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    End of The Line Lesson Plan Day 1 Name: Amy Lomas Date: June 18-22‚ 2012 Standards: * AZ L.4.5 - Demonstrate understanding of figurative language‚ word relationships‚ and nuances in word meanings. * c. Demonstrate understanding of words by relating them to their opposites (antonyms) and to words with similar but not identical meanings (synonyms). * AZ L.4.4 - Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based of grade 4 reading and content‚

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    Culture is an important part of each society and it clearly has an impact on people’s behavior. This impact is a key factor for a science like advertising which targets to influence behaviors. McCarty (1994) as cited in Englis‚ and Dahl (2004) claimed that culture and values have their importance when talking about people’s reaction to advertising. Callow and Shiffman (2002) found a difference between people from high context and low context communication system in the ability to understand implicit

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    Winston Churchill said that democracy was not perfect but that it was the best political system available. Was he right? Democracy first appeared in Ancient Greek civilisations‚ before being wiped out entirely and not returning to western civilisations only until approximately a hundred years ago. One definition given for democracy is a political system that allows the constituents and citizens of a country the right to fairly vote and contribute to the decision of which individuals are ruling

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    Wolfgang Kohler

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    classical music (Dahl‚ 2005). He even learned how to play the piano. As a collegiate he attended universities such as Tubingen from 1905 to 1906‚ Bonn from 1906 to 1907‚ and Berlin from 1907 to 1909. While earning his Ph.D in Berlin‚ Kohler studied physics under Max Planck and psychology under Karl Stumpf. His dissertation was written on psycho-acoustics and physics obviously played a large role in Kohlers life and work as he transferred many of its ideas to psychological aspects (Dahl‚ 2005). As

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    person. For instance‚ when Billy rang the doorbell‚ “she [had] stepped aside‚ holding the door wide open [and] said pleasantly “please come in” (Dahl 120). This obviously shows that she is well mannered and is glad that Billy is here by the tone that the author had set

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    This is about two stories that are called “Popular Mechanics” by Raymond Carver and “Lamb to the Slaughter” by Roald Dahi. These stories aren’t just ordinary stories that we read everyday no these two stories have a big twisted into it. Instead of having a happily ever after you get a shocking and horrifying ending. What connects these two stories is that their both short stories and the author in both stories want the readers to guess what happens in the story. For “Popular Mechanics” is by Raymond

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    and over-the-counter drugs for cats and dogs. That’s expected to grow to $10.2 billion annually by 2018” (Dahl‚ Melissa). This website talks about ways we can think more before spending unnecessary money on our companion. It is considered an important work in my field/discipline because it contains information on a issue veterinarians face on a daily‚ this is an article written by Melissa Dahl. This website talks about how many American’s spend billions of dollars on treatments for their animal.

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    Betrayal is not a necessary part of life as evidenced in Roald Dahl’s “Lamb to the Slaughter” And Shirley Jackson’s “The lottery”. Lamb to the Slaughter was a story where. Mary Maloney was going to have a son‚ but the husband had to leave because having a family wasn’t going to be good for his job as a detective. Leaving her is an act of betrayal “I know it’s a bad time to be telling you this‚ but there was simply wasn’t any other way. Of course‚ I’ll give you money and see you’re looked after” (Dalh

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    The Maker’s Eye: Revising Your Own Manuscripts Donald M. Murray Born in Boston‚ Massachusetts‚ in 1924‚ Donald M. Murray taught writing for many years at the University of New Hampshire‚ his alma mater. He has served as an editor at Time magazine‚ and he won the Pulitzer Prize in 1954 for editorials that appeared in the Boston Globe. Murray’s published works include novels‚ short stories‚ poetry‚ and sourcebooks for teachers of writing‚ like A Writer Teaches Writing (1968)‚ The Craft of Revision

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    Module 13 Vocabulary

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    “First past the post”- A British analogy which Robert Dahl uses to refer to the part of the electoral system in which a candidate competing against another candidate only needs at least one more vote than his or her opponent in order to win. 9. Founding Fathers- The delegates who helped format and create the Constitution but were not all at the Convention of 1787. 10. Framers- Robert Dahl uses this instead of the Founding Fathers to refer to the delegates that discussed

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