Opposites

Engagement Activities for Opposites Day I love quirky holidays and celebrations! On January 25th, set your sights on a day filled with Opposite Day activities. Research done by Robert Marzano, Debra Pickering, and Jane Pollock (2001) has created discussions on the benefits of comparing and contrasting. This concept provides the basis for effective instruction. I have included fun activities to boost students reading and writing skills in the classroom for Opposites Day. Read a Walk with Grandpa

mentality. Of course, the way we raise boys isn’t going to lead to a healthy society. The characteristics we instill in male adolescents do nothing to contribute to a positive society, and without order and regulations, these characteristics create the opposite of a positive society. They create a breeding ground for anarchy, chaos, and brutality, even to the point of sadism. Golding is trying to use this story to tell society that we can’t afford to promote such traits, that cruelty will only cause problems

The environments of these two stories are opposites. “The Interlopers” is set in a rugged forest in the Carpathian mountains. The atmosphere is cold, dark, and desolate on a “wind-scourged winter night”(Saki). On the other hand “The Story of an Hour” takes place in a large city. The atmosphere is bright and sunny with the trees, “all aquiver with the new spring life”(Chopin). The physical state of the characters in the two stories are also opposites. For most of the time, the characters in

essence, but it severs itself into two properties; two actions which are a kind of binary opposition where two related terms or concepts, which form a pair, are in opposition of their meaning toward one another. Therefore, we see in Nature, two opposites strictly defined as a contrasting pair, one against the other, such as: joy and sorrow, light and darkness, day and night, male and female, mortal and immortal, life and death, spirit and flesh. Both, as contasting elements, together producing all

Zoe and Wil’s near feral upbrings differ because of many reasons. First of all Zoe was in a cramped apartment, trying to find space in the dark while her mom locked herself in her room. She was stuck with a mom who was there but really wasn’t. Her mom didn’t even pay attention to her. Every once in a blue moon she would walk by and mumble “hey baby” . Zoe also had a lot more people in her life, unlike Wil who only had his dad. Unlike Zoe Wil grew up outside in the open forest. But even though his

Reevaluating Opposites Whether we believe it or not, many things are connected in some way. Even if some things take a while to notice, we still have that eureka moment whenever we gather information that correlates with something we learned in the past. While reading a work of writing, the goal is to reach the end and fully understand what was just read. It is not likely for one to focus on comparing that piece to anything from a prior situation. It can be found that upon trying, more

I am going to compare and contrast two different types of relationships in my life that are polar opposites of each other in term of types, principles, and techniques they used for communication. The first relationship I am going to talk about is the relationship my mom and stepdad had while they were married before they got divorced eleven years later. Out of the fifteen principles of effective communication listed in Chapter 4 of our textbook, my parents didn’t apply any of these to their relationship

Some parents have a nearly identical way of thinking in comparison to their children. Others are polar opposites and are not in the same book, much less on the same page. My parents, especially my mom, are almost exactly in sync with me. If I were to have a perfect spouse, one of the most important things would be that he can hold an intelligent, complex, and abstract conversation. This is crucial because I like to connect with people by having conversations. It would also be critical that he could

while not being opposite to something, yet do not admit the opposite” (Phaedo 105 A). What I take Socrates to say here is that something that is not an opposite of something will not admit to the opposite because it stands on itself. For example fire produces heat and snow produces cold. Fire will never admit to being the opposite of cold nor becoming cold because it stands on itself. One might object to this argument and say it contradicts his argument in which states that opposites arise from one

Opposite and Similarity Attract in Sula Most of people find themselves attracted to someone very unlike them, a phenomenon called “opposites attract”. People are usually drawn to those whose personality, characteristics or habits are opposite to them because they are fascinated by the differences and are curious of exploring what they have never experienced before. Throughout history, many writers attempt to explore and investigate the cause of this absorbing human trait by analyzing their characters’