...new…Yesterday, I met a new boy. He is my neighbour and his name is Xin Jiang. He is from Japan. Xin is tall, with blue eyes and black hair. If you`ll come at me you`ll meet him( But what about you? Are you fine? I watch on TV some information about Romania. There are big problems with the jobs. Have you got anyone? Well...If is any problem at your job I have a suggestion for you. My chief is looking for a good assistant. From what I remember I know you can talk 5 or 6 languages. If I remeber good that`s perfect. You`ll be hired on the spot. Your wage will be about 700$. If you need this job please call me at my new number in 10 days. My number is 00830741555065. I`ll finish my letter now because is time to go out with Xin.. I`m so excited to see him. I`ll tell you in my next letter about this apointment. With love, your strawberry, Deea 190, Crazy Street, Maiami January 23th Dear Cosmin, I`m sorry i didn`t sent the letter earlier but i haven`t time to write you. I`m very busy because I moved in Miami and I had to move all my things,to get accustomed to the place,should I make new friends....
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...information you already know as well as ideas and preferences you already have. For the persuasive part of the essay, your evidence or support may be in the form of examples, details, or elaboration on the idea that you present. Topics: Note: Choose only one of the following topics for your essay. You are planning to adopt a pet. What type of pet (dog, cat, lizard, bird, etc.) will you choose and why? Persuade a friend or relative to adopt a pet as well. You considered many factors when deciding to enroll at WGU. Describe your reasons for choosing to become a WGU student, and persuade a friend to enroll at WGU. You have decided to splurge on a dream vacation with your family. Explain why this vacation is worth the expense, and persuade your family to vacation at your preferred location. Explain one of your hobbies, and persuade a friend to take up this hobby. A close friend of yours is beginning the process of adopting a child and has asked you to provide a letter of recommendation to the adoption agency that speaks to his or her ability to provide a loving home for a child. Describe your friend, and persuade the agency that your friend would be a suitable parent. Task: Write an essay (suggested length of 750-1,000 words) that both informs and persuades in response to one of the given topics. In your essay: A. Organize your ideas clearly by doing...
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...where to start. If you break the writing process into segments, it may not overwhelm you. This may ease your anxieties and inspire you to enjoy writing. Before you pick up a pen or start typing, stop and plan. Ask yourself the following questions and come up with answers: 1. What are the instructions? 2. What is my purpose for writing? 3. Who is my audience? 4. How must the overall structure of my writing look? 5. What must my tone be? Understand the Instructions First, read the instructions. Whether it is an assignment from an instructor or a project from a boss, read the instructions so you know what is expected. If you have questions, do not hesitate to ask. The following terms are frequently used in instructions. The definitions will help you understand what to include in your writing. |Term |Definition | | | | |Analyze |Identify a subject’s elements, and discuss how they work | | |together. | |Argue or persuade...
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...Arnold Friend who is a sexual predator that preys on a teenage girl name Connie. In the story is she fifteen- years old and Friend lures her into what the readers believe is her rape and death. Oates uses Arnold Friends character to demonstrate how easy it is to be deceived by a person’s appearance, how evil a person can be and how one can use psychological torture to persuade an individual. In the beginning, Oates sets up the plot of a questionable character during Connie’s and Friend’s first encounter. Connie often went to the drive-in to hang around older kids. Her desire was to find a love that is “sweet’ and “gentle”. When she encountered Friend at the drive-in he was driving a convertible that she liked and he dressed in a way that appealed to her. Connie’s misperception of Friend’s appearance ultimately leads to her down fall. Arnold Friend is much older than Connie first thinks he is. He...
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...Instagram account for the first time? Having access to your friend’s status felt like finding water in mars and checking your Facebook or Instagram might had been part of your daily priority tasks. At first, for many people this action of constantly using technology to be socially aware of one’s surroundings might have seem harmless but for others, it may have turned into a Technology addiction. In the article “An Ugly Toll of Technology: Impatience and Forgetfulness” published in the New York Times magazine, Tara Parker-Pope speaks about the negative effects that technology dependency has in one’s personality. She explains the severity of this issue and suggests some techniques to decrease...
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...Mass media is an industry that is hard to penetrate. It is often difficult, as an individual, to express your ideologies and beliefs towards a greater audience than those of your current circle of friends and family. Traditional media frequently represents the sentiments and opinions of politicians and celebrities, as opposed to the views of the general public. So, the individuals are able to advocate their voices easier by taking advantage of various social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and more. This act, often referred to as citizen journalism, is used to facilitate the spreading of news particularly towards ‘Gay Marriage’. This process of dissemination is an effective strategy as an effort to communicate their ‘voices being heard’. Now, Twitter, as a media platform, is being used to promote or demote the voices of Gay Marriage. The immediacy and easy format to distribute the message to a widespread audience is its most appealing trait. Many twitter users have dedicated tweets to the possibility of Gay Marriage, whether they are supporters of the lesbian and gay community or highly against the implementation of gay marriage. They utilize the readily available news articles, their own photos, links to videos and hash tags to spread their relevant gay marriage message. Twitter is an excellent platform to send messages to a vast audience. Very often in online news articles or blogs, readers are encouraged to leave their own feedback and comments...
