Bowen 27 February 2013 Reading a Book vs. Listening to an Audio Book Now days‚ most people simply do not have the time to sit down and read a book. More and more are beginning to use a source of recorded audio books to listen to on the go. It really depends on whom one asks whether or not audio books are considered to be the most efficient way to obtain a books content. Various pros and cons come along with either option. Whether or not taking the time to read a book is greater than only listening
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The most common ant species found on the University campus was the Garden Ant‚ which was present at 3 of the 10 sites that yielded ants‚ and with a total sample population of over 160 ants. The Pharaoh’s Ant had the highest distribution but a relatively low abundance. Site F‚ which was a non-eating area‚ was within one metre of what appeared to be an ants’ nest‚ and was a major outlier in our results‚ with a total of 154 Garden ants and one Green Ant‚ and thus did not support our initial hypothesis
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Nelson is an adaptation of the well crafted play Othello by William Shakespeare. The film has many similarities to the play‚ and the storyline of the movie mirrors the main events that take place in the play as well as highlighting important symbols that are present in the play. Although there are many similarities‚ the play also differs from the movie in many ways. The original title of the play was ‘The Tragedy of Othello‚ The Moor of Venice’‚ which brings attention
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The story “The Parsley Garden” by William Saroyan is a story of a Turkish boy named Al Condraj . Al the creative person that he was wanted to build things with box wood and nails that he found at Foley’s Packing House. He had wood and nails‚ but needed a hammer to build which he did not have‚ so he stole one from Graf’s Hardware. In the process of stealing the hammer he was caught. In the end he went back to the store and worked for a few hours and was given a whole dollar and a job offer‚ but he
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In the movie version of “Boys and Girls”‚ there were many differences‚ such as the beginning. In the movie‚ we open into the scene where the first horse is shot. The girl and Laird are both watching‚ however another difference to the original short story is that Laird has an adverse reaction to the death of the horse. He runs out of the barn and away until his sister catches him and tells him that it was good that he saw‚ so he now knows what has to eventually be done in these cases. In the events
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it was presented in the film adaptation we watched in class. One major difference was that in the movie‚ the girls were shown dancing in the forest at the beginning. In the play it is only a flashback. The scene was added in the movie to make it more dramatic and foreshadowing. I think it helps to understand the movie better and it sets the mood of the story from the very beginning. In the movie‚ when the girls visit Betty before the trial‚ Betty is very wild and almost violent and even tries
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In many scenes of the movie the producer had the actors say exact lines and recreate scenes taken directly from the book. “Within‚ stood a tall old man‚ clean shaven save for a long white moustache‚ He held in his hand an antique silver lamp‚ in which the flame burned without a chimney or globe of any kind‚ throwing long
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in the book and the film is that her personality is the same she is caring and … We can see she is caring in both the book and the film because she cares for the old in the book but also cares for the babies in the film. Some differences between the book and the film is that in the book Fiona was assigned the job of Caretaker in the House of Old whereas in the film she was assigned the job of a nurturer. In the film Fiona waits to be released because she helped Jonas to escape but in the book there
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Peter Pan originated in a book by J.M. Barrie that he wrote in 1902. In this book‚ children are born as birds and stay that way until given to their parents. Once they are chosen by their parents‚ they begin to transform into babies and will eventually grow up. However‚ Peter did not understand this and before he lost his ability to fly‚ he returned to Kensington Gardens. Here he is stuck in an in-between stage‚ half bird‚ half baby. He eventually loses his faith in flying‚ but the fairies returned
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Sleep In the book The Big Sleep‚ and the film The Big Sleep‚ I saw many similarities and many differences. Both book and film intrigue the mind of the reader and viewer by introducing different plots and characters through out the book and film. First I shall start off by talking about the plots and characters of the book and film. The plot and the setting at the beginning of the film pretty much started out the same as it did in the book. The only difference that I
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