Question cards should pose at least two original questions each week with specific citations to the text and readings. Questions that aim to stimulate intelligent class discussion about business, economic, historical, ideological, or decision aspects of the texts, or that seek explanation of difficult passages that you don't immediately understand, will receive the highest marks. ...
Digitization means translating information, either video, audio, or text, into ones and zeros, which make it easier to send, store, and manipulate. ... Imagine being able to communicate instantly with voice, picture, and text with a business colleague or a loved one thousands of miles away. ... Interactive multimedia combines computer hardware, software, and peripheral equipment to provide a rich mixture of text, graphics, sound, animation, full-motion video, data, and other information. ... Educational systems of this type, offered by IBM under the product labeled Ultimedia, engage studen...
This is reflected in the text through the representation of individual, social and political relationships, which can be highlighted through further analysis of the morals and values associated with social class, racial inequality and familial bonds within these relationships. ...
Author Laurence Yep argues in his piece, "The Hong Wah Kues Discover America," that the Chinese basketball team was used unfairly for the purpose of entertainment because they were treated as minorities and barely earned any money. Owner James W. Porter formed the Hong Wah Kues basketball team who c...
On June 11th 1776, a five men committee consisting of John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Robert Livingston and Roger Sherman was appointed to write a draft of the Declaration by the Continental Congress. Thomas Jefferson was given the honor of writing, due to the fact that he was the m...
Although the statement holds the assumption that technology is the main factor of change, after reading several texts I have come to the conclusion that this belief is true, be it directly as a technological innovation or indirectly by how these innovations may influence other means of penetrating borders. ...
Overview The Dawes Severalty Act how we call synonymously General Allotment Act which laid at the heart of the nineteenth century federal American policy broke the Indian reservation lands into parcels and started the process of selling vast of surplus lands to newcomers and White Americans, who to...
Whether the woman in the poem is truly in her old age is unknown, but from the text, the reader gets a sense that she is locked away in her house with nothing more to keep her busy than envying the luxurious and simple life of her cat, since popular to social beliefs, older women have cats as companions. ...
Examining the role that religion played in the African-American community, primarily pre-civil war, can be a difficult task due to the limited amount of evidence available.1 While it is a common notion that slavery life was embedded with Christian ideals, a Christian-like ideology is likely more ac...
My conception of religious liberty was vague when I was younger, but as I got older and I became aware of the world around me, religious liberty has been a topic that everyone has been discussing - not only privately but also in public and especially in the papers. I used to be an uninformed protestant of the Lutheran church. I once read in the newspaper that Denmark is the least religious country in the world. When I compare my own country to the U.S, I do not have to have read books or taken lessons to know that America is a highly religious country, and has been since its earliest days. Fur...
Classroom of America 2 Classroom of America: Inequality in the Educational System The United States of America has long been referred to as the "land of the free,"" a place where "all men are created equal."" But how united is America in the classroom? Within America there is a large population of peoples who have been, and continue to be, oppressed in this land of the free. They are not treated as equal, and are sometimes treated inferior in comparison to the dominant culture. Indeed, this cycle of inequality can begin at a young age, through the experiences...
The examples Apple gives are that social studies texts still refer to the period known as "The Dark Ages- rather than, what he believes to be: historically more accurate and much less racist phrase "the ages of African and Asian Ascendancy- or books that treat Rosa Parks as merely a nave African-American woman who was simply too tired to go to the back of the bus, rather than discussing her training in organized civil disobedience at the Highlander Folk School (Apple, 22). ...
Electronic Aggression is any type of harassment or bullying (teasing, telling lies, making fun of someone, making rude or mean comments, spreading rumors, or making threatening or aggressive comments) that occurs through email, a chat room, instant messaging, a website (including blogs), or text messaging (Hertz, 2008). ...
