A Teacher’s Personal Definitions of Literacy, Theories and Philosophies of Literacy, Beliefs about Literacy Learning, and Classroom Literacy Practices I volunteered less for any role in the church, at work, or at school that had to do with reading or writing. Roles such as being the secretary for Youth Fellowship, or the Usher’s Ministry because it involved taking the minutes. My fear of publicly misspelling words or not reading fluently, allowed me to shy away from any role that could...
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Thesis statement: In the reading titled “Today’s Nuclear Dilemma” by Eric Schlosser, the author is arguing that nuclear weapons pose a dangerous threat worldwide, now more than ever before and thus nuclear weapons need to be abolished. I. Argument/reason: An important reason presented in the reading as to why nuclear weapons need to be abolished is due to expenses. Evidence: Multiple different countries such as Russia, China, North Korea, and the United States are spending billions of dollars to advance...
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Sixteenth-century Venice viewed and treated women with restrictive and symbolic societal expectations, and this is a theme prevalent through the art and architecture of the period. Through the Casa delle Zitelle, Veronese's Apotheosis of Venice, and Andrea Vicentino's Disembarkation of the Dogaressa Morosini Morosini Grimani from the Bucintoro and Her Progress Toward the Triumphal Arch, the Venetian social expectations of women can be assessed. Women are treated as fragile commodities whose encouraged traits are beauty and purity. This often prevents...
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The Era of the Fur Trade The fur trade is a worldwide industry that deals in the sale of animal fur over the world to manufacture especially woolen hats and clothes. In the 1800s on the mainland north of the 49th parallel, the fur trade held until the gold rush to the Fraser river. The Europeans established their power in the Northern cordillera in the absence of a state as there were heavy conflicts regarding the territories. For approximately fifty...
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Individuals experience childhood in various conditions and as they develop, their environment impacts them from numerous points of view. In Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis, she is a 10-year-old who lives in Iran that has encountered groundbreaking occasions, for example, the Islamic Revolution which happened in 1979, and the Iranian and Iraq war in the 1980s. Marjane utilizes these occasions and showed them as a realistic novel for the honor-winning diary, Persepolis. Satrapi's realistic novel Persepolis is a bildungsroman on the grounds...
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The time that I found the schooling system to be a “place of sanctuary” in my life would have to be NEVER... The day that I realized that the school system was designed to inculcate the minds of the youth and that the school system's main intention was designed to promote propaganda (a message designed to persuade an audience to think or behave in a certain manner) amongst the minds of the youth at a young age. Which in effect,...
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Dr. W. Edwards Deming: Father of the quality evolution Dr. W Edwards Deming, born 14 October 1900 was an American engineer, statistician, author, lecturer, and consultant. He has made many academic contributions to the quality movement including his philosophical methods and his theory of profound knowledge has assisted in the development of Total Quality Management (TQM). The 1950s was the era that was considered the origin of TQM but interest in this management practice peaked in the early 1990s. Deming,...
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Introduction Freedom of speech must be allowed in higher education institutions. The reason for this is that it is a core value in the democratic process, and it ensures that people can discuss exchange and debate ideas. The important thing is that it pursues knowledge and protects one's dignity. Hyman. J (2008, p10) Freedom of speech is a key part of higher education institutions, which allows students to expand their way of thinking about specific topics. Each student has a...
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“Social Constructs are real. That’s what makes them so powerful” (Trombley 2013). Society accepts and determines these social constructs. Social constructs can be non-identical based on the community and the events neighboring the time period in which they live. In my essay, I will be defining what is a social construct. I will discuss my chosen example of a social construct and what it entails. I will also define and discuss what is classification. Toward the end, I will discuss...
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Society and Crime The purpose of this paper will serve to provide an overview of how the impacts of crime affect public policy, sentencing, practices, and operations of correctional institutions, along with a societal response to those impacts. We will attempt to examine why there is a need for punishment and crime (or not), take a look at the emphasis on current punishment and/or rehabilitation, and how multiculturalism and diversity may affect the responses to crime. Society’s views of crime...
