students with relevant, instructive feedback to further their motivation and growth. Meaningful feedback such as this is an essential part of a successful classroom (Marzano, 2010). Students are more motivated to learn when they receive positive, informative feedback. A study found elementary math students to be more motivated when they received positive evaluative feedback (Rakoczy, Klieme, Burgermeister, Harks, 2008). Think of it as a road trip towards success. When students are given the correct
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Although Peterson dazzled the Oklahoma faithful for three injury-plagued seasons, he didn't receive a penny. Whether to pay college athletes has never been a more controversial, discussed topic than it is today, and Peterson offered his opinion Wednesday. MORE: Northwestern against its own players' union | Peterson's recovery report "When I was in college, I know personally, as far as jersey sales and ticket sales, I helped make that university a lot of money," Peterson said during a conference
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Alesha Fulton Writing 1 Sarah Burnett 11/14/14 Obesity Intro Paragraph It is very shocking to find that being overweight/obese, basically gives you a death wish. From the start, if one is obese, it is considered unhealthy. There are many causes of death and disability linked to obesity. Some are high blood pressure, diabetes 1 and 2, and high cholesterol. If the obesity rate was lowered, the death rate of people all around the world would also decline. This issue is not complicated to fix
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It was the winter that Ryan stayed with us at our house. It happened nearly 5 years ago. His father was in the hospital because he had a stroke while driving. Ryan had an option to stay with his sisters, or come to live with us. He had made his decision to stay with us. He was going to stay with us for the next 4 weeks and this all happened during The Winter. We would stay up late most nights and watch movies. and look forward to the morning so we could jump on the trampoline while it had snow on
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1. No, I do not think there was a difference in how the women were treated in captivity. Mary Rowlandson was not treated with the same brutality and harm others had. She was not raped or brutalized by the Indians. The Indians told her she wouldn’t be hurt as long as she didn’t give anyone problems. She felt safe from the kindness of her master who told her he would sell her back to her husband. Also, she is paid with food and others by the Indians for her sewing. Mary Jemison was welcomed and happy
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My informative speech on my trip to Haiti, I did a good job with saying to the purpose of my presentation. On the other hand, my overall performance I don’t think I did an outstanding job. Firstly, I don’t recall what I was looking at during the presentation, was I looking at the screen, the audience, or the wall… I really don’t know. Usually after presentations or being in front of a group of people like that, my nerves hit me after I’m done, which makes it hard for me to recognize what I said or
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I believe that some informative strategies that are needed to make your speech a compelling speech is the use of statistics. It is always hard to give information about a topic without letting on what you are in favor of, unless it is a topic on something simple as in how to change a tire or how to bake a cake. The use of statistics are pretty straight forward and don't have a bias. Although, you need to make sure you do not over doo statistics, a couple will get your point across without the risk
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Informative Speech General Speech Purpose: To inform my audience on how hurricanes form and develop Thesis: Hurricanes are strong, dangerous storms that cause mass destruction. Due to this, people question how these storms develop into a massive threat. _____________________________________________________________________________________ Introduction Hurricanes are a huge violent storm with vicious wind speed that can cause severe damage. The damage due to the storms can cause flooding resulting
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Really informative post, and as I became captivated reading and learning about this tragic virus and how it once again strikes Africa. I discovered the Democratic Republic of Congo is currently encountering their ninth outbreak considering that its finding more over four decades ago. In relation, the DRC government announced the flare-up on May 8 after a pair of cases were affirmed by research center testing at the Institut National de Recherche Biomédicale in Kinshasa. CDC is helping the Democratic
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Title of Presentation: The role of the Family and Medical Leave Act in the workplace. Name of Presenter: Maria Vargas Description of Business Audience: Informative presentation to managers to fully understand the new standard regulations of the Family and Medical Leave Act in a company. Introduction: The year 2013 celebrates the 20th anniversary of the signing of the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) by President Clinton. Since then, many families has had the advantage of this law
