Communication with a good friend involves many different "short cuts" that abridge a conversation. ... With good friends, it is not normally necessary to verbalize, demonstrate, or exaggerate every minute emotion or detail for him or her to understand the punch line of a joke or the moral of a story. ... Clear concise language, when speaking to a business associate, is to the point and contains few adjectives and even fewer side stories that are irrelevant and stray from the original point. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In the short story "A Rose for Emily" by William Faulkner, emphasizes on the evolution of industrialization using characters such as Emily to reflect on tradition. ... Therefore, in this story, understanding the true message and relating death to society's views is important. ... Based how Emily is described in the story when she was dead as pale, drowned, small and skeletal. Overall, one of the major themes, death, is emphasized in this story clearly to relate it to the death of tradition. ... As a reflection of this story, it seems that following older traditional norms is not...

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Tragedy of Emily In sifting through many of the details in the story, it came to me as one of the main dramatic aspects that could be focused on Emily's emotional and traumatic responses surrounding the death of the closest member of her Family, which created the source of her misery. ... She did that for three days." but for almost six months she did not appear on the streets. " " we did not even know she was sick; we had long since given up trying to get information from the Negro. " ", she would have to cling to that which had robbed her, as people" "She was sick for a long time, Wh...

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Many changes occur in behavior, attitudes, and feelings in a relatively short period of time during adolescence. ... The short story Boys and Girls, by Alice Munro, demonstrates this point excellently. ... In essence, relationships become vulnerable to drastic change in this short period of time. ...

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This aspect of the story is hidden from the viewers. ... This is also shown from the article's results in which passengers on an airport were given three short newsletters showing three different perspectives about the death penalty. The group of research participants that were given with the short paper referring to condition two of life without parole plus restitution, showed the least preference percentage (62%) for the death penalty compared to other percentages (82 % and 81 %) acquired by the readers of newspaper articles concerned with widespread use of the death penalty and renovat...

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Keyes' descriptions of Charlie's continual changes throughout the story, as far as individuality, intelligence and perceptions were concerned, arose deep feelings of empathy. ... A short time ago, I learned that people laughed at me. ... Short, simple sentences started the story off, comprised of words spelt using the phonetic strategy. ...

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I am just a poor boy, Though my story's seldom told, I have squandered my resistance For a pocketful of mumbles, Such are promises. ... "A True Story- exhibits the cruelty and dehumanization faced by slaves, displaying Twain's sincere empathy concerning the "black condition."" ... In short, she becomes "the dupe of her own deceptions."" ...

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Therefore, I made the transition from joining long-term groups with the purpose of enhancing my childhood development to those that were short-term, and were designed to remediate specific problems or to prevent problems. ... It was really a traumatic experience for me since we lived in an apartment in a tall building, and most of the ten-story buildings had collapsed. ...

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Staring at my battle buddy across from me with his heavy, cold steel rifle in hand, covered in dry, day old, dirt from marching all day, and listing to the sounds of the night fire on our way back to camp; exhausted, and dazed. I know I can trust private Ojeda because his core values inspire him to ...

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This says whatever is portrayed in the media can be shown to have a direct effect on the behaviour of those who indulged in the media medium, in short it was proposed that people would mirror what they saw. ... Here opinion leaders were people who kept up to sped on the latest story, and appeared to be aware of all sides and opposing parties in any given topic. ...

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The Future of Chinese Cities Two weeks ago, I went back to my hometown Tianjin. After I got off the train, I caught on a bus. On the way to home, I found that the majority of the former one-story houses have disappeared. The billboards there said there will be several high buildings instead. Nowada...

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Robertson's round-trip commute requires a bus ride each direction as well as nearly 21-miles of walking, consuming up to 22 hours of his day before beginning again throughout the workweek" in short, a man living in Michigan has to travel, by foot 21 miles to get to and from work after his car broke down 10 years ago, he has never missed a day of work in his life, even after his car broke down 10 years ago leaving him forced to walk for more than 8 hours one way, temperatures in the early mornings and late nights can drop dangerously low in Michigan, sometimes well below Zero degrees ...

• Word Count: 1058
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To illustrate this idea Bauman uses a famous short story by Rudyard Kipling: "A centipede walked effortlessly on all her hundred legs until a sycophantic courtier began to praise her exquisite memory, which allowed her never to put down the thirty-seventh leg before the eighty-fifth, or the fifty-second before the nineteenth Brutally made self-conscious, the hapless centipede was unable to walk any more." ...

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Amy Heckerling's film Clueless is an appropriation of Jane Austen's Emma, closely paralleling the story in terms of plot and characterisation. ... Even Cher's transformation is portrayed through her change in dress sense, from wearing short, binding skirts to more innocent, conservative clothing such as pants and a pastel coloured shirt. ...

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Throughout the story, which gracefully moves back and forth between the past and the present, memory is the catalyst for present-day realizations and changes. This is a story of the Great Possibility, what America COULD be, and what it has lost by not working past its prejudices and fears. ... San Miguel begins tracing the story of Houston's Mexican community and schooling of Mexican children. ...

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Historical Antecedents Family histories are usually not recorded for future generations but they are passed down through the telling of stories from family members. ... When I was age four to six I repeatedly hid in the closet to cut my hair short, and emulated my brothers by opting not to wear a shirt on hot summer days. ...

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However, according to Johnson, 1965 this definition was problematic for Durkheim as it does not differentiate between a mentally ill person who cannot comprehend the consequences of their actions and jumps from an upper story window; and the lucid individual who does the same thing knowing that it will lead to his death. ...

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At first Leo and Dash seemly meet their goal and were having fun, but their fun was short lived as Leo continued to drink allowing the alcohol to control him gets in a fight with Dash. ... To scholars of the funcationalist approach, the Red Band Society's plot is a "story we tell ourselves about ourselves" (Grazian, 2012, p. 33). ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate