“applying”. These conceptions are focus on both acquisition and application phases. At acquisition phase‚ memorizing is -‐1-‐ a useful tool to acquire knowledge and improve the test score in the short-term. However‚ learning by rote is doesn’t work for long-term study. The piece of knowledge always disappeared from my memory immediately after the exam‚ it is hard for me to actually acquire knowledge only by memorizing. Thus‚ the application phase is benefit for the consolidation
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principles are used by nurse educators to differentiate their teaching methods for returning adult students from the young adult students out of high school. "Adult" learning principles seem to make the assumption that non-adult students should learn by rote and that grades are their only motivation to
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larger concept that Solomon speaks of. Men are selfish by nature; everything they do is fake and vain. They do not do anything out of empathy for fellow human beings or because they truly want to do it. Instead‚ they are self-serving‚ their labors mindless and pointless‚ as it is all a mass of superficiality. Solomon mentions the cyclical nature of life; the sun rises and sets‚ the winds go south and north‚ the generations
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highlight the dehumanizing effects of the modern world on its people. In order to fight the monotony and be mindful in contemporary society‚ Chuck Klosterman develops commanding syntax to warn the individuals of the costs associated with repetitive and mindless acts. The motion of continuously and deliberately accomplishing something without any afterthought‚ much “… like slaughtering zombies” (Klosterman 1)‚ has left a demeaning effect on those effected as they eventually become incapable of thinking for
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A special interest story in a news broadcast is intended to detail the problems and concerns faced by an individual or a group of people in an emotional way to elicit feelings of interest or sympathy in the audience. I therefore used the characters‚ themes and plot found in Shirley Jackson’s The Lottery as the basis of my broadcast element because this text is a disquieting critique on the violence and inhumanity we hear about on a perpetual basis that evokes emotion in nearly everyone who reads
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There is virtually no communication with the world outside the friendship group portrayed in the opening scenes. The world of the characters takes very little notice of the rest of society until faced with the consequences of an act of wilful and ‘mindless’ aggression. The aftermath of this act brings the characters closer together and pulls them apart. Students will enjoy the power of the arguments and (hopefully) will be shocked by the immorality that underpins the choices made by some of the characters
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Some people believe that television is a powerful educational tool. Other people believe that television is nothing more than mindless entertainment and should be discouraged. To what extent do you agree or disagree with this statement? With the advent of television‚ people’s ways of life‚ ways of learning in particular‚ have modified significantly. To me‚ television both makes contribution to audiences’ learning process while‚ on the other hand‚ contributing to certain false notions involuntarily
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Lexi Wylie Burn In Ray Bradbury’s dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451‚ in which books are illegal in society‚ Guy Montag holds a career as a fireman. Unlike firemen of today who fight fires‚ firemen in Fahrenheit 451 create fires in order to destroy books as well as the knowledge‚ individuality‚ and freedom they hold. Fire plays a crucial role in this novel‚ with Bradbury giving the story “impact and imaginative focus by means of symbolic fire” (Watt 2). As Watt puts it‚ fire is “Montag’s world
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The world is obsessed with zombies and many have taken actions to survive what they perceive as an apocalypse. Lots of people believe it could happen‚ they also believe that it will not be in their lifetime. The following are true stories of how zombies may have already been living among us and how it is feasible that an outbreak could occur. In our lifetime? That is anyone’s guess‚ as we all know‚ life is stranger than fiction. We have all seen at least one movie about zombie‚ but do you really
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“Rocky made him look at the corpse and said ‘Tayo‚ this a Jap! This is a Jap uniform!’ and then he rolled the body over with his boot and said‚ ‘ look ‚ Tayo‚ look at the face‚’ and that was when Tayo started screaming because it wasn’t a Jap‚ it was Josiah‚ eyes shrinking back into the skull and all their shrinking black light glazed over by death” (Silko 7). True men do not suffer from the ghosts of war. Manliness condones this behavior in soldiers after World War II. In Silko’s Ceremony¸ she
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