Brian Gikunda Diamond ENC1101 09/17/2014 Assignment 1: Article Summary In this article‚ James Aston and John Wallis talk about the apocalyptic movies that are released before and after the attacks on the United States on September 11‚ 2001. They look at the fears and Issues following the 9/11 attack such as: the war on terror‚ American imperialism and other issues that involve the environment. This articles looks at movies with the same patterns and show the same disaster and apocalyptic genre
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Janet Sanchez Professor Cichelli Sociology 100 March 8‚ 2015 Article Summary In the article "Understanding American Worldview‚" the author J. LaVelle Ingram explains the cross cultural differences between Americans and immigrants. It also informs immigrants the atypical worldview of the American country they are adopting. Hence‚ these set of worldviews are categorized in five dimensions. In America‚ the first identified dimensions of worldview is that time focuses on the future instead of the past
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When the Mets drafted Beane along with Strawberry‚ they believed that Beane was more ready to play‚ so they put him with the high level rookie team and Strawberry to the lower ranked leagues. In my opinion‚ I think every high school player should work their way up. Billy Beane was not used to failure‚ and never endured this in his career‚ and they were setting him up for it. Billy Beane determination of becoming a major leaguer star was to a point of half; he really wanted to go college first and
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“Freakonomics” Would a Roshanda by any Other Name Small as Sweet Mason Noble POLS 101 Mr. Sims Summary: Chapter 6 of this book talks about whether or not the name that a parent give their child matters. Levitt provides an example about a New York City man who was named Robert Lane‚ he named his first son Winner and then named his next son Loser. Despite what his name suggests‚ Loser Lane succeeded in life‚ moving up in the NYPD. Winner Lane however‚ has been arrested nearly thirty six times
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Jessica Carlson Professor Adrienne Cassel English 112 24 September 2010 Summary of “Multitasking Can Make You Lose…Um…Um…Focus …Focus” Alina Tugend According to Alina Tugend in the article “Multitasking Can Make You Lose” people are more prone to doing multiple things at once. Although multitasking may seem to preserve more time‚ according to many studies will produce less effective results. Since the early 1990’s multitasking has been thought of as an efficient way of saving time
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Everyman: Morality Play Summary Aaron Braswell A prologue‚ read by the Messenger asks the audience to give their attention and announces the purpose of the play‚ which will show us our lives as well as our deaths (“our ending”) and how we humans are always (“all day”) transitory: changing from one state into another. God speaks next‚ and immediately launches into a criticism of the way that “all creatures” are not serving Him properly. People are living without “dread” (fear) in the world without
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Se Habla Espanol By Tanya Barrientos An Analytical Summary Tre A. Williams Kimberly Muirhead English 115 11/14/2012 Tanya Maria Barrientos‚ a journalist by profession and an upcoming author is Guatemalan by birth. However she has been living in America for almost fifty years after coming from her native country at the age of three. The essay ‘Se Habla Español’ is a poignant depiction of the search for her misplaced identity that she desperately tried to forget in her formative
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Beowulf Summary The comparison between the movie and the actually book had a different twist to it. Beowulf is a old heroic epic that was passed down from the old english study. The movie started of when King Hrothgar of Denmark‚ a descendant of the great king Shield Sheafson‚ enjoys a prosperous and successful reign. He builds a great mead-hall‚ called Heorot‚ where his warriors can gather to drink‚ receive gifts from their lord‚ and listen to stories sung by the scops‚ or bards. But the
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Group Novel: ___Matched_________________ This week’s reading assignment This week‚ we read from page _325____ to page _366____ Summary of Reading (min. 400 words) Cassia and Ky were hiking for the last time and they were supposed to take all the ribbons that they made down but Ky wanted to go to the top of the hill. So they ran to the top of the hill and they kiss. The next day Cassia wakes up to screaming and everyone walks outside. Ky’s mom is screaming and crying and obviously
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Prep for EDAHOD5 – Assessment 1. Outcomes based assessment * What to assess. Things we want the learners to be able to know and to do by end of learning programme * Demonstrations of learning * An outcome includes knowledge skills and attitudes * To assess we must provide opportunities to be deemed competent * Assess knowledge‚ skills and attitude‚ therefore Outcomes based as opposed to input based * When doing this assessment we use a set of assessment criteria – formative
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