Ready Player One takes place in the year 2044‚ when most people spend their time on a virtual world known as OASIS. When Wade Watts was 13 years old‚ the billionaire creator of OASIS‚ James Halliday‚ died. Halliday has no children‚ relatives‚ or friends to give his inheritance to. The night of his death‚ Halliday has a video sent to every OASIS user. The video informs them that whoever can figure out the riddles to find the three keys‚ that open the three gates‚ will get the egg(Halliday’s fortune)
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businesses to foreign investment‚ but our unemployment rates increase and the market for our Australian “brand” is declining. This is why it is imperative that all Australian consumers support Australian businesses at every opportunity. The profits made by these businesses are generally used to improve the business‚ employ more staff‚ improve working conditions or used to support other aspects of the Australian economy. These benefits help us all‚ so it is up to us to ensure we can maximise these
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can’t help myself from being carried away by two heroes‚ who at some point‚ have differences in leading the others. In other words‚ I’m hitting two birds with one stone: watching the movie and relating it with my reaction paper on leaders being born or made. I’m talking about Captain America and Iron Man. What about them? Captain America was a hero in the past. He joined the military. Because of his diminutive size‚ he wasn’t given much attention in the army. In other words‚ he was a nobody until he was
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home to their parents. Students that talk should understand that the teacher is only trying to help them and wants them to pass the class. Students that talk are disrespecting teachers and other student that may want to learn. Teachers have all ready finish school and want their students to finish as well. Teachers have gone to college to learn how to teach a class. They should have respect and attention from all students. When a student talks it shows the teacher that they don’t care about the
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We are all made of corn. Take a strand of your hair. A recent study proved that if you are like the average American consumer today‚ your hair is 69% made of corn carbon. This is in contrast to the 5% of corn carbon that is in the hair of Europeans. Americans use more corn in their diet than anyone else‚ and the corn content of the American diet is partially responsible for our country’s widespread obesity and the prevalence of diabetes. America’s over-production of corn has serious consequences
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what we’ve accomplished over the last month and a half. Five minutes until the show starts. Everyone circles up and join hands so the seniors can continue on the tradition of “The Energy Circle”. “Are you ready?” Everyone replies in their stage whisper‚ “Yeahhhhh!” “Then let’s get ready to rumble!” The wave is started around the circle. It goes around once‚ twice‚ and than dies out. It’s time to report to our places. As everybody
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fear that is taught to them as a means of control. They are not taught about their history‚ and they are taught not to think. In Ready Player One‚ the future is shown to be a world where anything is possible in the virtual realm of Oasis. In the real world‚ competition for money leads to no boundaries and death. This takes the anonymity and lack of reality away. Ready Player One shows how virtual reality is used as an escape from the burdens of life. It also brings up the question‚ and varying opinions
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“The Way to Rainy Mountain” by N. Scott Momaday “The Way to Rainy Mountain” is a short story by N. Scott Momaday. In this short work‚ Momaday describes the loss of someone special to him‚ his grandmother‚ and the things and places that remind him of her. He spends a lot of time describing the terrain of what his people have named “Rainy Mountain”. His people are the Kiowa‚ an old Native American tribe that lived on the plains of Oklahoma. The story‚ in the literal sense‚ is about the main
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Sometimes life’s most important messages can be seen when you do not take it too seriously. Humorists are the ones who can help you do that with their witty remarks‚ clever remarks‚ and satirical material on life’s issues. Sure some humorist might look like they go to an extreme at times with their material‚ even to the point where you feel that they purposely offend you‚ but that is the best way to get their message heard without being heavily scrutinized by people. I believe that since humorist
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HSC Area of Study Discovery AN ETA RESOURCE www.englishteacher.com.au Overview of the session ! The rubric ! Why is discovery an important concept? ! The texts as discoveries ! Activities to start the unit with students ! Ways into the texts and related texts The rubric ! Students need to know the rubric! One way to engage with the rubric is to look at each statement and determine the focus by deciding if it is a: WHO WHAT WHERE WHEN WHY or HOW ! type of statement The rubric
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