After reading‚ listening to and watching a variety of texts‚ I settled on a favourite Neil Hilborn poem of mine called ‘OCD’. I’ve chosen to focus on his reading of it‚ rather than the written version‚ as the pace Hilborn delivers the poem with adds emphasis. The poem deals with an emotional journey‚ more so than a physical one. Hilborn’s poem focuses on his struggles with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and how it affected his relationship with a girl he fell in love with. Hilborn immediately dives
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ways. The graphic novel‚ ‘Coraline’ by Neil Gaiman‚ is a story about a young girl who has a bizarre adventure through the unknown‚ undergoing many life lessons along the way. She displays the qualities of a hero and is an admirable role model for people in our society. Humans‚ as well as animals can be heroes as they can display heroic qualities too. Texts about heroes also communicate messages which we can learn from and this includes our class text by Neil Gaiman. ‘Coraline’ helps readers understand
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Motivational learning can be broken down into four contexts. Those contexts are practical‚ personal‚ experiential‚ and idealistic. Practical context is learning something because you know in advance it will benefit you. Personal context is learning something because you want to do it for yourself to accomplish an important goal. Experiential Context is when someone is able to learn from their past experiences by bringing it with a new situation and adapting the two together. The idealistic context
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Emotions Psychology 240 September 21‚ 2012 April Sherman (Vandewater) There are many theories of emotion in biopsychology. These theories are based upon the Darwin‚ James-Lange and Cannon-Bard theories. One other biopsychology theories of emotion is based upon the limbic system (Pinel‚ 2009). Darwin’s publication of The Expression of Emotion in Man and Animals theorized that facial expression and emotional states follow one another (Pinel‚ 2009). Darwin suggested that emotion is to be evolution
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Topic: Building up career through private jobs rather than government jobs. Introduction: What is your aim in life? Even if asked a few decades back‚ the answer undoubtedly would have been to get a government job and build life through this job. This was crystal clear back then because dominance of government job on private sector was strongly visible. Discrimination was at its peak then. People also used to respect government officials. Moreover people were attracted to the benefits those were
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Cultural Heroes A cultural hero demonstrates cultural values. A cultural hero faces and overcomes struggles. A cultural hero is famous. A cultural hero may be living or dead‚ though more often dead. Often after their death‚ mythologies are developed embellishing their positive features. Herakles and Joan of Arc are examples of classic cultural heroes. John Fitzgerald Kennedy is a modern cultural hero. All three a well known and are remembered for their character and accomplishments. Herakles
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Contexts that Motivate Learning Motivational learning can be broken into four contexts. Those contexts are: Practical‚ Personal‚ Experiential‚ and Idealistic. First‚ the practical context of learning would be learning something because you know in advance it will benefit you. Second‚ the personal context of learning would be learning something because you want to do it for yourself to accomplish an important goal. Third‚ the experiential context of learning would be learning something because
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Week 1- Dis 1 After reading Chapter 3 in your textbook‚ address the following: a. Discuss the differences between activity theory and disengagement theory. b. Compare and contrast one of the other theories mentioned in the chapter (i.e.‚ modernization‚ exchange theory‚ subcultural theory of aging‚ etc.) to activity theory and disengagement theory. c. Discuss how the theory that you selected differs from the activity and disengagement theories of aging. d. Contact a person who
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HEALTH AND PERSONALITY FIGURE- is the best proportion when: The largest part of the bust and the largest part of the hips measure the same; Your waistline should be ten inches smaller than hips and bust; A two-inch variance one way or the other still results in a nice figure; However‚ if you vary more than two inches‚ you will want to work toward some long-range changes. PHYSICAL EXERCISE is any bodily activity that enhances or maintains physical fitness and overall health and
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Reflection The term learning to me means that we are acquiring knowledge for something we did not know or a new way of doing something. I think online learning is different than traditional because online learning is more of independent studies and can be easier or more difficult to manage depending on each person’s learning styles. My view of learning as only changed by knowing more learning styles and how they can vary in technical terms. Myself as a learning is described by being a dynamic
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