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    result in satisfaction. On the contrary, if it’s failed to meet, negative disconfirmation (performance < expectation) will results to dissatisfaction (Oliver 1981). In line with theory, this study utilized 'Disconfirmation Theory'. Ekinci et al (2004) highlights the latest definition of Oliver's disconfirmation theory, which

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    Cases of Cognitive Apprenticeship in First-Year STEM Courses The overall theme for the cases presented in this paper is the implementation of CAIM in first-year STEM courses at the post-secondary level. Specifically, each case corresponds to attributes of course work for the SCTCS students. Recently, there has been an increased emphasis on preparing STEM students to write effectively (SCTCS, 2017). Thus, the study from Kolikant, Gatchell, and Hirsch (2006) is selected to evaluate the use of CAIM

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    students will be directed on determining the central idea, identify different themes, and understanding the author's viewpoint. These tasks will be accomplished through the active reading and group discussion components in class. I turn to John Dewey’s theory on learning. Dewey says “Learning is active. It involves reaching out of the mind. It involves organic assimilation starting from within. Literally, we must take our stand with the child and our departure from him. It is he and not the subject-matter

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    Personal Reflection This course enhances my understanding about bereavement’s theory and counselling skills working with bereaved people. Before I took this course, I thought bereavement only about death of a person. In fact, bereavement can also imply losses such as employment losses and leaving home. Also, changes can be a bereavement too as it is always come with gain and loss. Since one of the course aim is develop skills in counselling with bereaved people, I was nervous before attending to

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    Do you have sore feet and feel like there is nothing that can stop or prevent your foot pain? MagnaSoles are new shoe inserts for people just like you who have sore feet! Did you fall for these tactics? Companies use these marketing tactics everyday to convince people just like you to buy their product. In The Onion’s press release, the author demonstrates the use of the rhetorical triangle, bold diction and syntax, and vivid imagery to explain how Americans fall for marketing tactics companies

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    New Media by Herbig, Herrmann, and Tyma to discuss the intricate nature of identity throughout this proposal to identify some of the areas of focus such as public music identity and social mediated music identity. I will also use things like Mcgee’s theory of fragmentation and Megan Foley’s sound bites to explain how subjects subsume their social mediated music identities. For this project I would like to do a short three to four minute documentary to analyze how social media helps shape

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    practical case they have to deal with may give them more insight into a problem and its solutions than any amount of theoretical understanding. In this sense, it is noteworthy that much of linguistics today is corpus-based. Which means that the theories actually come from studying "real world" texts and are therefore founded in practical experience. A language teacher can build on linguistics research trough their own experience to improve their teaching ability. Within this context, a teacher

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    The amount of knowledge an individual obtains can be considered undefined. However, without implementing this knowledge acquired the cognition level will subside. The two areas of knowledge that’s necessary in everyday life is natural science and mathematics. These two subject areas are vital in respect to knowledge because they both depend upon logical reasoning and the ability to make rational decisions. Science is important in the world because it is based on experiments. The experiments follow

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    Yield line theory is a productive method for deciding the breakdown heap of strengthened concrete slabs. The yield-line hypothesis is an adaptable outline strategy, particularly when orthotropic and inhomogeneous properties, gaps and unique bolster conditions, must be considered. In the 1960s yield line hypothesis was the subject of extensive enthusiasm for the UK, as prove by a whirlwind of papers and monographs, including an uncommon distribution issued by Magazine of Concrete Research. In the

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    high prevalence of body image concerns, there has been an increase in observed and medical attention, as it found to have negative consequences on audiences alike. Results of progress has been on a decline, as media up rises on the profit of advertisements giving negative connotation of women 's bodies, and shows women in thin unrealistic ways that make it unattainable for them to be real. Even though women are at fault for falling under the spell of media 's influence, women have been developed

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