In “With These Words I Can Sell You Anything”‚ William Lutz describes how advertisers trick people into buying their products by using weasel words‚ which are words that “appear to be making a claim for a product when in fact they are making no claim at all” (49). He suggests to examine these words carefully and see how hollow they actually are. He then goes on by providing numerous examples of weasel words such as “help” and “virtually”. Lastly‚ He suggests consumers to ask themselves for the denotation
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Toulmin Analysis of "It ’s the ABC Oscars: anything but Crash" The article "It ’s the ABC Oscars: anything but Crash" can be found on the MSN News website. It is written by Erik Lundegaard‚ a movie critic whose opinion can be found regularly on MSNBC‚ in the Minneapolis Star Tribune‚ and in the Seattle Times ("Erik"). The article includes the basic elements of the Toulmin Model and can be analyzed according to the model. In the article‚ Lundegaard claims that the motion picture Crash
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HOW TO TAKE A GOOD PHOTOGRAPH * Always remember that: the most fundamental element in taking a good photograph is composition. Modern automatic cameras can sort out focusing‚ lighting and other matters for you‚ but you have to chose where to point the camera and how to compose the picture. So take a few seconds to choose a good composition taking on board the following advice. * Any lines in the pictures must be straight - unless you’re deliberately trying to be exotic. So horizons
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In the essay “Just Take Away Their Guns”‚ James Q. Wilson argues that restraining people from legally purchasing firearms do not have any effect on the illegal use of guns. About two-hundred million citizens privately own a gun and one-third of that two-hundred million own a hand gun. Only two percent of the citizens are using them in unlawful acts. Most guns are either stolen or borrowed‚ or privately purchased‚ which are rarely affected by gun laws. Any decrease in ammunition stock would reduce
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Quitting was never an Option Noise. The dull roar that gave way to the cacophonous din that swirled within my ears. Or maybe more specifically‚ it was the lack of said noise that reigned around me and the profound silence that held me prisoner in my own body. All my thoughts were running wild causing what seemed like a discordant orchestra‚ each seeking to be recognized over my most prevalent fearful thought: “Somebody help!” One fateful night at a Boy Scout meeting‚ when we were holding elections
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The multivitamin that I am currently taking is Centrum chewables multivitamin/multimineral supplement. This supplement includes Vitamins A‚ C‚ D‚ E‚ K‚ B6 and B12 and the other vitamins that were listed in tables 8.2 8.3 and 9.1 9.6‚ with the exception of fluoride‚ and chlorine. When comparing this vitamin with tables 8.2 and 8.3 the daily value listed on the vitamin label meets the daily value on the tables. There were a few that have a lower percentage such as Vitamin A 3‚500 IU‚ K 10mcg‚ Biotin
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1. What problems does Air Canada hope that Maintenix will solve? The legacy software package installed 15 years ago wasn’t efficient because there systems weren’t able to interact with one another or with finance and inventory system. The inefficiencies of these systems were costing Air Canada the time of its engineers and money that could’ve been used on maintaining its planes‚ instead of needlessly maintaining excess inventory. 2. How does Maintenix improve operational efficiency and decision-making
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Fathers Take Paternity Leave? N.Y. Mets’ second baseman Daniel Murphy was blasted for missing two games to be with his wife and newborn baby. He then goes on to say “my wife and I discussed it‚ we felt the best thing for my family would be for me to stay the next day” (Susteren). Is this the message we want to send to fathers when their newborn child is born? No‚ we want to encourage them to take paternity leave from work just as mothers get maternity leave from work. The few days that he takes off
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“I was never an American. I was immediately a New Yorker.” How is Changez’s sense of identity altered over the course of the novel? Identity is as much about public perception as it is self-perception. In Mohsin Hamid’s novel The Reluctant Fundamentalist the reader is confronted with this fact in a bid to understand what it means to be American and Pakistani. The narrator Changez is unsure of who he is‚ and whilst certain personality traits remain‚ his sense of identity is changed significantly
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Purpose and Audience 1. What point is the writer trying to make? Why do you suppose her thesis is never explicitly stated? The author’s whole (main) point of in the essay is to make the reader feel sympathy for her mother‚ because of the hardships she went through working on a farm while raising eight children‚ which leads us to believe she is deserving of the Social Security benefit check. Another point is general; even though‚ women does do so much work towards their home‚ they don’t get any
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