Verb tenses tell readers when events or actions occured in time—in the past, present, or future. Your verb choices can also indicate aspect, which expresses the completeness or effects of an action. TENSES - Why are these important • Writers use the present tense to describe events that are happening at the moment. • Writers use the past tense to describe events that have already happened. • Writers use the future tense to describe events that will happen. ________________________________________
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Testing by Joelle Charbonneau, the main character, Cia, changed over the course of the book due to her experiences. Before Cia was chosen to participate in ‘The Testing’ she exhibited traits such as being mature, visionary, and fixated on her potential future. For an example, on page 95, Charbonneau wrote, “But Dr. Barnes’s words ring loud in my head. The Testing is about more than what happens in the classrooms. Asking for help through the night will be seen as a weakness. Leaders are not weak. The Testing
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the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us.” The green light represents the life Gatsby craves for himself, one where Daisy lives with him in his mansion, creating the ideal 1920’s couple. And yet despite Gatsby’s apparent love and commitment to Daisy, he appears more committed to this “green light” and the image he has created for his future. Daisy admits that Gatsby “wants too much” begging that it be enough that she loves him now, admitting she can’t escape her past. But Gatsby reveals
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The Future of Social Security Paula Allen COM 156 December 11, 2010 Joy V'Marie The Future of Social Security Social Security will not meet the needs of the younger generations in retirement because the depletion of funds in the Social Security trusts. The age requirement is predicted to rise to 70 by 2037 for those who can draw full benefits. There are people who survive on their monthly benefits from Social Security, but how long will it be before they cannot live on this amount of money
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building my future using my flower. My flower has a stem, six petals, and a core. My flower is centered on my past, present and future. It is based on knowledge, values, people, location, working conditions, and salary. Each petal represents my goals based on my experiences. My flower grows as I grow. My flower is a road map of where I came from and where I plan to go. It is my past, present, and future. I cannot reach for the stars without recognizing my past and present. For me, my past and present
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Brown Deputy Director Department of Telematic Learning & Education Innovation University of Pretoria South Africa 0002 +27 12 420-3884 (Tel) +27 12 420-3828 (Fax) +27 82 908-3884 (Cell) eMail: tom.brown@up.ac.za Beyond constructivism: Exploring future learning paradigms Abstract Educational practice is continually subjected to renewal, due to developments in information and communication technology (ICT), the commercialisation and globalisation of education, social changes and the pursuit of
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Financial and Managerial accounting are used for making sound financial decisions about an organization. They provide information of past quantitative financial activities and are useful in making future economic decisions. (Albrecht, Stice, Stice, & Skousen, 2002) The same financial data is used to derive reports for each accounting process yet they differ in some ways. Financial accounting primarily provides external reports for external users such as stock holders, creditors, regulating authority
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first reason is because we will learn from the mistakes people made in the past and try not to repeat them. The second reason is so we will understand civilizations got to where we are today. The third reason is to learn about what causes conflicts and wars so we can help identify when they might be occurring. We should preserve history so we don’t make the same mistakes we did in the past. Things would not reoccur in the future if we knew what happened in history we would know how to prevent things
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reports were compared for the assessment of past performance and current position as well as to determine the future potential and related risk. 1) ASSESSMENT OF PAST PERFORMANCE AND CURRENT POSITION The financial statements of An Joo and Southern Steel has been analysed to determine the past performance which is an indicator of future performance. This is important in judging management’s past performance but also as a possible indicator of future performance. In addition, an analysis of current
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resources on the public domain. The first step presented in the movie, "Culture always builds on the past", took us to a media literate era where the creative process shaped users into creators which aloud the change of folk-art into future media through remix. However, our culture that was remixed, wasn't rightfully ours. The second step in the manifesto, "The past always tries to control the future", led us into the archives of intellectual property. A scene in the movie depicts the separation of
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