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Harper Lee - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

  • Nelle Harper Lee (born April 28, 1926) is an American author best known for her 1960 Pulitzer Prize winning novel To Kill a Mockingbird, which deals with the issues of racism that were observed by the author as a child in her hometown of Monroeville, Alabama. Despite being Lee's only published book, it led to Lee being awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom of the United States for her contribution to literature in 2007.[1] Lee has also been the recipient of numerous honorary degrees, but has always declined to make a speech.
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      Can't believe she's still alive.....and she actually got introduced to the president.
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      Harper Lee's birthday and info
  • After completing To Kill a Mockingbird, Lee accompanied Capote to Holcomb, Kansas, to assist him in researching what they thought would be an article on a small town's response to the murder of a farmer and his family. Capote expanded the material into his best-selling book, In Cold Blood (1966).
  • Lee showed her feistiness in her 1966 letter to the editor in response to the attempts of a Richmond, Virginia area school board to ban To Kill a Mockingbird as "immoral literature": “ Recently I have received echoes down this way of the Hanover County School Board's activities, and what I've heard makes me wonder if any of its members can read. Surely it is plain to the simplest intelligence that “To Kill a Mockingbird” spells out in words of seldom more than two syllables a code of honor and conduct, Christian in its ethic, that is the heritage of all Southerners. To hear that the novel is "immoral" has made me count the years between now and 1984, for I have yet to come across a better example of doublethink. I feel, however, that the problem is one of illiteracy, not Marxism. Therefore I enclose a small contribution to the Beadle Bumble Fund that I hope will be used to enroll the Hanover County School Board in any first grade of its choice.[7]
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  • Nelle Harper Lee was born in Monroeville, Alabama
  • On November 5, 2007, Lee was presented with the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President George W. Bush at a White House Ceremony. The Presidential Medal of Freedom is the highest civilian award in the United States and recognizes individuals who have made "an especially meritorious contribution to the security or national interests of the United States, world peace, cultural or other significant public or private endeavors."[15][16]
  • After completing To Kill a Mockingbird, Lee accompanied Capote to Holcomb, Kansas, to assist him in researching what they thought would be an article on a small town's response to the murder of a farmer and his family. Capote expanded the material into his best-selling book, In Cold Blood (1966).
  • Lee, Harper (1960) To Kill a Mockingbird. New York: J. B. Lippincott.
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      Her real name is Nelle... lol
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      Umm... How is everyones day going? (:
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      BLARG
  • Having written several long stories, Harper Lee located an agent in November 1956. The following month at the East 50th townhouse of her friends Michael Brown and Joy Williams Brown, she received a gift of a year's wages with a note: "You have one year off from your job to write whatever you please. Merry Christmas.
  • Transferring to the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa, Lee was known for being a loner and an individualist. She did make a greater attempt at a social life there, joining a sorority for a while.
  • Many details of To Kill a Mockingbird are apparently autobiographical. Like Lee, the tomboy (Scout) is the daughter of a respected small-town Alabama attorney. The plot involves a legal case, the workings of which would have been familiar to Lee, who studied law. Scout's friend Dill was inspired by Lee's childhood friend and neighbor, Truman Capote,[7] while Lee is the model for a character in Capote's first novel, Other Voices, Other Rooms.
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      Connection
  • When Lee attended the 1983 Alabama History and Heritage Festival in Eufaula, Alabama, she presented the essay "Romance and High Adventure."
  • In 1944, Lee graduated from Monroe County High School in Monroeville,[2] and enrolled at the all-female Huntingdon College in Montgomery for one year, and pursued a law degree at the University of Alabama from 1945 to 1949, pledging the Chi Omega sorority.
  • In 1949, a 23-year-old Lee arrived in New York City. She struggled for several years, working as a ticket agent for Eastern Airlines and for the British Overseas Air Corp (BOAC). While in the city, Lee was reunited with old friend Truman Capote, one of the literary rising stars of the time. She also befriended Broadway composer and lyricist Michael Martin Brown and his wife Joy. In 1956, the Browns gave Lee an impressive Christmas present—to support her for a year so that she could write full time. She quit her job and devoted herself to her craft. The Browns also helped her find an agent, Maurice Crain. He, in turn, was able to get the publishing firm interested in her first novel, which was first titled Go Set a Watchman, then Atticus, and later To Kill a Mockingbird. Working with editor Tay Hohoff, Lee finished the manuscript in 1959.
  • Lee, Harper (1961) "Love — In Other Words". Vogue Magazine. Lee, Harper (1961) "Christmas to Me". McCall's Magazine. Lee, Harper (1965) "When Children Discover America". McCall's Magazine.
  • r Lippincott in 1960 — to receive the inaugural ATTY Award for positive depictions of attorneys in the arts from the Spector Gadon & Rosen Foundation. At the urging of Peck's widow Veronique, Lee traveled by train from Monroeville to Los Angeles in 2005 to accept the Los Angeles Public Library Literary Award. She has also attended luncheons for students who have wri
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  • President George W. Bush presents Harper Lee with the Presidential Medal of Freedom at the White House on November 5, 2007 Born April 28, 1926 (1926-04-28) (age 84) Monroeville, Alabama Occupation Novelist Nationality American Subjects Literature Literary movement Southern Gothic
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  • bestseller with more than 30 million copies in print. In 1999, it was voted "Best Novel of the Century" in a poll by the Library Journal. In high school, Lee developed an interest in English literature. After graduatin
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Thomas Friedman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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      hes a very rich man
    • KATRINA wcta
       
