Good afternoon friends‚ family‚ faculty‚ and congratulations to the Class of 2013. I am very grateful to be receiving this prestigious honor today in front of this amazing community at BCIT. For those who do not know‚ you might be thinking to yourself‚ what is a salutatorian? The dictionary defines it as the person who is ranked second in the class. To me‚ a salutatorian is a person who is given an extraordinary honor which merits an extra homework assignment at the end of the year‚ and is then told
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http://classes.kvcc.edu/jcorbin/PHI106/OptRdngs/SixBasicThemesExistentiali.htm http://www.allaboutphilosophy.org/existentialism.htm Career Search Among the endless selection of occupations on the market‚ few offered a sustaining middle- income‚ security‚ and ease. Two examples of such jobs are Computer Programmer and Architect. Both jobs offered the comfort of working‚ majority of the time in air-conditioned facility with a desk and chair instead of under the blazing sun. Both jobs are relatively
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Did you know there was 43‚040 - 48‚040 casualties at Gettysburg. This battle take place during the Civil War. The South has been winning so far in the war‚ but lost the Battle of Gettysburg. Therefor the North has now won and has stopped the South’s winning streak. Gettysburg was a turning point in the Civil War because the North is gaining momentum while the South is losing momentum. Gettysburg was the turning point because the North has started to gain momentum and was having this cause to fight
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Guidelines for RC Tones Very often‚ in entrance exams like CAT‚ there are questions in Reading Comprehension based on the "style" of the passage. Such questions can appear in various forms. Some of the forms of such questions are: 1. "Which of the following best describes the tone of the passage?" 2. "The tone of the passage is….... " 3. "The author’s approach/tone/style of writing in this passage can be termed/described as....." Such questions should not be attempted unless you have
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she was imprisoned. A major part of this film was the use of handheld camera. Filming from a handheld camera really portrayed the chaos in scenes such as the hostage situation in the news building. The tone of the movie is clearly set by means of loud orchestral music and soft frightening tones and sounds. V’s theme song throughout the whole movie is a loud‚ motivating orchestral ensemble that drives home the utter insanity within his mind. While V is leading a revolution against the government
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The Crucible Tone Paper In Arthur Miller’s book/play The Crucible‚ the tone he adopts towards the subject of witch trials and witch hunts‚ and towards the characters that maintain them‚ is carefully written. His ironic and cynical tones throughout the play poke fun at the religious officials doing what they thought was right‚ executing people they thought were witches. They also further the outlook on the lack of justice in a harsh‚ Puritan society. Miller continually uses irony in situations
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peace and joy while masking its more menacing underlying tone. While Ralph blew the conch shell‚ "his face was dark with the violent pleasure of making this stupendous noise‚ and his heart was making the stretched shirt shake" (16). Golding’s use of imagery here reveals Ralph’s joy and excitement at blowing the conch‚ but also describes his pleasure as "violent"‚ possibly hinting at a future darkness. Golding also employs diction to set the tone when he mentions the twins‚ Sam and Eric: "They breathed
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Changes in a poet’s life often impact the topics of their writing‚ but a poet’s unique tone can survive the transformations. Ogden Nash‚ a New Yorker born in 1902 grew up in several cities and towns along the East Coast of the U.S. Nash left his job as a copywriter and editor relatively early in his career to dedicate himself solely to poetry. From his very first poem to his last‚ Nash always incorporated a humorous tone in his poems. During the Great Depression and the beginning of the United State’s
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his interest in acquiring the apartment develops. However‚ understanding the societal racism that plagued the peoples‚ he confesses that he is indeed African. For a while the landlady is silent‚ but afterwards she abruptly asks the man if his skin tone is light or very dark. The man is enraged and comprises sarcastic replies. One of his responses includes asking the landlady whether she is referring to plain or milk chocolate. He continues to make such comments to the point that he describes how
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Egalitarian‚ and Nationalist voices to impact the environment around them are Abraham Lincoln‚ through his Gettysburg address‚ presented on the 19th of November 1863. John Fitzgerald Kennedy’s
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