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survey did show was that the majority did not know was of this 15,780, 10,450 were under the age of 15. 5.) Diagnosing children with cancer is much more difficult due to most symptoms are almost always associated with everyday ailments. 6.) In this informative speech I will be touching base on the five most common childhood cancers
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An Informative Essay On Diabetes Mellitus Diabetes is the seventh leading cause of death listed in the United States. Diabetes is the leading cause of blindness. "In 1996 diabetes contributed to more than 162,000 deaths"(Lewis 1367). "Diabetes mellitus is not a single disease but a group of disorders with glucose intolerance in common" (McCance 674). Diabetes mellitus is a metabolic disorder characterized by hyperglycemia (increased blood sugar) and results from defective insulin production
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My organization was much better with my informative speech than it was with my persuasive. Within my informative speech, everything was intact and perfectly organized within my speech. With my persuasive speech, there was so much information that it was hard to keep up with. I tried too hard to keep my audience interested with facts that I lost track of how many slides I actually had regarding my topic. I’ve learned that the less slides you have on your PowerPoint, the better. I’ve also learned that
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Topic: Healthy Eating Specific: How to eat Carbohydrates Intro (thesis): Carbohydrates are onf the main type of nutrients which provides energy for our often referred as “carbs” are an important part of your diets, but it doesn’t mean you’re free to load up with cookies and cupcakes to get your daily carb amount. Today, I will explain the difference between good and bad carbohydrates. Idea One: (SIMPLE AND COMPLEX): Carbohydrate are an important part of a healthy, well balanced diet but it
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This one goes out to the women who tried to hurt a man with their mammaries. You know who you are! Just in case you don't; it's ALF, the Heathers, Sharon and the other 20 women who attacked a poor defenseless man. Oh woe is he! Breasts, melons, hooters the nasty women ganged up and now John knows boobs Almost all women who require to breastfeed can do so successfully. There are nowadays, still, when breastfeeding is incorrect because of infant or materialistic disease, or drug use. Breast
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Finding the Right Position I am here today to give you some helpful tips to get the job you want! Finding the right job can be a difficult task, having some helpful tips to make the search a little easier and less intimidating. I. The job search a. Researching the job you want 1) Entering the proper wording 2) Keyword searching b. Know the location you want to work in 1) Have a mileage radius in mind c. Have a realistic salary range 1) Know the salary range for the position so you know what
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You don't believe Matt LeBlanc is now the newest dad on this TV show! Absolutely yes! Ladies and gentlemen, may we present you the newest dad in town, Mr. Matt LeBlanc! Yippee! He will star in the newest edition of CBS, which is no other than Man With A Plan. No, it's not the Wizard of Odd and the one behind the 'Captain Hook" submission hold like Brian Kendrick. Speaking of him, his theme song's name was Man With A Plan too. However, we're not going to talk more about Brian Kendrick in WWE's
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Central Purpose: To entertain Specific Purpose: I want to share with my audience the amazing experience that I had when I visited Jamaica. Introduction: I. Have you ever been in Jamaica? II. In my last vacation I went to visit for the first time the incredible Island of Jamaica. Body: I. a. I took a five days cruise from Miami to Jamaica to visit Ocho Rios. I was very excited because it was my first trip to Jamaica. b. We spent a day at sea we didn't had time to get bored because there were
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My grandparents moved to Arizona a few years ago. They moved to Arizona because they got so sick of the weather in Minnesota! In Minnesota there was a snowstorm that was as bad as a big blue hungry bear, and you’re lunch!(Alliteration, Figurative Language) While in Arizona my Papa Zimmer discovered a fun sport that he would like to play, this sport is pickleball. Pickleball in Sun City is a big sport. My grandpa told me pickleball is like big table tennis (but not tennis). You have a large
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The largest passenger steamship ever built, Titanic created quite a stir when it departed for its maiden voyage from Southampton, England, on April 10, 1912. After stops in Cherbourg, France, and Queenstown (now known as Cobh), Ireland, the ship set sail for New York with 2,240 passengers and crew—or “souls,” the expression then used in the shipping industry, usually in connection with a sinking—on board. As befitting the first transatlantic crossing of the world’s most celebrated ship, many of
