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Banished words are words or phrases that can be misinterpreted, misused, overused, or otherwise deemed useless. Every year Lake Superior States University releases a list of banished words. These words come from a variety of sources across the entire country. These banished word nominations are sent in and a committee makes their decision of which words make the cut before the end of each year. Inspired by words on the Banished Word List, our team was tasked to come up with 10 words which we…

In an Oxford dictionary, there are around 171,000 words with each word meaning a unique meaning. There are words that mean good and bad that differ from books to everyday conversation. Censorship in Literature is not necessary because it changes the historical setting, defeats the freedom of speech idea to writers, and hinders the challenge of becoming a responsible reader. As time progresses, words tend to change its meaning since it is used in different ways. history. As Carrey Webb stated,…

During the Mt. Everest team simulation, we learned quite a bit about what it means to be on a team. When climbing Mt. Everest in both a simulation and in real life you really depend on your team to do what is necessary to reach a goal. This could be a simple personal goal (such as the photographer to stay at camp 1 and 2 an extra night) or a larger goal that is shared by multiple people on the team (the leader and marathoner’s goal of reaching the summit). Our team had achievements and failures,…

My recent field observation included a visit to Knox Elementary school. Inside the class room the teacher had the mission posted on the wall visible for students and visitors to see. The mission statement was as followed: Knox Elementary School mission is to equip our students with the knowledge, skills, and abilities to become literate, law-abiding professional contributors to society, through the use of innovative, creative, research-based teaching practices, and a demand for excellence. The…

down into simpler ones and redirection into tasks. He is verbal and expresses he needs and want to others. His conversational skills are stronger during social discourse than academic discourse. He gets off topic and needs reminders to use complete sentences or expand on his ideas. He is able to identify letters in isolation and produce the correct sound for the identified letter. He can answer the “wh” questions. However, he has difficulty answering social, academic and question relating to the…

After finishing my first semester of English, I can say that I have improved immensely as a writer. Coming into the class, I was not very confident in my abilities as a writer. I did not think my word choice was above average, I thought my sentence structure was something that could be qualified as trash, and I felt like I could not address my audience in any way. However, after this first semester, I feel that everything has changed. Through evaluating my own work this semester, I have been…

Question 2 Addressing Moffitt’s developmental theory known as taxonomy, recognizing the year it was proposed in is important which happened in 1993. Next, to be discussed about the theory taxonomy is how it is broken down into two main groups the first consists of adolescence-limited offenders and then the second more serious group are life-course-persistent offenders. These two groups revolve around Moffitt’s main idea on the types of offenders out there. Adolescence-limited offenders are…

children to learn how to write a correct sentence by Christmas. She uses a lot of gestures, direct instruction, she stops and explain difficult words while she talks, how words can have different meanings. Miss Krag said that her job is to teach formal English not the informal that they may learn in the street. Other accommodation that I noticed is that she asked 1st grader students to write small sentence, instead the second grader should form longer sentences. Another challenges that aroused,…

Extended Response - Shakespeare INTRO William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet and A Midsummer Night’s Dream are plays that share similar ideologies and representations despite them being a tragedy and a comedy respectively. The similarities are predominantly that of the father daughter relationship, as well as love, marriage and rebellion. Romeo and Juliet is a story about star crossed lovers whose families are feuding, with a plot line that focuses on Juliet and her father Capulet. A Midsummer…

Retributive Justice in Agamemnon and The Sailor who fell from Grace with the Sea The concept of retributivist justice is best understood as the form of justice ruling that “those who commit certain kinds of wrongful acts, paradigmatically serious crimes, morally deserve to suffer a proportionate punishment” (Walen, 2016). In Aeschylus’s Agamemnon and Yukio Mishima’s The Sailor who fell from Grace with the Sea, the concept of retributive justice influences the emotions and actions of the…