      his personal life!
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      yes he is
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      he has a very interesting life!
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      He was a successful writer, sometimes drawing upon his readers for ideas. His writing on wars has won him awards.
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      born july 20, 1953
  • Master Championship bridge player, died in 2008. He has two older s
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  • to be a professional golfer. He attended Hebrew school five days a week until his bar mitzvah,[1] then St. Louis Park High School where he wrote articles for his school's newspaper.[2] He became enamored with Israel after a visit there in December 1968, and he spent all three of his high sc
  • Net worth $25 millio
  • Spouse Ann Bucksbaum
  • Born July 20, 1953 (1953-07-20) (age 57) St. Louis Park, Minnesota, U.S. Residence Bethesda, Maryland Occupation Author, columnist
  • Children Orly and Natalie Website
  • editors.[9] The GGP collapse marked the largest real estate bankruptcy in U.S. history.[10] Ann and Thomas Friedman live in Bethesda, Maryland, a suburb of Washington, D.C. The July 2006 issue of Washingtonian reported that they own "a palatial 11,400-square-foot (1,060 m2) house, currently valued at $9.3 million, on a 7½-acre parcel just blocks from I-495 and Bethesda Country Club." Friedman is paid $50,000 per speaking engagement.[8]
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      Thomas L. Friedman is a world renowned author and writer for The New York Times
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Morphine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

