While a telephone is a two way communication device, mass media refers to medium which can communicate a message to a large group, often simultaneously. ... Video games convey the same messages and ideologies to all their users. ... It is arguable that the users are receiving the same message, i.e., the game is mass communicating the same messages to the various players. ... Any film can become a worldwide attraction, especially with the addition of  dubbing  or  subtitles  that translate the film message. ... The term "computer game" also includes games which display only text (and which...

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Dickinson's works, in contrast, condense intense feelings and thoughts in a few terse lines, in which, despite innocent and simple language, her symbolic and careful word-choice makes the main message very ambiguous and difficult to interpret. ... Dickinson transcended not only poetry conventions of her time (by her free-verse, her particular use of punctuation and capitalization) but also epistolary ones, especially those for women, and the poems becomes the letter text (Tingle,2009). ... Thus, the given rose becomes the message and the poem at the same time. ... Erotic connotation of th...

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In developing the transformation I took the differences and similarities between the two societies into consideration: the changes in values in issues, the relevance of the setting in the text, characterisation and the difference in use and existence of language and techniques. ... This change reflects that my audience requires a greater amount of action and suspense to feel satisfaction with a text. ... There are similarities too, however, in the two texts in the distinct hierarchy present in the structure of the opposing sides/families. ... There are also similarities in the portra...

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The authority and force of any spoken text within the training room can be examined, particularly in relation to issues of control. ... The order of discourse' (Fairclough, 2001) of education is an obvious area for the critical study of text and talk and one that has received much attention from researchers (see Atkinson, Davies, and Delamont, 1995; Coulthard, 1994; Duszak, 1997; Fisher and Todd, 1986; Mercer, 1995; Wodak, 1996). ... Discourse access and control may be defined in respect of both content and structure of text or talk. ... Fairclough (2001) argues that texts can interpella...

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"Both males and females encounter gender expectations and pressures in schools from kindergarten through graduate and professional school." (Wood, 2013) We know how gender stereotyping can begin the moment parents find out the sex of their child. It is basically a cultural habit to give a boy a to...

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In beginning phonics classes reading texts consist of passages similar to this: Brad was a lad. ... Research concerning the identification of the predicators of children's future learning finds that the most powerful predictors of reading ability are 1) a preschooler's ability to recognize and name the letters of the alphabet, 2) their general knowledge about text, and 3) their awareness of phonemes. ...

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The meaning of the method Plato uses through Socrates to convey his message to his audience has been debated by philosophers for years and while most of them agree on the use of irony in the Apology they don't agree on the extent or the type of irony. ... If the interpreter doesn't agree with what the text says they can just say it must be "Socratic irony" and he really didn't mean what he said (Vasiliou, 1999). ... This type of irony is usually understood by the reader of the text or "outer frame" as opposed to the audience Socrates was speaking to or "...

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Over the years this world has become more and more technologically advanced. From the start of electricity to having our whole day planned out in a click of a button. Social media has become a way of life nowadays. Everything we touch, think about, talk about can now be read or "tweeted" anywhere on...

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Communication Arts incorporates logical competencies and wholesome attitudes and values that penetrate in the language trend. When the learner started to learn language, they are being exposed to the experiences that will enrich their logical system and competencies in English. In communication arts...

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 MA Curating Contemporary Design 2014/15 Title: "If the curator's task is to medicate between art and its audience, does her task differ when she deals with decorative arts from what she does when dealing with fine art?" Submitted by: Liu Shengnan + K1153705 Submission date: 07/Jan/15. Tutor: Anthony Burton/Donna Loveday Word count: 6126 words Essay Outline Title If the curator's task is to medicate between art and its audience, does her task differ when she deals with decorative arts from what she does when dealing with fine art? Introduction The definit...

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In the mid-1980s, just as the new historicists, with their invocation of "the historicity of texts and the textuality of history," were transforming the way readers understood the English Renaissance, Umberto Eco's novel The Name of the Rose became both a critical success and a bestseller. (1983) Widely celebrated as a postmodern historical novel, this dazzling mixture of thick historical research and popular detective fiction invited its readers to view historical fiction as an academically respectable genre and a vehicle for recovering and reimagining the past in unconventional ways...

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Abstract The study was predominantly conduced to test the stroop hypothesis that the meaning of colour words interfere with the colour of words when they are written in different ink colour for the text meaning. ... The group was then put into another experimental condition where they had to read the colour of the text that was spelled in other words. ... The researcher constructed the independent variable by formulating a list of words for the stroop condition which were in coloured text and spelled using the names of colour words. ... The researcher individually took the group members in...

