AAA recommends that motorists turn off their phone before driving or pull over to a safe place to talk, send texts or use email. AAA also has launched a legislative campaign to advocate for a text messaging ban in all 50 states. ... Although all kinds of distractions can affect safety adversely, talking and texting on a cell phone while driving have emerged as two of the most dangerous forms of distracted driving. Text messaging is particularly hazardous because it involves all three types of distraction -- visual, manual, and cognitive -- and it is an increasingly common behavior. ... "All di...

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Texting has become a must with this person. ... Most of my time, I find my self-waiting for a text from him or constantly texting him waiting for feed back. ... We start texting each other at 6:30 in morning. ... My goal is to decrease my texting by 30 texts per week until I am down to only texting 200 times per week. ... I will not stop the experiment until I reach my goal of only texting two hundred texts per week. ...

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Discuss this statement with reference to TWO texts studied this year- one pre-1900 and one twentieth century. ... Two main texts that share the enduring quality that still makes them popular today are "Ode on a Grecian Urn" by John Keats, a pre-1900 text, and "Harry Potter" byJ.K.Rowling, a twentieth century text "Ode on a Grecian Urn" is a quintessential example of a text relating to the "quest" genre. ... The enduring quality of this text is the mystery surrounding it and also the irony of its subject matter. ... Another text which deals with the enduring qualities of the "quest" gen...

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However, others, particularly graphic designers, tend to focus on the decorative powers of text. Regardless of the artist's intentions, the appearance of text within art can shift our appreciation of their sound and meaning. ... The introduction of text within Holzer's work occurred gradually however, over time, they have entirely replaced images. ... These are LED installation pieces consisting of large scale text that were projected onto a billboard in Times Square, New York. ... He was employed to teach ink painting and although he no longer practices in China, text remains centra...

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Introduction This research report analyzes a text based on a pragmatic perspective. The text is a transcript extracted from the fantasy adventure film, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. ... Presuppositions Presupposition which refer to a prerequisite for an assertion are identified in the text. ... In the text, there are four cases of "but" used as a cancellation marker. ... "But" is used to introduce a cancellation or objection in the text. ...

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In cryptography [4] data that can be read and understood without any special measures is called plaintext or clear text. ... Encrypting plaintext results in unreadable gibberish called cipher text. ... The process of reverting cipher text to its original plain text is called decryption. ... With the help of these cipher's algorithms one can generates its own cipher text algorithms by making modification into existing cipher text algorithms. ...

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There have been different ideas as to how to stop people from texting and driving. ... The fines would range from $200 to $500 dollars per text. ... Amendment 28 would be the "No Texting Amendment." ... No more excuses as to why it is important to text and drive; no more excuses as to why it is imperative to answer that text right away. ... The end is now for this troubling issue of texting and driving. ...

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King Lear is a text that has been continually recontexualised but its universal nature is reflected through its reception in a range of contexts. ... "Interpretations of texts can shift & change with time and place." This quote states that regardless of the time and place this text is read or watched, audiences will continuously interpret the play and will explore it furthermore through contextual factors which will have shaped their critical understanding of the tragedy King Lear written by Shakespeare....

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THE BRITON AND THE BRITISH TEXT IN THE BULGARIAN POPULAR MIND 1848-1878: ATTITUDES OF RECEPTION In the XIX c. the lessons of British democracy were still being written and had the ring of novelty for native and foreign ear alike. Some of the representative names or texts reached the Bulgarian national culture in due time, yet not within a system of direct British influences or organised Bulgarian choices. ...

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Every text constructs its own truth. ... Upon analysing a text and deconstructing it by use of literary techniques, a deep insight into the subtext and meaning can be found. A few particularly good examples of texts, rich in literary techniques and full of subtexts that create their own truth include: Anti Nazi war posters (Source A), Rob Marshall's "Chicago" and Geoffrey Robertson's "The Justice Game". ... The picture and text combine to produce a powerful message to the unsensitised catholic reader, "He's out to destroy you, not even your faith will save you". ...

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How do the economic texts on slavery differ from the narratives on slavery, and why is it important to analyse this? ... Aitken discusses what we can learn from these texts. ... The economic texts tend to talk of slaves in numbers as a commodity. ... They are primary sources, eyewitness accounts of what took place and in this way have a value that the economic texts do not. ... The economic texts tell us of the influence that the slave trade and the production using slavery had on the economies in America and in Europe. ...

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The relationship between text and photos is vital for a photographic essay to take shape. ... The book begins with numerous photographs that are still and without text, forcing the viewer to begin to separate text from pictures. ... Alloula takes explicit pictures and provides text to them for post cards. ... Said provides text for Mohr's photographs taken in Palestine. ... His photos are taken with no bias and with no influence for Said's text. ...

