How Can Virtual Reality Improve Education? Virtual Reality is changing the way individuals view and interact with the world and it is not just for video games anymore. In the educational context virtual reality can enhance and successfully improve education. As a graduate student in Second Language Acquisition I am interested in exploring how virtual environments can be integrated in the language curriculum to aid and enhance students’ learning. The traditional language textbook has become an outdated
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Cappella? Is That How You Spell It? The phrase a cappella is among the most butchered and misunderstood musical terms. The predominant‚ and most "correct" spelling‚ is ... a cappella - two words‚ two "p’s"‚ two "l’s." A Cappella‚ A Picky Definition Musicologists have fun debating the extent to which a cappella‚ ’in the style of the chapel‚’ can include instrumental accompaniment. Some argue that early sacred a cappella performances would sometimes include instruments that double
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place‚ I normally have a better understanding on the things that I learned by doing them. Ten years ago‚ after graduated from a university‚ I began working for an electronic company‚ which manufactures color televisions. During the first several months‚ I just sat in my office to read the mechanisms of color television from books. Those theories seemed to be so abstract to me that I can only understand 30% of them. So I decided to go to the production floor to learn about them. After taking part in the
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If you can’t be a pine on the top of the hill‚ Be a scrub in the valley — but be The best little scrub by the side of the rill; Be a bush if you can’t be a tree. If you can’t be a bush be a bit of the grass‚ And some highway happier make; If you can’t be a muskie then just be a bass — But the liveliest bass in the lake! We can’t all be captains‚ we’ve got to be crew‚ There’s something for all of us here‚ There’s big work to do‚ and there’s lesser to do‚ And the task you must do is
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The Chronicle Review October 3‚ 2010 What Are You Going to Do With That? Katherine Streeter for The Chronicle Review By William Deresiewicz The essay below is adapted from a talk delivered to a freshman class at Stanford University in May. The question my title poses‚ of course‚ is the one that is classically aimed at humanities majors. What practical value could there possibly be in studying literature or art or philosophy? So you must be wondering why I’m bothering to raise it here‚ at Stanford
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October 5‚ 1968. The Kosi river in Bihar played havoc as 9 lakh cusec of water was discharged in one day alone. Forty years later‚ the survivors of flood fury in north-eastern Bihar are returning to their homes without fully knowing how a repeat of such discharge in a day can ruin them altogether. The sudden diversion of the Kosi’s course last fortnight already inundated huge tracks of Supaul‚ Madhepura‚ Araria‚ Purnea and Saharsa districts‚ traditionally non-flooded pockets of Bihar’s annual monsoon
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Scenario: You Are Working on a Desktop Computer 1) What are the eight categories in the Category view in Control Panel? System and Security Networking and Internet Hardware and Sound Programs User Accounts and Family Safety Appearance and Personalization Clock‚ Language and Region Ease of Access 2) The Windows Experience Index rates a computer’s performance on a scale of 1.0 to 7.9. Based on the rating of your computer‚ what can you conclude about its performance? I should buy a GPU.
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Can We Really Hide From Failure? Does success and failure go hand in hand? Success gives people satisfaction and delight‚ where failure can discourage and exhaust them. But what people can tend to forget is that in life‚ everyone comes across failure every once in a while. What everyone should remember is that no one is perfect and they should not lose hope and give up. Winston Churchill once said “Success is not final‚ failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts” (Winston
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What do you want to be when you grow up? What are your plans for your future? Have you thought about college? Have you thought about a career choice? These are questions we are bombarded with on a daily basis by our parents. We shrug them off‚ telling them that we have another three years to think about college‚ careers‚ or our future. We don’t know what we want to be when we grow up‚ because we don’t even know who we are yet. Yet in a blink of an eye‚ we’re seniors and now the decisions we tried
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Be Careful What You Wish For Janice Johnson English 125 – Introduction to Literature Dr. Jennifer Wells September 1‚ 2014 Be Careful What You Wish For This essay is to compare and contrast the two short stories “How I Met My Husband” and “The Diamond Necklace”. The theme in both of these stories is the fact that you should appreciate what you have and not wish for what you can’t have. As the title hints at‚ in both of these stories there is
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