depression‚ but she never elaborates on this observation. Her mother compares being brave with being good‚ and says: "At a time when everything in my family was unpredictable and dysfunctional here I had been supplied with a formula of behavior for gaining acceptance and‚ I believed‚ love. All I had to do was perform heroically and I could personally save my entire
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Face in the Crowd In the mall you sit in the middle of the courtyard. There is a big crowd of people just hanging out‚ or conversing with each other‚ or waiting for transportation. In this courtyard there are some small potted trees and bushes; these plants are beginning to turn brown since the winter is drawing near. As you sit on that stone bench you notice the different cliques of people. There are the high schoolers‚ the “cool kids”‚ the parents and their children‚ and the young couples.
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values are portrayed with his approach to advice his son. Through the long and involved syntax the author is capable of communicating the importance of succeeding in life to his son. Chesterfield appeals to ethos in order to reveal the importance of his image. Chesterfield’s use of parallelism in the opening paragraph establishes a sense of understanding‚ when he repetitively states “I know” ahead of every statement. This communicates to his son that he understands how it feels to receive advice
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prefer texting nowadays so so face to face communication is really starting to lack in society. Texting is constantly changing our language. The use of abbreviations‚ digits and the general absence of any vowels has changed the way we can communicate with people and how we use the written word by mobile phone. The short talk we have over the phone has affected the way we talk to a person face to face. Due to the rapid expansion of technology‚
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MY LAST DUCHESS: Narrative perspective/voices: first person narrator‚ aristocrat‚ superior and detached‚ clear sense of the addressee who the duke thinks is inferior‚ the Duke talks about the duchess but never quotes her words‚ the duke a performer who mimics the voices of others‚ chilling sinister tone‚ etc. Setting: the duke of Ferrara’s palace‚ upstairs in the gallery‚ 16th century setting‚ etc. Dramatic monologue‚ written in iambic pentameters‚ reads like blank verse in a drama/contains
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The extent that virtual learning environments (VLEs) enhance traditional face to face teaching in higher education is in itself a very complex issue‚ since most of the universities across the world intend to upgrade their teaching facilities to be more state of the art. The Joint Information Systems Committee JISC (2007‚ citied in Maltby & Mackie 2009:49) defines a VLE as a set of components in which learners and tutors participate in ‘online’ interactions of various kinds‚ including online learning
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Sons and Lovers: A Psychoanalytic Criticism Psychoanalysis is a psychological approach that focuses on the concepts of Sigmund Freud and helps us to understand human behavior. D.H. Lawrence’s Sons and Lovers (1913) is a text that cries out for a psychoanalytic interpretation.One of Freud’s most famous theories is the Oedipus complex‚ which deals with a child’s emerging sexuality. Freud used the story of Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex to help illustrate his theory. In the story‚ Oedipus unwittingly kills
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! Online Training V Face to Face Training. ! ! ! ! ! ! Our first mistake could be thinking that one is better than the other. Or that one exists without the other. However‚ progress comes from adapting to the environment in which we find ourselves and training like everything else in our lives is going “online". So anyone who wants to make a difference in vocational education can now raise their sights to master the “classroom on the cloud”.! ! So what do we want to bring with us‚ from the old
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A father came home from work late‚ tired and irritated‚ to find his 5-year old son waiting for him at the door.Son: "Father‚ may I ask you a question?"Father replied: "Yeah sure‚ what it is?"Son: "Father‚ how much do you make an hour?"Father said angrily: "That’s none of your business. Why do you ask such a thing?"Son: "I just want to know. Please tell me‚ how much do you make an hour?"Father: "If you must know‚ I make $20 an hour.""Oh‚" the little boy replied‚ with his head down. Looking up‚ he
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Face validity refers to how a test ‘looks’ as it measure what it is meant to measure. For listening test‚ it is expected that the questions and test subject will require takers to listen to audio recordings. Face validity also includes other factors such as the setting of the examination and the equipment used (Hughes‚ 2007). Finally‚ criterion validity refers to the criteria wherein the results of the examination will be compared to (Hughes‚ 2007. The criteria used to evaluate the skills of students
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