I used to hate greasers. They had tried to pick up Cherry and Marcia‚ Bob and my girls. We were so mad that they thought they had the right to do that; they were no-hopers. The night we went to find Ponyboy and Johnny we just wanted to put them back in their place. We wanted the power restored to our superiority‚ because as typical socs we believed this was our right. Socs will always have more power than greasers because the socs had money and the greasers didn’t. There was a constant war between
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Indirect speech: Statements Note applying to all indirect speech exercises. When the speaker says you‚ and the person spoken to is not identified‚ it is good practice for the student to assume that the remark was made to himself. you will then become I/me or we/us. ‘You can phone from the office‚’ he said. He said I could phone from his office. This must not‚ of course‚ be done when the person spoken to is identified: ‘You can phone from my office‚ Ann‚’ he said.
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Speech to Entertain: A Guide Joann Babin Rationale and Definition If your instructor assigned you to do a speech to entertain‚ you are lucky. Since so many public speaking text book authors declare entertainment as one of the three major goals of a public speech‚ it is a great skill to practice. It is hard to deny the value of entertainment. Humor has been used to soothe many difficult situations. At a board meeting in San Francisco where there was a heated debate about closing Golden Gate
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The amount could be so miniscule and seem so insignificant‚ but there always seems to be a reason for what someone has done or they have been corrupted. Romans says “Love must be sincere. Hate what is evil; cling to what is good.” (Romans 12:9) It may be such a small amount of good‚ but we have to grasp it and not let it fade. We‚ as human beings‚ cannot allow goodness to disappear from a person’s heart. The good in people is really shown
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Alan Turing’s paper “Computing machinery and intelligence” in 1950 is one of the foundational documents from the early days of Cognitive Science. After its publication‚ critics proposing objections have never stopped. One of the most reasonable objections similar to so called “Lady Lovelace’s Objection” argues that a machine can never do anything really new‚ which is to say no machine has the capacity for original thought. In this way‚ it follows that no computer can have human intelligence. From
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Silent Travelers: Germs‚ genes‚ and the “Immigrant menace” by: Alan M. Kraut McCall Paynter HIST 3310-001 Professor Diane Britton October 8‚ 2012 Alan M. Kraut’s Silent Travelers: Germs‚ genes‚ and the “Immigrant menace” traced American’s efforts to cope with immigrants whose labor was needed‚ but foreignness was feared. Nearly every ethnic group that has migrated to the United States‚ Kraut wrote‚ was greeted by hostility. During America’s peak immigration period between 1890 and the
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Today the works of William Pereira are finally regaining the lost reputation and recognition. There was a time in recent decades when people were trying to erase Pereira’s work. In “Erasing Pereira”‚ Alan Hess gives his opinion while addressing‚ “What do California’s cultural institutions have against William Pereira?”. He begins his article by stating that Pereira had gained his name because of his work in the Orange County area‚ which later had been faded and people were misinterpreting the vision
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MIBURN was the Codename of an FBI case in 1964. MIBURN is short for “Mississippi Burning” which is also the title of the director Alan Parker’s movie from 1988. The movie is occupied with the occurrences from the original FBI case and gives us a general view of what was happening. However‚ that might not be as true as we think it is. According to “The Guardian” the movie is not very political and historically correct. Actually‚ the writer of the article’s exact words was: “The Mississippi burning
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The melancholy of life‚ death and old age‚ are one of the many issues dealt with‚ in Alan Bennett’s heart-rending tale. It tells the story of an isolated‚ fragile‚ elderly woman‚ who feels ensnared in a modernised society in which she strives for her sovereignty and prominence. In a culture where the old are forgotten‚ neglected and depicted as useless. ‘A Cream Cracker Under The Settee’ seems to be the perfect title of the play as the double entendre epitomizes this remarkably. In addition‚ another
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american nationalism‚ it is not what started the French and Indian war that is important. Instead‚ by focusing on the American’s view of the British during this time‚ the growing nationalistic ideas leading to the American Revolution are more apparent. Alan Brinkley‚ “It forced them‚ for the first time‚ to act in concert agianst a common foe. The friction of 1756 -1757 over British requisition and impressment policies‚ and the 1758 return of authority to the colonial assemblies‚ established an important
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