To Plug in or Not to Plug in Do personal technologies like phones‚ iPods‚ and computers connect or disconnect us? The opinions vary from person to person and generation to generation. Two opinions that we’ll look at specifically are from Andrew Sullivan‚ a blogger and columnist for the Sunday Times of London‚ and Anna Akbari‚ a professor at New York University. When looked at briefly‚ Sullivan and Akbari’s views seem to be like the opposite sides of the same coin. Sullivan argues from
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Marie Antoinette From the very beginning‚ Marie Antoinette was born as an Austrian princess. She was the favored and most beautiful daughter. Her mother‚ strategically arranged for Marie to marry in order to form a new alliance with France. Just at the age of 14‚ she was married and then became queen of a foreign country. Seems like a huge responsibility for such a young girl... And nevertheless it was. At the end of her reign‚ Marie Antoinette ended up being an unfit ruler and was hated by the
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Karen Kilimnik (American‚ born 1955). Marie Antoinette out for a walk At Her Petite Hermitage‚ France‚ 1750‚ 2005. Oil on canvas‚ 20 x 15 in. (50.8 x 38.1 cm). Often‚ it is difficult to tell exactly what is going on in Karen Kilimnik’s paintings. Being that the title of her paintings never really match the face in the painting‚ she kind of play around with it. In this painting “Marie Antoinette out for a Walk at her Petite Hermitage‚ France‚ 1750‚ was painted in 2005 is a portrait of Paris Hilton
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The Vodou Queen of New Orleans: Marie Laveau Introduction An anonymous person once said‚ ““He who influences the thoughts of his times‚ influences all the times that follow. He has made his impress on eternity.” 1. In one sentence‚ this quote can perfectly define the life of Marie Laveau. To this day‚ Marie Laveau is still known as the Vodou Queen of New Orleans. Because of her‚ Vodou was brought out of the shadows and into popular American culture. She was able to greatly contribute to of
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Topic: Marie Antoinette Thesis: The last Queen of France Introduction A: Attention Getter: Do any of you know who was the last Queen of France? B: Thesis: Marie Antoinette was the last queen of France. C: Preview: Today I will tell you a little bit of her childhood‚ her life as a French queen and her unhappy marriage and boredom. D: Creditability: I remember both my brothers studying the French Revolution and them talking about her‚ so for that reason I decided to learn more bout her. E:
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Marie Curie was born in Warsaw on November 7‚ 1867‚ the daughter of a secondary-school teacher. She received a general education in local schools and some scientific training from her father. She became involved in a students’ revolutionary organization and found it hard to leave Warsaw‚ then in the part of Poland dominated by Russia‚ for Cracow‚ which at that time was under Austrian rule. In 1891‚ she went to Paris to continue her studies at the Sorbonne where she obtained Licentiateships in Physics
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Essay #2 Television: The Downfall of American Society Televisions have only been around since their debut in the middle of the 20th century and have since become a huge part of everyday life here in America. Originally having good intentions‚ the television and watching of television in the last couple of decades has changed greatly. The amount of time people spend watching their televisions has also changed in the sense that people spend much more time in front of the television than they used
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TELEVISION Are people nowadays addicted to TV? How does TV influence people’s behavior (particularly young people’s? Is violence on television a problem? What kinds of programmes do you enjoy? Do you think there should be more control of television programmes? I think there are many programmes that could offend certain members of the public‚ for this reason certain measures should be taken. The government should have the means to control TV programmes but‚ without being a kind of censorship.
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the two essays ; Shooting Dad and TV: The Plug-In Drug‚ both show what being a family is like for different people. Each essay shows pathos‚ ethos‚ and cause and effect in both different and similar ways. TV: The Plug-In Drug‚ by Marie Winn‚ is about televisions “taking over” quality family time. Winn uses pathos by talking to different types of people who come from different types of families; this way you get to hear from other people how the television is taking away from precious memory making
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“Saint Marie” is a chapter from “Love Medicine” written by Louise Erdrich in 1984. “Love Medicine” is her first novel‚ in which she focuses on the relations between two Chippewa families living on an Indian Reservation. Marie Lazarre is one of the major characters from whose viewpoint we can learn about their lives in the reservation and outside. “Saint Marie” is about Marie Lazarre’s journey to the Sacred Heart Convent at the age of fourteen. This journey is about losing her native religion and
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