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    When I was 8 years old my family and I went to knotts berry farm. Being a small kid the time‚ I barely reached the height minimum to board. When I got on‚ I had to share a seat and lap bar with my dad and we didn’t put the seat belt on correctly. When the ride started‚ I could feel me slide around and my body lift off the seat. The whole ride I ended up hugging the lap bar‚ that wasn’t even pushing on my legs‚ in hopes that I would not fly off the seat. With this experience my mood transformed

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    Opening page Index Index 1 Introduction 2 Definition: What exactly is augmented reality? 2 How does it work? 3 Evaluation of the current market 4 Future applications 4 Augmented reality as a product: The Google glasses 4 Risks and challenges 4 Introduction We are living in a full-connected world where most homes are connected to a high-speed Internet connection‚ where the Internet follows us on our smartphones‚ our tablets‚ our laptop‚ a world where you can access any information

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    Diary entry from Pip’s point of view. 08/12/2012 Saturday Dear Diary‚ Today was a new day for me again. I went alone to the churchyard where the tombstones of my parents and my 5 brothers are in the marshes near my house. I live with my sister Mrs Joe Gargery and her husband‚ Joe Gargery‚ a blacksmith as a burden as she never likes me and always tells me off for everything. I stayed there near the gravestones until afternoon was returning back home‚ when I heard a terrible voice which told

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    Throughout this passage‚ Dickens uses satire and character’s past experiences to criticize the social hierarchy of 19th century of England‚ and more precisely to ridicule one’s appearance could change their life‚ not their social class. Magwitch is surrounded by Herbert and Pip‚ where he rambles about his past undergo with his partner in crime named Compeyson. Dickens has made it clear that Magwitch’s appearance altered the sentence of his crime‚ although‚ Compeyson was the chief of directing Magwitch

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    "Body Rituals among the Nacirema" is a document written by Mr. Horace Miner. Miner was a graduate of the University of Chicago‚ with a degree in anthropology. Throughout his life‚ Miner was dedicated to his studies ranging in anthropology to sociology. He was very interested in the study of anthropology‚ but Miner disagreed with the way that other cultures were represented. He thought American anthropologists believed that the American culture was "normal" and‚ that the other studied cultures

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    Whether someone has control on his future is one of the most interesting questions that everyone asks himself. By reading successful people biographies‚ you will not accept that your life is completely under the control of the society. You have always choices. You can find a way or build a new one to reach whatever you desire. Although society is one of the foremost effective parameters in our lives‚ every desire depends on its magnitude needs your effort to come true. One of the force against society’s

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    setting in the novel. London. An important setting in “Great Expectations” by Charles Dickens is London‚ which is viewed as a place of economic competition and death. The bleakness of the places in London foreshadow a series of unfortunate events for Pip Dickens did not romanticize London but instead gives us a good hard look at the backstreets and alleys where the real life existed. An important setting in the novel Great Expectations is London this setting reveals important themes in the novel

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    BOOK REVIEW GREAT EXPECTATIONS BY CHARLES DICKENS On Christmas Eve‚ Pip‚ an orphan living with his sister (Mrs Joe) and Joe Gargery‚ meets a convict who demands him to bring him food and a file to cut his chains. Pip does so and the following morning and feels extremely guilty. He‚ Joe and some police officers later catch and arrest this convict. Uncle Pumblechook arranges for Pip to go and play at Miss Havisham’s home in hope that she’ll give him money. There he falls in love with Estelle‚

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    or she desires. They take this to their advantage by using symbols of setting and character recurrences to set the mood of the story. In Great Expectations by Charles Dickens‚ a young boy Pip‚ tells his story of moving from a poor town living a rural lifestyle‚ to London‚ where he pursues his dream of becoming a gentleman after receiving “great expectations” from an unknown benefactor. In the story‚ Pip falls in love with Estella‚ a beautiful girl raised to break men’s hearts by the embittered

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    Reality shows had become a huge success in our society‚ we have a great variety of them‚ and we can choose which one we want to see according to our age‚ or in which one of those realities we feel more connected. Seeing the huge impact that this new way of doing television has in me and the society I decided to focus my research on this topic. Before I started my research‚ I was thinking that this might not be easy to investigate‚ because some people might think this could be a superficial topic

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