  • It was discovered in 1804 by Friedrich Sertürner, first distributed by same in 1817, and first commercially sold by Merck in 1827, which at the time was a single small chemists' shop. It was more widely used after the invention of the hypodermic needle in 1857. It took its name from the Greek God of dreams Morpheus
  • Morphine is the most abundant alkaloid found in opium, the dried sap (latex) derived from shallowly slicing the unripe seedpods of the opium, or common or edible, poppy, Papaver somniferum. Morphine was the first active principle purified from a plant source and is one of at least 50 alkaloids of several different types present in opium, Poppy Straw Concentrate, and other poppy derivatives.
  • 8 to 17 per cent of the dry weight of opium
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  • Lower concentrations may be found in a handful of other species in the poppy family, as well as in some species of hops and mulberry trees. Morphine is produced most predominantly early in the life cycle of the plant. Past the optimum point for extraction, various processes in the plant produce codeine, thebaine, and in some cases low quantities of hydromorphone, dihydromorphine, dihydrocodeine, tetrahydrothebaine, and hydrocodone.
  • Morphine has a high potential for addiction; tolerance and psychological dependence develop rapidly, although physical addiction may take several months to develop.
  • Morphine was discovered as the first active alkaloid extracted from the opium poppy plant in December 1804 in Paderborn, Germany, by Friedrich Sertürner.[2]
  • Later it was found that morphine was more addictive than either alcohol or opium, and its extensive use during the American Civil War allegedly resulted in over 400,000[4] sufferers from the "soldier's disease" of morphine addiction.[
  • Diacetylmorphine (better known as heroin) was synthesized from morphine in 1874 and brought to market by Bayer in 1898. Heroin is approximately 1.5 to 2 times more potent than morphine on a milligram-for-milligram basis.
  • An ampoule of morphine with integral needle for immediate use. From WWII.
  • Hepatitis C virus (HCV) is common among intravenous drug users.
  • A large overdose can cause asphyxia and death by respiratory depression if the person does not receive medical attention immediately.[31] Treatments include administration of activated charcoal, intravenous fluids, laxatives and naloxone. The latter completely reverses morphine's effects, but precipitates immediate onset of withdrawal in opiate-addicted subjects. Multiple doses may be needed.[31]
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  • sleepiness, and feelings of pleasure. They can be released in response to pain, strenuous exercise, orgasm, or excitement.
  • phenanthrene opioid receptor agonist
  • Chronic Opioid Analgesic Therapy (COAT)
  • Morphine is a benzylisoquinoline alkaloid with two additional ring closures.
  • C17H19NO3H2O
  • "body high",
  • Morphine is known on the street and elsewhere as M, Number 13 (13th letter of alphabet, cf. Number 8 for heroin, Number 3 for codeine or cocaine)
  • , glad stuff, happy stuff, happy powder, white nurse, Red Cross, first line, unkie, mojo, God's Own Medicine, Vitamin M, Emma. Emmy, Lady M, white lady, cube, cube juice, mo, morf, morph, morpho, Miss Emma, mofo, hard stuff, dry grog, white hop (more accurately used for pantopon-type drugs), white merchandise, uncle, Uncle Morphy, big M, Murphy, morphy, coby, cobics, gold dust, monkey dust, love dust (cf. "initiative" for cocaine; more commonly used for MDA or MDMA), needle candy (cf. nose candy for cocaine; heroin, Dilaudid, Numorphan and the like are also known as such) and others.
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Harper Lee Biography - Biography.com - 1 views

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      One of her real friends was inspired by a charcter
  • Born Nelle Harper Lee on April 28, 1926, in Monroeville, Alabama
  • Pulitzer Prize-winning best-seller
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  • her one and only novel.
  • she grew up as a tomboy in a small town.
  • he youngest of four children
  • her mother suffered from mental illness
  • rarely leaving the house
  • Lee often stepped up to serve as Truman’s protector
  • who shared few interests with boys his age
  • both shared in having difficult home lives.
  • l, Lee developed an interest in English literature. After graduating in 1944,
  • she could have cared less about fashion, makeup, or dating.
  • Lee was known for being a loner and an individualist.
  • Lee began expressing to her family that writing—not the law—was her true calling
  • She went to Oxford University in England
  • which was first titled Go Set a Watchman, then Atticus, and later To Kill a Mockingbird. Working with editor Tay Hohoff, Lee finished the manuscript in 1959.
  • Born Nelle Harper Lee on April 28, 1926, in Monroeville, Alabama .
  • Pulitzer Prize-winning best-seller To Kill a Mockingbird (1960)—  her one and only novel. T  he youngest of four children ,  she grew up as a tomboy in a small town. Her father was a lawyer, a member of the Alabama state legislature, and also owned part of the local newspaper.
  • her mother suffered from mental illness ,  rarely leaving the house
  •  her mother suffered from mental illness ,   rarely leaving the house .
  •  her mother suffered from mental illness ,   rarely leaving the house
  • her mother suffered from mental illness , rarely leaving the house .
  • Lee often stepped up to serve as Truman’s protector . Truman,  who shared few interests with boys his age
  • Lee often stepped up to serve as Truman’s protector . Truman, who shared few interests with boys his age
  • In high schoo  l, Lee developed an interest in English literature. After graduating in 1944, she went to the all-female Huntingdon College in Montgomery
  • Transferring to the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa,  Lee was known for being a loner and an individualist.
  • In her junior year, Lee was accepted into the university’s law school, which allowed students to work on law degrees while still undergraduates.
  • After her first year in the law program,  Lee began expressing to her family that writing—not the law—was her true calling .
  •  She went to Oxford University in England
  •  She went to Oxford University in England
  • In 1949, a 23-year-old Lee arrived in New York City.
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Cholera - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

