Lisa Englard is a math teacher who takes her job seriously; when her class presented trouble with word problems she began to research. Upon doing so she found that students had trouble solving problems when key words are left out. Singapore corrected this by developing the model method which has proven to be useful seeing as they rank among the best in math. When using the model method students draw pictures to represent quantities and their relationships this helps them choose operations and sequence
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Lisa from The Girl Who Owned a City and Annie from Directions are similar in many ways. One similarity is that they both are very determined. A quote from the story says‚ “Although business was slow‚ those first days Annie was determined”. This quote helps the reader to understand how hard Annie works everyday‚ and how determined she is. Lisa is also a very hard worker‚ and also is very determined. We see this when Lisa doesn’t give up‚ no matter how many times she has to do it. "But for some reason
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (Mona Vale‚ NSW‚ Australia) Mona Vale Dental proudly announces the opening of a new state-of-the-art dental facility in Mona Vale. The mission of the dental practice is to provide the highest quality of evidence-based care to all members of the family in an environment that is friendly‚ supportive and professional. The staff members remain committed to providing every patient with comprehensive and modern treatment that is appropriate to their needs while helping to ensure their
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HW# Q.: Evaluate Lisa Aham’s current strategy regarding senior citizens. Does this strategy improve this McDonald’s image? What should she do about the senioor citizen market – that is‚ should she encourage‚ ignore‚ or discourage her seniors? What should she do about the bingo idea? Explain. McDonald’s “Seniors” Retaurant Lisa Aham is manager of a McDonald’s restaurant in a city with many “seniors.” She has noticed that some senior citizens have become not just regular patrons – but patrons
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As a grandchild‚ the greatest feeling in the world is spending time with their grandma. This is especially true when a grandchild has been away at college and has not seen their grandma in an extended period of time. The way Lisa Parker uses imagery and opposition allows readers to visualize the country setting where the grandma resides‚ along with the relationship between the grandma and granddaughter. The moment the grandma questions the granddaughter about college creates a tempting yet uneasy
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a more meaningful life for those who do not conform themselves with this rally to change the world‚ but to accept the chaos and to make an artistic life out of it. Bart Simpson is exactly that‚ he not only does not conform to the "good-doers" like Lisa but he
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“The Dinner Party” by Mona Gardner 1 The country is India. A colonial official and his wife are giving a large dinner party. They are seated with their guests —army officers‚ and government attache´s with their wives‚ and a visiting American naturalist —in their spacious dining room. It has a bare marble floor‚ open rafters‚ and wide glass doors opening onto a veranda. 2 A spirited discussion springs up between a young girl who insists that women have outgrown the jumping-on-a-chair-at-the-sight-of-a-mouse
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Twitter is a social media platform where people can tweet about their lives and read about the news all over the world. In the story “Twitterholics Anonymous‚” author Mona Eltahawy says that she loves and hates Twitter even though it has become an important part of her job as a reporter. Twitter has become essential for people to find new ideas‚ but to some it is becoming an unhealthy obsession. Author Eltahawy brings up how social media sites like Twitter are good for people because it gives them
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A snake is on my foot‚ help!That is probably what most people would do if they had a snake on their foot‚ but this isn’t the case for a dinner party hostess in the short story “The Dinner Party‚” written by Mona Gardner. In this story‚ a British woman puts on a dinner party. There arouses a conversation about males being better than females. The colonel states that females scream in scary situations and men don’t. This was an argument that could be backed up by evidence until a small boy was asked
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“Grater Divide (2002)” is a sculpture created by Mona Hatoum that is currently exhibited in the Museum of Fine Arts Boston. The sculpture is made of mild steel and is 203.8cm x 304.8cm and is in the shape of a room divider. However when one takes a closer look it is obvious that the separate panels are meant to represent an oversized cheese grater. The physical familiarity of the sculpture is not comforting to the viewer but instead unsettling. (Hatoum 1998) This sense of alienation that the viewer
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