Thursday‚ July 2nd 2009 "To Whom Shall We Go?" To Whom Shall We Go? God of Goodness‚ You know that the violence in our community is out of control. It is taking our helpless and innocent ones‚ it is taking our children. And‚ we confess that beyond the violence in our streets‚ is the violence in our own hearts. We contribute to a culture of violence whenever we give in to hatred‚ fear‚ indifference‚ and our own self-satisfaction. It seems that we are growing numb to the suffering‚ the
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“How Computers Change the Way We Think” by Sherry Turkle My Rhetorical Analysis Argument will be over “How Computers Change the Way We Think” by Sherry Turkle. In this article Turkle explains how computers have changed the way we store information‚ our sense of privacy and our competence to think ahead. Turkle studies the sociology of sciences of mind‚ a study of the interactions among technical‚ literary‚ and popular discourses about the self as they develop in specific social contexts. (Turkle
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Chaos in Fourteen Lines The poem "I will put Chaos into fourteen lines" by Edna St. Vincent Millay has to do with Chaos’s epic struggle to free itself from the bondage of the prison of fourteen lines and its ultimate defeat to Order. However‚ upon closer inspection‚ the poem appears to be an ars poetica that describes the process of writing fixed form poetry and all the trials that come with expressing poetry in words. The question and the goal of the poem is spelled out in the first line with
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Why do we Dream? It has been said by researchers that everyone dreams during sleep and it is thought to be a universal psychical feature of our human lives. However‚ many of us are unable to recall vividly what happens throughout our dreams‚ if anything at all. Due to this clouded unique nature that is dreaming‚ most of the knowledge why we dream is largely inconclusive. Nonetheless‚ after many years of theoretical debate on the subject‚ three arguments have remained prominent of which I will
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in his speech‚ "The Ballot or the Bullet." When comparing and contrasting King’s "I Have a Dream" with Malcolm X’s "The Ballot or the Bullet"‚ one witnesses both the similarities in the two leaders’ rhetorical styles‚ and the differences in their tone and message. Both King and X use the same rhetorical strategies to enhance their message in their speeches‚ as shown in Kings "I Have a Dream" and X’s "The Ballot or the Bullet." One alike device is repetition‚ as King used when he repeated the phrase
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find out the truth even if you don’t tell them straight up. So why do we lie? We all have done it and we know its not right
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Go Compare Advert Go Compare? DON’T YOU DARE! Go Compare is the most annoying‚ idiotic and vexatious advert ever! However their latest commercial is the worst. It begins at a conference held by Stephan Hawkins who is delivering a lecture about black holes. Seems okay so far… Suddenly‚ someone in the crowd asks what he could use the black hole for. Stephan Hawkins smiles and the camera changes to a street scene where a couple are window-shopping. Gio Compario appears suddenly behind them
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In Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet movie adaptation‚ the director shows the length chaos will go by incorporating a variety of effects during the prologue. For example‚ the director‚ Baz Luhrmann has chosen canted angles that are used continually throughout the prologue‚ creating unbalance and playing onto the theme of impulsivity and how it creates unbalance in one’s life. It evokes disorder and uneasiness in the scene‚ which is something that happens throughout the love story of Romeo and Juliet
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conservative view and directs his argument towards those who strongly support imprisonment and view corporal punishment to be highly barbaric and inhumane. However‚ in order to shed light on our current situation‚ Jacoby discusses the dangers that we face though our criminal justice system a nd shows concern that imprisonment is doing more harm than good. In effect‚ Jacoby looks to the past for solutions‚ and despite knowing the liberal views of his audience‚ refers to the Puritans ’ use of flogging
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Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation (Book Review) Bill recently read Steven Johnson’s book‚ "Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation"‚ and found it useful as a way to think about the kinds of environments that foster creative collaboration and innovation. I picked up Steven Johnson’s book‚ Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation‚ with a little bit of skepticism. Lots of books have been written about innovation – what it is
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