  • Cholera is an infection of the small intestine that is caused by the bacterium Vibrio cholerae. The main symptoms are profuse watery diarrhea and vomiting.
  • Transmission is primarily through consuming contaminated drinking water or food. The severity of the diarrhea and vomiting can lead to rapid dehydration and electrolyte imbalance. Primary treatment is with oral rehydration solution and if these are not tolerated, intravenous fluids. Antibiotics are beneficial in those with severe disease.
  • The primary symptoms of cholera are profuse painless diarrhea and vomiting of clear fluid.[1] These symptoms usually start suddenly, one to five days after ingestion of the bacteria.
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  • Cholera is caused by the bacterium Vibrio cholerae, mainly serogroup O1.[3] Transmission is primarily due to the fecal contamination of food and water due to poor sanitation.[3] This bacterium can, however, live naturally in aquatic environments.[4]
  • The source of the contamination is typically other cholera sufferers when their untreated diarrheal discharge is allowed to get into waterways or into groundwater or drinking water supplies. Drinking any infected water and eating any foods washed in the water, as well as shellfish living in the affected waterway, can cause a person to contract an infection. Cholera is rarely spread directly from person to person.
  • Although cholera may be life-threatening, prevention of the disease is normally straightforward if proper sanitation practices are followed.
  • In most cases, cholera can be successfully treated with oral rehydration therapy (ORT), which is highly effective, safe, and simple to administer.
  • As there frequently is initially acidosis, the potassium level may be normal, even though large losses have occurred.[1] As the dehydration is corrected, potassium levels may decrease rapidly, and thus need to be replaced.[1]
  • Antibiotic treatments for one to three days shorten the course of the disease and reduce the severity of the symptoms.[1] People will recover without them, however, if sufficient hydration is maintained.
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Popular Cars in the 1930s | eHow.com - 0 views

  • The 1930s were an important time for cars in the United States with the introduction of four-wheel hydraulic brakes, radio and heaters. Models began being characterized as more aerodynamic and taking on a smoother shape. This decade of car ingenuity also marked the beginning of V-8, the V-12, and the V-16 engines. Despite the depression of the 1930s and the decline of auto purchases, there were a few models of car that were quite popular.
  • Buick Series 40
  • Plymouth Model 30U
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  • 1932 Ford V-8 Cabriolet
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Music of Haiti - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

  • The music of Haiti is influenced mostly by European colonial ties and African migration through slavery
  • Starting in the late 1970s (with discontent surrounding the increasing oppulence of the Duvalier dictatorship), youth from Port-au-Prince (and to a lesser extent Cape Haitien and other urban areas) began experimenting with new types of life. Francois Duvalier's appropriation of Vodou images as a terror technique, the increase in US assembly and large-scale export agriculture, the popularity of disco, and Jean-Claude Duvalier's appreciation of konpa and chanson francaise disillusioned many youthand love.
  • Rara music is a Lenten processional music with strong ties to the Vodou religious tradition. It has been commonly confused with Haitian Carnival since both celebrations involve large groups of dancing revelers in the streets.
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  • The local homegrown Haitian hip hop movement is rising in popularity in Haiti and other Haitian communities. It is becoming more and more popular with Haitian youth, often communicating social and political topics as well as materialism. Compas as well as other popular local music beats are used frequently with urban sounds. Popular Haitian hip hop artists are Black Alex from King Posse, Original Rap Staff, Top Adlerman, Masters. Recent years have seen a rise in popularity for Haitian Hip-Hop artists
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Cholera Symptoms, Treatment, Signs, Prevention, Vaccine, History and Causes on Medicine... - 0 views

  • Cholera is most likely to be found and spread in places with inadequate water treatment, poor sanitation, and inadequate hygiene
  • Shellfish eaten raw have been a source of cholera
  • The disease is not likely to spread directly from one person to another; therefore, casual contact with an infected person is not a risk for becoming ill.
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The Future Of Outsourcing - 0 views

