Imaginative Journey Notes: The Stimulus Booklet 1.The road not taken: - Robert Frost o Imaginative Journeys allow us to explore future possibilities through speculation o Extended metaphor of the ‘road’ used to express both past and future decisions and actions. Frost describes using the imagination in times of indecision to explore the consequences of possible choices. – “…long I stood /And looked down one as far as I could” o Each of the four stanzas characterises one stage of this process
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The Principals' Partnership http://www.principalspartnership.com/ Sponsored by Union Pacific Foundation Research Brief Brain-based Learning Question: What does brain-based research say about how adolescents learn? Summary of Findings: The 1990s was declared as the Decade of the Brain by President Bush and Congress. With the advancement of MRIs (Magnetic Resonance Imagining) and PET (positron emission tomography) scans, it has become much easier to study live healthy brains. As a result, the
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Instruction: Choose the correct letter of your answer. 1. If you had pogonophobia what would you be afraid of? a. Dog b. Snake c. pig d. Bears 2. Which company is owned by Bill Gates? a. Apple b. Intel c. Samsung d. Microsoft 3. What was the first James Bond book? a. Skyfall b. Die Another day c. Tomorrow never dies d. Casino Royal 4. What kind of animal is lurcher? a. Sheep b. Goat c. Snake d. Dog 5. What is the currency of Austria? a. Euro
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books written about tornado events such as The Night of the Twisters by Ivy Ruckman, the story of her cousin’s families bout with the June 3, 1980 Grand Island, Nebraska tornadoes, to movies such as the made for TV movie of the same name and The Wizard of Oz, not to mention the Blockbuster Twister. Although these movies are entertaining, they are far from accurate. “A storm chasers dream come true is to get close enough to a mile-wide tornado to shoot unique video of nature's extreme fury. Maybe even
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Jake Arnott’s The Long Firm includes may discussion about crime and punishment, law and order and justice and in justice. Do you regard novels as useful sources of legal theory or merely irrelevant distraction? It has been argued by recent legal theorists that novels are useful sources of legal theory. In Ian Ward’s book Law and literature: possibilities and perspectives , he argues that by studying literature, students are able to better understand law. He suggests, for example, that it is worth
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From How to Read Literature Like a Professor Thomas C. Foster Notes by Marti Nelson 1. Every Trip is a Quest (except when it’s not): a. A quester b. A place to go c. A stated reason to go there d. Challenges and trials e. The real reason to go—always self-knowledge 2. Nice to Eat With You: Acts of Communion a. Whenever people eat or drink together, it’s communion b. Not usually religious c. An act of sharing and peace d. A failed meal carries
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Assessment 2 – Business Report [pic] Southcorp Limited: Winemaker’s winding road Based in New South Wales, Australia, Southcorp Limited is the world's largest maker of premium brand wine. The company oversees a number of brand names, including three of Australia's largest wine groups, Lindemans, and Penfolds, as well as Rosemount Estates, acquired in 2001. Other major wine labels include Wynns and Seppelts--the company has been working to reduce its total number
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The Secret Underworld Palace | | By: Arianna Maria Ketwaroo | | Prolong Long ago there was a powerful wizard named Celine. Among most of her abilities her most powerful one was that she could tell what would happen in the future. Many years passed and Celine got married to a wizard named Sammy, they had two beautiful daughters named Angel and Sarah. One day Celine fell ill and couldn’t get out of bed, for the past weeks she got worse and she was unable to speak, so she was forced to
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I. Introduction "Over-determined," a term used in film studies, simply means that any film is the cumulative product of certain industrial practices, political climates, ideas about artistic merit and available financial and technical resources. So when and how does the classical Hollywood studio system become stable? Two issues are greatly considered: the advent of sound and the business ideal of vertical integration. II. The Coming of Sound: Golden Age of Classical Hollywood The shift of
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Is Corporal Punishment Needed to Discipline Children One of the most beloved fantasy movies of all times that holds a special place within many people’s hearts is the famous “Wizard of Oz”. This movie is a musical that was created and directed by Victor Fleming in 1939 with the help of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Malcolm Brown, William A. Horning and Jack Martin Smith as the production designers (that were never credited) and Cedric Gibbons as the art director. (IMDb, n.d) This movie is about a young
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