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    Counterparts‚ Farrington battles with alcoholism. James Joyce perceives the main character as drinking away his problems by having a drink any time a petty statement or dig is referred toward him. Since his boss constantly pushes at him since he is so focused on having another drink rather than getting his work done‚ he succumbs to both his wished and faults. While his lunch break occurs he has one with what little money he has to try and fill his desires and agitation towards his boss. This is what clouds

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    The central character is Mrs. Mooney who runs the boarding house. She has had an unhappy marriage and it made her as sharp as an axe. When she gets rid of her husband she opens a boarding house. She has a son‚ Jack‚ who is "a hard case". She also has a daughter‚ Polly‚ a slim girl of nineteen who resembles a "perverse little Madonna." Mrs. Mooney is concerned about Polly’s marriage and she knows that most men are not seriously interested in her. So she decides to keep Polly in the boarding house

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    Streetcar Named Desire Scene 2 1) Stella tells Stanley that Belle Reve (Rive?) is lost. It leads to a little argument. He asks for the papers‚ looks inside her trunk. He finds clothes‚ letters from Blanche’s dead husband‚ in a tin box. Napoleonic code. Stanley reveals Stella’s pregnancy. Belle Reve was lost on mortgage‚ sold by Ambler & Ambler 2) Sees through Blanche’s trunk. “Your looks are okay” -> Blanche was expecting compliments 3) Beautiful dresses - no paper at the

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    SETTING OBJECTIVES AND PROVIDING FEEDBACK This week’s reading is related to how learning objectives should be‚ what learning objectives should engage with and importance of providing feedback. Learning objectives are what students learn in class. Feedback is making comment on what students need to do to improve their performance and understanding. Setting objectives has some features to increase effectiveness of objectives. The first one is that learning objectives are not too general or too

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    philosopher‚ Wayne Dyer‚ once said‚ “If you change the way you look at things‚ the things you look at change.” If you realize what you have done wrong‚ you can change how you act the next time you are in the same situation. In the play‚ A Christmas Carol‚ the main character‚ Scrooge‚ was only able to look upon money‚ nothing else. To change‚ Scrooge had to change the way he looked at money and his life; he needed to focus on the more important things‚ like family and caring for others. In the beginning

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    A Will to Grow In Carol Dwecks article “Brainology”‚ she argues that a children’s mindset affect their motivation and academic work through their beliefs in which students are either worried or resilient to challenges. Dweck indicates that students with a fixed mindset are anxious about the amount of intelligence they have and are always threatened by the challenges because they think that their intelligence is fixed and failures affect them badly. In contrast‚ Dweck talks about growth mindset where

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    Analysis and use of Carol Gilligan’s In A Different Voice In Gilligan’s In a Different Voice she explains that in social science the perspectives of men and women differ. She challenges that these “theories formerly considered to be sexually neutral” are human constructs that can be seen in fiction and science cannot be neutral until “we begin to notice how accustomed we have become to seeing life through men’s eyes”. This means that those stereotypes of how men and women look at situations‚ observations

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    I like the DVD better than the written version of A Christmas Carol. The movie and the story are a lot alike. The movie and the story are different in many ways. There are many ways the special effects of the movie make it better than the book. There are many similarities and differences between the movies. The movie and the story are a lot alike. One similarity is there was a lot of fog. Another is when his old partner “Marley” talked to him he told him three ghost will show up in his

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    Compare and contrast essay I will compare the history of “A Christmas Carol: Scrooge and Marley” that is a play with the film “From Scrooge”. They are the same history develop in a different way because they roll in entertainment the world are different. I like a lot plays but also the movies. Let´s checks its comparison. Characters in the history are completely the same ones. Neither another character neither a missing character. In the play‚ characters are like more expressive and sarcastic‚ like

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    1. Find 8 adjectives to describe Scrooge. The eight adjectives that I found best describes Scrooge at the beginning of the novel would be greedy and unfriendly‚ even though he donates‚ I still feel that he is somewhat greedy at the beginning of it. Following would be grumpy‚ miserable and cold hearted. As the novel progresses‚ he definitely begins to be more thoughtful and friendly. By the end I feel he is a happy old man and glad those ghosts came to him. 2. How does Scrooge live despite enormous

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