Simon Garfield has presented the diary entries of five ordinary citizens living between 1945 and 1948 in his book‚ Our Hidden Lives: The Remarkable Diaries of Post-War Britain. The content was drawn from what came to be known as the Mass-Observation Archive‚ an effort initiated by an anthropologist‚ a journalist‚ and a documentary filmmaker as “a study of everyday people living regular lives.” (Garfield‚ 1) From the thousands collected‚ Garfield selected these five diaries because they provided a
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Critique On Advertising In Our Society A critique on the impact of advertising in our society. Consider visuals and verbal or written language. (1000 words) The impact of advertising on our society is a fiercely debated topic‚ and has been ever since the conception of advertising in its most basic form. There are negative and positive social and economic impacts upon society from advertising in its various forms. For instance‚ advertising promoting public welfare has a positive social impact
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The Fault in Our Stars To have a life is an opportunity; to live it happily is a choice. Who is not afraid to die? Who is not afraid to be forgotten? Who is not afraid to leave Earth empty-handed and unprepared? The book “The Fault in Our Stars” possesses a story of life and death. A story that would help us realize that a lot of things can be sacrificed in the name of love and infinite happiness. The book has a power to change the way people think and could alter the way we think of life
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connected by mobile phones and social media it is now easier to communicate with people. Our life revolves around technology and you can now control your heating and lights from your smartphone. A smartphone can do almost everything. It allows you use a touch less paying system at shops‚ watch live TV‚ find restaurants near a location or calculate how long it will take you to get home. They are designed to make our lives easier. For example have you ever lost the TV remote and cant be bothered to look
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Violence Is Part of Our Nature I want to believe what we can stop violence. I want to believe in that because I am a human‚ not a wild animal. In our life we are always have a choice when we grow up. We can choose whatever we want ‚ also we can choose our profession‚ food‚ favorite colors. And then we can choose the path to achieve our goals. Unfortunately some of us choose the wrong way‚ the way with violence . Why people do this? Why violence it is part of our life? Because people have a lot
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History is playing a crucial role in our lives as human beings; it makes us to understand who we are‚ where we are coming from and all that makes us to know where we are going to. In this work I am going to write the plan of an essay which looks at the values and the uses of History‚ in this plan I am going to look at the paragraphs where I will focus on writing the point I am going to cover and the explanation of each paragraph. Paragraph 1: The introduction of my essay. Paragraph 2: Point:
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Instead of accepting society as it is‚ the characters in the story have fought for their rights. In Cairo: My City‚ Our Revolution‚ it claims‚ “We stood. That was our job‚ the people at the back: we stood and we chanted our declaration of peace: ‘Selmeyya! Selmeyya!’ while our comrades at the front‚ unarmed‚ fought with the security forces.” The defiant yet heroic act these women portrayed have showed that they were fighting for what they wanted
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Compare and Contrast In‚ “A Quilt of Our Country” by Anna Quindlen‚ she tells about how our country is like a “crazy quilt” because everything on it is different but still tied together. In‚ “An Immigrant Contribution” by John F. Kennedy‚ he talks about immigrants in the U.S. and how they change our life. These articles both have different views on the same topic and are expressed differently. John F. Kennedy had a more “real life” view of American immigration oppression obsession; Quindlen had
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many mom-and-pop shops there is much criticism as to whether these corporations are to blame for the closing down of the mom-and-pop shops. Mom-and-pop shops have been closing down in our communities for many years now. When the larger corporations move into our communities do we all flock to support them and let our mom-and-pop shops suffer or even just dwindle and die? The Daily News has an article titled: “Study proves it Wal-Mart super-stores kill off local small businesses‚” by Steven Barrison
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“Our Song”-Taylor Swift It all began freshman year of 2007‚ and the annual high school talent show was coming up. Poor little T Swift had no idea what to do‚ so she decided she’d write a cute little song about her relationship at the time‚ and then the pop country hit “Our Song” came to be. Taylor Swift had no intentions of this make shift song becoming anything special rather then something up beat and relatable to her fellow classmates‚ but then the exact opposite happened. When producing
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