Priya Patel Mr. Frank English (4TH period) October 7‚ 2012 Should teen curfews be enforced ? There are many words or phrases that teens dread hearing from their parents; one of these words is “curfew.” The topic of teenage curfews is usually a controversial one. Parents impose curfews to protect their teens‚ and teens often feel this is an unfair limitation placed on them. Many teens see the adolescent years as a time to break away from their family and parents‚ and experience more freedom
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How Lucky You Are Do you ever stop for a second to remember how lucky you are? Max doesn’t until he meets Ishraqi‚ a parentless girl from Iran‚ who hopes to get a better future in England. ‘How Lucky You Are’‚ written by Debi Alper‚ is about a teenage boy named Max. Ever since Max’ father left the family‚ he’s been having problems. When Max meets Ishraqi‚ he offers her to show her around in London. They quickly bond and they even share two kisses. When Ishraqi is send back to Iran‚ Max realizes
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Jasmin Elliott English 1A 11/26/12 Each of the Tales The Canterbury Tales is a collection of stories written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer at the end of the 14th century. The tales are presented as part of a story-telling contest by a group of pilgrims as they travel together on a journey from Southwark to the shrine of Saint Thomas Becket at Canterbury Cathedral. The prize for this contest is a free meal at the Tabard Inn at Southwark on their return. He uses the tales and the descriptions
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Coming to America is personally a turning point in my life. I‚ a Vietnamese international student who had always dreamt of studying in America‚ decided to gather all my courage to step on the air plane to America on my own and started my promisingly eventful journey in this totally foreign land. Months before my departure‚ I already imagined how my life would be in America‚ and I was confident about my adaptability as I had spent four years living abroad in Singapore but anxious about the much more
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Candace Sims English 200 November 24‚ 2010 Poetry can be compared and contrasted in many ways. I have chosen to compare and contrast two poems by Siegfried Sassoon. “His poetry both described the horrors of the trenches‚ and satirized the patriotic pretensions of those who‚ in Sassoon’s view‚ were responsible for the pointless deaths of millions” (Wikipedia). His poems contains a deep meaning and an important message‚ his poetry has a passionate expression of outrage at the horrors of war and
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Mua Rồi Nước literally translates to “water puppet dance”. The origins of traditional water puppetry are contested1; the earliest reference to Water Puppetry in Vietnam was found at two inscriptions at the Long Doi Son Pagoda2 that describe the popular tale of The Legend of the Restored Sword3. Traditional performances contained twenty-thirty scenes from a possible repertoire of one hundred and thirty four. Performances today are shorter4 (Foley‚ 2001‚ p. 136). As the name implies‚ the theatre performance
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CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION TO ENGLISH FOR PROFESSIONAL COMMUNICATION Learning Outcomes: By the end of this chapter students should be able to: i. define workplace communication ii. differentiate the different channels of communication iii. synthesize information from different sources What is professional communication? Communication is a “process of exchanging ideas‚ opinions and as a means for individuals and organisations to share meaning with one another” (Koneru‚ 2008)
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a complex sentence‚ a Senate committee is believed to have found. (The Age‚ 13 September 2007) Nothing unites a country more than its common language because from a language comes a history and a culture. (John Howard quoted in Migrants to sit English test‚ ABC Online‚ 11 December 2006) Linguists suggest that some people deliberately choose a low status accent as a way of invoking prestige‚ although this is less common amongst women than men. The Australian-born children of migrants from Europe
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Sara Garcia Mrs. Ap English Per. 1 Agust‚2013 Questions on Meaning 1. Ericsson’s thesis is when she says‚ "We lie. We all do. We exaggerate‚ we minimize‚ we avoid confrontation‚ we spare people’s feelings‚ we conveniently forget‚ we keep secrets‚ we justify lying to the big-guy institutions." These thesis has several ways people lie in one sentence which foreshadows that Ericsson will talk about certain types of lies aand examples. 2. Ericsson does not think we could eliminate lies from our life
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What are stylistic devices? In literature and writing‚ a figure of speech (also called stylistic device or rhetorical device) is the use of any of a variety of techniques to give an auxiliary meaning‚ idea‚ or feeling. Sometimes a word diverges from its normal meaning‚ or a phrase has a specialized meaning not based on the literal meaning of the words in it. Examples are metaphor‚ simile‚ or personification. Stylistic devices often provide emphasis‚ freshness of expression‚ or clarity. Alliteration
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