I currently am interning at a law firm doing marketing. As an intern‚ some of the work can be tedious (see: copy & pasting contact information from hundreds of Word docs to and Excel spreadsheet). To make my time a little less painful‚ something that I’ve been loving doing is listening to podcasts. I know‚ I know‚ it seems like everyone and their mother has been listening to podcasts these days. I’m happily on the board with the whole podcast-craze‚ and if you’re looking for a form of (sometimes)
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Dating sites have caught the eye of plenty of people in this generation. In a recent experiment done by “OKCupid”‚ the Co-Founder‚ Christian Rudder‚ takes multiple people who would be good for eachother and tells them they are not good for each other‚ and vise versa. The goal of the company’s experiment was to test the compatibility against “like the kind of like‚ uh‚ null hypothesis” (Rudder 765). Christian Rudder is interviewed by Todd Zwillich‚ whom asks complex questions about his business‚ the
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When someone advertised something and conveys messages to urge people to buy certain products or tell people that one product or services are better than another‚ it means that they try to persuade us. Persuasion is a form of social influence that can be defined as a process by which a person changes his or her behavior and attitudes because he or she had been influenced by the communications from other people. Persuasion is a truly influential and powerful force in our everyday life as people try
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In Catilinam Paper Cicero‚ the masterful orator and lawyer‚ gave a tremendous speech against a wicked minded senator named Catiline who was planning to overthrow the government. Within the Temple of Jupiter‚ Cicero used many tactics to stir the senators such as reminding the senators of similar situations in the past; making them fear Catiline‚ connecting their situation to real life examples‚ and making it seem that his plans are known by everyone. With these tactics and others‚ Cicero effectively
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The purpose of this short story is to make the reader feel indignant and angry with the husband and compassion and sympathy for the wife. Brush uses diction and imagery to invoke these emotions in the reader. The author’s diction is significant in the short story in achieving the author’s purpose for the work. Brush uses adjectives such as "shy" and "little" and verbs like "beamed" and "crying" to describe the woman. The reader is immediately drawn to the wife’s meekness and modesty. She is seen
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2) Socrates did not always think that he was wise‚ many people labeled him as a teacher. Socrates did not really care for this label. He did not really think that he knew much. Socrates had a friend named Chaerephon who went to the oracle the God of Delphi. Cheaerephon asked the oracle is there any one wiser then Socrates‚ the oracle answered no (21a). Socrates did not understand this and set out to prove the oracle wrong. While out to prove the oracle wrong Socrates realized he is wise but not because
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Juliette Hughes wrote an article for The Age newspaper about how she thinks drugs should be legalised. She used many different sorts of metalanguage techniques such as using expert’s opinion‚ appealing to people’s self-interest etc. Hughes is an ethicist; her point of view is from an ethical standpoint. Hughes used examples from history and scientific experiment. The intended audience is a mature audience‚ who are open minded about the legalisation of drugs. Hughes starts off by talking about cannabis
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Literacy Paper 2 “You can be anything you want to be!” This is what typical parents say in order to give their children hope for the future. It is a lie. Even though many of Americas youth dream of what they want to be when they grow up‚ few dreams ever come true. The fact is no‚ you really cannot be anything you want to be. In reality‚ there are so many external forces that come into play in order for someone to create their own reality. Though I am talking about dreams‚ this myth is different
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Tupac Shakur was a man born into poverty who knew all too well the struggles of black men in the late twentieth century. Tupac’s many achievements in bringing about racial equality have placed him among the few great civil rights advocates of his time. Tupac embedded his message of equality into his verses allowing it to reach many‚ and even in death his teachings continue to show us that there is hope for a brighter tomorrow and that no one should give up hope in the future. The controlling message
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In Thoreau’s “Solitude‚” Thoreau continuously insists that human society should revert back to living a life of solitude in the unrefined depths of nature because we’ve become too materialistic. However‚ I would qualify this ideology due to the fact that individuals do tend to spend too much time with technology and have a materialistic mindset‚ but they do not have to live alone in the woods to change. Thoreau comments that “Society is too cheap‚” and this statement can still be made today because
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