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    ------------------------------------------------- How does Scott’s film‚ BR‚ reveal a new response to the values explored in Shelley’s novel‚ F? Whilst texts may be fictitious constructs of composer’s imaginations‚ they also explore and address the values‚ societal concerns and paradigms of their eras. This is clearly evident in Mary Shelley’s prose fiction‚ Frankenstein (F) (1818) a hybridised text combining elements of Romantic‚ Gothic and Science fiction conventions and Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner (BR)

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    Professional practice-rewards and sanctions essay The use of praise within the primary classroom I will use this essay to analyse the effective and destructive often harmful use of praise as a reward system within the primary classroom. Firstly it is important to explain what a reward system actually is in terms of a primary classroom. According to the Universal Dictionary‚ (1998); a reward is “something given or received in recompense for worthy behaviour”. A reward system therefore‚ is a system

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    Praise and Worship is Powerful Praise and worship is powerful‚ and oh so wonderful! The power in praise and worship goes beyond what you could imagine! Praise and worship is one of the keys to coming to know Jesus better. Yet some don’t understand praise and worship or the true purpose of it. So i thought i would take the time to explain what praise and worship really is and the power behind praise and worship when done right. There can not be true worship without praisepraise produces worship

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    Sherry Turkles

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    days give you the answers to practically everything. From searching the web to always communicating through a text; cellular phones have tethered the adolescents themselves including the people around them; it involves everyone. In the sections of Sherry Turkle’s essay Can You Hear Me Now‚ ‘The Tethered Adolescent’ one can connect to prove that society is losing itself through technology but it starts at a young age when given a cellular phone which then evolves into using technology in day to day

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    D. The essay The F Word‚ written by Firoozeh Dumas‚ tells her interesting history of experiences related to her unpronounceable name and the way most Americans respond to unfamiliar‚ foreign names. Dumas presents this attractive essay that holds the reader’s attention by making it a very fun piece to read. Using humor as a big part of the writing‚ she also uses an informal‚ entertaining tone to capture the audience’s attention and keep them engaged. Dumas starts The F word by showing how most

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    The essay‚ “The F Word‚” written by Firoozeh Dumas‚ fulfills its purpose to entertain with a humorous‚ enriching account of her interesting history of stories related to her hard-to-pronounce name. It also attempts to describe the way in which Americans respond to unfamiliar‚ foreign names. Dumas presents this engaging essay that holds the reader’s attention by making it a very fun piece to read. This work was originally incorporated into an excerpt titled “Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up

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    Sticks and stones can break your bones‚ but words can cut you deeply. The well-known saying “sticks and stones can break your bones‚ but words can never hurt you” has continuously been told to children struggling with bullying. The earliest known citation that used this phrase was from an American periodical The Christian Recorder in 1862 and was meant for a largely African American audience. During the Civil War‚ African Americans faced prejudice in the form of physical abuse and degrading insults

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    I don’t know about you but I’m proud of who I am and where I come from. Just because your race or culture is different from everybody else‚ it don’t mean you should be judge‚ put down‚ or be disrespected just because of that. In the text‚ “The F Word” and “Peeling Bananas” shows us how different cultures is combined together or how people immigrate from the own country and go to a new country where people don’t understand their background or culture. People constantly saying their names wrong and

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    I am Who I am In chapter 1 of Claude Steele’s novel Whistling Vivaldi and Firoozeh Dumas’ article “The “F Word”’ the topic of stereotyping play big roles in the authors’ lives. They both understand that your identity is what makes you who are and sometimes can set you aside from other people. In the case of Claude Steele he is an African American man and for Firoozeh Dumas she is Iranian-born woman. Both of them experienced the negative attitudes that came from being who they are and had to face

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    Praise and Children

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    by verbal speech such as ’can you try to do it’? or non verbal ways such as hand gestures thumbs up or smiling etc. Also after a child has done something positive we must always praise them verbally with a ’well done’! or thumbs up etc even a sticker chart or team points has the same effect. If we do not give children praise and encouragement they are less likely to join in new activities which will not give them confidence to experience new things and become independant. It is important that children

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