Inflection

How would you describe your community college academic experience? Has it been "a walk in the park," "an uphill climb," or something else? Fill in the blank with your own expression and explain. (Limit 600 characters) I wrote two different paragraphs. I wanted to see how they sounded. I will choose one. Coming from Nepal, a country vastly different from the United States both culturally and academically, my time here at TCC NE campus has been one of the most challenging, rewarding and…

Did Edward the confessor make William the conqueror his heir before his death England has been characterised by not having principles that were clearly established to guide matters related with royal succession. In the Anglo-Saxon era, lack of these principles often made succession matters ambiguous and often bloody, considering that England was enjoying military might, harboured expansionist ambitions and was under constant threat from neighbouring kingdoms such as Normandy. Heirs played a…

Written Assignment Two 1. In the mid-1990s, social scientist John DiIulio (and others) predicted that a frightening wave of violent “super-predator” youth would terrorize America starting around 2010. Why did DiIulio eventually back away from his prediction? (Hint: see chapter 4 and outside sources if necessary.) The prediction of “super-predator” was due to district attorneys reported the increase in violent crime among youth. It is not hard to develop an opinion when you hear first-hand…

Charlotte recently celebrated her fourteenth birthday with herself, family, and two of her close friends. She spends most of her time reading or listening to music on a two-year old iPod given to her by her grandmother for becoming the top of her class. Her mother and father handed her a pink wrapped box, small and rectangular, containing a smartphone. She decided to give this new device a shot, in hopes of somehow meeting more people to talk to about whatever was burning in the back of her head…

life to communicate with others. One of the types of communication that is often used is verbal communication. According to Aquino (2008) stated that, verbal communication involve talking and also listening. The most important is that the tone or inflection we used during the conversation. The concept of attitude is another important element in verbal communication. He added that, during the conversation, the speaker must understand how to use vocal components. In order to use verbal…

Improvements in communication and production will civilise the nations that accept bourgeois values as the bourgeoisie strives to create “a world after its own image” (16). Surprisingly, Marx and Engels wholeheartedly welcome the homogenising influence of globalisation because of their firm belief that it will eventually unite the workers of the world against capitalism. As Marx and Engels had correctly anticipated in their Manifesto, economic liberalisation and globalisation do not remain…

A structural approach to family therapy involves looking at the pattern of family dynamics focused on the components that make up the family. These are the structure, the subsystems, and the boundaries within that family (Nichols, 2013). A family is always dynamic, always growing and changing, and interactions mark the ways in which a family deals with these changes. Problems in families can generally be traced back to problems in the hierarchal structure within families, according to this view.…

The goal in both cases is for the narration to reinforce the point of the ad. “In the Way” makes use of a powerful slogan while the older ad from the American Heart Association simply repeats a common expression with a new inflection and meaning before inviting the viewer to consider what they have just been shown. The point of the text in both cases is to show sponsorship for the ad and to give resources for the viewer to further expand their knowledge of the subject. In “Like…

1.2 Explain the principles of effective written business communications In order to make your letter, email, reports, representations and other forms of communication effective, you should follow certain scientific principles. The following principles of effective business communication are fundamental, importance and relevant to all media but they are most important to written communication. 1. Clarity 2. Completeness 3. Conciseness 4. Consideration 5. Courtesy 6. Correctness Source:…

One tends to feel that the expression of art in any form cannot be restricted to a predetermined structure of any sort. Art is diverse. Language through different mediums helps the authors, poets, painters alike to express their art. Language can maintain the uncertain and infinite possibilities of individual expressions. One can say literature represents one of the most persistent uses of language. Literary texts have the potential to motivate the reader in a very big way. Throughout the…