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    In the poem “Those Winter Sundays” by Robert Hayden‚ Robert Hayden shows the speaker’s regrets for not recognizing his father’s love during his childhood. In the first stanza‚ the speaker introduces his father. Beginning with “Sundays too my father got up early‚” “Sundays too” suggests that the father woke up early even on Sundays to help his family (line 1). Then‚ the words the speaker use to describe his father makes an imagery of the father having a harsh life. The speaker describes his father’s

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    While “Those Winter Sundays”‚ “Let me not to the marriage of true minds”‚ and “Still I Rise” revolve around different themes‚ the authors explore those respective themes by employing similar literary devices‚ effectively enhancing the tone and meaning of their poems thanks to sound. Shakespeare and Hayden’s poems revolve around the theme of love‚ while Angelou delivers a powerful poem about self-empowerment In poetry‚ theme is “an idea that the poem expresses about the subject […] and it may be

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    words that we were seeing in our school books‚ homework‚ reading‚ and lectures. These words were placed in small sentence and short stories that the teacher gave us to take home and we had to focus on the word or letter with the high frequency. At first‚ we did this for a week without a test or the teacher evaluating us‚ because they were words that we saw everyday in our books. In addition‚ to what we were seeing went in levels and themes and those themes or levels were more difficulty as we went on

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    ‘THEORIES OF HOW CHILDREN LEARN – LANGUAGE ACQUISITION’ ASSESSMENT 03B/4 PART 4 TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION TO LANGUAGE AND COMMUNICATION 2 MAIN STAGES OF LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT 5 NURTURE‚ OPERANT CONDITIONING AND LEARNING THEORY 9 NATURE/NATIVIST THEORY 13 PIAGET’S COGNITIVE THEORY 16 VYGOTSKY AND BRUNER’S COGNITIVE THEORIES 19 CULTURAL RELATIVITY 24 FACTORS THAT AFFECT LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT 25 HOW ADULTS CAN PROMOTE LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT 28 RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN LANGUAGE AND COGNITIVE

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    For my gut reaction writing‚ I read “Those Winter Sundays” by Robert Hayden. The poem brought back memories of cold winter nights by the fire. My living room has a gas fire‚ and even when it is below 40‚ the living room can still be 80. The second stanza reminded me of the days I would spend cross country skiing‚ especially the part where Hayden says the cold is splintering and breaking‚ because when you are cross country skiing in the mountains around Seattle‚ you can hear each little sound caused

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    Embracing Something New We all feel the need to be accepted somewhere. We all want to feel loved. We want to know that people want to spend time with us; we want to be accepted. Sometimes we will do anything to reach that. Some people will change everything about themselves just to fit in. This trying to fit in can be seen in every school‚ in every city‚ in every state‚ in every country‚ all around the world. No one wants to feel lonely and left out. No one wants to be rejected. But‚ what happens

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    Understand how children from birth-5 years learn through play Piaget Jean Piaget (1896-1980) was one of the first psychologist to study the cognitive and language development of children. When working on their theory Piaget had discovered that children discover and think in different ways to adults‚ this was then how Piaget carried out observations to find out how children develop their reasoning and thinking skills. Stage and approximate age Description of age How this influences play 0-2 years

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    is making us distant from natural beauty The technological advancement in today’s era has not only made our life easy and comfortable but also fast. Today we are surrounded by machines to ease all our jobs. We want perfection‚ quickness‚ accuracy out of these inventions. And in order to achieve this‚ in no time we also have become machines. We have forgotten to appreciate natural beauty spread around us. I totally agree to the fact that the pace of modern life is making us distant from Mother Nature

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    namely love‚ and reminiscence. Songs usually collate with poems because most have similar meaning also focus on main human emotions like love‚ and reminiscence. Those Winter Sundays by Robert Hayden speaks about how on sundays the speaker’s father had to wake up and work in the cold‚ yet nobody ever thanked him. In the song When I’m gone by Eminem he stresses on his daughter Hailie he doesn’t have time to spend with him. In those Winter Sundays the speaker emphasizes that his father works everyday not

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    closes a chapter in history. He looked upon us as sophisticated children–smart‚ but not wise. We knew many things‚ and much that is false. He knew nature‚ which is always true”. In order to analyze Ishi’s commentary one must first begin to ask is Ishi’s opinion correct? From what I know and understand about society today and society in the past‚ Ishi’s view of settlers of European descent and the modern day man are right on point. As a culture of people we are “smart‚ but not wise”. This statement

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