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    mistakes can cause big trouble. Everyday everybody makes mistakes but every day we don’t discover new things. If we think that mistakes lead to great discoveries scientist should do everything wrong to find new things. According to source 3 (In Praise Of Careful Science) although it is fun to think about how a bump on the head from an apple changed our understanding of gravity‚ it really is less fun. Now from my last sentence you can see that this was just a coincidence‚ a person sitting under

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    Borderlines is Frank Jacobs’ column in the New York Times. Through an extensive study of borders‚ the column examines the political geography of the world. Jacobs humorously brings an insightful perspective and manages to address a broad spectrum of concepts in political geography. Jacobs’ articles are written and published during a period of increasing disdain for borders‚ especially exemplified with the European Union’s move towards free movement and migration within its external boundary. The

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    According to‚ In Praise of the F Word‚ by Mary Sherry tens of thousands will graduate high school with meaningless diplomas. Those with meaningless diplomas are the ones who’s been passing along even though they don’t truly understand the materials taught to them. Sherry argues that our educational system is to blame for cheating those students out of a proper education; however‚ an easy remedy is for teachers to use the trump card of failure. Sherry claims that before students can concentrate‚ the

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    In the essay “In praise of margins‚” Ian Frazier explains the importance of having marginal activities. He describes these activities as something you do with no purpose‚ where you are free to let your mind run wild. Sometimes marginality is tangible in the sense you can actually create something while doing a marginal activity. Frazier’s marginal place as a child was eh woods. There he and his friends would pretend to be explores and try out odd ideas. Odd ideas that later they would come to realize

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    focuses on praise and discusses the use of verbal and non verbal praise with special needs students. Praise should be integral in the classroom and it is my belief that it is pivotal in the special needs classroom. To examine this statement further and to analyse through strategies ways to improve my delivery I developed a simple questionnaire appropriate to my students and channelled the research through the questions: How important is praise? Is non verbal praise distinct to verbal praise? What effect

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    In school there are always those that do not understand‚ but get passing grades. In Mary Sherry’s essay In Praise of the F Word she talks about the topic in more depth. The essay talks about how the American school system you get passed along without any consideration about your pace and skill level. She also discusses how unprepared the American public is after high school and college. Her essay also talks about her own son and one of his experiences in his high school. Her use of ethos is not very

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    In Praise of a Snail’s Pace In Ellen‚ Goodman essays the‚" Praise of a Snail’s Pace". She is talked about the differences between send an email‚ and sending a letter. Also she talks about attention during the communication with others become deferent .another reason she talk about the feeling when someone send a letter or send an email or SMS. Goodman talked about the difference in speed when Send an email or send a written message.Ellen‚ Goodman also she mentioned the snail only as an example of

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    In the long-awaited 184-page environmental treatise‚ titled Laudato Si’‚ or Praise Be to You‚ published by Vatican Press in June 2015‚ Pope Francis described how apathy and the reckless pursuit of profits‚ excessive faith in technology and political shortsightedness‚ along with the relentless exploitation and destruction of the environment‚ are to blame. Encyclicals are letters to the clergy and laity of the church that are considered authoritative. The document was sent to the world’s 5‚000 Catholic

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    How did Erasmus use “Folly” to criticize the Catholic Church of his Day? It may seem odd or different to admire and acclaim Folly‚ but there is a definite benefit to foolishness: the freedom to tell only factual information. In Praise of Folly‚ Erasmus put this independence to good use in repeating to the readers‚ a civilization significantly besmirched by mature worries‚ that a person is unable to serve both God and Mammon. He leveled over his irony by promising us that "there is merit in being

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    Verbal Praise versus External Reward: Effects on Children When it comes to child performance‚ is verbal praise better than external reward? There has been growing research in recent years that suggests the theory that neither verbal praise nor external rewards are beneficial to children. “A child deserves to take delight in [their] accomplishments‚ to feel pride in what [they’ve] learned how to do”. This theory suggests that adults take shortcuts and “manipulate kids with rewards instead of explaining

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