and different audiences (eg adults‚ friends‚ potential employers). Key to each context is purpose - why we are having the conversation in the first place. Are we sharing gossip with friends in order to bond more tightly with our social group? Or boasting of some achievement in order to raise our status within that group? Are we giving or asking for important information? Are we persuading someone we are trustworthy so they will give us a job? Changing the way we speak is an important way of building
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he made his supper” (Homer 110). Instead of welcoming strangers to his house and preparing food for the tired seamen to eat‚ Polyphemus violently eats two men‚ and keeps the rest of the crew hostage in his cave. Polyphemus has no respect for Zeus‚ boasting that‚ “The Cyclops pay no heed to aegis-bearing Zeus” (Homer 109). Zeus is the guardian of strangers‚ and whoever welcomes strangers is hospitable‚ so it is clear to see that Polyphemus has no hospitality‚ which leads to him violently eating two
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Throughout my high school years‚ I spent the majority of my time competing on the track team. I was immersed in diversity during the dozens of practices and meets. Just the sport itself is a metaphor of diversity. Ranging from the high jump‚ javelin‚ to one mile runs‚ the various competitions a member of the team could compete in were numerous. I was able to distinguish myself in the sport by choosing my own events and becoming the best I can be. From the time I joined the team to the last year
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fate vs free will Language Arts An anonymous author once stated‚ “Fate is a fixed decree by which the order of things is prescribed; the immutable law of the universe; and the force by which all existence is determined and conditioned.” But there is one question most humans struggle to solve. Do we as people have the ability to control our fate? The author of the choral ode feels that we do not have the power to be
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righteousness only through faith in the cross‚ there is absolutely no room for boasting (Schreiner‚ 200). One of the main disagreements in the Roman church was the gospel. The Jews‚ were refusing the gospel by stressing the importance of the Torah and works of the law while Gentiles were thinking that the Jews were not able to come to faith because of their lack of understanding of the gospel (Keck 31). Each were boasting in their own way of salvation‚ but Paul makes it clear that neither belief is
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Abstract I would like to convey that with the help of this project I got the opportunity to understand a subject I was interested in. I came to know about how the electric cars are marketed in different parts of the world according to their needs. I also came across a point where I understood the advantages and disadvantages of electric cars over our regular petrol or diesel injected cars. I came to know about its relation with nature by saving the environment compared to our usual cars and also
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looked into the mirror‚ she saw an unfamiliar face‚ her face with big brown eyes. Alice can be described as an adaptive person. She learned to adapt to her new body and to her new friends‚ new environment. Alice is also a proud person. She keeps boasting about her new features compared to old body. Alice is also confident. Since she got her body replaced she decided to join cheerleading. And she had the confidence that Alice and her family will get through this struggle of hers. In the story
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were considered gifted with nearly supernatural ability. Poe had drawn attention to it as a novelty over four months in the Philadelphia publication Alexander’s Weekly Messenger in 1840. He had asked readers to submit their own substitution ciphers‚ boasting he could solve all of them with little effort. Poe wrote "The Gold-Bug" as one of the few pieces of literature to incorporate ciphers as part of the story. Poe’s character Legrand’s explanation of his ability to solve the cipher is very like Poe’s
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Never Let Me Go – Kathy Kathy is a person who is proud of doing her best‚ she tries to describe to the reader without “trying to boast”. This shows that she is please with how she has done as a carer but also that she is aware that boasting too much can “get peoples backs up.” This also shows that she sees herself as privileged as she is “a Hailsham student.” Kathy is also portrayed as an unreliable narrator as she describes herself as “not the wilting type” although she “walked off” when
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Name ___________________________________ Date ___________________ A Tale of Two Cities Class Notes and Study Guide Questions Book I‚ Chapter 1: "The Period" I. Notes It was the best of times‚ it was the worst of times‚ it was the age of wisdom‚ it was the age of foolishness‚ it was the epoch of belief‚ it was the epoch of incredulity‚ it was the season of Light‚ it was the season of Darkness‚ it was the spring of hope‚ it was the winter of despair‚ we had everything before us‚ we had
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