Lecture : Discourse Analysis SIDE BY SIDE By Peter Panepento Melissa Meely dropped in to a chair in front of her manager’s cherry veneer desk. “I don't know how people with kids can do this job,” the 25-year-old radio advertising sales rep said. Her boss, Laurie Thompson, had heard such self-doubt before. Her six sales people in Connoisseur Media in Erie, in the shores of Lake Erie in Pennsylvania, often popped into her office to vent frustrations about a tough day of cold-calling. On this
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The Count of Monte Cristo – Film Critique HUM150 University of Phoenix March 21, 2011 Films are often judged by various aspects such as editing, mise-en-scene, cinematography, sound, music, and much more. Each film critic evaluates the film based on these aspects as well as his or her own opinion of what is entertaining and what is not. I have watched the film The Count of Monte Cristo directed by Kevin Reynolds, which came out in 2002. The leading actors are James Caviezel (playing
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Goneril and Regan, and they deceitfully use this power against him. Ironically, Lear also falls in status, to a level inferior to that of his own children. Goneril no longer loves him "beyond all manner" and Regan no longer is "an enemy to all other joys" as they have professed in the beginning. Instead,
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BASKETBALL A big change in my life, was when I chose to start playing in a division 1 basketball team, it was a good chose. I can’t imagine how my life would be without basketball but to get there where I am today, have been a lot challenges moments. “To be a champion you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will” – Suger Ray Robinson. I want to be the best and that is still my goal. So much time for nothing? I started to play basketball when I was 15 years old. It’s
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Reflections on the Bangsamoro Decades in the making, the conflict in the southern parts of Mindanao was born of centuries old problems inherited from our Spanish colonizers in their tactic of divide-and-conquer. They say that if the Spanish interregnum did not occur, we would have all been Muslim. That is true, for when the Spaniards arrived, most of the powerful polities in Mindanao, and the rulers in Manila were all Muslim. But unlike the Spaniards who used the power of the cross and the sword
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Lesson Eight Paper Assignment – Family The most interesting article I read from this section was “Coming to the U.S. for Baby, and Womb to Carry it” by Tamar Lewin. I really loved this article, because there are so many things to talk about with surrogacy, good and bad. There is also a lot to talk about pertaining to the cost, health, and legal aspects that have to do with it all. Before reading this article I was totally supportive of surrogate pregnancies, and I still am, but they raised a lot
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'A Woman to Her Lover' by Christina Walsh and 'A Married State' by Katherine Philips examines the role and position of women in marriage in the 17th century. 'A Woman to Her Lover' is written in four stanzas of irregular length and in free verse. This is indicative of the poet's reluctance to conform to the conventions of her day regarding marriage and poetry. In the first stanza she speaks to her lover in a forthright tone indicating confidence. The use of a question and her own reply captures
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woman is waiting to undergo an abortion. The opening scene sets the serious tone for the video and serves as foreshadowing for later on, during her daughter’s portrayal of life. The young woman has a swift change of heart and flees the hospital in tears. This is the first example of a choice being made that greatly impacts one’s life. Her daughter is now an infant and sits crying in a baby carrier while watching her mother and father entangled in a physically and verbally abusive ordeal; which clearly
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torture from the insects. I would not want to spend the rest of my afterlife walking around aimlessly drenched in blood tortured by hornets and wasps. Dante describes the scene with much misery; the blood from the nowhere souls is mixed with their tears as they march on swollen feet that are running with pus and maggots ( p.16 lines
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to you, when you bite into a juicy red apple does not that apple sing to your body. All things sing songs of joy and sorrow the songs of joy bring happiness and pleasure and the songs of sorrow bring wisdom and learning, so stop and listen, do not resist, do not run away. Listen to the mosquito buzzing in your ear, the tree swaying gently in the breeze and the songs of hot and cold. As a tear drips from your eye it sings its song of sorrow, as a smile comes to your lips
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