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First, we have to admit that there are really some indecent parts in the text. ... The "readerly" text is the text that is friendly to readers. ... "Writerly" text, on the other hand, is friendly to the writers instead of to the readers. ... "Writerly" texts are those that challenge the reading process of readers to varying degrees. ... Every time the text is read, a different interpretation tends to emerge. ...

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According to Peim, "The ideology of the text is to do with how the text seems to represent the world- (1993: 9). It also refers to the meaning that a society gives to a text. ... In both texts, certain objects have a sexual connotation. ... Furthermore, the girl in both texts represents children in general. ... The location of the text also plays a significant role. ...

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To consider whether the intertextual relationship between an adaptation and the original text is an interpretation or a dissemination of the original text, we have to look at the fidelity of the adaptation to the original text. According to Andrews definition of intertextuality as interpretation, it is the appropriation of a meaning from a prior text (29). Interpretation means that the adaptation is faithful to the original text and will only present the text without making big changes. ... Instead, there is a process of dissemination as the original text is being transformed with many possibi...

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Particularly seen in Antonio's dialogue throughout the play, this scene has a definitive example of the homoerotic themes within the text when Antonio says, "If you with not murther me for my love, let me be your servant."" ...

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The perception of the Aussie Battler was strongly evident throughout the text. ... We see our mothers as the foundation of a family, as do the characters of the text. ... Through the text all of the character seemed to question their own spirituality. ... Characters of the novel made it hard to determine whether the text was actually fiction, due to the fact we as readers find we have similar lives and experiences to those in the text. Winton's enjoyment of language is powerfully evident through the text. ...

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AT reading tools, or text-to-speech tools, include hardware and software designed to make text-based materials more accessible for individuals who experience difficulty with reading. ... How Text-to-Speech Works Text to speech technology scans words from electronic sources, or scanned documents, and "reads" them aloud via synthesized voices. ... This convection reduces the LD student's frequency to skip words or misread written text. ... Portable text readers can be used in the school's library to assist a student in reading. ... A text-to-speech tool might actually slo...

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Genesis is an important text because it holds such value throughout the ages. ... You need to look at the message in the text and be able to relate that to yourself and your experiences. ... The text forces you to question and "requires constant reinterpretation and struggle." ... It leaves readers to think for themselves, even disagree with the text. ... Readers need to look at sacred texts such as Genesis in a different way. ...

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When examining texts, there are a number of factors that may be taken into account. Whereas it is common practice to merely take texts at face value, they can be analysed in a variety of different ways, each of which can give the reader a clearer idea of the intentions and purposes of the text. Genre is a key factor in identifying texts, as are the meanings that certain texts produce, and it is also important to consider the cultural literacies presumed on behalf of the reader. ... And since texts can be seen as groups of characteristics or signs, and genres are essentially different types of ...

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The Handmaids Tale by Margaret Atwood, is a dystopian text which reflects on the perils of a monotheocratic fundamentalist society. This can be seen through the narrative and language structures of the text. Atwood has used these structures to better define the themes of the text. ... Everything in the text is revealed through Offred and therefore tempered with her opinions and attitudes. ... This word is introduced on 290 of the text in chapter forty-three in the section termed Salvaging. ...

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Initial efforts were made by Formalists and the New Critics who assigning primary importance to the text set up the tradition of close reading. ... Similarly Knapp (2004) thinks that in the present age the focus needs to be shifted from what texts mean to what students think about them and how they learn. ... Students are not trained to see how literary texts are contributing in constructing reality through ideological representations. ... As a result students become a storehouse of the information related to certain texts but not critical and creative thinkers and problem solvers. ... Simi...

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It would be true to say it is not the quality of the texts arguments that makes the text effective, but also the power of its underlying values and assumptions. ... The text begins with an introductory section "The Big Picture". ... His text is intended to be specifically that, so he uses a chatty tone to connect with the reader and make his points. ... By alternating these perspectives he lulls the reader into a false sense of security that he text is completely free of bias. ... In conclusion, the effectiveness of a text is dependent not only on its arguments, but also the values and assump...

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Once the data is scrambled and in its encrypted form it is called cipher text. ... This method is vulnerable if the key is stolen or if the cipher text is broken. ... There are seven basic types of attack: cipher text-only, known-plaintext, chosen-plaintext, adaptive chosen-plaintext, chosen-cipher text, man-in-the-middle, and brute force. ... Cipher text-only attack is the result of an attacker who works from cipher text only. ... This cipher text is generated by using a copy of a key both users have. ...

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Every text constructs its own truth. Truth is an abstract noun. It can mean different things to different people depending on the circumstances, when tested against social mores and attitudes. Post-modern theorists, such as Jean Baudrillard have challenged traditional meanings of truth claiming tha...

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