationalization of this position in his novel, Violence and the Sacred: "this dividing of sacrifice into two categories, human and animal, has itself a sacrificial character, in a strictly ritualistic sense. ...

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For the first time the cloning of a whole human being seems really possible. It is absolutely necessary to consider the harm that can be done and move to curb abuses. Also, it is important to understand some of the theory underlying the desire to build a better human. The Ethical Downside of Cloning...

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