Searching Essays

  • Extrinsic Motivation In 'Searching For Bobby Fischer'

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    Searching for Bobby Fischer, directed by Steven Zaillian, is about a young boy named Josh Waitzkin, who is very good at chess. In this film, Josh experiences both intrinsic and extrinsic motivation which shows the audience that is better to motivate ourselves instead of being motivated by others which would lead to frustration and disappointment. Intrinsic motivation is shown when Josh wants to play chess for fun. For example, Josh plays speed chess in the park. No one is forcing or pressuring him

  • School Searches of Students' Lockers

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    260 teachers are physically assaulted. These facts are not based on once year, but as every single school day. Could one even imagine what the numbers might look like on scale for a month of school, let alone a whole year? So would starting with searching lockers really be a step to far to try and lower the numbers? Some may think yes due to the school invading the students’ privacy. The majority of people though will say no, doing searches of student’s lockers is not a bad thing. Though there may

  • coupon uses

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    in line with the coupon-processing company Inmar. exploitation coupons to link net behavior with in-store shopping lets retailers comprehend that ad slogans or on-line product promotions work best, how long somebody waits between looking out and searching, even what offers a consumer can respond to or ignore. The coupons will, in some cases, be caterpillar-tracked not simply to AN ANonymous shopper however to an identifiable person: a merchant may grasp that Amy Smith written a fifteen percent-off

  • Enterprise Search And Enterprise Knowledge Management Analysis

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    growing mountain of information. One of the key areas of focus is searching information hidden in myriad systems, applications and databases. This information if made available in organized manner can result in improved user experience which can be a differentiating factor in the world of commoditized products. There is hardly a website which doesn’t offer search capability. Search capability is being used by contact center agent for searching troubleshooting procedures for customers, customers using search

  • Inheritance Character Analysis

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    overcome, leading them to search for something greater. While reading Inheritance, characters searched for self-knowledge, self-defense, and acceptance of a death. One example of a character searching for something was when Eragon searched for his true name on Vroengard. Asking himself what he wanted, searching for flaws in him and remembering his past were all key components to his search for self-knowledge ☺ (Hyphenated Modifier). Firstly, after finding his true name he found out that he is not the

  • Proquest Database Analysis

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    ProQuest offers various output options, including e-mail, print, save and an option to export their search records. Once users are done with their searching they will have an opportunity to Save their searches to the My Research account that can be obtained by users who have created one. Once an account is created, users can save their searches and will be able to access it anytime when logged into ProQuest however, if users forget to click the Save button then all search results will be lost

  • Should Schools Be Allowed To Search Lockers Essay

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    students,” as stated on asdc.org. In continuation, schools have legitimate reason to conduct a search, and can’t be denied this authority, as it is a part of their job to protect their students and faculty. In fact, many schools reserve the right to searching lockers before anyone can protest. “Students are responsible for the locker that was assigned to them, and can be held responsible for the contents of that locker,” as described on grantieschools.org. This right to search lockers helps to stop the

  • Rankbrain Essay

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    What You Need to Know about Google's RankBrain In an interview with Bloomberg late in October, Google senior research scientist Greg Corrado revealed that a machine-learning artificial intelligence system called RankBrain is helping them process the billions of search queries they receive every day. This isn't really surprising since many people know that Google has been interested in AI for years and has even provided funding for its development. But, if you're an SEO marketer or a business owner

  • Cook The Fish Memo

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    This article, published by Fox News, elaborates on the shocking discovery Emily Randolph faces a week after a shopping trip to her local grocery store. Randolph reports that she bought a two-pound package of fresh Atlantic Cod from Costco at the beginning of the month. Her plans to cook the fish a few days later were ruined when the fish began to smell. Upon further inspection, the woman notices a large worm wriggling out of the fish. To say the least, she was incredible disturbed. She quickly returned

  • Oxybenzone: Coral Reefs

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    The 5 articles I carefully selected are all articles relating to the science behind oxybenzone in the ocean, coral reefs in Hawaii, and the overall threat of sunscreen in the ocean. I searched within the DU library website for articles on just oxybenzone and filtered the results by selecting “Peer-reviewed Articles”. Combined I was able to describe oxybenzone, explained the causes of coral reef degradation and bleaching, and the impact of oxybenzone on corals. Below is the results of the important

