...Transcript: I'm a storyteller. And I would like to tell you a few personal stories about what I like to call "the danger of the single story." I grew up on a university campus in eastern Nigeria. My mother says that I started reading at the age of two, although I think four is probably close to the truth. So I was an early reader. And what I read were British and American children's books. I was also an early writer. And when I began to write, at about the age of seven, stories in pencil with crayon illustrations that my poor mother was obligated to read, I wrote exactly the kinds of stories I was reading. All my characters were white and blue-eyed. They played in the snow. They ate apples. (Laughter) And they talked a lot about the weather, how lovely it was that the sun had come out. (Laughter) Now, this despite the fact that I lived in Nigeria. I had never been outside Nigeria. We didn't have snow. We ate mangoes. And we never talked about the weather, because there was no need to. My characters also drank a lot of ginger beer because the characters in the British books I read drank ginger beer. Never mind that I had no idea what ginger beer was. (Laughter) And for many years afterwards, I would have a desperate desire to taste ginger beer. But that is another story. What this demonstrates, I think, is how impressionable and vulnerable we are in the face of a story, particularly as children. Because all I had read were books in which characters were foreign, I had become convinced...
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...into a student on the University of Virginia Lawn, not far from the famous statue of Homer instructing an admiring pupil. Homer's student is in a toga. Mine was wearing wraparound sunglasses like Bono's, black jeans, and a red T-shirt emblazoned with Chinese characters in white. Over his shoulder he carried his laptop. We asked each other the usual question: What did you do over the summer? What he did, as I recall, was a brief internship at a well-regarded Internet publication, a six-country swing though Europe, then back to enjoy his family and home, reconnect with high-school friends, and work on recording a rock CD. What had I done? I had written five drafts of a chapter for a book on the last two years of Sigmund Freud's life. I had traveled to Crozet, a few miles away, to get pizza. I'd sojourned overnight in Virginia Beach, the day after I woke up distressed because I couldn't figure out how to begin my chapter. I'd driven to the beach, figured it out (I thought), and then I'd come home. My young friend looked at me with a mixture of awe and compassion. I felt a little like one of those aged men of the earth who populate Wordsworth's poetry. One of them, the Old Cumberland Beggar, goes so slowly that you never actually see him move, but if you return to the spot where you first encountered him two hours past, lo, he has gone a little way down the road. The footprints are there to prove it. I headed back to my office for draft No. 6, or something comparably glamorous...
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... Student's Activities Task 1-Routinely Activities 1.Prayer Let us start our day casting our- selves to the lord.Everybody is invited (the students stand for an opening prayer) to stand for an opening prayer. _________________,Lead the prayer. Let us pray classmate.In the name of the father and the son and of the holy Holy spirit....AMEN 2.Greetings GOOD MORNING CLASS!!! GOODMRNING SIR LANCE You may now take your seat Thank you, sir! 3.Checking of attendance May i know who are absent for today? In your group _____________ There is none,sir Lance How about your group________? Sir...
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...Inc All Rights Reserved If you know someone who can benefit from this free ebook, please feel free to share it with them. Just send them a link to this page right here: http://socialtriggers.com/exclusive/free5000subscribers/ Now let’s dive in... 1 I’ve got a quick question for you... If you’re looking to attract your first 5,000 subscribers, my first question I have for you is this: Does any of the following sound familiar? “I’ve worked myself ragged creating content, and nothing is happening. It’s like I’m working for free.” “I’ve tried posting to my blog multiple times per week, commenting on other blogs, guest posting, and pretty much everything. None of it is working.” “I’ve got no idea how to even get started with attracting subscribers. I write a lot of blog posts, but the traffic is just trickling in.” If you said “Yes,” to any of the above, block out 15 minutes and read this entire free ebook. Because it’s not your fault. Here’s the truth: Much of the “common sense” wisdom that “experts” share about building a readership is, at best, flawed and, at worst, flat out wrong. As an example, has anyone ever told you that “the secret to building a blog readership is by regularly updating your blog with engaging content each week?” That couldn’t be MORE WRONG. I’ve already debunked this myth on several occasions. You can read more about it on my blog. The real secret is about 80% promotion / 20 % creation. Read about it here. You see, many of these “experts” who dish...
