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    Using Language Effectively

    paying attention to the words of the song we are listening to. One of my experience in the past in regards to having a hard time listening was when we had a staff meeting at work and I was not able to properly decode information that did not make sense to me. It is because my own attitude of “already know the topic” that I brought to the staff meeting had an effect to my ability to listen to the manager. Since I already knew the topic, I was not that focus to the what the manager was saying and when

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    Sensory Perceptions

    Human beings we are blessed to have five senses. These senses are sight, smell, touch, taste, and hearing. These senses make “normal” life manageable for us. All five are equally as important as the next. However it is not impossible to live without one or two of them. Sometimes losing one our senses can enhance the rest. There are three reasons to believe that our senses are fallible. Seeing should not always be believing. Once we realize that our senses can be fooled, then we can begin to adjust

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    A Sense of Self-Worth

    shopping bags…distributed even[ly] on either side.” (Ascher 6) Even in his unstable environment, which most people would find distressing, he creates homely comforts. The way in which he arranges and places himself in this atmosphere states an undeniable sense of grace. I can envision The Box Man in a room with distinct lines, sensual fabrics; a different ambience altogether. Second, he takes his damaged, ragged body and lowers himself to his makeshift seat; just as a tired, distinguished business person

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    Sonet 130

    * 5 images: Visual, tactile, olfactory, auditory, and kinesthetic. Consider, for example, the dominant sense of visual: My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips' red; If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun; If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head. The last line points towards the feel of the mistress' hair, stressing the sense of tactile as we can imagine the rather unpleasant feeling of the speaker as he goes to touch his mistress'

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    As You Like It Belonging - Neighbours by Tim Winton Related Text

    Shakespeare’s As You Like It and Tim Winton’s Neighbours. Both texts explore how perceptions of belonging and not belonging can be influenced by one’s connection to place. This idea is conveyed through changes in place and how the changes can develop a sense of belonging or non-belonging. Setting is used by both texts to convey how the significance of a change in place can affect belonging. In As You Like It Shakespeare juxtaposes the harshness of court life to the freedom of the untainted Forest of

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    Perception

    that arouse in person perception are due to stereotyping, bias, over-analyzing, gullibility or skepticism, making hasty assumptions, and misinterpretation. The psychological condition of a person also applies to his ability to make conclusions in a sense that it dictates his emotions, thoughts and actions. In addition it would be the psychological attitude of a person that will help him judge people, situations, and the ongoing environment with more precision, eliminating perceptual errors. The process

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    Perception and Attention

    (Introduction) Senses effect a person’s brain information reflecting on the way a person perceives information. The five major senses are vision, audition, touch, taste, and smell. If one or more of a person’s senses is not working properly then it can affect their perception. According to Robinson-Reigler and Robinson-Reigler (2008), "early selection theories propose that the processes whereby we designate information for further processing occur as the information is first registered by the senses" (p. 16)

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    Myer Briggs Assignment

    Myers-Briggs assignment Myers-Briggs assignment My type on this assignment was the ESFP, Extraverted- Sensing- Feeling -Perceiving. The analysis of my formula type is that I am a slightly expressed extravert, moderately expressed sensing personality, distinctively expressed feeling personality and slightly expressed perceiving personality. According the results I love people, excitement, telling stories and having fun. This is very accurate about my personality

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    Plannn

    BMW's business strategy has been perfectly aligned to its overall brand strategy, and that's what makes them so successful. BMW has always designed and built cars with much greater responsiveness to a driver’s actions, providing a better sense of the road beneath and offering

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    various forms of organizing and processing information to determine which is the most difficult to get correct. Explain your rationale. There are different ways in which people organize and process information. It is usually done by using our five senses and is stored into our memories. Those memories then become our experiences. For example, when a person hears a “bark”, it is automatically assumed what is heard is a dog. Experiences can be misleading when it comes to processing information. There

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