...Wonder Why are we so attached to our personal belongings? What makes one object so special to us? We all have at least one object that is significant to us. How we obtained it or who we received it from is part of what makes it significant. Irreplaceable and unique. These are a couple of traits that this specific object shares. There are countless reasons as to why this one object is important to us. This object could be a token of good luck, this object could reminisce us of good times, this object could be something that’s been passed down to us generation by generation, or this object could just bring us happiness. The list is never-ending. The adoration for one specific object is also seen in J.D. Salinger’s novel, The Catcher in the Rye. The protagonist, Holden Caulfield, like the rest of us...
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...between the objects we value and our identity? The object that I value deeply and identifies me at the same time is my wedding ring. The reason why I have chosen this particular item is because it symbolizes an emotional connection that I share with my husband and the union between two families. The ring says a lot about my personality and nature as well, for instance it reminds me that before the ring was given to me I viewed myself as an individual possessing my own needs and goals but now that the ring is in my life I have someone else to share the goals with. It also moved me forward and gave me a stable and secure environment for me to start a family of my own. Having this ring, it has taught me that it signifies unity, friendship, a support system, made me learn self sacrifice and compromise, and to have great listening skills. When my husband and I have disagreements, sometimes all I need to do is look at the ring on my finger which serves as a reminder as to why we are in this committed relationship and we can solve our issues. I would be very sad to lose this connection that I have with this object because I feel this ring is an important symbol in teaching my kids the value of a relationship, although some may see this metal object as a materialistic object I see it as a teaching tool for my kids to really show the commitment that parents share by being bonded together by taking the vows that comes with the ring. This is why I have chosen my wedding ring...
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...others religion. Within the same name of religion, there are different denominations like Baptist, Evangelical, Roman Catholic, Pentecostal, etc… Yet, certain religions should be accepted because after practicing for a while becomes more of a need, part of our life and who we are than an option to choose from. In my case, I choose to be a Pentecostal, however, I now see as a need in my life and has become part of who I am. I was born in Mexico and was raised in the United States and I am labeled as Hispanic. Hispanic culture is really...
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...1 Enchant Me 1.1 Delight me in surprising ways A beautiful surface, a carefully-placed animation, or a well-timed sound effect is a joy to experience. Subtle effects contribute to a feeling of effortlessness and a sense that a powerful force is at hand. Strongly agree Strongly disagree Why: It have a lovely looking animation at the start and inside animation and feedback with much visual effects. 1.2 Real objects are more fun than buttons and menus Allow people to directly touch and manipulate objects in your app. It reduces the cognitive effort needed to perform a task while making it more emotionally satisfying. Strongly agree Strongly disagree Why: The application have objects represented on google maps, the user can know how to go, navigate and get the address of the representative, also there are another objects like users. 1.3 Let me make it mine People love to add personal touches because it helps them feel at home and in control. Provide sensible, beautiful defaults, but also consider fun, optional customizations that don't hinder primary tasks. Strongly agree Strongly disagree Why: it provides the customer with the ability to customize the app for example, it make him change the language and changes the whole style to be in Arabic and from right to left which gives a decent feel of control. On the other hand it provides the customer with the ability to customize the store as AVON Egypt idea is to link between representatives and customers, thus it enables...
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...Research Question How does the height of dropping a basketball affect the time it bounces? Aim I have played a lot of basketball in my life, however, never before thought about the physics behind the sport. When I was given the opportunity to plan and prepare my own investigation, I tried to seize the chance as much as possible by combining it with my hobby. I was curious if this experiment would give me new knowledge and improve my skills, or just confirm the information I have already gained during basketball practice. Background information That most balls bounces are something we learn from an early age, but why is that a universal phenomenon, why doesn’t the ball just stay on the ground when dropped? Physics, and especially the field...
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...Content: Introduction………………………………………………………………………………….3 1.Pronouns................................................................................................................................4 1.1 Personal pronouns...........................................................................................................5 1.2 Possessive pronouns........................................................................................................6 1.3 Reflexive pronouns..........................................................................................................7 1.4 Demonstrative pronouns..................................................................................................8 1.5 Interrogative pronouns.....................................................................................................9 1.6 Relative pronouns..........................................................................................................11 1.7 Indefinite pronouns........................................................................................................12 1.8 Reciprocal pronouns......................................................................................................13 2. Determiners.........................................................................................................................14 Conclusion…………………………………………………………………………………...16 Reference………………………………………………………………………………...…...
