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    How to keep the readers from turning the page‚ a concept that most marketing agencies today are still trying to perfect. This advertisement tries to seize the reader’s attention through the use of its wordplay. The color red used in the Lucky Strike ad gives the reader something he or she is already conditioned to pick up. Located on stop signs and stop lights‚ the color red triggers the stop‚ look‚ and listen aspect of one’s mind. Even the font used on this advertisement bears a striking resemblance

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    history to 1877 11/03/11 Alexander the Great Alexander the Great is widely known as one of the greatest military geniuses of all time. He is said to have been inspiration for later conquerors such as Hannibal‚ Napoleon‚ and Caesar to name a few. Alexander conquered numerous places while he was king including the entire Persian Empire. From the time he was born to the time he died people knew that this man would be a great leader and conqueror. I believe that Alexander the Great is one of

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    Is Gatsby great or not? Section 1: Gatsby is generous to the people at his parties. He throws banquets and spends a lot of money on food‚ preparations and entertainment. Gatsby is a generous host. “most people were brought” “Every Friday five crates of oranges and lemons arrived from a fruiterer in New York--every Monday these same oranges and lemons left his back door in a pyramid of pulpless halves.” “At least once a fortnight a corps of caterers came down with several hundred feet

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    Candace Dodson The Great Gatsby The four settings in the Great Gatsby can changes the image on the overall plot. Each one of them makes a different tone and enhances the image of the story line. East and West Egg are both wealthy places but‚ since they are located on opposite sides‚ their ideals are different. The Valley of Ashes is what everybody looks at as a burned out Hell. Manhattan would be best described as the purgatory on earth. These settings represent the distance between the classes

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    The idea in this assignment that seems useful to me is the explanation Kenneth A. Strike gives about using due process for cases of punishment. In The Ethics of Teaching‚ Kenneth A. Strike explains “ If we are to decide about the kinds of due process to provide in cases of punishment‚ we must have some idea of what the desirable consequences of punishment are” ( Strike‚ pg. 29). This statement means that when it comes to punishments we must think about the consequences that may occur. For example

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    Juliet McKelvey Sociology March 15‚ 2011 Assignment: Page 151 Question: Apply the symbolic interactionist‚ functionalist‚ and conflict perspectives to the three-strikes laws. For symbolic interactionism‚what does these laws represent to the public? How does your answer differ depending on what part of “the public” you are referring to? For functionalism‚ who benefits from these laws? What are some of their functions? Their dysfunctions? For the conflict perspective‚ what groups are in conflict

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    Casey Green 1 09/13/11 SPC 100 Section 14 The Great Debaters This film focuses on being a confident and decisive person in life‚ through passionate and informed topics. Public speaking is the process of speaking to a group of people in a structured‚ deliberate manner intended to inform‚ influence‚ or entertain the listeners.¹ After watching this film it does strike a cord of wanting to be able to reach out to others and share my own opinions in a strong‚ confident

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    Abstract As the spokesman of the “Jazz Age”‚ F.Scott Fitzgerald ‚ referred to his own experience‚ wrote his masterpiece-The Great Gatsby. Through abundant symbols‚ Fitzgerald profoundly depicted the society of Jazz Age and successfully displayed the disillusionment of American Dream‚ which existed in the majority of American in 1920s. To describe the restlessness of the “lost generation” in the “roaring twenties”‚ the author created several typical tragic characters. This paper‚ based on some symbolic

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    Magwitch Magwitch a fearsome criminal just recently escaped from prison and terrorizes Pip at the beginning of Great Expectations. Chapter 1 “You fail‚ or you go from my words in any partickler‚ no matter how small it is‚ and your heart and your liver shall be tore out‚ roasted and ate. Now‚ I ain’t alone‚ as you may think I am. There’s a young man hid with me‚ in comparison with which young man I am a Angel. That young man hears the words I speak. That young man has

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    The Great Gatsby: a linguopoetic analysis of extract 1‚ chapter 1. While reading the given extract for the first time‚ we may think that it is just the description of landscape. Nick Carraway is describing the area where he lives‚ calling it “one of the strangest communities in North America”. To support this idea of strangeness he uses a number of lexical means and synonyms. Thus‚ he defines the island as “slender” and “riotous”‚ attributes that are normally used in connection with some animate

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