Kwentong Bayan. This phrase is in Filipino‚ but in English it is roughly translated to mean “community stories”. The Kwentong Bayan Collective created a community based comic book project called the Kwentong Bayan Collective: Labour and Love. This come book project has pieces in the Blackwood Gallery where though comic book strips‚ audiences have the ability to see stories of caregiver programs and the learn the realities of them. Through the stories we learn the struggles of racialized women in
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Positive Psychology Themes I believe that positive psychology gives a better understanding that we are able to improve the quality of our own lives by making positive decisions and learning from experiences in the past. Positive psychology attempts to encourage interpersonal relationships‚ happiness‚ and positive social interactions. Personal growth and our ability to control our own destiny are also factors of positive psychology. In my opinion positive psychology teaches us that we have the
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Motivational Learning Jaron Ekers EXP105: Personal Dimensions of Education Prof. Katherine Myers January 25‚ 2013 Contexts that Motivate Learning. Motivational learning can be broken into four contexts. Those contexts are: Practical‚ Personal‚ Experiential‚ and Idealistic. The practical context of learning would be learning something because you know in advance it will benefit you. The personal context of learning would be learning something
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That’s one small change for lighting‚ one giant leap for mankind In order to reduce energy consumption and promote green lighting‚ many countries have eliminated incandescent to promote LED lighting plan‚ traditional lighting has been phasing out. As early as February 2007‚ Australia decided to stop using ordinary incandescent lamp in 2010‚ replace them with LED lighting products‚ Australia has become the world’s first national plans to ban the use of traditional incandescent. April 25‚
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Want to be the most dazzling queen in the party? An engineer named Bertho Stoltiens shared his shiny earrings Blinkring designed‚ The earrings have a diameter of about 31mm eardrop‚ the total number of 12 LED were set in a circle above. This concept of the earrings is based on standard Cr2032 button-type battery with a slightly larger circular printed circuit board (PCB)‚ the operation of the LED parts required is a small circle on the board outside the battery. Stoltiens came across a number
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"Instead‚ the ancient Pueblo people depended upon collective memory through successive generations to maintain and transmit an entire culture‚ a worldview complete with proven strategies for survival. The oral narrative‚ or story‚ became the medium through which the complex of Pueblo knowledge and belief was maintained. Whatever the event or the subject‚ the ancient people perceived the world and themselves within that world as pan of an ancient‚ continuous story composed of innumerable bundles of
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Dawlyn Dieudonne Professor Mattord English 1101 5 December 2012 The Efficacy of an Argument Against Technology In his online article‚ Nicholas Carr discusses technology and its effect on the human brain. He conducted in depth research on the brain and the way it responds to the use of technology. Carr makes the argument that despite its benefits‚ technology has an ultimately negative effect on the brain. He reports that through several studies‚ researchers have found that although the use
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It has always been said that politics is messy. The Collective Action Principle explains ‘that political action is collective‚ involving the building‚ combining‚ mixing‚ and amalgamating of people’s individual goals’‚ (Lowi et al. 2010:13). The more people you have trying to come to a conclusion about a situation‚ the more difficult it will be given the fact that each person has an opinion. Changing opinions is difficult‚ therefore bargaining is required. Compromise‚ good ole’ fashioned give and
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 Union: A formal association of workers that promotes the interests of its member through collective action. Generally‚ The Union workers receive higher wages and benefits then do non-union workers. However Unions can be associated with high Productivity. Why Do Workers Join Unions? Worker’s Join Union Primarily because of management failure to address organizational & job-related concerns. What Do Unions Want? Unions have 2 Sets of aims: Union Security: Five Types
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To write her book Ivan’s War‚ Catherine Merridale had to face the challenges of moving past the collective memory surrounded Russia’s involvement in World War 2. Merridale navigates that remaining available sources in her search to find the truth of the Red Army. Using a variety of inventive research techniques‚ Catherine Merridale acquires the historic data the see need to weave these accounts of the war‚ into the few central characters in her book. Merridale focuses on constructing an image of
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