Explain what is meant by ‘upwardly mobile’. (Item A‚ line 6). Upwardly mobile means when someone or a group of people move or aspire to move to a higher social class or to a position of increased status or power. Suggest three criticisms of ‘new vocationalism’. It is a cheap source of labour meaning that it should not be up to the education system to train employees for companies. It creates a lack of jobs – young employment is due to lack of jobs and not vocational skills. Working class students
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Final Notice is a book written by Van Fleisher. It is a realistic fiction book that takes place in the United States. It addresses a pressing issue the United States is faced with presently. A group of scientists invents a device that resembles a watch for monitoring heart rates during exercises. It turns out this device can do much more than that. The device can give full medical diagnostics. It has a feature called the final notice that can tell when the wearer is going to die. This device initially
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I don’t remember how I got here. There was a promise of money and shelter‚ a van and a brown paper bag. The van they transported me in smelled sour‚ the children they took before me must have pissed themselves. I think I was scared enough to. I lie here in a bed with an IV in my arm. I know I’ve been drugged into compliance but it’s hard to shake the fog. I hear other children in the area beyond curtained off section of the room my bed is in. The curtains were once white with speckled with blue
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Reading: van Wensveen 1. What is the primary ways that Van Wensveen Siker views the relationship between Christianity and business? A: Van Wensveen Siker reimagines five ways or types of viewing the relationship between Christianity and business. These five types are - Christ against business‚ Christ of business‚ Christ above business‚ Christ and business in paradox‚ and Christ the transformer of business. For the readers enrichment I will provide a brief summary of the five types. First‚ Christ
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A great example of a tragic hero is a man by the name of Ludwig van Beethoven. Beethoven was born into a dutch family of nobility in the field of music on December 17th 1770 in bonn. He was named after his grandfather‚ a bass singer. Beethoven’s father‚ Johannes‚ was a court Tenor and pianist and was the first person to instruct young Ludwig in music. He taught him the piano‚ violin‚ and also possibly the viola. He went to elementary school in the Neugasse until his first public performance at the
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created and either replicates‚ builds upon‚ changes in some form or completely opposes it with works of their own. Painting http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/gogh/starry-night/gogh.starry-night.jpg The Starry Night‚ Vincent van Gogh (ibiblio.org) Vincent van Gogh’s Starry Night‚ c.1889 is a painting of a night sky filled with clouds‚ blazing stars and a bright crescent moon. All of the features
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In the painting The Starry Night by Vincent van Gogh you see a dark blue sky filled with enormous stars swirling throughout it imposing an immediate sense of peacefulness. The small town underneath is dark and even looks to be at rest. The stars are so bright and the moon seems to just pop out almost as if it were right in front of you. It even seems to shine some sort of life into a gigantic dead tree stump protruding into the sky. It seems as if the only movement at all is the spiraling light emanating
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Teun A. Van Dijk‚ in his essay "Pragmatics and Poetics‚" explains the reason for speech is "to change the internal state of the hearer" (Dijk 30). Ferdinand de Saussure describes in his essay‚ "Nature of the Linguistic Sign‚" how a word is more connected to the minds of the speaker and the hearer than to anything else. He describes that the "linguistic sign" as a unit formed equally by the association of a "concept" and a "sound-image." The "sound-image" is what one would call a spoken word‚ something
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need but an individual quest‚ which some achieve and some do not”. Discuss this statement in relation to your prescribed text and two other related texts. The texts “Immigrant chronicles” composed by Peter Skrzynecki‚ the article “Coming Home” By John Van Tiggelan and the 4-framed cartoon “Patriotism” illustrated by Cathy Wilcox‚ all develop an idea of how belonging is not only a common need but an individual’s mission that may or may not be attained in society. Each text develops understanding for the
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(Stokstad 778). Unlike oil paints‚ tempera dries quickly. Tempera is used before oil paints become popular. One example of Tempera is Baptism of Christ (1450) made by Piero della Francesca. The color is not as bright compare to other paints. Jan van Eyck is a painter. According to Marilyn Stokstad‚ he painted for” Duke Philip the Good of Burgundy” (575). He used oil media to paint portraits of the duke. His famous artwork is the Ghent Altarpiece (1432). The altarpiece is highly detailed‚ fill with
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