Tuesday 6th January 2015 1. Mobile phones Alarm Skyping/ video calling Taking videos and pictures Instant and social messaging Internet and GPS 2. Portable devices such as‚ netbooks‚ laptops and PDAs Useable for business Internet Instant and social media/ messaging PDAs – telephone and faxing Location and Navigator 3. Email and instant messaging Communication Sending files/ documents Check inbox and sort use and junk emails Advertising WhatsApp 4. The internet Downloading and uploading
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Mobile phones: blessing or curse? Discuss Nowadays mobile phones are everywhere: their bleeping ringtones go off behind you in the train; gormless-looking zombies stand around on the street “texting” illiterate messages to each other‚ while even children see them as an indispensable accessory. Clearly‚ mobile phones have come to be a normal and accepted part of most people’s lives‚ but does this necessarily mean they are a boon? I would say that while mobiles are potentially helpful in some
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The Lost Generation The Lost Generation is a group of American writers who witnessed the daunting event of World War One (Jaracz). Ernest Hemingway‚ F. Scott Fitzgerald‚ Ezra Pound‚ John Dos Passos‚ Gertrude Stein‚ Sherwood Anderson‚ Waldo Peirce‚ Sinclair Lewis‚ Zelda Fitzgerald and T. S. Eliot are among the writers which compromised the group ( "The Lost Generation."). The term “Lost Generation” was conceived by Gertrude Stein who utilized the term emblematically to refer to the young generation
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English 102 Of Innocence Lost Innocence is a quality that is often taken for granted and abused. In the following three stories‚ Margaret Atwood’s “Stone Mattress”‚ Tim O’Brien’s “The Things They Carried” and John Updike’s“A&P”‚ the three main protagonists deal with a common theme- that of innocence lost and the consequences of your decisions. Innocence is one of the few things that can be lost by making one simple decision. Unfortunately‚ it is also one of the seldom found things that one
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us look like we’re wealthy. A few gadgets can even make us feel like‚ if not James Bond‚ then that handsome devil Daniel Craig. For some of us tech is all about work and productivity. Poor lost souls. For most of us it boils down to entertainment – the happy lazy Sundays of our lives spent watching DVDs‚ the Lost marathons‚ the late nights spent with your Xbox‚ or the hours wasted at work surfing YouTube. That’s why were dedicating a whole issue to the topic. Whether you’re interested in movies‚ games
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THE LOST BOY SOCW 3220: Human Behavior II ABSTRACT Imagine a boy who is nine years old and who is alone. He doesn’t have a home‚ and the only possession he has is what he can carry in a brown paper bag. In the novel The Lost Boy‚ the author David Pelzer tells his experience of this first hand. David was removed from his abusive biological mother when he was nine years old and placed into a foster home. Soon after his first placement‚ he began to come out of his shell. He was going
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The main character in the short story “Land of the Lost” written by Steward O’Nan‚ is an elder woman. Throughout the entire short story we do not get to know her name or a description of how she looks. She works as a cashier at a BI-LO and lives alone with her German shepherd Ollie‚ her two sons moved out shortly after their parents got a divorce. Even though we do not get a lot to know about her looks‚ we get a lot of knowledge on her way of thinking and her mental state. Even though she is mentally
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What is lost in translation from one language to another? “Most linguists would say that there is no such thing as a perfect translation and that something is always lost when we move from one language to another.” Sometimes when translating‚ there might be the difficulty‚ of finding a word that expresses or means the same thing‚ and because there isn’t one specific word that means the same as the other‚ instead of putting one word‚ many are used‚ to describe the words meaning. Each
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THE LOST THING-Short Film CONTEXTUAL Shaun Tan is an Australian illustrator‚ author of children’s books and projected fiction cover artist. “The Lost Thing” was originally published as a picture book for children in 2000. The screen adaptation of the story was released in 2010 and it won the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film the following year. “The Lost Thing” tells the story of a boy who discovers a bizarre lost creature at the beach and sets out to find somewhere it can belong. Tan
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way back to World War 1. He vividly listens as‚ “ the old men told stories of getting gassed in the trenches‚ WW one” (Lines 2-3). As he listens to these stories of great harm he feels more intrigued with every word. He indulges in the thought of one day having the same stories to tell his son or daughter. He knows to well that going and serving his country is more than putting on a vest and running around in the desert. He thinks of it as an honorable accomplishment within himself. As it later goes
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