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    The most recent study conducted on the attainment rates between monolingual and bilingual children was Erika Hoff’s observations in childhood concentration‚ which was published in her book “Childhood Bilingualism”. Hoff explained that when a bilingual child learns multiple languages‚ it changes how that child uses their cognitive resources. Furthermore‚ bilingual children often switch their mental dialogue from their native language to their second known language. It is this switching ability according

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    Bilingual Education Should english be the dominant language? This is a frequently argued question in the United States although there is large population along with a wide variety of languages. The many languages can‚ in some cases‚ create a barrier which restricts two parties from communicating. With this thought in mind‚ should students be taught another language besides english in school? While some believe that it will be detrimental‚ being bilingual is actually very beneficial and has the ability

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    in the speech "The benefits of a bilingual brain”‚ speaker Mia Nacamullitalks about benefits of being bilingual and how it affects our brain. First of all‚ she compares bilingual and monolingual people. He describes language ability‚ which occurs two active part: speaking and writing and two passive part: listening and reading. Likewise‚ he categorizes the bilingual people who occur 3 general type. first‚ he gives an example of Gabrielle‚ who is 2 years old and immigrates the United State.She

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    Everyone has a talent or skill that they’re proud of‚ mine has to be being bilingual. Being bilingual can be very helpful not just to me‚ but to others as well. Speaking two languages can help me with any new career opportunities that would make me stand out and take me very far in life. I have worked really hard to get to where I am today. My family only spoke Spanish to me so I wasn’t able to learn English. My oldest sibling growing up didn’t speak English either. When I started elementary

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    Parable of the Sower takes place in Octavia Buttler’s apocolypse (Old English‚ via Old French and ecclesiastical Latin from Greek apokalupsis‚ from apokaluptein ‘uncover‚ reveal‚’ from apo- ‘un-’ + kaluptein ‘to cover’). In an interview‚ Buttler said that when writing the book‚ she took many of the issues of the modern world and took them to their natural conclusion. In doing so‚ by defintion‚ Buttler has created an apocalyptic work. For Parable of the Sower to be fully understood‚ one must first

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    According to Jared Diamond there are five main characteristics that play a part in societal collapse: environmental damage‚ climate change‚ hostile neighbors‚ friendly neighbors‚ and cultural responses (Curren). Many early societies that collapsed experienced these problems such as the Sumerian civilization that was destroyed by their neighbors‚ the Elamites. Ancient Egyptian civilization was ruined by people infiltrating their country and changing their perspective on religion. The Rapa Nui civilization

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    there that we can learn from the past that would help us avoid declining or collapsing in the way that so many past societies have? Obviously the answer to this question is not going to be a single factor. This is a complex subject. In analyzing societal collapses‚ I’ve arrived at a five-point framework -- a checklist of things that I go through to try and understand collapses.” (Diamond‚ 2003). The first item that Diamond got in his framework is Human impacts on the environment: people have to

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    Second Year Implementation of MTBMLE In Selected Public And Private Elementary Schools in La Trinidad Benguet Guzman‚ Melvin S. Batay-an‚ Jennifer S. Colingey‚ Rhealyn G. Lim‚ Rolly L. Daluyen‚ Zaldy T. Dackias‚ Ana Leah L. ABSTRACT The study aims to know how the different elementary schools in La Trinidad on the implementation of Mother Tongue Based Multilingual Education Program and if the students perform higher on the assessment after the implementation of Mother Tongue Based-Multi

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    CHAPTER I THE PROBLEM AND ITS BACKGROUND This chapter presents the problem of the researchers sought after the foundation for which to base the study. Introduction "Language is not everything in education‚ but without language‚ everything is nothing in education." (Wolff‚ 2006). The foundation of every state is the education of its youth. The failure of education represents the inability of society to properly perpetuate itself through succeeding generations. Many years ago Filipinos dwell

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    Disastrous Decisions? - Rhetorical Analysis “How on earth could a society make such an obviously disastrous decisions as to cut down all the trees on which it depended?” was the question that started Jared Diamonds urge to do further research on societal collapses (392). His urge to write about this topic resulted from a conversation he had about the collapse of Easter Island society. In this piece of Diamonds “Why Do Some Societies Make Disastrous Decisions‚” he discusses past and present societies

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