better than spending a week on vacation with your friends. Last summer‚ I went to the Free Lutheran Youth (FLY) convention. FLY is a large get-together where Lutheran teenagers from around the country meet and worship. Abby Ator‚ Lance Bengochea‚ Sierra Machart‚ Mariah Machart‚ Emma Pederson‚ Bryan Pederson and I go to Bethel Lutheran Church; we decided to fundraise and attend the FLY convention. This year was the first time I have participated; the experience literally changed my outlook on life. The
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Following the Annapolis Convention‚ by mid- February seven states agreed to send representatives to Philadelphia and by February 21st 1787‚ Congress called upon the states to send their representatives to the meeting. These fifty-five representatives would be the delegates of the United States Constitutional Convention of 1787. An assorted bunch of politicians‚ the delegates at the Constitutional Convention of 1787 were a motley crew of bureaucrats. The median age of the collective was forty-three
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knowledge regarding the world of film this semester‚ it is now possible to classify films into genres and sub-genres. In general‚ a genre refers to a collection of films that share a set of narrative‚ stylistic‚ and thematic characteristics or conventions (Pramaggiore & Wallis 382). Gary Ross’s film‚ The Hunger Games‚ fits into the genre of science fiction as well as the subgenres of dystopia and contemporary romance; however‚ the main protagonist‚ Katniss Everdeen‚ does not fit the stereotypical
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post 1970 films‚ the thing that makes Neo Noir different from Film Noir is that Neo Noir films used modern technology that was unknown to Film noir films (“Difference between Noir and Neo Noir‚ 2016). There are many conventions a film has to have to be considered Film Noir. Some conventions that a film has to have to be considered film noir are the use of Chiaroscuro lighting‚ Femme Fatale‚ crime and violence‚ use of venetian blinds or bars‚ use of different camera angles‚ rural or urban settings‚ and
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their mind. Also‚ using different ways to describe a character makes it easy to relate the character to the reader’s own life. In The Odyssey by Homer‚ translated by Robert Fagles‚ Homer uses an immense amount of epic conventions to illustrate an epic hero. Homer’s use of epic conventions help enrich characters and events that take place throughout the epic. Homer uses epic epithets‚ which helps makes a character or object more relatable. The same character is often given several different epithets
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article amid the Seneca Falls convention of 1848‚ which also included Lucretia Mott‚ Elizabeth Cady Stanton‚ Martha C. Wright‚ and Mary Ann McClintock. These early feminists set the agenda and led the convention‚ which culminated in the reading and signing of the Declaration. Based on the Declaration of Independence‚ Sentiments summarized and compared the problems the founding fathers faced with the struggles of the women’s rights movement. The document and convention quickly became considered the
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general template for that genre or they can develop the novel with a personal priority in mind. The historical fiction novel‚ Beloved‚ by Toni Morrison is written outside of the conventions of the genre‚ although it is‚ yet a well written novel. In the novel Beloved‚ the author‚ Toni Morrison‚ deviates from the conventions of historical fiction as she narrates the plot through the perspective of different characters with an objective of allowing the reader to experience the plot through characters
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are the Westerlies‚ which blow west to east and the Trade Winds‚ which blow east to west. Salinity – The higher the salinity of the water the more dense it becomes. With a high level of salinity the water will sink. This starts a convention current. A convention current is when the cold water sits on top of the warm water (depending on the salinity level)‚ and the flow of the current can be reversed if the density and salinity combined with temperature of the water changes.
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"On quoting ..." A corpus-based study on the phraseology of well-known quotations Sixta Quassdorf Department of English University of Basel sixta.quassdorf@unibas.ch Abstract Quotations are an interesting linguistic phenomenon in at least two respects: firstly they link ordinary language with the language of the poets‚ and secondly they typically represent creativity within formulaicity. To study quotations in more detail‚ a database of quotations from and allusions to Shakespeare ’s Hamlet
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PHP Conventions and Coding Style ● ● File and Directory Names Brackets ○ Curly Brackets ○ Class Brackets ○ Empty Brackets ○ Array Brackets ■ Opening Parenthesis ■ Closing parenthesis ● Single Dimension ● Multidimensional ■ Arrays as Function Arguments Naming Conventions ○ Classes ○ Functions and Methods ○ Variables Indentation String Concatenation Single Line Statements Comparison Operations Switch Structures Parentheses Ternaries Type Casting Constants Comments ○ One-line Comments Regular Expressions
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