Texting has become a must with this person. ... Most of my time, I find my self-waiting for a text from him or constantly texting him waiting for feed back. ... We start texting each other at 6:30 in morning. ... My goal is to decrease my texting by 30 texts per week until I am down to only texting 200 times per week. ... I will not stop the experiment until I reach my goal of only texting two hundred texts per week. ...

• Word Count: 1379
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Many of the characters of both texts have parallels and contrasting points. ... This is parallel to a situation in the other text. ... The behaviour and emotion from both texts have similarities and contrasts. ... Malouf and Mann both mock the waste of men in war as a theme in the two texts. There are many similarities and contrasts between the two texts. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Besides family life, the texts books preach a lot about patriotism. ... (Ibid: 152) Lastly, in China, the texts books focus on social services with a focus on Marxist ideology, which is different than texts books in Taiwan that focuses on family services. ... (Ibid: 141) The Chinese stress the importance of manual labor in their texts. ... The texts books give an image of society continuously working. ... (Ibid: 145) In China, politics are taught through the texts books. ...

• Word Count: 1006
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• Grade Level: High School

While I was initially confused about how this text might relate to a course on special education, it soon became clear that racism, like ADD and LD, imposes a severe limitation on the ability of many students to learn in a typical classroom. The text begins with a startling, yet quite appropriate, theoretical stance towards the problem of racism. ... Much of the theory used in the beginning of this text is reminiscent of a classic text on racism called The Nature of Prejudice, written some fifty years ago. ... This text also makes it clear that the issue of racism is as damaging to the opp...

• Word Count: 653
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Recent studies exploring the effects of texting/posting on student learning outcomes have relied on the information processing theory (Mayer 151-161), as a basis for arguing that texting can cause distractions that hamper student learning. If the student is engaged in learning but keeps losing focus because of a text message, then the student will most likely not store the information in his or her brain. This gives little to no room for the association of the information provided, because of the lack of attention caused by texting in the academic environment. This is not limited to texting, a...

• Word Count: 1093
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In the three given texts Of mice and men', Tri' and Minority report', a range of conflict is represented by different composers through the usage of different structure and several techniques such as setting, dialogues, music, language and camera angles. ... In the first text to be discussed - Of mice and men' by John S, the character George is a person that has confronted psychological and emotional conflict. ... The second text Tri' is a short story about a boy name Tri who is facing not only physical threats but also racial discrimination and emotional conflic...

• Word Count: 796
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

The integration of both history and memory is needed, shown by his pledge; "I would give them my knowledge of history; they would give me their memories", the reconstruction begins, inviting the audience to join him on the quest for 'truth', where in the epigram, and integrated throughout the text, the symbol of gates are used to represent the ultimate knowledge of the past, opening "the blessing or the curse". ... Baker includes specific historical statistics, letters and other texts to offer information about an event, personalities and situations. ... This sel...

• Word Count: 727
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: Graduate

According to the text meditation has been proven to relax muscles, and lower one's blood pressure and heart rate (Bernstein and Nash 131). ... However seeing and reading about it in the text book gave it a little credibility. ... When I came across it in the text book it even inspired me to explore the subject. ...

• Word Count: 485
• Approx Pages: 2
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The teenagers in this text are represented to be rebellious and constructed as a problem. ... This text also emphasises on the lesser fact that teenagers need to be socially accepted. ... This text has crafted Anna Wood's character to be "unique" and to sound like the goodness of everyone else's child. ...

• Word Count: 548
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

It was written on clay tablets, so it has changed very little from its original text. ... There are many characteristics described in the text, one of which is described in this quote: "They saw the great head of Humbaba / Like a water buffalo's bellowing down the path" (9-10). ... A few other personality traits mentioned in the text include Humbaba's interest with trees, seen when Humbaba becomes angry at Gilgamesh for cutting the trees down, and his ability to express emotions. ...

• Word Count: 464
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

The structure of the text allows the audience to discover contradictions between what he perceives as reality and what he perceives as a dream. ... The "Night Face Up" encapsulates many of these principles throughout the text. ... Distinct boundaries become blurred as he is hurrying in both texts and the injuries inflicted upon him in the Aztec world are reflected through the motor cycle crash. ... This metaphor highlights the physical link between the two dreams and foreshadows the sudden physical discovery at the end of the text. ... The realization that he is swiftly heading towar...

