CRITICAL RESPONSE: “MOBILE PHONES AND LITERACY” by Samuel Tsung AND “TEXT MESSAGES AND THE DECLINE OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE” by Louise Dite As SMS messages has brought significant changes to our lives by revolutionizing the way people communicate‚ using abbreviations in texting has become more popular than ever as a quick and convenient choice to exchange information. Yet‚ there remains some disagreement as to whether this useful and powerful tool of communication has been positive or negative
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Discussion Forum 1 • Project into the future and discuss what you think will be the nature of our society’s drug-use problems by the year 2025. Base your suppositions on some of the social‚ political‚ economic‚ law-enforcement‚ technological‚ scientific‚ and/or medical developments you envision occurring by that time. When the year 2025 comes I expect drug-use to be common place. It seems the recent “Molly/MDA” pill craze and marijuana legalization as indicators of what’s to come. It seems
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Asobo Instructor Budd Eng. 111 24 -08-2013 From Fighting Words In his essay “from Fighting Words” Richard Wright wrote about words used specifically to incite violence. Wright was interesting to discover what was hiding in this written indictment from H.L Mencken that lot readers in that moment disagree. In relation to Wright words can be used as a powerfully weapon. Wright demonstrated that courage is the main factor for using fighting words. The first suggestion Wright presented was in the bank
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Response Paper 1 As we’ve been reading‚ I often have found myself paying particular attention to Shakespeare’s analysis and critiques of love. Occasionally it seems as if Shakespeare is holding up love as the most intensely wonderful and perfect feeling one could experience. Yet‚ most of the time‚ it seems that Shakespeare cannot describe a single couple that is actually as perfect as it appears to be. At first I thought that Shakespeare was criticizing love as an ideal‚ saying that it actually
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Court System Paper Ronnie Allen Survey of Justice and Security/AJS/502 Version 1 June 10‚ 2013 Mr. Joseph Laronge This paper is about a court case‚ different types of federal and state courts‚ and new technology used in court cases. In everyday life all over the world there are law enforcement officers‚ lawyers‚ judges ’‚ government officials and even accused criminals that are looking forward to some type of reprieve from the United States Court System at some
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be at risk of failing in an academic area‚ a team of educators should create a documented intervention plan that helps that student to be successessful and to prevent them from failing. This plan is known as Response to Intervention (RTI). Although this process was introduced in the 1070‚ s (Ortiz‚ 2006)‚ it has been reshaped and reintroduced as a best practice to meet the needs of students today. Many educators
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Response to Deidre I am glad that you are ready to talk about and work through the anxiety that you have been feeling lately. I would like to inform you about the theoretical approach I use. Rational Emotive Behavioral Theory or often referred to as just REBT. REBT theory clearly asserts that despite the tendency to think irrationally‚ humans have the ability to construct self-enhancing thought‚ feelings‚ and behaviors and are strongly motivated to change things for the better (Capuzzi and Stauffer
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Dear Mrs Hopkins‚ I am writing to you in response to your recent absurd monstrosity of an article about migrants- it simply didn’t quite fit with me. The points you make in this heartless piece‚ I can not comprehend‚ and I’m sure I speak on behalf of the UK. Starting with how you label the migrants as ‘cockroaches’‚ says a lot about your closed minded views- these so called ‘cockroaches’ are human beings. Their desperation for a normal‚ safe life has resorted them to risking their children’s lives
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Response to Schoolsville My first thoughts after reading Schoolsville‚ by Billy Collins‚ as a whole‚ were of the movie {proof}. {proof} is about a mathematician who‚ as he grew older‚ slowly lost his mind. After reading the first few stanzas I thought either the person in the poem is Schizophrenic or simply reminiscing. However‚ when I came upon the second to last stanza‚ I understood the story. The second to last stanza reads; Needless to say‚ I am the mayor. I live in the white colonial
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Response to Amy Cuddy: Your body language shapes who you are Amy Cuddy was an intelligent young woman who was known to be smart and gifted until the age of 19‚ when she had encountered a horrific car accident. After this accident‚ Amy woke up in a head injury rehab ward. Her head injury had caused her IQ to drop by two standard deviations and she had to withdrawal from college. From having a core identity as being smart to the knowledge of her decrease in IQ had left Amy completely powerless.
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