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...the point where you cant drive straight on the road. but now I want you to imagine yourself getting a notification from your cell phone. could be a text msg , a phone call or just app notifications from facebook, twitter and so on. and (snaps fingers) just like that your distracted from driving, usually when you've been texting before you get in the car , you have the phone close to you, some of you have the phone on your lap, some of you have the phone in the cup holder, and some of you have the phone on the passenger seat. doesnt matter where you are, you should always be focused and alert while driving. So basically my main purpose is to make you to become more aware of the dangers of texting and driving or using the phone while driving. But really my ultamite goal is to persuade you to persuade your friends or others not to text while driving. and I know its hard, its so hard to deal with, you just want to answer that important text from your friend that only says "hey" or it says "where are you", you get that urge , that itchy feeling, you know that itchy feeling you get when you want to do something so bad, that OOH I want to want to text back feeling. while all this is goin through your mind, your driving and your not focused on driving at all, you Driving and trying to text at the same time... This is some of us {example} and its to the point where your more focused on trying to send the text before you get to the light or before you get to close to another car, let me...
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...jjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjkjkhjhiIf losing the presidential election wasn't enough, Mitt Romney has been hemorrhaging Facebook friends. People began unliking Romney's official Facebook page soon after the election results came in last week. The Washington Post noticed the drop on Friday, when the GOP presidential candidate's page was losing 593 likes an hour. By Saturday, Mashable said the exodus was up to 847 friends an hour, and as of Monday morning, Romney's Facebook page continued to lose around 11 likes every minute. For those who enjoy interactive graphics with their schadenfreude, the site DisappearingRomney.com shows Romney's Facebook likes dropping in real time. A ticker at the bottom of the page tallies how many people have unliked Romney's page just in the time users have been on the site. Not that Romney is hurting for social media pals. As of Monday afternoon, he still had more than 12 million Facebook fans and 1.7 million followers on Twitter. The former governor's team hasn't been doing much on social media lately to persuade people to stick around. After a flurry of activity leading up to the election, his official Facebook and Twitter accounts went silent for four days afterward. On Saturday, the campaign finally posted a photo of a sad-looking Romney with the message, "From the bottom of our hearts, Ann and I thank you for your support, prayers, efforts and vote. We are forever grateful to every one of you." By contrast, President Barack Obama acknowledged...
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...The Six Principles of Persuasion Rita Ogbeama University of the People Introduction To persuade someone is to get them to do something or believe in something, that they previously did not believe. Our textbook outlined the following principles concerning persuasion: reciprocity, scarcity, authority, commitment and consistency, consensus and liking (McLean, 2011). Reciprocity acknowledges that every good turn deserves another. It is the mutual understanding between persons that if something is given something is expected in return. For example, aids are provided to other counties in the event of a natural disaster or devastation of some kind because of this perceived mutual relationship. Usually under such circumstances,...
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...Plato—Crito In this chapter, Plato talked about the dialogues between Socrates and Criton, Socrates’ best friend in his whole life. In this time, Socrates had already been put into prison by the unfair adjudgement in the court and he was waiting for the death penalty. When a Greek ship from Delos came back, he needed to get the death penalty. Before this time, Criton had visited Socrates for a few times, and tried to persuade him escape from this prison, but it was not worked. In the beginning of this dialogue, Socrates asked Criton, “Why have you come at this time of day”? He was sleeping and even forgot the time. Criton wanted to convince him leave the prison, and he had already found someone to help Socrates if he could escape. It must be the last time to get out from this prison, because the ship would come soon. However, Socrates refused his suggestion depending on his own opinion about moral and law. Then they began to debate by several aspects. Criton thought that he should leave the prison because he was guiltless. And he used a few ways to persuade him, just like, he let Socrates think of his sons and said “It is your power to bring them up and educate them, and now you will go off and leave them, and so far as you are concerned, they must take their life as they find it”. And they would be in orphan, if you leave them. He appealed by emotion to persuade him not giving up his life. On the other hand, Criton illustrated their friendship. If Socrates didn’t leave...
