Chia-hao Chianglin Professor Michael Cheng Writing and Reading (II) 4 January 2011 Comparison-Contrast Essay Outline I. INTRODUCTION A. Background Information: Avatar is such a spectacular movie full of fantastic special effects. The director‚ James Cameron‚ had spend over a decade making this movie‚ from creating the screenplay‚ learning the scientific techniques‚ to shooting the film. “An enormous cost of over $280 million makes Avatar one of the most expensive movies which have ever made
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"A bitter pill" | A situation or information that is unpleasant but must be accepted. | "Ace in the hole" | A hidden or secret strength‚ or unrevealed advantage. | "Achilles’ heel" | A metaphor for a fatal weakness in spite of overall strength.[note 1] | "Add insult to injury" | To further a loss with mockery or indignity; to worsen an unfavorable situation. | "All ears" | Listening intently; fully focused or awaiting an explanation. | "All thumbs" | Clumsy‚ awkward. | "At the drop of
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have been slightly different than before‚ they had the upper hand against nature. Various natural disasters have proven again and again that no human has power over the environment‚ and again and again these lapses in judgement end in fatalities. In Jon Krakauer’s Into Thin Air‚ the word powerless demonstrates the idea that the driving power in the expedition does not reside with the team‚ but with nature and their surroundings. This concept should not only be applied to
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Jon Sabrino and Peter Singer share with readers what it takes to live ethically in a world in which 22‚000 children die each day from poverty-related causes. In The Principles of Mercy‚ Sabrino emphasis that people must no longer turn a naked eye to the problems of the world and they should start living out the gospel. In The Life You Can Save‚ Singer stresses the importance of giving more money. This paper will first address Sabino’s methods to living ethically‚ awaking and living the gospel. Then
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Expressionism refers to a movement that began with the focus on paintings and the theatre. “Expressionism had begun around 1908…appearing in other European countries‚ but finding its most intense manifestations in Germany” 1 The expressionist movement became very popular for having a unique style that was instantly recognisable. “Expressionism was one of the several trends around the turn of the century that reacted against realism and turned towards extreme distortion to express an inner emotional
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She died by a injure in her head and was strangled with a garrote found tied in her neck at the crime scene‚ she was found in the basement of the Ramsey’s house by her father in December 26 of 1996 at 1:05 p.m. he carried the body and took it upstairs and put it on the floor contaminating the evidence in the body‚ the murdered could happen the night of December 25 or on the early hours of the 26‚ her mother‚ Patricia Ramsey‚ woke up to prepare some coffee and said she found the ransom note when
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Jone Johnson Lewis is a minister‚ web writer‚ and teacher who has researched women’s history around the world. Lewis‚ in addition to writing for About.com since 1999‚ has taught on the topic of women in religious history as an adjunct faculty member of Meadville/Lombard Theological School. Lewis has a B.A. in Management from Mundelein College’s Women in Business program where she developed a special interest in studying the history of women in the world’s religions and in social reforms particularly
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In the article “The Culture of Shut Up‚” author Jon Lovett ponders the current state of public dialogue in the age of the Internet. Lovett is a Los Angeles based writer and a former speech writer for President Barack Obama (13). The author suggests that the internet‚ which provides for exceptional access to diverse public speech‚ will inevitably include speech that is offensive. Lovett’s opinion is that people must resist the urge to punish such speech‚ if people want to allow a range of voices to
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The purpose of Peter Jon Lindberg’s article Ode to the Annual Repeat Summer Vacation is for the reader to understand why he returns to the same vacation destination year after year instead of traveling somewhere new. Lindberg’s article has strategies that start from the beginning to the end that help with this. If Lindberg wouldn’t have used the tools he had availed to him‚ his article would have been confusing and would loose the reader. However‚ since Lindberg used the tools his article was a
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At the tender age of 16‚ Jon Roberts without having a mother or father‚ he moved from place to place and later became an enforcer for a loan-sharking operation which was run by his uncle in Staten Island‚ New York. He was arrested for dealing cocaine and taken to the tombs in New York City. After being arrested for kidnapping‚ Roberts was given the opportunity to join the military to have his criminal record expunged as he served with the 101st Airborne for a period of one (1) year in Vietnam with
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