The Autograph of Mirkhai By Humayun Ahmed Translated by Soheed Sorwar Nitu’s eldest uncle Zahedur Rahman is Headmaster of Nilganj High School. Nitu likes him very much. He is not like other headmasters, does not ask lessons, does not look grave, does not get annoyed if someone laughs a little. He tells stories if you ask. Those are beautiful stories, but Nitu knows, all these are made up. Nitu does not like made up stories. She wants to hear real stories. Nitu loves to hear stories
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PLOT: INTRODUCTION: -introduced to main character, Hazel Grace, who has cancer -see what it's like to be a teenager living with cancer -hovering/worrying parents -missing school/losing touch with friends -watching a lot of reality TV -going to a support group -doesn't want to become her illness RISING ACTION: -Hazel meets Augustus Waters at support group -hit it off immediately, and from this point Hazel's point of view changes -Hazel discusses her favourite book (An Imperial Affliction)
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My Secret Place Guides1Questions1orSubmit my paper for analysis What is your attitude towards loneliness? Do you think it is a curse, when you are isolated from the rest of the world, left face-to-face with yourself? Or do you, on the contrary, seek it, appreciating each moment of silence you can snatch from the surrounding world? These small breaks can help you replenish your energy and reorganize your thoughts, so that you can start each day as a new one—not as an extension of a previous one
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Foreign Language Anxiety in in-Class Speaking Activities Two Learning Contexts in Comparison Alessia Occhipinti Written by - Hilde Hasselgård A Thesis Presented to The Department of Literature, Area Studies and European Languages The University of Oslo in Partial Fulfilment of the Requirements Autumn Term 2009 Supervised by 1 Acknowledgments Writing this thesis has been a pleasurable process. I am grateful to my supervisor Hilde Hasselgård for her good advice and continuous support
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and that causes their poor performance academically. Romantic breakup of a student can also be a cause of academic performance being poor. According to Field (2013) students with high breakup distress have high negative emotions like depression, anxiety, and anger which results to negative behavior like poor academic performance. Teachers or professors can also affect students’ academic performance through effective teaching or be the way they present their selves in front of the students. According
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Comprehension 1. Staples characterize the women he encounters in paragraph 1 as a “victim” because of the way she acts. She appears to be worried and moves to cross the street, making it clear that she feels she is a victim and finds him intimidating, even though the author is completely harmless. 2. When Staples says he has the power to “alter public space” because of his appearance. He writes this from personal experience, has noticed the way people lock their car doors and cross to the opposite
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Anxiety is a complex emotion identified by various levels of agitation. It is caused by reaction to a threat or perceived threat that generates a ‘fight or flight’ response. In other words, when we experience situations where we are at risk, uncertain, threatened or attacked, we become anxious and take steps to address the concern. From here our natural instincts take over, forcing us to confront it (fight) or escape (flight). At the extreme, anxiety disrupts and unset- tles behaviour by lowering
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FOCUS Mission Success Safety Always - Mission Success Safety Always - Mission Success Safety Always - Mission Success Safety Always - Mission Success January 2012 FOCUS Republic of Singapore Air Force Safety Magazine Issue 70 The Dirty Dozen Inside: >> Stress >> Distraction >> Project Management and The Dirty Dozen >> Fokker-50 At Gulf of Aden Mission Success Safety Always - Mission Success Safety Always - Mission Success Safety Always - Mission Success Safety Always -
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Patterns of Stress Today, every single person has had or still has some sort of stress pattern. It is part of everyday life. The patterns that exist for me can include money, poor nutrition, relationships, and unemployment. This is to name only a few that I deal with every single day. Every day I think about each one and have to make choices about how to deal with them. Most of the time I try to ignore it but they do get in the way. Money, it’s what provides for your food, clothing, basic needs
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Developed by Wolpe, it is based on classical conditioning with patients learning in stages to replace fear responses with feelings of calm rather than previous associations between phobic objects/situations and fear. The two opposing emotions of anxiety and relaxation are percieved as incapable of coexisting simultaneously. Systematic desensitisation uses a progressive step by step approach to feared objects and situations and takes about a month to advance through the whole desensitisation hierarchy
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