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...continued, uploading my photos, and making my friends list; of existing friends, and I began accepting people I didn't know. “Friending” someone means that you give them access to your profile and thus your personal information, and vice versa. After sometime I began questioning Facebook's privacy settings, and whether accepting strangers was right or not. Whether Facebook is public or private is a controversial issue that requires a close look on its privacy settings. In Danah Boyd's article Facebook's Privacy Trainwreck: Exposure, Invasion, and Social Convergence about the use of Facebook and privacy, the author is attacking Facebook's privacy settings. The article was published in Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies, 2008. Boyd is an American social media researcher. Boyd is discussing in her article people's anxiety of the privacy settings on Facebook from two different angles: Exposure and Invasion. Being exposed to anyone on Facebook is really bothering. Boyd provided an example in her journal article Facebook's Privacy Trainwreck: Exposure, Invasion, and Social Convergence; "Imagine that you are screaming to be heard in a loud environment when suddenly the music stops and everyone hears the end of your sentence. Most likely, they will turn to stare at you and you will turn beet red". She believes that this is what Facebook does; all the information and all your activities are visible to your...
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...summary of the chapter, "Agamemnon insults the priest of Apollo, causing Apollo to punish the Greeks… Achilles and Agamemnon argue, and as a result, Agamemnon takes Achilles' prize of honor. Achilles, in turn, retaliates by withdrawing from battle". Maybe war is a little bit too far from our everyday life, how about substituting the army with a basketball team. You are the star athlete of the team, and the team captain stole your girl friend. Would you quit the team for this? It is true that the team captain is in the wrong, but without you in the team, your teammates will lose. Is it really worth it to sacrifice the hard work of your teammates for your personal grudge? Or is it better to stay in the team and deal with this personal grudge without affecting other innocent people? This is a lesson that asks us to look at the big picture, and to look at what should really be our concern. On page 139, Chapter 4, Odysseus tried to persuade Achilles into rejoining the army, but Achilles says, "Neither Agamemnon nor any other bronze-coated Greek will persuade me to rejoin the battle, for it seems that no one appreciates the warrior who fights without rest. he who remains at home receives the same gifts as he who fights his best; the coward is honored equally with the brave man; and death is the fate of both the man who is idle and the man who works hard". He goes on to say that he gave all of what he plundered to Agamemnon, Agamemnon kept most of the treasures and distributed...
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...about their topics of food. Text 11 which is about turning vegetarian or being vegetarian it eases the readers in to the passage as it’s not in an imperative or bossy tone. It relaxes readers as the author begins with “take your time” which immediately removes all pressure away which is a tactic to persuade and influence them to read more. That one phrase “take your time” may impact and influence the reader to change their ways or start to change their ways, it’s also guiding and advising them on how to approach vegetarianism. Secondly, the author of this passage tries to make being vegetarian cool as it uses informal language such as “veggie” to make it more interesting and on trend. The term “veggie” will appeal to the younger readers as well and will make it seem as a trend which should be followed. Secretly the author tries to promote vegetarianism by saying to the readers “impress your friends “which shows that they are trying to be it a trend and fashionable. The phrase “impress your friends” also appeals to people liking challenges because it’s not something that they are used to and your friends may see you in a different light just because you are turning vegetarian and by impressing your friends they might want to try it out to impress their friends which will be a continuous pattern. Also the author uses another quote “try something new” which appeals to people who like new trends and like to challenge themselves. Whereas in text 9, John Torode (the chef) has a more aggressive...
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...one’s temper and not listening to everything one has to say. Despite the good and bad methods of persuasion used by Davis and his fellow jurors, it still turned out to be the best strategy of convincing everyone on the jury in this film to his way of thinking. Throughout the movie Davis demonstrated that he wasn’t sure if he was guilty or not. He had a reasonable doubt that he was guilty, but was still unsure of his innocence. In the beginning of the movie he was asked, “So you think he’s innocent?” He responded, “I don’t know.” Again near the end of the movie after everyone’s convinced he says, “I only know as much as you know. According to testimony the boy looks guilty. Maybe he is.” In a book by Dale Carnegie called “How to Win Friends and Influence People” he writes that the best way to win an argument is to avoid it, however a misunderstanding or disagreement is welcome. He quotes out of an article...
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...Part 1 Audience Adaptation 1. Specific Purpose: The purpose of this speech is to persuade my audience that texting while driving is not safe and it shall be stopped mentally and physically. 2. What kind of change? Although there are laws out there, citizens seem to bypass it all and continue to this day to never change this problem. 3. What did I find out in my audience analysis? How many people did a survey? What were the results? I found out that a lot of people agree to this statement that it needs to take in action right now. I had a total of 20 people doing my survey and the results came to be that the (16) majority agreed with my statement while the others (4) didn’t really care for it since they’ve never experienced or think it’s not that important. 4. Audience Attitude: When I asked people about their feelings concerning texting while driving, most of them engaged in the topic and explained how it relates to their personal lives. However, very few were careless on the topic since they have never experienced or been in a near death incident with texting while driving. Therefore, I determined that the majority of my audience has analyzed that texting while driving is harmful to our society and daily living. a. Reasons: If you text while driving, it can cause lack of attention to the road ahead of you and can cause a near death incident. b. Organizational Framework: I am going to use a statement of reasons framework. This topic naturally...
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