MAKING CONTENT COME ALIVE FOR ALL STUDENTS I was not a good student in middle school. I was so much more interested in music‚ movies‚ and girls. School was a social arena‚ purely. I held good grades‚ “did” school by completing my homework in a timely manner (though not thoroughly by any means) and was punctual for class. But I can honestly say that not much was retained from those years regarding content. Certainly I remember experiences‚ but content? Not so much… I particularly remember
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Many authors use certain details to enforce the theme and keep the story going. In There will Come Soft Rains‚ Bradbury is very descriptive in his use of words. He forces specific information into the story to make his theme more visible. Bradbury uses certain times and sorrowful events to ensure the theme of the story. Some authors‚ use time and dates to rapidly move their story along. This information helps to show that even in a post-apocalyptic time‚ the world will still go on. Even after a bomb
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After the mid-year examination results were announced‚ Judy was both surprised and pleased to find that she was among the top three pupils in her class. She glowed with pride as both teachers and friends congratulated her on her achievement. After the half-term holidays‚ we returned to school to find a different Judy. The once humble and helpful Judy that we all knew had become arrogant and vain. Instead of mingling with everyone in the class as she had always done‚ she only spoke to the brains
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Writing is not something that comes natural to me. Writing is a very long and tedious process mainly because I have to collect all my thoughts and try to put them into grammatically correct sentences. I have written many shitty first drafts in the past 17 years of my life. For example‚ my last English teacher‚ which I hated with a burning passion‚ made my class write an essay about a monster. No not a monster like chupacabra but instead a monster in the positive connotation. I wanted to write about
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Jeremy Vine Bids Goodbye to Strictly Come Dancing BBC presenter‚ Jeremy Vine bid goodbye to the popular dance based show ‘Strictly Come Dancing’ but no doubt the man has surely earned some great fans and admirers through this show. ‘Strictly Come Dancing’ made Jeremy display a different side of his personality which he could not show in his other shows. The radio 2 presenter was in the dance-off with Jamelia but the judge’s decision went in favor of the Loose women panelist which Jeremy gracefully
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Article Summary: “The Bottom Line: Marketing & Firm Performance” Leslie M. Fine‚ author of “The Bottom Line: Marketing & Firm Performance‚” analyzes how marketing relates to how well the firm does overall. A majority of the article is focused on how customer relations’ impact firm performance and can affect shareholder wealth. Firms improving customer equity and reducing the firm’s cash needs‚ will influence the net present value of the firm. Within recent years‚ there has been an increase in
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English II Pre – AP Ms. Smith 2 May 2014 Ray Bradbury’s “There Will Come Soft Rains” Analysis Many of Ray Bradbury’s novels tend to focus around the idea that humans downfall will be due to the increased attention to technology and machines are incapable of human emotion. Unlike most short stories‚ “There Will Come Soft Rains” does not have any human characters. It is just an automated house. The house performs a routine‚ similar to a human’s. It makes pancakes‚ cleans itself‚ reads poems
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the poem “There will Come Soft Rains” by Ray Bradbury‚ he has found future technology to be ironic. In this poem technology is pretty much the owner of the house‚ because there are no humans. This house does everything cooks‚ cleans‚ and sings‚ everything a normal person would do. The thing about the title “There Will Come Soft Rains” is that it’s the families favorite poem‚ is that it’s a one sign of irony. The house programed to read a poem that is called ‘There will come Soft Rains” and it
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Procter & Gamble: From Top to Bottom – A Consultant’s View South University Jared L. Newnam January 24‚ 2015 Procter & Gamble: From Top to Bottom – A Consultant’s View Procter & Gamble‚ commonly referred to as P&G‚ is an enterprise today‚ that 177 years ago was merely a family-run candle and soap business. However‚ through innovative thinking‚ a creative marketing strategy and partnerships around the world‚ P&G has become the largest consumer goods company in the world. (P&G - A Company History
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In the Short Stories ‚’’There Will Come Soft Rain’’ there is a lot of tone and mood that the author wrote about. The author told us that the tone of the story is like people will do nice things for us and how you can do things on your own a lot of times. In The Short Stories ‚ The mood is sad‚happy‚hopeful the house is doing nice things for the family but they’re not there to see it or thank them for it they all die in the house and the house doesn’t know that it think’s they are alive the
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