These ideas are represented through the use of various techniques such as humour, dialogue, poetic devices and sound techniques. My Place by Sally Morgan is an autobiography/ biography in which we see Sally change several times throughout the book. Because Sally herself writes the book, we also see how Sally's feelings and thoughts change. At the beginning of the book, we see how Sally frequently truanted from school. ... Another sound technique used in the program is the use of sound effects. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Way of the Peaceful Warrior This is the first book of its kind, Spiritual or New Age that I have ever read. I have to admit, I wasn't sure if I would really be able to get into this epic journey after reading the back of the book. It all sounded too strange. Like many who have chosen to read this book, I too hoped it would change my life. ... That is why I feel this book strikes a cord with every reader and impacts each in a specific and meaningful way. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

For instance, when I am trying to write a paper or read a book I can't focus very well unless it's just me, myself and I. ... Some people sit in silence, listening to the sounds in their minds, writing the notes on paper. ... But when I do worksheets out of a book I can listen to music, unless it's like reading a passage then answering the questions. ... The right kind of sound can relax your mind, hone your focus, drown out distractions, or get you pumped to kill your to-do list. I can never focus on writing a paper or studying when I'm listening to rap music, but when I&...

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• Grade Level: High School

The researchers trained rhesus monkeys to pull a lever to avoid getting shocked after a specific sound was played. ... The second monkey was exposed to the sound that indicated the shock, but had no lever to prevent it. ... The animals were exposed to the sound and shock randomly and at different times. The results showed that the monkey with the lever pulled it more often when the receiver heard the sound. ... He said "A greylag goose that has lost its partner shows all the symptoms that John Bowlby has described in young human children in his famous book Infant Grief. . . the eyes sink deep ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Within the book, Why Marriages Succeed or Fail, Dr. John Gottman talks about relationships, how one can understand conflict and be able to get through it and strengthen ones marriage. What Dr. Gottman has done with many years of researching conflict within marriages is come up with a series of test...

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Chapter three in Kieran Egan's book, Imagination in Teaching and Learning, discusses the general characteristics of the imagination that occurs in our students between ages eight and fifteen. ... This could be something he expands more on in later chapters, but for now I feel that he made it all sound so simple to implement. ...

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This makes Heathcliff sound worst and unforgivable for being on his own when the countryside is so exquisite and appealing to go out. ... The book makes you say this sharply and in a firm voice. He almost sounds like he wants to look as a nasty person to keep people away but really he can be agreeable when he explains his reasons. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

The next stanza mentions sounds, and how the only two he hears are his horses" reigns, and the sweep of the wind brushing the snow. "The only other sounds the sweep/ Of easy wind and downy flake" (807) And finally, he makes reference to how the woods look, inviting, and interesting. ... Who hasn't seen a forest, either first hand, or in a book? ...

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• Grade Level: High School

It's like the feeling of accomplishment that a book worm gets from finishing a really powerful book. ... I have an idea of where I would be if I could have taken that apprenticeship As stupid as this may sound, I probably would not be in college right now, or maybe I would. ... All I see when I look at a book is a bunch of rambling words. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

FLOETRY What is art? It can be so many things, from a song, to a dance. The painting hanging in a museum, or your baby's first smile caught on film. It can be a piece sculpted by Neil Barker, or it can be the first pottery project done at preschool and cherished always. From the cologne a perfum...

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Spirituality, although it has always been surrounded by mysticism and uncertainty, has been an integral part of the human psyche since the emergence of the modern man (Buckman 31). There is evidence that even Homo sapiens from the Paleolithic era (ca. 120,000 BC - 8,000BC) believed in a spiritual wo...

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Using tone and diction and imagery/symbols, the poems "Mending Wall", "A Hundred Collars", and "Home Burial" (among all the other poems) convey a unified theme of the book. ... The word "offence" sounds as though he's saying "a fence", and this is what is setting them apart--a fence. ...

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• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School