Nicole Hahn – författare

To those of you who have lost through miscarriage, the hope is that you find a piece of yourselves in the lines of this book and know youre not alone. Heartache and brutal honesty, with a sprinkle of sass and humor, this is the authors story. Its a story of anticipation, love, loss, spiritual growth, and hope that she tells against societys attempt to keep talk about miscarriage quiet. This book explores and dapples with a few challenges that arise when struggling to start a family, for its not a cakewalk for everyone. If youre fortunate enough to be incapable of relating, hopefully Hahns words give you some insight into a complex world that most are afraid to talk about. A Surrogate for Heaven serves as a reminder that God is always good, even in the midst of excruciating pain and confusion.

Seminar paper from the year 2004 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 2,3, University of Wuppertal, course: Contrastive Phonology, language: English, abstract: The constraints on sequences of segments are called phonotactic con -straints or phonotactics of a language. Word phonotactics in English are based on syllable phonotactics. This means that only clusters which can begin a syllable can begin a word and that a possible cluster at the end of a syllable can end a word. In multisyllabic words, the clusters consist of syllable final and syllable initial sequences. A word like instruct can be divided into well-formed syllables /In $ str?kt/, because the word final and initial syllables consist of possible constraints in English. The arrangement of different phonemes is restricted. Some sequences are possible but have no meaning; some are not possible words in the English language. Nonsense words are possible words, respectively possible sequences of sounds of a particular language. They can be seen as accidental gaps in the vocabulary. The word Crike [krajk] obeys the phonological rules of the English language, but does not have any meaning. This phenomenon must be distinguished from non-words. Their sequences have no meaning either, but their sequences are not possible words of a language (For example bkli). If a form is not allowed by the phonotactics of a language there is said to be a systematic gap in the vocabulary. (Fromkin, Victoria. Rodman, Robert. An Introduction to Language. 6th edition. Hardcourt Brace College Publishers. United States of America. 1998)

Seminar paper from the year 2005 in the subject Didactics for the subject English - Pedagogy, Literature Studies, grade: 2,0, University of Wuppertal, course: Teaching English to very young children, language: English, abstract: In 1999, Rea-Dickens and Rixon conducted a survey about the relationship between assessment and learning. 120 European teachers and teacher trainers were asked if the main purpose of their assessment was to help their teaching, and 97% answered in the affirmative. Rea-Dickens and Rixon examined afterwards what the teachers really assessed and how they did so. They found a strong mismatch between curricular aims, pedagogy and test content (Cameron, Lynne.Teaching languages to very young learners. Cambridge University press.2001. page 217). The assessment focused mainly on the children s achievements but neglected on other curricular aims such as language and social awareness. The assessment of young learners should serve teaching by providing feedback on the children s learning progress, so that the content and the difficulty of subsequent teaching units can be effectively adjusted to the learners needs. This paper offers the reader an overview about the theoretical ideas and principles which should be kept in mind when implementing an assessment. Furthermore the guidelines of lower Saxony are introduced. They illustrate the expectations of the German school system towards assessment in class. Afterwards the paper gives an overview about psycholinguistic tests such as Blitztest and F-Test . Additionally, the paper answers the question of origin and purpose of the Cambridge Young Learners Test. Finally, material which should support the teacher in the efficiency assessment of the pupils is represented, considering the example of Ginger .

Seminar paper from the year 2005 in the subject American Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, grade: 1,7, University of Wuppertal, course: Trauma and Vietnam war, language: English, abstract: "e;The first casualty when war comes is Truth."e; U.S. Senator Hiram Johnson, 1917Contents1. What is propaganda? A short explanation2. Why does propaganda work?3. The American Media during the Vietnam War4. Bibliography and internet sources