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		<title>Developing Reading Skills When Homeschooling Your Child</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The extreme amount of flexibility offered by homeschooling creates many educational benefits. One of them, of course, is that &#8220;home&#8221; and &#8220;school&#8221; become one, so that the educational experience doesn&#8217;t have to begin and end with the ringing of a bell. By incorporating educational activities into your home life as a whole, you child will [...]<p><a href="http://www.eurovision-ro.com/developing-reading-skills-when-homeschooling-your-child.html">Developing Reading Skills When Homeschooling Your Child</a> is a post from: <a href="http://www.eurovision-ro.com">Euro Vision Ro Education Site</a></p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The extreme amount of flexibility offered by homeschooling creates many educational benefits. One of them, of course, is that &#8220;home&#8221; and &#8220;school&#8221; become one, so that the educational experience doesn&#8217;t have to begin and end with the ringing of a bell. By incorporating educational activities into your home life as a whole, you child will gain a more valuable educational experience.</p>
<p>One of the best things about home schooling is you can come up with an educational plan that suits your child&#8217;s particular needs. By working one on one with a child, you can create an individual learning system that can be more beneficial then the learning techniques used in a public or private school. When coming up with an individual education plan for your child, make sure you place focus on reading.</p>
<p>Much of the philosophy of homeschooling is about not being subject to the limitations of the public school system, and an area where the public school system commonly falters is in reading. Many public school students perform poorly on standardized reading tests, which is unfortunate as reading skills are crucial to a child&#8217;s education.</p>
<p>Reading can&#8217;t really be emphasized too much when homeschooling your child. While there should be a good balance of subject areas taught throughout the teaching day, reading should be encouraged during your child&#8217;s free time. While it may be difficult to get a child into doing math or science work in his or her free time, reading is a different story.</p>
<p>As soon as your child can read, he or she should always be reading something. As long as you find the subject matter appropriate, allow your child to read whatever he wants in his free time. Develop the habit at a young age of getting your child to always have a book on the go. By finding books that your child enjoys, your child will, from a young age, associate reading with a fun experience, which will do wonders for his further education.<br />
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You must also understand how important it is to set your own example. Try and set time aside during the day in which you read, and in the evening hours, when most children would be watching television, sit down with your child and read together. When it gets close to the child&#8217;s bedtime, imply that you will be going to be soon as well &#8211; because you have a good book to read.</p>
<p>Reading is a fantastic educational opportunity because it is the basis for which your child will learn many other things. When a child is reading a book they are not only bettering their reading skills, they are becoming privy to knowledge contained within the book. It is important that reading begins at a young age because mastering it is a slow process, and you will be doing your child a serious disservice later in life if you choose not to focus on reading early.</p>
<p>Every education should be well rounded of course, but reading is a building block from which other education follows. When homeschooling your child, encourage him or her to read from a young age. If you so do you stand a good chance of instilling a lifelong habit that will benefit your child until the end of his days.</p>
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		<title>Bio Pyramid</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:09:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the ongoing energy debate, biomass energy is getting a lot of play among politicians. To understand the concept, it first helps to understand the bio pyramid. Bio Pyramid All of the organisms in the world follow orders of classification. Whether you choose to put them into groups of plants and animals, herbivores and carnivores, [...]<p><a href="http://www.eurovision-ro.com/bio-pyramid.html">Bio Pyramid</a> is a post from: <a href="http://www.eurovision-ro.com">Euro Vision Ro Education Site</a></p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In the ongoing energy debate, biomass energy is getting a lot of play among politicians. To understand the concept, it first helps to understand the bio pyramid.</p>
<p>Bio Pyramid</p>
<p>All of the organisms in the world follow orders of classification. Whether you choose to put them into groups of plants and animals, herbivores and carnivores, or any other of the many different types of classification systems, organisms can be put into many groups in order to understand their relationship to one another. One way to classify organisms is to put them into their order, or hierarchy, in the food chain. In this way, we can see how animals and other organisms relate to each other based on what they consume.</p>
<p>There are several different ways to look at the food chain, and one important and useful tool in this area is the bio pyramid. A bio pyramid is a graphical chart that shows the comparative mass of the consumers to the producers in the food chain. This can be helpful in determining how energy is transferred to the top levels of the pyramid from the bottom levels.<br />
