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    In William Shakespeare's play Julius Caesar Mark Antony’s speech is more persuasive than the one Brutus gives because he uses better tactics and more powerful rhetoric. In his speech Brutus uses gravitas and ethos which in the end backfires because it makes his speech less relatable and portrays him as better than the plebeians. Mark Antony gives his speech after Brutus and he uses this to his advantage by using verbal irony and more specially sarcasm. Mark Antony uses pathos and exaggeration to…

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    what he is”. As the boys come onto my island, some of them decide to hold back or change themselves to gain a following. This applies to two boys in particular. Piggy, who believes that if he hides his intelligence he will be able to shield himself from shrewdness from the other boys. Also Jack who is under the impression that if he becomes aggressive and an “alfa” figure on the island he will gain a following from the other boys, eventually resulting in him being chief. When given an…

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    The term Freshman 15 is slang that is used to refer to the weight gain in students who enter colleges and universities. Studies have proven that a student is likely to gain approximately 15 pounds in weight within the first year that they join the institution. Weight gain is a problem that widely affects a significant proportion of the society owing to the diseases that may result because of unusual weight gain. Gaining weight may lead to one increasing his or her body mass index leading to one…

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    Squealer Speech Analysis The book Animal Farm is an allegory novel written by George Orwell on August 17th, 1945. The book depicts the events leading up to the Russian Revolution and the era of the Stalinist Soviet Union. The characters in this novel try to form a sustainable democracy/society in which animals can live a peaceful life without the threat of human beings. The main leaders who take action in this book are Napoleon and Snowball who are both pigs. Another character Squealer (who…

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    doors to more internships and opportunities that I was able to access and turn into social capital. Not only did I gain experience in the working field, I grew accustomed to interacting with professionals in society. In high school my AP Economics teacher also introduced me to a popular English teacher at my school who offered tips to write my college personal statement. Oseguera talks about social capital as being dynamic in this context, “These resources may be evident, such as financial…

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    who struggle and sacrifice their own labor and industry to satisfy the needs of the few individuals, who – either by pedagogy or the good fortune of having the relative proximity to those with the knowledge of strategic efficiency for capitalistic gains – are ultimately used as a collective means to the end of the privileged few. As the proverbial pawn in the gamification of a nation, citizens are at the mercy –…

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    owners make when initially developing their company is believing that their company will last forever even is they have not adopted new technology and consumer demand. Business owners tend to forget that during the “emergent phase,” funds and capital are initially going to be extremely low. The product has not yet gained popularity among consumers, which then makes the beginning stages of the company much harder to navigate through. Throughout the “growth phase,”…

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    see the unemployed workers in their country and the horrible working conditions in a sweat shop and jump to negative conclusions on the choices in production, but as described in Planet money episode 497 “the sisters who made our shirt,” the workers gain a much higher income allowing a better education for their kids, don’t live under a patriarch and have a high quality of life by Bangladeshi…

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    stagnating economies of scale among firms, redevelopment of the utility and production of variable capital, and an increasing co-dependence between the state and industries. As ironic as this sounds, there is significant amount of evidence in modern society of that capitalism can turn into its reciprocal. Globalization, within the economic value helped stimulate more accessible movement of capital and labor among developed and developing nations in the 20th century after the second World War.…

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    and ebooks’ capitals remain the same as it always have been, “A field is a structured space of social position which can be occupied by agents and organizations, and in which the position of any agent or organization depends on the type and quantity of resources or ‘capital’ they have at their disposal.” (Thompson 3-4). The field is the specific structure of a publishing house’s world with staff that has specific tasks with their jobs in order to maintain relationships so the capitals can…

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