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    Maria Montessori further breaks down the five senses into nine isolated senses‚ each addressed in her sensorial curriculum. Explain the importance of sensorial education and briefly discuss the exercises for the education of all the senses. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “ The aim of the sensorial exercises is not that the child shall know colors‚ form and the different qualities of objects‚ but that he refines

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    Thomas Jefferson

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    Jefferson The third president of the United States was Thomas Jefferson. He had been the author of the Declaration of Independence and the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom. In an age of great men Jefferson was remarkable for his wide-ranging curiosity on many subjects. He helped the United States get started‚ and his plans for the future helped it grow. Many of the good things Americans enjoy today have come from Jefferson’s devotion to human rights. Jefferson is often called the founder of

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    example‚ a curious infant who combines the responses of extending an arm (reaching) and grasping with the hand is suddenly capable of satisfying her curiosity by exploring almost any interesting object that is no more than an arm’s length away. Simple as these behavioural schemes may be‚ they permit infants to operate toys‚ to turn dials‚ to open cabinets‚ and to otherwise master their environments. Older children on the other hand have schemas that include strategies and plans for solving problems

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    Sex Drugs and Sea Slime Chapter 1: The Invisible Crowd One member of the zooplankton family is the foraminifera. It lives within the photic zone because some have dinoflagellates that perform photosynthesis. The foraminifera is found floating through the ocean‚ and there are actually many different species of foraminifera‚ some even reside on the sea floor. The foraminifera grows by creating more space in their limestone shells. They’re only about the size of one grain of sand. The foraminifera

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    Short story writing competition: Unity Drumming his fingers on his cheek‚ the young man turned his view from the front yard to the clock sitting idly on the wall behind where the television set is. Tick tock. Tick tock. He usually comes by at noon‚ but the long hand of the clock has long left its partner and yet he’s not here. The young man could see all the way down his street‚ and even as far as the old wooden shed of a bus stop at the intersection‚ and still there’s no sign of him. Tick tock

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    Adolescence Sex Sex was a taboo subject in Malaysian family. The ideal culture of Malaysian especially the Malays is to have their young girls to practice abstinence and to abstain themselves from sex until marriage. Promiscuity and prostitution is often described as mores to the culture. However‚ globalization has made the society exposed to the outside world and the world is facing the unavoidable global increment in adolescence sex. The subject ‘sex’ itself has become an anomie amongst the

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    Truman Political Influence

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    This paper will identify the political influences that contributed to President Truman’s decision to drop the atomic bomb on Japan. The reason this topic is important is because the decision to drop the atomic bombs on Japan during World War II has had a lasting impact on U.S. foreign policy. The information on the political influences affecting Truman’s decision will be from Truman by David McCullough; Code-Name Downfall by Thomas B. Allen and Norman Polmar; America’s Rise to World Power by Foster

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    the Game By Doris Kearns Goodwin Lincoln ’s political resume was meager‚ his learning derided‚ and his election considered a stroke of luck. And yet the prairie lawyer from Springfield would emerge the undisputed captain of his distinguished Cabinet‚ earning the respect of colleagues who had originally disdained him‚ and become‚ as Whitman wrote‚ "the grandest figure yet‚ on all the crowded canvas of the Nineteenth Century." As it turned out‚ unbeknownst to the country at the time‚ Lincoln

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    The analysis of the passage Neat People vs. Sloppy People (外文学院02级2班 王思 020214214) Abstract: Suzanne Britt’s work Neat People vs. Sloppy People is a passage of comparison. In this passage‚ Britt distinguishes neat people from sloppy people in the moral aspect. She used kinds of figures of speech such as paradox‚ hyperbole‚ metaphor and so on in the description and comparison‚ making her work so distinguished. Key words: neat people‚ sloppy people Ⅰ.Brief account of the

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    Marcel Duchamp Analysis

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    The act of masterfully capturing an audience’s attention to gaze upon a piece of artwork and feel a sense an interest‚ is achieved as artist’s endorse the role of crafting unprecedented work with the use of conventional materials. This notion will be explored through use of the following artists: Pablo Picasso a Spanish cubist‚ Marcel Duchamp‚ was a French member of the Dada Movement‚ Rosalie Gascoigne a New Zealand contemporary artist (d.1999)‚ El Anatsui a West African contemporary artist and Fiona

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