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    your hand on your desk and look at your thumb. Memorize the shape, width and length. It is also made up of tiny molecules and you're going to picture them elongating your thumb. Not too long, or it will be difficult to change it back. Taking your wand firmly in your hand you will perform a 'downward point' wand movement while saying pollexaugeo. Your thumb should begin to stretch slightly, it will resist at first as the molecules that have been your thumb for so many years rebel. Remain…

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    sign of a thumbs up or more like a compressed thumb and if he was slayed they would give a sign of thumbs down like they were stabbing him with a sword. This type of hand gesture has evolved over the years and we now use it in America as positive and negative signs when something is good or bad. Body gestures and hand gestures have been used all over the world to communicate with out using words instead of shouting across a sports field during a game or a room so no one knows what you and the…

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    my experience in digital forensics have prepared me to be the best forensic investigator. The testimony you heard today is based upon facts and findings from this investigation. Unfortunately for Mr. McBride, project X source code was found on his thumb drive and a bank subpoena demonstrates that he got rewarded for exposing project…

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    and Jon Krakauer from the story "Devil Thumb". Both individuals blinded by the anticipation of success, still figure out how to achieve tasks individuals believed were inconceivable. Erik Weihenmayer makes the unthinkable conceivable by being the first blind man to ever climb mount Everest, where Jon Krakauer, step by step, works his way over the Devil Thumb. Both men are remarkable individuals who both confronted amazing difficulties. The story "Devil Thumb" by Jon Krakauer recounts the tale of…

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    The Adventure of the Engineer’s Thumb The Adventure of the Engineer’s Thumb was published by the Strand Magazine in 1892, and was the ninth short Sherlock Holmes story composed by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of the Engineer's Thumb starts in 1889 after Watson's marriage. Victor Hath Hatherley is an engineer who has had his thumb cut off. Watson exhorts that they see Sherlock Holmes and the two men go to Baker Street, and Hatherley discloses to them how it happened. In the short story,…

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    Imagine this, every time our thumbs hit a letter projected on our phone screens, some other innocent bystander is injured or possibly killed by an irresponsible driver. This is what the Road Safety Association of Indonesia is presenting with their image. This image is located on an ad website which states the name of the ad is Car and was made by the illustrator Faddy Ravydera, published on October 2014. Within the image, the message given is “Stop Killing While Driving” which replaces the usual…

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    more. I reach towards John Smith's hand and tap John Smith's thumb. John Smith's thumb pulls back into his fist, reassuring me that I had chosen John Smith. I quickly and quietly saunter out of the classroom, my chest swelling with pride. Once I'm outside, I fist pump the air and do a little happy dance. I skipped the entire way to the nurse’s office with an enormous grin on my face, because I, Cameryn Eckert, had touched John Smith's thumb. I had chosen John Smith in a game of heads-up…

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    you need a sholder rest. Hold the viola upside down with the back facing you and make sure your sholder rest looks like a frowny face. Then you put the sholder rest on the viola. To hold the bow, you need to have a cruved pinky and a bend thumb. Put your thumb in the slot. Place your viola on your left sholder and hold the bow with your right hand. Next, you need to be able to play…

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    Imagine that when our thumbs hit a letter on our phone, consequently an innocent bystander becomes injured or killed by an irresponsible driver. This is what the Road Safety Association of Indonesia presents with their image named “Car”. This image is on an ad website that states it was by illustrator Faddy Ravydera and published on October 2014. Within the image, the message given is “Stop Killing While Driving” which replaces the usual phrase “Stop Texting While Driving.” The depiction…

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    helps the teacher become more effective at having the student’s responses become more rich in discussion and perform at higher levels of thinking and understanding. Formative assessments include the following: Commit and toss, Frayer Model, Thumbs Up, Thumbs Down, and Two or Three before Me (Keeley and Tobey, 2011). Commit and Toss is an anonymous task for the students. The teacher presents a question for the students to respond to, when they are done, they crumble up the paper and toss them…

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