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Research Skills
Instructor: Jasmin B. Cowin, Ed.D
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Understand the benefits of ePortfolio
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Use ePortfolio to showcase our research projects
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Create an ePortfolio with WIX as a platform
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Organize and insert different types of media to enrich the site
Research Papers:
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Collaborative Paper: The Disapproval of the Application of the Death Penalty around the World
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The Need of Digital Rights Management
The Disapproval of the Application of the Death Penalty around the World
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Whether to abolish the death penalty has recently been a highly debated topic around the world. “Gradually, in the course of social evolution, a consensus forms among nations and peoples that certain practices can no longer be tolerated.” When a horrendous crime is done, the existence of capital punishment will be questioned. Some people go for the death penalty because they think nothing can punish criminal more than depriving them of their life. However, there are other opinions suggesting that this method is too extreme.
Christianity
Catholicism
Jews
Buddhism
Four types of religions who have the authority in this particular field of capital punishment.
Typically, if most of the people in the country believe in one of four religions on the left, the country are more likely to have death penalty. It's more clear with the figure below.
Despite of the fact that people in that country might believe in their religion, there's still someone who go against the Death Penalty. Some of them really take action to convey public their opinions. For example..
“NCADP works to eliminate the death penalty by providing education and outreaching to states. It works with state and local affiliates on campaign strategies, national and state-specific reports on critical issues for policy makers, media support, networking and coalition building, technical assistance and training for volunteers.”
Also, Amnesty International published an artical that lists five reasons to abolish the Death Penalty.
1. You can't take it back
2. It doesn't deter criminals
3. There's no 'humane' way to kill
4. It makes a public spectacle of an individual's death
5. The death penalty is disappearing
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Among all the issues of the death penalty, there are still many things that needed to be argued or talked about. Some countries had started to abolish this controversial law since a century before. However, on the other side, there are still numerous countries have not yet started action to stop this capital punishment. As a result, many innocent people still got executed without any reason. In that case, we must stand up and defend our right to something that is not correct. To sum up, we will stay strong on our opinions and there is only one thing that has to be done, capital punishment has been devastating many people’s life, the abolition of the death penalty.
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Personal Statement
I am a student studying at Education First University Preparation Course in New York. I am interested in Management Information System (MIS.) When I was eight, I received my first computer. I was fascinated about what I can do with it. As my interest in computiong grew, I joined the computer club in my high school, and I became the club leader. I developed a lot of pratice with my group members, and their coding ability had greatly improved because of it.
In future, I want to study in college in Taiwan, and apply for Graduate School in the U.S.
DIGITAL RIGHTS MANAGEMENT
As technology advanced, it became easier to copy, regenerate, and redistribute the pieces from the Internet. Sometimes, the illegal usage of it can contribute to several problems. For example, it would undermine the potential profits the owner can make. This is why we must develop a regulation obeyed by all human beings involving digital content. Therefore, Digital Rights Management (DRM) was created.
The term digital rights management (DRM) broadly refers to a set of policies, techniques and tools that guide the proper use of digital content. A high-level view of the flow of content from the creator to the consumer via the producer is shown in Fig. 1.
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As you download digital content from the Internet, people rarely think about the copyright of it. For example, it’s normal to pay if you buy a real CD, but it seems to be a hard concept to some of those to understand if they download the CD from the Internet. Things are not to be free just because someone took it from the genuine CD and posted it on the Internet.
As the figure shows above, when originally creator have a masterpiece done, the piece will then be sent to the producer, and the producer will make it processed. They will merge the Usage and Payment Management as well as the Copy Protection Mechanism into the work. By doing so, people without permission cannot access to the content at will. For instance, if you download a music mp3 from a reliable source such as itunes and you pay for it, the computer will download the license from the server. After retrieving was done, the computer can successfully play your content. The whole process could be explained more clearly from the figure below.
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Grammatical Correction
Coherence & Smoothness
Revision & Proofreading
Three Elements of Research writing
To take a deeper look inside the encrypting, it’s necessary to mention metadata.Metadata contains information such as content type, content ID, encryption details, and information about the rights. The metadata is used for locating the content and management of content usage. This is the key of encrypting the data. Here is how it works.
First, the content metadata goes from content server to license server. The data is ready for licensing. Second, the device, which is your phone, try to retrieve datas from the server, and the device info and license request sent to license Server. When the rights object is created, the license is going to be created. As soon as the license is created, it’s ready to go.
However, the concept seems to be a perfect idea at first, but because of its technical issues. It may be inconvenient for legal purchaser. For example, the buyer cannot play a game without Internet connection. Also, the user cannot backup their music on the other device due to restrictions. On the other hand, despite getting the content for free, one of the reasons for privacy is to get rid of these restrictions. Although it’s not thee only reason for privacy, but it’s often criticized for frustrating legal buyers.
In conclusion, the world needs DRM. It provided a framework and a regulation. It would be a wonderful rule for the owner of the content. However, there are still many issues regarding to DRM, and there were still looking for solutions. DRM is still enhancing from time to time. It could be possible that after a few years, DRM is going to be a standard regulation regarding to digital content, and every devices could obey to the same portal. In the near future, we’re going to conquer every difficulties and take a good advantage of it.