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...were throwing roses at me and thanking me, my mind echoed, "And you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free" . A million of brown antlers were listening to the truth in front of the Queen's silver and golden pillared castle and they all achieved freedom . It always felt that I had transferred back to life and more importantly, it felt like every Satbugday I had been woken up from death. All this information in my brain that infiltrated without my permission, made me anguished. Apparently, all I knew was whatever the Queen does is right. The weird feeling was that I never remembered going to Bugger military school, but I did remember what I learned. Though just for a day I was someone and on Bonday I would be disconnected from myself like a robot....
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...Enchant Me 1.1 Delight me in surprising ways A beautiful surface, a carefully-placed animation, or a well-timed sound effect is a joy to experience. Subtle effects contribute to a feeling of effortlessness and a sense that a powerful force is at hand. Strongly agree Strongly disagree Why: 1.2 Real objects are more fun than buttons and menus Allow people to directly touch and manipulate objects in your app. It reduces the cognitive effort needed to perform a task while making it more emotionally satisfying. Strongly agree Why: Strongly disagree 1.3 Let me make it mine People love to add personal touches because it helps them feel at home and in control. Provide sensible, beautiful defaults, but also consider fun, optional customizations that don't hinder primary tasks. Strongly agree Strongly disagree Why: 1.4 Get to know me Learn peoples' preferences over time. Rather than asking them to make the same choices over and over, place previous choices within easy reach. Strongly agree Why: Strongly disagree 2 Simplify My Life 2.1 Keep it brief Use short phrases with simple words. People are likely to skip sentences if they're long. Strongly agree Strongly disagree Why: 2.2 Pictures are faster than words Consider using pictures to explain ideas. They get people's attention and can be much more efficient than words. Strongly agree Why: Strongly disagree 2.3 Decide for me but let me have the...
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...wandering thoughts intruded, but they were not too hard to push away. My place is quiet, so as long as the cat is (He yowls and chases the other cat at inconvenient times.)so it is easy to relax and be uninterrupted. This is also something I have done to try and minimize an asthma attack, though not with meditation as a goal! I guess there were a number of associations that I have which are ingrained, and that was something I had to deliberately redirect to keep the exercise simple. I did notice that when I have more on my mind, that it is harder to make myself be physically still, and my mind is similarly resistant to slowing down. Week of Feb. 1 – progressive relaxation I didn’t really like the speaker, because he sounded fake, like someone narrating a children’s bedtime story. That was one distraction. It required a deliberate effort at non-judgmental observation to get past this, which I suspect the average listener isn’t trained to do. The relaxation was hard to do because I normally feel some degree of physical discomfort throughout the day, and the tensing-relaxing directions were uncomfortable, and sometimes too fast to keep up with. This exercise is apparently designed for healthy, young participants! I will remember this if I ever ask elderly, hospital, or otherwise handicapped patients to try this technique – in fact, it would be better to re-record these steps my own way. Going at my own pace, I noticed that although I was more physically relaxed, I...
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...Response Paper #2 I was really amazed by the amount of vessels that I read from the book. My favorite vessel was the “ding vessel”. This was my favorite vessel because it reminded me of a stone mortar called “mortero de piedra” in Spanish. We use this stone mortar to make a spicy salsa, so when ever I look at the ding vessel it reminds me of my own culture. It has the same structure with the four legs to support the “bowl” on the top. The ding vessel was used for cooking as well as in my culture with the stone mortar. They were also used for storage and rituals offerings to their ancestors. When this vessel was used during rituals it was a symbol of authority. If someone owed more than one of this kind of vessel they were associated with power and domination over land. The decoration has a lot of significance in this kind of vessel. For example in the most common ding vessel, the final type of decoration was the inscription.These inscriptions were used to identify the function of the vessel, the owner or they could simply be poems or even stories of why the ding was created. Another thing that amazed me was the different styles of art comparing a Japan vessel with a Korean vessel. When we discussed about those two pieces of art in class I was so interested in knowing why the styles were so similar yet different at the same time. After the discussion we had I was comparing both objects and I noticed more differences than similarities and it all had to do with the time...
