Who among us can ignore the beep or short ring that signals a text message has arrived? Maybe you ’ve rationalize like I have that you ’ll wait to get to the stop light to pull the cell phone of the purse or pocket. But the eye then goes of the road. " I ’ll just text a brief response while I ’m stopped at the light‚" I tell myself. Being of the not-born-with-cell-phone-in-hand generation‚ or older than 30‚ I ’m slow in typing the message on that itsy-bitsy screen. It ’s an even greater challenge
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world’s peoples. According to Professor Kluckhohn‚ it’s because of culture. People who live in the same culture share many things in common and different cultures shape different characteristics of people. I share the same point of view with him‚ based on my own experience and observation. In my opinion‚ different values in different cultures make people different. In many cases‚ TV drama reflects most of the values which the country believes in. Collectivism is one of the major values of Chinese
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DIFFERENT CULTURES‚ DIFFERENT RATIONALITIES? Peter Winch ’s remarkable essay‚ ’Understanding a Primitive Society ’ (Winch‚ 1964) raised several deep and troubling questions and offered some no less deep and troubling answers. It was the essay of a philosopher inspired by Wittgenstein‚ who had questioned the very idea of a social science‚ reflecting upon and‚ indeed‚ criticizing the interpretation of witchcraft in one of the classics of twentieth-century anthropology‚ Evans-Pritchard ’s Witchcraft
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Many people wonder these days if people’s lives revolve around the choices they make. This is absolutely true. Everyone in this world is responsible for who they are today. Their choices and ideas pave the road for their future. A quote from Confucius says this‚ "People’s lives are the result of the choices they make-or fail to make. The path one takes in life is not arbitrary. Choices and their consequences determine the course of every person’s life. All people‚ whatever their circumstances‚ make
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Since the last few decades there has been a controversy of which language to use for teaching in the second language classroom. Scholars are still arguing regarding what language is better to use in order to achieve the maximum results of the learners’ L2 acquisition. Before going further with confusion‚ writer would like to elaborate more on what it means by L1 and L2. According to Mitchell and Miles (2004)‚ the first language is the language which learners learn “through habits as respond to stimuli
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Review a range of different assessment methods available and explain the ones you would use for your subject area. Evaluate the use of assessment methods in different contexts‚ Including reference to initial assessment. Justify the types of assessment records you would complete and explain why. Brown states that Assessment is probably the most important thing we can do to help our students learn. We may not like it‚ but students can and do ignore our teaching (Brown & Smith 1997). All my
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sight and attention away from the closed door‚ we might be surprised to discover a row of openning new doors. To sum up‚ I just want to say: Do not try to look at your back‚ look at the things stand in front of you and shoot your bolt to strike while the iron is hot. That is the necessary thing you must do after the
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easier. Cell Phones where only a thought at one point and now they are everywhere you go in the car‚ stores‚ schools and even at work. Cell phones can be useful tools but are they necessary to carry into the classrooms‚ on the job‚ or while driving. Cell phones have been a growing issue in the schools for some time now. Some schools have even banned them from being on the property others have set strict rules about the use of the device. However‚ the most interesting thing found by this author was a
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1) Introduction 2) Common Technology Usage Between the Older People The rapid increase in the digital gap is something which is not new and a proof to this can be clearly seen from the following statistics. However‚ when it comes to using technology‚ the older generation has never been so keen to use it. One of the main reasons could be the "complex" nature of the new inventions by man‚ never the less it is some thing which the older generation has some what been forced to adapt. The
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social skills. Numerous studies have been conducted to determine what affect social media actual has on its users‚ yet no conclusive results have yet been found. Whether you love it or hate it‚ social media is a thing of the present that will only begin to progress as online interactive technology advances. As social media and its use is a relatively new idea‚ it is important to establish a generally agreed upon definition of the term. For the sake of this paper‚ social media will be defined as online
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