Alphabet

Greek Life was established in 1775 and has grown globally at a significant rate. Over eight hundred college campuses and nine million students in the United States and Canada participate in Greek Life (New Jersey Institute of Technology, 2015). Every Greek organization is gender specific, sororities are female based and fraternities are male based. Members who wish to join Greek organizations will have a higher risk to a criminal record due to hazing, which may worsen their cognitive and…

Pfeiffer Extension FAQs 1. Is Greek life only part of the collegiate experience? Membership in a Greek-letter organization is for a lifetime. The membership experience provides opportunities for friendship and connections as well as personal and professional growth. Even after graduation, many alumni continue to be involved in their Greek-letter organizations by joining local alumni associations and/or volunteering for their inter/national organizations. 2. What are the benefits of joining a…

language is an alphabetic language, and children learn to crack this code as they learn about phonemes (sounds), graphemes (letters), and graphophonemic (letter-sound) relationships” (Tompkins, 2014). Children learn the letters as they speak the alphabet and learn to spell their names. Children learn sounds as they use syllables to segment a word or hear words that rhyme. Children use graphophonemic relationships to understand how letters and sound are related. Graphophonemic relationships are…

From working with young children and parents, I was a key individual on creating our Alphabet Soup preschool program within Early Childhood Family Education (ECFE). The Alphabet Soup is a program that allows a regular preschool teacher, a special education teacher, and a parent educator in an inclusive classroom of regular and special education preschoolers. The preschoolers being…

audience will understand where the alphabet originated from, what other languages influenced the alphabet, and the importance of having an alphabet Introduction I. Attention-Getter: Most Americans use the alphabet everyday, but have never been taught the origins. II. Personal Credibility: I also didn’t know where the alphabet came from. III. Audience Relate: I’m sure that many people in this room don’t know the origins of the alphabet. IV. Preview &…

“Lice or Rice” or “The Foreign Language and the Accent” Long time ago in a faraway land named Japan, a young lady was being asked by her Japanese host mother, if she wanted to eat some lice. Needless to say she was horrified! Japanese eat lice! How disgusting! She thought to herself. As she looked at her host mother she quickly realized that she was trying to say rice and not lice! This was my first experience many years ago with accents. This is when I realized how important accents are. What…

that is all I did throughout high school. I have many friends who were required to have knowledge of the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) for singing. I can now joke that my lack of ability to use IPA is why I never got into singing. I believe learning phonetics would be equally as difficult as learning a new language that requires the use of a totally different alphabet from that of your first language. I understood the different shapes the jaw and lips must take on, as well as tongue…

For many years, there have been disagreements between the linguistic community about the role of allophones in distinctive feature theory. Many claim that the addition of allophones to feature theory would help further the investigation of language rules; others claim that they would be superfluous and unwieldy to work with. It is my opinion that allophones should be added to the distinctive feature theory models as a method of creating a deeper analysis of the formalization of phonological…

Stress plays a big factor in our lives through the many tasks and activities that we have to face. It can lead to detrimental effects on our health, but studies have shown that nature and green spaces provide us with various benefits on our health. Jill Suttie’s “How Nature Can Make You Kinder, Happier, and More Creative” and Gretchen Reynolds’ “The Picture of Health” illustrate this point. Both authors present their articles with studies that shed light on the effects that nature has on us.…

Summary: Jajci Johnson has diverse strengths and needs across reading, writing, and spelling. In reading, he exhibits interest in reading by asking essential questions to better help his comprehension of the text, he uses picture cues and context to figure out the meaning of an unfamiliar word, he predicts, infers, and make connections about the book, and is at an independent level in third grade sight words. For writing his strengths are incorporating many familiar sight words into his writing,…