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Each level in a bio pyramid is composed of a trophic level. Trophic levels are groupings of different consumer groups, such as primary producers (usually just plants or other photosynthetic organisms) rising all the way up to carnivores (such as humans). While a typical biological pyramid might group these consumers in order of energy produced, a bio pyramid shows them in order of total mass from highest to lowest. This often means that the primary consumers, such as the plants, are at the bottom because they are more numerous and take up more mass. The levels are built upon then by how many upper level organisms could survive based on the level below. An example can be seen in this sea bio pyramid:</p>
<p>It would take 1,000,000 kg of phytoplankton (1st level), to feed 100,000 kg of zooplankton (2nd level), to feed 10,000 kg of shrimp (3rd level), to finally feed 1,000 kg of large fish. The final level, the 5th, would only be able to have 100 kg of shark supported by the levels below.</p>
<p>In this way, a bio pyramid shows the inefficiency of the food chain, and lets researchers know that if a level was able to be skipped (such as a shark dipping down and eating shrimp instead of fish), more energy would be conserved and the food chain would lose less energy along the way. Given this fact, a bio pyramid is an important tool when looking at the laws of conservation of energy among different classes of organisms.</p>
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		<title>A Slice of American Pie</title>
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				<category><![CDATA[College]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is my first time, since my first time. - Jim, from the movie American Pie 2? In order to acquire an education in the United States, there are several necessary documents one must have. One needs to acquire a student visa and a certificate of eligibility and to fill up several other forms aside [...]<p><a href="http://www.eurovision-ro.com/a-slice-of-american-pie.html">A Slice of American Pie</a> is a post from: <a href="http://www.eurovision-ro.com">Euro Vision Ro Education Site</a></p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This is my first time, since my first time. <br />
- Jim, from the movie American Pie 2?</p>
<p>In order to acquire an education in the United States, there are several necessary documents one must have.</p>
<p>One needs to acquire a student visa and a certificate of eligibility and to fill up several other forms aside from the applications one is to send out to prospective academic institutions.</p>
<p>Ok &#8211; try not to get overwhelmed.</p>
<p>Lets take this one step at a time.</p>
<p>First a foremost, before one can be issued a student visa, there are several requirements one must obtain, forms one must fill up and submit.</p>
<p>(*taken from UnitedStatesVisas.gov)</p>
<p>1. A certificate of eligibility which you must get from your sponsoring educational institution in the U.S. If you are a regular student (an F visa) youll get Form I-20. If you are part of an approved exchange program (a J visa) youll get Form DS-1920.</p>
<p>* Further clarification will be made regarding student visas in an upcoming post.</p>
<p>2. Application Form DS-156</p>
<p>3. Form DS-158</p>
<p>4. Current, valid passport or travel document</p>
<p>5. Photograph. Requirements are strict for photograph size, type and quality. Please check with your nearest consulate for specifications before you get your picture taken.<br />
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6. Application fees. All applicants must pay the application fee. Some applicants, according to nationality and type of visa, must also pay an issuance fee.</p>
<p>7. Evidence of funds to cover expenses in the United States</p>
<p>8. Evidence of compelling social and economic ties abroad</p>
<p>For men between 16 and 45 years of age, a supplemental visa application Form DS-157 is also required.</p>
<p>Applications for student visas are sent through the US Embassy or Consulate in your country of origin.</p>
<p>An important thing to remember about applying for a student visa is to apply early &#8211; that is, one is allowed to apply 90 days in advance of the date of enrollment stated in ones certificate of eligibility.</p>
<p>Still hungry?</p>
<p>Savor these starters, while I brew up the next post.</p>
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		<title>5 Important Tips To Homeschooling</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Homeschooling is defined as providing a childs main education at home. Although this topic has been one of great debate by both critics and supporters, families continue to choose the option of educating their child in the comfort and privacy of their own home. If you are considering this method of learning, keep the following [...]<p><a href="http://www.eurovision-ro.com/5-important-tips-to-homeschooling.html">5 Important Tips To Homeschooling</a> is a post from: <a href="http://www.eurovision-ro.com">Euro Vision Ro Education Site</a></p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Homeschooling is defined as providing a childs main education at home. Although this topic has been one of great debate by both critics and supporters, families continue to choose the option of educating their child in the comfort and privacy of their own home. If you are considering this method of learning, keep the following tips in mind:</p>
