abbreviations and so much slang nowadays‚ it is impossible to know what people mean. I can’t even count how many times I have had to call someone to ask them what they were talking about in a text message because they didn’t use correct punctuation and grammar. I never did pay attention that much to grammar or punctuation either when I was in elementary and middle school. However‚ ever since I have gotten to high school‚ I have become a grammar Nazi. Which brings me to this conclusion‚ children are being
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what I see‚ it is already 9:30. Where have you been for the past hour and a half? Nicholas: (closes the door.) We had a business meeting. Eddielaine: Is that so? Well‚ I called your secretary a while ago and she said that you left at 7:30 p.m. as usual. I also asked her if you had a meeting‚ and she said that you had none. So where have you really been? Nicholas: Alright. I went out to visit a friend…Happy? Eddielaine: Not really. Who is this friend? Because believe me‚ I phoned every friend I know
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Quite often a guilty subject will invoke such expressions as‚ “I swear to God I’m telling the truth‚” “I hope my mother drops dead if I’m lying‚” “I’ll swear on a stack of Bibles‚” etc. Although expressions of this type cannot be considered as symptoms of deception‚ they frequently are used by guilty subjects in an effort to lend forcefulness or conviction to their assertions of innocence. Inbau & Reid‚ Criminal Interrogation and Confessions‚ 1962. In the interrogation
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LINDA: I don’t think he fell asleep. HAPPY: No kidding! LINDA: I know and sure enough‚ on the bottom of the water heater there’s a new little nipple on the gas pipe. HAPPY:(angrily) That — jerk. BIFF: Did you have it taken off? LINDA: Every day I go down and take away that little rubber pipe. But‚ when he comes home‚ I put it back where it was. How can I insult him that way? I don’t know what to do. (She is bent over in the chair‚ weeping‚ her face in her hands.) Biff‚ I swear to God! Biff
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We often hear people shout “I swear I didn’t do it!” or “Don’t blame me on that!” rather than admit their fault when they screw up things. People tend to avoid shouldering responsibility for fear of being punished or ruining their reputation. Yet this buck-passing behavior could be the most destructive human weakness and can even lead to disastrous consequences. When do people start buck-passing? Probably from early childhood. Small kids consistently quarrel or even fight over toys and other stuffs
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was Friday night. I was looking forward to staying at home and just hanging out. My parents were at a Thunder game. My sister was with her boyfriend. It was just me and my dogs. I thought I would watch tv and then go to my room and play some video games. While watching basketball my dogs started acting weird. They would look out our front door which is glass and then run to the window. I figured they where watching our cat eat a mouse or maybe they saw a squle or something. I decided to go to
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Characterization Writing Click! I heard the door slide open‚ hitting the wall with a soft thud. I opened my eyes and saw the shadow of a dark figure holding a knife in the doorway. I pulled the blanket up to cover my face‚ leaving only my eyes uncovered. I heard the creak of a floorboard‚ and the shadow advanced towards me‚ a silent murderer. I slid completely underneath the blankets‚ willing myself to wake up from this nightmare. I heard the sound of another footstep‚ whipped of the blanket‚
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FOLLOWED: Fiona had been working on her article for the magazine all week and was ecstatic to have finally finished it on Friday‚ late afternoon. "Have a good night"‚ said Rebekah‚ the receptionist at the front desk of interview magazine. "You too"‚ said Fiona with a wave of her hand. All Fiona wanted to do was drive home to her countryside cottage for some much needed rest. Fiona was a beautiful woman. She was slim and medium height with hazel brown eyes and long‚ silky‚ brown hair which
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I Swear I Saw This is a record as visionary anthropologist Michael Taussig quotes in his own book ‘...you feel impelled to write in your fieldwork diary a few hours or days after a diary entry.’ This is a combination of fieldwork notebooks that also have a series of sketches in them which constitute Taussig’s impressions kept through forty years of travels in Colombia. The book tees off from a drawing he made in Medellin in 2006‚as well as its caption‚ “I swear I saw this” Taussig has always
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The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky captures the life of the protagonist Charlie in a series of diaries written to an anonymous friend. The novel explores many of the issues teenagers face as they progress through the freshman year of high school. Charlie struggles to find his identity as he first begins to experience relationship problems‚ peer influences and communal drug use. Throughout the stages of Charlie’s adolescence‚ his reckless decisions and lack of knowledge towards society
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