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    Then Firdaus goes to her uncle’s house hoping for sympathy, but her uncle says, “all husbands beat their wives”. The author uses the word “all” to emphasize that beating a girl was common, and considered as a tradition in their culture. Also, the word all holds a very strong connation that allows the readers to feel the pain of the women in Egypt. To support this statement, the author states that “my uncle’s wife added that her husband often…

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    First Words: A Short Story

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    our first word. Just think about it. A child learning their first word has several hoops that the child must jump over in order to say the word. The first hoop would be understanding what word(s) is trying to be communicated to them. There auditory lobe must be very active in order to process what word(s) are being said to the child. After the first hoop is jumped the second hoop for the child would be learning how to make there vocal cords and lips work together in order to create the word.…

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    combined to form words” and “the way symbols can be arranged,” which are simply how the language is organized and interpreted to their speakers (Adler, Rosenfeld, Proctor, 2015, pg. 141). There are also semantic rules, which “govern our use of the language,” in other words, “the meaning of statements” (Adler et. al, 2015, pg. 141). This is how it established that a particular word associates…

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    some people have not heard before. Many words are no longer used in today as much as in the past except for some old ancient folks live in rural areas. However, there are some words and phrases that do blend in today’s society to create the dialects that are more flexible, humor, and wisdom of the people speaking it. Syntactically, the word’s orders and idioms are sounded more humor and longer comparing to other dialects. Speaking of phonology, some words are written in SAE, but the phonics is…

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    Guided Reading Lesson Plan

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    incorporating word work activities that involved working with multisyllabic words. Therefore, the students were able to understand that words and syllables are made up of sequence of sounds. The word work activity in the informative text got the students to increase their vocabulary and spelling knowledge by working with compound words. The word work activities in both lessons also involved systematic and explicit phonics since the students had to identify syllable patterns in the words in…

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    Effect Of Language On Memory Victor Cabrera California State University Fresno Description On the podcast Words that Change the World on Radiolab they talked about a twenty-seven year old man who was deaf, but was never taught sign language. Susan Schaller was a deaf interpreter and was placed in a reading skill class to help teach, which is where she met this man. She introduced herself to him by signing her name to him, but his response was exactly what she signed. With a bit…

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    Running Record Case Study

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    pronounced the words as he saw it based on syntax. His visual cues were the pictures that with no words narrated what was happening in the story. When he saw a picture of chickens for example, he quickly said farm instead of the barn. Joshua carefully sounded out words that were not familiar to…

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    The American soldier has an affair with a woman while sharing a taxi cab in Chicago. The American soldier contracts gonorrhea. So it is clear that although love and war are major themes in the story, war is the most important theme in the story. Words like armistice, battalion, Arditi, and anaesthetic are war terminologies. War vocabularies are mentioned in every paragraph of the short story. Love refers to…

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    that being hurt can be used by words or even ideas that students don't agree with. This is something that is currently happening on college campuses today. To be convinced that something like this is happening to college students two authors went ahead and found some interesting research to show that this is actually happening. In “The Coddling of the American Mind” Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt the article explains how college students are being offended with words or ideas that affect…

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    All these uses of repetition are very important because they either make the sentence have multiple meanings, or serve as a clue that this is important based on how many times it’s repeated and helps us understand his ideas. For example, the word “we” is constantly repeated until he discovers “I.” And to prove this, the whole book is wrapped around 2 ideas- individualism and egoism. Equality transformed from a confused kid into a man who has strong morals and ideas. While I may not agree with…

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