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    The four research terms that are new to my understanding are response bias, descriptive analysis, quasi-experiment, and true experiment. • Response bias is the effect of nonresponse on a survey. How would results change if those who had not response would have responded. • Descriptive analysis is an analysis of all data for independent and dependent variables in the study. • Quasi-experiment has to do with participants. Quasi-experiment is when individuals who are involved in the research are…

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    William Golding utilizes description and setting to convey the meaning of this passage about fog. Fog in this passage, is shown as beneficial to few whose labor relies on it, but a “nuisance” to others especially those of the Navy. There are two settings within this passage, foggy weather on land and foggy weather at sea. The first setting is mentioned referenced in paragraph two “A fog ashore is a nuisance which may cause one to arrive as much as an hour late at the office.” On shore the fog is…

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    The book had a lot of really descriptive words to described what happened in the story. I liked how the story described how Alex and his two friends, Zee and Simon, kill the Wheezer. It used so many descriptive words in that scene it almost seemed real. I really wondered what was going happen to them next. Were they gonna be turned into black suits? Were they going to get killed? Plot : This book started off with Alex still in Furnace penitentiary. Alex talked about how he was not a good…

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    barely a scientific piece. I thought that this piece was going to be great because I was very descriptive and visualized most details of my experience. I thought it would be a good idea to stand out with this piece instead of writing a boring piece that was going to say the same things that my peers would write about. During all of my previous writing classes, I was taught that I should be more descriptive and have…

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    different societies.The criminal justice systems have changed and transformed over time. According to Reichel (2013) “Like all other social institutions, criminal justice changes over time” (p. 13). The three approaches are historical, political and descriptive. 1)The historical approach influences the individuals’ understanding and insight…

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    An Investment in Our Future Select and identify TWO sentences (include in your paragraph as “quotation” sentences) presented in the article you find significant as an early educator and explain why you selected these sentences (7 descriptive/detailed sentences) “MIECHV provides federal funds to support programs that connect families with trained professionals—often nurses, social workers, or parent educators—who help parents acquire the skills they need to promote their children’s development. “…

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    by educating the townspeople about progressive ways, creating women’s clubs, refurbishing the school and library, and helping the poor and needy. Despite her friendly efforts, Carol is shunned by the town’s leading cliques. Carol, however, finds companionship from the outcasts of the town and those…

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    In A Rose For Emily, when the people are trying to collect Miss Emily’s taxes, it triggers a memory from 30 years prior when her father was forced to do something about the neighbors complaining about a bad smell in their backyard. "So she vanquished them, horse and foot, just as she had vanquished their fathers thirty years before about the smell." He uses this technique quite simply by using the same verb vanquished for both…

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    Tich Miller Poem

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    making the reader sympathize with the one who was left out. However, in ‘Tich Miller’ the story is narrated as a first person “I” which makes the reader feel as he himself is Tubby and empathize with her and everything she says. When Cope writes about the characters reactions to being the last ones to be selected it says that the narrator learns her own strengths by mocking illiterate “hockey players” because they couldn’t “spell”. This means that from being unwanted because of not being…

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    Ray Bradbury’s novel Fahrenheit 451 takes place in the not so distant future where books have been banned, and the world teeters on the brink of war. Guy Montag, Bradbury’s protagonist, works as a firefighter in a fireproofed world. Trained to set fires rather than put them out. Montag’s mission is to burn books wherever they can be found. After years on the job, he quickly becomes disillusioned with the homogenized and detached world that he lives in, and the consequences are startling. This…

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