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    This article is talking about recalling is more accuracy on information and details. However it’s different from retelling. Retelling is more focus on the speaker’s goals‚ the audience‚ and the social context more generally. It has explained that retelling the story facts are much better that elaboration of the story. However‚ the new memory would incomplete or distorted our old memory. Hence‚ it decreases the accuracy of our memory. Retellings can be linked to memory errors observed in domains

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    The Secret River Analysis

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    The Secret River demands that the audience know the context of the play from very early on. Once that can be represented the audience’s prior knowledge of colonialism and the treatment of Indigenous Australians tells them all they need to know about the mindsets of the characters and creates foreshadowing for the climax of the show. Andrew Bovell uses his understating of the audiences prior knowledge and intricate details of each stage craft element to interpret the written playscript into a production

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    On David Harvey

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    David Harvey is a classical marxist concerned with inequality and the theoretical bridge between social theory and geography. Argues from a historical materialist perspective – how the society reproduces itself. Harvey on space: For Harvey‚ social practices and process create spaces and these spaces in turn‚ constrain‚ enable and alter those practices and process – what Ed Soja called a “socio-spatial dialectic”. Constant relationship between society and geography and they both influence eachother

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    Indus River Valley

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    of the three the most widespread.[2] covering an area of 1.25 million sq km [3] It flourished in the basins of the Indus River‚ one of the major rivers of Asia‚ and the Ghaggar-Hakra River‚ which once coursed through northwest India and eastern Pakistan.[4] At its peak‚ the Indus Civilization may have had a population of over five million. Inhabitants of the ancient Indus river valley

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    boreal forest and savanna. In Rowan Jacobsen article “Down by the River”‚ he described the Colorado River. It discusses how Jacobsen traveled to the city Yuma. Jacobsen then went on to describe that the river was deprived of their annual dose of water‚ so the vegetation started to die. It also explained that Charlie Flynn worked with a community called Quechan and Phillips came together and worked on the restoration of the river. Analysis

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    Same-Sex Marriage

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    The idea that gay marriage is wrong because gay couples are somehow unnatural is not often stated openly‚ but this premise influences other arguments and lies behind many people’s negative opinions about homosexuality in general. For most people‚ heterosexual relationships are the norm‚ both in society and in nature. Homosexual relationships are thus abnormal and unnatural; therefore‚ they shouldn’t be validated by the state nor recognized as a form of marriage. Such arguments are superficially

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    Henry David Thoreau

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    pond. Who would choose a life like this? Henry David Thoreau did‚ and he enjoyed it. Who was Henry David Thoreau‚ what did he do‚ and what did others think of his work? Henry David Thoreau was born in Concord‚ Massachusetts on July 12‚ 1817 ("Thoreau" 96)‚ on his grandmother’s farm. Thoreau‚ who was of French-Huguenot and Scottish-Quaker ancestry‚ was baptized as David Henry Thoreau‚ but at the age of twenty he legally changed his name to Henry David. Thoreau was raised with his older sister Helen

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    The Cuyahoga River Vally

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    Building the Cuyahoga River Valley Organization Kotter Model & Transorganizational Change Model Drew Duckett The Cuyahoga River valley known for its “natural beauty and full-throated industry.” Referenced by Steven Lit in his articles in the Cleveland Plain Dealer. It is home to the historic Ohio and Erie Canal as well has a towpath system that demonstrated economic leadership in northeast Ohio and now an issue in the regions recreation system. The river offers many recreational activates

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    Peace Like a River

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    Alexis Hux Goodwyn-5th English H-II 20 May‚ 2013 Peace Like A River ‘Tommy clawed the floor‚ bawling incomprehensibly‚ and his eyes rolled‚ and there was seeing all the devils waiting for him‚ whetting their long knives‚ that he could hear their gabbling shrieks‚ that the smell of sulfur so quick in the room issued from some dim mouth like chamber panting after his soul. Standing above him‚ Davy levered up a third cartridge.” (Enger 50). I choose this passage because the author was emphasizing

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    Pearl River Piano

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    in Guangzhou of China. The piano factory is located Pearl River‚ so that the brand of piano is called Pearl River. Since the adoption of an open-door policy‚ Chinaexploited a range of new opportunities provided by a market-oriented economy for expanding production‚ employments‚ and profits through free trade markets. As a result‚ PRPG face a chance due to import technology and export products‚ and then they were expended to become Pearl River piano Industrial Corporation. Their  business become more successful

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