“Deconstructing America” Summary In the introduction‚ Patrick J. Buchanan notes that Queen Elizabeth II went to the settlement of Jamestown in 2007‚ the town’s 400th anniversary. The Queen had been there before‚ when Jamestown was founded and again in 1957. Buchanan uses the Queens visit to Jamestown as a firsthand experience of how much has changed in Jamestown since its founding. He quotes the Queen‚ “Since I visited Jamestown in 1957‚ my country has become a much more diverse society just as
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The Great Gatsby – Tom Richardson Fitzgerald makes me feel about Tom Buchanan in a negative light through what Tom does‚ says and what others say about him. The first time Nick Carroway meets Tom Buchanan in person in Scott Fitzgerald’s novel “The Great Gatsby” we are shown a very clear impression of him. Nick described Tom as a “violent body”; already this shows Tom is a man of action who lets his actions speak for him. Nick continues to describe Tom by saying he is “always leaning aggressively
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1. What are support materials? Why is it important to use support materials in addition to your own opinions and knowledge? Supporting materials are the materials used to support a speaker’s ideas. The three major kinds are examples‚ statistics and testimony. Strong supporting evidence is needed to get the listeners to believe what your speech is about. 2. Define brief examples‚ extended examples‚ and hypothetical examples and give an example of each kind. Brief examples is a specific case
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Assisted suicide for terminally ill patients 1. Being able to choose when to die is a human right. This exact point is presented in the article “Perhaps I’ll say goodbye on Twitter”. According to Tony Nicklson‚ who is a 58 year old‚ patient who has been able to move only his eyelids since suffering a stroke in 2005‚ it is the most fundamental human right. He told the journalist and former nurse Nina Lakhani‚ that: “he was simply seeking the same right to die that able-bodied people were able to
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Jay Gatsby‚ Tom Buchanan and NIck Carraway are three people with very different personalities. Jay is a modern and showy person‚ Tom is classy‚ and simple‚ while Nick is a humble person‚ and the houses of each of the characters mentioned show it. The houses of Gatsby‚ Tom and Nick represent their lifestyle and social position‚ but do not accurately represent their personality. Throughout the book‚ Jay Gatsby throws a lot of parties in his huge mansion. This shows that he is very wealthy‚ and tries
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their environment will pass down those adaptations to their offspring” (Scoville 1). Survival of the fittest means “the best physical specimen of the species and only those in the best shape and best health will survive in nature” (Scoville 1). In Pat Frank’s Alas‚ Babylon survival of the fittest comes into play in time of crisis; Randy Bragg‚ Edgar Quisenberry and Preacher Henry find this out the hard way after The Day. The Day is a day on which a nuclear war was started between the Soviet Union
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and money to raise their position in society. In the novel The Great Gatsby‚ different socials statuses are explored through three main families/characters; the Buchanan family‚ Nick Carraway‚ and Jay Gatsby. The first house we will explore is the Buchanan household. There are three people in this household; Tom Buchanan‚ Daisy Buchanan‚ and a baby girl whose name is unclear. Tom is an ex-football player who has “reached an acute level of excellence‚ everything afterward is an anticlimax” (FitzGerald
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421/CISY 427: DECISION SUPPORT AND EXPERT SYSTEMS Decision support systems: These systems give direct computer support to managers during the decision-making process. For example‚ advertising managers may use an electronic spreadsheet program to do what-if analysis as they test the impact of alternative advertising budgets on the forecasted sales of new products. Decision support systems are computer-based information systems that provide interactive information support to managers and business
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The extract begins with a scene of relief and joy‚ a large contradiction to how it ends where there is sadness‚ anger and fear. The writer seemed to have purposely used this contradiction as a way to contribute to the mood of the passage and of its readers; to give a sense of how easy feelings change and how our mood depends greatly on our environment. We can observe these signs of relief and joy mentioned earlier through the way the writer describes how the patients in Ward Fourteen behave. Even
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making reasonable plans for our future‚ etc. Anyone going though marital hell or a divorce needs a friend to talk to and vent with‚ no doubt‚ but he/she needs much more than that--a wise‚ experienced‚ unemotional but empathic and caring counselor and a group of people who can relate. We are freer than we have been for centuries to dissolve an unhappy marriage. There are other factors associated with the increasing divorce rate. Many of these social-economic factors would be considered good‚ e.g. more
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