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Johnathan Mundadi Ms. Fleggas ENG 111 – 4202 05 July 2016 Memes of Communication Body language, music, messages and sign language all are different forms of communication. Before the digital technology era, people communicated in various ways such as stone carving and letters. Communication is an essential part of life used by everyone everywhere and life depends on it. To obtain an education, to hold a job and to raise a family are just a few instances of the barriers one can face with…

we do not make gratitude a part of our daily lives is that the fast pace and multiple distractions of life have made it all too easy to forget the importance of gratitude. The self-help shelves in any bookstore are lined with books on gratitude; memes abound on social media stating the likes of ‘an attitude of…

About myself What I know about myself is I like to play outside and hang out with my friends and watch tv and be on my phone, but I mostly enjoy playing video games I don't have any pets I have 6 siblings and I love being with my family if I could be granted one wish it would be able to fix all my past mistakes because the mistakes i've made in the past is what I regret the most in my life and it would be nice to wish all that away. What I love doing to pass the time is to be on my phone or…

want of self-identity beyond the community she hails from. Throughout the book, it is seen that many people in her street have two names,an English name and a Spanish name. For example, Esperanza’s own sister Magdelena who is also called Lenny and Meme Oritz whose Spanish name is Juan. Here, having two names is symbolic of the assimilation of two cultures in the community of Mango Street and the unique identity for the community as it is difficult for them belong at a particular place. The…

Inside the house, Lois tells Stewie ‘Why don’t you go play in the other room?’, to which he replies ‘Why don’t you go burn in hell?’. The similar construction of the sentences is part of the humor of the scene. Nevertheless, it was regretfully removed in the adapting process: when Lois says ‘Je préférerais que tu ailles jouer dans ta chambre’, Stewie answers ‘Un jour tu paieras cette cruauté’. The translators could have seriously kept the effect by having Stewie say something along the lines of…

In this paper I will give a brief overview of a) the community which I will study as part of my coursework for ‘Digital Ethnography“, b) the reasons why I chose this particular community as object of study, c) the boundaries of my research project, and d) the types of qualitative evidence I will hopefully be able to collect. The Community The community I will study as part of my coursework is a group of German Lego fans of various ages who have made it their hobby not only to build, create,…

As the years go by, communication through words in person is slowly becoming worse and worse. Going through several different phases through life, communication as a whole is being ruined by the internet. Education is being affected day by day as the internet and mobile phones are blocking students from expanding their intelligence (Crystal, 2008). Although David Crystal was not against texting, he discussed several prophecies in the beginning of the reading, including: children’s ability to…

out to me is how America is obsessed with being entertained. American Culture is so intertwined with the idea of being entertained that it is almost defined by it. We iconicize and idolize our entertainment, both the content and those personalities or actors that deliver it to us. Nearly every week you can ready about what movies opened, how well they are doing in the box office, how well they are doing worldwide. Americans love to know how much our forms of entertainment are enjoyed, much like…

Alice Walker is a much acclaimed, contemporary, Afro- American novelist, poetess, activist and philanthropist writing for her declared cause of uplifting Afro- American women and projecting them as goddesses in her fictions. Her fictitious world is typical as the world painted by her predecessors and contemporary Afro -Americans both men and women writers. Her fictitious world, though much dominated by female characters, Walker casts much insight into the male characters making them grow…

Humility – almost every dictionary would define this word as having a low view of oneself in terms of the importance one has in their society, having come from the Latin word ‘humilis’ meaning low. The word is also usually synonymous to words such as meekness and unassertiveness. The word ‘humble’ itself can have a meaning of being in a low rank, according to its third definition in the Merriam-Webster dictionary and even when you search ‘humble definition’ in Google. However, the word is…