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    meaning‚ I could still gain some knowledge as to the overall idea or purpose of the work just from an initial reading. Literature has the capacity to communicate before it is understood‚ as it is certainly possible for a work to convey emotion and feeling without the reader fully comprehending the complete meaning of a work. Emotion can tell you more about a piece of literature than factual knowledge. Within the first few lines of a poem‚ you should be able to feel whatever sensation the author wants you

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    childhood‚ working life and throughout the ageing process. Ian Hacking states that something can be thought to be socially constructed if the following 2 claims are satisfied: (0) in the present state of affairs‚ X is taken for granted‚ X appears to be inevitable (1) X need not have existed‚ or need not be at all as it is. X‚ or X as it is at present‚ is not determined by the nature of things; it is not inevitable. From this definition‚ social constructs can be understood to be the by products

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    Looking Backward

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    Looking Backward by Edward Bellamy Julian West‚ the main character of Looking Backward‚ was born into a rich family in the late nineteenth century. The gap between the rich and poor was very huge and seemed impossible to fix. Like the other people of his high class‚ Julian thought that he was greater than the poor people‚ and he saw their constant strikes with anger and contempt. He was engaged to Edith Bartlett‚ who was a beautiful and graceful Boston lady. They planned to get married when the

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    The novel Looking Backward by Edward Bellamy is a social commentary on the problems of late 1800’s society. Bellamy compares the negative afflictions of his time to an imagined utopia of the future year 2000 in order to open the eyes of the reader. By doing this‚ he hopes to create a social awareness for the poor cultural and economic values so that future generations can change for the better. One of the conditions that afflicted America in 1887 was in regards to labor. When asked what he thought

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    Only Time Can Tell

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    You can capture the present by using cameras and diaries‚ but they become past as soon as they are created. The past resists of memories‚ and once they have turned into memories‚ it is too late to correct. This is also why it is a shame that people tend to live in the past and the future‚ instead of living in the moment now‚ and now‚ and now… The young girl is looking straight ahead at the other side of the road – that is her goal. She only has to take one step after another‚ and then she can manage

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    Backward Design

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    Understanding by Design by Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe Backward Design Why “backward” is best Deliberate and focused instructional design requires us as teachers and curriculum writers to make an important shift in our thinking about the nature of our job. The shift involves thinking a great deal‚ first‚ about the specific learnings sought‚ and the evidence of such learnings‚ before thinking about what we‚ as the teacher‚ will do or provide in teaching and learning activities. Though

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    Masters offers us an account of the events that took place‚ beginning with an article from The Times newspaper and continuing from the point of view of Stuart. For the first time‚ in this extract‚ we see an event where Stuart is the one who fears for his life‚ as he has been put into a prison for a minor crime‚ amongst terrorists‚ psychopaths and professional gangsters. Masters uses the simple sentence‚ ‘Two days after Stuart arrived there was a riot’‚ to introduce what the next part of the story is about

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    I can only imagine

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    THE TERRORS THAT FLY BY NIHGT It all started one night as I was on duty at La Loma Luz hospital‚ in my home Country Belize‚ Central America. I was doing some paper work‚ about 2:30 A.M. I heard Someone called ‘Nurse‚ nurse’; I turned towards where the sound was coming from. A room to My left was empty and had been locked with a key for a couple weeks. I heard it unlock and saw It opened‚ I sat there transfixed for a brief moment‚ and then I prayed. I spoke towards

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    messages‚ I’ll tell you about how influential they can be‚ and I will describe some of the most controversial examples throughout history. Transition: So let’s start by exploring the types of subliminal messages. Body I.MP1: Subliminal messages can be either audio or visual. According to Webster’s dictionary‚ the word “subliminal” is defined as “existing or functioning below the threshold of consciousness”. Basically‚ this means that your body can sense a subliminal message but it won’t be transferred

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    deviance can be understood as normal. This essay will discuss whether it is possible to classify crime and deviance as normal in everyday social life by basing on theories of Emile Durkheim‚ Robert Merton and Marxist criminologists. However‚ to in order to do this‚ one should first comprehend the essence of both concepts. It is important to be aware that crime is only a form of deviance that is simply more defined and regulated. Deviance‚ in a sense‚ is essentially rule-breaking. It can any action

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