Spanish Language & Culture Program
While improving your language skills, you can learn about Spanish culture. With the help, of courses in art, tourism, cinema and more....taught in Spanish.
Place: Alicante. Spain
Price: $ 3.495
Dates:
Program: from May 5th. 2019 to June 1st, 2019
Application: by March 1st, 2019Withdrawal: before April 1st.2019
Application:
Complete application
GPA:not less than 2.5.
$ 95 online application fee
Education completed: high school graduate
Program Details
You'll take 1 language course and 1 culture course. language courses meet for 60class hours/ 4 credits(学分). While culture courses meet for 20 hours/1 credit. Language and culture courses meet daily. Monday-Friday. Active learning of your courses may be scheduled for Fridays.
Before you leave for Alicante, you will choose your preferred courses and take a language placement exam. You'll be admitted to courses based on their availability. So it is in your best interest to have your home university agree with many courses before you set off for Alicante. To make sure that you receive the credit for the language level that is fit for you, have your home university pre-agree with courses at several levels before you leave for Spain. Please ask your advisor at your home university about credit guidelines.
Where You'll Study and Stay
Lying on one of Spain's most. attractive campuses, the University of Alicante allows you to take part in classes and activities: with Spanish and other international students.You can choose CEA housing or prepare your own independent housing. CEA housing will make every effort to match your housing requests.
When Andrew Kaplan recalls, his stories leave the impression that he has managed to pack multiple lives into a single existence: A war reporter in his 20s. an army member, a successful businessman and- later. the author of numerous spy novels and Hollywood scripts.
Now the silver haired 78-year old has realized he would like his loved ones to have access to those stories, even when he is no longer alive to share them. Kaplan has agreed to become "AndyBot"— a virtual person who will be: immortalized(T F5)in the cloud for hundreds, perhaps thousands of years
If all goes according to plan future generations will be able to interact with him using voice computing platforms of mobile devices, asking him questions, letting him tell stories and drawing upon a lifetime's worth of advice long after his physical body is gone.
Someday, Kaplan, who playfully refers to himself as a pig, may be remembered as one of the world's first digital humans.
For decades, Silicon Valley futurists have sought to free humanity from the life cycle. Today, a new generation of companies is selling some approximation(近似) of virtual immortality, which gives people the opportunity to preserve one's legacy(遗产) online forever.
Kaplan is eager to become one of the world's first virtual residents, partly because he considers the effort a way to extend closed family bonds over multiple generations.
If technology succeeds in creating emotionally intelligent digital humans, experts say, it may forever change the way living people cooperate with computers and experience loss. "AndyBot" may become one of the world's first: meaningful examples, raising complex philosophical questions about the nature of immortality and the purpose of existence itself.
The United States is home to 562 recognized American Indian Nations each with its own language.
Yet the number of native. Americans with the ability to speak their tribe's language has decreased over the past century.
Now, Indian Nations are trying different ways to expand the number of native speakers, and increase interest in their communities to learn tribal languages.
Since the late 1800s many American Indian children have attended boarding schools. At that time, Indian children were required to attend schools by law, and the government forced Indian families to send their children to such schools.
The children were separated from their families. and given English name The teachers often taught native American students in English, instead of the language of their parents. They were told they needed to learn English in order to get a job, earn money and buy a house or nice things.
However, fearing a loss of history and culture, the Indian Nations are experimenting with new ways to increase the language ability of tribal members.
At least one organization is turning to modern technology—The Sealaska Heritage Institute, a nonprofit group, has developed two apps for speakers of the Tlingit language.
The "Learning Tlingit" app serves as a reference for important language topics such as conversation phrases, number, and letters.
The Tlingit tribe has about 10, 000 members. They live mainly in southeastern Alaska. But as of 2013, the tribe had only 125 native speakers left. in addition, very few young people are able to speak Tlingit.
Currently there are two apps, called "Learning Tlingit" and "Tlingit Language Games". The "Learning Tlingit" app serves as a language guide. It provides Tlingit words and expressions, the tribal alphabet, as well as a basic list of the words included. With the "Tlingit Language Games" app, users are given a choice of different places of environments, like a house, forest or ocean.
A new study suggests a link between exposure to greenery and reduced desires for alcohol cigarette and junk food.
The study is the first to investigate the possible relationships between exposure to nature and desires and negative emotions. Researchers at the University of Plymouth's School of Psychology surveyed 149 respondents (应答者) aged 21 o 65 about the proportion( 比例 )of green space in their neighborhood, the presence of green views from their home, their access to a garden and how often they use public green space. The study also asked questions about experiences with depression and anxiety, as well as desires for things like caffeine, alcohol and nicotine. Participants rated the intensity( 强度), imagery, and intrusiveness(侵扰性) of their desires on an 11-point scale.
