Researchers have also observed that readers modify reading times based on their ultimate goals to be achieved from the reading; if they are aware that they would have to answer questions later, readers tend to read slower. ... They also hypothesized that participants who knew they would be questioned later would read messages more deliberately. They further hypothesized that participants would fare better in reading speed and retention after reading text that was emphasized with capitals or spaces. ... The participants' reading speeds were measured for each type of format. ... ANOVA reve...

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In fact it is the antithesis of reading. ... Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting. " Bennett certainly hides little hints of his love for reading and actually threw a bit of his characteristics into some of the Queens attributes. ... From reading this book you get the gist that The Queen is not a big fan of reading at all and her feelings towards liking books were "something that should be left to other people ". ... Bennett aims to show his audience how much reading can transform a person, change lives and also broaden horizons on an educational level. ... Norman loves read...

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Because we didn"t get to watch the film "Rats in the Ranks", my presentation today will come from this weeks readings, but I will try and relate the readings back to previously watched films. This week the readings look firstly at the elements of the documentary, mainly focusing on the point of view and the documentaries development and structure. The later readings then delve into a more technical side of documentaries, looking at the steps taken in creating a documentary, such as the many problems that arise when trying to find funding. ...

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Late adulthood is generally considered to begin at about age 65. ... Her favorite past time is doing karaoke at her house with friends and although her eyesight is failing, she still spends a lot of time reading her favorite suspense/thriller novels. ... Late adulthood cognition becomes more focused, and elderly people tend to make most of their cognitive abilities through goal-centered use. ... Two forms of intelligence- crystallized and fluid- which are the main focus of middle adulthood greatly affects cognitive development in late adulthood. ... Mary joined the choir in her church to focus...

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The teacher after that conducts guided reading and checks on each literature group. ... At later stages of the students post assessment, students record their area of focus on a PDF worksheet called shooting for success worksheet. The teacher to develop better reading skills by showing video clips of various high divers in the Olympics, together with pictures downloaded from the internet. ... Homework extensions are important to students because the offer a daily basis of reading. ... Assignments practical to students are as follows; For instance, bookmark where students reflect on their readi...

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The second volume of Taylor Branch's ambitious history of Martin Luther King, Jr. and his times begins, approximately, in the spring of 1963 and ends two years later with the assassination of Malcolm X and the first events that culminated in the massive marches in Selma, Alabama in the early spring of 1965. ... All of this material offered a sharp focus and high historical drama, which the author laid out for a national reading audience; in the process he also revealed his great gifts as a writer and as a historian and a very well known writer.The second volume of Taylor Branch's amb...

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It is an active reading exercise that is designed to help you get a fuller understanding of your reading materials. ... We all know that the successful learning of course content begins with completing course readings. ... It doesn't matter whether you're trying to find a way to study the material later or you're just trying to read the material. ... However, there are other study strategies such as PQRST can also improve reading quality. ... Thus, although there are many ways to raise reading and learning strategy, the SQ3R method can still be one of the best ways to improve re...

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And I could learn about our founders more by reading this book: Adams, a politician who has autistic and combative personality, whose closest political helper was his wife, Abigail (Mr.Tub mentioned this every time saying without Abigail, Adams could not be President of America. ... ; Burr, a duel-loving killer, was one of the most despised public figures of his time due to his moronic actions toward Hamilton; Hamilton, a political antics covered his humble Scottish origins by his position and wealth, but later killed by Burr because he did not take duel with enmity(He just wanted to die I bel...

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Meaning in poetry is created from the reader making the connection between the literal and the metaphorical, and in doing so, "reading between the lines." ... These regularly reiterated ideas are clearly uncovered when analysis is applied to Yeats" poetry, which indeed, on first reading appears to be predominantly spontaneous emotion. ... "Long-Legged Fly" is clearly not a purely emotional poem and the unmistakably systematic structure of the poem, indicates that perhaps although all poetry may, on first reading, seem like a page of random emotion, it clearly does involve a number of ideas...

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Entering the world of "Score/Score" the computer-printout format used by the writer affects the way in which readers read the story, creating a blocky form of reading. It creates a mood that is detached and unemotional, but a brooding, annoyed mood later as the story progresses and the teaching machine gets annoyed. ... Experiences that I have had with online delivered courses with little to none in person interaction has been that they went extremely well, finding the covered content easy to comprehend through given readings, and assignments completed without lessons, discussions, or regular ...

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Winston finds himself openly discussing his hatred for Big Brother including the readings of Anti-Party manifesto and getting involved with other rebellious groups. ... While reading the novel I started to develop an analogy of fire and gasoline to describe the relationship between Julia and Winston. ... Eventually, the reading of the anti-party literature, openly engaging in sex for enjoyment, and other behaviors lead them to more careless activities. ... Orwell created the illusion of true love between Winston and Julia in his writings, but later destroyed that idea with the eventual betraya...

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Due to this and later findings by Thorne in the same area, he and a few other scientists decided that the current theory of evolution was incorrect and a new theory was needed. ... Another interesting part of this article is the way it was written, when reading it, it is more like you are reading a narrative not a scientific article. ...