<p>Consider various teaching options. As a parent, you can often homeschool your child on your own or you may enlist the help of a professional tutor, which is a private teacher who typically teaches one child or a small group of children. In some cases, a child may also participate in independent study programs that are made available through a school.</p>
<p>Make sure the curriculum is approved. If you plan to homeschool your child, you will need to request a curriculum package containing an approved course of study. Its important that parents make sure the program they use to educate their child is one thats approved by their state and/or board of education.</p>
<p>Make learning fun. In order for a child to get the most benefit from homeschooling, many believe that visits to the library, museums and other cultural outings can help the student to learn more effectively. This is one of the reasons why public schools often participate in field trips, which allow the children to see a location up close and personal as it relates to their program of study.</p>
<p>Prepare your child for college. Studies have shown that children who learn at home are just as likely to attend a higher learning institution as other students, which means parents who participate in homeschooling will need to prepare their youngster for this change. A homeschooled child who wishes to apply for college must submit a copy of his/her ACT or SAT test scores. As for transcripts, children who gained their education at home may submit records from their supervising high school or correspondence course.<br />
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Get everything in writing. As a parent who wishes to homeschool your child, you are required to file the appropriate paperwork with either a local or state education agency. For more information on this topic, you can consult with your countys board of education or your schools principal. The name and age of the student must be given, along with lesson plans in some cases. Currently, parents are not required to have a teaching certificate in order to educate their child at home, but its important to check with your states laws regarding homeschooling as they may vary by state.</p>
<p>One final note: It is very important for home schooled children to be properly socialized with other children. Playing with kids their own age they can learn valuable social skills that will help them become more successful later in life.</p>
<p>The information contained in this article is designed to be used for reference purposes only. It should not be used as, in place of or in conjunction with professional legal or educational advice relating to homeschooling and/or the laws relating to this subject. For more information, consult with your local or state education agency.</p>
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		<title>Ball Bearings Are Flat – Another Myth Crushed</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 20:08:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What shape are ball bearings? They are shaped like a ball, as everyone knows, right? The funny thing about what everyone knows is that everyone can be wrong. For instance, everybody thinks that the America&#8217;s Cup is an ocean-sailing race, and yet the Swiss managed to win the Cup. For those readers who are geographically-challenged, [...]<p><a href="http://www.eurovision-ro.com/ball-bearings-are-flat-%e2%80%93-another-myth-crushed.html">Ball Bearings Are Flat – Another Myth Crushed</a> is a post from: <a href="http://www.eurovision-ro.com">Euro Vision Ro Education Site</a></p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What shape are ball bearings? They are shaped like a ball, as everyone knows, right?</p>
<p>The funny thing about what everyone knows is that everyone can be wrong. For instance, everybody thinks that the America&#8217;s Cup is an ocean-sailing race, and yet the Swiss managed to win the Cup. For those readers who are geographically-challenged, Switzerland is a land-locked country comprised entirely of mountains.</p>
<p>What does this have to do with ball bearings. Very little, I suspect, but balls have very little to do with ball bearings, either. Ball bearings look more like hula hoops. But don&#8217;t try using them for that  you will find them inconveniently heavy and painfully small.</p>
<p>You can view a picture of a ball bearing in the middle of this ball bearing supplier&#8217;s page.</p>
<p>So what are those stunted metal tube donuts called ball bearings for anyway? Are they used as a spare wheel? Do they hold in evil shop-floor spirits? No, they help things move more efficiently. In an early demonstration of bearing usage, three ladies pulled a locomotive (It was just a demonstration, not a career development).</p>
<p>Many bearings look very similar, whether they are ball bearings, roller bearings or other bearings. What?! Other bearings?</p>
<p><strong>What is a ball bearing, anyway?</strong></p>
<p>Ball bearings are formed with an outer ring, an inner ring, a cage or a retainer inside, and a rolling element inside, typically a ball (which is why they are called ball bearings). Roller bearings are formed using a roller instead of a ball, which is why they are called roller bearings (Yes, finally something that makes sense!). Other bearings look just like metal tubes, called plain bearings or bush bearings. They look like sawed off pipe or tube (something my metal tube bending client would be turning into architecturally glamorous structural supports).</p>
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The principle of bearings is the same principle behind the wheel: things move better by rolling than by sliding. They are called &#8220;bearings&#8221; because they bear the weight of the object, such as an inline skate or the head of dentist&#8217;s drill, allowing the object to glide over them with incredible ease and speed. Unlike wheels, they don&#8217;t turn on an axel; they turn on themselves.</p>
