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    Personal Goal Setting - Planning to Live Your Life Your Way How to Use Tool: Goal setting is a formal process for personal planning. By setting goals on a routine basis you decide what you want to achieve‚ and then step-by-step move towards the achievement of these goals. The process of setting goals and targets allows you to choose where you want to go in life. By knowing precisely what you want to achieve‚ you know what you have to concentrate on to do it. You also know what is merely a distraction

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    Using what you have read in this introduction to TESOL and your own knowledge‚ what do you consider to be the blocks which may prevent language learning? When speaking about difficulties in learning and teaching foreign language different authors use different terminology. Some of them speak about mistakes‚ misbehavior (Cummings‚ C.: 2000)‚ sources of friction (Smith‚ C. J.‚ & Laslett‚ R.: 2002)‚ some – about anxiety (Nishimata‚ T.: 2008)‚ troubles‚ difficulties and so on. For better understanding

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    offering you a free no-tech life hack‚ and all it requires of you is this: that you change your posture for two minutes. But before I give it away‚ I want to ask you to right now do a little audit of your body and what you’re doing with your body. So how many of you are sort of making yourselves smaller? Maybe you’re hunching‚ crossing your legs‚ maybe wrapping your ankles. Sometimes we hold onto our arms like this. Sometimes we spread out. (Laughter) I see you. (Laughter) So I want you to pay attention

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    The dramatic irony of “Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been?” conveys the tone of warning about temptation. Connie’s situation is that she does not feel appreciated at home and uses her looks and actions to get attention and appreciation from boys even if it is short-term. She is self-conscious about her looks and is constantly worried about how other people perceive her. Friend’s fantasy is that Connie will willingly go with him and be his “lover” (605) even before he officially met her. The

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    Connie’s Paradigm In Joyce Carol Oates’ short story‚ “Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been?” we follow the main character Connie as she faces an inner transformation. The author introduces Connie as a vain and inexperienced adolescent who seems to daydream about things she doesn’t quite understand as she has more of a naive idea of what adulthood is all about. She takes pleasure in having control over everyone and everything around her. These ideas as well as her security are shaken when the

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    1. How you implemented your specific objectives into your daily life/routine. • Instead of just focusing running‚ I have expended to walking around the local parks. • I have also included cross-training‚ which involves running up and down hills 2. What you specifically did each day to overcome your barriers. • Self-defeating barrier: Which being difficult‚ I decided that I needed to re-educate myself on the benefits of running. • Overambitious goals: Setting a pace that was more comfortable for

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    CHAPTER 1 The Problem and Its Setting INTRODUCTION When you put up your own money and operate your own business‚ you prize your independence. It’s MY business‚ you can tell yourself‚ in good times and in bad. In a family company‚ however‚ it’s OUR business. A family business is any business in which a majority of the ownership or control lies within a family‚ and in which two or more family members are directly involved. It is also a complex‚ dual system consisting of

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    The Devil’s Favorite Sin: Vanity In "Where are You Going‚ Where Have you Been?" Joyce Carol Oates uses an allegorical figure of evil to illustrate the theme of temptation. Oates alludes to hell through the character Arnold Friend‚ as the devil‚ and his victim Connie‚ who invites him in by committing one of the devil’s favorites sins: vanity. The narrator implies that Arnold Friend is Satan by giving certain clues that the reader can easily deduce. The name that Oates gives to the character

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    Who Owns Your Body Parts ? These last few decades have seen a huge spreading of the illegal organ trade all around the world. It becomes one of the most preoccupying situation for the government of many countries as this illegal trade touches almost all the world population. In fact‚ rich countries are used to take advantages of poor countries because they do not have enough organs for people on the waiting list and need their organs for transplantations. However‚ for some time now there have been

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    In Joyce Carol Oates’ “‘Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been?’ and Smooth Talk: Short Story into Film‚” Oates writes that Connie “An innocent young girl is seduced by way of her own vanity” and that “she confuses death for erotic romance” (419). Oates clearly defines her point when Connie first discovers Arnold Friend at the drive in diner. She catches Friend staring at her with a big smile and Connie “slit her eyes at him and turned away‚ but she couldn’t help looking back” (409). The fact

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