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For example, if a successfully intelligent student is assigned reading, he would be able to analytically take in information that he reads and test well on the subject. Then, if his professors decide to assign a project related to the reading, the student would adapt to creative intelligence to create an original presentation or experiment from what he had gathered in his reading. Lastly, the student would be able to adapt practically in life by applying the information from the reading to his current, or later, situation. ...

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Western morale was threatened by the world-wide economic crisis and political division of the 1930's this was later exacerbated by the experiences of Nazi totalitarianism, mass extermination, and the threat of the atomic bomb. ... The son-lover later arranges the reconciliation of his proxy parents, living out a fantasy in which the incestuous son undoes the harm he has caused to the marital relationship. ... The faults of selectivity and partiality have already been encountered in the failings of a psychoanalytic reading, and it also arises in Millet's interpretation when she a...

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Almost a decade later, Sam and his friend Willie can start a conversation with an adult and they can understand everything discussed, even if it does not directly relate to baseball. A little later in the essay, Pratt tells us that the contact zone plays such an important role in autoethnographic text, text in which people undertake to describe themselves in ways that engage with representations other have make of them. ...

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As Perry Miller explains, in an era that subordinated women to men and men to God "women who stepped beyond their domestic defines through literature "by reading or writing "were considered dangerous to themselves and to society Puritans expressed considerable scorn for women who wrote or published- (360-61). On the other hand, Elaine Showalter offers the remark that "Bradstreet's writings [i.e. her important later writings] is more inflected by gender than by nationality; it is not American."" ... Jane Donahue Eberwein is one critic who points to generic debates about wome...

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As Perry Miller explains, in an era that subordinated women to men and men to God "women who stepped beyond their domestic defines through literature "by reading or writing "were considered dangerous to themselves and to society Puritans expressed considerable scorn for women who wrote or published- (360-61). On the other hand, Elaine Showalter offers the remark that "Bradstreet's writings [i.e. her important later writings] is more inflected by gender than by nationality; it is not American."" ... Jane Donahue Eberwein is one critic who points to generic debates about wome...

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After that, News Corporation bought Triangle in 1988 and sold Seventeen Magazine to K-III Communications and later sold the magazine to Hearst in 2003. ... From reading print magazines, audiences would feel more comfortable as there is a physical presence of holding a magazine rather than a website on a computer. This would also link to opinions of the older generations, as they would likely like the traditional way of reading a magazine. ... Another main benefit is that this format of a magazines caters to the younger generation reading the magazine. ...

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In a later explication, Dunn also offers that perhaps Lot did not go to Zoar as a coward, or as a stubborn man who is scared or giving up; but that he may have gone to Zoar, a place that Dunn suggests is feared by most, because he thought he might could save it. ... David Gunn has equipped himself with very evident technical reading characteristics that allow him to read attentively, carefully, and insightfully. In comparison with my readings of this passage, Gunn related to the characters on a much deeper level of understanding. ...

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Between late 19th century and Early 20th century was the time when world was begging to merge economically and politically; Massive world trade and money standard based on foreign Currency were becoming generalized. ... History itself is really hard to conclude in one answer simply because were just reading out of the book instead of actually seeing and experiencing it. ...

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The NCLB Act basically supports a system of challenging state standards in the core subjects of reading and mathematics for students from the third grade to the eighth grade level. ... Yet nearly 40 years later, only 32 percent of fourth-graders can read skillfully at grade level." ...

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The book leads us through Maniac's personal evolution of understanding and later helping to defy uneasy racial relations in the town of Two Mills. ... The characters are interesting and the style has a fun tone and there is humor in the writing, so children are likely to enjoy reading this book. ... Later she confronts those expectations by dressing in typically "male" clothing and joins the crew. ... The book is written from the point of view of Charlotte Doyle, as she is narrating the experience many years later. ... I enjoyed reading both Maniac Magee and The True Confession...

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The Caribbean and Polynesia Reading the compendium with colonial texts (Jamaica Kincaid and Haunani Trask) did two things to me: It gave me knowledge of something I didn't know anything about before, and it made me feel uneasy. ... In my A history of the United States (Philip Jenkins) Hawaii is mentioned in two sentences, but only that it was claimed and later added to the US. ... These people died silently, in "a holocaust created by white foreigners and celebrated by their later counterparts as the will of a Christian God." ...

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I would give prompts that allow the students to incorporate their dreams into their writing, all the while relating it to the assignment, reading, and unit. ... Relating units and readings to real world events would certainly help with this. ... This shows the respect earned by those people, and will serve students well later in life. ...

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In the mid to late 1900s, the NRA played a key role in encouraging gunplay to be accepted as typical child behavior in the average American home. ... " It is apparent before reading on that "normalizing the gun as part of youth culture" is something that the author finds to be against. ... I personally believe in the right to carry fire arms and do not view them in the same light as the author before or after reading this article; concluding that the effectiveness of this article was lacking....

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