Metro Trains “Dumb Ways to Die” advertisement was popular because instead of taking the usual safety precaution route by using What If’s and scenarios meant to scare people into compliance; Metro Trains decided entertainment would be the better route to go. To create the kind of buzz they wanted for their advertisement they not only came up with a catchy song (A sure-fire way to make sure people remember something) and an entertaining game. The advertisements catchy song and cute cartoon characters
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The Dumb Show As Claudius asks for the ‘light’‚ he wants actual light. The light also means the act of asking for forgiveness. People who are of the same rank or are comfortable with each other speak to each other is pros. Hamlet speaking to the players‚ he speaks down to them in verse. For the play within a play‚ Shakespeare uses rhymed verse to elevate the language. This was done because Claudius was of a higher status and this raises the severity of the crime. Hamlet is using the language
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oppressing the skills and characteristics that set our students apart from each other at an alarming rate. In fact‚ a professor at the University of Arkansas‚ Sandra Stotsky‚ who was on the committee to validate Common Core standards said‚ “The standards dumb American education down by about two grades worth” (Soave). Adopting common standards means bringing all states’ standards down to the lowest common denominator. This means that states with high standards are actually taking a step backwards by following
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From Blonde Beginnings Welp‚ there I was. Mom always said my head looked like a bowl of ramen noodles‚ but I never believed her. I was born in Mercy Hospital in Mason City‚ Iowa August 10th 2000 at 2:43am after 22 hours of labor. Mama had to get an emergency C-section. My mother and grandfather choose the name Jayden. My mom wanted the name “Noah”‚ but my papa said no way. The name Jayden means “god has heard” in Hebrew. Papa really liked it. For the first 3 weeks of my life I lived with my grandparents
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BILKENT UNIVERSITY ACADEMIC ENGLISH PROGRAM ENGLISH AND COMPOSITION II HITCHCOCK BLONDES RESEARCH PAPER Hitchcock‚ Blondes and Cinema: Bermuda Hell Triangle Submitted by Mirac Ethem Özdağ ID# : 20700401 DPT: MAN ENG102-94 Submitted to Bengisu T. Akalın SPRING 2008 HITCHCOCK‚ BLONDES and CINEMA: HELL TRAINGLE There are thousands of topics and articles written about Hitchcock films‚ because of his being undoubtedly one of the greatest directors in our decade. In
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Anne Hathaway vs. Jennifer Lawrence‚ 2 Essay Anne Hathaway can be a role model to look up to‚ for certain reasons you will be impressed to hear about her. Since 2012 until now‚ Anne has won 20 awards. Anne from being an expectacular actress‚ she can also sing. Impressing others in “Les Miserables” she sang “I Dreamed a Dream” and it was her first appearance on billboard‚ it reached number 69 on the marks. How awesome could it be‚ being stunning‚ excellent actress and sing brilliant at the same
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Wish List for MDS Library Feb. 20/2012 Ranger’s Apprentice books 1‚ 2‚ 3‚ 4‚ 5 (all by John Flanagan) 1. The Ruins of Gorlan 2. The Burning Bridge 3. The Icebound Land 4. The Battle for Skandia Little Red Hen and Passover Matza by Leslie Kimmelman The Lemonade War The Bell Bandit All by Jacqueline Davis The Lemonade Crime A World Without Heros (Beyonders series) by Brandon Mull Seeds of Rebellion (Beyonders series) by Brandon Mull The Hardest Word
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Writer‚ Evgeny Morozov‚ highlights new inventions and delves into dangers and the possible ill-will behind artificial intelligence in his article “Is Smart Making Us Dumb?” Artificial intelligence‚ defined by dictonary.com is as follows‚ "the capacity of a computer to perform operations analogous to and decision making in humans‚ as by an expert system‚ a program for CAD or CAM‚ or a program for the perception and recognition of shapes in computer vision systems." Thought provoking ideas are addressed
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The article‚ How Dumb Do They Think we Are (2006)‚ written by Jonathan Malesic clearly indicates the problem he encounters and the how he feels about students are plagiarizing that they try to trick him as a stupid person. The author surprisingly finds out the papers he was marking did not connect to it’s sentence structures; therefore‚ he suspiciously entered the strange sentence and angrily realized students copied some other people’s work on internet. Mr. Malesic first feels insulted
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novel is The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald‚ in which a famous up and coming businessman named Gatsby pursues a girl named Daisy‚ the daughter of very affluent parents. The modern equivalent to this classical American story is the movie Legally Blonde‚ directed by Robert Luketic. Elle‚ the daughter of prosperous parents‚ attempts to reconcile her relationship with Warner‚ a member of a family of well-respected lawyers and doctors from prestige universities.
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