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    Animal Fable

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    Animal Fables: Power of Literature There are certain qualities that people must possess in means of ethics and wisdom. However‚ many aspects of these qualities are hard to be taught just as mathematics and science are taught. For this reason‚ people use the method of telling fables. There are many different kinds of fables; popular ones are animal fableone of which is Kalilah wa Dimna‚ an Arab translation of ancient Indian fable called Panchatantra. In Kalilah wa Dimna‚ many different animals

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    needles. She lived in a tiny village where all the animals knew each other. Every afternoon she would meet with her friends at the riverbank to tell stories of their morning. One day Rudy scurried to the riverbank excited to share with her friends a cheesecake she had baked just for them‚ but when she arrived at the meeting spot‚ no one was there. Worried and confused‚ Rudy hurried in to town to look for her friends there. Just as she reached the main road‚ her body froze as she watched the most beautiful

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    One Lie Leads to Another

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    The allegory that you might be interpreting in "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" is one of obligations that a person has that should be done before the end of the day or the end of their life. What obligations or responsibilities do you feel the pressure to come back to at the end of a day—cooking‚ children‚ pets‚ taking care of your family? When are the “promises” we need to keep made explicit‚ and when do they remain unspoken? The evening is “the darkest evening of the year‚” winter solstice

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    Explain the different methods of giving feedback. I personally prefer to receive and give verbal feedback as it allows for the opening of the two way communication process and enables the teacher to ensure that the student/s understand and can ask questions. Where possible this should be supported in written form to enable evidence and enable the learning point to be revisited by the teacher and student. The process I prefer to follow when giving feedback is: 1. Ask the student how they think

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    Explain Different Concepts

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    at the development of a person ’s thought processes. It also looks at how these thought processes influence how we understand and interact with the world. One theorist and cognitive thinker was Jean Piaget‚ who gave an idea about how we think about child development. This is that children think differently than adults. Jean Piaget created one of the most famous theories of cognitive development he suggested that children are not just passive recipients of information. Instead‚ he states that children

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    Aesop Fables

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    Aesop’s Fables The Hart in the Ox-Stall A Hart hotly pursued by the hounds fled for refuge into an Ox-stall‚ and buried itself in a truss of hay‚ leaving nothing to Be seen but the tips of his horns. Soon after the Hunters came up and asked if anyone had seen the Hart. The stable boys‚ who had been resting after their dinner‚ looked round‚ but could see nothing‚ and the Hunters went away. Shortly afterwards the master came in‚ and looking round‚ saw that something unusual had taken

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    The Legend

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    on Turtle’s Back” Comprehension 1. According to the myth‚ what existed before this Earth? 2. What starts the chain of events that eventually leads to the Earth’s creation? 3. What does the Sky Woman bring with her from Skyland‚ and how does it affect the Earth? Interpretation 1. Name at least two things that are lost or sacrificed in the Skyland so there would be life on Earth. 2. How do the animals in this myth exhibit human virtues? 3. Whom do you think the Onondaga

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    fables and narratives

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    The Hare and the Tortoise Aesop’s fable “The Tortoise and the Hare” tells of an egotistical rabbit who boast about being the swiftest runner among all the animals; challenging all the other animals to race against him. To the rabbit’s surprise a seemingly lowly turtle accepts the challenge to race. The rabbit seems to find the turtle’s statement amusing and decides to race the turtle; thinking the turtle was no real competition. By standers gawked trying to dissuade the turtle who is committed

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    Beauty from a Jungian framework. Is my concern to understand the deep forces of the unconcious and marry them with concious awareness to decode psiquic events which are the key factors behain the events in the web of life. For this case study I will use similar aproaches of interpretation to the ones we attempted in previous lectures‚with this my aim is to develop a systematic structure of interpretation and develop my analytical skills that will be usefull for future analysis of Myths and Fairy

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    ancient Greece‚ there was a lovely island kingdom called Kypaen. On one half of the island there was the civilized life; the palace‚ the estates‚ fields‚ harbors‚ and all the people that lived there. On the other half of the island there was a dense wilderness where dangerous beasts roamed‚ and trees grew so thick that they blocked out the light. In the civilized half of the island there lived the King’s right hand man‚ a wealthy one indeed. When it was time for his wife to give birth‚ she brought forth

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