Among many students and adults‚ the amount of books being read over time has gone down.Young children and students are not as literarily advanced as they once were due to increased screen time such as Netflix‚ video games‚ and social media. The literacy among young children and students has lowered over time and reading needs to take precedence over other activities like video games and television. With new technological advancements‚ smartphones‚ laptops‚ and television‚ there are many distractions
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I struggled to come up with a time in my life where I could not be myself. I have had the same job for fourteen years‚ have been with the same person for more than fourteen years‚ and have had my friends for longer still. Trying to find a time that I can distinctly remember not being myself I have to go back a long time‚ probably around eighteen years. The more I thought about it‚ the more I could only recall freshmen year in high school as being a time where I was living two lives. I attended a
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The Baroque time frame was from the 1600AD-1750AD and was the first occasion when that instrumental music turned out to be essentially equivalent‚ both in amount and quality‚ with vocal music. “Composers also developed a new way of handling the chords as that their interrelation was felt to be more logical or coherent.” (Kerman pg.‚ 83) There are four musical attributes of the Baroque time frame. These four are Homophony- Monody‚ Recitative-Act‚ or imitate while singing strict metrical rhythm which
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Text to text: The book “Time of the Butterflies” reminds me of a ted talk‚ presented by Khalida Brohi . Khalida Brohi is of Pakistani descent and comes from a tribe of indigenous people‚ called the Brohi. Brohi means mountain dwellers. Khalida reminds me of the narrator of Time of the Butterflies‚ Dedé‚ because they both are storytellers who have sad stories to tell about their past. Their stories also share common themes such as feminism‚ change‚ religion‚ and courage. The ted talk is about
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Marking Time is an Australian mini TV series written by John Doyle and was aired on ABC in 2003. It’s based on a small town called Brakley. The story is told through the eyes of an 18 year old named Hal. Hal falls in love with an Afghani girl‚ Randa‚ who recently fled her own country with her father to escape the Taliban. The two face racism and taunts by their community‚ whose views are influenced greatly by the media and politicians that are expressed during historical events taking place at the
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Romeo and Juliet‚ a play written by William Shakespeare is considered to be one of the best plays in history. The two household‚ Montague and Capulet has been in a long feud with each other in the city of Verona. Romeo‚ a Montague and Juliet‚ a Capulet are two lovers who meets at a party and faces obstacles to be with each other despite the history of their family. At the end‚ the lovers chooses to kill themselves for each other’s deaths. Fate is to blame the lovers’ deaths because fates power is
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There aren’t many college students that would disagree that their education should be free. College is the new high school. The worlds standard for eduction has risen. It’s the sad truth that an American has a low chance for success with only a high school diploma. College has become a necessity‚ not a luxury. Community college should be paid for with tax dollars just as high school is. Todays professional fields require a minimum of a college degree. It is the new normal and is expected of todays
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2011 How I Spend my Time … Okay‚ so I am going to attempt to write about how I spend my time. My days are not typical; I would have to write a book to explain how my time is spent‚ so I am going to dive into this analysis and hopefully you will get the idea of how my time has been used since starting college. One day I was a wife‚ the next day I was a mother‚ and then I woke up one morning a college student. Let me tell you‚ being a student and having to make time for studying and
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her middle school principle‚ the profile did not include the name of the principle or the school name just a picture of him. Students of course at the school talked about it but they have that right according to the 1st amendment it is the right to free speech. I feel that what she did didn’t cause harm to the principle or physical dangers of other students merely a simple joke. I feel that for her being suspended was an unreasonable action. The facts simply do not support the outcome that the school
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Baraka In the film‚ the composer‚ depicts a number of ideas about time by using many images that show a natural world to a highly artificial world. This is demonstrated in many scenes throughout the film. In the film Baraka‚ the director portrays how time changes from one day to the next by juxtaposing the new world to the old world. This is seen in the film where at the beginning there is a lot nature and it is seen as natural world where as towards the middle of the film‚ there is a lot of
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