...The Giving Tree was published in October 7, 1964. This book is fifty-three years old. The Giving Tree is about a boy who goes to the tree very often when he was young and when he gets older he goes to the tree less often. Every time the boy went to the tree he always asked for something and the tree gave the boy something always and always shared stuff while the boy did not. In the Giving Tree, Shel Silverstein uses personification to show that to give is more than to receive. Tree is personified to show that the tree is like a parent.The tree is being personified to show that the tree is like a parent because when the boy comes to the tree the boy wants something and the tree gives the boy what he wants or the necessary stuff to reach his...
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...gift of giving; whether this be time, money, or materials is beneficial for the receiver, but can also benefit the giver. I had read The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein as a young elementary student but the meaning and moral of the story was never more relevant until my sophomore year of college. The book was given to us to read before we went out to play a basketball game last basketball season. It was January 2015 and we were preparing to play a critical conference game against Marian University. Coach made his way into the locker room to give us an intense pre-game speech but this time we were told to read a book instead. Initially all of us were confused on why coach would be asking us to read The Giving Tree before we went out to...
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...RUNNING HEAD: Thematic Unit Plan Grand Canyon University RDG 512 Thematic Unit Study Melinda Chemin Abstract The following thematic unit all about plants incorporates reading and writing strategies along with science standards. The unit includes text suggestions as well as projects for reading and writing to enhance student learning. Culminating projects provide opportunities for students to display their learning as well as record their thinking during reading. Thematic units provide students with fiction and non-fiction selections to read and respond to. There is also a detailed description of the reading and writing activities to be included with each text selection and whether the selection is to be used as a read-aloud, independent reading, or in a listening center. Writing projects give students practice with the writing process culminating with collaborative group projects and published pieces. Rationale This thematic unit plan demonstrates the ability to create a unit study including literacy components in content areas. This plan also reflects the teacher understanding of how students learn and must be provided opportunities to read and write in authentic ways in order to demonstrate learning. This meets the requirements for course standards through the completion of the thematic unit demonstrating the understanding of literacy standards that must be addressed in a comprehensive literacy classroom through writing, reading, as well as the understanding...
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...Texas Writer Offers a Gift of Prose and Poetry Just in Time for Christmas In search of an amazing gift idea for the Xmas season? A retired social worker recommends ‘Word Gifts’. Smelling Christmas in the air? It is time to start brainstorming gift ideas, but what is there to give – or –gift – when everyone will have the same idea? Do something different then: give a gift of hope, of reflection… and of literature? The book The Gift (Xulon Press, 2011) by retired Texan social worker Lila Ellexon Senter makes a perfect gift for anyone who seeks the real meaning of Christmas in this age of consumerism. The Gift is a wonderful collection of ‘word gifts’ that are word sharing and reflecting on. The book contains literary gems from well-known...
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...The Eritrean saying goes “as the candle renders light while the name tells”; as the title “The Giving Tree” tells everything also. Silberstein explains in her poem “The Giving Tree” how motherhood is generous, kind, sensitive, selfless, loving and caring to her boy no matter what his age is unlike man’s mechanism. First, Silberstein starts saying “…every day the boy would come to play/ swinging from the branches, sleeping in the shade” (lines 1-2). This part of the poem explains the relationship between the early stages of a child and his caring mother. Since a baby is dependent, he is usually attached to his loving mother and she lets him play around with gladness. The word “play” can mean so many activities such as giving him a bath, burping...
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...I believe the values gained from literature in childhood have profound influences on adults and is an important aspect of childhood. The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein is a book that I felt had a strong impact on shaping my attitude towards others as adult. The book is about an apple tree that gave everything it had to make his lifelong friend happy. The book does an excellent job demonstrating how people should treat other people with kindness and everyone would be a lot happier. The Oak Inside the Acorn by Max Lucado is another book that I believe influenced my adulthood, the book shows children that everyone is different and has a unique purpose on this earth. The book stresses uniqueness which I believe is important for children to understand...
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...will be comparing the Lorax By Dr Seuss and the Giving tree by Shel Silverstein. The Lorax is about an intelligent young man named Ted, who lives in a place virtually devoid of nature. Ted fell in love with a girl named Audery. Ted wanted to win the heart of the Audery but to do so he must find something she really cherishes which is a truffle tree. To get the Trufflula tree Ted delves in to the story of the Lorax. The Lorax once was the conservator of the Lorax and the Once-ler is a guy who cut down all the trees in the forest because of Greediness for money and lost all his respect for nature. Now that I have described what The Lorax is about I am going to describe about The Last Tree. Once there was a tree that loved a boy. The boy would come to play with the tree and collect the tree leaves and eat the tree's Apple. The boy also loved the tree with all his...
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...Allusions of the Tree in Picture Books Children’s literature has evolved over decades as new morals and ideas develop. Modern children’s literate differs from previous decades in how religion is portrayed. Almost exclusively, the first written stories for children featured themes of religion. Today children’s authors are cautious of adding spiritualty, unless the book is overtly directed for a religious audience. The Oak Inside the Acorn by Max Lucado and illustrated by George Angelini was published in 2011 and is directed towards young children of Christian faith. The book features glorious painted illustrations and a hefty amount of text placed in a meditated manner. The pictures are created with a slew of colors and details used to grab the reader attention. Lucado is a family man and a minister. We know this due to his many references of God and the author’s note that bluntly states, “God prewired your infant” (Lucado)....
