Treatment in the society Based on English Language Skills Language is an integral part of the society in which we live in. It serves to allow expression of oneself and share information freely in day-to-day life. However, its eloquence in use and expertise draws a line on how the society perceives you. In Amy Tan’s Mother Tongue, language is depicted as an agent for differential treatment upon which social relations are defined. It is also used to further cultural marginalization and prejudice, a challenge that Tan takes up responsibly to recreate their identities in the alien country with peculiar characteristics. Further, Tan uses English language difference to describe how social perceptions are formed about people speaking broken English. Tan’s mother is particularly looked down upon because of her ‘Limited’ English (Tan, p. 2). At the Hospital, Tan’s mother cannot access her scan results as shown in ‘…they did not seem to be concerned…’ (Tan, p. 3). Tan had to intervene and speak for her and this had an effect concerning the scan results as ‘…we had assurance that her scan…
“WHO OWN LEARNING” BY ALAN NOVEMBER Introduction This book offers a guideline for students to follow in the current digital age to ensure effective learning is achieved. The book is presented from teacher’s point of view and discusses how technology can be implemented effectively to assist students to gain most out of their learning process. The book offers real-life solutions which are considered to be effective, sufficient, and relevant, tested plus proven which are accounted by the author who is a retired teacher who was teaching in Boston during his active employment period. In the first video, the author discusses his teaching experiences serving various posts such as technology professional. The major issue in the book is interested in technology application and culture of learning. It discusses examples where teachers give students various models of learning in cases where students are motivated. There is emerging tools which are used to enable students to own their learning. Search engines provide students with tools to extract information from Google. Most students obtain their answers from the search engines which puzzles the education…
Literacy Definition for UAE Context The definition of literacy has taken different approaches with others taking the social and cultural approach as others take the educational one. According to Ahmed (181), “literacy is the ability to identify, understand, interpret, create, communicate and compute using printed and written materials associated with varying contexts.” It encompasses a range of learning to enable one to attain his or her objectives, enhance personal capability and knowledge, as well as fully participate in society. Identification entails recognition of particular concepts as the individual attempts to acknowledge several issues. Understanding and interpretation deals with conceptualization of an idea and translating it in one’s language. Communication involves interactions with others as one attempts to voice his or her understanding of the concept while computation deals with the calculative moves a person is able to make. Literacy is essential in modern society as it improves society’s know-how about the existence of various concepts and ideologies. Literacy is associated with knowledge expansion, and knowledge expansion is good both technological and economic advancement. UAE today applies such development in the…
machine learning algorithms Introduction In this report, we will try to create two classification machine learning algorithms. The two classifications models that we will be going to use will try to classify the heart disease data. The two classification models will try to model the heart data in a way that the features of the patients can be classified as having the disease, or there is no disease. The two classification models will be compared after the modeling using the accuracy level. Data The data contains 303 observations and 13 variables. Here are the variables in the data, age: The person’s age in years sex: The person’s sex (1 = male, 0 = female) cp: The chest pain experienced (Value 1: typical angina, Value 2: atypical angina, Value 3: non-anginal pain, Value 4: asymptomatic) trestbps: The person’s resting blood pressure (mm Hg on admission to the hospital) chol: The person’s cholesterol measurement in mg/dl fbs: The person’s fasting blood sugar (> 120 mg/dl, 1 = true; 0 = false) restecg: Resting electrocardiographic measurement (0 = normal, 1 = having…
HOW TO AVOID PLAGIARISM Plagiarism is a serious offence that can result in to disregard for a paper yet creating all the information required for a paper is not easy. Nixon Z. (2018). It is easy to find a rewriter of your work but not easy to add that information to your work and therefore it is important to edit your research paper carefully before turning it in to the class. WriteCheck (2019). Understanding the fate of plagiarism is critical in formulating steps to stay safe from its trouble ant the steps include; Asking friend and the instructor helps a lot understand the guidelines and as well prepare the writer ideally with content of the write-up, Starting the work early gives enough time for research on the paper and to think expansively on the content. Writing in a rush can easily result to mistakes, avoiding the use of all information found on sources and rather including some of your own insight to add value. This requires extensive research till a point where the information matches, information from internet sources should…
