Why can ’t we be friends? Do the numbers 3828 (US Fatalities by Month) and 47378 (R. Smith) mean anything to you? How about $502 billion and $536 billion (in today ’s dollar) (Wolf)? They should‚ these are the number of U.S deaths and the costs of the war in Iraq and the Vietnam War. "Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die!" was once said by Herbert Hoover (Simoni). War though some people may not like to admit it‚ has shaped the United States into what we are today. War
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Nick-O-Las Reading this article‚ I was at first confused as to what the author was complaining about. As I kept reading I began to understand that the author was angry with the people who opposed the governments healthcare plan or as he called it‚ “Obamacare”. The author kept on giving examples of opponents who would just twist the information about the healthcare reform to make it seem like it was a bad thing and one that would scare Americans from wanting the government to provide healthcare.
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After reading the novel Feed‚ I’ve begun to realize that our society has been evolving in to a digital age. Also being in a digital age we have been manipulated by mass media. I have chosen to address these issues because the novel feed can relate to them well. Every character has a feed‚ which is directly into their brain. Having internet connected to you at all times‚ you get very reliant on it. Now a days if you don’t know something or don’t understand something‚ we look toward Google for an
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There are many alarming issues in the world‚ and each day there are more problems and complaints and less solutions and good actions. Many of these issues are based on the environmental problems. This concerns everybody‚ but almost nobody tries to do something about it. As regards this‚ many organizations have been starting to do campaigns against pollution‚ and trying to encourage people to care about the Earth. Both text 2A “Both Text 2A “Terrified” and Text 2B “Friends of the earth‚ what your
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‘Doing It For The Girls’ is a multi-modal‚ promotional article from a women’s magazine‚ and is mainly aimed at working-class women or women looking for a career path. It features the young engineer Katie Fish and informs the reader of the increasing number of young women working in the engineering sector‚ specifically in nuclear power. As shown by the bold “Promotion” in the picture‚ the purpose of this article is to promote nuclear energy and challenge the stereotype of women taking up engineering
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Feet September 1948 “Feet” is an extract from a novel by Seamus Dean‚ Reading in the Dark‚ set in the year 1948. The event is narrated in a first person perspective‚ from the point of view of a young boy‚ who is hidden under a table‚ such that all he can see are the feet of the people in the room. In this extract‚ the author conveys the observations through the innocent perspective of a boy who might only be around eight to ten years of age. The first scene that we are introduced to seems
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Stacey’s life is a struggle against domination of the male society. She lacks the bravery and self-confidence because of her lack of education. She feels herself down because of her appearance. The lack of confidence makes her to leave Manawaka for Vancouver in search of better living‚ though she gets it‚ it remains only temporary. She marries MacAindra at the age of Twenty three‚ to live under a happy protection but it turns out a failure. Mac wants to live his life according to his own wish and
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Cultural commentary on the film "the Holiday". The Holiday is a 2006 American romantic comedy film written‚produced and directed by Nancy Meyers‚ it stars Cameron Diaz and Kate Winslet as two lovelorn women from opposite sides of the Atlantic ocean‚ who temporarily exchange homes to escape heartbreak during the Holiday season. (trailer) The film is a bright example of an American and English lifestyle‚ main characters of the comedy represent typical women of both countries The UsA and UK with
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The Big Short - Analytical Commentary The Big Short‚ a film centering around the 2007-08 financial crisis and its causes‚ does an effective job of depicting corporate greed in capitalist society. Through a clever stylistic choice of having well-known celebrities explain complex wall-street jargon through intelligible metaphors - the film succeeds in explaining the build up towards the financial crash. It also shows that not everyone was blindsided by the housing bubble‚ and that a handful of economists
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Biochemistry: categories of organic compounds Ruddy Severino There are four major compounds that compose the human body. It is impossible that anything living on earth today can live out these organic compounds. Those compounds are carbohydrates‚ lipids‚ proteins‚ and nucleotides. Each compound has a major important function that is essential to the human body as well as other living organisms on earth. Carbohydrates serve as the main source of energy. Carbohydrates contain carbon‚ hydrogen
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