To This Day is an animated video about the effects of bullying which is written and produced by Shane Koyczan. The approach that he uses for the video is spoken word poetry which involves rhyme‚ wordplay and intonation; all of which were evident in the video. The video is critiqued according to its content‚ influence‚ wordplay and creativity. Shane Koyczan narrates the story from his own personal experience. He opts for telling the audience how bullying has affected his life‚ and two other people
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Shane Koyczan: To This Day Explication Shane Koyczan was born on May 22‚ 1976. He grew up in Britain Colombia‚ Canada. He started writing poetry when he joined a club at his university called Tons of Fun University. However‚ he did not write typical poetry. He was a spoken word artist. Spoken word poetry focuses on the esthetic of poetry. He uses several rhetorical devices to craft his poem and uses a powerful speech to vividly express his poems. Many of his works are More Often Than Sometimes
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and pray devoutly. More disturbing to Holden than Ossenburger’s phoniness‚ though‚ is the school’s hypocrisy. None of the parading or speeches would occur if Ossenburger hadn’t given Pencey money to buy a new dorm. Chapter 4 Phonies 3: Movies are one of Holden’s big pet peeves because of their fake emotions and stereotyped roles. Holden’s not completely spiteful‚ though. He says‚ "I hate the movies like a poison‚ but I get a bang imitating them." (pg. 29) Chapter 7 Phonies 4: Holden himself often
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measure of our peace of mind is determined by how much we are able to live in the present moment. Irrespective of what happened yesterday or last year‚ and what may or may not happen tomorrow‚ the present moment is where you are -- always． Without question‚ many of us have mastered the neurotic art of spending much of our lives worrying about a variety of things -- all at once. We allow past problems and future concerns to dominate our present moments‚ so much so that we end up anxious‚ frustrated
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This is my creative essay for the Film Program at NYU. The prompt was: "Introduce yourself. Describe an unforgettable event in your life and how it changed your perception of yourself or the view of someone close to you. This event can be dramatic and/or comedic. The assignment may be written as a short story in the first person or as an essay." My one fear is that my essay is hard to understand. So any feedback on how it reads to other people would be a huge help. And also any gramatical errors
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Marais Van der Vyver shot one of his farm labourers‚ dead.An accident. There are accidents with guns every day of the week: children playing a fatal game with a father’s revolver in the cities where guns are domestic objects‚ and hunting mishaps like this one‚ in the country. But these won’t be reported all over the world. Van der Vyver knows his will be. He knows that the story of the Afrikaner farmer - a regional Party leader and Commandant of the local security commando - he‚ shooting a black
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see him. The nurses keep coming back saying‚ “I don’t know what is taking so long”. My mom is now pacing. My aunt walks over to her and my mom starts to cry. My sister comes to sit by me and starts a new game of tic-tac-toe with me‚ the hundredth game for the day‚ or so it felt. People come and go and finally we hear “Griffioen”. My mom grabs me and my sister and takes us over to the conference room. Inside the room stands the doctor. This is our first time meeting him so we shake hands and introduce
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’ Principles of Communication $ • The communication process: Sources of information‚ communication channels‚ modulation process‚ and communication networks • Representation of signals and systems: Signals‚ Continuous Fourier transform‚ Sampling theorem‚ sequences‚ z-transform‚ convolution and correlation. • Stochastic processes: Probability theory‚ random processes‚ power spectral density‚ Gaussian process. & • Modulation and encoding: % ’ Basic modulation techniques and binary data
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network offers students a way to stay in touch‚ creating face-to-face like conversations and other interactions away from the physical classroom. From this perspective‚ social networks are particularly important for adult learners who often have complex‚ busy schedules that may not enable them to participate in face-to-face events at their institutions of choice‚ or may prohibit them from participating during “regular” classroom hours. Online social media participation can happen anytime‚ anywhere‚ and
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feet out from our campsite. Right when we started we went about twenty miles an hour and the tube jerked so hard I thought I got whiplash. We were being thrown around so much that we were almost never in the wake our boat left behind. As we flew out to the right‚ I put my hand up to my neck and moved it back and forth‚ indicating the to driver that I needed to stop. Everybody told the driver and he was about to stop but then my cousin (Sabastian) put his hands up and then it was game on from there.
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