Evaluating an EFL Textbook: To What Extent Does The 2013 Curriculum-Based Abstract: According to Permendikbud number 71 year 2013 article 1, the government provides guide books for learning process, so pilot project schools for the 2013 curriculum must use the textbooks developed by the government. The 2013 curriculum-based English textbook for grade X is entitled “Bahasa Inggris” (BI hereafter). Since the use textbook is so significant and no textbook is completely accurate, this present study aims to verify: (1) how the 2013-based curriculum textbook “Bahasa Inggris” (BI hereafter) for grade X of senior high school accomplishes pedagogical aspects; (2) the students‟ responses toward BI textbook for grade X. It is classified as a qualitative study. BI textbook for grade X is the object of the study while SMA 1 Ponorogo and SMA Muhammadiyah 1 Ponorogo are the setting of the study. Document analysis, personal interview, and focus group discussions are the data collection techniques and the instruments are a constructed criteria rubric to analyze the textbook and two lists of interview. After analysis of data, it is found that BI…
The Invisible Sponsor Case Study The successful completion of a project ideally reflects the sponsors’ efforts. Project sponsors are responsible for the fate of projects. They are responsible for setting the objectives of the project as well as making all decisions that re pertinent to the project (Gemünden, 2014). In other words, the sponsor is responsible for the recruitment of personnel, setting rules, establishing contacts with the clients as well as monitoring the implementation process. In the case study, AI Zink was reluctant in taking up the responsibilities of a project sponsor since he was often reluctant in making decisions. More so, he was worried that the project’s failure could significantly affect his career. In some circumstances, executives are forced to act as the project sponsors. However, this depends on whether the executive wishes to be the sponsor of the project to the extent that they are willing to take the responsibilities of the sponsor (Kerzner, 2017). In essence, executives are usually given a choice to make independent decisions. In the scenario, the president of Moreland Company assigned AI Zink…
Omega House Case Study Executive Summary Omega House is a hospice established to offer a chance to enjoy the last days for the terminally ill. The case study presents the financial and structural integrity of the organization after the 1990 takeover by Social Action Consortium (SAC) from its unstable leadership, which had decided to abandon it. The company’s managerial structure had been weakened by abandonment, although it continued providing several social services. The social action consortium brought together seventeen stakeholders from various groups to oversee the delivery of services. The Omega House specialized in services such as education-oriented projects, health services for people with HIV, and even “political advocacy for issues that affected the poor and disenfranchised,” which made it a choice for most people living their last days and suffering from critical illnesses. The many stakeholders at Omega House ensure that the organization runs smoothly and that contributions are distributed through salaries. The payment of the salaries depends on the success in the activities that a manager is tasked to oversee. Any flaws in the fluidity of the company…
Executive Brief:Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Abstract The health care industry has revolutionized significantly over the past decade or so. New, innovative advancements and technological efforts have made the delivery of care more accessible and seamless. Implementing change, reforming current practice, and moving toward more comprehensive, interdisciplinary care is typically achieved through the proper coordination of care in which technology has had the opportunity to offer (Fagerström, 2012). Rendering better care that is meaningful and life changing requires active participation of not just those involved in the healthcare system but of the person receiving the care. Thus, technology closes many gaps between healthcare providers and/or practitioners and patients with the ultimate goal of making essential lifestyle and behavioral changes aimed at promoting better health. Executive Brief Developing an executive brief is ideal for presenting a concise synopsis for others to use as a guide to better understand a particular topic of interest. For purposes of this assignment, the target population to educate are patients suffering from chronic kidney disease (CKD) and currently on dialysis treatment. Through this target…
DIAMOND NECKLACE For this assignment, you are to select one of your previously submitted assignments (the character analysis or the setting essay) and add in text from at least two outside sources of literary criticism from the Gale Literary Sources database at the Alabama Virtual Library. Your sources MUST come from this reputable database. You should not incorporate information you found at unreliable sources (such as enotes, shmoop, or coursehero). You will need to add in parenthetical citations for these two sources in the text of the essay and add entries for the sources to your Works Cited page. This assignment will give you the experience of finding appropriate sources of literary criticism and incorporating them into a paper without having to write a completely new essay. Submit your expanded documented literary analysis essay here. Make sure your paper meets the following requirements: Must be at least two full pages of text (excluding the Works Cited page) Must reference two outside sources of literary criticism Must not include any plagiarism [unique_solution]Must conform to MLA specifications to include double-spaced text, one-inch…