  • COVER STORY PODCAST Globalization has been brutal to midwestern manufacturers like the Pap
  • factory, its oiled wooden factory floors worn smooth by work boots, thrived by making ever-more-complex equipment to weave, fold, and print packaging for everything from potato chips to baby wipes.
  • Slide Show >> But now, Compton says, he is "probably the most optimistic I've been in five years." Hope is coming from an unusual source. As part of its turnaround strategy, Barry-Wehmiller plans to shift some design work to its 160-engineer center in Chennai, India. By having U.S. and Indian designers collaborate 24/7, explains Vasant Bennett, president of Barry-Wehmiller's engineering services unit, PCMC hopes to slash development costs and time, win orders
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  • The changes can be harsh and deep. But a more enlightened, strategic view of global sourcing is starting to emerge as managers get a better fix on its potential. The new buzzword is "transformational outsourcing." Many executives are discovering offshoring is really about corporate growth, making better use of skilled U.S. staff, and even job creation in the U.S., not just cheap wages abroad.
  • Show me how we can grow by 40% without increasing our capacity in the U.S.,"' says Atul Vashistha, CEO of outsourcing consultant neoIT and co-author of the book The Offshore Nation.
  • n theory, it is becoming possible to buy, off the shelf, practically any function you need to run a company. Want to start a budget airline but don't want to invest in a huge back office? Accenture's Navitaire unit can manage reservations, plan routes, assign crew, and calculate optimal prices for each seat.
  • Few big companies have tried all these options yet. But some, like Procter & Gamble, are showing that the ideas are not far-fetched. Over the past three years the $57 billion consumer-products company has outsourced everything from IT infrastructure and human resources to management of its offices from Cincinnati to Moscow. CEO Alan G. Lafley also has announced he wants half of all new P&G products to come from outside by 2010, vs. 20% now.
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Personal Learning Environment (PLE) - a new learning concept or a new learning system? ... - 0 views

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      PLE's give students free rein. It helps them manage their goals, and therby control their educational destiny! It's pretty fascinating really.
  • “the heart of the concept of the PLE is that it is a tool that allows a learner (or anyone) to engage in a distributed environment consisting of a network of people, services and resources. It is not just Web 2.0, but it is certainly Web 2.0 in the sense that it is (in the broadest sense possible) a read-write application.”
  • the integration of both formal and informal learning episodes
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  • is that it offers a portal to the world through which learners can explore and create, according to their own interests and directions, interacting as they choose, with their friends and learning community.
  • “Learning becomes as much social as cognitive, as much concrete as abstract, and becomes intertwined with judgement and exploration.”
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Harper Lee - Information, Facts, and Links - 1 views

  • She has published only one book
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      Wow..she is a one time wonder(:
  • Born in Monroeville, Alabama, in 1926, Nelle Harper Lee still lives there with her sister, and she spends time in New York City as well.
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      I would love to live there(:
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  • she has fought fiercely to stay out of the public eye.
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      Smart!!!
  • A rough-and-tumble child, Harper Lee frequently defended her less rambunctious friend Truman Capote in the schoolyard. She later did the research for his acclaimed novel In Cold Blood.
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      Shes like me
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      hahah
  • Harper Lee Gregory Peck in the film adaptation of To Kill a Mockingbird
  • Harper Lee’s mother was Frances Cunningham Finch. Lee uses all three of her mother’s names for characters in To Kill a Mockingbird.
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      Thats of her(:
  • Lee received the 1961 Pulitzer Prize in Literature for To Kill a Mockingbird.
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      Congratulations!
  • To Kill a Mockingbird was made into a major motion picture starring Gregory Peck in 1962. Peck won an Oscar for his performance in the film.
  • To Kill a Mockingbird was banned by Virginia’s Hanover County School Board in 1966 because it deals with the subject of rape. Harper Lee defended her book as espousing a Christian ethic and an honorable code of conduct, and she scathingly questioned whether the school board members, in grossly misjudging her novel’s content, were illiterate.
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Mathematics Online Resources at Education Index - 0 views

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haitian music history - 0 views

  • Haitians dance videos to Haitians music videos we interpret it. We use the Arts as a means of touching that part of us that we cannot reach with Physical Science, Social Science, or any of the Humanities.
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      katie period 8
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Pelgrane Press Ltd - See Page XX Webzine - 0 views