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A man who is virtuous and has many sympathetic traits, a person with flaws people would consider fatal, a person wounded by experience: that person is a tragic hero, and a tragic hero is perfectly shown by Shakespeare's Othello. Othello’s past is the reason he is the way he is today, his past is the reason he is considered a tragic hero. Him being a victim of racism “ his blackness is not only a mark of his physical alienation...
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In Suzanne Collins’s dystopian novel “The Hunger Games”, she portrays a post-apocalyptic world in which 12 Districts in a nation known as Panem are oppressed by the rich ruling class in a city known as the Capitol. In societies such as these, great heroes are needed. One such hero is the protagonist of the novel: Katniss Everdeen. She is quite an unlikely hero, as she is from one of the poorest districts in Panem, but she has many heroic traits...
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South Africa is a country with huge potential to grow economically and socially but it is hindered by many socio-economic factors such as poverty, poor standard of education, high crime rate and lack of investments. Foreign direct investment (FDI), generally refers to an investment by an individual or firm in a business in another country. FDI is crucial for economic growth it provides capital, entrance to foreign technology, knowledge and managerial skills and leads to other essential inputs. South Africa’s...
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Many philosophical films are currently available. These films dealt with all kinds of subjects such as social life, work, health, race, etc. The most interesting subject in ‘A Beautiful Mind’, one of the famous philosophical films, is the difficulty of the main character to distinguish the difference between the two, reality and imagination. The film's philosophical argument is very important because it is based on the true story, which only occurs in rare cases. After watching the movie ‘A Beautiful...
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Science fiction deals primarily with the effects of imagined or legitimate science upon individuals and/or society. Often, texts of the genre provide commentary on or caution against events occurring in present-day society. Andrew Niccol’s ‘Gattaca’ (1997) and Aliette de Bodard’s ‘Immersion’ (2012) explore the present-day overdependence on technology, but while ‘Immersion’ uses character to convey individual overdependence, ‘Gattaca’ uses setting to convey the overdependence on technology of society as a whole. However, both texts incorporate the theme of loss of...
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Science fiction utilize textual forms and features to speculate possible futures and critique modern day values. The futuristic aspect of this genre allows readers to view current societal issues such as discrimination and social conditioning through different perspectives. Andrew Niccol’s ‘Gattaca’ (1997) and Aliette De Bodard’s ‘Immersion’ (2012) explore the unreasonable discrimination against those who refuse to conform to the society causing the audience to reconsider the validity of social norms that repress people into behaving a certain way. Science...
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Andrew Niccol uses dialogue, camera angles, and symbolism to show the main themes of his film ‘Gattaca’ - discrimination, perfection and determination. ‘Gattaca’ is about a seemingly utopian country with no illness and no disease. Though these people are genetically made, making it physically impossible to find an imperfection. The film is about how people are treated unfairly due to being imperfect in their pristine economy. Vincent born as an ‘in-valid’ has to prove that he is just as worthy...
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It can be seen to a large extent that South Africa is less racist since apartheid. Life during apartheid was harsh due to radical laws imposing segregation between blacks and whites. Since apartheid these laws have been abolished and blacks have been given more freedom. However, racism still lingers throughout the country. Laws that were put in place were racist and discriminated against blacks and other races. Such laws consisted of the prohibition of mixed marriages which prohibited marriage between...
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Many people are concerned with their appearance these days and want to keep a healthy diet, but eating too healthy can be a sign of trouble. Over-dieting is faulty because it can cause a lot of harmful outcomes for insistence: mood swings, disordered eating, orthorexia nervosa, metabolism problems, and life-threatening medical conditions. Changes in attitude are an effect of dieting. According to the Journal of Health Psychology, there was an experiment where some females dieted and some did not. For...
