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    Among the many affective disorders that exist Dysthymia, also known as Persistent Depressive Disorder, is a chronic depressive disorder. In a given year it affects 3.3 million Americans over the age of 18. (Anxiety and Depression Association of America, 2017) Research findings show that persons suffering from a depressive disorder have a significant reduction in brain volume resulting from chronic and excessive levels of secreted cortisol, specifically in limbic system regions. As a result,…

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    Elements Of A Lesson Plan

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    ________ carrots for her salad. (cuts) Which sentence is written in the imperative? (Listen to your parents.) Select the verb that is conjugated into present continuous: Rather than shoes, I _________ sandals. (am wearing) Identify the verb tense or mood of the bolded word(s): Don't stop believing! (imperative) To discuss activities that are currently in progress, which verb tense would you use? (present continuous) Identify the error in the following sentence:…

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    Anzaldúa Analysis

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    speaker/victim, who seems to be a transvestite: a homosexual man who works the street and identifies as a woman or feminine homosexual man. 2) the rapists: two or more men who have abusive sexual intercourse with the speaker. Moreover, the speaker shifts mood, from happy…

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    A 2011 article by Nancy Bombaci addresses the possibility the famous author, Gertrude Stein, having autism. Bombaci states that Stein is often referred to as a “loose cannon,” and claims that many of her writings occur in a style which matches the speech pattern of those with autism. Whether or not Stein actually has autism, however, it not stated. Autism typically causes extremely specific character traits, being hyper-attention and intelligence. Though autism has different effects on…

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    What would literature be, had every author used the same perspective for every single story? Literature would not be as well received as it currently is received. Take three American short stories, “Hills Like White Elephants,” “A Rose for Emily,” and “The Yellow Wallpaper,” for example. These stories, by Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman respectively, each utilize a different point of view. The perspective of a story heavily influences the emotional impact of the…

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    INTRODUCTION Language samples of children are helpful to see what stage they are at in their language development. By looking at different aspects of their normal speech you can get a pretty clear picture of where the child is at. The language sample that I am going to be talking about is on a little girl names Olivia. She is four years old and is talking to her Aunt. They are playing with some of her toys in a good environment. I feel that this is a good language sample because it is in an…

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    Magical realism is “… characterized by the matter-of-fact inclusions of fantastic or mythical elements into apparently realistic fiction” (Edison). Characteristics of this genre include plentitude, hybridity, metafiction, and an unreliable narrator. A story that shows magical realism is “A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings” by Gabriel García Márquez. Márquez is recognized as one of the best authors who combines reality with fantasy: “… García Márquez, combining radically different realities, what…

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    The Immortal Analysis

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    When considering a story such as The Immortals, one must take into account not only the contents, characters and setting of the story, but the manner in which it is told, and the perspective by which it is narrated. All of these components are certainly full of importance, but all of them must be valued equally or the balance would tip and fall crashing down from the point all the best stories, like The Immortals, strive to reach. Unfortunately, there is a surprising amount of rather irritable…

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    Being A Military Family

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    When I was younger, my mom would rent out our basement room to single people she would work with in the military. I personally loved it because it meant that there were more people around I could harass into playing with me. However, I was always confused when I would hear my grandparents berate my mother on letting “those people” into our home. I remained confused, until I asked my mother what they meant, and why they were so angry. My mother described to me how “old fashioned” my grandparents…

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    Gender divides nearly everything, from colors to toys. The simple mention of the color pink conjures images of numerous ideas and stereotypes associated with girls, while blue creates the same for boys. In her article for The Huffington Post, Sarah Aoun discusses the extension of this division into the sector of technology in higher education and beyond. The opening of her article works to establish the presence of a pronounced lack of women in the tech field, Aoun then takes the reader through…

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