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Bilingual Education is defined as any school program that uses two languages. In a more theoretical sense it is any educational program whose ultimate goal is for the participants to be fully versed in all facets of both languages, able to listen, speak , read, and write in both languages. The definition of a coordinated, developmental bilingual approach has emphasized the goal of being equally fluid in both languages. Realistically, this has not been the goal for most K-12 bilingual schools in the United States. More commonly in the United States we are using the words "bilingual program" to ...

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Marlow listens to Kurtz talk while he pilots the ship, and Kurtz entrusts Marlow with a packet of personal documents, including an eloquent pamphlet on civilizing the savages which ends with a scrawled message that says, "Exterminate all the brutes!" ...

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Introduction The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate that an interpretation through minjung theology of a certain biblical text (Exodus 3:7-10) and a social biography of its particular human subject (the oppressed Hebrew people) on the one hand, and that of a certain historical text (writings on the March First Movement) and a social biography of its particular human subject (the oppressed Korean-Protestant people) on the other may suggest that liberation of the oppressed is the value this biblical text promotes. ... It was the oppressed Korean-Protestant people who moaned with their fel...

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Global terrorism is a subject all of humanity should be concerned about. In the last two decades terrorism caused by Muslim extremist has been on the up rise as well as consistent. The center of Islam is the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia as the nation is in territorial control of the faiths two holiest cities, Mecca and Medina. Therefore to understand the force influencing global Islamic terrorism, it is imperative to study and analyze Saudi Arabia and its impact on the religion of Islam and its followers. Since its founding in 1932, Saudi Arabia has emerged as an economic power house in today'...

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Through the analysis of various text, it can be discerned that the actions of the United States heavily influenced not only the decisions of the South African government but also the actions of disenfranchised peoples, blacks and coloured alike, living in South Africa who could now emulate the social movement of civil rights in America. ... This assertion within the Moodley and Heribert text gives insight into the delusions of the National Party during this era. ...

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The MCD, BSS and MSC are the components that primarily handle phone calls and text messaging. When a request for a connection to a mobile station in its area is received at MSC, a broadcast message containing the number of the mobile station that is being called is send to all base stations under the control of the specific MSC. The base stations then broadcast the message on all forward control channels. ... A control message is then transmitted over the forward voice channel that instructs the mobile phone to ring [1]. ...

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It's also interesting that the way we talk about our use of technology suggests our adoption of it into our definition of humanity; I would say "I am texting my friend" as opposed to "I'm using my phone to text my friend". ...

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Abstract Presently, the internet is considered the ultimate bastion of freedom throughout the world. The ability to participate in social media and write/say anything one feels is almost exclusive to the internet. Anybody can be anything they choose within the laws of their nation with minimal repercussions. A person can transport themselves to another country in mere seconds. The ability to research unlimited amounts of information exists at the touch of the keyboard. ...

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The drama of revolution is a political text through and through, but it cannot separate the political from the theatre; the drama of revolution is in search of a form, a meta-theatre, in which the overcoming of an order is thus first and foremost the attempt to suspend the law of genre. ...

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Much more, however, her message appears to be one of women not needing to sacrifice career for family or vice-versa, but that they should aim for self-determination and fulfillment. ... She laments the exclusion of the names of these pre-twentieth-century female artists in art history text books, "Although Sofonisba was praised in the seventeenth century as being a portraitist equal to Titian, and at least thirty of her paintings are known to us, there is no trace of her, or any other woman artist prior to the twentieth century, in your current art history textbook"[Wen91]. ...

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I personally enjoyed listening to Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony although from the style of the music, it was clear that there were some political messages behind the music. ... Orff never actually belonged to any Nazi party but his work was considered to be some of the greatest examples of Nazi art, and unlike Shostakovich, Orff never wrote music in praise of his leader or reflected anything to do with Nazi Germany, but his cantatas, which were controversial, were set to German medieval poetry (in Latin and Bavarian dialect), and classical texts by Catullus, Sappho and Euripides in the or...

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Electronic Aggression is any type of harassment or bullying (teasing, telling lies, making fun of someone, making rude or mean comments, spreading rumors, or making threatening or aggressive comments) that occurs through email, a chat room, instant messaging, a website (including blogs), or text messaging (Hertz, 2008). ...

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They additionally brought with them numerous Greek messages that had been for all intents and purpose obscure and unread in western Europe since the fall of Rome. ... By periodizing Latin style, Valla invented a philological method for the scientific study of texts that was further developed by Christian humanists like Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam (1466? ...

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