### awareness:

Cultural awareness
* continues through the study of French-speaking nations throughout the world
  - Spanish-speaking nations throughout the world
* is an essential component of language proficiency
  - emphasized through the study of various aspects of life in France
  - important to instill a sense of global citizenship and responsibility
* varies among individuals
  - within individuals

Ecological awareness
* is part of the zeitgeist.
* vital aspect of spirituality.

Emotional awareness
* can enable an individual to reduce symptoms, and resolve conflicts.
* is the first step in spiritual development
  - on the spiritual path

Environmental awareness
* Creates a better awareness of our relationship with the earth.
* is an important part of protecting other animals
  - the first step towards actively saving endangered species
* leads to a simplistic form of globalism.

Global awareness
* involves understanding and reflecting on knowledge and issues related to diversity.
* is an attitude, a way of thinking.

### awareness:

Phonemic awareness
* deals with hearing language at the phoneme level
  - the sounds of spoken words which prerequisite to reading
* indicates that children understand the nature of a phonetic language.
* is all about hearing sounds and has nothing to do with the printed letters
  - an essential first step in learning to read
  - basically the ability to recognize spoken words as a sequence of sounds
* is the ability to discriminate and manipulate the sound system of a language
  - hear sounds within a word when it is spoken
  - judge sounds within words
* is the foundation on which all other reading skills are built
  - upon which are constructed all other reading skills
  - greatest predictor of reading success
  - important first step in learning how to read
  - insight that every spoken word can be conceived as a sequence of phonemes
  - means of tracking sounds within words
  - recognition and understanding of sounds in spoken words
  - skill that needs to be developed prior to learning phonics
* key predictor of spelling success.
* plays a critical role in a child s ability to learn to read.
* refers to one's understanding of and access to the sound structure of language.
* skill crucial for learning to read English.
* sub-category of phonological awareness.

Phonological awareness
* is one such mental substrate
  - teachable and promoted by attentions to instructional variables
* is the ability to tune into speech sounds apart from meaning
  - oral language ability to understand the sound structure of speech
  - understanding of the internal linguistic structure of words
* skill and can be improved with direct training and practice.

Public awareness
* crucial tool in helping the conservation of our natural habitat.
* impacts people of all ages in the community.
* is crucial in order for all children to be accepted and valued
  - essential to a society that respects human rights in both theory and practice
  - everyone's responsibility
* is the first step in changing habits and making rural roadways safer
  - key to placing shelter animals in new, happy homes
* plays an enormous part in wetland conservation.

Self awareness
* can save days and years of hard knocks.
* embraces a positive self perception.
* grows with movement awareness.
* is awareness
  - one thing, dependency is something else
  - the lynch pin
  - very important to good mental being
* product of change and risk.
* takes the place of guilt.

Spiritual awareness
* breeds compassion for all living things.
* is the key to freedom
  - only way that healing can occur

Azide
* Many azides are explosive and very toxic.
+ Azide: Nitrogen compounds
  * It is formed when hydrazoic acid is deprotonated. It is a powerful reducing agent. The most common azide is sodium azide. Many azides are explosive and very toxic.