Teaching Period 3, 2014 SOC10007 Understanding the modern world Assessment 1: Essay Word limit: 1000 (+/- 10%) Due date: 9am AEDT Monday 1 December 2014 (Week 5) Weighting: 30% Assessment overview The purpose of this assessment is to get you thinking about the massive changes that have transformed our lives since the emergence of the modern world. Assessment details How has daily life changed since 1800? To answer this question, compare Blainey’s account of life before 1800 with your observations
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way work out With the rapidly challging word, people throughout the world have found it increasingly necessary to minimize the rate of misunderstanding due to miscommunication in their contacts with another. In the oast most human beings were born, lived, and died within a limited geoographical area, never encountering people of other cultural backgrounds. It might be said that technological advances have been most effective in creating the borderless word, the global community. As our world shrinks
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them their sign of fearlessness and protection (and in some early ads, neutrality) in many advertisements. A popular ad included the Pit Bull dressed as an American military symbol with breeds like German Mastiffs and French Bulldogs representing other countries.” (Kellie Stevens). Based on the advisement of the pit bull being the national mascot it lead the environment to grow respect for the breed and
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improvement; others believe that developing countries should not rely heavily on developed countries’ supports. However, to address this concern, countries worldwide should join forces, instead of working individually for their own targets. Under current economic climate, developing countries cannot pump lots of money in field of lower priority, which stretch public resources to the limit. This means that developing countries has not enough money to develop other field. In other words, their governments
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Lie: My Favorite Word and Why At one point, people lie about something they have done or they did not do as expected. Lie is a word that my friends and I have used frequently and continue to use in our lifetime. Basically, the usefulness of lie in both bad and good situations is the rationale behind why it is my favorite word. During my childhood, I have used lie in both occasions: in bad and good situations. For instance, I once lied to my teacher that I was unable to make it to school in
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difficult for me. Ever since I was young, you have taught me how to communicate with others and also told me to not be afraid to talk to people that I do not know. Though I know what you are trying to teach me, and knowing your expectations for me, I still have not made any friends here. Not only do some people think we have different color of skin and just ignore me; in addition, whenever I try to communicate with others they cannot understand what I am trying to say. Mom, can I please go back home?
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There are many factors such as attitude, perceptions to influence people’s mind while making a decision to go on a holiday. Tourists’ decision-making relates to their behaviours. In this way, in order to share as much market as possible, it is worth to analyzing people’s behaviours. This assay will be evaluated in three sectors namely; psychological, personal, and social. (Marketing-consumer behaviour) First of all, within psychological field, motivation is being considered the most important
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But still people are interested what will happen to them after death, and what it means to die. There are great numbers of assumptions on this issue, and people's opinions differ, but still it is difficult to reveal the truth, as nobody knows this for sure. This paper will focus on different assumptions and possible events taking place after people's death. Of course every person thinks about afterlife concept in the current period of time, as it would be really strange not to consider this issue
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How does media affect our concept of appearance? The definition of appearance came from the late latin word apparentia and now in English defines as appear. There are a variety of ways of understanding the word appear such as to appear smart or wise. Media does, however, have a huge impact on how we view appearance because of serotypes and the abilities of certain people. From the countless social media posts on the internet from many famous people such as Donald Trump. When we continuously view
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Introduction In this paper, I shall analyze US Presidential hopeful Barack Obama's South Carolina victory speech from a particular pragmatic perspective. In particular, I shall explore the idea that this speech is constituted by many voices (in other words, it displays polyphony, to use an idea due to Bakhtin 1981, 1986) and that the audience is part of this speech event, adding and contributing to its text in a collaborative way (in particular, in constructing meaning). As many are aware (including
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