Mary Read

Mary Read was an english female pirate. She and Anne Bonny are two of the most famed female pirates of all time. Mary Read was born in England in the late 17th century. Her birth was around 1691. Mary’s father died before she was born, and her older brother died soon after that. Mary’s mother began to disguise Mary as a boy after the death of her older brother. This was done to continue to receive financial support from his paternal grandmother. The grandmother was apparently fooled, and Read

When watching “Pirates, Galleons, and Treasure: Globe Trekker”, one certainly does learn something about pirates and their history. However, that does not mean the documentary is particularly useful. In fact, the documentary while mostly accurate still has some small discrepancies and does not provide enough detail for it to be helpful to those actually studying pirates. The documentary is a fun resource for those who want basic facts, but leaves some facts to assumptions and seems to gloss over

Mary Read was a historically famous female pirate, because she lived in a really rough time period where women could not do a lot of things. Mary Read had to pretend to be a boy almost all her life, because her 1/2 brother Mark died a few days after Mary was born, and to keep the death a secret from her grandmother who supported Mary and her mother because she thought Mark was still alive, that is why she had to pretend to be a boy. Like a usual boy Mary had to go out and get a job to help support

Throughout the last 2 weeks it was interesting to observe where my time has gone to. Often, we hear others and ourselves say phrases like, “Where has the time gone?” Or, “Where has my day gone to?” With this exercise, I can now comprehend how I spend the majority of my time and figure out how to solve my not having enough time to do it all problem. At the end of the day, one does not have time to do everything, so we have to choose the important items on the list of to-dos. But what do you eliminate

1. Define phonemic awareness. What skills are important in the instruction of phonemic awareness? a. Phonemic awareness is the ability to hear, isolate, identify, and manipulate the discrete sounds of language, this only involves the sounds of speech and not the letters or words. b. The skills important when instructing phonemic awareness are concepts of print, recognizing/producing rhyme, syllable tasks, blending syllables, phonemic tasks and onset and rime (word families). When instructing phonemic

words, one of the best tips on improving reading is to think about how you read in your own language. Start by thinking about how you read different documents. How do you read the newspaper? How do you read novels? How do you read train schedules? and so on. Taking time to think about this will help give you clues on how to read in English - even if you don 't understand every single word. Ask yourself this question: Do I read every word in your own language when I am reading a schedule,

6. Definition of extensive reading Extensive reading is a language teaching procedure where learners are supposed to read large quantities of material or long texts for global understanding, the principle goal being obtained pleasure from the text (Bamford, 2004). The term of "Extensive Reading" was originally coined by Palmer (1917) and since different terms have been used to refer to extensive reading; such as: "Supplementary Reading", "Book Flood", "Uninterrupted Sustained Silent Reading", "Substained

Life of Pi is a book by Yann Martel with a religious view that was portrayed in the life of Piscine Molitor Patel later known as Pi mainly at sea after the demise of his family members. The book depicts hope in the most difficult situations as Pi was forced to live in a lifeboat with animals for more than two hundred days and true to his faith; he came to shore in Mexico with the only surviving Bengal tiger (Richard Parker). The book brings to light the mere fact that where there is hope, there is

Throughout the book, he talks negatively about Richard Parker. However, in the end, he realized that Richard Parker was just doing the same thing as he was. Trying to survive. Without Richard Parker, Pi would not be here telling us the story. “Jesus, Mary, Muhammad, and Vishnu, how good to see you, Richard Parker! Don’t give up, please” (107). Richard Parker is a friend of Pi. In the end, he states “Truly I do. I love you, Richard Parker. If I didn’t have you now, I don’t know what I would do. I don’t

The movie-based film the life of pi was based on the award winning novel the life of pi. In the film there were some part that were (things that are the same as other things) & differences to the novel like how The film much perfectly translates the book in to film. I think the main difference between both is that by reading the novel to imagine yourself in the tales of Pi in his boat, the tiger, the flying fish, the island, so the reader himself has to angrily face/stand up to his own images with