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...System of Sounds [00:15:53] So, phonology. Phonology is the system of sounds that languages have. There's a subset. There's a list, a finite list, of possible sounds that language can use. I'm going to put aside for the moment the question of sign languages and how they work. I'm going to talk about them in a little bit. The idea is that English has about forty of these phonemes. So, if you're a native monolingual speaker of English you hear speech and each sound you hear is categorized as falling into one of those forty morphemes — sorry, phonemes. So, for example, English has a phoneme of "lu," "l," and a phoneme of "r." And so, an English speaker can hear the difference between "lip" and "rip" and that corresponds to two different words in English. Other languages don't have that distinction and so those distinctions are very difficult for non-native English speakers to learn. So, part of what goes on when you learn, is you have to learn the language — the phonemes that your language has. Another part of the problem of learning language is you have to figure out what the boundaries are between the words. You have to use sound signals to figure out the boundaries between the words. Now that — If the only language you've ever heard is English, that's going to seem like a really weird example of a problem because you're listening to me speak and in between each of my words you're hearing a pause. You don't have to be very smart to figure out where one word begins and one word...
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...Lesson Plan Values II I. Objectives At the end of a 40-minute discussion, the Grade IV pupils were able to do the following with 75% proficiency level: a. to define respect; b. to identify some actions that shows respect; and c. to have a short role play showing respect II. Subject Matter Topic -------------------------- Respect Them All Book -------------------------- Character Education Pages -------------------------- 144-156 Materials -------------------------- Visual Aids, Pictures and Posters. Value Integration ---------------------- Respect III. Procedure | | | |Teachers Activity |Students Activity | | | | | | | |Preparatory Activity | | | ...
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...had to do was go to school and make good grades. Now that I think about it school was my job and my paycheck was the knowledge I was gaining. This generation now-a-days have the idea that they should be rewarded finically for doing well. Students should not offered finical incentives to do well on standardize test in school. Schools should not give into to paying students for their performance. It is understood that in order to keep a school in good academic standings you have to make sure students do well on the standardized test. The test scores not only reflect the school but also represent each student as an individual. So you can see why it is important for students to do well but should that really mean at all cost. For many years teachers have been teaching the material for the long term knowledge now it seems as if they are just beginning to teach just for testing. There are some major disadvantages when trying to offer students financial incentives to do well on standardized test. Education should be viewed as a privilege. Many students take educations for granted. Not knowing that in some countries education is still not free let along for all males and females. You even have some certain types of schools here in the USA that you have to pay for high school education. I would think since students know that one day you will have to pay to further your education that they would take advantage of the free opportunity now. Not only is the education free but it is almost...
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...doubling your income is very simple, is make a decision to double your income and set it as a goal. If you do that, everything else changes for you. Now, I have some good news. The good news is that we're living in the very best time in all of human history. South Korea has become a role model for the rest of the world. South Korea is talked about all over the world as a model for what is possible in any countries. And I'm so honor to be with you. I thank you very much for inviting me to come. SECTION 02 We have now entered into the 21st century and many things have changed. One of the most important things that have changed is that we have left the world of physical work and we've moved into the world of mental work. All your success is going to be determined by how well you think. The most effective thinkers are the ones who will control the future. And you are among the top 10% of the people in our society. How do I know that? It's because you're here. It's always the top 10% of the people who come to this program. It's always the people who have a wonderful future who come to this program. I know because I've spoken to you and to other people like this for more than 20 years and it's always the best people. So that is why I say you own the future if you decide to own the future. The 21st century is going to be the best time in all of human history. Here in South Korea, there're going to be more opportunities and more possibilities than...
