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    What can we learn when we journey through life? Journeys and experiences can help us evolve to overcome fears‚ losses‚ and help gain wisdom. Experiences that were gained through life and journeys were written in the story "Volar" by Judith Ortiz Cofer‚ Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail‚ and the poem “12 (From ‘Gitanjali)”. In “Valor” the narrator dreams of herself being a superhero in the world she wishes to break free from her real-life limitations. The narrator learned and went

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    04.11 Education Click on the wax tablet next to the question in the lesson to find the answer. Write your answers beneath the questions. 1. Who was Horace’s pedagogue (tutor who walked school boys to school and home again)? Horace’s pedagogue was his father. The father spent a small fortune on his son’s education‚ eventually accompanying him to Rome to oversee his schooling and moral development (my information came from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horace#Childhood) 2. Why did Cato teach

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    In Jamaica Kincaid’s “Girl‚” a young girl has the “rules of the world” drilled into her head by her scolding mother while in Maya Angelou’s “Woman Work” a mother faces the adversities of her life on her own. With such different positions in life and different relationships with elders‚ when paired against the other each of the poems have contrasting views due to their author’s lives. The females in “Woman Work” and “Girl” are complete opposites. One subject is a young girl being taught “rules of

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    Ortiz Cofer’s short story “Volar‚” a girl who is a huge fan of comic books dreams of being a Superhero but realizes her reality. Whether a child or an adult‚ most of us have our dreams; however‚ not all wishes become true. The narrator‚ the girl‚ begins her story describing how much she loves comic books such as Legion of SuperHeroes and Supergirl so much that a pile of her books is high as she is. She smoothly continues with her repeated dream in which Cofer vividly conveys the image that provides

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    lies in everyone? One could argue that all teachers have to do is care. There’s a disconnect in the world today between the moderately literate‚ the most literate‚ and those that are just left behind. America’s educational system is deeply flawed and a perfect example is a very eye opening short story called “I Just Wanna Be Average” by Mike Rose(1989). Mike Rose explains his short stint in the Vocational track ‚ where kids go who can’t quite make it in America’s public schools.The only reason

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    Many parents believe that kids who tease each other is just a part of life and should not be blown up into proportion. However‚ when does teasing turn into bullying? When does a simple act of aggression that some parents believe is essential to a child’s development become an act of violence and manipulation? Middle school girls are getting emotionally and psychologically bullied because of parents’ influence on the bully and the bully’s need for power which cause the creation of programs that teaches

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    MEET THE MET BIANCA KRISTINE FLORES APRIL‚ 2014 Table of Contents Table of Contents…………………………………………………………… p. 2 Background…………………………………………………………………. p. 3-7 Project Description…………………………………………………………. p. 7 Rationale……………………………………………………………………. p. 7 Project Objectives .………………………………………………………. p. 8-9 Communication Objectives…………….………………………….. p. 8 Marketing Objectives…………….………………………………… p. 9 Theoretical Framework……………………………………………………. p. 9-10 Project Brief………………………………………………………………

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    Apocalypse ends‚ a creation story begins; thus‚ there is a cycle. This cycle is portrayed by Richard Matheson in his novel I Am Legend. The protagonist‚ Robert Neville‚ survives an apocalyptic world war and a dust-storm-carried disease‚ but he survives alone. He is the end and the new beginning. Thus‚ Matheson suggests that within an apocalypse‚ there can still be elements of a creation myth. To truly begin again‚ Neville must resort to warrior-like behavior: killing. Neville only has the intention of staying

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    Ave Maria Prayer : The Latin text of the Ave Maria prayer set to the music by Franz Schubert Ave Maria Gratia plena Maria Gratia plena Maria Gratia plena Ave‚ ave dominus Dominus tecum Benedicta tu in mulieribus Et benedictus Et benedictus fructus ventris Ventris tui Jesus Ave Maria Ave Maria Mater dei Ora pro nobis pecatoribus Ora‚ ora pro nobis Ora ora pro nobis pecatoribus Nunc et in hora mortis In hora mortis‚ mortis nostrae In hora mortis nostrae Ave Maria! Ave

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    lives. For example‚ there is a special kind of song birds who learns this skill when they are about 20 days old. If the young bird is prevented to listen‚ it will never be able to sing later. Many other species in nature show this trait too. Dr. Maria Montessori‚ with extensive observational studies with young children concluded that human beings too show the same characteristics. There are definite sensitive periods in children’s lives when they are extra sensitive to particular stimuli in their

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