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    Amusing Ourselves to Death: A Public Discourse in the Age of Bussiness‚ is a book by Neil Postman. Postman’s objective in writing this was to shed light on the role media (mostly television) plays in the medicating of the common people and their abilities to distinguish between wht is actual news and fact from what is simply amusement. Throughout his book‚ Postman attempts to distinguish between three different worlds; Orwellian‚ Huxleyan‚ and what he (Postman) sees as the world of today and the

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    Amusing Ourselves to Death Jordan Ammon 2027489 #2036 10/19/14 In today’s society‚ we are fed breaking news in a matter of seconds. We are limited to 140 characters on social media networks and we can literally listen to books instead of reading them. In Neil Postman’s book‚ “Amusing Ourselves to Death‚” Postman recognizes the potential harm of today’s electronic society. The main idea of Postman’s thinking is that the image-based media affect’s the quality of information

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    Mohamed Hatab‚Ibraheem Sattour‚Rahim Fazil‚Tarik Ahroui Simple sentences‚compound sentences‚complex sentences‚compound complex sentences Simple sentence:Contains a subject a predicate‚and expresses a complete thought Ex.Some students like to study in the morning Identify the subject and predicate in these simple sentences Ex.1 1.Bill and Bob auditioned for the lead role in the play. 2.The kittens were adopted by the family. 3.Peanut butter

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    The second amendment protects one of the most important rights that an American has‚ which is the right to keep and bear arms. However despite the second amendment clearly stating that “... the right of the people to keep and bear Arms‚ shall not be infringed.” we the people are constantly under the threat of having one of our essential and fundamental rights stripped from us by authoritarian leftists who continually minimize the rights of Americans. The original purpose of the second amendment

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    Name : Model : 2 Title : An Amusing Incident I Witnessed Last Saturday‚ I witnessed an amusing incident as I was walking home. I stopped at the traffic lights‚ waiting for the green light for pedestrians to cross the road. It was quite a busy road and there was a long line of vehicles waiting to turn right. The car in front was a flashy orange sports car‚ being driven by a young man. There

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    10 Mary St Essay In Peter Skrzynecki’s ‘10 Mary St’‚ the poet expresses a strong sense of belonging towards his family home and garden. The use of the first person perspective‚ enjambment‚ simile‚ metaphor and alliteration in describing everyday routines create vivid imagery of the family’s activities and reinforces the concept of belonging. The recount poem utilises effective images of the family’s daily routines‚ such as securing the house “each morning... like a well-oiled lock”. The concept

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    Dream Deferred”) by Langston Hughes has many similes and instances of personification. The poem’s first simile is a question about what happens to a dream that is put on hold: “Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun”. This comparison suggest that just as a raisin loses its physical substance‚ so too does a dream deferred lose its meaning. The “dream” that Hughes probably has in mind here is for African Americans gaining equal rights. The poem’s third simile occurs in lines 5 and 6:“Does it stink like

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    literary devices to help portray a theme. One of the most common used literary devices is Simile. A simile is comparing two things using like or as to describe or explain a setting or action to better understand the story. Ray Bradbury uses simile numerous times in his novel Fahrenheit 451‚ which displays a dystopian society set in the distant future All things considered‚ Ray Bradbury demonstrates the use of simile many times in his novel Fahrenheit 451. This example

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    1.Meaning of bombastic (adjective) pompous; wordy; turgid; inflated; exaggerated Example The bombastic woman talks a lot about herself. 2.Meaning of mettlesome (adjective) courageous; brave; fearless Example Such an attitude required fresh springs of energy‚ and the effect - I was delighted to sense it as I woke each day - was to make me more bouncy and mettlesome than I had been for weeks. 3.Meaning of obtrusive (adjective) thrusting oneself or itself into undue prominence; invasive

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