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    Language can be seen as a communication barrier for some. Sometimes it may be difficult to talk to a customer, distant relative, or just a person walking down the street asking for directions. Now imagine a world where every single human being spoke the same language; a place where your distant relative from another country suddenly speaks the same language as you and you can begin to appreciate or dislike them even more; where now you are connected to billions of people who you can easily communicate

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    “I doubt the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant” (Le Guin, “The Language of the Night”). Imagination runs free and madcap in the minds of our youth. Adolescence is comparable with recklessness and creativity. Adolescence is the experimental period of our lives. Imagination of the young mind drives creativity; creativity turns simple ideas into a whirlwind of endless possibilities. Possibilities open the ponderous doors of opportunity

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    Demonstration Speech Outline Sample Topic: How to play soccer Specific Purpose: To inform my public speaking class on how to play the game of soccer Central Idea: Soccer is a simple game that anyone can play INTRODUCTION Attention Getter: Did you know that according to a survey conducted by FIFA (Federation of International Football Association) “4% of the world’s population are actively involved in the game of football.” Relevance to audience: I am here today, to teach you all how to become

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    thoughtlessness towards the feelings of her family, and Mrs Bennet’s obsessiveness in procuring husbands for her daughters. In comparison, when the narrator (Austen) takes over and starts ‘telling’ us the story, and about the characters, she uses free indirect speech, giving the reader more of an insight into the characters and of their private thoughts or feelings. This narrative is directed to the reader, and includes such phrases as ‘Wickham’s affection for Lydia was just as Elizabeth had expected

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    Language

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    1. Describe the meaning and function of each term. 1. Idiom is a language, dialect or speaking style peculiar to a people. 2. Analogy is a similarity between two like subjects on which a comparison can be based. 3. Metaphor is a figure of speech in

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    Once In A House On Fire

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    mother into hospital. They were once a close-knit and loving family who were forced into a life with abuse, poverty and the effect of depression. White Oleander illustrates a young girl, Astrid, is raised by her mother Ingrid, a headstrong poet, a free spirit who wilfully neglects her daughter and overlooks her motherly

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    question we look at the article by Bennett Barrow--"Plantation Rules." Within this documentation, Bennett Barrow wrote in his diary about rules that a master should place on their slaves. The rules itself is rather simple; however, it reveals an indirect way on how the slave are resisting their master. there is no

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    The Freedom Of Speech

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    Freedom of speech is known to be the essence of America's democratic principles, which has created doubts and chaos inside the country leading to further limitations. Congress has seen themselves in the midst of internal war as protest have come down to violence and further offenses/ harm the first amendment has rejected such awful forms of expressions placing a fence to one of the civil rights granted by the United States. Although the first amendment stands as part of the democratic ideals granting

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    A draft of a top-secret piece of interstate agreement on the Trans- Pacific Partnership leaked online causing a hot status to its discussion. Trans -Pacific Partnership (TPP) - is the largest supra-trade and economic organization, the creation of which is scheduled for completion by the end of 2013. In an agreement on the TPP participating countries, generating more than 40% of global GDP: the U.S., Australia, Canada, Mexico, Japan, Singapore, New Zealand, Malaysia, Brunei, Chile, Vietnam and Peru

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    The American Revolution

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    British. No one can really say what the exact cause of the Revolution was, but there were many important social, cultural, political and economic causes that led up to the war. I believe one of the main economic reasons the Americans wanted to become free from the British and start the Revolution, was because of all the taxes the British imposed. In an anonymous account of the Boston Massacre printed by Order of the Town of Boston and found in www.vlib.us, the person retelling what occurred started

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