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"Philosophy started it's festerin' Long before any Greeks began pesterin'. So why not include a Lao-Tzu or Buddha Well, it happens my topic's just Wester'n."-Richard Aquila Poems about philosophy with humor? :)
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“So we might call the gene variant a possible non-sprinting gene.”- WileyPLUS
That’s good because I might call your writing possibly excessively passive.
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Do the following data come from an experiment or an observational study?
WileyPLUS
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“The disadvantage of observational studies compared to experiments is that causation can't be inferred in observational studies but can be in experiments.”-WileyPLUS
I infer a lawyer whipped you harder than a teacher slapped your wrist.
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“In August 2013, a study reported that for those under 55 years old, drinking 4 cups or more of coffee a day could increase the risk death of all causes (http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2013/aug/15/coffee-drinkers-risk-death-rate).”-WileyPLUS 2017
I don’t know what’s worse. Referencing the news report instead of the study, copy pasting a website in or the end of that sentence. Vote bellow!
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So what format is this?
John Wiley & Sons Inc, “We took these questions from the SAT reading comprehension section”, https://www.wileyplus.com, January 19, 2017.
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Everyone knows the wait gets longer after eating fiber, at least for the restroom.
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“[The president of a large university recently announced that the school would be switching to dorms that are all single sex, because, he says, research shows...]”
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Feel like the writer was a bit bitter? Since we’re doing hypotheticals...
Students required to buy WileyPLUS are more likely than other students to feel frustrated, agitated and fail.
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None of the above, based on the sentence structure it’s not a claim.
Could you imagine writing this in an official paper?
Want to lower suicides? Paint more walls!
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To summarize briefly...
Principles of Ecosystem Stewardship: Resilience-Based Natural Resource Management in a Changing World
#just no#contradiction#textbooks#Principles of Ecosystem Stewardship: Resilience-Based Natural Resource Management in a Changing World
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The concept that society and nature depend
on one another is not new. It was well
recognized by ancient Greek philosophers
(Boudouris and Kalimtzis 1999)
Principles of Ecosystem Stewardship: Resilience-Based Natural Resource Management in a Changing World
#relearning#first world forgets everything#anyone know which philosophers?#why writing things down matters#and reading
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Connectedness.
#great vocab#textbooks#caption dosn't help#graph#Principles of Ecosystem Stewardship: Resilience-Based Natural Resource Management in a Changing World
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This self-organization of components
linked by stabilizing feedbacks occurs
spontaneously without any grand design.
Principles of Ecosystem Stewardship: Resilience-Based Natural Resource Management in a Changing World.
#cough cough#grand design#textbooks#appreciate it if you would explain the concept before tackling that beast
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This is
not black magic, but a consequence of interactions
and feedbacks
Principles of Ecosystem Stewardship: Resilience-Based Natural Resource Management in a Changing World. Published 2009.
#textbooks#when you actually read the text#amazing facts#before 2009 everyone thought it was black magic
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