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    half of the brain tends to function by processing information in an analytical‚ rational‚ logical‚ sequential way. The right half of the brain tends to function by recognizing relationships‚ integrating and synthesizing information‚ and arriving at intuitive insights. In other words‚ the left side of your brain deals with a problem or situation by collecting data‚ making analyses‚ and using a rational thinking process to reach a logical conclusion. The right side of your brain approaches the

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    organization of their brains are superiority in verbal tests and being able to convey emotions better due to the fact that their emotional functions are within the left and right side of the brain‚ when for men‚ the function is only in the right side. Female brains are superior in verbal tests because language skills including grammar‚ spelling‚ and writing are all housed in the left side of the brain‚ whereas in a male brain‚ the language skills are located in the front and back of the brain which makes it

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    There are three major brain divisions. They are the cerebrum‚ the brainstem‚ and the cerebellum. The cerebrum contains 40% of the weight of the brain and is founded in the superior part of the brain. This portion of the brain has many functions and lobes which perform certain functions. The frontal lobe is involved with “activating and controlling both fine and complex motor activities.” This involves speech. It is also involved with the executive functions‚ such as reasoning and rationalizing‚ among

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    1 Critical Review No. 2: His Brain‚ Her Brain Abstract As Larry Cahill ’s article “His Brain‚ Her Brain”‚ points out there has been data showing a vast “...array of structural‚ chemical and functional variations” between the sexes; but does size matter? Lawrence Summers‚ former President of Harvard‚ thought so. Men ’s brains are 13% larger than women ’s brains‚ but does that really make them more advanced in math‚ physics and science? There are other anatomical variations and some of these

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    A Braindead Country Called Lebanon By: Rasha Abouzaki Published Tuesday‚ June 26‚ 2012 http://english.al-akhbar.com/node/8933 The myth of superiority clearly has a grip on the Lebanese. They presume that they are the masters of science‚ civilization‚ and progress. But looking beyond this “chauvinist” posture‚ we find a country barren of any institutions that encourage achievement. The feebleness of Lebanese scientific research could be one of the reasons for Lebanese society’s ignorance of its

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    Sources of Anxiety Why do some people feel anxious when speaking a new language? As noted in Horwitz‚ Horwitz‚ and Cope (1986)‚ FLA possibly results when people don’t feel like themselves when speaking the other language. Witty people are not able to be as amusing; warm people cannot express their caring and empathy‚ etc. And most people sound less intelligent than they really are or think they are when speaking the second language. Language classes are typically more public and more personal than

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    5.1 Refusal Skills – Work File Read each of the case studies located on the activities page in the 5.1 assignment and choose one of the case studies to complete the refusal sequence. Assignment Using the refusal skills sequence‚ complete the case scenario by indicating how you would refuse to be involved in the situation. Include all eight steps of the refusal sequence‚ and use the format indicated below for each step. (List the step then the action) Answer the reflection question below the

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    2.1 Describe the possible signs‚ symptoms‚ indicators or behaviours that may cause concern in the context of safeguarding. A Person may abuse by either inflicting harm or failing to prevent the harm occurring. Some of the behaviours indicating possible concern with regards to safeguarding children are: Physical abuse: such as bruises to parts of the body‚ fingertip bruising (grasp mark)‚ bruises of different ages in the same place. Outline bruises (hand prints‚ belts or shoes)

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    Irma Janet Cazarez February 5‚ 2014 English 12 Beowulf : Movie or Poem? Before watching the Beowulf movie‚ I had the opportunity to read the poem along with ghthe class. I thought the movie was going to be a slight different from the epic poem‚ but that it was still going to stick to the message that the poem had given us. As we started to watch the movie‚ I noticed that I as completely wrong because the movie is almost completely different from the epic poem. The movie kept very few

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    On the first day of class‚ we had a wonderful guest speaker who came from Japan to speak with us on different aspects pertaining to Indians living in Japan. Yuka Mizutani discussed how many Indians lived in Japan‚ but the Japanese government only wants the world to see them as only having Japanese people. As a result of this‚ the Indians had to blend in with the normal Japanese people and they were not allowed to have their own cultural identity. They were forced to speak and write Japanese to make

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