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    Art How to Use

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    Art can be defined many ways. Webster dictionary defines art as a branch of learning and the conscious use of skill and creative imagination especially in the production of aesthetic objects. As one can see art isn’t just drawing‚ painting‚ sculpting‚ etc. Art is a way of learning creatively‚ so that children can develop into well-rounded human beings. Not only is art fun and entertaining for students of all ages‚ it also has a number of positive effects on these students. Studies have shown that

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    Indonesia’s Preparation towards AEC 2015: Multilingual Ability Here comes the Globalization that cannot be avoided anymore. It is caused by the “Push and Pull” factors (Misra‚ 2007). Moore and Fernie (as cited in Bruce‚ 2004) stated that push factors apply peculiarity and less viable conditions of the home market‚ while the pull factors apply attractive condition of the foreign market. One of the implications of the globalization is the signing of Free Trade Agreement (FTA) among South East

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    Process and experience of Dementia 1.1 Describe a range of causes of dementia syndrome There are several causes of dementia some of them are; a stroke‚ brain disease‚ MS‚ certain medications‚ shrinkage of the brain‚ too many opiates over a long period of time and severe alcoholism 1.2 Describe the types of memory impairment commonly experienced by individuals with dementia Dementia can cause the sufferer to experience loss of mental ability‚ loss of memory‚ a reduced understanding

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    How Friends Ruin Memory: The Social Conformity Effect Class Discussion Summary: How Friends Ruin Memory: The Social Conformity Effect‚ by Jonah Lehrer‚ starts off by talking about how past situations‚ or occurrences‚ become interesting stories by the twisting of facts‚ or not telling the whole truth. Jonah mentions that it is nearly impossible for us‚ as human beings‚ to tell the whole truth when it comes to telling a story. He says that this is because we are “social animals‚ our memory

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    story reveals how Butler conveys the importance of language and human speech in maintaining a civil society. Valerie’s experience on the bus shows this. The first setting which is on the bus is where lack of communication reflects a sense of disorder and lack of control in the society. The reason for the argument is uncertain. If the men were able to communicate the situation could’ve had a different outcome. The men "grunting and gesturing" and assuming an "uncertain T stance" confirm how the lack

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    Within the extract‚ Niffengger uses a variety of the possible presentations of speech and thought‚ mainly including Indirect‚ Free Indirect and Narrative Presentation of Speech/Thought Acts. Due to the novel making use of a heterodiegetic narrator‚ there are also many narrative report of action clauses (NRAs). NRAs are described by Simpson (2003) as maintaining ‘the ongoing action of the story as well as providing an external framework around which the strands of speech and thought are woven’ (p24)

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    viewed as a potential remedy for speech-impairment. However‚ healthcare insurance companies are not always accommodating to assistive technologies proliferated in more widely popular platforms. Although TTS had become an integral part of any device with assistive functions‚ its availability in mobile

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    Understand the process and experience of dementia 1.1 Describe a range of causes of dementia syndrome Dementia is a term describing a wide range of symptoms associated with the decline of the memory‚ or other cognitive or sensorial skills that reduce a person’s ability to perform day by day activities. This term refers to Alzheimer disease‚ Vascular dementiaDementia with Lewy bodies‚ Parkinson’s disease‚ Creutzfeldt-Jakobs disease‚ Huntington’s disease in the same time. What causes this range

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    Grapes of Wrath: Unsophisticated Characters and Language The Grapes of Wrath poses a different writing scheme than what most modern students may be used to. In the 1930’s‚ where this novel is set‚ the characters act and speak in a manner that is very common of their time. Many pieces of literature of this time period didn’t become much more sophisticated. Steinbeck may have aimed to create a novel that all of the general public could relate to‚ and understand the hardships after the Dustbowl

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    In “The Great Gatsby‚” F. Scott Fitzgerald’s use of language serves to develop the characters of Tom Buchanan and Myrtle Wilson. Fitzgerald’s use of specific details‚ particularly the juxtaposition of those details pertaining to Myrtle‚ portrays her as contradictory and superficial and Tom as a bullish and arrogant. Fitzgerald’s diction‚ dually connoting prosperity and deficiency‚ conveys Myrtle’s false sense of egotism and affluence and enforces the narrator’s disdain for both Tom and Myrtle. Myrtle’s

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