anger at the loss of the land which she and her culture so dearly love. Throughout the poem‚ she consistently uses many techniques to stir the audience’s emotions in the way hers were when these events took place. Another text I wish to share with you is this short film clip from One Night The Moon. The composer of the text‚ Rachel Perkins‚ shows the differences of views of the land through song. I chose this clip because she contrasts the white view of the land with the Indigenous perspective‚ and
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So back to the story about the young girl. She was very committed! Her teacher told her that she would have to come in both lunch and break time so she could help her fully understand. That girl came in every break and lunch time. She was never late and never missed a class. So therefore she had a mindset to pass
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Abortion is one of the most controversial issues around‚ and is an issue that will never be agreed upon. By bringing morals into the question of whether it should be legal to have abortions‚ this issue has been elevated to a higher level. By some people‚ it is no longer looked at as a question of choice but as a question of morality‚ and these concepts have led to a full-blown debate over something that really should not be questioned. Every woman in America has the right to decide what to do with
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Have you ever looked at someone or heard something about someone and had an immediate image of them without even knowing their name or even talking to them? Everyone is guilty of judging someone before they even get to know them. Teens today have to be careful about how they dress and act if they want to fit in with the crowd at high school. According to Jay Asher‚ “Teens in the ‘90s had the same basic desires as they do now.” In his 1999 teen comedy Never Been Kissed‚ Raja Gosnell shows how teens
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Connected speech What is connected speech? When we speak naturally we do not pronounce a word‚ stop‚ then say the next word in the sentence. Fluent speech flows with a rhythm and the words bump into each other. To make speech flow smoothly the way we pronounce the end and beginning of some words can change depending on the sounds at the beginning and end of those words. These changes are described as features of connected speech. Various features contribute to characterise natural connected
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A speech introduction has one main goal: to focus the attention on your central idea by making a clear statement and previewing your main ideas. Write the introduction part of your persuasive speech after you have finished your thesis statement and the supporting points and arguments. Only than you are able to summarize the thesis in one attention grabbing sentence. The goals of an speech introduction are: introduce your topic‚ yourself and the purpose of your speech. Make them want to hear the
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After You Graduate- or in general/10 ways to be awesome after you graduate So you’ve just graduated polytechnic a little less than a month ago. Well‚ congratulations to you for getting over this major milestone! You find yourself in a slew of celebratory parties‚ a string of familial affairs‚ newfound sense of “freedom” – you get the drift‚ it’s all been pretty awesome right? Wrong. Because amidst the celebration & all things fun‚ lurks a swiftly escalating feeling of generalized anxiety. You have
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there‚ my parents were gone. I asked my grandmother‚ “Where did Mommy and Daddy go?” She told me‚ “They went to go look for you.” My parents came back about fifteen minutes later. When they got back they said‚ “We are going to take to Aspen Point so that they can take you to Cedar Springs. We are leaving again to go to the police station to tell them that we found you. We will be back.” As soon as they left‚ I burst out in tears. I kept saying‚ “I don’t want to go back to the mental hospital
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In Sandra Cisneros’s “Never Marry a Mexican‚” the narrator‚ Clemencia‚ says “I’m amphibious. I’m a person who doesn’t belong to any class” (111). Although she speaks of economic classes‚ her amphibious nature applies to her love life as well. Constantly in extremes‚ Clemencia flip-flops between virgin and whore‚ the all or nothing of love and sex. Somewhere in Clemencia’s life‚ she decides she rather be the vamp than the wife. Her logic leads her one direction while her heart leads her another‚ creating
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trying to commit suicide by asphyxiating. In the middle of my abdomen was a spasm that had contracted so much that the pain was almost unbearable. It was a good agonizing seven minutes before it finally subsided‚ leaving my abdominal muscles sore as never before. Outside the mercury rose in the sweltering Vietnamese heat as midday approached. I was in Vietnam participating in a Junior Ranking Tennis event. My second match that day was a grueling three set doubles match that ended late that afternoon
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