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    I am writing to you today to try to show you why we should be teaching American Sign Language in schools. It is a county/school district matter, which means each separate county chooses what languages are taught as classes, but I believe that you (the National Government) should try to push American Sign Language as a foreign language little more. ASL is very important, it makes it easier to communicate with people that are hearing-impaired. ASL isn’t random hand gestures or charades, it is an…

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    Sign Installation Signs

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    The first step in planning and preparing for the installation of signs, is accessing the appropriate documentation so all work activity is complaint with industry, state and federal regulations. From here, you are able to interpret this documentation, applying these practices to your work activities so you comply with regulations. ACCESS SIGN INSTALLATION DOCUMENTATION You are able to access sign installation documentation through various means. Your first port of call should be your employer.…

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    Walker uses several structuralist concepts that can help the reader better understand the story. There are three different structuralist terms emphasized while reading the story: sign, code, and symbol. A sign, in a literary sense, is a thing that makes you think of something else without an obvious connection between the sign and object. Codes are a set of ideas, rules, letters, numbers, symbols, etc., that are used to represent another thing. A symbol is something regarded as representing…

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    Structuralism will be examined using mathematical examples and applied to interpret The Great Gatsby. Saussure’s theory of literature centers on the “principle of the ‘arbitrary’ (purely conventional) nature of the sign” (846). According to Saussure, language is a “structured system of conventional signs, studied in their internal complexity as if…

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    Lyddie who goes to work at the factory in Lowell, Massachusetts, to pay off the debt on the family farm. While there, she is given the choice to sign the workers’ rights petition. The petition asks for shorter hours, better pay, and safer working conditions. Some people say Lyddie should sign the petition in order to improve factory life. Lyddie should not sign the petition because of the compensation she is receiving…

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    Shyamalan Symbolism

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    are two kinds of people in the world and everybody fits into one group or the other. Are you a religious man would say everything happens for a reason? Or are you a non- believer who would say life events are coincidence or luck? In the movie signs by Shyamalan, he shows us how a man loses his faith and now thinks differently. But as a crisis begins to happen in his life he has to gain faith back in order to survive. Shyamalan reveals a theme that everything happens for a reason through…

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    Workers In Lyddie

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    Lyddie would be able to reunite her family back on the farm. However, working conditions at the mills was not favored by many of the factory girls. As a result, radicals were circulating a petition where workers can sign it in order to improve working conditions in the mills. Lyddie should sign the petition because workers were treated poorly by their overseer’s and the working environment was…

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    giving her another reason to sign the petition. Lastly Lyddie is doing more work. The work she is doing is very dangerous and injury-prone. In the text Lyddie says “In those days I had one hundred thirty spindles to tend. Now I’ve twice that many at a speed that would make the devil curse.” Lyddie is working more at a faster pace. This is dangerous and can give Lyddie a serious injury. This is a valid reason for her to sign the…

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    According to Roland Barthes’ myth formula, a sign acts as a signifier when society assigns it a widely accepted meaning. The meaning of the sign, called the signified, makes a sign logical. Walmart aligns with the mythical concept by using the happy face as a signifier. Contemporary society defines a happy face based on a perpetuated idea that adheres to the media…

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    realize that child didn’t have to be sign him out again because Ms Carla has the documents that the parents sign a form saying that kids that doesn’t suppose to come back again to extended day on that day. Samon the child didn 't have to be signed out again, so Samson had already the permission to leave already signed by the parent. at that moment of confusion and nerves I didn 't realize, but now I have some evidence to you that I can show you paper that he was sign out already. Mr…

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