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Research by Katlyn Roggensack and Alan Sillars connects the areas of communication rules, deception and interpersonal perception by exploring the perceived rules in romantic relationships. Roggensack and Sillars conducted a study of 73 heterosexual couples with an average of 47.7 months invested into their relationships. Each participant completed a questionnaire that measured rule endorsement, relationship commitment and conflict over honesty/deception. The participants in the study compiled…

To time-travel back a decade and disclose that coffee is traded in the form of individual packets alike its complementary cream or sugar would result in a roar of laughter. Nevertheless, the ability to elude the act of rinsing and preparing of coffee capsules has generated the premium level of convenience for consumers, bestowing coffee companies with tremendous success. In fact, the coffee capsule market has unimaginably expanded to the extent where environmental concerns regarding the…

Daddy Yankee’s biggest hit, ‘Gasolina’, was turning point into his career and turning point for the reggaeton as well (photo 4). The lyrics, although explicit, were smoother than what reggaeton was known for. Gasolina’s lyrics touches on themes that have to do with the race and class- based concerns and has sexual inference and uneven gender relations, which could be seen as celebrating simple pleasures, stressing machismo. For the audience, lyrics can mean many things, from the need for speed…

The internet has become has a huge part of our lives, it has provided us with various resources and services that make everyday tasks easier. Almost everything today can be done online. Things like grocery shopping, online banking and gambling can all be done from the comfort of our couch at any time, day or night. There are many positives and negatives with regard to children using the internet but in my opinion the cons outweigh the pros. In this assignment I will discuss the positives effects…

The enchanting 2010 film Alice in Wonderland, directed by Tim Burton and written by Linda Woolverton, is an animated action Walt Disney movie based on Lewis Carroll’s novel Alice’s Adventure in Wonderland. The main character nineteen-year-old Alice Kingsleigh, is haunted by nightmares of a hidden place called ‘Wonderland’, furthermore, she returns and set out on a quest bursting with mysterious adventure. This film is a unique assembly containing distinctive characters, plots and cinematic…

Children should have more lessons in school exposing them to the dangers of the Internet. They should be taught not to download images from someone they don't know as they could be explicit. They should be encouraged to choose a screen name that could be used by either gender, this will make it harder for them to be targeted. They should be taught not to open emails from people they don't know as they could contain viruses. They should…

have turned their poetic lyrics into careers and often live a millionaire lifestyle. Beginning on the East Coast, the genre disseminated to the West Coast and developed another type of genre called gangsta rap. Gangsta rap is known mostly for its explicit and violent lyrics. The music genre rap had a gradual beginning that led into the golden age of rap and rap nowadays ("The History of Rap”) If you didn’t know, rap music didn’t start in America. More than a century before rap exploded o­nto the…

continual changing views of reading and writing, such as; the internet (Anstey, 2002). Each component encourages learners to develop their own critical thinking and problem-solving skills (The New London Group, 1996). The situated practice involves explicit scaffold of learning, by attaining background knowledge information of the teaching focus to build syntactic and semantic knowledge. This is achieved through viewing multimodal text, modelled and shared reading, and classroom discussions of…

While “Araby” uses emotions through many metaphors and ambiguous terms, “Maladies” uses a much more unemotional, straightforward style throughout the story so as to paint a picture for the reader. Take the last paragraph in each story for example; in “Araby” the narrator is “gazing up into the darkness” and sees himself “a creature driven and derided by vanity; and [his] eyes burned with anguish and anger” (16). This exceedingly metaphorical sentence, the reader is forced to substitute their own…

demeans me as a black woman, or a woman, period." Says lisa Fager a promotional specialist for record labels. In agreeance, Hip-hop wouldn’t be subjected to such a negative opinion if it weren’t for the misogynistic and sexist lyrics. Like the other explicit and controversial views and aspects hip-hop has to offer the youth, the violent and provocative out looks on sex and women are among the worst, reason being, is because males dominate the hip-hop scene and as said before, the primary…