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An environmental worldview is our assumption about the value and use of the environment. Everyone's worldview, when it comes to the environment, is different; circumstantial to the way you were raised, your religious background, and simply just where you put the environment’s well-being on your list of priorities. These worldviews are broken down into three different categories: the anthropocentric worldview, the life/earth-centric worldview, and the biblical worldview. The anthropocentric worldview is when people think that the role of humans is...
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Parents should write a petition to Disney to make their princesses fit the mold of young girls across the world and protest the amount of sexualization that is being presented to girls through TV and the Internet. Stephanie Hanes (2011), author of ‘Little Girls or Little Women? The Disney Princess Effect’, claims that Disney stated: “The Disney princesses teach girls valuable life lessons like kindness and the love for animals”. Several parents have found themselves mixed up in the controversy...
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Many see the monster Grendel, for what he is, a monster. After all, he has taken many lives and has committed cardinal sins. However, in his final fight against Beowulf he can be seen as the victim, his thoughts reshape but also reconfirm that the dragon was the one who changed him. In the novel ‘Grendel’ by John Gardener, Gardener emphasizes the changes of Grendel’s identity and purpose over the course of his battle with Beowulf through the employment of...
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Science fiction texts effectively utilize a variety of textual forms and features to explore fictional futures, which cooperate to develop a commentary on the present. ‘Gattaca’ (1997), produced by Andrew Niccol, and ‘Movement’ (2011), by Nancy Fulda, are two texts that reveal the ongoing rivalry between Earth’s creator, God, and the evolvement of scientific technology. However, as a consequence of the rivalry, whilst ‘Gattaca’ exhibits the importance of resisting conformity, ‘Movement’ emphasizes self-acceptance and staying true to your own identity....
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As a Christian, my environmental worldview varies from others. Some people think we should take charge of everything and disregard other creatures, but I believe God intended us to live in harmony. I also believe that God created this planet and all of its components for us humans to live on in harmony with wildlife, care for it, utilize its resources in a responsible manner because he gifted us humans the knowledge to versus other creatures. In this paper, I...
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During this time of Covid-19 it is important to keep our body healthy so we can avoid problems when we become older. A way to keep our body healthy is by choosing a vegetarian diet, which increases our life expectancy and at the same time does not pose a danger to animals. A lot of people think they have to eat meat to get all the nutrients they need for a good health, but that is not actually true. One...
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The reality of the world and the truth of it is questioned every day, especially when something goes wrong. This is shown in ‘The Truman Show', when Truman finally starts to question the reality of the world and the truth of the people that surrounds him. The movie serves as a symbol for our current condition. In our cultural world, politics, advertisement, and public relations are increasingly made up of cinematic illusions, just like the false landscape Truman lives in....
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The Theme of grace in “A Good Man Is Hard To Find and Other Stories” is widely presented in most stories of Flannery O’Connor. At the beginning of most stories, characters are seen as being alienated to the author’s perception of God’s grace, living a sinful life. As the story develops however, some changes occur in the lives of characters where they experience grace through an understanding of humanity. In this context, grace is viewed as a life situation in...
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This essay will talk about the origin moussaka which is a Greek dish that many of the locals enjoy. I will also talk about some of the individual ingredients of moussaka and how it found its way into the county and ultimately into the dish. Lastly, I will talk about some of the relationships between moussaka and some of the topics in this class such as The Columbian exchange and cultural diffusion. Moussaka is eggplant casserole and baked meat with...
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Making your message heard You can reduce the number of power struggles that you experience by learning how to communicate effectively with your child. Here are some important tips to keep in mind: Do a sound check first. Make sure that you have your child’s undivided attention before you make a request or start issuing instructions. Barking out orders from the next room doesn’t cut it. Not only do you increase the odds that you’ll be ignored, but by communicating...
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There are still many countries that getting involved in war. Millions of people are killing each other because of many reasons, like race, religion, and confrontation with government. Most of the war would be one-way attack, but you may hear the news about suicide attacks these days especially about ISIS, but the Middle East isn’t the only area that has had attacks like these. Japan also happened in 70 years ago, kamikaze attacks. Kamikaze, means “divine wind” or “spirit attack”...
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