my brother. For the last seven years‚ I spent all my life at my parents’ workplace: a small yellow brick building in Evanston‚ Illinois called Bill’s Drive In. Those boxes were my toys for most of the day. My brother and I would empty out their contents to create a castle or a spaceship. Everything was all giggles because as a young girl‚ Bill’s Drive In was my personal playground. As much as I loved that place‚ there came a point where being at my parents’ workplace bothered me. I was content with
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Module A – Comparative Study of Texts Elective 2: Texts in Time (F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby and Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Sonnets from the Portuguese) The two comparative texts‚ F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby and Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Sonnets from the Portuguese reflect changing values and perspectives of the modernistic 1920s and the Victorian Era of the mid 19th Century. Through the change in context and literary form‚ The Great Gatsby reshapes our understanding
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Choose one every day and one literary text. Using at least two analytical techniques from E301‚ analyze and compare your two texts in terms of their creativity and literariness‚ drawing on material from both parts of the module. In this paper I will analyze and compare a literary text and an everyday text‚ in terms of their creativity and literariness. I chose Philip Larkin’s (1964) poem‚ ‘Self’s the man’ (see Appendix‚ Text 1)‚ as the literary text for analysis because it is not only smooth and
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Things That Drive Me Crazy Going to the gym to work out after a full day of classes is my chance to unplug and escape from the day’s tension. Once I warm up and begin to get pumped‚ I head right into my exercise zone and don’t want to be distracted. However nothing irks me more than someone using a cellphone while working out. There are signs everywhere asking patrons to avoid using electronic devices but some people completely ignore them. Listening to a girl carry on a loud lengthy conversation
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So I am learning to drive. I know‚ I am in my mid-thirties‚ I should have learned a long time ago‚ but that’s another blog. The thing is‚ I keep making these silly mistakes. Which not only gets me dirty looks from other drivers‚ but annoys me too. I want to be perfect. The problem is‚ the way humans learn in general is by making mistakes. It is so annoying! Maybe that is part of my problem‚ I expect too much of myself‚ not just in my driving‚ but when it comes to other things. Like my writing
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“WHAT DRIVES CONSUMER BEHAVIOUR” by Erika Rence Rence describes in her article how the consumer behaviours have changed during the last years and how it is affected by world events‚ uncertainty‚ insecure futures and many others. She describes that the change in Consumer Behaviour requires the distinctive marketing for separate age-groups‚ exactly 5 groups. Birth-12 years old: This group of consumers cannot be put under the same marketing scheme. Four distinct under-groups are needed‚ as
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Zoom Tool Swap Fill & Stroke (arrow) Stroke Control Format Affects Text Apply Gradient Apply None Preview Mode Direct Selection Tool - Selects only the content of a frame‚ selects individual items within a group without having to ungroup‚ also reshapes frames Type Tool** - Adds or edits text Line Tool - Adds linear elements to the page; use stroke palette to determine thickness Rectangle Tool** - Creates shapes for graphic or text areas Scale Tool - Enlarges or reduces page elements *Should not be
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absolute authority to govern then‚ its’ clear that corruption would be there. ‘Absolut Authority‚ Absolute Corruption’. If only some people have the control over all the resources‚ resulting decisions become biased‚ certain group who hold the resources‚ drives monopoly. This campaign is about to include transparency in the society and system to prevent government‚ social and
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There is a clear divide within the house on 1503 Nottinghill Drive. My mother‚ Lisa‚ married to my father‚ Allen‚ effects everyone around her. My mother enjoys the safety inside her comfort zone and would rather bury herself in her electronics than spend a night out. By contrast‚ my father enjoys living life on the edge. His escape from our boring life comes twenty-six feet long and floats on water. The house‚ two stories‚ made of stucco and bricks‚ stands out from the rest. The house may look normal
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Non-literary text forms an independent part of a publication .Non-literary texts are informational writing: factual material‚ informational explanations‚ newspaper articles‚ textbooks‚ journal and diary entries‚ and so forth that are published in newspapers‚ Informative magazines current affairs news and educative articles. Non-literary composition uses facts and figures to proof a point. Examples of non-literary texts are personal diaries‚ current affairs news‚ journals‚ text books and articles
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