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    the poem named “A Red Red Rose.” In this poem Burns writes about his love for a girl and how strong and deep it is for her, as he says “ I will love thee still my dear, till a’ the seas gang dry.” Robert Burns was born on January 25th, 1759 in Alloway Scotland. Parents William Burns and Agnes Broun, his parents were farmers, though they lived in that life of farming they wanted their son Robert Burns to have and receive a good education and when he started getting the education they wanted him

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    Packiam Alloway: A Study

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    Children start watching television at a very young age, often before they are a year old. Packiam Alloway, Williams, Jones and Cochrane (2013) performed a study on children aged three to four years old at several British Child Care Centers to determine if what they watch on television along with reading makes a difference in the amount of vocabulary words they learn. Packiam Alloway et al. (2013) also included in their study “other key variables linked to vocabulary acquisition: short-term memory

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    Alloway Pop Art Movement

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    the 1950’s and specifically grew in large cities such as New York and London. The pop art movement was pioneered by a British curator called Lawrence Alloway in the year 1955. This new type of movement was characterized by portraying images of consuming popular and common goods. This type of art had its biggest fame until the late 1960’s. Among Alloway, the main pop artists that represented this modernist movement were names such as Roy Lichtenstein, Richard Hamilton, George Segal, Jasper Jones and

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    layman to the wealthy elite, and that education is not something that necessitates a respect or an interest in art. Instead, Pop Art, coined by British art critic Lawrence Alloway, which implies that the most common man can come to understand and appreciate art if the content and mode of creation was more familiar to him. Alloway indicated that the movement was special because of its reliance on the “power of the image”. While the educated classes are familiar with ancient foreign mythologies, Christian

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    Tracy Packiam Alloway, a psychology professor at the University of North Florida, presents an argument as to why she believes technology is not making us lazy, but is actually making us more efficient. Alloway speaks of a study she did on several hundred people where she analyzed how technology has altered the way those people “remember and process” information (Alloway 1). After a series of questions, Alloway identified which people were active users of technology

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    For example, parents considers their children are smart due to watching television, however, they don’t understand that too much of television has its’ impediment on the child’s cognitive development. According to Christakis et al (2004 as cited in Alloway et al., (2013) in a research conducted it was revealed that children ranging from age one to three years old who watched a great

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    understand its meaning. This phonological ability is commonly used in testing intelligence quotient (IQ) (Williams, McIntosh, Dixon, Newton, & Youman, 2010). IQ has been shown to only have a partial effect in predicting educational success (Alloway & Alloway, 2010). Hence, although this phonetic ability is useful, it does not necessarily measure smartness. In conclusion, current Literature suggests that Bilinguals may be smarter than Monolinguals. Through specialised education research has shown

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    I will conclude that the BBC’s representation of the study is imprecise and biased as they excluded limitations and misrepresented the method and findings, thus impacting the readers ability to acquire precise and impartial information. Alloway, McCallum, Alloway and Hoicka (2015) recruited participants between the ages of six and seven to assess whether verbal working memory (WM) has a significant influence on verbal deceptive abilities in children. They used an independent groups design to compare

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    While expressing verbal lies, smart children have the ability to process information correctly while taking in consideration their listener's point of view. That, in turn, is a sign that the kid has a high cognitive sense. The Study Dr. Tracy Alloway and her colleagues ran a study in which 137

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    Marshall McLuhan’s and Lawrence Alloway’s writing looks at how technology, such as radio, tv, etc., affects the world and how mass media affects culture through its opinions, art, and political influence. Their thoughts, though somewhat difficult, are similar to the current reality and therefore easier to relate to. In their collective writings they discusses five key points: technologies as extensions of ourselves, the electrical age bringing a global embrace; sense ratio and the impact from technology;

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