Instead of impressive gestures, I think love is all that kids really need. If they’re going to be a writer, they’ll write. The stories will keep coming and they’ll be even better. One day they’ll get published without your help and imagine their sense of accomplishment! When the r...
The six-block concrete walk to school was an enchanted yellow-brick road, visible only when I looked down at my quickly advancing feet. I was a dreamy child, something I’ve never been sorry about passing along to my daughter, even when her liberal interpretations of reality have been ...
of the line and thus their perception of the centre is shifted in this direction. There have now been a large number of studies investigating the different factors involved in this bias. For example, in a meta analysis,Jewell and McCourt (2000)found that out of 73 studies the majority ...
Exposure to video game violence (VGV) is known to result in desensitization to violent material and may alter the processing of positive emotion related to
yard = 0.91 meters; 1 mile = 1.6 kilometersTime: one-oh-five, one-twenty, twenty after one, one-thirty, half past one; one-forty, twenty to two; sunrise, sunset, midnight;Calendar: parent-teacher conference, religious holiday, legal holiday;Colors: violet-紫罗兰, turquoise-蓝绿色, cream...
Frank Capra’s road movie/romantic comedy It Happened One Night became the first film to sweep the Oscars in every major category, dominating the awards so thoroughly that seemingly nobody else had a chance. It was also a too rare instance of a comedy taking the top prize, though the char...
Every time you chop down one mature tree, you are destroying the breeding habitat of twenty bird couples. Paving destroys any number of box turtles, lizards, and frogs. What you can do: Limit your family to two children. If you are building your dream house, build it on two levels, tak...
PURPOSE:To prevent the generation of moire form stripes by disposing a dot matrix of 5X5 for every coordinate (X, Y) as one block, defining four mutually contacting block summits to be the centers of a picture element, and increasing the dots to other opposite summits. CONSTITUTION:In ...
It also covers the related topics of theses, posters, oral presentation and book reviews (here, I feel I am really putting my head on the block: I felt obliged to read this chapter twice). It also has six valuable appendices, including: selected journal title word abbreviations, ...
A selection of great maths story books for primary-school children, covering mathematical concepts including multiplication, data handling and fractions.