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    INRODUCTION: Audiovisual education has developed rapidly since the 1920’s by drawing on new technologies of communication. John Amos Comenius (1592–1670), a Bohemian educator, was one of the first to propose a systematic method of audiovisual education. (Encyclopedia Britannica) John Amos Comenius prepared a book known as orbit sensulium pictus (the world of sense objects)which contained about 150 pictures on aspects of everyday life. The book is considered to be the first illustrated textbook for

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    Harold Amos ( September 7th, 1918 - February 26th, 2003) Harold was born in Pennsauken, New Jersey to Howard R. Amos and Lola Johnson. Harold’s father was a Philadelphia post man and his mother was employed by a renowned Philadelphia Quaker family. Harold read a book about Louis Pasteur and that's how he got interested in microbiology. He was especially interested in how Louis used goats as experiments and Harold didn’t like goats so this made him a lot more interested than before. Harold was a

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    The possibilities are tremendous because image is a powerful tool to represent things. As Amos Vogel describes it in his book Film as a Subversive Art, “In ma’s evolution, images antedate words and thoughts, thus reaching deeper, older, more basic layers of the self.”1 Before thinking we accept on an emotional level what we seeing as if it is

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    Feyza Nur Çiçek SI: 2021624 I choose these three names for my homework: Maria Montessori, John Amos Comenius and Friedrich Fröebel. Maria Montessori She was Italy’s first female doctor, pedagogue and professor of anthropology. She developed a pedagogy which adaptable at maximum level to each child’s individuality. This pedagogy is appropriate for children’s skills and interests, individual learning pace and character traits. Montessori established the first Montessori children’s home: Casa

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    The sculpture on South Campus at Moravian College commonly known as Moravian Roots One and Two, who was created by Steve Tobin in 2010 has a significant meaning behind the moderately new sculpture. There are two of the same types of sculptures in the same place, just distance away from one another. This sculpture seems to be abstract, since we are taking the form of what it looks like to create a meaning, which can be something different in other people’s eyes. The sculpture is a dark black shade

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    Amos Bad Heart Bull was a member of the Oglala Nation, historian and artist of the sets of drawings that start with Oglala life before 1856, The drawings, catalog the life of the Oglala through 1903. By preserving the most minute details of daily life, then the battles with the Crow from 1856-1875. Additional significant set The Battle of the Little Bighorn, as it was one of the most studied actions in U.S. military history, and the enormous works on the subject are dedicated mostly to answering

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    Henry David Thoreau was testing transcendental values when he took up residence at Walden Pond in 1845. During his time of simple living at the pond, he studied nature and applied those observations to humans and everyday life. He was always learning from the woods, pond, meadows and animals in the natural world around him. Nature was his classroom and everything was an opportunity to learn. In Thoreau’s book, Walden , written at the pond, he theorized that education could come through an intimacy

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    Audiovisual education has developed rapidly since the 1920’s by drawing on new technologies of communication. John Amos Comenius (1592–1670), a Bohemian educator, was one of the first to propose a systematic method of audiovisual education. (Audiovisual education, n.d.). Comenius, J. A. prepared a book known as orbit sensulium pictus (the world of sense objects) which contained about 150 pictures on aspects of everyday life. The book is considered to be the first illustrated textbook for children

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    Transcending Authors Collide Transcendentalism was an age of revolution. Not only did this age bring about changes in literature, but it brought about reform in ideals, religion, and people. Movements were all the rage---with abolitionism, feminism, sectarianism, communitarianism, and temperance beginning to flourish. With shifting ideals, literature evolved. Perhaps one of the best known authors of the transcendentalism period would be Ralph Waldo Emerson. Emerson acted as a mentor to many individuals

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    On Friday, September 1, 2017 at 8:00 p.m. the church Indy Tabernaculo was celebrating it's 13th anniversary under the theme “De Tal Manera Dios Te Amo” that had live music. The musicians performed three pieces from various christian artists. The program included Vivo Estás, Cantaremos de tu gran amor, and Hermoso Nombre/ What a Beautiful Name. Jose Luis Rivas was the pianist and was accompanied by singers, guitarists, a trumpet player, a drummer, and praise dancers. Although this is the church I

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