• Word Count: 1104
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

We traded a few more texts and agreed that we would catch up soon. ... We were in the middle of refinishing a hardwood floor when I received a text. ... To my surprise she texted me early the next day and wanted to get together again. ...

• Word Count: 823
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

Adam Morton explains evil behavior in his text ''Evil and otherness'' as intentional abuse of power. ... Reisher contend in their text '' Questioning the banality of evil'' that discrimination allow people to commit crime easily. ... Newman gives importance to effects of groups in his text '' Epilogue''. ...

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In this essay I plan to respond to the question, in what way does Winston's fatalistic streak contribute to his ultimate downfall, and explain why I think his fatalism ultimately gets him arrested and tortured near the end of the text. ... This to me showed Winston's lack of value for his own safety, the text made it seem like Winston thought at any point he was going to get caught in these scenes. ...

• Word Count: 617
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

My text is from the lyrics of a song written by a band called "unwritten law" which falls into the punk rock genre. ... The text is about the changes the lead singer experienced when he had his child. ...

• Word Count: 654
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Some are doing homework for other classes, and some are on their phones texting, the teacher is either unaware or does not care. ... This is more of a class that the teacher just stands in one spot, talking about the bold words in the text. ...

• Word Count: 579
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

Bettelheim, in the end, says this creates problems for these children, when reading a story like Cinderella with its messages throughout the text. ... The text that Bettelheim tries to support with it is valuable to psychologists and avid fans of his, but to the normal reader it does not. ... The text contributed to my knowledge of the subject around 50% or so. ... The text did not contribute to my knowledge of the subject, because it seemed simple to follow and his ideas spewed out were way out of left field, in my opinion. ...

• Word Count: 1497
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

Here we "simply use the art factual world of texts, diaries, notebooks, and the like as a means of systematically storing large and often complex bodies of data". ... Data Manipulation The physical properties of a written text allows for methods of organization and emendation which are simply not available to the un-augmented mind. Pieces of text can be juxtaposed, then rearranged. ... Ideas which have been crystallized into texts at different times, under the influence of different intellectual concerns can be brought side by side in a way that would not otherwise be possible. ...

• Word Count: 1651
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Also, the key concepts of primal fears and repression are operated throughout the text which is the part of the psychoanalytic literary lens. ... In the latter part of the text, Finny refuses to let Gene enlist in war, in Gene's view, "[Finny] drew me increasingly away into a world inhabited by just himself and me, where this no war at all, Phineas and me alone." ... Thus, the features of human psyche and key concepts of primal fear and repression are presented by John Knowles in his text....

• Word Count: 1288
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Our image of teaching English as a second language is that of a tapestry. The tapestry is woven from many strands, such as the characteristics of the teachers, the learners, the textbooks, the settings and the relevant languages (i.e. English and the native languages of the learners and the teachers...

• Word Count: 1142
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• Grade Level: High School

Our text states, "Although no need is ever fully gratified, a substantially satisfied need no longer motivates." ... To quote the text, "Whether one has the desire to produce at any given time depends on one's particular goals and one's perception of the relative worth of performance as a path to the attainment of those goals." ... Our text says, "The outcomes are not likely to have any effect on the individual employee's performance unless the employee knows, clearly and unambiguously, what she must do in order to achieve them." ...

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While parental influence is necessary when it comes to such issues as "education, discipline, responsibility, orderliness, charitableness, and ways of interacting with authority figures"(As stated in the text by Howard Dardner), children spend a great amount of time with peers due to school and playtime. ... One example given in the text was in reference to food. ...

• Word Count: 709
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

When sociologist speak about the "social construction of reality", they mean/ are describing the process by which people creatively shape reality through social interaction. Quite a bit of reality remains unclear in everybody's mind, esp. in unfamiliar situations. So we present ourselves in term tha...

• Word Count: 358
• Approx Pages: 1
• Grade Level: High School

Discussion of culture norms and how if affects a person's behavior an important topic. A culture as the enduring behaviors, ideas, attitudes, and traditions shared by a large group of people and transmitted from one generation to the next. Before this chapter, I didn't realize the variations acros...

• Word Count: 288
• Approx Pages: 1
• Grade Level: High School

"The Necklace" After reading the short story "The Necklace" it is apparent to me that the author is trying to convey a message to the reader regarding the importance of self identity. Madame Loisel, the main character in the story, was concerned with what other people thought of her. She was...

• Word Count: 369
• Approx Pages: 1
• Grade Level: High School