<p>You can see this in action with some great cut-away pictures of bearings.</p>
<p>The balls or rollers spin on themselves inside the bearing, reducing friction for the machine parts attached to them. It&#8217;s much neater than using a bucket of oil, especially in dental equipment, and significantly more reliable than hamsters on a wheel.</p>
<p>Once upon a time, all bearings were metal  like a metal tube or pipe with metal balls stuck inside. These days, more and more are made of ceramic or even plastic (like everything else in this world!).</p>
<p>If you are still confused about why ball bearings are not shaped like balls, just remember that you drive on a parkway and park on a driveway. And you can even try sailing your sea-craft through the Swiss Alps. But don&#8217;t try playing a game of one-on one basketbearing.</p>
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		<title>Diagnosing Personality Disorders</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Personality traits are enduring, usually rigid patterns of behavior, thinking (cognition), and emoting expressed in a variety of circumstances and situations and throughout one&#8217;s life (typically from early adolescence onward). Some personality traits are harmful to both oneself and to others. These are the dysfunctional traits. Often they cause discomfort and the person bearing these [...]<p><a href="http://www.eurovision-ro.com/diagnosing-personality-disorders.html">Diagnosing Personality Disorders</a> is a post from: <a href="http://www.eurovision-ro.com">Euro Vision Ro Education Site</a></p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Personality traits are enduring, usually rigid patterns of behavior, thinking (cognition), and emoting expressed in a variety of circumstances and situations and throughout one&#8217;s life (typically from early adolescence onward). Some personality traits are harmful to both oneself and to others. These are the dysfunctional traits. Often they cause discomfort and the person bearing these traits is unhappy and self-critical. This is called ego-dystony. At other times, even the most pernicious personality traits are happily endorsed and even flaunted by the patient. This is called &#8220;ego-syntony&#8221;.</p>
<p>The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM) describes 12 ideal &#8220;prototypes&#8221; of personality disorders. It provides lists of seven to nine personality traits per each disorder. These are called &#8220;diagnostic criteria&#8221;. Whenever five of these criteria are met, a qualified mental health diagnostician can safely diagnose the existence of a personality disorder.</p>
<p>But important caveats apply.</p>
<p>No two people are alike. Even subjects suffering from the same personality disorder can be worlds apart as far as their backgrounds, actual conduct, inner world, character, social interactions, and temperament go.</p>
<p>Diagnosing the existence of a personality trait (applying the diagnostic criteria) is an art, not a science. Evaluating someone&#8217;s conduct, appraising the patient&#8217;s cognitive and emotional landscape, and attributing motivation to him or her, is a matter of judgment. There is no calibrated scientific instrument that can provide us with an objective reading of whether one lacks empathy, is unscrupulous, is sexualizing situations and people, or is clinging and needy.<br />
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Regrettably, the process is inevitably tainted by value judgments as well. Mental health practitioners are only human (well, OK, some of them are&#8230;:o)). They hail from specific social, economic, and cultural backgrounds. They do their best to neutralize their personal bias and prejudices but their efforts often fail. Many critics charge that certain personality disorders are &#8220;culture-bound&#8221;. They reflect our contemporary sensitivities and values rather than invariable psychological entities and constructs.</p>
<p>Thus, someone with the Antisocial Personality Disorder is supposed to disrespect social rules and regard himself as a free agent. He lacks conscience and is often a criminal. This means that non-conformists, dissenters, and dissidents can be pathologized and labeled &#8220;antisocial&#8221;. Indeed, authoritarian regimes often incarcerate their opponents in mental asylums based on such dubious &#8220;diagnoses&#8221;. Moreover, crime is a career choice. Granted, it is a harmful and unpalatable one. But since when is one&#8217;s choice of vocation a mental health problem?</p>
<p>If you believe in telepathy and UFOs and have bizarre rituals, mannerisms, and speech patterns, you may be diagnosed with the Schizotypal Personality Disorder. If you shun others and are a loner, you may be a Schizoid. And the list goes on.</p>
<p>To avoid these pitfalls, the DSM came up with a multi-axial model of personality evaluation.</p>
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		<title>Vampires: the Romantic Ideology behind Them</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The French Revolution constituted for the conscience of the dominant aristocratic class a fall from innocence, and upturning of the natural chain of events that resounded all over Europe; the old regime became, in their imaginary, a paradise lost. This explains why some romantic poets born in the higher classes were keen on seeing themselves [...]<p><a href="http://www.eurovision-ro.com/vampires-the-romantic-ideology-behind-them.html">Vampires: the Romantic Ideology behind Them</a> is a post from: <a href="http://www.eurovision-ro.com">Euro Vision Ro Education Site</a></p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The French Revolution constituted for the conscience of the dominant aristocratic class a fall from innocence, and upturning of the natural chain of events that resounded all over Europe; the old regime became, in their imaginary, a paradise lost. This explains why some romantic poets born in the higher classes were keen on seeing themselves as faded aristocrats, expelled from their comfortable milieu by a reverse of fortune or a design of destiny. Byron and Shelley are the prime instances of this vital pose. In The Giaour he writes on a vampiric character: The common crowd but see the gloom/ Of wayward deeds and fitting doom;/ The close observer can espy/A noble soul, and lineage high.</p>
