Vocabulary Expansion: Synonyms to Enhance Your English
1. A Great Deal – Plenty
2. Aggressive – Assertive
3. A Reward – Recompense
4. Adapted – Suitable
5. Appeal – Allure
6. Acquire – Get
7. Activist – Reformer
9. Adapter – Connector
10. Beyond – Apart From
11. Bargains – Good Value for Money
12. Been Grounded – Made to Stay In
13. Designed – Planned
14. Banners – A Long Strip of Cloth Bearing a Slogan
15. Based On – Developed On
16. Browse – Look Over
17. Chance – Possibility
18. Confident – Aplomb
19. Close – The Relationship With My Mother Is Closer Than With My
Read MoreCézanne’s Card Players & Kandinsky’s Composition IV
Cézanne’s *The Card Players*
Classification
- Title: The Card Players
- Artist: Paul Cézanne
- Timeline: 1890-1895
- Versions: Five versions of the subject
- School/Country: France
- Style: Post-Impressionism
Subject
Figurative portrait of two men playing cards, seated at a table with a bottle of wine.
Description
- Technique: Oil painting
- Support: Canvas
Formal and Compositional Elements
- Light: Artificial
- Coloring: Chromatic contrasts are significant, enhancing the existing confrontation. The player with the pipe is depicted
Understanding Cults: Characteristics, Differences, and Tactics
What is a Cult?
Defining a cult is complex for several reasons:
- No new sect willingly adopts the name “cult.”
- There is no universally agreed-upon definition among experts.
- The term is often contentious.
- It can be unfairly applied to religious minorities, creating prejudice.
- Criticism should focus on a group’s practices, not its beliefs. It’s often mistakenly assumed that labeling a group a cult is an attack on its beliefs.
A useful definition is:
Cult: A group or movement exhibiting excessive devotion to
Read MoreUnderstanding Literary Genres: Lyric and Narrative Texts
Lyric Texts: Expression of Feelings
The lyric is appropriate for imitating moods and expressing feelings. Lyrical texts have the following characteristics:
- They provide a very subjective discourse, the product of internalization, where poetic emotion is prevalent.
- They do not develop a story; their content is an expression of feelings, emotions, and ideas.
- A poetic voice belongs to the fiction and is not to be identified with the author.
- They usually focus on one aspect and are generally short, which
Journalistic Subgenres: News Reporting Essentials
Main Subgenus: Journalistic Genres
General Introduction
Messages are conveyed through various journalistic genres. Each genre represents a specific structure and mode of expression, shaped by tradition and now conventionally accepted. The features distinguishing these genres are linked to the two basic functions of journalistic media: informing about current events and providing opinions on them. Accordingly, we distinguish three subgenres: news, opinion, and hybrids.
The main subgenres of news reporting
Read MoreKey Concepts in Adolescent Development and Socialization
Adolescence and Social Development: Key Concepts
Adolescence: The period between childhood and adulthood.
Socialize: Interacting with people, even those you don’t know.
The Socialization Process:
- Learn expected social behavior.
- Assume appropriate social roles.
- Develop acceptable social activities.
Cognitive Development: The adolescent development of the ability to think and reason according to the social context they’re exposed to.
Development: A progressive series of changes that occur in predictable patterns
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