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Sean Whelan Linda Treglia HLTH.103 4/12/17 Thyroid Cancer Everyday in the world, many people throughout the world are born with, diagnosed with, or die from one of the countless deadly disease. It seems that every few months on the TV we hear about a new disease or illness killing or making people sick somewhere in the world. Not only new diseases, but also common ones such as Cancer. Nowadays they say everyone knows at least one person in their life who is affected by this terrible disease. Cancer
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Cheetah Cesar Padilla Multimedia1 Hello my name is Cesar Padilla today I am here to talk about the fastest land animal on earth cheetahs. Cheetahs live mostly at eastern and southwestern of Africa they also like to be around open grass lands. Cheetahs usually live between 12 years and some cheetahs is able to reach 17 years. Cheetahs are endangered cause through to their homes gone and preys are very little out there. The cheetahs gets an advantage on preys because they can run so fast. Cheetahs
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Biology has become my passion over the last year, thanks to my teacher, Mr. Hawkins. I took an AP Biology course with him my junior year in high school and fell in love with the subject. He had a unique way of teaching where he would tell a story about his life and then relate it back to whatever he was teaching that day. I had never had a teacher teach in this way before and I couldn't get enough of it. We would even sit together after school and talk about new scientific studies we had heard about
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Have you ever been in a case where you had to go to the basement in a tornado related situation. I have been through that so I am going to tell you about how a tornado forms,how you will know it is coming,and safety. According to weatherwiz.com, stormaware.com, nssl.noaa.com, emsaonline.com,and ready.gov, a tornado is a mobile, destructive vortex of violently rotating winds, having the appearance of a funnel-shaped cloud and advancing beneath a large storm system. A tornado forms from a TON OF
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Have you ever heard stories about people and how they have died from cancer or even had a family member die from this cause? If you have, it's way more common than you think. Cancer is a very well-known disease that has been around for a while, yet we have not found much cures for it yet. Cancer is something that many people get in this world. It is found that on average 564,800 people get diagnosed from cancer each year! Just the fact that it's happening shows how it is going to be around and it's
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CRACK! The ball was hit to the third baseman Kris Bryant. A tiny drippler, Kris Bryant runs up, throws a ball as fast as bullet coming out of a gun. The first baseman Anthony Rizzo catches it. He stands there in disbelief. The Cubs just won the World Series. Fan are jumping out their chair. Just a few seconds ago when the ball was being thrown to Anthony Rizzo the stadium was dead silent. A now everyone is going ballistic. People are jumping on their chairs. Their drinks spilling everywhere. Indian
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BOO! Did I scare you? No, that’s okay, but why did I say that. Why do we celebrate Halloween? How different is Halloween now from when it was called Samhain or All Hallows Eve. Why do we have so many names in place of Halloween? Some include all Saints eve, All Hallows Eve, and Samhain. Samhain (pronounced "sow-in" rhyming with cow) is named after the Celtic Lord Samhain also known as the Lord of darkness. Candy and cake were used to make the unwanted spirits go away. They also used costumes
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Which You Choose Marijuana or No Marijuana Today I’m very delighted as a nurse to talk about marijuana, in the following lines I’m going to explain my point of view. Marijuana also called cannabis, weed, herb, pot, grass, bud ganja; is a plant that’s used as a drug that can be smoked in order to create a feeling of being euphoric or high. Some users smoke marijuana in hand rolled cigarettes called joints; many use pipes, water pipes, it can also be used to brew tea and particularly when it sold
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Have you ever heard of Mike Webster? The famous center that played for the Pittsburgh Steelers for seventeen years. He was only fifty when he died from a heart attack. He had CTE. MIke Webster suffered from over 25,500 blows to head. That’s bound to do some damage. 87 percent of 91 ex-NFL players had a disease linked to head trauma. Because of playing football, Mike Webster died. This is relevant because he is not the only person to die from playing football in the NFL. I don’t think people should
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Hello, in today’s generation it is important for people, children, and infants to be properly vaccinated. It is important because many people travel, which can carry diseases from different countries. Also, if a person is not properly vaccinated, they can get very sick, and get other people who are not vaccinated sick. Lastly, you could pass the disease you have onto people you care about. When you’re traveling to different places, the environment is different. They will have different complications
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