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    Input Devices QWERTY Keyboard The keyboard is the most common type of input device. In other countries‚ the keyboard layout is different due to their different language and characters. There are some variations of keyboards to the normal keyboard. Some are wireless which means that no wire is required to connect it to the PC; and some have ergonomic design‚ which have a special design in order to reduce muscular stress on the user. Mouse The mouse is a pointing device which is used to move

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    Unit 9: MANAGING AND DEVELOPING PEOPLE Task 2: TEAM WORKING AND MANAGEMENT STYLES Introduction As part of my unit 9‚ managing and developing people‚ I will be discussing and assessing the management styles and team work of a recent event I have been involved in. The event that I have chosen to base my assessment on is the Christmas disco. I have selected the Christmas disco as it was a recent event I have been involved in‚ where as a team we planned‚ organised and ran the event.

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    HOME - earth The Earth is the engine of our existence ‚ offering us the necessary resources to live‚ breath ‚ eat and enjoy every day of our lives . But how were all these resources created ‚ what is the impact of men on the natural environment and how can the humankind change the way it treats now all the gifts that the Earth is offering to it unconditionally? These are some of the questions that the HOME documentary answers in a manner that is quite unique and transformational . The beginning of

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    Literary Devices

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    1. Alliteration Alliteration is a literary device in which two or more consecutive words‚ or words that are nearby in the same sentence‚ start with the same letter. It is often used in poetry‚ literature‚ slogans‚ and other propaganda because it is usually impressive and memorable. For example‚ Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers. 2. Assonance Assonance is the repetition of a pattern of similar sounds within a sentence. It is used to produce a form of rhyme throughout the whole

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    ‘Writers often experiment with narrative devices and structures in order to challenge readers’ expectations of genre and their view of the outside world’ Compare and contrast your two texts in light of this comment Genre is generally defined as a category of composition‚ characterized by a number of similarities in form‚ style or subject matter. Naturally with genre‚ expectations arise‚ as the reader or an audience come to expect certain things either when reading text or watching a play. Writers

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    Speech: Television and Radio in the Lives of Young People Today To my fellow classmates‚ I am here to talk to you about the role television and radio play in the lives of young people today. Television and radio have become closer to our daily lives than ever before. Some people might say that’s a good thing‚ while others would not. We all like watching T.V‚ I mean‚ who doesn’t? But there could be some consequences in watching it excessively. A test was carried out on teenagers aged 14-18

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    Literary Devices

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    Literary Devices Allegory A form of extended metaphor‚ in which objects‚ persons‚ and actions in a narrative‚ are equated with the meanings that lie outside the narrative itself. The underlying meaning has moral‚ social‚ religious‚ or political significance and characters are often personifications of abstract ideas as charity‚ greed‚ or envy. Thus an allegory is a story with two meanings‚ a literal meaning and a symbolic meaning. Alliteration The repetition of the same sound at the beginning

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    Tracking lexical change in present-day English Raymond Hickey Essen University 1 Introduction For several centuries English has been well known for its many cases of conversion‚ for instance it is used very frequently by Shakespeare‚ almost as a stylistic device of his. And to this day it has remained a prominent feature of the language. The standard definition of conversion (Bauer 1988: 90-2; Spencer 1991: 20) is a change in word-class without any alteration

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    These children are forced to remain courageous‚ faithful‚ and enduring through all of their challenges trying to integrate Central High School. Melba must stay courageous‚ as she faces many threats and attacks while attending Central. She remains very enduring during her story by staying very calm and patient‚ despite most or all the students wanting her gone. While she faces all these challenges‚ she still manages to stay faithful and fight through to the end while the help of her grandmother India

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    Case Study Mary is 58 years old and has recently been put into full time residents at Our Lady’s Nursing Home. Mary’s husband passed away last year and has one daughter who lives in the city. Her daughter was not able to take care of her mother due to her demanding job as a doctor‚ so she decided to put her mother into care taking in mind that her mother has been diagnosed with Ankylosing Spondylitis which requires Mary to have full attention and as her daughter is unable to be around all the time

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