The Speed Reading Course By Peter Shepherd & Gregory Unsworth-Mitchell Email: shepherd@trans4mind.com Web site: Tools for Transformation Copyright © 1997 Peter Shepherd The Basics of Reading Introduction We all learn to read at school‚ after a fashion. But for most of us‚ this is not an optimal use of our brain power. In this course you will learn to better use the left brain’s focused attention combined with the right brain’s peripheral attention‚ in close harmony. Good communication
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Reading has at all times and in all ages been a source of knowledge‚ of happiness‚ of pleasure and even moral courage. In today’s world with so much more to know and to learn‚ the importance of reading has increased. In the olden days if reading was not cultivated or encouraged‚ there was a substitute for it in the religious sermon and in the oral tradition. The practice of telling stories at bed time compensated to some extent for the lack of reading. Books are our best friends. They never deceive
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The most important message of A New Kind of Dreaming is that everyone needs someone to relate to. Do you agree? In the novel A New Kind Of Dreaming‚ by Anthony Eaton‚ we find out what is the most important message in the novel and that being‚ everyone needing someone to relate to. Anthony Eaton shows us throughout the novel how the characters relate to and are affected by one another. Jamie‚ being the main character has early experiences in Port Barren which then emphazize on how him‚ as a
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dimension that differentiates learning from more traditional organizations is the mastery of certain basic disciplines. The five that Peter Senge identifies to be leading to innovative learning organizations are: (a) Systems Thinking (b) Personal Mastery (c) Mental Models (d) Building Shared Vision (e) Team Learning (Mark‚2001) 2.0 The Usefulness of Peter Senge’s Five Disciplines As a Tool in Helping Managers (a) Systems Thinking It is an idea of the learning organization developed
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indirectly stated or expressed; not straightforward: oblique remarks about the candidate’s honesty. SYSTEM : Oblique drawings are designed to show a three dimensional view of an object. The width of the object will still be drawn as a horizontal line‚ but the depth can be drawn back at any angle. You can choose the best angle to make the drawing look the best. There are three types of obliques‚ cavalier‚ normal‚ and cabinet obliques. Cabinet drawings are when the you cut the depth in half. Cavalier drawings are
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Reading Reading is the receptive skill in the written mode. It can develop independently of listening and speaking skills‚ but often develops along with them‚ especially in societies with a highly-developed literary tradition. Reading can help build vocabulary that helps listening comprehension at the later stages‚ particularly. Micro-skills involved in reading. The reader has to: • decipher the script. In an alphabetic system or a syllabary‚ this means establishing a relationship between
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Evan Schweikhart June 11‚ 2013 Social Studies 8 Period 7 Social Studies Final Exam Review Sheet 1. Literacy tests‚ poll taxes and grandfather clauses created to do were each created for people to have people become American citizens and have American rights. 2. The Supreme Court case that established “Separate but Equal” was the Brown vs. Board of Education Supreme Court case. 3. A carpetbagger was a political candidate who seeks election in an area where they have
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Marly Mannor ENG 111 FJT14 Ms. Hemingway 27 April 2013 A Different kind of Love What is love well love is – well love is something a person experiences for their selves. A person cannot tell someone else what love is because to different people that word holds different meanings. We all have had different experiences. Although everyone has felt it at one time or another‚ be it for a person‚ pet‚ or even a non-living object. That feeling is love. Love is felt in different amounts; it may consume
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Michel Foucault presents a challenging read in the book‚ Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison. Foucault explains how punishment has changed over time from a corporal‚ physical punishment to a punishment that is targeted at souls. Foucault walks the reader though how the disciplinary and penal system has changed as the body was discovered as an object and target of power. Foucault begins this book by recounting the fate of a man called Damien the regicide‚ who attempted to assassinate
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Reading Strategies Worksheet Identify two reading goals‚ one short-term and one long-term. Long-term reading goal: Comprehend what I am reading while I am in College. Short-term reading goal: Comprehend what I am reading for my Foundations of University Studies class. Write a 100- to 150-word response to each of the following questions: How do you currently approach the weekly readings in the course? I give myself a couple of hours on Tuesday afternoons while my kids are napping
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