Open content Essays

  • Creative Commons License Essay

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    Creative Commons is a non-profit organization that aims to widen the publication of works that can be reused and shared by others. The organization has produced several public copyright authorizations known as Creative Commons License. These licenses allow the licensor to permit his or her work to be re-copied and distributed to others, but the majority of his or her rights are protected. Creative Commons License can be applied to various types of work, particularly in the form of a work of art

  • The Medium is the Message

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    revolutionary thought that “the medium is the message.” In other words, cultures are changed not only by the “content” of technology, but also by the technology itself. The basic “content” of technology is easy to recognize. The content of the railway would seem to be transportation; the content of the Internet would seem to be information. But McLuhan’s idea that the medium proclaiming the “content” is itself the message is a hard one to understand. In the example of the railway, he says that “[t]he

  • Learning Team Charter

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    LEARNING TEAM CHARTER Course Title               All team members participated in the creation of this charter and agree with its contents X (Please check) Instructor Course Dates Team Members/Personal Information Name          Phone          Fax          Email Team Member Skill Inventory (Areas individual members can contribute/want to develop) strengths include deadline oriented, quality conscious, and Peachtree, Lotus, Excel, Word and Outlook Express knowledge. wants to have a better understanding

  • Bats

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    Bats Contents 1. Title Page Page... 1 2.     Contents Page... 2 3.     Bat Facts Page... 3-4 4.     Congress Ave. Bridge Page... 5-6 5.     How To Get A Bat Out Of Your House Page... 6 6.     About Bat Houses Page... 7 7.     References Page... 8+ My report is on bats. I will start my story off by telling you some facts about bats. Bat Facts 1. Did you know that the worlds smallest mammal is a Bumblebee bat that lives in Thailand. It weighs less than a penny

  • Summary Of Facing Death, Finding Love By Dawson Church

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    experience lies outside the container of the womb of love, not even the finality of physical death. With this understanding, Church believes that there is nowhere he can go in life without feeling the angels with him. He suggests that all we have to do is open our hearts and listen in each moment, and we will know that this is

  • Freedom and Reason In Kant

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    determinant of the will cannot give rise to a moral law; that is, the morality of an act of will cannot be determined by the matter or content of the will for when the will is materially determined the question of its morality does not arise. This consideration leads Kant to one of his most important theses. If the moral character of willing is not determined by the content of what is willed, it must be determined by the form:" If a rational being can think of his maxims as universal laws, he can

  • Ancient Man, Clovis

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    intelligent ethnographers preach; there is more out there than what we see, and we are constantly underestimating the cultures that came before us. The widespread use of tools like harpoons and spears, the spread of pottery and boxes, and the actual contents of ancient stomachs (like the Ice Man's) show us that ancient people were once more variable than they are now. Considering that ancient men spread from Pittsburgh to South America in an incredibly short span of time (though from whence they came

  • Content Teaching - Research Paper

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    For that, the following statements were evaluated by the students (The numbers in parentheses display how much the surveyed students agreed with the statements  “Counting Mechanism” on page 3): -     “Teachers should base teaching more on contents” (5 points) -     “The way teachers teach is keeping the student’s attention” (1.5 points) -     “Teachers stay focused in the topic” (-1 point) -     “Teachers have a way of teaching that is the right way of learning for me as an individual” (-2

  • The Alice Williamson Diary

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    claims to the absolute meaning of the diary, for it has many possible interpretations, for the journey is the ultimate answer. I seek to acknowledge the fluidity of thought when reading, a fluidity which incorporates personal experience with the content of Williamson's journal. I read the journal personally- as a woman, a peer in age to Alice Williamson, a surrogate experiencialist, a writer, an academic and most of all, a modern reader unaccustomed to the personal experience of war. I read the text

  • Recommendations for T.G.I. Friday's Restaurant

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    (COVER PAGE) OBSERVATIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS FOR T.G.I.FRIDAY’S RESTAURANT Prepared for (name) Prepared by (your name) Date TABLE OF CONTENTS EXECUTIVE SUMMARY………………………………………………………………iii PROBLEM………………………………………………………………………………..1 BACKGROUND………………………………………………………………………….1 DISCUSSION OF FINDINGS……………………………………………………………2 Services……………………………………………………………………………2 Menu Items………………………………………………………………………..3 Quality……………………………………………………………………..3 Prices………………………………………………………………………4 Atmosphere………………………………………………………………………4

  • Downsizing And Organizational Culture

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    Downsizing and Organizational Culture Table of Contents Chapter 1........................................................................................................................1 Chapter 2........................................................................................................................2 Organizational Culture Defined........................................................................2 Downsizing Defined.....................

