Academic Studies English - Introduction to Reading Comprehension
Reading comprehension means understanding and remembering the ideas you find as you read. As you know, reading begins by learning the shapes of letters and the sounds they represent. When letters are written in groups, they become words. Words are just groups of symbols that stand for the names of things, actions, and ideas that you see, hear, smell, touch or taste every day.
What is a Mind Map? Mind map is simply a visualization tool which helps you think and learn more proficiently. A mind map is a graphic diagram used to represent your thoughts and ideas, tasks, or other items linked to a central key idea or theme. It is used to generate, visualize, structure and classify ideas. Mind maps are used as an aid in study, organization, problem solving, and decision making.
This course is for the "seeker" in you: your need to know, your willingness to self-examine, your restless curiosity about the world around you. If you?ve ever wanted to understand more about your emotions, your cognitive thinking skills, and other traits that make you uniquely human, then experience The Great Ideas of Psychology.
Using innovative graphics and creative typography to help demystify hard-to-grasp concepts for those new to philosophy, "The Philosophy Book" cuts through the haze of misunderstanding, untangles knotty theories, and sheds light on abstract concepts. Aimed at anyone with a general interest in how our social, political, and ethical ideas are formed, as well as students of philosophy and politics, "The Philosophy Book" breathes new life to a subject that is often regarded as esoteric and academic.
TTC - Ideas in Western Culture - the Age of Absolutism and Enlightenment OPP course (1995) taught by Ori Z. Soltes, Georgetown University, Ph.D., Union Institute and University The seventeenth and eighteenth century were a time of a dramatic and accelerating change in European politics, economy, and culture.Secularization constituted, perhaps, the dominant trend of the age, despite the persistence into the seventeenth century the superstitions such as fear of witchcraft and of efforts of clerics and princes to impose uniform belief.
