CONTEXT Katie‚ aged 15‚ is a highly motivated student from a family with a strong educational background‚ currently living and studying in a British-style International School in Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC)‚ Vietnam‚ and is a member of the increasing group of globally-mobile students. Katie can be solidly placed into the “entering phrase” of the transition from Taiwanese national to immigrant in a Western society‚ where she “has decided to become part of the new community‚ but is still figuring out what
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sheltered instruction‚ teachers simplify the language without watering down the content‚ and use scaffolding strategies to communicate meaningful input in the content area to ELLs (Wright‚ 2015‚ p. 92). Wright (2015)‚ states that “the main purpose of ESL instruction is to enable Ells to develop their proficiency in English by mastering the skills of listening‚ speaking‚ reading‚ and writing to the extent that they are able to use the English language appropriately and effectively for
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In Eric Schlosser’s article‚ Kid Kustomers‚ he demonstrates how child advertising has developed by the tactics marketers use to get children to want and demand certain companies’ products. The big boom in child advertisement began in the 1980’s. Working class parents had to spend more time at work‚ so this meant less time at home with their children. They made up for for the loss of family time by spending more money on their children. According to Schlosser‚ many industries started to pick up on
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born with physical or mental abilities. There is a scale for autism‚ which states if the kid is high functioning or low functioning. High functioning autistic kids means that they are close to being “normal”. Autistic kids need survive through their lives because they can’t understand most things neurotypical people understand without even thinking. For instance‚ on the ABC Primetime video‚ countless autistic kids can’t determine people’s faces and expression‚ can’t have a conversation or carry emotions
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Marketing to Kids: Why & How Marketers Target Kids Before discussing why and how marketers target kids‚ let us look at these facts: * Companies spend about $17 billion annually marketing to children‚ a staggering increase from the $100 million spent in 1983. * Children under 14 spend about $40 billion annually. Teens spend about $159 billion. * Teens between 13 and 17 have 145 conversations about brands per week‚ about twice as many as adults. * Children under 12 influence $500
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Kid in the U.S. spend hours upon hours on school work‚ hours more on homework and yet more on music lessons. Terribly boring. Right? Actually kids here do plenty of thing that are awesome. We like to play with friends‚ family and also just play by themselves. We enjoy doing things such as electronics‚ sports‚ and‚ of course‚ movies. Who says us kids don’t know how to have fun. I like to play with friends a lot. We like to play sports such as baseball‚ basketball and soccer. My favorite is baseball
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My book report is going to be about Diary of a Wimpy Kid‚ double down. When I first saw this book I was expecting an elaborate story line‚ many plot twists‚ and great character development. The main characters are Greg‚ Mr. Heffley‚ Mrs. Heffley‚ Rowley‚ and his baby brother Manny. Greg is the narrator of the book and the book is things that happen to him that he wants to write down. Mr. and Mrs. Heffley are his parents. Rowley is his best friend‚ Greg also has two brothers named Rodrick and Manny
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There’s ways to design typical kids to go to college. While doing a college research‚ it is important to know what concerns kids from what kinds of colleges they want to go before they apply for one. Some kids don’t know where they want to go‚ even I don’t know where to go yet‚ and I’m still deciding if I want to go an out of state college or not. I applied to two colleges at Chandler Gilbert Community‚ and ASU. I want to still take E.V.I.T. for next year‚ but it takes critical time to consume about
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Name : Young Gyu Nam Week 4 : Topic of Interest B2 High Productive Writing and Speaking Summary of News Article : “ Scientists count whales from space ” Scientist first proves that high-resolution picture from satellite and image-processing software are able to count the number of whales automatically. It is a new approach to detect population of creatures compared to previous methods from a ship or a plane. Its method also extends the possibility to count total population. It can be
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“The Popular Kids” It’s hard to fathom how competently the United States of America has been able to develop as a country in all the years it has existed as a nation. The U.S. is held intact by a democracy that survives on the voices and idea’s of its people; the people being you and me. A supporting wall to the skyscraper that is our government are Special Interest Groups. SIG’s are created so that our rational selves can demand what we find is necessary to maintain‚ gain or change in our society
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