"The Cruible” written by Arthur Miller portrays how power can destroy people’s life‚ if it falls into the wrong hands. In the town of Salem‚ power is never seen in a single person’s hand consistently at any time. it shifts from one person to another. Starting from Reverend parris‚ for being the one chosen by god to serve people with Christianity‚ he thinks he is higher in power then all the others who live in Salem. Salem is a small place with a small population. people believe in witchcraft and
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Marites Vitug (1993) narrates in her book‚ entitled The Politics of Logging: Power from the Forest‚ the possible environmental conditions that we can have if the current abusive practices which are being done to our environment and in particular to our forest continue. Moreover‚ Vitug (1993) also stated how the cases of deforestation in the Philippines started. She highlighted the rate of the environmental destruction that happened during the Marcos regime. After that‚ the actions made by the Aquino
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EN102 Final Draft Is distance learning as effective as traditional classroom learning? Distance education also known as distance learning‚ e-learning or online learning‚ is unlike traditional classroom learning. Professor Shelia Tucker of East Carolina University in her article “Distance Education: Better‚ Worse‚ Or As Good As Traditional Education?” states that “distance learning allows individuals such as the full-time police officer‚ the mother of four‚ and people living in rural areas
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Learning 1.Nature lends a helping hand by providing animals with a set of built in inherited skills that functions at birth or shortly thereafter. * These skills are called reflexes. Some reflexes like sucking provide necessary biological supports. Other reflexes are ready made‚ swift and simple reactions to stimuli that pose a potential threat. * An example of a fixed action pattern would be salmon swimming up stream to spawn or birds seasonal migration. 2.Learning is a way that a
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is mostly because they are not learning things in a good way. In the article‚ "Learning" from Your First Job by Robert Leamnson‚ PhD.‚ the author explains the essential strategies for learning in order to be successful in the college career. Our brain is made of billions of tiny cells called neurons. When we are trying to absorb an information or remember particular things‚ part of our brains are transmitting signals from one neuron to another. That is why learning is part of a biological process
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in his essay "Learning to Read and Write" explains all the difficulties he had to face when he learned to read and write in 1830s. Being a slave‚ it was against the law to learn to read and write‚ yet Douglass by risking his life‚ using all opportunities managed to learn reading and writing. Richard Rodriguez‚ on the other hand‚ was a child who was born 150 years later in a Spanish speaking family. In his essay "The Lonely‚ Good Company of Books"‚ Rodriguez narrates his learning experience and
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In the essay Learning to read and write by Frederick Douglass he talked about growing up as a slave‚ trying to learn how to read and write‚ how it’s hard to get what you want but with a lot of work and effort it can be done. It really connected with me how if he wasn’t white ethnicity he was considered a slave and didn’t have same privliges as the white kids in his neighborhood. With having glasses and being short made me feel different as well‚ not with rights but with making friends and being considered
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In the reading "Learning to Read and Write" by Frederick Douglass‚ he tells the tale of how he‚ a slave‚ learned to read and write. He explains that he lived with the Hugh’s family and that the mistress was his teacher. Upon his arrival to the Hugh’s family‚ he describes his mistress as "a kind and tender hearted woman‚" as she instructed him in his studies. She continued to do so until she was told he‚ was to no longer be instructed by her or anyone else. As she had adopted her husband’s precept
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Power Report Reward Power can be gained from a person’s capacity to reward compliance. When a person is rewarded or might receive a potential reward through recognition‚ a good job assignment‚ a pay rise‚ or additional resources to complete a job‚ an employee may respond by carrying through with orders‚ requests and directions. Coercive power is considered the opposite of reward power. Coercive power is considered the ability of the power holder to remove something from a person or to punish a
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POWER: A capacity that A has to influence the behaviour of B so that B acts in accordance with A’s wishes. DEPENDENCY: B’s relationship to A when A possesses something that B requires. BASES OF POWER: Formal Power: Is established by an individual’s position in an organisation; conveys the ability to coerce or reward‚ from formal authority‚ or from control of information 1. Coercive Power • A power base dependent on fear 2. Reward Power • Compliance achieved based on the ability to distribute
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