  • The Impact of ICT on Manufacturing

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    to complete my report. There are also some other sites from which the information has been taken. I have also acquired* some information from the PC World magazine to learn about the different soft wares that are used in world of manufacturing. Contents page ------------- Summary: In this report I found out the uses, advantages & disadvantages of ICT. They are listed below in their respective categories. I mainly concentrated on the Manufacturing* section where the ICT is used extensively. I have

  • Analyzing Product Levels and Their Tangibility

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    PRODUCT LEVELS AND THEIR TANGIBILITY Table Of Content. 1.     Executive Summary.                                        5 2.     Introduction To The 5 Selected Products.                         5 3.     Analyzing The Levels Of The Products.                         6 - 11 4

  • Hinduism and Buddhism

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    concept of God It is first of all necessary to establish what is meant by the term "God". This term is used to designate a Supreme Being endowed with the qualities of omnipotence and omniscience, which is the creator of the universe with all its contents, and the chief lawgiver for humans. God is generally considered as being concerned with the welfare of his human creatures, and the ultimate salvation of those who follow his dictates. God is therefore a person of some kind, and the question whether

  • the learnin org

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    TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION                                                  1 SUMMARY                                                       3 AN ARCHETYPICAL ENTRY AND CONTRACTING PROCESS                         5 LAWLER’S ENTRY AND CONTRACTING PROCESS                              9 ASSESSING LAWLER’S ENTRY AND CONTRACTING PROCESS                    11 WHAT WOULD I HAVE DONE DIFFERENTLY                                   14 THEORIES AND MODELS TO MAKE SENSE OUT OF THE DIAGNOSTIC DATA               17

  • Business Analysis of 20th Century Insurance

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    Business Analysis of 20th Century Insurance Table of Contents History, Position, Targeted Market, Goals                         Page 3 Northridge Earthquake, Crisis                              Page 4 Comeback Kid, Results of PR Campaign                         Page 6 Developing a Crisis Plan,                                   Page 7 Crisis Team, Milestones for Communication                         Page 8 Issues                                                  Page 9 Plan Approval,

  • Explain how Golding describes the setting of the novel in chapters 1

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    author describes the island as the children’s worst enemy. On page 4 the author uses negative words to describe the setting. Golding uses the words; “Coarse”, “Torn”, “Upheavals”, “Fallen”, “Scattered” and “Decaying” to describe the shore and its contents. Under analysis the words, “Torn”, “Upheavals” and “Fallen”, mean that something is not in the correct position, that the island does not seem to be right, that the island has an air of animosity. The words are not pleasant words and hint to the

  • Compare and Contrast ?Genesis? and ?Penetrating to the Heart of the Forest?,

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    contrasting these two stories we see similarities in storyline, themes, symbols, differences in detail, and the extent and significance of the stories themselves. When deciding whether these narratives are myths or short stories, one must look at the contents of each piece of work. “Genesis” can clearly be defined as a myth because it contains all the characteristics of a myth. These characteristics include casual and vague descriptive writing about a very significant and important piece of work. Characteristics

  • Brigate Rosse, or Red Brigade

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    Table of Contents I.     Introduction……………………………………………..1 . II.     History & Ideology………………………………………1 III.     Activities……………………………………………….. 2 IV.     Strength and Area of Operation…………………………3 V.     Conclusion………………………………………………3 VI.     Bibliography…………………………………………….4 Introduction During the 1970’s and 1980’s, great fear had been spread throughout Italy. A group known as the Brigate Rosse, or Red Brigade, had developed and left its mark on the Italian political scene

  • Canterbury Tales - The Monk

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    pilgrimage maybe for his love of riding, or to further line his pockets while pardoning people for their sins. According to the main four orders of friars in the Middle Ages, monks are supposed t take vows of poverty, chastity and obedience. The contents of this essay clearly suggest The Monk does not particularly care for these vows and is more interested in riding and taking money for his own indulgences. The Monk is first introduced as "a fair for the maistrie."(Line 165), already claiming