Expository Essay #1 English 8H Isabella Diez‚ Period 6 Just one Click Away In the present life we don’t really realize how much we use new technologies. One of my favorites of this time to use is the Apple iPhone. The Apple iPhone is a modern invention that has made significant impact on my life by enabling communication and providing entertainment. First‚ communication is offered on many levels on the Apple iPhone. I can email easily. My neighbor can email me easily when they need me to babysit
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Television‚ a Waste of Time And Money Television has become increasingly more popular through the years since it was first invented. In fact it is so popular that almost every home in America has one or more television sets. TV started when Edwin Belin‚ an English man‚ held the patent for the transmission of photographs by wire as well as fiber optics and radar‚ which demonstrated a mechanical scanning device that was an early ancestor to modern television. With TV sets almost everywhere in sight
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straw-colored hair. Hazel Lucas got up on the tips of her toes in the horse-drawn wagon to stare into an abyss of beige. Charles Shaw: He was a schoolteacher. He was Hazel Lucas’s husband. Andy James : He tried to hit a vein of oil‚ to find one strike that would keep the family on the ranch. They borrowed again from a bank that already had taken back much of the ranch. George
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Do the Biblical “Beatitudes” Have Meaning in Our Modern Lives? . A Possible Interpretation of the Biblical Beatitudes in the Modern World Continuity of Western Culture – still offering beneficial guidance? 080909‚ 073110 . Western Culture‚ after the Greeks and Romans‚ was strongly impacted by two currents of thought and values – Christian ethics and‚ after some interruption‚ increasing intellectual clarity – the latter reaching from the ancient Greek thinkers to the Muslim universities of
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Television In today modern world television is the most popular and recognized from of media and most homes in the western and developed worlds own one. That small (in some cases rather large) box sitting in your lounge is your connection to the outside world. It is an indispensable item and many of us cannot imagine life without it. As with everything‚ there are several advantages and disadvantages with the television. The most important advantage we get by using a television is to get fast
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Oedipus in Modern Times The dramatic story of Oedipus is one that was acted for years before Sophocles even wrote The Tree Theban Plays‚ and play of fate and pride still endures today. Critics and historians attribute Oedipus the King’s long life to its timeless examination of fatal human flaws as well as to its poignant portrayal of the human condition. Even though our society is drastically different from that of classical Greece‚ Oedipus’s tale of woe is still taught and performed in modern times
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nation has been rocked with most recent news on the Essendon AFL Club after being accused it had conceded the use of banned drugs. Essendon says in a statement that it has not conceded the use of banned drugs by any of its players. After 214 days since the Essendon Bombers were initially reported about its supplement program; AFL agreed to kick the bombers out of the finals also being fined 2 million dollars as well as their coach suffering a 12 month ban. This issue on the Bombers is only one of the
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storyline of the film Modern Times revolves around the two characters‚ a factory worker and street rogue‚ played by Charlie Chaplin and Goddard respectively‚ who fall short to take part into the modern and mechanized world. There were several themes clearly emphasized in the beginning of the film; the workers are portrayed as mere followers‚ no distinctiveness‚ merely considered as moving parts in the economic system. The two main characters were seen as being non-conformant. Time as shown in the beginning
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Shakespeare should distinguish between facts and unfounded beliefs about his life. From one point of view‚ modern scholars are fortunate to know as much as they do about a man of middle-class origin who left a small country town and embarked on a professional career in late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century London. From another point of view‚ today’s scholars know surprisingly little about the writer who has influenced the English language and its drama and poetry for more than three hundred
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The Qur’an for Modern Times As the global population of Muslims‚ and thus their influence on mainstream culture‚ grows‚ I believe society should be more familiar with the Qur’an. It would serve non-Muslims well to read this text to learn more about the beliefs of this fast-growing religious group. While this essay will focus on the need for society to learn more about Muslims‚ it should be noted that religious tolerance is a not a one-way street and has to be exercised by all parties in order for
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