Communication devices Types Communication Devices FAX E-MAIL VIDEO CONFERRENCE PORTABLE MEDIA PLAYERS BLUETOOTH COMPUTERS FAX Fax is short for ‘facsimile’ which means ‘copy’. A fax machine is a device that can send a copy of a paper document over the telephone network. The sending fax converts the light/dark areas of the printed document into noises. These noises travel through the phone system and are received by another fax machine. The receiving fax machine converts the noises into printed
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Transitional Devices (Connecting Words) Brought to you by the Purdue University Online Writing Lab at http://owl.english.purdue.edu Transitional devices are like bridges between parts of your paper. They are cues that help the reader to interpret ideas in the way that you‚ as a writer‚ want them to understand. Transitional devices help you carry over a thought from one sentence to another‚ from one idea to another‚ or from one paragraph to another with words or phrases. And finally‚ transitional
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A short story on The True Story of Ah Q Two very important novels from Chinese literature were written in response to societies faults. Lu Hsun’s short storie "The True Story of Ah Q" and Pa Chin’s famous novel The Family‚ both commented on political and sociological problems that occurred in China in the early 1900s. Because of major events‚ like the revolution of 1911 and The May Fourth Movement‚ these novels address the situations during these time periods. Women’s rights‚ individual freedom
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Indiana Jones film series‚ Jones is always on the hunt for some mystical artifact. In Raiders of the Lost Ark‚ he is trying to retrieve the Ark of the Covenant; in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade‚ Jones is on a search for the Holy Grail. This plot device dates back to the medieval Arabian Nights tale of "The City of Brass"‚ in which a group of travellers on an archaeological expedition[2] journey across the Sahara to find a brass vessel that Solomon once used to trap a jinn.[3] Several books in the
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Video 1.06 Storage Devices Hard Drives Hard drives are comprised of platters Read/Write heads for each platter Read and write on top and bottom of platter Never exposed to magnets Data loss may occur 137 GB Limit Hard Drive size limited to 137GB Not a physical limit Limited by address the system can support 28 bit communications limited to 268‚435‚555 addresses equates to 137 GB Flash BIOS to upgrade hard drive interfaces PATA‚ SATA‚ SCSI‚ USB‚ and FireWire most common is the
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this paper I am going to compare and contrast a literary text (Education for Leisure by Carol Ann Duffy) and a non literary text (Newspaper article from “The Independent” by Nigel Morris) focussing on the language features used‚ the structural and presentational devices‚ the use of correct punctuations‚ analyse the structure of the non literary text for bias and the techniques used to convey meaning and ideas by both authors. The objective of literary texts is to teach the readers a life lesson with
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Robert Graves‚ another english poet who was born on 24 July 1895 into a middle class family in London. Graves became well known for the poems he composed during the time of World War I. In 1914‚ when the war was declared‚ Graves enlisted promptly and gained a commission in the Royal Welch Fusiliers. Graves is considered as one of the few poets who could put the horror of trench life onto paper. He was able to accurately depict life as a soldier. His poetry is defined by fine language and brilliant
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My Sister’s Keeper written by Jodi Picoult in 2004‚ explores the lives of two sisters‚ Kate and Anna Fitzgerald as they come to terms with Kate’s illness and Anna being the only family member with the power to save her sister; regardless of the emotional and physical toll it has on the youngest child. The novels many themes and ideas focus on the thin line between what is right and what is wrong and how the different members of the Fitzgerald family interpret it and death. The bond between the different
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The title of this film was Digging For The Truth The Vikings Voyage to America.This film focused on the Vikings‚ how they lived and their journeys through sailing ships. The objective was to learn more about Eric Read and the journey of the discovery of North America. In the beginning‚ of the Film‚ the narrator is seen traveling in a Viking ship made similar like the ones in the past‚ his first goal is to travel to Iceland to learn more about former Viking sailor Eric Read. In this film‚ there
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SYNTACTIC STYLISTIC DEVICES The sentence‚ as a unit of a certain level‚ is a sequence of relatively independent lexical and phrasal units (words or word combinations)‚ and what differentiates a sentence from a word is the fact that the sentence structure is changeable; it does have any constant length: it can be shortened or extended‚ complete or incomplete‚ simple‚ compound or complex. Besides‚ its constituents‚ length‚ word-order‚ as well as communicative type (assertion‚ negation‚ interrogation
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