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    Verbal Visual Essay - Speak “My room belongs to an alien.” (15) This quote near the beginning of the book is in the context of Melinda describing her room. She says this because of how it is decorated very strangely. The way she words her sentence implies that she doesn’t know who she was when she was younger, that she is “alien”. Because of this and the fact she has no friends, she can’t relate to anyone, not even her past self. This causes her to be pushed deeper into her depression. 2)

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    The Life Of My Life

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    as an example I have decided that I want to break out and travel the world, as many people on this planet do for one simple reason. They believe that by getting lost it is possible to find yourself. Questioning this theory that many seem to have engraved into their mind, I went on an adventure this summer with my favorite person in the universe, my grandmother. We got lost, believe me when I say this, yet instead of finding myself, I left with even more questions. Prague, a small city on a big

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    the park to see if he could make some nice goat friends. This day didn’t end well for Beryl. The family was walking to the park, and all of a sudden, a strange man in a white van swerved off and swiggity swooty’d his way toward Beryl, and snatched him right out of his stroller. The man Jumped back into his car, and drove too fast for them to see where in Tarnation he was going. So the family had to go home that night, thinking of how this man could be torturing their amazing goat. Crash, Blanche

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    New Brutalism

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    scholarships, only created an even more murky definition of New Brutalism. More than a decade after the initial surge of writings, the New Brutalism debates was reignited following Banham’s 1966 publication New Brutalism: Ethics or Aesthetic. It was also at this moment that the Smithson reinstated the importance of Crosby’s contribution to the New Brutalism discourse and distant themselves from the interpretation offered by Reyner Banham. In 1973, Alison and Peter Smithson published Without Rhetoric; an

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    Paranormal investigators use an electronic voice phenomenon (EVP) which is used to record audio, but the audio that is picked up was mostly unheard while recording (Rojas). This allows sounds of an unknown origin to be heard when in the process of reviewing the recordings. Skeptics say, “that EVPs interfere with radios, walkie talkies, cell phones, and other

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    Eleanor Longon Analysis

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    consistent with the social constructionist approach of psychic life and deviance because all of these individuals may deal with hearing voices in there head, but each person has a different method of handling the voices, a different perception about the voices they hear and are impacted by their own personal interactions. The only reason why people who hear voices are looked at in a negative and stigmatizing way is because the majority

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    as a self speaker. He even recalls a time of self consciousness when he was caught laughing out loud to a voice in his head. He claims that his voices even have different accents and pitches. Fernyhough bases his research on his theory that talking to yourself and hearing voices have a deeper function and he even has a book out to explain his case. While discussing experimental work on voice hearing, Fernyhough begins to

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    traits include: perception, memory, attitude, judgment and decision making, as well as ego (Rodrigues & Cusick, 2012, p. 158-160). These qualities can have drastic effects in commercial aviation if they are not recognized and adjusted accordingly. In this paper I will respond to some questions that are raised in aviation safety: 1.) Can we stop the amount of human errors in aviation? 2.) Is training the problem? 3.) What is being done to slow down the number of errors/accidents? If we can find the answers

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    format that is being displayed within the airport. [pic] ATCAS - ATC ADMINISTRATION AND OVERFLIGHT BILLING The Air Traffic Control Administration System (ATCAS) allows air traffic control to share information with other airport departments. This information can then be used for correct allocation of stands or air bridges. It can also be used to create the mandatory statistics required by some government agencies including the National Air Traffic Service (NATS). The ATCAS includes a link

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    Abstract This paper explores three published articles that report on subjects having to do with customer support. Be the relationships online (Internet) and offline (non-Internet) and how they relate to customer service and the help desk environments. The articles have little variance in how they treat and face the subject matter as this is more about the history and thus not a very subjective topic. This paper examines these three works in relation to each other and to show how customer service

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