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    In his Article "Science Nonfiction" Niv Lilien expresses the fact that in the future‚ technology will have a massive role in our daily life style. He emphasizes that a future that revolves exclusively around technology is not far away .Throughout the article‚ he verifies his assumptions by interviewing technology leaders and specialists who share the same mindset as he does. The writer begins with an imaginary story which describes how he believes our future will look like in 40 years. The protagonist

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    Reaction Paper-Nonfiction Tammy J. Murr ENG/125 January 12‚ 2013 Kristine Fox What is the Author’s Main Idea? In the course of this paper I will discuss what I believe the author’s main idea is. I will explain what the author is trying to convey to the readers and explain the strategies I think the writer used in conveying his ideas. I will illustrate the meaning of my paper with relevant quotes from the author’s work. I have chosen “Letter from Birmingham Jail” by Martin Luther King‚

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    25 February 2013 LOTF Nonfiction Research 1. TOPIC: Plane Crash Survivors 2. MLA Citation: Northedge‚ Charlotte. "The People Who Fell to Earth." The Guardian. Guardian News and Media‚ 20 Feb. 2009. Web. 25 Feb. 2013. . 3. Factual Summary: This source was about Josh Peltz‚ Upton Rehnberg‚ Rosebell Kirungi‚ Dominica McGowan‚ Mercedes Ramirez Johnson‚ and Fred Jones‚ six different plane crash survivors. Each of these six people have six different ages‚ six different stories‚ about six different

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    1. We the Media is Informative Nonfiction because it provides factual information. It explains how technology has changed and how we the consumers are now producing the news through emails‚ mailing lists‚ chat groups‚ and by personal web journals. The big corporations can no longer control what is being published about themselves. We the general people can communicate information just like a professional reporter at little or no cost. 2. When I first started reading it I thought it was boring. However

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    So emphatic is Melissa Fay Greene that Praying for Sheetrock is a work of nonfiction that she includes the phrase as a part of the title. Perhaps she feared that her use of novelistic techniques might lead the reader astray into believing that the stories she tells‚ the history she recounts‚ are imagined or distorted. Without resorting to journalese‚ she employs some of the reporter’s tricks to make her work more immediate: background stories‚ anecdotes of local color‚ repetition‚ and just enough

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    The Three literary nonfiction stories are based on actual events that are described in detail by the writer in order to enable the reader to relive the experience in vivid and emotional detail. Brian Mockenhaupt´s ¨The Living and the Dead¨ gives the reader a detailed picture of the life of a Marine that was stationed in Afghanistan. He described how he lived with the fear of not knowing what will happen during his tour. Detailed events of his relationship with his comrades‚ ranging from clearing

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    3A2 Communications 600-word essay on Active Listening "If speaking is silver‚ then listening is gold." -- Turkish saying Essay will be in two parts: 1. On Monday January 27th in class Submit your 150-word outline of your essay. 2. On Monday February 3rd in class Submit your completed perfect 600-word essay in class ESSAY DETAILS: Use the following links and any other resources. Cite at least 6 sources in a short bibliography. Answer the following questions in about 600

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    Truman Capote is credited with originating the “nonfiction novel” with In Cold Blood. Nonfiction is defined as “writing that is about facts or real events” (Merriam-Webster). Capote was the first person to write a novel with it being nonfiction. He based the whole novel on true facts and real events occurring in Holcomb Kansas. An interview done with Capote revealed‚ “the decision was based on a theory I’ve harbored since I first began to write professionally‚ which is well over 20 years ago. It

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    smaller and more bright individual. The perception is that Capote created these characters but his novel‚ “In Cold Blood‚” the character’s Perry Edwards Smith and Richard (Dick) Eugene Hickock are real people. That is why Capote’s book is considered a nonfiction novel. On the other hand‚ John Steinbeck writes the book‚ “Of Mice and Men‚” which is about what it means to be human. The main characters George Milton and Lennie Small

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    Active Learning Research consistently has shown that traditional lecture methods‚ in which professors talk and students listen‚ dominate college and university classrooms. It is therefore important to know the nature of active learning‚ the empirical research on its use‚ the common obstacles and barriers that give rise to faculty members ’ resistance to interactive instructional techniques‚ and how faculty‚ faculty developers‚ administrators‚ and educational researchers can make real the promise

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