Cell Phones: How They Changed Our Lives Mobile phones have come a long way in the last seventy years‚ so be thankful yours fits in your pocket. Maybe one day it will even be able to bend like a piece of thin plastic. Maybe you won’t even have to touch it‚ doing all of your multitasking from cellular implants. But seventy years ago‚ you had been lugging a 25-pound ’portable’ phone on your back‚ with very limited 5-mile range. And now‚ a visual history marking the accomplishments
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Madeleine Flint ’WOMEN’S ROLES ARE OFTEN MARGINALISED AND TOKENISTIC IN DRAMATIC COMEDY.’ TO WHAT EXTENT DO YOU BELIEVE THIS TO BE THE CASE IN ALAN BENNETT’S THE HISTORY BOYS? Dramatic comedy often sees the woman take on a role of insignificance. They become the prey‚ the desired possession and are not seen as equal beings to male characters. This has been apparent throughout history from the very birth of comedy. Plautus for example developed his comedy from the Greek’s new comedy and so also
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explore how the semantics of words Shakespeare created and used have changed and to explore why a wide selection of them are still used 500 years later. Many students who study Shakespeare find it difficult to understand and find the lexis he used to be irrelevant to modern use of English language. However I am aware that a lot of everyday are neologisms created by Shakespeare and though some of Shakespeare’s terms are now marked as archaic‚ many more are still used in modern language. I have chosen
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Franklin Castillo English 4 IB 3 April 2012 Extended Essay World War 1 is an extraordinary event which changed history today. WW1 was not just some war‚ but it was “The Great War”. It was called the “Great War” because no other war had such an impact on the world. It was the first war to affect all of the major nations of Europe and the world. It took thousands of lives. It was a huge war‚ involving a large number of nations and armies including five empires with their associated colonies and
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World War Two was quite an important time in female history‚ it opened a lot of doors that had previously been closed to women and allowed them to take on a bigger position in society. On January 20th‚ 2018 Naomi Parker Fraley‚ the face of the famous “Rosie the Riveter” died at 96‚ and she got me thinking about women and wartime. Feminist dissertations often talk about what an important time WW2 was for women‚ real life “Rosies” were women who filled traditionally male roles in American factories
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Difference in the World Today The essay “Use Your Own Words” by Anne Trubek argues a great point that technology is changing the way we read and write and that spell must change also. Should the world let technology take over? What is the purpose of a map if you can easily find it on your phone and get directions? Think about it‚ what is the purpose of having a book or newspaper in modern times if you can easily go on the internet. She supports this by showing and explaining how spelling checkers
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of the “10 DAYS THAT UNEXPECTEDLY CHANGED AMERICA”‚ analyze the ludicrous story of the biggest mass development of individuals on the planet history. Neither the crusades nor Alexander’s expedition to India would have broken even with to the movement that occurred in California‚ in the late 40s and mid-50s. Once the disclosure of the “Gold” had been formally declared by president James K. Polk in the condition of Union message‚ on December fifth‚ 1848‚ the world surged in and California turned into
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How Nirvana Changed the World In the late eighties music was going through a big change. People wanted something new‚ something exciting‚ especially the younger generation. No more soft melodies and pop music like Duran Duran and Madonna. In these changing times a very special band called Nirvana came on the music scene. Three young man from Seatlle‚ Washington – Kurt Cobain on vocals and on guitar‚ Krist Novoselic on bass and Dave Grohl on drums - they were everything people yearned for
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what extend have ideas about childhood changed over the centuries? New concepts of childhood have been established to an enormous extent over the centuries. Over the course of the 18th and 19th centuries people have had different ideas of childhood and how children should be raised. On the contrary‚ as society has developed‚ perceptions about childhood have arisen. In modern society people have grown and have recognised new notions of childhood. Today‚ the media plays a large role in the way children
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How Woman Changed Their History Lydia American History Since 1865 floppy you choose How Woman Changed Their History As images flash across the television of women wearing burqa’s American women sit in disbelief that this can possibly be happening in the modern world. Although there was once a time when American women did not hold rights of being an American citizen it took the hard work and determination of women to fight for those. During World War II women developed a slogan that is
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