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    few similarities about their religious would be near the ending of Jonathan’s sermon it states “And now an extraordinary opportunity, a day wherein Christ has thrown the door of mercy wide open, and stands in the door calling and crying with a loud voice to poor sinners” (129)this context differs from the beginning of Jonathan’s sermon and can be compared to the tone of some of Bradstreet’s writing. For example a piece of Anne’s writing “That when we live no more, we may live ever.” (12) this piece

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    Authors often use literary devices and writing techniques in their works. During the past block, we studied texts that exemplify the power of discourse. Each text uses the literary device and writing technique of labels. Authors utilize labels to influence their readers’ understanding and to construct reality. Jaswinder Bolina and George Orwell adopt the technique of labels in their stories “Writing like a White Guy,” and “Politics and the English Language”, respectively. Both authors incorporate

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    Writing has changed a lot over the years. The hot topics fade and new ones replace them. From early America to 1870 there was not many changes in the topics because there was not as many people as there are now. There was only three considerable changes to writing styles and topics. The writing styles and topics over the years have changed from myths, to God, and finally to individualism. Writing started off as myths. There are four functions of a myth. The myth must include all of creation, day

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    Sounding Out The Writer’s Voice In the Guardian’s July 2 article, “Hearing words, writing sounds: examining the author’s brain,“ writer Richard Lea discusses a study at Johns Hopkins that examines regions of the brain dedicated to producing and interpreting speech and writing while using writers as the subjects. The question at hand appears to be what areas in the brain are mediating what the brain hears in terms of words on the page, both in the production of text and the interpretation of it.

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    Because a writer’s voice is influenced by personal history, it is difficult to leave identity out of writing. Mattingly and Wallace & Alexander’s essays show that they are passionate about their respective subjects. Mattingly documents how historical memorials of women’s achievements have become less significant and shifted away from prominent locations. She argues that power and influence determine the public spaces that monuments fill. Traditional masculine themes of war and military action

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    Thousand of musicians across the world suffer from Focal Dystonia. Not always correctly diagnosed or understood, it attacks what the musicians love the most: the music and what they most need: their hands, arms or voice. Facing life ahead with such a condition can become unbelievably difficult and challenging. Dystonia is a neurological condition that affects a muscle or a group of them, causing involuntary movements and contractions. It´s called Focal Dystonia when it´s very focused on a specific

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    The striving for being rich and have a wealthy life has always been present in the American society. Often living in a capitalistic society leads people to become greedy, and as a result many become too materialistic. This may happen because of the challenge to pursue the American dream where most of Americans are trying to fulfill it. Unfortunately, for most of people it is very difficult to acquire this high status and to secure a spot in the upper-class society. Arthur Miller's, Death of a Salesman

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    when we speak about tone, we come to an area I have struggled with. Throughout my life, I have been told to never use passive voice in writing. However, in our reading it better explains how and when we should use both styles. When we need to be direct, then passive voice shouldn’t be our style. Although when trying to be more diplomatic or accusatory then passive voice could be a better option. This has given me more insight into my writing for future correspondence. Another concept is word use

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    examining the P600 response of children using the structural priming paradigm. Based on the results of the study, the study may also be able to determine if the P600 response could serve as an adequate neural marker for the effectiveness of passive voice structural priming. Study design The proposed study will make use of the structural priming paradigm used in previous studies (Gámez & Shimpi, 2015; Vasilyeva, Waterfall, Gámez, Gómez, Bowers, & Shimpi, 2010), as well as the measurement of event-related

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    �PAGE � �PAGE �8� INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background The successful organization is the one that communicates well both internally and with other companies and clients. In fact, information flow is crucial to any organization and the better the flow the more successful it is. At work a great of information is convoyed in technical documents, some of the tasks tackled by their writer are; proposals, reports, instruction. Technical writing communicates highly specific information. Most of it is prepared

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