CRITICAL RESPONSE: “MOBILE PHONES AND LITERACY” by Samuel Tsung AND “TEXT MESSAGES AND THE DECLINE OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE” by Louise Dite As SMS messages has brought significant changes to our lives by revolutionizing the way people communicate‚ using abbreviations in texting has become more popular than ever as a quick and convenient choice to exchange information. Yet‚ there remains some disagreement as to whether this useful and powerful tool of communication has been positive or negative
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11 June 2013 A Critical Response to “Delicate Friend” The essay “Delicate Friend” written by Lauren Jackson is about her social addiction to cigarettes. Lauren’s mother would smoke cigarettes with her friends in the kitchen of their home while gossiping and keeping the children out. Lauren was jealous of this secret group and saw smoking as the bond that brought it all together. Lauren sought to be part of something and she saw cigarettes as the answer to this problem. While perfecting the art
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A Response to “The Singer Solution to World Poverty” Everyday millions of children around the world fight for survival due to starvation‚ lack of shelter‚ and proper healthcare. World poverty increases significantly daily‚ and innocent children lives are being affected and destroyed. The fact that the child cannot address their world poverty issue hands on‚ should encourage people to give back to communities that are less fortunate. In “The Singer Solution to World Poverty” Peter Singers argues
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SUMMARY In their articles‚ R. J. Blythe (2010)‚ "Bring back conscription" and Dennis De Souza (2010)‚ "Conscription? Noway!"‚ although they both are in favor of young people making a contribution to society‚ they have very different perspectives on conscription‚ compulsory military service. Blythe stresses it should be reintroduced to solve the recent problematic shortfall in the number of military recruits. He also highlights its benefits for young people due to the disciplined environment‚ which
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Phạm Tiến Dũng I. Summery: Cuthbert declares that Globish is simpler and more effective than English in communicating. She supports the idea of Globish by bringing out its advantages. Those are: simple vocabulary and grammar‚ English without culture‚ more confident in speaking and more time for innovating activities in class. According the evaluation of credibility‚ her argument seems to be weak. II. Credibility: Regarding credibility‚ Cuthbert works for English Learning Center where Globish
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for your upcoming red carpet event You might be feeling anxious especially if it is your first time attending a red carpet event. You deserve to indulge on having a great dress on this day. If your wardrobe does not have any of these dresses then it is incomplete. However if you spend much time looking for this dress then you are on the right track. Moreover if you spend several dollars on it just rest assured that it will definitely flaunt your beauty. Whilst it comes to cheap red carpet dresses subsequently
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CREATIVE CRITICAL RESPONSE Name : Charmayne Text : Hamlet (2009) directed by Gregory Doran‚ starring David Tennant Context : The following CCR is written in the form of a blog made ten years after the production of the movie Hamlet from the Royal Shakespeare Company. It is written from the perspective of Gregory Doran’s daughter who is eighteen years old and studies English Literature in school. She stumbled upon one of her father’s works one day‚ which is Hamlet. She shared this information
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apart from something‚ or someone‚ for a certain long period of time‚ at least some point in his or her life. Anyone that has to go through that would have the fear of change; the kind of change that most would not be happy with. In the short story The Red Convertible‚ written by Louise Erdrich‚ there were two brothers who went through the same problem. Henry and Lyman had a close brotherly bond relationship‚ going through adventures together with the car they bought with their money combined. One day
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Reunion: Critical response Have you ever planned to meet someone you haven’t seen in a long time and had that meeting turn into a disaster? If not at all what you expected it to be? If you have‚ you’ll sympathize with Charlie‚ the alienated son. After not seeing his father for three years‚ Charlie decides to arrange to meet him at Grand Central Station where he has a stop in a trip from his grandmother’s house in the Adirondacks to a cottage his mother has rented on Cape Cod. The author‚ John
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the city would respond to an attack like the one in Paris and found out that they had a problem. Three days after the attacks on Paris‚ the New York police went on an “offense and defense” strategy in response to the terrorism threats. “The story of how the new unit‚ known as the Critical Response Command‚ came into being traces the history of the city’s evolving approach to terrorism‚ from the creation of the counterterrorism and intelligence divisions in the months after the attacks of 2001‚ to
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