experiences in the progressive school and various criticism he received from his theories. This small volume serves as an inspiration for a better educational experience. This writing inspired the teacher to apply Dewey’s approach in teaching which emphasizes more on experience‚ experiment‚ purposeful learning‚ free flowing discussions and other well known concepts of “progressive education.” It’s also an analysis of both the “traditional” and the “progressive” education elaborating the values and vital
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can be discovered through the methodical and careful application of deductive scientific methods. They believe that the world is made up of observable cause and effect situations that are external and not influenced by human consciousness. They emphasize the importance of objectivity‚ arguing that it can best be achieved if the researcher maintain social distance from the subjects. Positivists prefer the use of aggregate data about social facts. They believe that this not only maintains social
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tone the men on the ship possess. Sides uses grim diction such as “trapped” and “beyond” (Sides 357) to reveal how the ship has no hope in moving in the frozen ice. He explicitly states “sixteen months” and “thirteen hundred miles” (Sides 357) to emphasize how long these men have been stuck in the ice‚ unable to move even a foot. The author follows with contrasting syntax by including opposites in multiple sentences: “Though coal supply had dwindled alarmingly‚ the ship remained snug and warm” and
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be a Puerto Rican? This is a question that may have different answers according to the emphasis that is given. The more important approach is the geographical. Therefore‚ Puerto Rican are anyone that grown on the island of Puerto Rico. I emphasize in growth rather than birth‚ because a person may be born in P.R. and four months of age be moved to Italia where he lives the rest of his life. This individual will be Italian. Similarly‚ if an individual is born in Colombia and from the age
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providing a strong evidence of the practice of exclusion of the black people from the jury in the historical perspective. Based on the analysis of court cases‚ the author provides a background for the issue and emphasizes the problematic aspect of the court system. At the same time‚ the writing emphasizes the role of police in the promotion of racial inequality regarding the war on drugs and the concentration of their activities in ghettos. With regard to this‚ it also draws attention to the baseless police
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masculinity‚ and is a measure by which men compare themselves and others. However‚ hegemonic masculinity risks oversimplification of the “situational complexity of contemporary Western societies” (Sobal‚ 2005: 151). Meanwhile‚ flexible masculinities “emphasize the negotiation and management of a dynamic and situational process‚ in which men may select from a variety of models of manhood that may be evaluated‚ invoked‚ and enacted” (Sobal‚ 2005: 151). Men are afforded multiple forms of masculinity that
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the first stanza the speaker describes the calm before the gas attack. The speaker uses alliteration‚ "bent beggars‚" and onomatopoeia "cough" to create a sense of despair. The speaker uses assonance and alliteration in "Men marched asleep" to emphasize the falling rhythm of the exhausted men. The speaker then personifies the "Five Nines" as tired. The stanza ends with an ironic twist of the quiet sounds of "Five Nines"
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English 113 YD4 March 1‚ 2013 Midterm Triple Threat Criticism Each of the short stories “Happy Endings”‚ “A Sorrowful Woman”‚ and “The Story of an Hour” express the central idea that women are confined and identified by their roles as wives or mothers by society. The authors’ goal of these short stories is to portray modern marriages‚ to help people be conscious to women ’s liberalism‚ and to instruct people not to focus on the endings of stories‚ but the middle portions. Margaret Atwood‚ Gail
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calming- evokes sense of beauty Personification “mischievous tricks of the shifting light” (line 13) Blurring of reality‚ unsure of what is realmagic Simple declarative sentence “hunting is still an absolute necessary in Thule” (line 68) Emphasizes key point‚ acts as a summary to close account. Leave a lasting thought. Simile “hunters spread like a net around the sound” (line 43) Waiting‚ anticipation for anything to happen‚ tension increases – the image of entrapment also evokes sympathy
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Imagine being taken by the enemy far from civilization only to find love of the enemy and love for the world in which the enemy lives. Any preconceived notions about this enemy are abandoned as time progresses‚ leading to new opinions‚ discoveries‚ and perceptions about the world‚ challenging morality on a fundamental level. This transposition of worldly views is illustrated by Louise Erdrich in her poem‚ “Captivity”‚ in which she impersonates Mary Rowlandson who was captured
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