device (CASI) giving the voter the opportunity to review and change his/her vote before submitting it. The different types of voting machines allow for different kinds of interaction‚ such as using a touch screen technology‚ using a dial wheel‚ touching a paper panel‚ or pressing a button on an LCD screen. Each machine provides feedback for blank ballots and under-voting and prevents selecting more choices than the maximum allowed. Some machines even have advanced functions such as increasing
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Sometimes‚ the void created by a lack of words leads to more discoveries than a plethora of words. The key to gaining further information from silence lies in listening to the unspoken statements versus the words actually put forth into the universe. Along these same lines‚ John Cage composed a well-known piece called 4’33”‚ which shocks many listeners due to his refrain from touching the piano in front of him. After first encountering this unique work‚ I found myself baffled and pondering the deeper
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None of the characters came off as being fake or inconceivable; the feelings of the characters were conveyed onto the reader. For example‚ one of the most touching parts in the book is when Ray and Ruth are having a conversation shortly after it was announced that Susie Salmon was very possibly murdered. Maybe it is just the word choice that Sebold uses‚ but she really made the reader feel sympathy for the
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Scholar John Fiske in his essay The Culture Economy of Fandom engages in the idea that popular culture is more than just something to entertain us with. Fiske says‚ “All popular audiences engage in varying degrees of semiotic productivity‚ producing meanings and pleasures that pertain to their social situation out of the products of the culture industries (Fiske).” Perhaps this quote can directly relate and pertain to the show “Friends”. Someone could watch the show and conceivably directly relate
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other two texts. The first connection was ‘the will to survive and determination to stay alive can overcome the power of nature and negative thoughts when in a life or death situation’‚ this connection was shown by the characters in the film ‘Touching the void’ directed by Kevin MacDonald and the film ‘127 hours’ directed by Danny Boyle. The second connection was ‘how mistakes and underestimating nature can become deadly in a survival situation’‚ this connection was shown by the characters in the book
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tragic incident that took place as a result of the blast of the nuclear bomb dropped by the United States on Nagasaki. He makes his essay effective by giving details of the destruction and commenting on the after-wards condition. He describes in his touching essay‚ the soul-terrifying effacement that war truly brought. It is written from the view point of a humane physician deeply concerned with the contemporary world. He writes about the Nagasaki bombing from the angle of a participant and he has selected
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The blowing wind rubs your figure with touch of coolness as the sun unknots your muscular tissues with touching comfort. There is nothing at all to carry out‚ no place to go and absolutely nothing to think about. Simply lie back and soak up the relaxed vibrations that rush into each part of your being‚ susurrating‚ "be at peace‚ soothe old man‚ all is good
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Throughout the past years we had great philosophers who expressed their studies and conclusions that made them very famous. Rene Descartes and John Locke were two philosophers that had the same idea‚ but different views of it. Descartes was a rationalist‚ which are people that argue that only reason can separate reality from illusion and give meaning to experience. The idea that eliminates reasoning can produce certain truths about reality and those important truths can be discovered without observations
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my time on study‚ at least I can not agree him right now. Morries look like understand everything and also do not afraid dead‚ which I can not understand him‚ but I admire him at the same time‚ because his thought is very profound to me‚ also very touching me. Morrie reveals that it is only once a person knows how to die that he can then know how to live. I can not understand at the beginning‚ this is not the think should I think about right now. When Morrie tells Mitch‚ if he can aware and accepting
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did well during his first year at the Magisterium. During a hike in the woods to find the missing Drew‚ him and other students (including Tamara and Callum) were attacked by a pack of chaos-ridden wolves. In an effort to save them‚ he accessed the void and learned he could perform chaos magic. This made him the Makari that everyone was waiting for‚ after the death of the last Makar‚ Verity Torres. But when Aaron was walking Callum’s new chaos-ridden pet dog outside‚ was taken to an abandoned bowling
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