VR Being Used In North Carolina Public Schools for Better Education | Tyler Mc. – NewsBreak Original

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North Carolina community colleges and other educational facilities in the state are starting to use virtual reality to help educate students. Virtual reality allows students to learn and train in virtual environments, helping them prepare for future jobs and career opportunities. The training has been shown to increase student confidence, and proficiency, and reduce the time & cost of physical training for certain high-demand professions. South Piedmont Community College in North Carolina is using virtual reality to allow more students to experience a form of study abroad even if they do not have the funds necessary to easily do that in real-life. David Wilkinson is the senior enterprise sales and workforce advocate for Transfer VR, a virtual reality company that helps colleges with implementing these systems. He had this to say about this particular program:

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At Wingate University, a private Baptist university with a main campus in Wingate, NC & several other campuses across North Carolina, a senior by the name of Emma Ahrens is one of seven students across the entire state of North Carolina to have been awarded a research stipend from North Carolina Independent Colleges and Universities. The presentation that got Ahrens this stipend is called “Fetal Microchimerism in Sheep: Determining Patterns of Fetal Cell Transfer in the Ewe During Pregnancy and Beyond". This research is able to show case how to quantify the number of male fetal cells that enter the blood of a pregnant mother sheep and how tissues are transfered during fetal development. As Ahrens explains herself when she was interviewed by The Charlotte Weekly website:
Plenty of different websites have created Creator Programs that are created to allow people who frequently use these sites to create posts and entertaining creations on these sites to start making money for everything they produce. YouTube has its Partners Program that allows many creators on YouTube to monetize their video content and there is the Contributors Program on Newsbreak for those writing local news articles to help writers earn money from views on their various posts. Pinterest decided for a certain period of time that it wanted to follow in the footsteps of these other sites and start paying some of its most prolific creators for making content that helped to make Pinterest so profitable in the first place. Things seemed to be going well at first, but now Pinterest has shut down its Creator Rewards program that allowed creators to earn money from posts. Originally, people on Pinterest who were part of the program would earn money by making content around monthly prompts around certain engagement goals as decided by Pinterest.
Earlier, I wrote about the free, open-source blogging platform called Ghost, but here I am going to go more into the history of how the Ghost blogging platform came to be. Ghost had its first public version of the software program released in October 2013. It was financed by a successful Kickstarter campaign where it obtained its initial funding goal of twenty-five thousand euros in eleven hours before going on to raise a total of one hundred ninety-six thousand three hundred sixty-two Euros after a twenty-nine-day campaign. The idea for Ghost was first conceived in November 2012 by a former deputy lead for WordPress, but this idea was not formed into a publicly available piece of software until about eleven months later.
Ghost is the name of a powerful application that can be useful for plenty of new media creators who want to publish, share, and potentially grow some kind of business around the content they produce. Ghost itself describes itself as the independent artist version of the popular blogging website Medium. There are plenty of differences, however, between Ghost and Medium that might make Ghost the better alternative if you want more of a professional website or blog that gives you far more control over your content than Medium.
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A Republic is a form of government that is frequently talked about in politics as well as the news. Plenty of people like to mention a republic without knowing what a republic is or what kind of government a republic is supposed to be in the modern definition of the word. Fortunately, Oxford Languages is a dictionary from the world-famous prestigious university that has a very clear definition of what a republic is that helps to clear up any confusion. According to Oxford, a republic is a state in which supreme power is held by the people and their elected representatives, and which has an elected or nominated president rather than a monarch. Basically, by the modern definition, a republic is a form of representative democracy where the people have the power to express how they should be represented but so do the elected/nominated representatives that are supposed to help implement the will of those they governed with effective policies.
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On this particular platform, I have previously written about a lot of mental illnesses associated with a lack of empathy or shallow emotions such as Narcissistic Personality Disorder, Histrionic Personality Disorder, and Borderline Personality Disorder. Now, I am going to talk about the most popular mental illness associated with a lack of empathy called Antisocial Personality Disorder or ASPD if we are going with the acronym. ASPD is a mental illness that is characterized by deceitfulness, impulsivity, and remorselessness. People who are affected by ASPD are likely to commit unlawful and violent acts & ASPD affects about one to four percent of the general population, which is basically between one in one hundred people and one in twenty-five people.
I have previously written about two personality disorders. One of them is associated with a lack of empathy, affects about six point two percent of the general population, and is known as Narcissistic Personality Disorder – or NPD for short. The other is associated with having shallow emotions & Adolf Hitler, affects one point eight percent of the general populace, & is known as Histrionic Personality Disorder or HPD. Now, I am going to be writing about Borderline Personality Disorder, which you can also refer to as BPD if you want to shorten it. The disorder is a condition that is characterized by instability and impulsivity. Some studies say that the condition affects around one point six percent of adults, but another peer-reviewed scientific study says that the number could be up to six percent of the general population.
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