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In the age of advanced technology, the world has grown dependent on the devices that make our lives more bearable and enjoyable. As for its influence on our language, it has introduced new words, changed meanings of others, and created new forms of language and communication. A prominent example of this is the development of abbreviated communication and how it has changed the way we converse with others. In the article “The Flight from Conversation,” author Sherry Turkle talks about how…

MONDAY This morning I received a call from the subcontractor who is to provide the floating floors for the project. The subcontractor asked about how to view the most recent construction documents. I directed him to our file transfer protocol (FTP) site, which houses all of the documents that have been issued, approved requests for information (RFIs), and submittals. After checking the site to make sure the subcontractor was set up on the site, I was able to give him the information he needed to…

seven Esther says, “The trouble was, I had been inadequate all along. I simply hadn’t thought about it.” Ester lists all of the things that she couldn’t do. She couldn’t cook, she couldn’t dance, she couldn’t speak another language, she didn’t know shorthand and so she wasn’t going to be able to get a good job after college, and the list keeps going on. The only thing that she acknowledges about herself is that she knows how to do is win scholarships. I think that Esther doubting herself and not…

Why are people in the under-thirty generation not as hardworking and driven as the people from earlier generations? People in the last thirty years have been becoming dumber. Sources A, D, and G talk about how why under-thirty generation is the dumbest. They say that the under-thirty generation is the dumbest because they have many more resources that they can use to get things done, so they don’t have to put in as much effort. The under-thirty generation is the dumbest because technology is…

the only group that contains a solid, liquid and gas at stp. Iodine is also located in Period 5 in the p-block of the periodic table. It has 7 valence electrons and has 5 shells. Iodine is solid nonmetal at STP and it's electron configuration on shorthand in [Kr]4d105s25p5. Iodine has 53 protons and electrons and 74 neutrons. It has an atomic mass of 126.904 amu and I127 is a common isotope. It's electronegativity is 2.7 which means it has a decent ability to get electrons to be like a…

of his main factors in his craft. In this sense, it is the interracial unrealized love between Cheng and Lucy Burrows that ultimately resulted in their demise. Because this is a silent film, there was an inevitable use of “stereotypes as a visual shorthand” (Lewis, 62) and somehow this could have bled across the border of racism. Cheng was portrayed to be the feminine Oriental man with a hunchback and very slight, slow movements that was supposed to be more harmonized than the fast macho…

Looking for Alaska by John Green is a mystery filled with twists and turns. This novel tells the story of Miles Halter, a boy obsessed with last words. Miles is new at culver creek, he has no idea what to anticipate the only thing he knows are the story’s of his father when he went to this school. On his first day there he already makes two friends and buys cigarettes, and met the presumable love of his life. Everything Alaska did within the book was impulsive. I don't think she…

grade. For nearly seven years of my life, I have been performing in countless concerts and events, and I fell in love with sharing my music with other people from the very beginning. Leo Tolstoy, a Russian novelist, once stated that “Music is the shorthand of emotion.” Through music, I can express my emotions in ways that words could never. Human emotion is powerful. It can dictate our actions, our mood, and allows people to form interpersonal connections. A handful of things can affect a…

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Imagine what the United States would look like today if feminism never occurred at any point in history. Women would not have the right to vote, get a higher education, or even get a job in the work force. But because women throughout history have worked hard, Women are able to achieve greater things than they ever have before. Whether or not the four waves should be used to teach people about the history of feminism is a common dispute between feminists today. The four different feminist waves…