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    expresses feelings like sexual tension, anger, hurt, sadness, and more without directly saying those words. With subtext, the readers get to experience the character’s unspoken thoughts and sometimes help understand why characters do what they do. In Imaginative Writing, Janet Burroway comments on the importance of subtext in page 270 by stating that, “Subtext is a necessary result and cost of civilization –If everyone went around saying what they meant all the time, there would be fewer friends and a lot

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    Osazuwa Osayomwanbor 200345160 Sociology/Social Studies Reading Summary (SOST 801) Topic: Beyond Disciplinary Confinement to Imaginative Transdisciplinarity. INTRODUCTION The society today is faced with various problems. Some have always been there, others are new to us, yet others have evolved from their older modes and taken new dimensions. For example we are not strangers to issues of democratization, but certainly are faced with the changing mode of war and terrorism. And then, new issues may

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    its utilization can undermine the organization 's existence. Subsequently, the challenge for IT team security personnel and college executives is striking a delicate posture being security aware and remaining business driven. The human and imaginative aspects of cyber threats changed dramatically in the previous years. Witnessing innovative techniques blended with

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    Imaginative Thinking: How it Leads to Authentic and Effective Living Oprah Winfrey stated that “to be present is to be fully alive. And there is no true life without presence.” While this can be arguably true, it can also be proven wrong. There are different perspectives on what is considered to be the real world and “true living”. One must ask, what does it mean to be living in the present? Does it mean to be fully engaged in the current moment or doing what brings happiness? There are different

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    Higher English Imaginative Writing The Young Gladiator Marcus anxiously awaited his turn to fight. The crowd was cheering and roaring as two slaves fought each other in the arena. Even though this was just a prelude to the main event the crowd was enthralled the action. He watched on nervously as they slashed and stabbed at each other. They weren 't inflicting serious damage on each other because they were both fast and wary of the other 's attacks. There were no major wounds inflicted yet but after

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    Nayiri Khatchadourian HNRS 63W Prof. Bruce Stone 6 June 2017 The Consequence of Reading Fiction In his essay ”Formative Fictions: Imaginative Literature and the Training of the Capacities”, Joshua Landy, professor at Stanford University, aims to explain the function of fiction and the reward of our engagement with literary works. Landy highlights three theories of the function of fiction: the exemplary branch, which invites the reader to consider characters as models for emulation or avoidance,

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    1. Sociological imagination is using imaginative thoughts and processes to answer sociological questions. This is to think your way to a different perspective to achieve a better understanding of something. Sociology is the study of society, culture, and human nature. The goal is to understand what makes and changes societies. Manifest functions are consequences that are known, such as punishments for breaking laws. Latent functions are consequences that are not known, like a consequence that is

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    The Romantic period, a time that writers such as Wordsworth and Shelley focused their writing in the centre of life and social importance. An important aspect of 'Romanticism: its emphasis upon the power and terrors of the inner imaginative life ' (Watson, 2012, p. 1). The Prelude celebrates Wordsworth 's life retained through memories and with the act of remembering, depicting emotions and experiences. Whereas, Shelley and the 'Ode to the West Wind ' engaged his audience with inner and outer lives

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    I remember everything like if it was yesterday. It was a feeling I could never explain. It was the weirdest thing that had ever happened to me, or to anyone. That day was also the best, exciting, fun but also sad. I’ve never experience anything like it. I woke up because of the loud, creepy, scratchy noise I heard. A noise you only hear when an ancient truck is passing by. This was weird here, in Beverly Hills. I got up, and put my pink robe on I needed to know what was happening outside. I couldn’t

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    IT AIN’T ME, BABE is a creative and imaginative broad comedy. The concept is fun and a nice setup for comedy, conflict, and character change. The script is driven by the theme of second chances. There’s definitely a lot to like about this script. On the other hand, there are also areas that would benefit from more development. First the script opens rather mildly. The idea that the music store is in jeopardy of being taken over or closed down certainly is workable, but a bit outdated, meaning

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