Dear Ana‚ Hello‚ my name is ______. I am now finally an American Citizen. I am from Greece. I met your sister Maria on the boat and she told me she would not have time to write and asked me to tell you what America was like. I think American is more gilded than golden. Gilded is when something is gold on the outside and (for example) iron on the inside. America seemed like an ideal place to come. At least till I got here… On the long trip to America people were discussing that if they were
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(http://www.monticello.org/site/plantation-and-slavery/thomas-jefferson-and-sally-hemings-brief-account) Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: A Brief Account The claim that Thomas Jefferson fathered children with Sally Hemings‚ a slave at Monticello‚ entered the public arena during Jefferson’s first term as president‚ and it has remained a subject of discussion and disagreement for two centuries. Based on documentary‚ scientific‚ statistical‚ and oral history evidence‚ the Thomas Jefferson Foundation
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Commentary of «Que faire du progrès » After twenty-three years in the political wilderness‚ a left wing party came to power‚ Le Parti Socialiste and was spearheaded by François Mitterrand‚ who became the first President of the Fifth Republic on the 10th of May 1981. The manifesto of the Socialist party outlines the party’s beliefs and what can be learnt from the past. In the extract «Que faire du progrès » Mitterrand does not directly view the right wing government in a negative light‚ however
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April 1‚ 1875 (Olivie) Farms are hard work. Even if you just have pigs and chickens. We‚ as in my family‚ have three pigs‚ and three chickens. We used to have 5 pigs‚ but we killed three of them yesterday to eat‚ and sell some at the market. We also killed a couple chickens. We need the money. We can barely survive with what we got‚ and that isn’t much. Mostly because we have six people in our family. Plus‚ my dad doesn’t work much‚ and my mother and I don’t work at all. And‚ my older brother works
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Immigration: An Opportunity Abused Immigration. It has been an area of serious dispute lately‚ and many people are questioning the thoughts and decisions of leaders both past and present. Many politicians‚ including our current president‚ Barack Obama‚ believe that more immigrants can only bring more prosperity to America. However‚ that is not the case. Not only are they at least partially incorrect in their reasoning‚ but they also disregard enormous dangers to the country as a whole‚ in the
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Evan Lovro English 101 2:00 Darin Halversen October 17‚ 2012 Reaction Paper My thoughts about the movie could be similar to other people’s opinions. The movie itself started out slow‚ I have noticed that with a lot of older movies like this one‚ it took a while for me to catch on to the point of the movie‚ or to figure out what it was about. Slowly the movie started picking up and it began to make more sense to me. There are a lot of characters that I had to write down on a piece of paper because
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International Coastal Clean-up Reaction Paper Ocean Conservancy’s International Coastal Cleanup is the world’s largest volunteer effort for ocean’s health. Each year‚ thousands of volunteers from around the globe participate‚ clearing tons of trash from coastlines‚ rivers and lakes and recording every piece of trash collected. On a beautiful‚ hot‚ sunny and a little bit rainy Saturday‚ we participated in the Annual International Coastal Cleanup at Freedom Island near the Manila-Cavite Expressway
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Social Studies Julie Shapiro “Crito” Reaction 10/14/12 The great Athenian philosopher Socrates believed in justice and overall fairness regarding the law. If a crime were committed‚ Socrates would rather take the punishment instead of seeking revenge. His morals consisted of accepting the scandal he had executed and not take vengeance. This differs from Hammurabi’s eye for an eye method. Hammurabi followed a path of abase payback and doing onto others what had been done to you. Socrates
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Reaction to Dr. David Callahan I was prepared to be interested in hearing this person speak‚ but when he started to list some “facts”‚ I started to tune out. The one that stood out for me was that‚ “billions of dollars have been lost for the music industry because of illegal downloading.” If people who downloaded the illegal music actually purchased it‚ yes- that would be more money in the big wigs pockets. However‚ many studies have shown (and I read another one on Techcruch right before seeing
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COM 3703 MEDIA STUDIES: MEDIA CONTENT AND MEDIA AUDIENCES SEMESTER 2‚ 2013 PORTFOLIO TABLE OF CONTENTS PAGE 1. INTRODUCTION 3 2. COMMUNICATION AND MEDIA SEMIOTICS 3 3. TEXTUAL ANALYSIS 3 4. NARRATIVE ANALYSIS 5 5. MEDIA AND VISUAL LITERACY 7 6. MEDIA‚LANGUAGE AND DISCOURSE 8 7. CONCLUSION 10 8. SOURCES CONSULTED 10 9. SELF ASSESSMENT 10 10. ADDEDUM A 11. ADDENDUM B 12. ADDENDUM C 13. ADDENDUM D 14. ADDENDUM E 1. INTRODUCTION
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