Running head: Effects of excessive use of the TV. Effects of an Excessive Use of the TV Yarina Veras Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra The television has been one of the most revolutionary inventions ever made. It’s an indispensable device in our daily life. Through the TV people find out what’s happening around the world and also gives one pleasure to relaxing after a long day of work. However it could cause many harmful effects like mental fatigue‚ addiction and insomnia
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The film version of ¨A Christmas Carol¨ is extremely more preferable. The literature version just simply doesn’t give off as much of a mood‚ the text is extremely too dull. In written form the story isn’t pulling me in‚ and appears like a fantasy. The text is just not appealing‚ and that’s the main reason why the movie is better. Although I love to read‚ I like watching movies better. Both the movie‚ and the story are very fun to watch and read. I recommend you to check them out‚ they’ll most likely
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Tonielle Jackson Dr. Manson English 351-01 March 13‚ 2013 Charles Dickens: A Christmas Carol During the year of 1843 employer/employee relations were known to be horrible and no one thought it would change for the better. Charles Dickens’s novella A Christmas Carol gives a great description of how the relations were carried out. In his novella‚ Dickens reveals the harsh conditions and lack of relationship between the employer and employee. Through this novella we can see that the relationship
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we come into the Christmas season‚ it is easy for us to forget what is important. Like me for instant forgetting my daughter on the store counter‚ we can get our priorities totally mix up and the true meaning of Christmas gets lost. We began to think about buying presents and who gets this and that‚ we talk about light decoration for the tree and Christmas dinners and parties. Let me tell you saints the true meaning of Christmas is not found in wrapping presents and Christmas decoration and parties;
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WHY HAS TERRORISM BECOME SUCH AN IMPORTANT ISSUE OVER THE LAST 40 YEARS? There are many reasons why terrorism has become such an important issue over the last 40 years. In this paper I will be exploring the answers to this question through three related topics; 1) the threat from terrorism; 2) why people join terrorist groups and; 3) dealing with terrorism. I will be using the sources provided and historical facts related to three groups; the IRA‚ the PLO and Al-Qaeda. Section 1 – The threat from
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Practice Essay #2: “In A Christmas Carol‚ Dickens delivers strong criticisms of the society in which he lives. Discuss” A Christmas Carol written by one of the most influential social reform novelists of the nineteenth century‚ Charles Dickens‚ delivers very harsh criticisms of Victorian London. Dickens presents these criticisms through the behaviour of the novella’s protagonist‚ Ebenezer Scrooge. His character displays everything that Dickens perceives as being wrong in Victorian society. His
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critique is Tim Burton’s “The Nightmare Before Christmas”. The story is an animated musical that puts in a world where Halloween is always celebrated but also gives you a brighter side of the joy in the Christmas holiday. Although the movie is not directed by Tim Burton‚ Henry Selick brings an animated holiday musical to the big screen. Unlike other holiday movies like Rudolph the Red nose reindeer and Frosty the Snowman. The Nightmare before Christmas has a wide variety of misfit characters and scenarios
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contract an illness such as cancer often make radical changes in their lifestyle and behavior when confronted with the fragility of life. In literature‚ change is often accompanied by great drama such as A Christmas Carol where the character Ebenezer Scrooge tries to find out who he is. In A Christmas Carol‚ Dickens uses the supernatural to dramatize the need for Ebenezer Scrooge to change from miser to socially responsible citizen. At the start of the novella‚ Scrooge is a bitter man who is obsessed
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The text “Back for Christmas” by John Collier is written in a style of fiction. The story is about farewell party to the doctor Carpenter and his wife. In the beginning of the text we can see the Carpenters’ living room that was filled with the close friends who had come to say “last-minute farewell” - the author used this epithet to show us that their friends would be missing him very much. On the contrary with his wife doctor Carpenter wasn’t sure he would come in time‚ he thought smth
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“January: Christmas Rolls” and Getta Kothar’s “If You Are What You Eat‚ Then What Am I?”. Throughout both of the stories‚ the female protagonists contemplate rebellion of their expected traditional customs and question why their lives have to be the way they are. The preparation and consumption of food is always the setting for when they ponder the contesting views in their lives and try to make decisions for themselves that will hopefully satisfy everyone. Throughout “January: Christmas Rolls” Tita
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