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    A Comparison of Dover Beach by Matthew Arnold and Prayer Before Brith by Louis MacNeice 'Dover Beach' by Matthew Arnold, written in 1867, and 'Prayer Before Birth' written in 1951 by Louis MacNeice share many similarities despite being written nearly on hundred years apart from each other. This essay will explore the issues and ideas that both poems share, in addition to drawing attention to some of the key differences. 'Dover Beach' is about the thoughts of a man on his

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    people to understand why she feels alienated but, at the same time feels proud of who she is. Dharker conveys her message through the many examples of alienation given throughout her poem. In the poem Dharker writes, “When I speak on the phone and the vowel sounds are off…. they’ll catch on at once and pin it down” she explains how the way she speaks is way different than the way people in that country speak. She feels that it is easy for others to notice and that they will right away assume that she

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    Phonics Lesson Reflection 15 points As a future teacher, you will be self-reflecting on your teaching and the activity that you had the class complete as part of the lessons. By reflecting on what you presented in class, you will learn how to and what to modify in future lessons which will help you become a stronger teacher (Ed-TPA). Please answer the following prompts (honestly) with a minimum of 4 sentences for each section. 1. How do you think the lesson went? I personally think that

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    vocal chords are allophones, which has physical entities to it. While, phonemes are what is received by the listener that has mental entities and are representative. The classes of phonemes that are bound to these rules are: voiced consonants, rounded vowels, nasals, sibilants and etc. The existence of variations in every language makes the phonological rules important to maintain recognizable words. Therefore, the rules of phonology are used to show the patterns of distribution of sounds in a particular

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    Ayden was given the Basic Reading Inventory Performance assessment during session two. The assessment tests sight word recognition, oral reading, and comprehension. Ayden was only able to get through the first two, sight words and oral reading, before becoming extremely frustrated. He recognized 3 out of the 20 pre-primer sight words and was able to get through about half of the pre-primer passage before he became too frustrated to continue. Pre-primer is late Kindergarten, early first grade reading

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    Do” portion of the lesson before expecting the students to perform successfully at an independent level. I would repeat the same information for the introduction and prior knowledge, though, because it was essential for the students to recognize vowel vs consonant suffixes and examples/non-examples of 1-1-1 words. I was surprised with how well Micheal actually knew most of the concepts even though the observation of his body language did not portray this. On a side note, he has had a really rough

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    Somalis primary language, Somali, is complex and very different from the English language. Somalis might also speak Arabic, as it is the second most common language spoken in Somalia. Somali consists of 22 consonant phonemes, and 20 pure vowel sounds (Saeed, 1999). Each vowel has short, back, long and front variations, as well as three tone variations: high, low and falling. This makes this language, arguably, a tonal or pitch accent language. Unlike English, Somali words and tenses varies on the pitch

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    There is a common mistake that individuals make when discussing if someone has learned a language or not. Most people believe that learning a language is about speaking, but it is also about understanding and comprehending language itself as well. For humans, majority talk about when their child first starts to speak as the moment they accredit them with learning the language. In actuality, the learning starts well before that. The research suggests that language is a complex system that starts with

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    Refer to the paradox between the pleasure domes likeness to Eden, and the sin of pleasure. Is Kubla Khan challenging God by recreating heaven, or is this simply to highlight the God like qualities of Kubla Khan? The first stanza sets the tone, theme and location of the poem. Most of this is achieved in the first five lines. The rhyme pattern makes the first five lines almost independent of the rest of the stanza and the indentation of the fifth line marks the change in pace that can be

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    2.2 Stopping: 2.2.1 The sound /r/ changes to alveolar stop /t/ in word final position as in: 8 (a) L: fɪ abrat kef halɪk Abrat? there-is Abrar how state-you Abrar? “How are you Abrar?” (b) L: ma-fi tjut al-zanna nothing-there is birds the-heaven “There is no Toyoor Aljanna” First, “Toyoor Aljanna” is a name of child TV

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