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    Snapchat Technology

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    Today’s world is surrounded by ever-changing technological advances. The way in which we utilize them includes; hobbies, recreational activities, career reasons and social reasons. In the passage presented in class we discussed how Paumgarten believed that the GoPro, such as other technologies, were truly taking away from personal experience and causing a strong sense of narcissism. Personally, I believe that, much like many of our technologies, these advances are a positive outcome of what we…

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    of the text, led to one another. Meaning, when the author, Sudipta Bardhan, wrote this passage she made it connect really well to each other. While reading the passage, I observed how she did it. She did it by adding one detail in one section, then that one detail becomes the main idea for the next section, or for any section. I saw the connection of each section near the end, since in the beginning of the passage, I didn’t see any. The author, Sudipta, started out in the first major…

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    punished she said what she wanted to. The judge then told her to be quiet and she spoke her thoughts. In the story it shows that she was courageous when she said, “Judge hunt became furious. The court orders the prisoner do sit down.” Also in the passage it said, “I shall never pay a dollar of your unjust penalty. And I shall earnestly and persistently continue to urge all women that resistance to tyranny is obedience to god.” she was courageous enough to say that she does not agree with what…

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    This passage uses a lot of numerical data to clearly point out some possible influences that may be caused by the project. (e.g. “Development of the athletic complex will disturb approximately 68.5 acres and create 8.29 acres of new impervious surface.”). There is a bullet point list in this passage, which makes the modifications of the project on existing structures more straightforward and clear to readers. 3. A) I think section 11.a.ii is a fairly effectively written passage. The passage…

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    Song 2 8-17 Analysis

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    Literary Meaning of Song 2:8-17 Verse 8. The passage begins with an interjection hinnē (Look!), an excited call by the young woman to the daughters of Jerusalem (as well as to her audience and readers) to focus on the present moment about the man whom she loves (and probably about to marry for the young man in this passage has not yet called her bride as he does in 4:8.9.10.11.12; 5:1. She invites the audience/readers to partner with her—to watch and listen with her as she awaits her beloved…

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    Dr. Oliver Sacks’ article “The Man Who Mistook his Wife for a Hat” successfully clarifies, captivates and convinces readers using various literary techniques that are common to both Science writers and English literary writers. Throughout the passage Sacks utilizes simile as a way to clarify his ideas for the reader. To clarify something means to make something clearer; in writing a strong tool used by authors to clarify is the metaphor or simile. Metaphor and simile are effective tools for…

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    continues the narrator becomes more irritated with the curate because the curate starts exclaiming “It is just, O God!” over and over again. The curate is feeling guilty about his life and how he has treated others. At the end of this section of passage Wells uses a biblical allusion, “The wine press of God!”, to express how the curate felt and all the emotions that he had been feeling. As the curate continued to ramble on the irritation of the narrator continues to grow. Explain the context for…

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    Rameau's Nephew Analysis

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    Explication: Rameau’s Nephew This paper is an explication of a small passage from Denis Diderot’s dialogue, Rameau’s Nephew. First, I will begin by identifying the taxonomic elements I used to examine the text, and then go on to acknowledge the relationships between these elements and how they connect throughout the text. With this evidence, I will proceed by stating a few possibilities of meaning that might be observed in the passage and then tied to the rest of the dialogue. Through this…

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    John Trimble Oddly Normal

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    in pages 9-11 of his book, which made it readable for us. He states, “Pleading for light-up shoes with pink accents and rhinestone. We hesitate; would people give us trouble about putting our toddler in pink light-up shoes?” (Schwartz, 9). In this passage, he is honest because he cares about what people will say and think of him as a parent who lets his male child dress up in a feminine way. This tactic that Schwartz used made it readable for us the audience because it shows that he has emotions…

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    passenger side window to see which side on the gas cap is on. She forces us to memorize our grocery lists and then quizzes us. We talk through our visit to the gas station several times; it needs to be as well-executed as a stock car pit stop.” The passage above talking about the first stop, where the group of friends must do everything according to plan. Specifically the part about everyone doing different tasks reminds me of my last stop when I came from New York City. During the summer of…

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