Advanced Vocabulary – 1 |ambiguity |A sentence/expression can be ambiguous if it has two possible meanings‚ and it is not clear what the | |(adj = ambiguous) |writer/speaker wants to say | |Although she said she was committed to the scheme‚ there was some ambiguity in her voice. | |Christians are not ambiguous
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The problem of Induction – Induction Science is supposed to be an empirical discipline which makes no claims beyond what has been observed. Therefore we have a dillema we could refuse to make any claims beyond what we observe and retain the idea of empirical science or we could defend the right of scientist to reason from the particulae to the genréral and accept that science is not strictly empirical. We could defend the right of science to reason from a particular to the general and accept
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Early this month we finished our final TOK presentation. I did mine with Faizaan‚ and we chose to take up the subject of philanthropy. The real reason that people give in the first place is a very controversial and relevant topic‚ and so we thought it would make a good topic for a presentation. It was very important for us to be interested in the topic we were going to be presenting‚ as we would be spending so many hours doing work on it- we are both interested in business and aspire to become businessmen
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’A Questionable Shape’ by Bennet Simms Sims plays with our collective knowledge of the undead‚ interweaving his zombies’ penchant for the familiar with our own familiarity with the subject and his narrator’s internal struggle with those he is most familiar with‚ so that the novel becomes‚ among other things‚ an exploration of the very concept of familiarity. Defamiliarization: a process by which you try to remove certain associations with the faces of the people you love. FIGHT THE BITE:
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Wednesday‚ April 11‚ 2012 Madee Vasa TOK essay #3 Do words have meaning or do we give them meaning? In Shakespeare’s Hamlet he wrote: “There is nothing either good or bad‚ but thinking makes it so.” What Shakespeare is saying in this quote is that everything in the world is only an inanimate presence until we bring it to life with our thoughts‚ which lead to perception‚ which then leads to actions. This can be applied also to language and the meaning of words. Do words really have a fixed
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RUNNING HEAD: Vocabulary Development Vocabulary Development Islah Dillard-Mostafa August 17‚ 2012 EED-470 Grand Canyon University Vocabulary Development Knowing vocabulary is essential to reading and comprehending what was read. It is very important that teachers foster students development of a large “word bank” and use vocabulary learning strategies that are effective. I developed a chart that list several effective explicit and implicit strategies that teachers can use with teaching
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VOCABULARY BETWEEN 18 AND 30 MONTHS After babbling incoherently‚ infants become toddlers that form holophrases—single words that often convey an entire sentence’s worth of meaning (Sigelman 279). As the toddler ages‚ they grow out of the phase where they point and gesture and begin to use their holophrases. They acquire words from their surroundings—what they hear others say. A child’s initial language acquisition “proceeds on word at a time” (Sigelman 279). At about eighteen months‚ infants have
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intuition? Our dictionaries define intuition as the ability of acquiring knowledge without a clear inference or the use of knowledge‚ without the use of any reasoning process. Intuition provides us with beliefs that we cannot necessarily justify. After analysing this definition we must ask ourselves if this definition is totally reliable‚ isn’t intuition directly connected with our personal experience? To what extent is intuition to be taken as seriously in the different areas of knowledge? I think
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Food vocabulary brainstorming games Worksheet 1- Brainstorming by category With your partner‚ write as many different English words or expressions as you can in the categories below. If there is something you don’t know the word for but can explain by drawing‚ miming or describing the function‚ you can ask your teacher for help. Kitchen equipment Ways of cooking food Other things you do to food Using your bilingual dictionaries‚ try to add at least three words or expressions to each column. Written
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Microeconomics Vocabulary |Word |Definition | |Market |A market is any situation or place that enables the buying and selling of goods and| | |services | |Perfect Competition |Perfect competition is a market structure
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