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    member of our culture to learn a second language because we hardly come in contact with the outside world. If someone where to be bilingual it would because they often communicate with people outside to trade or to be an ambassador of some sort. English is the go to second language for my people. Someone would learn a second language in a city and…

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    Running Record Case Study

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    The purpose of running records is for teachers to assess their students and observe reading behaviors. Running records determine whether or not a student is ready to move up a level or stay at the same level. It’s an opportunity for teachers to be able to differentiate instruction for students based on their academic needs. It entails the teacher taking notes when the student is orally reading a leveled text. Part one of the reading record is the teacher assessing the student as he or she reads.…

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    The Moore name was hard to live up too, they were well known as well as loved but Charlie the last generation of the men was the son his family never wanted. Charlie Moore’s father passed away about five years ago during his senior year of high school, leaving him with all the money in the world, his family's million dollar hotel, and some broken dreams for his future. He did not see the purpose of all the money, nor did he want to live the high life that they all did. It was not ideal in his…

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    that supported women. The commercial is named #LikeAGirl. This commercial brings to the light the way girls are viewed in this society. The commercial particularly targets the phrase, “like a girl” that is normally used as an insult in today’s society. #LikeAGirl shows several girls and some boys being questioned about the phrase “like a girl”. #LikeAGirl clearly shows how a girl’s self-esteem diminishes as she hits puberty and is subjected to society’s views on the female gender and how wrong…

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    both are in all three books), the red rose in Beauty and the Beast, the clothing colors in Divergent and the Bliss in The Maze Runner series. Option 2: Anaphora Anaphora, pronounced “a-NAFF-ra,” is the repetition of words or phrases at the beginning of sentences or phrases within a sentence,” (Myers, 95). The purpose of this technique is to reiterate the surrounding idea. An (overly-exaggerated) example anaphora might be something like this: It was then that they realized Sarah would always…

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    Student ID: 1330882 Paper 1: Russell and Strawson Introduction In this paper, I will compare and contrast Russell’s and Strawson’s accounts on definite descriptions, which are phrases of the form “the X” and denote some object. I will first reconstruct Russell’s account, which argues that that all definite descriptions are in reality a series of propositional statements and claims. I will then reconstruct Strawson’s account and claim that Russell’s account is flawed because it focuses…

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    A group of six strong men, participate in a passionate game of wheelchair basketball. The soft, beautiful notes in the background, ascend into the air and stay there. As the game ends and the group of men leave the gym together, a man’s deep, determined voice says, “ dedication, loyalty, and friendship”. “Guinness:Wheelchair Basketball”, by director Noam Murra, incorporates all the sounds and emotions that show above. This commercial was released September 2013 on tvs everywhere across the…

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    • The students will use newly acquired learn vocabulary words to write a complete sentence. ELPS: 3.A (A) practice producing sounds of newly acquired vocabulary such as long and short vowels, silent letters, and consonant clusters to pronounce English words in a manner that is increasingly comprehensible;…

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    Separate Peace Theme

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    continuous phrase is then broken by a comma, drawing attention to how this so called enemy never hurts the characters. The following inclusion of a dash creates a longer pause than the previous comma does, but the last semicolon brings the longest pause of them all. As a result, these various pauses evenly separate the last three phrases, creating an uncertain tone doubting the character’s necessity to prepare. Such rhythmic interruptions allow Knowles to slowly increase emphasis on each phrase,…

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    Phrases such as “however cultivated,”(84) [E: quote] and “I acquiesced in the reservation,”(70-71)[E: quote] make the writer sound highly educated. This almost pushes the audience into fall into the depths of his language like divers swimming deep in the ocean. [D: Simile] In the same way, the phrase “The general principle is entirely clear. There is no great difficulty in carrying it out in its detail”(28-30)…

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