<p>Byron departed from England leaving a trail of scandal over his marital conduct and since then saw himself as an exiled expatriate. Shelley was expelled from Oxford and he fell in disgrace by marrying an in-keepers daughter; he always struggled to reconcile his origin with his political ideas: Shelley could find no way of resolving his own contradictory opinions (Cronin, 2000).</p>
<p>This icon of the fallen aristocrat is rooted on another character revered by romantic poets: the fallen angel. As Mario Praz proves, miltonic Satan became the rebel figure of choice among romantic poets. Milton reversed the medieval idea of a hideous Satan and wrapped its figure with the epic grandeur of an angel fallen in disgrace. Many of the byronic heros share with Miltons Satan this fallen-from-grace condition, such as Lara: &#8220;There was in him a vital scorn of all:/<br />
As if the worst had fall&#8217;n which could befall,/ stood a stranger in this breathing world,/An erring spirit from another hurld&#8221; ( Lara XVIII 315-16)</p>
<p>There is another social factor that is behind the formation of the romantic myth of the vampire. In the early nineteen century, the foundations of what would later become a mass society were laid; the expansion of the press and of the reading public produced an increased diffusion for literary works and fostered movements such as the gothic and the sensation novel. Byron himself experienced the event of being turned into a proto-bestseller. The unification of literary taste and preferences that was a correlate to this social changes could not be more alien to the romantic notion of individual gusto and original sensibility. In order to combat this unifying forces, romantic poets revered the individual who stands outside society and is free from common concerns. Many of Byrons heros look down on the masses from above, even though they walk among them and do not lean towards wordsworthian escapades into nature; they achieve to remain untainted by the masses in a sort of exile within the world akin to that of a ghost or a dammed spirit. This self-definition of Manfred is revelatory:</p>
<p>From my youth upwards<br />
My spirit walkd not with the souls of men,<br />
Nor lookd upon the earth with human eyes;<br />
The thirst of their ambition was not mine,<br />
The aim of their existence was not mine;<br />
My joys, my griefs, my passions, and my powers<br />
Made me a stranger; though I wore the form,<br />
I had no sympathy with breathing flesh, (Manfred II, ii, 50-58)</p>
<p>Not only Byrons works contrived to produce the modern image of the vampire in relation to the Male Seducer archetype, but also some odd events in his life and the life of those surrounding him exercised a decisive influence. A critical study bundled with an anthology of vampire tales (Conde de Siruela, 2001) attributes to the short story The Vampire (1819) by John William Polidori the fixation of the classical images of the literary vampire as a villanious, cold and enigmatic aristocrat; but, above all, perverse and fascinating for women. Mario Praz, in the same line, also states that Byron was largely responsible for the vogue of vampirism. Polidori was the unfortunate doctor and personal assistant of Lord Byron who died half-crazy at 25. The idea for the tale published in 1819 came from the famous meetings at Villa Diodati on June 1816 between Byron, Percy Shelley, Mary Shelley and Polidori, in what was probably the most influential gathering for fantastic fiction in the history of modern literature. In order to pass the stormy and ether-fuelled nights, they agreed to write each one a ghost story. Mary Shelley (who was then 17 years old) got during these nights the idea of what later became Frankenstein and Polidori wrote the tale The Vampire that he would publish three years later. The story appeared in the New Monthly Magazine falsely attributed by the editor to Lord Byron (taking advantages of the aura of Satanism that surrounded the poet in the popular view to promote the sales of the magazine). A misguided Goethe hailed the story as the best that Lord Byron had ever written. The tale was, actually, a covert portrait of Lord Byron disguised as the vampire Lord Ruthven, a cruel gambler and killer of innocent girls. Polidori had introduced in the story fragments from an autobiographical and revengeful novel called Glenarvon written by Caroline Lamb, an ex-lover of Byron. The Lords reaction was a threat to the editor and the denouncing of a commercial imposture with his name. Eventually Stokers Dracula (1897) blended, according to Siruela (2001), this tradition derived from Polidoris Lord Ruthven with some old romano-hungarian tales of wandering dead and enchanted castles, fixating thus the modern images of the vampire.</p>
