Albert Einstein said, “Everybody is a genius, but if you judge a fish by its capability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing it is stupid.” A quote that resonates with most of us, yet here we all are, regardless of our strengths and differences presenting a speech with a preselected topic all using the exact same marking rubric. Every scientist will state that no two brains are the same and every teacher, parent, and Tumblr...
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Religion Assignment This essay contains various reflections on my personal religious experience here at Marino Institute of Education in my first year of the B. ED course as well as some of my opinions and thoughts on assigned college readings. Through writing this essay, it has allowed me to reflect on my religious education so far in my nineteen years of life and I can now proudly say that I know what sort of religious education teacher that I want...
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The usage of social media has increased tremendously through the years. As mentioned by Kuss and Griffiths (2017), social media is being used as several different mediums for instance it is used for communication, learning, and collaborating. , This has led individuals to develop problematic, compulsive as well addictive habits toward the usage of social media (Balakrishnan and Griffith, 2017). In regard to this issue, the use of social media has made an impact on the development of children and...
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According to Senanayake (2011) and Ando (2011), Gender-based violence (GBV) encompasses physical, sexual, verbal, emotional, and psychological violence that is directed at an individual based on his or her biological sex or preferred gender identity. Although anyone can be a victim of GBV regardless of their location, social status, religion, etc. most GBV cases reported today mostly highlight the suffering women and girls have from this type of violence (Ando, 2011). Gender-based violence occurs in all parts of the world,...
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Public Health England (2017) projected that smoking costs the National Health Service £2.5 billion. A study by ASH Action on Smoking and Health (2016) that smoking costs Cheshire West and Chester £89.3 million a year, nearly £1,673 per smoker per year (Inside Cheshire West and Chester, 2017). When reflecting, the latest statistics report by the National Health Service (NHS, 2019) showed that throughout 2017/2018, 14.4% of adults in England smoked – to break this down to the Cheshire West and...
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As a mentor, my role according to Casey and Clark 2011 is to be a good and competent role model for my students. According to the NMC (2008), a mentor is a registrant who facilitates learning and supervises and assesses students in a practice setting. I was informed by my manager that I would be co-mentoring a student nurse who was in his final year and this placement also being his final placement. My first thoughts were, what do I...
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In The Crucible play, Arther Miller amplifies the theme of fear and hysteria within Salem's community. Although this theme runs throughout the play, it is especially apparent after the witch trials start. The play starts with the girls dancing in the woods and getting caught. This directly leads to Betty being ” paralyzed” by the Devil's spirits, although this is not quite the truth. The play then intensifies with a snowball effect that turns into heated hysteria. On the other...
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Teamwork might be defined in simple words as a group of people who work together in a team to achieve a goal or work most effectively. I had the opportunity to evaluate its benefits during the last module of my studies and in this essay I am going to share my experience. Our module BUS156 focused on sustainability, social justice, and good governance as the three main challenges during the time of COVID-19. While working together in a team, I...
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A nice calm close to the beach and a forest environment is a place you would only think exists in movies. But somehow I'm in luck because that sounds like the campus of UC Santa Cruz. And it's a realistic school that I can actually attend because the GPA requirement is not 4.0 and up, it's a 3.76. I would love to attend this school because this campus is like a 'zoo' where you can always expect to see deer...
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Introduction Nowadays, artificial intelligence (AI) is present almost everywhere and helps us daily, for example in self-driving cars, in virtual assistants such as the well-known Siri or Google Home, or even in the film industry. However, when asking some of my close friends, family, and IB students from around the world if they trusted AI, the most common answer was that they did not; but those same people also had trouble correctly defining what is AI. So first of all,...
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The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho is a turning multi-measurement story. It is generally a journey trail. Assuming the single instance of a Spanish shepherd kid, it extrapolates and expands upon the mind-boggling endeavors of life, decisions and outcomes, bargaining, change, predetermination, and the makings of an amazing plan of things. This book is about a youngster from Spain named Santiago, who resisted his parent's desires of turning into a cleric, to turn into a free wandering shepherd as he loved...
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The title of the book is, The Alchemist and it is a novel type of book. It is a fiction and it was published in the year 1992. This novel, The Alchemist was written by Paulo Coelho. “Paulo grew up with his family in the town, of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. His dad is an engineer and wanted Paulo to follow his footprints as well. Paulo kept on to his dream of being a writer, despite his father’s wishes. After...
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Introduction When the topic of literacy occurs, literacy is commonly associated with the learning of reading and writing. But within Early Childhood, literacy can be seen in more than just reading and writing. Early Literacy consists of children gaining knowledge about reading and writing before they achieve these milestones. Literacy can be developed in more ways than one, which could be singing, playing, talking to peers/adults, as well as reading and writing (Cedar Mill Community Library, 2019). Literacy can be...
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In the beginning, when the quite famous Elsie and Donald utilized the term 'vegan' to describe the nondairy vegetarians, the lifestyle and the diet were considered to be 'uncool'. Many vegetarians also refused to associate themselves with this radical movement. The practice of veganism started a health-crazed and clubby reputation. Their diet eventually became truly admired and popular with countercultural organizations, particularly the hippies, but it still maintained its exclusivity. These days, a vast number of vegans attempt to escape...
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According to Kotler in 1988, advertising is one of the four major tools companies use to direct persuasive communications to target buyers. Advertising is thus used in the retail industry and has impacted this industry positively from the use of online marketing techniques to advertise such as using ‘networking (Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, etc.)’ as it has been defined as ‘the best way to enhance the customer engagement’. (Rathnayaka, 2018). Consumer engagement is an important aspect within the fashion retail industry...