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...metaphysics focus on includes 1st order ethical issues and focuses on analytic ethics, contrasted with analytic philosophy. This is important because when we do existential metaphysics, we don’t treat metaphysical questions as purely theoretical ones. We’re actually interested in getting a proper understanding of what we, and the world we inhabit, are like. The 1st order ethical question asks what to do or be in a certain kind of situation- Sartre uses his answer to give a picture of Human Nature. The cosmic question states: “how can one bring into one’s individual life a recognition of one’s relation to the universe as a whole, whatever that relation is?” Sartre answers this by saying that the cosmic question has no answer, but his sense is that the absence of an answer, even if we aren’t aware of that, is something palpable in our lives and needs to be addressed and we need to cope with it. His idea of human nature is really an exploration of how we should deal with the fact that there is no answer to this cosmic question. For Sartre, to understand the structure of this world as a whole, one has to understand the place consciousness has in the world. He continues to emphasize that our consciousness is what makes us distinct, makes us human. Intentionality, self consciousness, self-determination, and their interconnectedness. Firstly, let me iterate that “intentionality” is being used in a sense NOT related to one of its meanings which means “deliberate”. I am not referring...
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...Educational psychology is a very important field to study. It does not always tell you what to do as a teacher, but it can give you the principles to use in making a good decision and a language to discuss your experiences and thinking. This paper has knowledge of great thinkers who help me understand how to be an intentional teacher in the classroom. Piaget and Vygotsky's views of cognitive development help me understand how children think differently and see the world differently. I want to be able to take in and build off what the book gives me and relate certain criteria to the way I teach and learn about things through my experiences in the classroom. Teacher Efficacy Teacher efficacy is the belief you have in yourself as a teacher that what you do makes a difference (Henson, 2002; Tschannen-Moran & Woolfolk Hoy, 2001). The successful teachers are the ones that truly care about their students’ academic progress and monitor it daily. Being able to observe the classroom last semester really gave me an understanding of what teaching is really like. Fortunately, I was lucky enough to get a first year teacher that has a true passion for what she does. She was always creating new ideas for the classroom environment and new holiday themes like “spooktacular spiders” during Thanksgiving. Her classroom has a library that she keeps adding to where the students’ can choose a book to read from. It was one highlight that the teacher did that showed me she truly cares about her...
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...Social Space: Photo Essay (Word Count: 2905 approximately excluding bibliography) Before I ingress in to paper, I would like to share a story that would make more sense of my endeavour to write about coffee breaks. I work for Starbucks coffee company as a shift supervisor and the district coffee master of City of London which allows me to go around the city from store to store in order to enhance coffee education. Anywhere I go and take a walk around the cafe area I would always find cups laying around with almost all of the drink still in it. Why wouldn’t anyone even bother to take their drink with them that they bought for money? That was always a mystery to me. At the beginning of this module (Organisation and Identity) some very unexpected ideas came by which I could not really grasp during the initial couple of weeks which led me to think of quitting the module. However, I did not do so with a hope that I will probably understand whats going on and quitting did not seem like a very noble idea. As we entered the third week and studied ‘behaviourism’ I could slowly start relating the core ideas to practical life and it was the fourth week when we studied ‘symbolic interactionism’ and I could never be more thankful to myself for continuing as this very idea opened new sectors of the world to me and I felt...
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...comments that were given to me through the survey I asked my peers to complete. Below are the advanced functions that I used in my animation. Scripting of Buttons To allow the animation to be controlled by the end user I made sure to insert buttons into my animation. This allowed the person viewing the animation to control when they moved forward to the next scene; it also depended on whether or not they choose the correct answer for the questions asked. If they didn’t select the correct answer for the question they were then sent to the wrong answer page and could then start the animation again. I found starting to use the scripting part of making a button difficult at first, but after looking...
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...and create stigma towards it. When I tell people I own one, they normally give me a weird look and ask why I would want something like that. I am writing this to explain why I own one, and my personal experience with mine. I had recently found a religion that matched my beliefs; Wicca. I was very excited to look into it more as I had never felt comfortable as Judaism being my religion. I am very spiritual and never had a way to bring it out, until I picked up a book on Wiccan Witchcraft. I began reading at the chapter named “Tools of...
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