My father‚ John II of Castile‚ had my brother Alfonso and I with his second wife. My mother‚ Isabella of Portugal. My father had my other brother‚ Henry‚ from a previous marriage. I believe I was about three years old when my father passed. At that time‚ Henry became King Henry IV‚ I was left with very little memory of my father and Alfonso was left with no memories. The Spanish nobles at the time did not wish to have Henry as their king and preferred my younger brother Alfonso. Unfortunately‚ Alfonso
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Dividing Attention Facilitates or Impedes Learning Dividing attention can impede learning when trying to retain new facts. This can actually impair ability to retain information or to properly interact with others. When receiving information from many different sources or interfacing with different people at the same time it is difficult to concentrate and succeed at dealing with at least one of the issues at hand. If dividing your attention among a group of activities impedes your progress
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ignore irrelevant information. In some instances‚ humans will experience attentional shift which can be endogenous or exogenous. Endogenous attention (top-down) refers to when an individual directs their attention voluntarily. Exogenous (bottom up) attention refers to when attention is automatically drawn to a stimulus or external event. Hands can cause attention to be automatically drawn to an external event. Recently scientists have discovered a link between vision and hands; numerous
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P.1 Venture Concept: Specialized Designs Kandice Porter FIN / 375 5/25/2015 Dr. Leon Daniel Jr. Venture Concept
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the video game you are playing in the same room as many people are speaking‚ a concept of selective attention is introduced (Wikipedia‚ 2006). A normal attention span seems to develop in three stages in children. First‚ the child’s attention is said to be overly exclusive. This is a term used by psychologists to describe attention that is focused on a single object for long periods while tuning out all other stimuli (Child Development Institute‚ 2006). Second‚ a child’s attention develops to where
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transitions from topic to topic. His main focus was the basic building block of all matter: the tiny atom and how it makes YOU. Those simple particles‚ bonded together in such a unique way that it can only create one individual: You. The author says‚ "To begin with‚ for you to be here now trillions of drifting atoms had somehow to assemble in an intricate and intriguingly obliging manner to create you. It’s an arrangement so specialized and particular that it has never been tried before and will only exist
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[pic] Topic 1: Define project What is a project? A project is the defined set of planned and managed activities carried out for a period of time — with a defined start and end date. A project is designed to yield a set of products or services as agreed with the project clients and stakeholders. It has a lifecycle which is the process by which the project is undertaken. Five features that differentiate projects from ordinary work are that they:
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this strategy prevents his peers from delivering a better argument than he can‚ it also allows Socrates to go quite a while without presenting his own definition of justice. Although this may lead the reader to think the philosopher simply cannot define justice‚ it quickly becomes clear Socrates was just biding his time before launching into the lengthy process of creating an entire hypothetical city‚ despite the fact that his peers have charged him only with defining justice in a man. In deciding
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Paper 1 How do you ensure that pupils understand explanations ? The purpose of this essay is to look at the ways in which a child retains information‚ how that information is processed and the possible barriers involved. There will be some focus on the theories of learning and the strategies and practices employed in the classroom. At this juncture it must be stated that ‘ensuring’ may be an ambiguous word‚ and that ‘enabling’ the understanding may be more precise‚ as no matter how vociferous
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advancing of technology and easy access of the internet. In the following essay the merits and pitfalls of being able to access large amounts of information from the internet will be discussed as well as trying to avoid the downside of operating in an “attention economy”. The internet has many advantages. Firstly on a social level‚ websites such as facebook‚ Twitter and MySpace‚ have allowed for people all over the world to be connected. It is a cheap‚ fast and easy way of communicating. More and more
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