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    In the 21st Century, being literate is pivotal—both in one’s personal and professional life. In fact, one’s daily life revolves around reading, writing, and verbal communication. For that reason, students must encounter effective teachers throughout his or her long life academic career, especially since literacy matters. In fact, I find it important for one to realize that he or she becomes a literate person because of his or her educators. John Dewey once said, “Education is not preparation for…

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    strong woman as Toth mentions, “Her mother might have reminded Eliza that no matter how humiliated or betrayed she might feel, Thomas O’Flaherty was an excellent provider” (8). With O’Flaherty being an effective man to provide the essentials for a comfortable life, she would practically be forced to stay with him and then upon his death becoming a widow. Eliza became very wealthy within her widowhood (Toth 9) and “Her grandmother and great-grandmother had been practical Frenchwomen;…

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    BENEFITS: Aromatherapy massage has many known benefits such as stimulating lymphatic flow, increasing joint flexibility, blood flow and oxygen functions to the muscles due to increased circulation, tissue regeneration, lessens depression and anxiety as well as improving the overall well – being. Aromatherapy massage brings a deeper level of relaxation, balance and health to client’s life. It stimulates the emotional part of our brain as the aroma from essential oils is sent to the limbic system…

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    This week’s lecture by Professor Dan Gilbert and the excerpts of Tera Hunter’s works titled “Domination and resistance: The Politics of Wage Household Labor in New South Atlanta” and “Dancing and Carousing the Night Away” portrayed the role labor relations played in relation to inequality. It is quite interesting how the relations in the workplace mirror those in the community and across the nation. Tera Hunter discuss how workers challenged daily inequality in the workplace and Professor…

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    Early in the morning, the couples walked through the airplane hallway going to their seats and suddenly the wife stopped. She started looking around and was amazed by the interior design of the plane. After passing by the First-class seats and continue through the Business class, she was arguing with her husband about who will be sitting on the window seat. At the end she sat on it. After that, she grabbed a novel that she bought before she entered the plane and started reading it. Her husband…

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    The scene that I chose to analyse is one of the most captivating scenes in Australian director, Peter Weir’s, The Truman Show. Through effective acting, camera techniques, sounds, lighting and careful mise en scène, the scene informally named, “Do Something” is a critical segment in the movie. The scene shows Truman Burbank (Jim Carrey) completely lose his sanity in front of his wife, a moment that the previous tension built up for. The scene begins with an eye level mid shot of Meryl Burbank…

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    Sensory Integration also known as Sensory Processing is a specialty area of occupational therapy that is based on over 40 years of theory and research. The term “sensory integration” refers to: the way the brain organizes sensations for engagement in occupation. Sensory Integration is most commonly discussed for children with Autism but has also been used for students with other developmental disabilities as well. When children or adults need assistance in their environments with sensory…

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    wooden colors. Also the furniture, surrounding the library should be inviting and shouldn’t cause clutter. Including too much furniture wasn’t necessary because the children would just be reading. Instead of chairs we decided to go with bean bag chairs and cushioned pillows. (More comfortable) Come on wouldn’t you want to be able to extend or lay down to read a book after a long day? The children are already overwhelm with other areas in the classroom, and they should just be given a space to…

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    plain grey room There was a table in front of me, above it was a long, bright light, two cameras mounted across from each other on the celling, on the other side of the table there was another chair, much more comfortable than mine. Another man sat in the dark corner of the room next to one-way window. In the chair, sat a large man in a suit. I was scared. Scared of the man across from me, the man in the corner, of going to jail, of John. But more than anything I was scared of how stereotypical…

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    He spent three months in the hospital and hardly received any physical activity which caused atrophy and weakness of his muscles. The patient is motivated to complete the physical therapy and he has a positive attitude while working with the therapists. He has moderate weakness when walking and completing the exercises. The physical therapist took his blood pressure before beginning the activity. She informed me that they were monitoring his blood pressure and if it fell below 85/60 they had to…

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