<p>The vampire is closely linked to another romantic archetype: the dissatisfied lover. Rafael Argullol summarizes its traits: el enamorado romntico reconoce en la consumacin amorosa el punto de inflexin a partir del cual la pasin muestra su faz desposedora y exterminadora.. The romantic lover begins to feel a sense of dissatisfaction, caducity and mortality at the very moment when his passion is fulfilled. This feeling prompts him to embark in a sentimental rollercoaster where each peak of satisfaction is followed by a valley of despair and the impulse to seek satisfaction in a new object of love in order to renew the faded passion (the extreme of this attitude is the character of Don Juan). The vampire goes one step further than the seducer: for him the loved one stands as an image of his own dissatisfaction and it must be destroyed at the very moment when the longing for her disappears; at the instant of consummation. Again Byron in Manfred expresses this transference, which Argullol opportunely labels as romantic self-mirroring: I loved her, and destroy&#8217;d her! (211). Keats conveys in his Ode on Melancholy the feeling of mortality that is hidden in the moment of pleasure for the romantic: Turning to poison while the bee-mouth sips:/ Ay, in the very temple of Delight/Veil&#8217;d Melancholy has her sovran shrine,/ Though seen of none save him whose strenuous tongue/Can burst Joy&#8217;s grape against his palate fine. La belle dame sans merci is according to Argullol also a poem where vida y muerte se vivifican y complementan mutuamente [...] se hallan en total simbiosis. But there is a crucial difference between Byron and Keats in their approach to the fatal lover: Byrons characters are fatal males, epitomized in the vampire, while Keats characters are femmes fatales. This difference underlines a different attitude to gender issues: Byron liked to emanate a dominant masculinity which is imprinted in all his leading characters. Keats, however, had a passive approach to love, his poetic personas like to be seduced even if that means, as we have seen, to be killed. Byron is the male aristocrat who thinks all women are naturally his, they are his possessions and, as such, disposable at will. Keats, who disliked Byrons Don Juan &#8211; in a letter to his brother, he referred to it as Lord Byron&#8217;s last flash poem, announces a more modern and non-patriarchal approach to love where the woman is free to be the seducer. Nevertheless, as we have seen, they both share the extreme notion of love as creation and destruction at the same time; and their characters, though of different gender, are vampire lovers. This different attitude is not only personal but it mirrors a wider and epochal distinction. Mario Praz has observed how the fatal and cruel lovers of the first half of the nineteenth century are chiefly males, while in the second half of the century the roles are gradually inverted until late century decadentism is dominated by femmes fatales. This literary process mirrors the advancement of social changes throughout the century, and the slow but continuous emancipation of love from patriarchal standards. Gender issues shift focus, but power and domination remain at the core of the portrayals of love even in the fully bourgeoisie society of the late nineteenth century. Goodland (2000) has explored the role of women as a redundant class subject to another classes and the gender/class dialectic found in the vampire.<br />
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Not only Byron and Keats were fascinated by the myth of the vampire, but we can find its presence in most romantic poets, even in the proto-romantic early Goethe. A list of authors who use such characters made by Twitchell (1981) comprises: Southey in Thalaba the destroyer, Coleridge in Christabel and Wordsworth in The Leech Gatherer.</p>
<p>As we have seen throughout this paper the figure of the vampire is shaped in the romantic period under the form of an ideological knot where many social forces converge: the French Revolution, an embryonic mass society, the decline of aristocracy and the gradual shifting apart of gender divisions from the patriarchal model. Therefore, it constitutes a myth that may be read as a battleground for the play of discourses of its era, shedding light on other romantic attitudes towards existence. As such it is subject to an analysis that, as new historicisms maintain, is aware of the historicity of a text and the textuality of history.</p>
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		<title>Asset Protection And Fraudulent Transfer</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to information provided by http://www.plan-my-estate.com an estate planning and asset protection resource web site, a Fraudulent Transfer aka Fraudulent Conveyance is a transfer which a debtor makes for the purpose of defeating a creditor&#8217;s collection efforts against the debtor. This typically happens when, say, a debtor attempts to &#8220;sell&#8221; everything to his wife, cousin [...]<p><a href="http://www.eurovision-ro.com/asset-protection-and-fraudulent-transfer.html">Asset Protection And Fraudulent Transfer</a> is a post from: <a href="http://www.eurovision-ro.com">Euro Vision Ro Education Site</a></p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>According to information provided by http://www.plan-my-estate.com an estate planning and asset protection resource web site, a Fraudulent Transfer aka Fraudulent Conveyance is a transfer which a debtor makes for the purpose of defeating a creditor&#8217;s collection efforts against the debtor. This typically happens when, say, a debtor attempts to &#8220;sell&#8221; everything to his wife, cousin or business partner for $5 to keep his stuff out of the hands of his creditors. If the court figures out that the transaction is a sham to defeat the creditor, the court will set aside the transaction and make the person holding the assets give them to the creditor. Basically, Fraudulent Transfer Law is this: You can&#8217;t do anything which would impair the rights of your unsecured creditors, if you do then the courts will simply ignore what you have done.</p>
