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    statement: “i’ve always thought that parallel parking was my talent.” Calvin Trillin. Most teenagers fail their driving test because of the parallel parking between either two trash cans or two poles. Background information: Parallel parking is considered to be one of the hardest things that a new driver must master. parallel parking is when a car or vehicle must be parked between 2 objects and the vehicle must be parallel to the road and other cars. Parallel parking can offer a driver a…

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    had to speak to the people to explain himself and he did indeed give the best speech of all based of of his use of alliteration, parallel structure, and ethos. When thinking about what makes Brutus’s speech the best, his alliteration…

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    Jesus and Muhammad- Parallel Tracks, Parallel Lives takes a historical and biographical look at the two most prominent men in religion. Written by F.E. Peters, a professor of Religion and Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at New York University, Jesus and Muhammad offers a comparative investigation of what we do and do not know about the lives and depiction of Jesus and Muhammad. By extracting from modern historians as well as the Gospels and Quran, Peters takes an objective step back in an…

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    lady converses with him outside, while I'm oblivious to all they say. Soon enough, I demonstrate my understanding of my car's functions and controls. The lady takes a seat in the passenger, commanding me to pull up alongside the spot allotted for parallel parking. Prior to attempting the course, I feel confident after all the practice…

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    convey by appealing to what they like. Woolf uses food as a way to show the discrepancy between the men and women’s colleges in an amusing way. In her first paragraph about the men’s college, she uses parallel structure, “No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.” Using parallel structure emphasizes how much men don’t need to worry…

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    Parallel structure helped me grow as a writer a lot. First of all, parallel structure is when elements follow a consistent pattern, which makes it fluent and makes sense. As a speaker I recognized that I didn’t use parallel structure I said it completely wrong! In class when we started learning about it I learned a lot from it. For some, all words must be adjectives or verbs to be called parallel structure. Ex: My mom cooks, cleans, and jogs is an example of parallel structure.…

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    soldiers did. Throughout the speech, Lincoln uses parallelism to emphasize several key ideas. One example of this parallel structure is the following : “...and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth.” (Lincoln). The parallel pattern here is all of the phrases that include “the people” that are preceded by prepositions. This use of parallel structure emphasized that the government was dedicated to the…

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    test are test-retest and parallel-forms. Test-retest establishes reliability by having participants retake the same test at different points of time (Salkind, 2012). For example, a 3rd grade English class takes a Fry Words test at the beginning of the school year and retakes the same test at the end of the school year. Test-retest yields the best results when a researcher considers both the length of time between each test and how they intend to use the results. Parallel forms are the second…

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    options to avoid confusion when grading. Furthermore, there is no pattern in the correct answers. Item #1 Revised Taxonomy - Cognitive Levels In answering this item, the student must recall the definition of parallel. Thus, the student must remember the factual knowledge that resistors in parallel have the same voltage. Item-writing Guidelines In creating this item, simple language and grammatical conventions are used, and the stem does not provide any clues to answer the item. Also, the options…

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    for gifted education and level of the gifted learners. First of all, we developed our curriculum based on Parallel Curriculum Model’s four dimensions which are Core, Connections, Practice, and Identity. Each of the four parallels offers a unique approach for organizing content, teaching, and learning that is closely aligned to the special purpose of each parallel. The nature of the Parallel Curriculum Model makes it very easy to use within a single classroom This model encourages differentiated…

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