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'The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind' is an inspirational movie based on true events. Seeing the poverty and struggles that the people from Malawi, Africa live in is very heartbreaking and humbling, but these conditions cannot hold back 14-year-old William Kamkwamba who is smart, dedicated, and driven. William fights all obstacles to educate himself and to find a way to save his family and village. This is a must-see movie with wonderful life lessons. The movie has a slow start...
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Several photographers have photographed home and family life. Their styles range from the cinematic, staged, conceptual views of home, like Gregory Crewdson's 'Cathedral of the Pines' (2014) and Philip-Lorca diCorcia's 'Brian in the Kitchen' (1988), Tina Barney's family snapshots 'Theatre of Manners' (1997), showing the life of wealthy Americans, in an intimate, informal way, through to Richard Billingham's 'Ray's a Laugh' (2000), which documents a raw, chaotic image of his family life in a flat in the Midlands, using a...
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Before this class, I believed that the 'real world' meant the real experiences that people of color face in the United States. I think the 'real world' that I see is that many Americans are fighting for freedom, racism is still going on, and inequality between genders. I also think America allows citizens to have the opportunity to find their American Dream. Like for example, economic opportunities give people to invest in their own education. There are a lot of...
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After completing the Wellness Inventory and going over my results for each of the seven dimensions of wellness, I was a mix of surprised and shocked. Some results I received were what I was anticipating, others not so much. As a first-year university student and a teenager, sometimes it’s difficult to keep your overall wellness in check. This semester I would like to focus on maintaining my good spiritual and emotional wellness, as well as focus more on my physical...
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Human beings have throughout the years been able to produce identity and character by association and attachment, where belonging to a certain aggregate or collective gives one a sense of security that all is well and good. As social animals, we comprehend our general surroundings by taking a gander at others and emulating conduct that we esteem as the correct method to act, and this structure bunches where we feel comprehended and ensured. According to works in psychology, behavior is...
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From a very young age, both boys and girls are taught certain mannerisms that will shape the way they approach life and interact with others. They are taught by parents, siblings, family members, friends, as well as teachers. This lends varied sources of input on what qualifies as social standards for a person in their formative years and throughout adult life as well. Peggy Orenstein discusses this in her article 'The Miseducation of the American Boy', which talks about the...
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Homer’s Odyssey is an epic set in 1200 BC. It begins with the victory of the Greeks, which Odysseus is part of, against the Trojans. The victory of the Trojan War which lasts 10 ten years. The next 10 years after the war, are Odysseus’s adventures and challenges to get home to Ithaca. Throughout his adventures, important life lessons are taught, many of which can be related to modern-day conflicts. The actions and decisions that Odysseus makes during the story...
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While the theme of the quest for identity is woven into the heart of both George Eliot’s Silas Marner (1861) and Jean Rhys’ Wide Sargasso Sea (1966), it is also clear that loss and destruction have significant roles to play in the texts. The characters are hit with the loss of their homes, their identities, their relationships, and their wealth, both due to their actions and the actions of others. Loss and destruction are particularly strong for Antoinette Mason in...
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The true meaning of being heroic is having the qualities of a hero, such as bravery and courage, and using those qualities to save or help others. As seen through both epic poems we encounter ways that both of the main characters acted heroic and analyze in what way each character had portrayed their acts of bravery and courage. Throughout The Odyssey and The Aeneid, both Aeneas and Odysseus portray qualities of being heroic in yet similar but different ways...
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In both towns, Janie speaks as an outsider. The men’s stories feature silent women who are included in the stories as objects for the men to lust after or win, rather than active characters with their own emotions. They only include women in the stories about men. These tales cast women as men’s objects of desire, reduced to their appearance and the social status it affords them. In Eatonville, Coker and Hicks, just after greeting Janie and Jody to Eatonville,...
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In the science fiction book, The Giver by Lois Lowry, the protagonist, Jonas, lives in a community that is excruciatingly controlled. The members of the community could not even make most of their own choices. Almost everyone who lived within the confines of the community never had to experience anything gruesome like pain or hunger, nor did they understand the concept of war. Only one person, basically the recluse of the town, had the burden of containing all the pain...
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Jane Austen was an English novelist at the end of the 18th and the beginning of the 19th century. She wrote famous novels like Sense and Sensibility (1811) and Pride and Prejudice (1813 ). This extract is the beginning of chapter one ( volume 1) from the novel Emma written by Jane Austen and published anonymously in December 1815. Sir Walter Scott considered this book as heralding a new genre of novel (more realistic). At the time, this book had...
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Their eyes were watching God Author: Zora Neale Hurston Nationality: American Purpose: to create the life of a black woman who tries to find herself through experiences while using symbols throughout the story that symbolize different things: eternity, power, love, etc. It also shines a light on the way of life black Americans lived in the South around the 1930s. Type of Book: Fiction Summary The novel begins with the main character, Janie Starks, who is returning to what seems...
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Realistic, striking, and raw diction in a POV piece imbues feeling and therefore belief in the reader. In the case of The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien, post-war O’Brien admits to “...making up a few things to get at the real truth” (81). When post-war O’Brien reflects on the young dainty man he saw dead near the village of My Khe, he believes that his piece of writing will be more impactful should he state that he was the...
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Imagine a world without money, and wealth is non-existent! It must be a lifeless world. With money, one can satisfy many needs in one's life, and happiness is promised. In the times of Jane Austen, society is in an era where money and wealth are vital contributors to joy. In her book Pride and Prejudice, the aspect is highly unmistakable. The author centers her work on Mr. and Mrs. Bennet’s family, who have five daughters; Jane, the eldest, Elizabeth, Lydia,...
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