  • While by the 1930s, diesel engines were revolutionising rail transport, and giving birth to a burgeoning flight industry, on the sea and on rivers, steam was still king. Unlike with trains and aircraft, large ships remained in service for decades, meaning that many of the ships that transported passengers of the 1930s were built as early as the 1850s, and some ships built in the 1930s remain in service today. The steam turbine, first turned to use in seagoing vessels in 1897, was able to produce far more power than a traditional reciprocating steam engine. By the 1930s, all large ships were being built with such engines, allowing unprecedented speeds. For ships built in the thirties, the most popular fuel for running the boilers was no longer coal, but fuel oil. This meant that modern ships could run with a much smaller crew than earlier vessels. A typical small passenger steamer would have no more than a dozen crewmen, including a few stewards and cooks for the care of passengers. Larger vessels of course could have hundreds of crewmen (The Queen Mary, launched in 1936, had over a thousand), and were almost like floating towns, the crew forming their own community below decks.
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Morphine Addiction Help - Resources for Morphine Dependency - 1 views

  • Morphine is a powerful narcotic agent with strong analgesic action and other significant effects on the central nervous system. It is dangerously addicting. Morphine is a naturally occurring member of a large chemical class of compounds called alkaloids. Morphine is highly effective in relieving pain. It also inhibits the cough reflex, decreases the desire to eat, and causes constipation. Side effects include impairment of mental performance, euphoria, drowsiness, lethargy, and blurred vision.
  • Call your doctor at once if you have any of these serious side effects: Shallow breathing Slow heartbeat Seizure (convulsions) Cold, clammy skin Confusion Severe weakness or dizziness Feeling light-headed, fainting Less serious side effects are more likely to occur, such as: Constipation Warmth, tingling, or redness under your skin Nausea, vomiting, stomach pain Diarrhea Loss of appetite Dizziness Headache Anxiety Memory problems Sleep problems (insomnia)
  • Prescription drugs can ease pain and aid in recovery
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  • , but they are also one of the most common roads to addiction around today.
  • hree Classes of Prescription Drugs Most Commonly Abused Opioids - which are used to treat pain (includes codeine, oxycodone and morphine) Central nervous system (CNS) depressants - used to treat sleep disorders and anxiety (includes barbiturates and benzodiazepines) Stimulants - used for narcolepsy, ADHD and obesity (includes dextroamphetamine and methylphenidate)
  • Extreme drowsiness Pinpoint pupils Confusion Cold and clammy skin Weak pulse Shallow breathing Fainting Breathing that stops
  • Just because morphine is a prescribed drug for pain relief does not mean this drug cannot become addictive.
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About the Author | Thomas L. Friedman - 0 views

  • Now, you have to understand, Hattie was a single woman, nearing 60 at the time, and this was the 1960s. She was the polar opposite of ‘cool,' but we hung around her classroom like it was a malt shop and she was Wolfman Jack. None of us could have articulated it then, but it was because we enjoyed being harangued by her, disciplined by her and taught by her. She was a woman of clarity in an age of uncertainty." 
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      This really sounds like a quote to me. THe way that he described this woman made the times that they lived in as clear as day.
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      AMEN
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      thats amazing :D
  • University of Minnesota and Brandeis University, and graduated summa cum laude in 1975 with a degree in Mediterranean studies
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      He is a very well educated guy
    • STELIO wcta
       
      i agree
  • In January 1989, Friedman started a new assignment as the Times's Chief Diplomatic Correspondent, based in Washington, D.C. During the next four years he traveled more than 500,000 miles, covering Secretary of State James A. Baker III and the end of the Cold War. "Journalism involves a lot of luck—being in the right place at the right time and then taking advantage of it," he once recalled. "I was very lucky to be in Lebanon when it became a dramatic global story, and I was very lucky to be on Jim Baker's plane to have a front-row seat for the end of the Cold War, the fall of the Berlin Wall, the collapse of the Soviet empire, the first Gulf War, and the aftermath of Tiananmen Square." 
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      This is an interesting paragraph.
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      He's very accomplished
  • degree in modern Middle East studies from Oxford
  • Oxford
  • g from Stanford with a B.A. in economics, was attending the London School of Economics. They were married in
  • In January 1994, Friedman shifted again, this time to economics, and became the Times's International Economics Correspondent, covering the nexus between foreign policy and trade policy.
  • Friedman is a member of the Brandeis University Board of Trustees and, since 2004, of the Pulitzer Prize Board
  • Probably the most noteworthy columns I wrote during that period," Friedman recalled, "were my 2002 interview with Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz
  • Friedman and his wife, Ann, reside in Bethesda, Maryland. Ann, who teaches first-grade reading in the public school system in Montgomery County, Maryland, is also chairman of the board of directors of the SEED Foundation, a nonprofit organization based in Washington, D.C., that developed a college-prep public boarding school model for underserved urban students.
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Personal Learning Environment First Person - 0 views

