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    How does the Catherine Tate sketch use language? Catherine Tate uses a wide variety of linguistic techniques and lexis throughout the comedy sketch with the Prime minister. The effects these techniques have on the audience are focused as they effectively engage the audience whilst being humorous and tactile. The tenor used is strong and inappropriate. Our expectations of a girl participating in work experience with the Prime Minister are somewhat obedient and well mannered‚ yet the complete

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    Prompted by the increasing amount of exorbitant prams being used by new parents as a marker so social status‚ Catherine Deveny’s "Bugger Me‚ I Have Had Just About It With Bugaboos And Pramzillas In General" was published in the Age. In her piece‚ Deveny condemns the aforementioned "monster prams" and their materialistic owners. Deveny attempts to append those outside of the group of parents she is targeting in her opinion. Deveny asserts that designer prams are wrongly used by narcissistic parents

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    fruitful and allowed the settlers to reestablish their families. The year 1848 would bring a new perception of the West and introduced the gold rush‚ which would harm the existing settlers living in California. In Across the Plains in 1844‚ by Catherine Sager Pringle‚ the story of migrating the trails West was expressed as one of trial and tribulation. The travel proved tough and countless

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    In this journal entry‚ I want to elaborate on the different attitude towards the Tsarist annexation of the Baltic territories among the different ethnical and cultural communities. Especially‚ the Livonian nobility supported Peter the Great`s conquest of Swedish Livonia during the Nordic reason. For‚ Peter the Great provided the local nobility and citizens with cultural and political and cultural autonomy in the two new established gubernnia‚ namely Lieflandskaya gubernia and Estlandskaya gubernia

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    going through changes; there were a set of new powers that began to rise. Austria‚ Prussia‚ and Russia were joining the ranks of other strong European countries due to the fact that they were all beginning to build powerful nations. There were important figures in all three countries that led them in the rise to power. Maria Theresa played a major role in Austria’s gain of power because unlike Russia and Prussia‚ Austria had once been a powerful nation. Maria Theresa was the only female ruler

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    Catherine Grout’s Art Intervention Space explains that the public space art is a practice activity for the public to participate through public communication medium. Moreover‚ interactive media art relies on the interaction of the participants. It desires about exchanging the idea of authors and the feelings of the audiences. Christian Moeller has explored the way about applying the interactive media art in the architecture art since 1990. His magnificent work Audio Grove and On Air particularly

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    PAPER Singaporean Short Story By Catherine Lim He dreamt about it‚ he hankered after it like an addict after his opiate. When it came to his mind the idea of big and beautiful house‚ Tay Soon always think of it until it become his insanity in his life. A house. A house of his dream‚ just like what his family see every time they pass by in their street behind the elegant subdivision and in pages of Homes and Modern living Magazines. He knows every detail of his dream house from the aluminum sliding

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    Question 1: What does Thompson say about the lives and belies of people in Kievan Russia? The Kievan state of Russia dates back to first settlement in 800 AD and continues on to about 1200 AD when the internal discord weakened the state paired along side the Mongol conquest of the thirteenth century. During this time‚ the Kievan state was diversified yet the manner in which this first state of Russia was established is unclear. This however is “where the fundamental characteristics of Russian

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    Moscow? The land we know today as Russia began with native inhabitants known as the Slavic People. The term Slav or Slavic would later create the term in the western hemisphere‚ ‘slave.’ The Slavic people were enslaved by Scandinavian settlers known as the Vikings. The enslavement of the Slavs‚ created the western term of slave. The Vikings arrived in Russia via the Volga River basin. They came mainly from frozen Sweden‚ seeking better lands to pillage and farm. Russia turned out to become an extremely

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    I would not sit waiting for some vague tomorrow‚ nor for something to happen. One could wait a lifetime‚ and find nothing at the end of the waiting. I would begin here‚ I would make something happen.” - Louis L’Amour. Many people will believe that achieving an ambition can be the only result of continuous positive effort and attitude‚ but it is also merely the same reason to cause negative influences to own self and others. Through the short story‚ “Paper”‚ by Catherine Lim‚ this idea is portrayed

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