<p>There are thousands of individuals and companies that, through e:mails or via internet web sites, offer to help you protect your assets from creditors, ex spouses and or taxing authorities. Many of these individuals and businesses help you protect your assets by having you take actions that can or will put you in violation of the Uniform Fraudulent Transfer Act. This could, in the long run, not only end up causing you to lose the assets that you were trying to protect but also cost you additional money in court costs, attorney&#8217;s fees or collection costs. Additionally, if you had a family member or friend help you, he or she could end up in court or having his or her credit harmed by having a judgment entered against him or her.</p>
<p>Many of these asset protection schemes involve transfering assets to someone you trust, a spouse, other family member, friend or a business that you form. As far as I can determin, if the creditor can prove that the transfer was done in order to avoid creditors, then under the Uniform Fraudulent Transfer Act the creditor has several remedies depending on the circumstances. These remedies can include causing a judgment to be entered against both you and the transferee, causing the property transfered to be attached or levied upon or causing a lein to be placed against the property. There are other remedies set by statute. The one thing that all of these remedies have in common is that you, the transferee or both of you could be held liable for the costs of obtaining and enforcing the remedy.</p>
<p>Note: Another thing to think about. Over the years I have been involved in numerous asset search and recovery matters where the person<br />
that the bank account, collectibles, stocks, bonds, real estate or other assets were transfered to ended up closing out, selling or otherwise transfering or encumbering the assets, leaving the original owner with nothing. No matter how much you trust someone today you never know what the future will bring.</p>
<p>Other services offer to set up a revocable living trust. They state that the assets then will belong to the trust and be protected from your creditors. As any competent attorney will advise you, this theory is completely false. Since the assets placed in the trust are yours and since you control the trust then you and the trust are the same thing and a creditor can go after any assets placed in the trust. While a revocable living trust may not be a fraudulent transfer, neither is it a way to protect your assets from creditors.</p>
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I am not saying that all asset protection companies are worthless or might get you into trouble. I assume that there are some excellent and knowledgeable asset protection companies out there. I just would feel safer getting advice directly from an attorney.</p>
<p>The best way to find out if your assets can be protected and if protecting them is worth the cost is to seek the advice of an attorney who specializes is asset protection, debt collection, estate planning or, in certain cases, bankruptcy law. In some cases the attorney will provide a free or low cost consultation.</p>
<p>Note: I am not an attorney and none of the foregoing should be construed as legal advice. This article is written strictly as my opinion based on life experiences through both my personal life and my work as a private investigator dealing with attorneys in asset search and recovery matters. As in all matters of law you should always consult an attorney before taking on any legal endeavor.</p>
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		<title>English Pronunciation For The ESL Learner</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[What is an accent? An accent is the carryover of sounds from the speakers original language to the second language. When we are infants we literally have the ability to speak any language in the world. We are all born with the necessary speech mechanisms and the capability to learn any language. We end up [...]<p><a href="http://www.eurovision-ro.com/english-pronunciation-for-the-esl-learner.html">English Pronunciation For The ESL Learner</a> is a post from: <a href="http://www.eurovision-ro.com">Euro Vision Ro Education Site</a></p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What is an accent? An accent is the carryover of sounds from the speakers original language to the second language. When we are infants we literally have the ability to speak any language in the world. We are all born with the necessary speech mechanisms and the capability to learn any language. We end up speaking the language that we do solely by reinforcement. The sounds a baby hears and the speech patterns he is exposed to are the ones that she develops. Soon the baby gains the fine motor skill and control she needs to create sounds herself. The infant will begin by babbling and playing with sounds. Soon she is able to produce simple vowel/consonant combinations which maybe why mama and dada are often their first words, they can make the combination and the big reaction it elicits reinforces their efforts. By 18 months she will be able to produce about 20 words that have meaning and understand around 50 words. Now babies of course have the ultimate immersion experience. In order to obtain any control over their environment they must learn the language and they are surrounded by the language almost 24 hours a day.</p>
<p>Of course the second language learner does not have these advantages. Even if you are now living in an English speaking country, and attending classes to learn English you will still have opportunity to speak and hear your first language with friends and family, this is especially true in America a county of immigrants where finding a community of people with the same language background is possible.</p>
