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    artworks and the paradox of fiction. Throughout his study‚ he discovered three elements of paradoxical fiction; individual’s “experience genuine emotions directed at fictional character and situations” ‚fictional emotions condition‚ “in order to experience emotions towards X‚ one must believe X exists”‚ belief requirement‚ and “we do not believe that fictional characters and situations exist‚ disbelief condition (McNiff‚ Source K). Without those three elements‚ the paradox of fiction and the other components

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    Advertising Is a Waste of Money Joe Shotwell Economics & Institutions (SEMBA2) Globally‚ advertising has become a waste on money. In the past‚ the evolution of advertising has mitigated the advancement of technology. Since 3000BC‚ word-of-mouth and signs were the only forms of advertising.2‚7 Businesses had storefronts on Main Street and advertised by using window dressings and signs such as sandwich boards. Eventually‚ the advent of the printing press allowed for a wider distribution of information

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    in it’s nonchalant attitude concerning historic fact. Cartoonists at disney must have been watching adult films when they first penciled out the figures of Pocahontas and John Smith. The young Indian princess was only twelve years old at the time of her first encounter with John Smith‚ yet she is portrayed as a hard body honey in her twenties. In order to match the beauty of their female character‚ cartoonists depicted John Smith as a perfectly sculpted young man with locks of bright blonde

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    Reading and Comprehension

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    point of the written piece?  What did each section deal with?  What questions did you ask yourself as you were reading?  How can you change your note taking skills for the future?  What would you do to retain this information for later use?  How might the SQ3R method help you improve your reading comprehension and retention skills? Gen/105 Week 7: Reading and Comprehension Project 1. The main point of this written piece was to tell the reader what the eight most

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    1/4/13 Env ironmental impacts - Lov e Food Hate Waste Home > Love food > Environmental impacts Environmental impacts Love Food Hate Waste is raising awareness about the food we waste and the impact it has on our environment. Food waste affects our environment in many ways – did you know scraping your leftovers into the bin contributes directly to climate change? Find out more about how the decisions we make every day in the supermarket and in the kitchen affect the world we live in.

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    have sewage treatment plants. These plants return only safe water to the streams or lakes. Many states have laws that prohibit companies from dumping raw industrial wastes‚ such as liquids from a metal – planting factory‚ into streams. These wastes often endanger the supply of drinking water. They also kill fish. Most industrial wastes can be treated to make them

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    AWARENESS AND READING

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    Awareness in Reading: EFL Students’ Metacognitive Knowledge of Reading Strategies in an Acquisition-poor Environment Lawrence Jun Zhang National Institute of Education‚ Nanyang Technological University‚ Singapore Although studies on L2 learning strategies are a major strand of second-language research‚ recent research interest has focussed on language learners’ metacognitive knowledge or awareness of strategies. Previous research has shed important light on the amelioration in L2 educational

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    fashion a waste of money

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    insist that they need to buy new clothes each season to keep up with the changing fashion. High end clothing companies and designers would have you believe that you are not cool unless you pay them exorbitant amounts of your hard earned money four times a year to keep up with the ‘in crowd.’ What an ingenious way to suck consumers dry. Related Article: Income Inequality in America: Red Herrings and Wealth Envy This form of brainwashing comes largely in the form of advertising‚ celebrity worship

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    The Importance of Reading

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    Name ProfWRT 150.18 26 October 2013 The Importance of Reading Mark Twain once said that “The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.” Reading is one of the most powerful skills sets a person can have‚ yet almost all students who have access to good books‚ shamelessly take little advantage of them. Children who are growing up in the digital age are reading less and less‚ but can we blame them? The children of this era are growing up immediately immersed

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    Extensive Reading

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    Daniel T. The university of Dodoma. COED. 0769 058488. Extensive reading is an approach to language including foreign language by the means of a large of unknown words in specific context will allow the learner to the words in specific context will allow the learner to the words meaning specific context thus to learn unknown words. (cobb‚ 2007) Extensive reading is an “extensive reading approach” and involves students reading along texts orf large quantities for general understanding. With the

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