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    First‚ the author alludes to the theme with simple imagery. Louise looks out the window and sees a beautiful spring scene‚ with merchants and peddlers working hard‚ and wildlife blooming and growing. She focuses on the “patches of blue sky showing here and there through the clouds” as she reminisces on her husband’s life. The focus on the blue patches rather than the clouds shows that Louise is being positive and looking on the lighter side of things. Looking at a better side is how one can come

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    splashing the water on the river bed. As we approach the toll bridge you see the tour guide whistle continuously at this point there is monkeys howling for what they love Banana. While travelling more ahead you see the galore of flora and fauna with Maya Ruins rising over the canopy. The city of crocodiles is consist of many facial sculptures‚ unique ruins‚ and a death row ball game. Lamanai temples were so unique they were built in layers. As you walk up the marble staircase you see the jaguar temple

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    The Speed Reading Course By Peter Shepherd & Gregory Unsworth-Mitchell Email: shepherd@trans4mind.com Web site: Tools for Transformation Copyright © 1997 Peter Shepherd The Basics of Reading Introduction We all learn to read at school‚ after a fashion. But for most of us‚ this is not an optimal use of our brain power. In this course you will learn to better use the left brain’s focused attention combined with the right brain’s peripheral attention‚ in close harmony. Good communication

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    still‚ like air‚ I’ll rise” (Angelou 1-4) this is a quote from “Still I Rise” that expresses Maya Angelou’s true feelings‚ that you may hurt her and give Maya Angelou dirty looks‚ yet she will be the bigger person. Maya Angelou uses figurative language to hook her readers with the points she tries to express. Maya Angelou grew up in the 1930’s‚living in a country plagued with bigotry‚ particularly towards women and people of color. Thesis: In “Still I Rise”‚ Maya Angelou uses strong figurative language

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    A team of psychologists at Moscow’s Institute for Biomedical Problems (IBMP) wanted to learn more about the dynamics of long-term isolation in space. This knowledge would be applied to the International Space Station‚ a joint project of several countries that would send people into space for more than six months. It would eventually include a trip to Mars taking up to three years. IBMP set up a replica of the Mir space station in Moscow. They then arranged for three international researchers from

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    Palmistry We all wonder what awaits us in the future. We wonder about our health‚ our careers and of course‚ our love life. Well the answer to all of these questions may lie quite literally in the palm of your hand. Palmistry‚ or palm reading‚ is the practice of predicting the future outcomes through the study of the palm. This study dates back to 3000 BC in ancient Egypt and still being practiced today worldwide. Today we will discuss how our palm lines can tell us about our future and ourselves

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    The Joy of Reading‚ or‚ What Reading Really Means to Me When I was first asked to make this short speech‚ I was struck by the title “What Reading Means to Me.” My knee-jerk reaction was “What doesn’t reading mean to me?” As a professional librarian‚ I thought of all of our standard platitudes: “Reading is Life.” “Reading is Fundamental.” “There is no such thing as too many books.” I might easily have gone on and on along this vein‚ until I remembered that‚ for me

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    Reading Fluency and its Effect on Reading Comprehension Topic Selection As an elementary teacher‚ I have often thought reading fluency plays a large role in a child’s reading development. Few reading programs give fluency the recognition it deserves. Reading fluency has been a prominent and reliable benchmark for me‚ even when students have comprehension difficulties. Once fluency is assessed‚ the results were used to place students in their reading ability group. Often times‚

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    The food of the Mayas‚ Aztecs and Incas were greatly influenced by environment in which they were located. Various climates and soils of the areas occupied by these populations conditioned how they cultivated and ate. The foods they cultivated and ate included a number of grains and meat that originated in those areas. Notably‚ corn was used as their staple food‚ and it was used for a number of purposes other than just food. Early Mayans established a farming society that was adapted to their rain

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    Topic: “Reading” Submitted To: Ma’m Neelma Submitted By: Ayesha Munir BBA ITM (21) Contents Topics: Pg. No. * Introduction………………………………………………………………………………….…2 * Importance of Reading……………………………………………………………..…...3 * Fluent reading……………………………………………………………………..………...3 * Three Stages of Reading…………………………………………………………………4

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