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The garden crew
Develops reading skills through games and a fictional story about a group of students who plant and tend a garden, with the help of their teacher, and finally have a big feast with all the food they have grown.
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Ecocritical Post Colonialism and Plantationocene: A Comparative Study of Sky Is My Father by Easterine Kire and Aranyak by Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay
Sky Is My Father is a historical novel by Easterine Kire who writes about the life of Naga indigenous people living amidst naturally rich mountain scape and forced recruitment of Naga tribesmen as bonded labourers by the British which tribal warriors of the Angami tribe try to resist against. Their fight is the collective fight of their community to save the land which they are deeply connected to from British invasion and subjugation. Britain’s colonization of the third world countries have always brought with it deforestation and disruption of habitat of indigenous people and native plant species. Similarly, Bibhutibhushan’s Aranyak is a novel on Satyacharan’s predicament in the pristine jungles of Bhagalpur where he is posted. His guilt comes from the job he is sent there to do which is to cut down the forest that is not only important to the native community there but to him as well. Capitalocene and Plantationocene as Donna Haraway defines is a contemporary epoch which has its roots in European Imperialism. This imperial legacy of rampant exploitation and destruction of environment which is singlehandedly a contribution of Britain’s colonial rule includes subjugation of indigenous people into forced labour along with destruction of forest spaces for resource extraction. What entails as a result is postcolonial trauma within native psyche. Post colonial literatures coming out of South Asia like Sky Is My Father and Aranyak essentially discusses Britain’s expansion, coercive policies and their after effect on the native people of India in relation to the ecological disruption around them.
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Sprout, seed, sprout!
\"Sprout, Seed, Sprout! is the story of a young boy who, like many children, has decided to plant a seed--in this case, an avocado seed. And as with so many things in life, the process takes a good while longer than anticipated ... A meditation on patience and perseverance, combined with humour (and an utterly charming cat), this title has lots of patterning and repetition and will make a great choice for storytime.\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Picturephone and the Information Age: The Social Meaning of Failure
One of the proudest achievements of Bell Telephone Laboratories in the post World War II era, the video telephone system Picturephone ended its brief life as the Labs' biggest flop. Accounts have attempted to explain this \"failure\" in a variety of ways. This article proposes a new approach that questions the usefulness of the categories success and failure, and instead considers Picturephone as part of a technological narrative that directed both innovators and users along a certain path or trajectory of information technology. In the end, Picturephone may have actually reinforced this path, even though the device disappeared from use. Understanding these resonate meanings and effects requires extending the time frame of innovation and problematizing notions of consumer autonomy.
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New Jersey's Environments
Americans often think of New Jersey as an environmental nightmare. As seen from its infamous turnpike, which is how many travelers experience the Garden State, it is difficult not to be troubled by the wealth of industrial plants, belching smokestacks, and hills upon hills of landfills. Yet those living and working in New Jersey often experience a very different environment. Despite its dense population and urban growth, two-thirds of the state remains covered in farmland and forest, and New Jersey has a larger percentage of land dedicated to state parks and forestland than the average for all states. It is this ecological paradox that makes New Jersey important for understanding the relationship between Americans and their natural world.
InNew Jersey's Environments, historians, policy-makers, and earth scientists use a case study approach to uncover the causes and consequences of decisions regarding land use, resources, and conservation. Nine essays consider topics ranging from solid waste and wildlife management to the effects of sprawl on natural disaster preparedness. The state is astonishingly diverse and faces more than the usual competing interests from environmentalists, citizens, and businesses.
This book documents the innovations and compromises created on behalf of and in response to growing environmental concerns in New Jersey, all of which set examples on the local level for nationwide and worldwide efforts that share the goal of protecting the natural world.
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Solaris One – A Serious Game for Thermodyanmics
Solaris One – A Seriuos Game for ThermodyanmicsABSTRACTStagnating growth in our educational systems has piqued interests in alternative teachingmethods such as the inclusion of “serious games” into curricula. In response to those needs, aseries of educational games have been developed in accordance with pre-engineeringprograms such as Project Lead the Way (PLTW). The focus of development is in creating anengaging, educational environment by balancing fun and learning whilst meeting the standardsof commercial-level games and engineering and science curricula.In this paper, we present design and pedagogical methods, and the implementation of thosemethods, in a thermodynamics serious game, Solaris One that accommodates the integrationof game mechanics with learning. The instructional goal of this narrative game is todemonstrate the basic laws of thermodynamics and their applications in the real world.Instead of relying on dry representations of those topics to be just another lab, Solaris Onetakes a sci-fi approach where students take the task, as a power engineer, to go on adangerous expedition into space and to fix issues with a next-generation solar power plant.The space station, orbiting the earth, is attached to a rogue asteroid covered in solar panels.Due to a recent intense solar storm, the parabolic dish that gathers solar energy andtransforms it back to the earth becomes malfunctioning. In fact, the fuses have blown in thefuse box of the dish.The design focuses of the game are on narrative-learning synthesis, supplementing theplayer’s actions with feedback, and the development of a sufficient guidance system withoutcompromising the entertainment or education aspects of a game. The pedagogical focuses areon rich metacognitive strategies embedded in the game that further promote students improvedproblem-solving skills.The student learning outcomes of the game project include: Enhanced understanding of thermodynamics laws Strengthened problem-solving skills Increased knowledge and skills of using games, simulation, modeling and collaborative learning tools
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BUT WHO WERE THEY?
When we are young we don’t give a thought to whotheywere; defining ourselves, often in opposition tothem, is what we’re after. Until we grow old, older than they are in our memories, perhaps older than they were when they died. As the passage of time brings us to a consideration of our own ends, many of us think more and more of our parents. The mystery of who they were and what of them lives on in us grows deeper, the need to unravel it more essential.
My parents, now dead for over thirty years, live on
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Ngugi’s Portrayal of the Community, Heroes and the Oppressed
One of the most striking features of Ngugi’s narrative over the years is the central role that the elite play within it. In virtually all his novels, Ngugi constitutes the educated elite as the shapers of the new nation-state and its modernist ideology, whether this ideology is rooted in the emergent nationalist discourses of his earlier novels or in the radical socialist vision of his later novels. It is safe to argue that the educated elite play a mediating role between the colonial structures and quest for freedom, between the neocolonial structures and the struggles of the people for a
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