Access provided by The University Of Texas at Austin‚ General Libraries (5 Apr 2013 15:10 GMT) Beauty Queens Behaving Badly Gender‚ Global Competition‚ and the Making of Post-Refugee Neoliberal Vietnamese Subjects Nhi T. Lieu Beauty pageants have received plenty of scholarly attention in the past two and a half decades‚ demonstrating through critical analyses and well-researched studies that these spectacular contests perform a number of cultural‚ social‚ and symbolic functions for any given
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How many of us have wished for a better life? One that is decadent with minimal work involved? This wishful thought is certainly something I have thought of growing up in a working middle class family. ‘That’s what being in the working class is all about-how to get out of it’ Neville Wran said. I think it is only human nature to want a more comfortable life and thus there is some truth in what Wran says. Take JK Rowling for example‚ she was unemployed and barely surviving on welfare when she was
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Accounting 747 Communications and Accounting Queens College - CUNY Badly Written Policy (Revised) It is recognized that this organization is plagued with breakdowns in communication such as misdirected orders‚ offending letters‚ and poorly written statements. In this regard‚ a new policy is hereby issued. All employees who are directly involved with communication are enjoined to comply to this policy as stated hereunder. It is imperative to remember that good thinking is good communication
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In the essay Not Knowing and Not Wanting to Know by Haki R. Madhubuti he observes two types of educations. One that prepares kids to use their bodies “bodies from the neck down”. The other to prepare them “to build things and run things‚ using the neck up”. Neck down work meaning training and physical activity. The neck up meaning using a person’s knowledge. One type of education is “bodies from the neck down”. Bodies from the neck down can be many different things. For example working for a landscaping
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Sarah Amador Dr. Hodges ENG 337 April 13‚ 2013 Honor or Something “What is honour? a word. What is in that word honour? what is that honour? air. A trim reckoning! Who hath it? he that died a Wednesday.” –Falstaff‚ Part I of Henry VI That is a good question. What is honor? What does it mean for one to have‚ or to have gained honor? Well‚ according to the dictionary‚ honor means “honesty‚ fairness‚ or integrity in one’s beliefs and actions‚” or it could mean‚ “high respect‚ as for worth‚ merit
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will end up having more effective essays. Ballenger stated “And what matters in this journey- at least initially -is not what kind of car you’re driving‚ but where you end up.” He is expressing that it does not matter how perfect your writing is. He believes that it is the ideas you have and the points you are trying to get across in the writing. It is all about getting to what a writer wants to write about and the process it takes to get there. When writing an essay there really is more to it than
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Book Essay The book I chose to read was Something Borrowed by Emily Griffin. The book has approximately 322 pages. I chose to read this novel because I remember watching the movie while flipping through channels and thought it was pretty interesting‚ and I figured the book would probably be better. I honestly also chose this novel because I need to read just a few more books before I can graduate and while skimming the book‚ it looked like an easy read and had an interesting enough topic so it would
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school so we could go hang out and relax our minds and have a good time‚ and that’s exactly what we did. To this day it blows my mind how a day that seemed so great could take a turn for the worst in a matter of seconds. It was 4:30pm‚ so Miranda and I loaded up in my car to take her home. Why is it that our whole lives we tell ourselves that “that could never happen to me‚” as if we are impervious to accidents? But you learn the true meaning of “accident” when your having a day that’s so perfect
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Something Precious I have earned recently that sometimes we lose something to gain something. I have experienced a hurt that was so deep that it was my belief that it would never end. I recently was blessed to have a brand new grandchild a girl. This little girl could not have come at a better time in my life. Brianna Scott was born on November 30. 2010 at 8:14 pm. This could not have been better timing. Three years ago one of my grandsons’s hung himself and now lives in a vegetative state. I
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A1: Language of a Public Figure (i) A study of Barack Obama Plan: Intro: Introduce the subject of your essay Explain the context of your transcripts; Briefly summarise the similarities and differences Section 1-Rapport How does Obama establish Rapport Compare the two transcripts Evaluate success Section 2-Structure How does Obama use structure Compare the two transcripts Evaluate success Section 3-Language How does Obama use language techniques for effect. Compare the two transcripts
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