By: Nell Literary devices can be a writers ’ best friend‚ and likewise‚ worst enemy. In the essay “What A Certain Visionary Once Said”‚ by Thompson Highway‚ Highway employs imagery‚ simple vocabulary and omits repetition. Al Gore‚ in the essay‚ A Moment Of Truth‚ also uses imagery‚ but uses much more formal vocabulary and repetition. Although‚ the literary devices found in Gore ’s essay are often effective‚ Highway invites agreement more effectively because he is able to get his point across
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Comp 1 May 21‚ 2010 My Most Embarrassing Moment I have had a great many embarrassing moments in my life. Some of the most embarrassing have occurred while I was attending school. One of these moments happened in high school during my sophomore year. I remember it very well because I got conned into doing a stunt. It made me the center of attention‚ and I made an unforgettable moment at my school. Now days when a kid wants another kid to do something they are too scared to do‚ they dare them
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Canada’s most defining moments Canada is a one of the wealthiest countries in the world but Canada didn’t just become wealthy overnight. Canada has many accomplishments and failures but the most defining moments in Canadian history were both the failures and accomplishments in the economy or economy related. The three most defining moments in Canadian history were; the stock market crash‚ which led to the “Great Depression”‚ the baby boom on the other hand led to increases in jobs during the 1960’s
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Moment of Inertia Academic Resource Center What is a Moment of Inertia? • It is a measure of an object’s resistance to changes to its rotation. • Also defined as the capacity of a cross-section to resist bending. • It must be specified with respect to a chosen axis of rotation. • It is usually quantified in m4 or kgm2 Quick Note about Centroids…. • The centroid‚ or center of gravity‚ of any object is the point within that object from which the force of gravity appears to act. •
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Rhetorical Moment Just yesterday morning‚ I visited my new Calculus professor‚ Dr. Rukimbira‚ because I needed all the worksheets that the class had been working on since the first day. Although this might seem like a simple thing to do‚ I had already tried to ask a professor for worksheets that same day‚ but unfortunately‚ the teacher thought I had been skipping class and yelled at me instead of facilitating me the work. Therefore‚ I planned to first do some research on the professor‚ since I deducted
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FRIENDS: friend or foe? Friends are extremely important and friendship is a major part of our lives. If there’s one thing we can all agree on‚ it’s that friends are awesome. Having friends is similar to having family. During the good times and the bad‚ through thick and thin‚ your best friends are there for you. They are the people that you can count on in your greatest time of need. They can help you in times of trouble‚ and be there to enjoy and share the great parts of your life too. Our friends
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their behavior and how they respond to us . I thought to myself ‚ great . So I ’ll spend my whole morning with a bunch of street kids . From what I know ‚ street kids are mostly ill-mannered . What a waste of time ‚ I know I won ’t get anything from it anyway . I might even get into a fight with those kids . But still I went to the home just to comply with the school requirement . I almost dragged my feet when we entered the home . The home supervisor met us at the entrance and led us to a
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here for one more week”. The struggle was not just the pain in my leg or the vacuums in my skin the struggle was being alone. When I was thirsty for hours‚ not finding anyone to bring me water. The distress was seeing my mom crying on the phone screen‚ because she can’t come all the way from Spain and help me. The shame was hearing the nurses asking me “Don’t you have anyone in your family to come and visit?”.The tension was when my English wasn’t good enough to understand those hard medical terms
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Friend in need is friend indeed People say that true friends are those whom we meet in childhood. Children are more open to communication and don’t bother about social status of their friends‚ about money friends have‚ and a lot of other things that worry adults. The most important thing for children is communication and playing.The help of a friend is the most valuable in life. A friend is a person on whom we may always rely. And in the most difficult moment of our life we turn to friends for love
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Living in the Moment As much as we all want to fully enjoy life we don’t know how‚ we experience enjoyment in such variability that we’re not able to pin it down to an exact science. The thing is living is easy‚ but truly enjoying and appreciating life’s most memorable moments takes a conscious effort. When was the last time you allowed yourself to just sit and savor the present moment – not reminiscing about the past and not anticipating the future? Not doing anything just being. Being in the here
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