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    We will be using only language to address you‚ no image. We will be doing that because I can. We humans have the gift of language. Just by making some noises with our mouths‚ we can send pressure waves through the air‚ and these pressure waves can magically create ideas and images in the mind of people who hear it‚ right. So I can just say something like: imagine a Meest random shit met dieren‚ and hopefully if everything has gone well in your life so far‚ you’ve never had that though before. And

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    Tracy K Smith’s collection of poetry in “Life on Mars” intrigued me in such a way that caused make to dig deeper into myself and think about life in a way that I do not usually think. The way in which she fused human life into the universe opened up a different part of my imagination that I’ve never used. A requirement for contemporary poetry is that it connects with its audience and moves the audience in such a way that strikes their sensitivity. It seems she was able to master this requirement

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    The Mobile‚ the Device that Changed the Way We Communicate Mobile phones have vastly changed the way we communicate today. A mobile phone can be all you need for communicating. From a mobile phone you can make calls‚ text message‚ BBM message‚ email‚ send and receive directions‚ go on the Internet‚ buy things‚ do online banking‚ listen to music and much more. In that one device you can do everything. There is no longer a need for multiple devices and you can be on the move doing it all. The

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    that they all have different scenarios that create different lies‚ which creates our society today. Surely everyone lies‚ we weren’t taught to lie but that is in our nature. Society lies to justify their actions because people may think they are preventing other scandals however‚ that may not be the case. The Ways We Lie‚ an essay written by Stephanie Ericsson describes only 10 ways of lying. Every single person has told a lie before‚ from a friendly one

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    they were being lied to or they were the ones lying. After trial and error‚ they all discovered dishonesty does not work out in the end. Telling the truth‚ no matter how difficult it is‚ leads to a stronger and more honest relationship rather than a misleading relationship. They discovered that the easy route is not always the best way to go. Telling the truth helped them become better people‚ family members‚ and friends. Since they lied‚ they made people reassess what they knew about each other. Lying

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    The end of World War I had a powerful impact on the world. This was because the War not only changed how war was fought with the use of technology such as poisonous gases‚ tanks and machine guns. The War also changed the power structure of Europe due to the collapse of the British Empire because of debt‚ The Bolsheviks overthrowing Czar Nicholas of Russia thus ending the Russian Empire‚ the end of the Ottoman Empire and the Sykes-Picot Treaty which redrew the borders of the Middle East and has resulted

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    In Anthony Doerr’s All the Light We Cannot See‚ Werner Pfennig can be identified as a hero. Werner is an undersized boy with ears that stick out and hair that is “snowy‚ milky‚ [and] chalky (24)”. His image is the Nazi ideal; but his ideas are not. Werner questions everything and is not appeased by the simple and easy answers. Werner works to find these answers within his life‚ radios‚ and truth. Werner Pfennig can be identified as a hero due to his abnormal childhood as an orphan‚ his unwilling

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    How We Treat the Animals We Eat Angela M Groves DeVry University How We Treat the Animals We Eat Are the factory farms we buy our meat from treating animals humanely? Animal mistreatment is illegal and we can make a difference to put a stop to it. According to Ethical Farms “Some of the largest US factory farms refuse to uphold humane USDA and OSHA standards‚ having unsanitary‚ unhealthy conditions and animal rights violations. In 1958‚ the US government composed the Humane Slaughter Act

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    The person we are is a complicated mixture of how we look‚ behave and think. As people we are constantly changing‚ influenced by our surroundings. It is my belief that most people in modern society believe that the person they have become is a direct consequence of the decisions that they have made during their life. What most people don?t realise is that a great deal of decisions which have affected the course of their life were made before they were even born. In most cases‚ these decisions will

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    Shaped by Language: What Comes First the Thought or the Language Language‚ due to its specific properties‚ is one aspect that makes human beings unique in comparison to other animals and species. The fact that different languages can alter the way we perceive the world‚ and objects we view. From the perception of space‚ time and even nouns‚ languages changes the way we think. Countless studies show that linguistic processes effect even down to the most fundamental thought processes‚ which unconsciously

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