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...I yelled. “Hey girl. How are midterms going for you?” she asked. “Oh, they’re treating me well now since I just finished my last one. How about you?” I replied. Rae’s facial expression reeked of uncertainty. I could tell she was worried about her midterm. “I take it you’re not too excited about this one huh?” She looked down with glazed over eyes and replied, “Na, I have an Art midterm due Friday and I have yet to start. I guess I don’t know where or how to begin.” Assuming she’s talking about a paper I confidently replied, “Writing a paper can be tricky. It’s always the introduction that seems to be the hardest. What I do is start with the body; when I feel more comfortable, I go back to the intro and it usually comes easier.” She looked at me with the same facial expression and said, “It’s not a paper. This happens to be my Art final and although painting is piece of cake, I can’t just paint anything. Professor James wants us to paint an illustration of an abstract idea. That abstract idea happens to be “repentance”. I have no idea what that means so how do you expect me to illustrate that in a painting?” It was quite obvious that Rae was very frustrated so I offered to help her out since I was finished for the week. “Let’s go get lunch, and I’ll help you after. I happened to get an “A” in all of my Theology classes and of course my father is a Pastor, so if all else fails, we can go to him and he can explain it even better than I can. After lunch, Rae and...
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...Tattoos: What is considering acceptable and what is consider extreme? Viola Whatley Effective Essay Writing/ Com150 May 30, 2010 Alina Vanciu Tattoos: What is considering acceptable and what is consider extreme? Have you ever wonder what is considering acceptable and what extreme are there when it comes to tattoos. People have seen how far tattoos involve over the past 15 years. One of the biggest problems with tattoos is in the work place. Does employee have the right to bear (arms) tattoos? Now people are creating an issue by judging other people appearance with tattoos. What do you think? Even though people have the rights to bear tattoos, they are creating a workplace issues. Tattoos are getting more and more common in work place. What is employer to do? For some employer, they have a dress code that employee have to go by. For others it depends on the employer industry and type of jobs that people have to do. For example, Walt Disney doesn’t allow it employees to use bandages to cover their tattoos, but they can use opaque makeup....
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...used to have a good reputation among Greeks, Meno – for being such good riders and for being so rich; now, it seems, they are famous for wisdom, particularly your friend and fellow citizen, Aristippus of Larissa. The credit goes to Gorgias, for when he moved to your city the leading Aleuadae – your lover Aristippus among them – fell in love with his wisdom, and so did the other leading Thessalians. Specifically, he got all of you into the habit of giving sweeping and confident answers to any questions put to you – as if you were all experts. In fact, he himself was always ready to answer any question put by any Greek; all questions answered. On the other hand, here in Athens, my dear Meno, the opposite is the case. Here it’s as though there were a wisdom drought; it has all drained away to where you come from. So if you want to put this sort of question to one of us, everyone will have a good laugh and say to you: ‘Good stranger, you must think I am a lucky man, to know whether virtue can be taught or not, or where it comes from. Me, I’m so far from knowing whether virtue can be taught or not that I don’t even know what it is.’ I’m just as badly off as all my fellow citizens in this regard, Meno, and I blame no one but myself for my utter ignorance about virtue. For if I don’t know what something is, how could I know what it’s like? Unless you think someone who has no idea who Meno is could know whether he is handsome or rich or a real gentleman, or just the opposite? Do you think...
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...blinked and now I am 50. That is how fast it feels. I swear my children were just born….but suddenly, they are adults. It feels like just yesterday that I was a young woman able to raise a child, work full time and take a night class all at once with ease, and now I’m a grandma with a good few aches and pains, looking at retirement plans. Very rarely do we think about our life’s purpose or reflect on the big picture when we are growing up or even when we are in our 20’s or 30’s. I’m sure it happens at different ages for different people…maybe some never do, I don’t know. I believe I started “getting it” when I was in my 40’s. By this…I mean that I truly realized what was important in life and what not to sweat about. Losing family members had a lot to do with it. It was hard enough when I lost Grandma and Grandma ...parents are security blankets that are very, very hard to lose. But when Uncle Bob died…I felt a major change in my soul. It was as if I’d been on a spinning top my whole life and then it just stopped. Everything was suddenly right there in front of me to deal with…think about, from my childhood to the present. It was as if I was seeing things with new eyes…and it wasn’t a bad experience at all. Looking back, I knew that I had made mistakes, but also that I had done the best I could with what I knew at the time and with the resources that I had. I was proud that I had learned to be a kind, caring person with a great sense of humor who, still to this...
