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    Unit 1: Developing Effective Communication in Health and Social Care Task 1: There are various types of interpersonal interactions that can affect the quality and effectiveness of the communication. There are non-verbal and verbal communications. The examples of verbal communication are: Tone and Pace: The way you speak to a patient is very beneficial for the communication and connection between you and your service user. You must be well aware of the tone and pace of your voice that you choose

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    Argumentative Essay: The Four-Day School Week

    Today, forty-three school districts and nine charters is expected to change to a four-day school week, but only ten school districts and two charters have actually only switched to the four-day school week. The four-day school week has been a very controversial problem. Currently, twenty-one states have school districts within them that have committed to the four-day school week, include Michigan, and Wisconsin. This has been caused by the lack of federal funding to school districts, in which, causes

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    Personal Narrative: Active Involvement In High School Sports In My Life

    Do we all somewhat agree that active involvement in high school sports is at the core of social acceptance and respect among students? Pursuing a sport in school is popularly viewed as an attainable means of getting a scholarship, and its importance to student recognition is beyond measure. However, one man’s frustration over this perception, and his belief that education is also a sport, not only impacted my life, but has inspired thousands of other young people Four years ago, as I began high

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    Should High School Sports Offer Competitive Sports

    students academically, it keeps students to be healthy, and it teaches student athletes important life skills. “High school sports help students academically. Students who participate in school sports did approximately 10% better in math, science, English, and social studies than other students that do not currently participate in sports. Students athletes have a better average absences than non athletes. Student athletes miss an average of 7.4

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    Pragmatic Competence

    Successful communication entails knowledge of grammar and text organization as well as pragmatic aspects of a second language (L2). Pragmatic competence is specifically defined by Koike (1989) as "the speaker's knowledge and use of rules of appropriateness and politeness which dictate the way the speaker will understand and formulate speech acts" (p. 279). Austin (1962) defines speech acts as acts performed by utterances such as giving order, making promises, complaining, requesting, among others

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    paper should comprise a title page, at least four pages of information, and a reference page with at least three professional sources other than your textbook. Your completed exercise should follow the conventions of Standard American English (correct grammar, punctuation, etc.). Your writing should be well ordered, logical and unified, as well as original and insightful. Your work should display superior content, organization, style, and mechanics. When you are ready to submit your Assignment

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    To What Extent Is Language “Innate” or Genetically Determined?

    used. On the other hand, Chomsky (1959), who was a nativist, argued that children are born with a language acquisition device (LAD) and suggest The Innateness Hypothesis. According to his hypothesis, children have genetically determined system of grammar rules of their native language from birth, which allows children construct phrases in correct structure. He states that this happens via the LAD. Evidence for this hypothesis comes from studies of children’s errors types, generalizations, patterns

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    Should Students Be Allowed to Have Cell Phones in Elementary and High Schools? Personally, I Believe Students Should Be Allowed to Have Cell Phones in Elementary and High Schools. However, I Don’t Believe Students

    Should students be allowed to have cell phones in elementary and high schools? Personally, I believe students should be allowed to have cell phones in elementary and high schools. However, I don’t believe students should be allowed to use them during school hours. It is very useful for a student to have their phone after school when walking home just in case of an emergency. There are plenty of kids I know that get scared to walk home but have no choice. There are also a few kids I know that go

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    Reading Response

    Reading Response #1 1) Discuss any two of the animal communication systems mentioned in the Kemp & Smith chapter. For each, provide examples of two design features, discussed and described in the Ohio State chapter that the systems either do or do not exhibit. Be explicit about how these systems illustrate these features. In 1944, von Frisch began exploring an insect communication system called, “the dance of the honeybee”. Bees does the “waggle dance” to communicate the source of food to rest

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    Adolencents

    lessons taught by the teachers who were also Nuns. Physical punishment at school was still very much in play when Micky attended school so most students completed the homework assignments. All of the traditional school subjects were taught, math, grammar, history, science, and because it was a Catholic school, religion. Micky worked at the family Italian restaurant starting at age 12, he would slice peppers, meats, and vegetables for the family, and as he grew older he moved to the wait staff. During

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