English Speech: Matthew Condon’s ’The Trout Opera’ The Australian Curriculum website says: “Texts are chosen because they are judged to have potential for enriching the lives of students‚ expanding the scope of their experience‚ and because they represent effective and interesting features of form and style. It builds students’ knowledge about how language can be used for aesthetic ends‚ to create particular emotional‚ intellectual or philosophical effects.“ From ‘http://www.australiancurriculum
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allows for so many things to happen. Keeping in touch with family and friends via social networks‚ email‚ and paying your bills online are just a few examples of why the Internet is the best invention of this century. There are several ways that people all over the world have to keep in touch with family members. Most personal computers‚ laptops‚ tablets‚ and even some cellular phones now have cameras on them. One of the most widely used social networks‚ Skype allows you to
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Bible in question was the official Bible of the State of Tennessee‚ and that this was the King James Version. The defense attorney‚ Clarence Darrow‚ asked where were they to find an expert on the Bible who was acceptable to the court; Prosecutor William Jennings Bryan interjected “I am an expert on the Bible.” This was unheard of‚ a counsel for the prosecution offering to be a witness for the defense! After 8 days of trial‚ in which the jury heard no defense and nothing from neither the defendant
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Libby Hathorn’s book Way Home focuses on Shane‚ a street kid who stumbles upon a cat that he adopts and cares for like a real person. The little amount of words in the book gives you the main storyline‚ but it is Gregory Roger’s pictures that steal the show. The pictures show exactly what the author is trying to portray‚ allowing for many themes and motifs to be introduced through the pictures‚ giving the story a second dimension. The first page of the story is a particularly good example of pictures
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disenchantment with the model of technological determinism in academia. Modern theorists of technology and society no longer consider technological determinism to be a very accurate view of the way in which we interact with technology‚ even though determinist assumptions and language fairly saturate the writings of many boosters of technology‚ the business pages of many popular magazines‚ and much reporting on technology. Instead‚ research in science and technology studies‚ social construction of technology
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Joan Gardona Andrada II-BSE English Creative Writing (POETRY) Forms Specific poetic forms have been developed by many cultures. In more developed‚ closed or "received" poetic forms‚ the rhyming scheme‚ meter and other elements of a poem are based on sets of rules‚ ranging from the relatively loose rules that govern the construction of an elegy to the highly formalized structure of the ghazal or villanelle. Described below are some common forms of poetry widely used across a number of languages
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The Dark Night of the Soul The Dark Night of the Soul by Richard E Miller has been written with a main point always in mind‚ that reading and writing has very powerful influences people and their imagination but‚ the act of reading and writing is not being utilized as much in the modern world. Richard has created an essay that proves his point by taking five very different short stories and giving each a twist that helps the reader see the power of reading. As the reader is chronologically going
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British poet‚ who spent his life in the Lake District of Northern England. William Wordsworth started with Samuel Taylor Coleridge the English Romantic movement with their collection LYRICAL BALLADS in 1798. When many poets still wrote about ancient heroes in grandiloquent style‚ Wordsworth focused on the nature‚ children‚ the poor‚ common people‚ and used ordinary words to express his personal feelings. His definition of poetry as "the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings arising from "emotion
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modes used in academic writing. Provide at least two tips for writing each type of rhetorical device. Rhetorical mode Purpose Explain when or why each rhetorical mode is used. Structure Explain what organizational method works best with each rhetorical mode. Tips Provide two tips for writing in each rhetorical mode. Narration A method of informing that explains something by recounting events. The organizational method that works best with narrative writing is chronological order
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poetry. Two common and popular Imagist poets at the time and even today are: William Carlos Williams and H.D. (Hilda Doolittle). Both of these writers knew each other from college both share similarities in their poems. They both use imagery and write about nature in their poems. However‚ they also share many differences as well. I will compare and contrast some of Williams poems with H.D.’s poems. Williams Carlos Williams was born in Rutherford‚ New Jersey in 1883. He attended the School of Dentistry
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