Attitude: How one feels about something in general (I have a positive attitude towards basketball). Balance theory: the theory that people try to maintain balance among their beliefs‚ cognitions‚ and sentiments. Cognitive dissonance theory: the theory that inconsistencies between a person’s thoughts‚ sentiments‚ and actions create an aversive emotional state (dissonance) that leads to efforts to restore consistency. Effort justification: the tendency to reduce dissonance by finding reasons for
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Chapter 6 Summary – Friends Chapter 6 is all based the strengthening of friendship between the characters of Caitlin and Bill and of Old bill and Billy. In the section Comfort Bill talks about how he hated school and didn’t have any friends. The repetition of the negative quotes in the section emphasises how Billy did not belong in his old environment. “I never talked to girls‚ I hardly talked to anyone. Sure‚ I answered questions from teachers and occasionally I’d talk to some guys I’d know
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Activity #6 Summary APPLICATION: Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2010 Read and complete the following: 1. Review any/all the Companion material for this Chapter at the Cengagebrain Web site. 2. Review the Presentation for PowerPoint Chapter 1. 3. Review any/all material available at Microsoft PowerPoint Online. 4. Chapter 1: Creating and Editing a Presentation with Clip Art‚ pages PPT 2 through PPT 54. 5. “In the Lab 1”‚ pages PPT 59 through PPT 60. 6. “In the Lab 2”
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Unit 6 Chapter Exercises NT 1430 Tyrel Cain (19103625) Tyrel Cain NT1430 4/23/2015 Unit 6 Chapter Exercises Chapter 13 2. Which command would you give to update all installed packages using yum? # yum update 3. Why would you build a package from its source code when a (binary) rpm file is available? Most packages have options that are specified at compile time. The person who builds the rpm file sets these options to commonly used values. You may want other values; if you do‚ you need
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In chapter 6 of Children and Their Art…‚ the author highlights the importance of age-appropriate media use to introduce art to K-12 students. Art can be very beneficial to students when introducing in the correct way. Drawings have been known to help children explore the types of media‚ create symbols‚ develop themes‚ and solve visual problems. Art can be used to explore a child’s point of view or their own free spirit ideas. It allows they a way to express themselves. The book states‚ “drawings
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highlights the venoms of slavery‚ suggesting that the mere ownership of slaves can poison even the most kindhearted person. In chapter six‚ Douglass focuses his narrative on his new slave owner Sophia Auld and also introduces two mistreated slaves‚ Mary and Henrietta‚ to support his central claim that slavery can deteriorate a person’s character and physical body. Douglass opens chapter six with the introduction of Sophia Auld to depict how slavery can corrupt a person’s nature. Sophia‚ Hugh Auld’s wife
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It is clear that changes in society‚ whether they are political or economical‚ always make a difference in the way education is viewed and taught. Chapter 6 talks about how the goals of education are linked to the questions of who controls American education and who decides what knowledge is of most value to teach to students. The first sections talks about should knowledge being taught be left up to federal government‚ state government‚ local school boards or parents. It all comes down to control
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`Assignments for chapters 1 through 6 EXERCISE 1.1 Each of us is confronted with decisions in our everyday lives that require us to gather and assess information on the different alternatives at hand and then make a decision. Examples of such decisions include the decision to attend college‚ buy a car or some other item‚ strike up a friendship with Person A or B‚ select a particular course‚ or take a trip to Point X or Y. You may have made an error in such decisions because your information
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previewing and reading a chapter you will move on to the next step of the reading process which is processing ideas followed by post reading and retaining them. Signposts are visual aids used to assist students in focusing on the main points making an online to reflect on the topic. Beginnings and Endings are organized much like paragraphs and essays with the center focus being divided into topics and subtopics. Connections are reflection done after you preview the chapter‚ link new knowledge to
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The Great Gatsby - Chapter 6 In chapter 6 the rumours about Gatsby continue to circulate in New York—a reporter even travels to Gatsby’s mansion hoping to interview him. Nick‚ having learned the truth about Gatsby’s early life sometime before writing his account‚ now interrupts the story to tell us Gatsby’s real history—instead of how it was rumoured to have occurred‚ or as Gatsby had previous claimed that it had occurred‚ but as it really happened. In this chapter we also see Tom Buchanan stopover
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