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...indicates”; as the name “The Giving Tree” tells everything also. Silberstein explains in her poet “ The Given Tree” how a generous, selfless, love and caring mother help for her bay no matter what age. First, Silberstein starts her poet saying “…every day the boy would come to play/ swinging from the branches, sleeping in the shade” (lines 1-2). This part poem explains the relationship between the early stages of childhood. Since a baby is dependent of his mother, he usually needs her such as play. The word play can be many thing such as giving a shower while a baby enjoy, after feeding while a mother try to burb her baby, during changing diaper and asking for attention. Also, the writer mentions “swinging and sleeping” which is a common caring mother do to her beloved child. After feeding, playing, and giving everything what a baby need is time for break which is a nap. A baby usually asks the warmth love of a mother, the swing of her hold and let sleep on her chest. For the loved tree mother of mother no matter what it’s fulfill happiness to do that even though her...
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...Target market: Pine Tree Chiropractic’s target market is vast. This is because it does not serve a specific lifestyle, age, or gender. The three primary types of patients (market) that Pine Tree targets is first, individuals over 40 years old with a country lifestyle. The office environment supports this by appealing to the patient’s occupation of being farmers and ranchers, their interest of their country lifestyle, and appeal to their age group by embodying their old fashion values. Second, would be targeting local veterans with a high risk lifestyle due to their age. Pine Tree is one of the few in town that accepts Veteran Assistant insurance. Additionally, Dr. Wallace is a former Officer Ranger in the Army. Third, would be student athletes...
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...There are many legends about who and what Santa is, depending upon one’s family, culture and background, perceptions may differ slightly from person to person. The history of Christmas is more religious based correlating with each denomination having a unique set of beliefs. The legend of Santa and how he came about differs depending on one’s upbringing. Christmas traditions that people may practice vary from house to house but the most common practices are buying and decorating a Christmas tree, and exchanging presents with others. In mythology there is often times where unity occurs like in the myths Hera and Hephaistos and The Story of Poia. Christmas time is the time of the year when friends and family come together to celebrate the joy...
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...Influence On My LIfe One Tree Hill. It has had a major impact on my life. It has showed me different aspects of life. It´s showed me the beautiful things in life that we overlook daily. The bad stuff and the good, that we should appreciate because it's shaped us and our world. It was a Television Show that ran for nine years. One Tree Hill has some amazing quotes that mean something to me. ¨I think we waste our words and our moments and we don´t take the time to say the things that are in our hearts when we have the chance.¨ This quote has changed my life and made me think about what I say does it have a true meaning, and that our time is limited we should take advantage of that. ¨Love means giving chances when there are no more...
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...crisis severely challenged the hotel industry and stake holders, especially in asia region, which never before have so many issues that causes a crisis that has lasted that long With majority of properties located in asia, Banyan tree was hit hard by the crisis causing poor profitability in 2005. Foreseeing the risk of focusing its core operation in one region, Mr.Ho, CEO of Banyan tree initiates the expansion plan of banyan tree to open new properties in new location in order to minimize the risks. The IPO was executed to increase the capital for this expansion. However, the key issue of this aggressive expansion in how banyan tree can maintain its respective qualities across the chain due to: * The limitation of manpower and infrastructure to consistently deliver banyan Tree’s experience * The danger of bran dilution in case of banyan tree expands into territories that may have a negative impact on the brand. Its very important that banyan tree ethos, culture and skill set do not disappear with the process of the growth. Tha ability to manage growth while at the same time prevents brand dilution is crucial when considering about doing a mega expansionary project. * The emergent of competition in niche markets also happened as banyan tree enjoyed the exclusivity for some time. Maintaining a niche position as market...
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... together. These two holidays are so similar, but yet so different at the same time, both Thanksgiving and Christmas are time of giving thanks, merriments, gift exchange and family reunion but the clear differences are there purposes are not the same. It is a time where family comes together that haven’t been around the whole year. Christmas differs from Thanksgiving in food, decorations, and family tradition. During Christmas, there is a lot of running around to do. Usually, weeks before Christmas, families get together and go out and buy Christmas gifts. They also go out and buy Christmas trees, decorations, wrapping paper, and food that is going to be cooked the night before Christmas. Days before Christmas, the families gets the gift and wrap them to put under the Christmas tree. When decorating the Christmas tree you usually put your lights on which are usually red and green. You also put ornaments which could be Christmas balls or hand crafted ornaments. At the end of decorating the tree, the traditional topping for the tree is an angel or a star. The night before Christmas families gather together to make milk and cookies for Santa. The food that is usually prepared for Christmas is ham, macaroni, collard greens, sweet potatoes, cornbread, and the famous egg nog. Families sits around the Christmas tree after eating to sing Christmas carols, take pictures and laugh and play with family while opening up gifts. Also during this time there...
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...An Analysis of Course in General Linguistics “Long human words (the longer the better) were easy, unmistakable, and rarely changed their meanings . . . but short words were slippery, unpredictable, changing their meanings without any pattern.” -Robert A. Heinlein In this text, Saussure concerns himself with what he refers to language, which he defines as a system of signs that express a concept, and argues that it can be expressed by two components: langue (the abstract system of language that is internalized by a community) and parole (the individual acts of speech). Furthermore, Saussure regards parole as heterogeneous (composed of many parts) and langue as homogeneous (composed of the union of meanings and what he refers to as sound images – both being psychological in nature). Therefore, Saussure considers langue as systematic; this being the reason why Saussure chooses to focus on langue as it allows an investigative methodology that is rooted, supposedly, in pure science. In this text, Saussure endeavors to argue against a common view of language that regards language as being a natural organism which grows and evolves following a set of laws that are outside the control of human beings. Instead, Saussure wants to position language as a social phenomenon that is beyond the immediate control of the individual speaker. To clearly state his point, Saussure needs to define the following concepts. The Sign The signe (sign) is the basic unit of language that Saussure...
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