Wifredo Lam is one of the most renowned painter from Cuba and The Jungle remains his best known work and an important painting in the history of not only Latin American art‚ but the history twentieth-century modernism. In the 1920s and 30s‚ Lam was in Madrid and Paris‚ but in 1941 as Europe was engulfed by war‚ he returned to his native country. Though he would leave Cuba again for Europe after the war‚ key elements within his artistic practice intersected during this period: Lam’s consciousness
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2.2 Reading Comprehension In Walpole and McKenna’s (2007) phrase‚ reading comprehension can be defined as “a cognitive act of extraction and construction of meaning‚ an act that is influenced by characteristics of the reader‚ the text‚ and the activity or goal‚ each of which is influenced by multiple sociocultural texts” (p. 7). According to Day & Park (2005)‚ there are six types of reading comprehension- literal comprehension‚ reorganization‚ inference‚ prediction‚ evaluation‚ personal response
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Reading comprehension is defined as the level of understanding of a text/message. This understanding comes from the interaction between the words that are written and how they trigger knowledge outside the text/message. Proficient reading depends on the ability to recognize words quickly and effortlessly. If word recognition is difficult‚ students use too much of their processing capacity to read individual words‚ which interferes with their ability to comprehend what is read. (http://en.wikipedia
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Effects of Google Translate on Vocabulary Acquisition and Reading Comprehension Abstract With the rapid development of technology‚ more modern ways are applied to English learning. Though technology towards language learning has been extensively studied in recent years‚ the influences of online translation are seldom examined. This study investigates the effects of Google translate on English vocabulary acquisition and article comprehension. It was hypothesized that Google translate can improve students’
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Connections for Comprehension? Prior-Knowledge Activation Prior-Knowledge Activation T ext A ccording to the study From Kindergarten Through Third Grade: Children’s Beginning School Experiences (2004) only twenty-nine percent of all third-grade children surveyed in the longitudinal study were able to make interpretations beyond what was stated in text. Improved Comprehension Connections Genre/Text Features V ocabulary Themes/Topics T ext-to-Text T ext-to-Self T ext-to-World
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In “Sister”‚ Lam depicts a character of a woman named Eevie who is experiencing and dealing with post-traumatic disorder caused by his bitter memories surviving in her escape from the Civil War erupting in Vietnam. She has experienced flashback‚ nightmare‚ feeling of anxiety‚ and physical pain whenever she is trying to deal with her trauma that is closely-related to her home country. She has met with her psychologist and told him that “he’s leaving me. He’s going to some place I don’t know”(123)
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FILM 3759G Dr. Christopher J Mitchell Chengdong Hu Analysis of Cultural Denotation and Humanity in Ang Lee’s Films Ang Lee’s film works‚ not only in the business‚ but in artistic level won the world audience recognition. He grew up in a traditional Chinese family and study in the United States. The differences between eastern and western culture took a sharp collision in his heart‚ and it revealed without hiding in his movie and finally become his own unique
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book integrates research in language acquisition‚ psycholinguistics and neuropsychology to give a comprehensive picture of the process we call language "comprehension‚" right from the reception of an acoustic stimulus at the ear‚ up to the point where we interpret the message the speaker intended. A major theme of the book is that "comprehension" is not a unitary skill; to understand spoken language‚ one needs the ability to classify incoming speech sounds‚ to relate them to a "mental lexicon‚" to
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Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin‚ in my opinion‚ is a poet who thoroughly challenges her readers through her work. Through her ambiguous perspective‚ Ní Chuilleanáin creates and upholds secrets for her readers to resolve. There are several aspects of Ní Chuilleanáin’s poetry that appeal to me: the themes she discusses‚ her use of poetic techniques‚ her ambiguity‚ writing about her personal experience and her honesty. As a reader‚ I found her work very challenging‚ but ultimately rewarding. What I find most
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The Mystery of the death of Elisa Lam has been a question for many years and it remains the very same until this day. In February of 2013‚ a 21-year-old student from Vancouver‚ Canada‚ was found dead inside the Cecil Hotel’s rooftop water tank in Los Angeles. On January 27‚ 2013‚ Lam hd stepped off of the train from San Diego into sunny Los Angeles. Lam had chosen to stay at the Cecil Hotel‚ which was known as “a once-grand place with 700 rooms over 14 floors”. The Canadian girl studied at the
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