ELT was highly impressive and motivating (Murphey, 1992; Lied, 2000). This study was designed to investigate the use of English-subtitled K-Pop MV in exploring students’ extensive reading ability. In this case study, five students, four girls and one boy, were selected. To collect the data, document analysis and an in-depth interview were conducted. The findings showed in comprehending the song, the students’ interpretations were still shallow and relying heavily on summary of narrative with very low-level
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The word excess is something Zailckas refers to heavily throughout the book by outright stating it or giving underlying messages throughout the text. Koren Zailckas describes her experiences with excess in the book, Smashed, by including life stories, lessons, and a mature review of her life from her present self. Koren had always been one for overdoing it since early childhood with alcohol or relationships. These trends ultimately following Koren throughout her life and plague her mind as something
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has a kind old woman and who took care of him and his health. He began birdwatching at the age of 3, observing the culiauan, the maya, the maria capra, the martin, and the pipit. He recited the Angelus prayer daily. Of all his sisters, Jose loved little Concepcion best. She was only a year younger than him, and fell ill and died at the age of 3. The death of his sister was Jose's first grief. Jose and his father went on a pilgrimage to Antipolo on June 6, 1868 so that they could fulfill his mother's
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directly to them. Furthermore, sequences follow the exact thought processes of the main character, which brings him, as well as the complete novel, even more close to the readers. The story takes place mostly in New York in December 1949, just before the Christmas holidays. The plot follows a seventeen-year-old boy protagonist Holden Caulfield who retells several days in his life, giving his personal opinion of the society that surrounds him after being expelled from the third school in a row. The
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I’m reading a book called, Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini. I finished. It is an interesting story about Amir’s life. He had grown up in Afghanistan with his successful business man father. After Amir and his father come to America, they started a new life. Amir’s father died after Amir got married and had a happy family. Amir goes back to Afghanistan when he received a call from his father best friend. In there, he found out the true that Hassan is his brother. Hassan and his wife had been killed
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follow a boy search for a father figure he so desperately wants to find. He develops many father figures throughout the memoir, some are good figures and others are bad. In the end he still learns valuable lessons from each one, shaping him into the man he becomes by the end of his memoir. As it might seem apparent, the man that is considered the good figure in the memoir didn’t share all the lessons Wilkins would learn throughout his story. He would learn a lot from both the good and the
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* Summery: The short story “ Another Language “ by Craig Cliff, starts with an introduction of the main character, a seven-year-old boy named James. He is living in New Zealand with his Mother, Father and his brother Daniel. Every Saturday James is visiting his grandparent, Baba and Dedo. James decides to find out why Dedo always is sad and quiet. When he asks his grandfather, James is introduced to the expression ‘stuttering’. Dedo tells James, that he stutters when he speaks the language Serbian
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The omelas was about an imaginary society that seemed to be perfect but towards the end of the story revealed its imperfections. The author talks about a festival where everybody feels free and happy they are riding horses and singing and dancing to music they pose to be worry free. The author then goes to explain that they have a little rules if only a few unlike real life societies who leaders evoke pain and strict rules as a road to happiness. The omela’s are free spirited there life is truly
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Education Autobiography After being in school for the last thirteen years of my life, I would say I have a good education. Me being who I am, I think I am common sense smart more than book smart. Looking back, my education, my knowledge has improved. From learning 1+1=2, to the quadratic formula and George Washington to Barack Obama. My education has improved tremendously. We had about 15 people per classroom and it was more girls than guys I would say. Throughout grade school which being from
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aspects in our stories but our feelings are completely different. As memories start to fade, the overall feeling of the experiences start to become predominant in our minds. It might have been a scar or a sweet dream, but every poet was shaped by those memories described in the poems. Although the subject is common, these poems are different. Each one portrays aspects of childhood viewed by the feelings of the poet. “Hide and Seek” by Vernon Scannell tells the story of a little boy who was playing
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