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    Jonathan Zawada Biography

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    Jonathan Zawada is a terrifyingly skilled maker. Artist‚ yes. Designer‚ yes. Collaborator‚ also. Art Director‚ that too. Shaper-shifter‚ certainly. Zawada’s is a practice that skips fluidly between object design‚ sculpture‚ video‚ installation‚ painting‚ 3d simulations and fashion. Finding its roots in his earlier experience in web design‚ coding and animation‚ Zawada’s mind seems to want to constantly bend and play with the sin and symbols of our real and virtual landscapes. This fascination he

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    Jonathan Livingston was a unique bird. For the ordinary ones‚ they valued eating more than anything else but for young Jonathan seagull‚ he was amused with flying. He wants to soar above the clouds in seek for perfection and excellence‚ so he spends his days learning more about speed and flight‚ at the expense of his own appetite. Knowing this‚ his parents are dismayed about what he was doing. They wanted Jonathan to be like the others‚ but he could not make it work. Growing tired of fixing things

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    the Conscience of a Nation by Jonathan Kozol is about his experiences with the children and families in the South Bronx‚ New York. In this story‚ Kozol is taking a walk with a seven year old boy‚ Cliffe‚ who is energetic and charmingly strange. In this walk‚ Cliffe shows Kozol around the neighborhood. By this walk around the neighborhood‚ Kozol learns about how the South Bronx is polluted‚ where people take drugs‚ and the teddy bears on the trees. The message that Kozol is trying to tell us through

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    As we continue to discover and invent new technologies and sciences‚ people have progressively become mentally confined and have lost the ability to individually think and analyze. A particularly deleterious trend that has been plaguing our society is the decline of questioning and analysis of our world – what we hear‚ what we see‚ what we learn‚ etc. The American populace is thinking and analyzing less; they are now used to having the media feed them not only current information and news‚ but also

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    Through the essay ‘The two faces of tourism’‚ author Jonathan Tourtellot has expressed his deepest concerns about the rapid growth of tourism and the kind of effect this will have upon maintaining the integrity of the tourist spots as unique places in the world. Through out the essay the continuous friction between the modernization of the tourist spot against keeping them "as it is" is very much evident. In this essay‚ the author has talked about Copper Canyon Country in Mexico and the Tarahumara

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    He wanted to learn more about God and his wonderful creations. Jonathan discovers that God was no longer a mystery; it’s well-known that he has control over nature and has the will to choose between good or evil. Edwards really stands strong behind his belief of God of because he also preaches and prays occasionally

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    Satire of Jonathan Swift Revealed During the eighteenth century there was an incredible upheaval of commercialization in London‚ England. As a result‚ English society underwent significant‚ "changes in attitude and thought"‚ in an attempt to obtain the dignity and splendor of royalty and the upper class (McKendrick‚2). As a result‚ English society held themselves in very high regards‚ feeling that they were the elite society of mankind. In his novel‚ Gulliver ’s Travels‚ Jonathan Swift satirizes

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    Jonathan Edwards incorporates simile‚ personification‚ and metaphor as his rhetorical techniques within his sermon Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God. Edwards incorporates rhetorical devices as a means to terrorize and persuade Puritans and to repent their sins. Throughout his sermon‚ Edward utilizes details and God himself to construct a frightening corollary for sinners in the after life. Edward emphasizes how dreadful and cruel the wrath of God truly is. For instance‚ Edward compares the "destruction"

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    Haoxiang Wang Ms. Riebe ENG 098 01/24/2014 Academic Writing In the article In Defense of Prejudice which author is Jonathan Rauch‚ the author elaborates a viewpoint that is very different from the traditional society viewpoint about the prejudice. In the traditional American society‚ most of people and the government believe the prejudice is not good for the development of the society‚ so they always think all of the prejudice must be forbidden. However‚ in Jonathan’s opinion‚ the intellectual pluralism

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    Jonathan Edwards Rhetoric

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    On 1741 in Enfield‚ Connecticut‚ puritan minister Jonathan Edwards‚ gave a harsh sermon to a congregation to disclose how angry God is at those who sin and that only by His grace they can be saved. In Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God the minster uses an emotional appeal to convey what would happen to the people who were considered as God’s enemies because they have not been born again. For example‚ the author admonishes‚ “...the devil is waiting for them‚ hell is gaping for them‚ the flames

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