Gabriel Josipovici’s scathing tone throughout What Ever Happened to Modernism refreshes readers who find most literature hollow and the modern social landscape overly accepting. Near the end of a prolific career in both fiction and non-fiction‚ Josipovici writes from the perspective of a well-read scholar in his field; his vast knowledge provides him with endless opportunities for analysis. His masterful command of language and his interpretive genius are both a blessing and a curse‚ however. These
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1. Everything is made of chemicals. You are made of chemicals. So is your dog. So is your desk. So is the sun. Drugs are chemicals. Food is made from chemicals. 2. Many of the changes you observe in the world around you are caused by chemical reactions. Examples include changing colors of leaves‚ cooking food and getting clean. 3. Knowing some chemistry can help you make day to day decisions that affect your life. Can I mix these household chemicals? What are safe mosquito repellents? Will
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Can Science Explain Everything? There are many facts today that are known to be true that science hasn’t been able to account for. Scientists are still very active in their search to prove some of the puzzling questions that remain unanswered. In Elliot Sober’s work‚ Can Science Explain Everything‚ he addresses that controversial question. Sober thesis claims to prove that when science attempts to explain events‚ and does so by describing its causes‚ it will never find answers to global why-questions
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Cambridge CELTA Course Assignment 3 Skills Related Task Selection of a reading or listening text with rationale‚ tasks and lesson plan design Trainee: Minoo Date: Feb 18‚ 2015 Appendix 1: Handouts Appendix 3: Answer key Appendix 2: Text Purpose: According to J. Harmer in his book The Practice of English Language Teaching‚ “receptive skills are the ways in which people extract the meaning from the discourse they see or hear”. In the following text the main skill which is going to be practiced
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wake up late. b.Present Continuous He is eating. c.Past Simple She sat down. d.Past Continuous They were still talking when I left. e.Present Perfect Simple He hasn’t lived in London for long. f.Present Perfect Continuous It has been raining for days. g.Past Perfect He had eaten. h.Past Perfect Continuous She had been playing for hours. 2. Many foreign learners have learnt that Will and Shall are used to refer to the future in English e.g. Jane’ll be home soon. However
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You hear throughout developed culture that popular media has a tendency to “dumb” down societies. Whether you believe this idea is solely based on your discretion‚ but there is one man who took the time to analyze this collective supposition deeply. Steven Johnson and his written work Everything Bad Is Good For You looked at the effects from popular media from an alternative perspective. Looking past the arguments of morality‚ Johnson calls attention to the progressive complexity in cultures
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Lead In/Prediction Harmer explains that the lead in stage is “where we engage students with the topic of the reading and we try to activate their schema” or “pre-existent knowledge of the world” (Harmer‚ 2007:271) Questions and pictures or visual prompts are two of the best ways to elicit interest and discussion at this stage. This particular reading uses a question as the heading; “Is beauty in the eye of the beholder?” and is also visually supported by two pictures. Hence I chose to combine the
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CELTA Written Assignment 1: Focus on the Learner Candidate name: Morkvenaite Ioana Word Count Date: Grade: Part 1 Natalia is 28 years old. She is Russian and she lives in Russia. She works as a chief event manager and she often deals with different people from other countries. She learned English at school and at University
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What happened? At 10:10am on 26th January 1966‚ the three Beaumont children caught a bus to go to the beach. The bus stop was less than 100 metres from their home. The bus driver‚ Mr I. D. Monroe‚ confirmed that he had seen the children get on and off his bus. A passenger also noticed them and was able to recall the colours of the clothes the children were wearing and that Jane was carrying a copy of the book Little Women. The children got off the bus at 10:15am. The police believed that the local
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The holocaust never happened The act of denialism is when a person’s choice to deny reality‚ as a way to avoid a psychologically uncomfortable truth. There are many holocaust deniers such as Donald L. Niewyk‚ Robert jan van Pelt‚ etc. He believes that there were swimming pools in Auschwitz. Here is how Holocaust historian Robert Jan van Pelt explained it (2000): “They ignore that the swimming pool was built as a water reservoir for the purpose of firefighting (there were no hydrants in the
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