<p>Another challenge is the expectation factor. For many years you have heard a speech pattern and there is an expectation of what you will hear when others speak. You are predicting what sounds will come next based on your subconscious knowledge of language. I call this listening with an accent. It is necessary to break through this barrier, to really hear how others are speaking, to actively listen.</p>
<p>To listen is to learn, and I dont mean that in an existential way. I really mean that if you cant hear the way the sounds are produced you cannot learn how to produce the sound. Maybe that is why ETS added speaking and listening sections to the TOEFL. The two skills are so closely linked.<br />
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Once you can hear the sounds you must add them to your own phonetic library. This means that you have in your mind the knowledge and understanding of how to produce every sound or phoneme in you original language. Now you must add on some sounds that are in the American sound system that is not in your original language sounds system. Record your self reading a brief paragraph. Only 2-3 sentences in English. Then listen to the recording. Write down exactly what you hear on the recording. Not what you meant to say but what you really did say. How is it different from what was written? Did you say th, when it was written or did you say d? I would suggest sticking with the consonants at first because the differences are easier to pinpoint.</p>
<p>If you would like to get help in improving your pronunciation it would be best to go to a speech therapist rather than an ESL teacher. Speech therapists are trained in physiology of the speech mechanisms and musculature. They understand what is involved in producing each sound and are trained to identify and work with articulation problems. Though an accent is not the same as an articulation problem they have similar characteristics. When a client has difficulty articulating specific sounds the speech therapist can hear and see what they are doing differently and describe and show how to do it correctly. When a client has an accent the speech therapist can see what the person is doing differently and show and describe how to make the sound so it more closely approximates the standard.</p>
<p>The most important advice I can give you is to keep practicing. At first it may feel like you are exaggerating when you speak with an American accent but I am sure that the native American speakers around you will not even notice. They will merely be impressed with your great diction!</p>
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		<title>Back to School Responsibilities Again</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Its that time of year when mom and dad look for ways to improve their childs academic standing during the upcoming scholastic year or, at least, they should be. There are many options to weigh in such as: new school clothes, school supplies, peer pressure, after school care, homework, league sports, and transportation. This is [...]<p><a href="http://www.eurovision-ro.com/back-to-school-responsibilities-again.html">Back to School Responsibilities Again</a> is a post from: <a href="http://www.eurovision-ro.com">Euro Vision Ro Education Site</a></p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Its that time of year when mom and dad look for ways to improve their childs academic standing during the upcoming scholastic year or, at least, they should be.</p>
<p>There are many options to weigh in such as: new school clothes, school supplies, peer pressure, after school care, homework, league sports, and transportation.</p>
<p>This is time of year for great changes, but here are two changes that will impact your child for life and require a bit of work and commitment on your part.</p>
<p>Expose your child or children to some kind of faith: The faith of your parents, your faith, your spouses faith, or the faith that you left behind. Set an example and start attending a temple, mosque, shrine, or church right now.</p>
<p>If your children have nothing to believe in, will they have a happy, productive, and successful life? You already know the answer to the question, and it requires work to teach children. Anybody can let years go by, and teach their children nothing.</p>
<p>Find a hobby that suits your child and have them stick to it. Oh no, more work! Yes, it is, but your child will benefit immensely from this decision.<span id="more-396"></span></p>
<p>It could be dance, Yoga, martial arts, music, gymnastics, boy scouts, girl scouts, or something else, but whatever it is, your child should initially like it. At that point have them make a commitment and dont allow them to quit unless there is a solid reason.</p>
<p>If a coach, teacher, or tutor is abusive, thats an understandable reason to leave, but you can always find another coach. In truth, if you allow laziness, in your child, you will receive it. Children will usually follow the path of least resistance, but they crave structure.</p>
<p>My experience has been: Children constantly turn their attitudes around, for the better, in martial arts and Yoga classes. Due to the fact, that there is a formal set of existing rules and a code of conduct.</p>
<p>Dont allow them to sit in a corner with a video game and a television, except for rare occasions. There are too many good things going on in the real world that need their attention.</p>
<p>These two changes will instill fortitude, perseverance, and goal-setting skills that last a lifetime. The rewards can be endless, for your whole family.</p>
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