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    AUGUST 13‚ 2014 YEAR 10 ENGLISH ASSESSMENT RATIONALE UNIT: THE CHANGING AUSTRALIAN VOICE [NAME REDACTED] GIRRAWEEN HIGH SCHOOL Task Requirements Task: You are to create a representation of TWO of the poems studied in class and an explanation or rationale of your work. In this task you are to consider the values and assumptions underlying the voice in the poems and explore the effect of changing context on those values and assumptions. How you decide to represent these ideas on the

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    Global Marketing Mid-Term Sony AIBO: Case Analysis Prepared by: 1. a. What was Sony’s positioning strategy for AIBO? The AIBO is a robot. In its most simplistic form it is an amalgamation of steel‚ circuitry‚ and software. Sony‚ however‚ did not position the AIBO as a robot. Instead they positioned the AIBO as a pet with no utility or usefulness‚ but rather as a source of entertainment and companionship. Takeshi Yazawa‚ Vice President of Sony Entertainment Robot

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    The story of Chris McCandless shows a rebellious free spirit trying to live his life to the fullest. But is the story as black and white as it looks? “Into the Wild” by Jon Krakauer is a true story about the adventure of Chris McCandless. He travels around the country and mooches off people before he goes to Alaska and tragically dies. The early trauma to Chris caused him to be mentally unstable. Due to the similarities from Chris’ childhood and the authors I believe there has to be a romanticization

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    "Stickeen"‚ by John Muir‚ The Best American Essays of the Century. "Stickeen"‚ by John Muir is an essay recounting the author’s experience exploring the Alaskan terrain in 1880. It also recounts his fascination with his four-legged companion‚ Stickeen – who serves as somewhat of a guide. In the essay‚ the author tells the reader about his experience and hardship while trekking the Alaskan terrain. I found this essay rather poignant and sentimental in value. The author describes in detail of

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    Obsession 3. A common effect among older children and even tweens and pre-teens‚ upon viewing horror movies is to obsessively talk about the stimulus that produces the fear. The subject of the obsessive talk may be expressed in either a morbid fascination or a a need to alienate themselves from what they have seen through discourse. Nightmares 4. Probably the most common effect that horror movies have on children is the production of nightmares. Many children as well as adults can be expected

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    slightly metallic eyes filled me with a sense of wonder. I sat mesmerized for what felt like hours until my grandpa released it and it zoomed away. The scene described above is my earliest memory. I must have only been three at the time. Yet the fascination of the natural world that that moment kindled in me has only grown through the years. As I learned more aspects of biology through books‚ museums‚ school classes‚ and personal observations‚ I fell in love with the diversity of this subject. The

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    presentation of flying‚ whether it be a direct or indirect reference‚ is the basic principle of freedom. The novel addresses various instances in which characters struggle to maintain their freedom‚ both physically and spiritually‚ with Frederick and his fascination of birds relating the closest to the theme of flying. Frederick‚ an intelligent and shy student who befriends Werner Pfennig at the National Institute. He is an avid scholar of birds and idolizes Audubon‚ the great American naturalist. At one

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    Throughout his lifetime Darwin maintained a fascination towards the great questions of morals and meanings in life. He knew the strengths and limitations of his profession. Darwin did not try to use evolution to promote atheism. People often times misread Darwin’s vision as one of defeat‚ pessimist‚ and enslaved. Darwin’s view is referred to as “cold bath”theory of nature. The basic argument includes three propositions that are linked in order of implication. The first one is the basic statement

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    Jamaine Thomas Professor Macrae ANT 2140 Archaeology Blog #1 July 16‚ 2015 My writer that I decided to do a blog report on is Heather Pringle. She is a well rounded science author who loves to study archaeology. She’s categorize as an archaeology specialist she grew up in Edmonton Alberta and she was raised into playing hockey her father was a professional hockey player but unfortunately she didn’t like the game of hockey she might be the only person in Canada that doesn’t worship the game of

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    jean Jean Baudrillard   Introduction Jean Baudrillard has been referred to as "the high priest of postmodernism."  Baudrillard’s key ideas include two that are often used in discussing postmodernism in the arts:  "simulation" and "the hyperreal." The hyperreal is "more real than real": something fake and artificial comes to be more definitive of the real than reality itself.  Examples include high fashion (which is more beautiful than beauty)‚ the news ("sound bites" determine outcomes of political

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