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    Clarity For Effortless Reading. Date: (07/30/2013) As Enrique Jardiel Poncela notes that “When something can be read without effort‚ great effort has gone into its writing”‚ writers should put forth their best effort to make their text readable without effort. Clarity is one of the most important factors that a paper needs to provide to make it readable and to draw attention of readers. To write concisely‚ in parallel structure‚ and using active

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    “Clive Thompson On The New Literacy” may seem to project from how positive an article may be or may not be‚ According to “Why Johnny Can’t Write” on page 58‚ the ability “to write ordinary‚ expository English with any real degree of structure and lucidity” differs from the definition on Clive’s Perspective “Assessing their audience and adapting their tone and technique to best get their point across” by addressing the leniency of current dialect in a normal standard. Literacy for Clive goes by the

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    itself but it exists simply as itself‚ depicted as being the more powerful‚ the more enjoyable of the two‚ and in the end ultimately it is the one that leads to Dr. Jekyll’s downfall and death. This is because Dr. Jekyll in the last phases of his lucidity recognizes the danger that Mr. Hyde poses to society and altruistically decides to do away with himself. Stevenson seems to discard Christian notions of monism and embrace dualism as described above.Most significantly‚ Mr. Hyde enters and leaves

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    Print. hooks‚ bell. “Paulo Freire.” Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom. New York: Routledge‚ 1994. 45-58. Print. ---. “Talking Back.” Living Languages: Contexts for Reading and Writing. Ed. Nancy Buffington‚ Marvin Diogenes‚ and Clyde Moneyhun. Upper Saddle River‚ NJ: Prentice Hall‚ 1997. 4-9. Print.

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    “Youth offers the promise of happiness‚ but life offers the realities of grief.”  ― Nicholas Sparks‚ The Rescue Good habits formed at youth make all the difference. Aristotle The foundation of every state is the education of its youth. Diogenes The youth is the hope of our future. Jose Rizal

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    Gregor progressively loses his last shreds of humanity. Most obviously‚ Gregor quickly loses the ability to talk and communicate but gradually his perception of what makes him human. In the final third of the book‚ Gregor achieves a short moment of lucidity when he hears his sister playing and contemplates if he “truly [is] an animal if music could captivate him so” (Kafka). Grete pulls Gregor back to lucid thought through her music‚ a symbol of physical connection to the soul‚ and Gregor even remembers

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    Postmodernism greatly impacted Jewish literature and Jewish authors’. “The instincts of self-preservation‚ of self-defense‚ of pride‚ had all deserted us. In one terrifying moment of lucidity‚ I thought of us as damned souls wandering through the void‚ souls condemned to wander through space until the end of time‚ seeking redemption‚ seeking oblivion‚ without any hope of finding either.” (Night) World War II was an extremely difficult time for Jewish authors and their works. In the 1930s‚ the Nazi

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    This planet has — or rather had — a problem‚ which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem‚ but most of these were largely concerned with the movement of small green pieces of paper‚ which was odd because on the whole it wasn’t the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy. Douglas Adams‚ in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (1979)‚ Introduction All the perplexities‚ confusions‚ and distresses in America

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    Plato was a famous Greek philosopher and mathematician from Athens that is now well known throughout the world. He lived from 427 B.C.E. to 347 B.C.E. He’s famously known for being Socrates’ student and the teacher of Aristotle. He has many writings that explored justice‚ beauty‚ and equality as well as containing discussions in aesthetics‚ political philosophy‚ theology‚ cosmology‚ epistemology‚ and the philosophy of language. His writings were highly influenced by Socrates as he would convey and

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    Why Do People Lie

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    perhaps forgot‚ or you’re lying to me about your lying‚ which is very devious. (Smile) SHOW STADISTICS Lying has been used in the past and is not a recent behavior that has been adapted‚ as a result has been carried through evolution. Here we have Diogenes with his lantern. Does anyone knows what he was looking for? A single honest man and he died without finding one back in Greece. Also‚ we have Confucius in the East who was really concerned with sincerity. So let me talk about new deceptions we have

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