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...It was Paul Castle who answered his own question on the Outpost Gallifrey forums: what’s most likely to set Doctor Who fans at each other’s throats? If anything can, ‘canon’ can. It’s my belief, indeed, that that’s what ‘canon’ is for. That that’s all that it’s for. Because ‘canon’ is purely and simply about authority, real or assumed, and nothing else. Let me explain… Back in the mists of time, the fans of Sherlock Holmes thought it would be funny to refer to those stories about Holmes written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle as being ‘part of the Canon’. They were thinking of the books that had been officially declared to be part of the Bible. They thereby confused two things, and it’s their fault we’ve been in a linguistic twist about this ever since. The canon they referred to was decreed by authority, the theological authority of a group of high clerics concerning how much truth and how much fan fiction was contained in a particular proto-Gospel. The Canon of Sherlock Holmes stories, on the other hand, wasn’t decided by authority after the fact, but by authorial authority. If Conan Doyle wrote it, it was in. If he didn’t, it was out. Sherlock Holmes fans could have no debates about what was and wasn’t ‘canonical’. ‘Written by Conan Doyle’ was what their new version of ‘canonical’ meant. That new definition of ‘canon’ works fine if you’re dealing with works by one author. It works not at all in any other frame of reference. Doctor Who was created by many people, over a long...
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... 2009). There are different types of hegemony. Hegemony is all around you. It is in politics, school systems, churches, as well as in the community that you live in. You have cultural hegemony, ideological hegemony, and the mass media. You think of this when you think about men and women. Many times men have the upper hand in things in society. When you think of the effects of hegemony in the educational school setting, you see a difference in men and women. In the classroom, you see more women have the upper hand. There are more women doing the teaching part of the education. Although, there are more men in the classroom now than there have been in the past years, women still dominate in this area. Women have always been thought of as being the one who teaches the younger. Women, in earlier years, had to teach how to cook, clean, sew, etc., whereas now we teach all kinds of skills. Men who teach are mainly seen teaching things such as a science or history class, with the addition of being the coach of a sports activity. Men are mainly seen in the administration part. They are the Superintendents, Principals, Coaches, and sit on the school board. They are the ones who are making the rules for the school to be run by. Women have come a long way in this area too. You see more and more women who have come into power as being Principals and on the school board. I see this first hand, having a cousin who has been the Principal of the Alternative School for the past...
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...Svein Olav Nyberg What is selfishness? I asked about “what egoism means”. I should perhaps also have asked what egoism does not mean. For there are a lot of misconceptions about what egoism is. Religious literature incessantly warns us not to think about our own best interest, but the interest of the heavenly, of Man, and of just about everything else. But seldom is there found any advise to follow exactly this own interest. Why then these warnings against self interest, on and on, again and again? Surely not to counter any opposing system of ideas. For there have been close to none. What then is left to counter but — the individual himself! But to counter the individual is not a position that looks very good, so it has to be disguised, disguised as an attack on some “Deep Evil” lurking in self interest — in egoism. So the common view of egoism is far from formed by observation of actual egoists, but by propaganda in its disfavour. I therefore find it fruitful to list what I consider the types most typically mistaken for egoists, both by critics of egoism and by “egoists” themselves: THE PSYCHOPATH: The psychopath is characterised by a tendency of always being in the right and of manipulating others. He typically takes little heed of the interests of people he confronts. The reasoning displayed by those who identify psychopaths with egoists are usually of the type “He does not care for others — thus he must care only for himself ...”, which sets up a dichotomy without any...
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