Writing-in-Role: Holden Caulfield (the Catcher in the Rye) Selma Thurmer was Pencey’s headmaster’s daughter and seemed to possess interesting personality attributes‚ so I’ve decided to write about the scene where Holden talks to her on a bus in the beginning chapter of the Catcher in the Rye. Inserting scene in page three‚ chapter one‚ first paragraph: I sat next to her once in the bus from Agerstown and we sort of struck up a conversation... Personally‚ I wasn’t really in the mood to talk
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ENGL 475‚ Essay #1— Personal Narrative Prewriting Charts [PROMPTS #1 & 2] [15 points for each chart completed—45 points total] Name Chris Aguirre____________________________ **Please download the charts and complete each one by TYPING out your responses** Working Title for Essay #1:A Whole New Family Working Thesis for Essay #1 [limited topic + opinion]: Getting taken away from my mom has put my life down a better path. BP #1 [life BEFORE the event/turning point] Vivid Description/Details
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Andragogy and Self Directed Learning March 10‚ 2008 Adult Education and Learning: Principles and Practice Andragogy and Self-Directed Learning: Pillars of Adult Learning Theory Candy ’s written statement (1991‚ p.309) which reads “since a learner ’s autonomy is likely to vary from situation to situation‚ educators should not assume that because a person has been self-directed in one situation‚ he or she will be able to succeed in a new area: Orientation‚ support and guidance may all be required
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TECHNICAL WRITING The effective use of E-mail Consider its uses and abuses. What problems are companies encountering? How are some organizations solving those problems? First‚ what is E-mail? E-mail or Electronic mail is a method of exchanging digital messages across the Internet or other computer networks. E-mail is transmitted directly from one user’s device to another user’s computer‚ which required both computers to be online at the same time. In business‚ e-mail was widely accepted by
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WHAT EXPERIENCES‚ POWERS OF IMAGINATION AND INFLUENCES MADE MARY SHELLEY WRITE SUCH AN INNOVATIVE NOVEL AS ‘FRANKENSTEIN’ WHEN SHE WAS ONLY 19 YEARS OF AGE? “It was on a dreary night of November‚ that I beheld the accomplishment of my toils. With an anxiety that almost amounted to agony‚ I collected the instruments of life around me‚ that I might infuse a spark of being into the lifeless thing that lay at my feet. It was already one in the morning; the rain pattered dismally against the panes
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first sounds infants produce and include sounds of discomfort and distress like crying and fussing. They also include vegetative sounds such as burping‚ sneezing‚ and coughing. Infant directed speech is the speech that adults use when communicating with babies and is used with a high pitch tone. Infant directed speech includes several distinctive paralinguistic‚ syntactic‚ and discourse characteristics which includes; slower tempos‚ shorter mean length of utterances and the use of repetition and
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The film Juno‚ directed by Jason Reitman released September 1‚ 2007 is a very interesting indie style film that broke into mainstream viewing. The main actors in the film are Ellen Page‚ Michael Cera‚ Jennifer Garner‚ Jason Bateman. The movie follows the story of Juno (Ellen Page)‚ a teen that unexpectedly gets pregnant from one event in a chair with her best friend‚ Paulie Bleeker (Michael Cera). You follow Juno through her journey towards motherhood by 4 seasons and as the trees change colour so
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is yours‚ to sit around in a confined area for three hours and only get to play two hours‚ or to sit around in a confined area for twenty minutes and play for five hours. Kayla Barry once said‚ “Stupidity is wasting your time” and now‚ what a fine example this is to prove that she was right if you were to choose to go to Disneyland. You know that you aren’t stupid so why waste your time thinking? This is an obvious thing to do. Common sense tells you that we should go to Ocean Park instead
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Sitting down attempting to write a first draft of my college essay‚ I started brainstorming what I could possibly write about. Do I go with something deep or something lighthearted? Do I use a prompt‚ or do I pick a topic of my own? Making these decisions proved to be challenging. My friends and family tried to help me‚ but being stubborn I still couldn’t pick one. Decisions after all‚ haven’t always been my strong suit. However‚ I have learned that although some skills I have- like decision making-
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and provide the most productive education for our students. This means teachers should prepare students for the future‚ so they could build our society and be successful. Teachers can help students become successful by helping them to become self-directed learners. In one of my colleague’s classroom I observed her students monitoring their grades by recording them on a chart. The categories include homework‚ in class assignments‚ quizzes and tests. This allows students to monitor their progress
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