Learning English through Popular Culture Sexy photos of teen models are polished in magazines and you fell that these photos have a negative impact. Write a letter to the editor describing the situation and suggesting what the media‚ teenagers and parents can do about it. Dear Editor‚ It has been brought to the limelight that sexy photo of teen models has become prevalent lately. Stakeholders from different walks of life have various perceptions about this issue. As a major stakeholder myself
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Boyz in the Hood" is a film that protrays social problems in South Central Los Angeles. Tre‚ Ricky‚ and Doughboy are the main characters in this film that grow up together in their neighborhood or as they called it "the hood". All three characters struggle with different internal issues which helps them grow as young men. Tre is a good student who has dreams of furthering his education by going to college. With guidance from his father‚ Tre learns responsibilty and character. Ricky is an outstanding
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A Novel Approach: The Sociology of Literature‚ Children’s Books‚ and Social Inequality and is written by Dr. Amy E Singer‚ an assistant professor of sociology at Knox College. In this article‚ Dr. Singer samples children’s literature to show how children’s book deal with inequality. Specifically‚ she examines how literatures show that some people accept the unequal social structures and how other people try to overcome it. The author bases her research on previous works that were done by other sociologist
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in Higher Education Learning Jenny Moon Introduction Personal development planning (PDP) can involve different forms of reflection and reflective learning. Much has been written and said about reflection in recent times‚ but for many‚ it remains a somewhat mysterious activity – or is it a capacity? Whatever it is‚ if the titles of modules and courses‚ and references in QAA benchmark statements are anything to go by‚ we are using it extensively in a range of contexts in learning and
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Student development in higher education‚ is often a “complicated” process‚ and administrators and other professionals in the industry need the necessary tools‚ like being sensitive to student’s backgrounds and different cultures‚ for the “pursuit” success of student affairs. The American College Personnel Association outlines their argument that when administrators handle issues “responsibly” their student body population will in turn‚ live their “with some sense of equanimity” in the statement of
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Adaptation of Mobile Learning in Higher Educational Institutions of Saudi Arabia Fathima Sakeena Narayanasamy College of Computer Science & Information Systems‚ Jazan University‚ Jazan Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Jarina Begum Khan Mohamed College of Computer Science & Information Systems‚ Jazan University‚ Jazan Kingdom of Saudi Arabia ABSTRACT 2. BACKGROUND Mobile learning (m-learning) is a new learning approach‚ relatively new research concept‚ has become an emerging learning trend for education
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An Emerging Issue in Higher Education‚ Part 1 Randy Bromley Grand Canyon University History and Politics in Higher Education EDU-805 Dr. Sherion Jackson October 26‚ 2011 An Emerging Issue in Higher Education “In 2001‚ nearly one-third of first-year college students in the United States were required to take remedial classes (Bettinger and Long‚ 2009)” Post secondary remediation has become a debated subject. Opponents argue it wastes taxpayers’ money‚ diminishes academic standards‚ and
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Analyse the extent to which social closure exists in UK society. Use two contrasting theories and relevant studies in your answer. INTRO Social stratification is the way in which society is stratified or "made up of layers" of social groups in a hierarchical way. Class stratification is a form of social stratification‚ which tends to split separate classes‚ whose members have contrasting access to resources and power. In Britain‚ society is structured in terms of inequality. Different classes tend
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Why I joined the Ei Community Thoughts on experiential education Thoughts on higher education in general As you can see from the breakdown of the question‚ I am an analyst. I have been schooled in the school of schooling to take things apart in order to gain understanding; to formulate a working knowledge of concepts in order to cogitate how things work. I wonder if I’ve always learned this way or if systems’ thinking plasticized my brain via conformity. Irregardless‚ there is one thing I know
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1 Statement of the problem and rationale for the study 1 1.2. Purpose of the study 3 1.3. Scope of the study 3 1.4. Research question 3 CHAPTER 2 LITERATURE REVIEW 3 2.1. The effects of movies in learning English 3 2.2. Film selection 6 2.3. The impacts of subtitles on effective learning 7 CHAPTER 3 METHODOLOGY 9 3.1. Research approach 9 3.2. Participants 10 3.3. Instruments 10 3.2.1. Questionnaires 10 3.2.2. Post-viewing test 11 3.4. Procedures of data collection
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