(Evans 1) Many large North American corporations are beginning to realize that a capable understanding of Literature and the Arts is as important to their employees as the sound technical knowledge that they possess. ... If the study of literature is abandoned, it is likely that students will lose the skills that support critical thought, the precise use of language and the skills required to create sound arguments. ... Boone Pickens, while Brian Adams was reading The Book of Small, by Emily Carr (Anderson). ...

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Multimedia and hypermedia's use of sound pictures and video may have enhanced the learning process by making it more entertaining, but according to the author "by changing a book or document into hypertext is to invite readers to ignore exactly what counts-the story" (274). ... What's the point of learning to read if a computer can do all the work for you with pictures, videos, and sound? ...

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I am reminded of my influence when my 2 year old and I read a book together. ... Then, when alone, she uses "private speech, or language used for self-guidance " (Berk, 2013, p. 275; Rolland, 2005) while playing the roles of mother and toddler reading the book together, which is both delightful and insightful for me to observe. If I were to give her a more advanced book, then I would need to scaffold her learning of new words and images. ...

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He uses digestion as an analogy to reflect the worthlessness of book knowledge. ... What we know as book knowledge is thus completely irrelevant for it fails to look at the greater picture. ... Throughout Gargantua and Pantagruel, Rabelais emphasizes what seems to be the theme of the book: "know yourself."" ... As a matter of fact, Montaigne begins his entire treatise by emphasizing that "I, myself, am the subject of this book- (3). ... Although Montaigne does feel that many could learn from his own experiences, he does not intend this as the primary purpose of the book. ...

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This sounds like good advice at a time when uninterrupted attention to a long stretch of text is an increasingly rare experience for many people. ... However, one of the problems that our research confronted is that a single book or story offers few opportunities to learn new words through multiple encounters because the needed repetitions simply do not occur. ...

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The peach sloshing in her mouth made the perfect sound. ... Masumoto's dad posses a drive to work and a deep believe in the value of perseverance this has always defined him, all the intensive hours and hard work took it's toll on him one night when a massive stroke strike him in the fields, the stroke landed him in the hospital in a coma that could of lead to a vegetable state in the book Masumoto makes a really interesting analogy he compares his dad with a vegetable and he said this might be a better since they work in a farm anyway they are used to taking care and nourish a vege...

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