four opening lines and your explanation. * The Good Vampire Stefan All emotions and memories kept in his diary‚ Stefan Salvatore thought he was the way he shouldn’t be. For hundred years he felt nothing but pain‚ guilt and suffering‚ Went back to Mystic Falls‚ his home‚ for a new beginning. This four opening lines I made is inspired by the book (and now a hit TV series) The Vampire Diaries. It is a story about supernatural creatures such as vampires‚ werewolves‚ doppelgangers‚ and witches. I
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Digital Media Improving Intelligence BA 353 The debate over media affecting intelligence has been around even before Socrates theorized that the evolution of written text would make people forgetful and unwise. Our increasing use and immersion in digital media makes us stupid and intelligent at the same time. In this paper I will outline how digital media is making us dumb but ultimately smarter‚ how we use technology as an extension of ourselves‚ and where digital media will take us in the future
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Some excerpts from my Wartime diaries in the 4th Queen’s Own Hussars Wednesday 11th. April 1945 Woken at 4 am to go into Lugo area with Recce party. Stood at cross roads for a couple of hours. Area lousy with mines. Late breakfast when tanks arrived. On April ll th I went with Lt. Walmsley by jeep to Lugo‚ the fortified town that is surrounded by water and to which access is made by many small bridges. We stopped the jeep on the outside perimeter and looked across one of these bridges at the town
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Digital Communication We are now living in a generation where instead of writing a letter we will send an email and instead of making a phone call we will send a text; Digital communication has taken over. Digital Communication is any form of communication that happens through any digital media‚ For example: Twitter‚ text‚ you tube and Facebook. A recent example of how digital communication is taking over our language is Facebook. In 2004 Facebook was made global and now 9 years later‚ 1 in 7 people
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March 3‚ 2012 Dear Diary‚ I’m so upset!! I don’t even know where to begin! To start off‚ I think I completely failed my geometry quiz‚ which I know I should’ve studied more for...my dad’s not gonna be happy about that. :( Then‚ we had a pop quiz in history on the reading homework from last night‚ and I completely forgot most of what I read‚ which made me even more upset because I actually did the reading! But what really made me mad was the note that Sarah slipped into my locker during
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In “Literacy and the digital knowledge revolution” (2006)‚ Claire Belisle refers to “digital knowledge”‚ as a way that knowledge can be “processed and transformed”‚ by the various technological tools‚ i.e. search engines‚ databases‚ sorters and linguistic analysts‚ that we have available (Belisle‚ 2006‚ p57). Belisle moves in to the revouloution Literacy- believes that literacy is the basis of knowledge acquisition and‚ with the stronger interaction between humans and technology and the way we
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Lizzie Janes Drugs and Behavior Within Hollywood’s movies depiction of drug addiction‚ many have failed to represent all true aspects that come along with such lifestyles. The movie‚ The Basketball Diaries‚ is based off a novel Jim Carroll wrote from his own diary entries. As a teenager growing up in the sixties‚ Carroll reveals his progression of drug abuse which eventually leads him addicted to heroin.Heroin is a white powder derived from morphine found in opium. It is commonly prescribed
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Wednesday‚ January 5‚ 1763 Master Jameson is keeping me locked in this dreadful little room on the top floor of his mansion to make sure I do not run away. It is hot and dusty‚ cluttered with old clothing‚ toys and furniture. And all there is to sleep on is a soiled and tattered pallet made of pieces of clothe. I have never slept on the floor in my life! I slept in my own bed in a small cove near my parents‚ but then again my parents are gone and have been sold off. I have made friends with Master
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The Digital Revolution 1 You should spend about 20 minutes on questions 1-8 which are based on the Passage below. Wheel of Fortune: Emma Duncan discusses the potential effects on the entertainment industry of the digital revolution A Since moving pictures were invented a century ago‚ a new way of distributing entertainment to consumers has emerged about once every generation. Each such innovation has changed the industry irreversibly; each has been accompanied by a period of fear mixed with
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DIARY ENTRY Lennie after Crushing Curleys Hand October 9th 2012 I done a bad ting..... I really bad ting! Why’d I have to do it! I know George already told me it ain’ my fault but why’d I have to do it! I disappointed ’im‚ I know I did! I don’t wan’a’ make George sad. No never. George never makes me sad on purpose. Sometimes he tells me his life would have been better without me. He tells me he could have been goin’ to cat houses every night but he tells me he doesn’ mean it. He always says
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