Researchers found the presence of visible green space contributed to decreased desires for junk food. The effect was particularly noticeable when more than 25 percent of a respondent's view was greenery.
Previous scholarship(学术研究) has dealt mostly with exercise in nature: A 2015 study out of the University of Michigan found 90- minute group nature walks were effective at combatting depression and relieving other mood disorders. But for people who struggle with accessibility or don't have time for a 90-minute walk, this new study suggests just looking out a window at a tree can help fight off a bad habit.
"It has been known for some time that being outdoors in nature is linked to a person's well-being," lead author Leanne Martin said in a statement." But for there to be a similar association with desires from simply being able to see green space adds a new dimension to the previous research."
A 2018 study from Denmark's Aarhus University for example, found that. Having access to green space throughout childhood decreased a person's risk of developing mental health problems as an adult.
For many of us, college can be a game of trial and error. For the author, the time she spent in college was invaluable not just for the degree itself but because it's where she finally grew up.
Delay rarely pays
Throughout high school, I was typically able to put off a task until the last minute. I learned the importance of beginning a large commitment early, then dedicating a few hours a day to it to ensure it gets done right especially when burdened with big projects and papers.
When I began my freshman year. I knew I wanted to go into sports broadcasting. Two years in I fell in love with news feature writing. Then six months after that, with web content creation. I learned that plans are always subject to change and should never be restrictive And that didn't make them any less significant.
No one has it all figured out
But in fact one of the biggest realizations of adulthood for me is that most of us are just along for the ride and doing the best we can.
Time management is key
After going to college, a variety of activities have also become enriched. You have to face the problems which everyone has to face to balance academics, community activities, work experience and so on, because those will defeat you.
A. Every minute must be taken advantage of.
B. The goals and dreams will change all the time.
C. We must learn to choose and adjust our schedule.
D. Only by doing so can we realize the importance of college life.
E. Here are biggest lessons she learned outside of the classroom walls.
F. But you usually can't do that at a collegiate level.
G. I had always assumed that adults had it all and never got lost.
When I was a boy of nine. I used to mow the lawn(草坪) of Mrs. Long, an elderly lady. She paid me very little. But she did promise me, "when Christmas come, I shall have a present for you." I spent much time1what it would be.
"It would not be a2glove," I3with myself. "She wouldn't know much about baseball." Since she was a fragile little person, I also4 the bicycle, for how could she5such a big thing?
As December arrived and ice began to form on the6. I began to imagine myself upon the7, trying my8on the surface of it. On the 22st of December, couldn't wait any more and marched down the street,9myself at the door of the house whose lawn I had10all summer. What she had was a(n)11parcel. When I12 it from her, I found it weighed almost nothing. I was13 disappointed. "A kind of magic. Do open it on Christmas morning." Mrs. Long said. Anyway, her words again set my mind14with new possibilities.
How long the15was! On Christmas morning, with great16, I opened the package and found a17box, in which I only saw ten18of black paper. Was it magic? Aunt Laura who taught school, said "It really is!". She showed me how to write.
That a pencil could write on one piece of paper and mysteriously record on another was a magic which satisfied my childish mind. It reached me at that19Christmas when I was able to comprehend it.
Since then I have received some pretty thundering Christmas presents but none that ever came close to the20of this one.
The People's Republic of China marked its 70th anniversary on Tuesday with a series of National Day celebrations at the heart of the country's capital. The massive events in Tian'anmen Square, such as unique military parade, massive Pageantry(盛典), (design)to be environmentally (friend). The 70-gun salute that kicked off the day's events (include) pollution control technology. According to the Global Times. The result was nearly zero emissions were created by the firing of the 56 cannon shells. The parade concluded the release of 70, 000 "peace doves". They were contributed by local pigeon lovers, trained and volunteered their birds for event. (answer) a call from the Beijing Carer Pigeon Association. These borrowed birds were trained (make) their way home after their release in the center of the city. Some pigeon (own) shared photos online of their returning birds. 70,000 colorful balloons were also released. The balloons were made of an eco-friendly and biodegradable plastic.
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Once, I got lost on a trip. Then I met an old lady and asked me the way.
The lady told me, "Turn left from here until a school, and then turn right from there. Go straight on and you find a place with a crossing..." With that, the old lady thinks for a while and then she said," When you get there, you are not far away from the place which you live. At that time you'd better to ask someone else. Even though I tell you now, you may not remember."
According to the old lady's help, I got to a crossing soon. Then I asked a passer-by there and quick turned back to my living place at no time.
Although it was a minor matter, it influenced me greatly. Now I realize our abilities are limit and many of our problems can't be solved overnight. So we must act step by step, gradually approach the destination.
Dear Jackie,
I am terribly sorry to know that you are in bad health because of lack of proper physical exercise.
I hope my e-mail will help you and look forward to your recovery soon.
Yours,
Li Hua