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      IMPORTANT ; a personal learning environment is very important/
  • that emphasizes and
  • I will also tell the client that I'm trying something new so that they don't feel like an uninformed guinea pig to my learning. These experiments then become fodder for more learning. I try when I can to reflect on what I've done to see what worked well and what didn't. For example, recently I used a wiki to write a grant and right now I'm in the process of analyzing how that worked for us.  I will then incorporate my reflections into the next iteration if I intend to use the learning again.
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  • This blog is another way I process. Sometimes I put up some fairly raw thoughts (this being one of them), but I find that the feeling of having an "audience" makes me less likely to do that all the time, so I might write first in my journal to start making sense and then post here when it gets closer to being semi-articulate.
  • few of these in my mindmap, I realize). These are the materials that I sort of "graze" through. I have no particular objective in mind and will tend to just click through to things that interest me. When I have a specific learning objective in mind, then I use things like Google or a search of del.icio.us or technorati tags.  I will often activate my network of contacts at that point, too. Again, I find that technology has enhanced this networking ability in a couple of ways. First, my network is much broader than it used to be. Through tools like LinkedIn, blogging and listservs, the number of people I "know" and from whom I can get information has really grown. The
  • times I have issues with being able to print or export, but since I'm usually at my computer, I live with working onscreen to review. Writing is a key way that I make sense of my world, so I have sev
  • Doing Something with the LearningUltimately, all of this learning needs to go somewhere. If it doesn't change what I do or how I think, I'm not sure I can say I've learned much. I'm a big experimenter, so I find that what I first tend to do in a lot of cases is find a way to do a personal learning experiment. When I was learning about blogging, for example, then I started a blog (it was an art blog, so it was less professionally risky for me, too). When I was learning about wikis, I started my Web 2.0 in Nonprofits wiki.
  • So What's Your PLE?OK--so that's my personal learning environment. I'd be curious to hear from others about how they've constructed their own PLEs, thoughts they have on the concept, etc. It's a topic that I think has real potential for use in nonprofits as a way to keep learning happening every day at a very low cost. But to do this, I think we have to be intentional in exploring what tools and processes are needed to put something together, which is a big reason I wanted to go through this reflection of my own practice as a way to get some ideas for how it could look. I need more than just my thoughts, though, so all feedback on this welcome.
  • ims' mindmap of his PLE, I first constructed my own (NOTE--Several months after publishing this post, I've redone my Mindmap using Mindomo as I had many requests for a better view of the map than what I was previously able to share. To see the full map, go here)
  • So all of this stuff has been going around in my head and I thought that it made sense for me to look at my own Personal Learning Environment. Inspired by Ray S
  • As I'm gathering information, I also need to process it. When I'm reading online materials, I've started using Diigo  to highlight and take notes. This is a switch from my previous practice of using Google Notebooks, but it's working a lot better for me. I need to interact with material as I'm absorbing it in order to make it my own.
    • HEATHER wcta
       
      IRONY. Diigo is a very important thing for kids to do research in a PLE.
  • I've also been using my Tumblr "microblog" to keep track of things that I find. There's a handy bookmarklet in my Firefox Toolbar that allows me to quickly add and annotate info into it and it's been very useful for me to start using microblogging to pull things together for later processing. I also like it for collecting quotes that catch my interest.
    • HEATHER wcta
       
      Social Networking and PLE's work hand in hand. Social Networks help you interact with other people, and like in this situation, keep track of research and publish different things.
    • HEATHER wcta
       
      The way he designed this is important.
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