  • The Pros And Cons Of Locker Searches

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    Privacy is something that should obviously be respected, regardless of age or any other characteristic that isn’t relevant to the topic, but unfortunately it isn’t always respected. Young people are especially affected by people that sometimes overlook the fact privacy is equally as necessary for them. Invasion of student privacy is an issue that can negatively affect young minds. Locker searches, especially when not given notice to students, is an example. I personally believe that locker searches

  • Bomb Threat Assessment

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    comprised of 12 questions and is more focused on the facility and its employees. The same principal for scoring is used as in the threat assessment. The more credible a threat is determined to be, the more urgency needs to be placed on evacuation and searching procedures. After determining a credible threat exists of a bomb detonation, the decision to search, or not to search, is made by the highest management or follow standard operating procedures. Normally, the best policy is to search the premises

  • Analysis Of The Article ' Is Google Making Us Stupid

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    This week I learned many literary information skills in online use of information. The question in the article "is Google making us stupid was a little too narrow in interpreting our cognition capabilities and reading skills. It mentions that people are becoming unfamiliar with reading in the traditional sense. Power browse is a way of skimming through many sources of information to avoid actually reading information correctly. The comparison of new technologies with older technologies was described

  • The Hellish Search Bound in Despair

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    Walter Percy’s The Moviegoer is the fascinating depiction of a bizarre bird, Binx Bollings, a New Orleans’s stockbroker, who is driven by a search. There are two kinds of searches Binx is concerned with, a vertical search and horizontal search. Through them, Binx strives to transcend “everydayness,” as well as existential despair, hopelessness, and malaise. He fears being content in life because he does not want to loose his individuality and become invisibly dead—a fear he eventually accepts. In

  • Biomedical Review Essay

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    ASSIGNMENT-1 Extended Boolean Retrieval for Systematic Biomedical Reviews Vaishnavi Asati 2015HT13305 PROBLEM STATEMENT Searching Documents, that is the most tedious task in any research and literature activity. The same task is to be performed while preparing systematic reviews of biomedical literature and research. The most common method used is by developing complex Boolean queries post which result of each document of the final query in each iteration, is assessed and checked for relevance accordingly

  • Robert Wiebe The Search For Order

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    Hinds, Jennifer. Review of The Search for Order: 1877-1920. By Robert H. Wiebe. Commerce: Texas A&M University-Commerce, 2015. In The Search of Order: 1877-1920, (Search for Order), by Robert H. Wiebe the author writes about finding the utopia. He writes for the constant need to have the best utopia possible but as the reader reads the book we find out that he never discovers the best utopia. Throughout history, Wiebe takes apart every aspect of something that went on in a period of time and analyzes

  • Searching for Father

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    The essay “My Father’s Son” written by Jim Fergus, Nick Lyons’ essay entitled “Finding Father”, “Every time I Spill Red Wine I Panic” written by Stratis Haviaras and the poem “My Father” by Peter Oresick all had a similar underlying theme; A sons loss of a father at an early age, the search for the guidance of their father. So, when a father is not present, where does a boy turn to for that guidance? A mother can only understand what her son is going through to a certain degree. When a young boy

  • Searching for Answers

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    belief that one has to find meaning in one’s life, or a belief that life has no meaning, and everyone is just existing; waiting to die. All that can be concluded is that one should just live, be here in the present, one should not spend a lifetime searching for meaning, because if one lives each day with meaning, meaning will come. "People say that what we’re all seeking is a meaning for life. I don’t think that’s what we’re really seeking. I think that what we’re seeking is an experience of being

  • Searching for a Home

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    Searching for a Home I arrived "home" on Sunday night, from a two week vacation, which was nice in that we went to very nice places, and in that I had, for the first time in a while, the sort of vacation which did not involve a lot of driving around and which really succeeded in making me feel that I was gone, out of my real life, away, for a while. However, I did not succeed in accomplishing the mental task I had set out for myself for these two weeks. This task was I suppose a variant of

  • Familial DNA Searching

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    samples. One of the more controversial practices of DNA forensics is familial DNA searching, which takes partial, rather than exact, matches between crime scene DNA and DNA stored in a public database as possible leads for further examination and information about the suspect. Using familial DNA searching for investigative purposes is a reliable and advantageous method to convict criminals. Familial DNA searching works by using the combined DNA index system (CODIS) to compare DNA samples taken from