For this assignment, you will choose a topic, narrow it, research different points of view about it, and identify your audience in order to develop your angle on the topic. After looking at the list of topics below, which was shared in Week 1’s lecture, choose a topic in which you have more than just a passing interest. The best topic to choose is one which impacts you in some way. Having personal experience with the topic will probably lend some perspective on it and may get you closer to
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in Ingersoll, Ontario, Canada, McPherson was brought up in a devoted Christian home. Her father, James was a farmer and her mother Minnie worked with the poor in Salvation Army soup kitchens. When Darwinism was introduced in her school during her teenage years, McPherson began to question the Bible. When she was seventeen years old and still in high school, she attended a revival service conducted by Pentecostal evangelist Robert Semple, where she heard the message of repentance and a born-again experience
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College, his first major success was as a traveling evangelist for Youth for Christ (YFC), which was founded in 1941 (Eskridge 85). Graham was the star of the foundation from early 1945 through 1947, speaking at hundreds of rallies that taught teenage audiences the gospel of Jesus Christ (Eskridge 86). During his YFC days Graham found a way to reach the youth that reluctantly helped him in his years ahead: “We used every modern means to catch the attention of the unconverted—and then punched them
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However, having such positive experiences like myself does not happen to everyone. Individuals all over the world experience the pain of having to move away from love ones. Moving away from friends and family can be traumatic, but also it can affect an individual emotionally. My brother is one who suffered emotionally from moving. Growing up with the same friends, relocating was one of the hardest ideas for him
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Deconstructing of two soap adverts Waterloo road and Top Boy Task 1 In this task I will be researching the structures and techniques of television advertisement. I will be talking about the key structures and characterise of the product. Also how they attract the audience by using different media techniques. The advert choice I have chosen for this task is waterloo road which has been TV series for a very long time, and has built a reputation for being a really goon TV series. Waterloo
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intercultural communication and are highly useful resources for teachers. Additional reasons for teachers to incorporate films in class and encourage their students to watch movies in English include: • Films combine pleasure and learning by telling a story in a way that captures and holds the viewer’s interest. • Films simultaneously address different senses and cognitive channels. For example, spoken language is supported by visual elements that make it easier for students to understand the dialogues
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Basically, Sexual orientation is about who attracts us. This attraction may lead to love hence marriage. The issue of same-sex marriage is an argument that we have heard of and have strong opinions on. We believe that homosexual couples should have the same marriage rights as heterosexual couples. As Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. said, "Marriage is a basic human right. You cannot tell people they cannot fall in love." While he said this in reference to the marriage between races, the same can be said
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The Harlem Renaissance The end of World War I set up conditions for a new culture to emerge. Due to the abundance of jobs the war created, many African-Americans moved to the northern cities. In fact, so many of them moved up north, they created strong African-American communities, including Harlem in New York City. During the 1920’s, Harlem became the Mecca of Black culture and was home to many talented individuals from all fields. Roughly lasting from the end of World War I to the stock market
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Females throughout history have experienced many struggles being a woman. From protesting to get the vote and standing up for equal rights, women have worked hard to get the freedoms they have today. It was with the rise of Elizabeth I in England that a new approach to women throughout literature and the media can be seen. She has been celebrated as an English embodiment of feminine strength and was patron to Shakespeare and Marlowe Elizabeth strayed from being the traditional women figure, and became
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traveling. Willy and Linda discuss their grown sons, Biff and Happy, who are sleeping upstairs. Willy’s relationship with Biff is rocky because his son is thirty-four and can’t hold a steady job. In his mind, Willy relives happy times when he and his teenage boys are celebrating their own supposed popularity. Biff tells his father that he’s stolen a football (although he uses the term "borrowed") in order to practice his game. Willy tells his son to return it, but he obviously doesn’t care about the theft
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