- Do you usually spend more time in front of a screen or do you spend more time outside admiring nature and appreciating what you have around you? For many of us this question isn’t hard to answer‚ because we would say that we spend more time in front of a screen. Now‚ I don’t want to focus a lot on the addiction that you might have with technology; but instead I want to emphasize how people in today’s society take for granted everything that we have around us and put more importance to technology
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Ten Things I Hate About You and its Relevance to a Modern Audience Although the movie Ten Things I Hate About You is based on a Shakespearian play‚ it was released in 1999 so it was essential that the director Gil Junger made it both relevant and appealing to a modern audience. He does this primarily through alterations to the setting and the characters‚ with few changes to the basic plot. The target audience is teenagers‚ and all the major characters are also teenagers and are all in high school
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An Analysis of “The Life You Save May Be Your Own” by Flannery O’Connor The author‚ Flannery O’Connor‚ wrote a short story in entitled “The Life You Save May Be Your Own”‚ which took place in Britain during the late 1700s. In the story‚ the main character‚ Tom T. Shiftlet‚ a drifter‚ meets Mrs. Crater‚ an old toothless woman‚ and her mute daughter Lucynell. The use of irony helps to show the true identity of Mr. Shiftlet while the theme shows the struggle humans face in redeeming themselves. Mr
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Five Things You Need to Prepare for When Going Back to School There are many reasons why more and more working adults are returning to school. Some adults wish to improve their job skills‚ while others want a career change. Other non-working adults want to start a career or increase their employment chances. Regardless of the reasons‚ there are certain things that you should prepare for when going back to school. Schedule Working adults with a family and an active social life will struggle with adjusting
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com/locate/fgcs Internet of Things (IoT): A vision‚ architectural elements‚ and future directions Jayavardhana Gubbi a ‚ Rajkumar Buyya b‚∗ ‚ Slaven Marusic a ‚ Marimuthu Palaniswami a a Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering‚ The University of Melbourne‚ Vic - 3010‚ Australia b Department of Computing and Information Systems‚ The University of Melbourne‚ Vic - 3010‚ Australia highlights • • • • Presents vision and motivations for Internet of Things (IoT). Application domains
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Have you ever wanted to meet someone famous in your life? Have you ever wanted to see how a day in life is like of that famous person? If I was ever given the chance to meet and spend one whole day of my life with someone famous‚ I will be willing to do so with Sylvester Stallone.Sylvester Gardenzio Stallone was born on July 6th 1946 in New York City to a middle class family. Sylvester made his way to the one of the biggest celebrities and today‚ He is one one of my favorite movie star as I have
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an example of a simile. Similes use like and as to make explicit comparisons between unlike things‚ such as eyes and stars. Metaphor Her eyes were pools of liquid light. Again‚ her eyes are literally human eyes. Figuratively‚ they are being compared to pools of liquid light. However‚ the comparison is implied‚ not stated. This is an example of a metaphor. Unlike similes‚ metaphors compare unlike things without explicitly stating the comparison with “like” or “as.” Personification Her eyes followed
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To create a modernised version of Shakesphere’s original; Taming of the Shrew (Shrew)‚ Gil Junger devised a plot‚ with added themes and characters to adjust the shift in era and target audience. This is shown perfectly in 10 Things I Hate About You (10 things). Within the two texts‚ intextuality is illuminated through the use of appropriation and transformation. This is clear when analysing the change in context and form. The form of both texts is completely different. One being‚ an Elizabethan 16th
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Leonard Cheah 814725425 “Material Allies” In the short story The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien‚ First Lieutenant Jimmy Cross leads a band of his men through the hills and swamps of Vietnam while dealing with the psychological agony of both his love for Martha and the safety of his men. In wartime however‚ it is known that your fellow man is anything from safe. Much of the men have camaraderie‚ but know that at any moment the person sitting next to them could be killed. This is where the
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a b s t r a c t The Internet of Things as an emerging global‚ Internet-based information service architecture facilitating the exchange of goods in global supply chain networks is developing on the technical basis of the present Domain Name System; drivers are private actors. Learning from the experiences with the ‘‘traditional’’ Internet governance it is important to tackle the relevant issues of a regulatory framework from the beginning; in particular‚ the implementation of an independently
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