Dataclysm: Who We Are; When We Think No One’s Looking‚ a novel by Christian Rudder‚ explains how our online lives tell more about a person than ever before. Rudder is a co-founder of the popular dating website OkCupid‚ and the leader of their analytics team. He uses the data from his website‚ along with several other sources‚ to describe our online lives. The book has three separate parts‚ each detailing separate points of Rudder’s idea; our online lives can be used to predict many things about a
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When you deserve each other “In vain have I struggled? It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.” Hearing Mr. Darcy’s strong admiration‚ Elizabeth’s astonishment was beyond expression. In spite of her deeply-rooted dislike‚ she could not be insensible to the compliment of such a man’s affection. But why Elizabeth refused him so tough‚ with so little endeavor at civility? Was this refusal merely because Mr. Darcy’s disagreeable
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Abigail is fueled by her lust for John Proctor and her own selfishness‚ using the “devil” to further her self centered desire for power‚ and control in Salem‚ with that desire for John inciting her actions. What started as Abigail’s plan to get rid of Elizabeth Proctor‚ ended in what was bigger than Abigail could have imagined - the Salem witch trials. Abigail is a remorseless girl‚ who will do anything to get what she wants. Abigail lusts over John Proctor‚ a married man which turns the town into
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What do you think about the affect war has on relationships and how does the Author present this in ‘The Manhunt’? The poem ‘The Manhunt’ by Simon Armitage is written from a wife’s perspective based on a true story about how she is trying to reconnect with her husband who has been away at war in Bosnia and returned a completely different person to the one who left her. She is still madly in love with him but soon realises that maybe he doesn’t feel the same way anymore. Throughout the poem the author
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Aiwen (Hurphy) Zhang Fall 2013 11/1/2013 Unit 3 Assignment: “How Do You Say It?” Final Draft Language and Translation Language is the basic tool people use to communicate with each other‚ including verbal language and non-verbal language. Language is used to announce‚ to persuade‚ to queries‚ to express emotions‚ to transmit complicated ideas or even to hurt people. Generally speaking‚ using the language correctly allows people to communicate better‚ compared
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How do you respond to Gerald in An Inspector Calls? How does Priestley make you respond as you do by the way he writes? (30 Marks) The character of Gerald in An Inspector Calls is one that produces different responses; this is due to Priestley’s writing style. During the start of the play Gerald takes a low level status but by the end of the Play he is defiantly trying to save himself and the family. How does Priestley make us feel like that? Well it’s all down to the stage directions and how the
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The following are a few examples of thank you letters found on the career and job search advice website “Quintessential Careers”: http://www.quintcareers.com/ A Free General Thank You Letter Sample Mr. Archie Weatherby California Investments‚ Inc. 25 Sacramento Street San Francisco‚ CA 94102 Dear Mr. Weatherby‚ Thank you for taking the time to discuss the insurance broker position at California Investments‚ Inc.‚ with me. After meeting with you and observing the company’s operations‚ I am further
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Hester Prynne and Abigail Williams The Scarlet Letter‚ by Nathaniel Hawthorne‚ is a novel about a young women named Hester Prynne who is forced to bear a scarlet A on her breast for commiting the sin of adultury. For violating the strict puritian religion‚ she is isolated from society‚ with the product of her sin‚ her daughter Pearl. She is greatly critizised and humiliated by the townspeople. Hester did not commit the sin alone‚ but her lover is at fault as well. He remains silent until guilt
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The question of whether or not computers think is one that is discussed by many philosophers. I believe this question is useful because it is something that decades ago would not have been important. Computers are machines that have not always been around‚ and through technological advancements have become far more complex than those in the past believed could happen. I for one never believed that we would have machines that could give us answers to math problems that seemed unlikely to answer in
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When You Were Young by The Killers The music video of When You Were Young by The Killers shows the story of a young woman’s tragic marriage through flashbacks while in the present she is about to jump off a mountain and kill herself. It is set in the present (video made in 2006) in a small town somewhere in Mexico. This is shown by the ethnicity of the actors and the costume which is relevant to place‚ being Mexico and the props like beer and phones which is present to the time period. The video
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