Propoganda and the Iraq War

Prompt: It is acceptable for a government to try and shape public opinion through information campaigns. The Iraq War was a highly controversial topic within media, where some media outlets were accused of being biased or even a form of propaganda. Different media outlets were reflective of their respective ideologies, based on their own ideas and the interests of their viewers. However during the Iraq war, American media outlets broadcasted information...

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Media Bias Article Rewrite

Rationale: This article is a rewritten version of the FOX News Article titled Palestinians stab Israelis in 2 Jerusalem attacks. The FOX article is one that clearly favors the Israeli side, often portraying Palestinians in an inhumane manner and favoring Israeli sources. There is omission of events that may portray Israelis negatively, and those which are mentioned often lack detail. The rewritten article will place more focus on the Palestinian...

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The Tempest IOC 2

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This is Water

In his essay, "This is Water", David Foster Wallace discusses the human outlook towards everyday life and how this impacts overall happiness. He begins by discussing the routine of everyday life and the tedious tasks that come with work and responsibility in adult life. He argues that our perception of this routine is something that has a direct connection to our freedom. He suggests that by becoming more conscious of these surrondings we are able...

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Family Furnishings IOC

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Boys and Girls IOC

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Woman's Literature Reflection

The study of literature allows us to broaden our perspective of the world and to be more open-minded. Through our exposure to literature, we will be able to gain a wider understanding of people and different cultures. We can understand the ideas of people around the world and those from different times. Further, it can improve our social skills and help us to interact with different people from different backgrounds. Literature can provide a good...

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The Names They Gave Me

A few days ago I came across an article by Arab-American writer, Tasbeeh Herwees called The Names They Gave Me. I found it particularly interesting since it was related to the Language and Identity part of our course. Further, it was something that I was very familiar with and I found the article to be very well written. In her article, the author talks about how she grew up in the United States with an Arabic name. Her mother felt very strongly...

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Summer Blog Post

A few days ago I returned from my trip to Italy with my family, we went to a city that I had wanted to visit for a long time, Milan. In the few days building up to my trip, I spent my time frantically planning and researching. I wanted to fit as many things into our trip as possible, a typical habit of mine. But for some reason, I forgot a major detail: language. I am fluent in English and Arabic, and I can speak a little bit of French; but I knew...

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How to Write About Jordanians

As any good piece of writing should, begin with a description of the landscape. You know, the sunset that stretches over the desert and sand dunes, that kind of thing. Never mind that Jordan actually has a diverse terrain that is usually only found in countries that are more than twice its size; but obviously no one knows that. Now, remember all those cool pictures you saw of camel rides in the desert? Right, time to recall all of those “Arabian...

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Paper Two: Things Fall Apart

Prompt: Show how and to what effect Achebe makes use of myth, legend or other stories and tales.  Through the description and development of events in his novel Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe makes use of myths and legends to assist in the establishment of the Igbo culture. Throughout the novel, proverbs and stories play a large role in the culture. They set up a strong establishment of oral culture they relied on in order to communicate...

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Things Fall Apart Memoir

I lived in Umuofia for a very long time and to me, the Igbo culture is one of the strongest cultures. I have great pride in it and its values, customs and traditions. And it cause me great pain to have lived to see it fall apart; I never expected to see such a great culture reduced to such a dismal state. I knew the arrival of the Christians would not be for a good cause. And I was right, all they did was tear us apart. We were wrong to let them...

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Paper 2 Analysis: Things Fall Apart

Prompt: Discuss the significance of social status in Things Fall Apart, and comment on its contribution to characterization. Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE ...

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Okwonko Character Analysis

The main character in Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart Okwonko, is a complex character that was created in order to further enforce the themes in the novel. He is portrayed as a tragic character with his major flaw being his inability to accept change and weakness. This was a result of his father's failure and lack of strength and success in their community. He did not want to follow this path and instead was fully directed to becoming strong...

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An African Voice Discussion Takeaway

Chinua Achebe's interview, "An African Voice," provides great insight on the impact of his literature as well as the ideas behind his work. When assessing Achebe's replies, we can infer many things about the implications of the literature in this field. One of the most interesting concepts that were discussed in this interview was that of a "universal civilization". During the discussion, we looked at the idea of our worldwide community becoming...

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Paper One Practice – Political Speech Analysis

Text Link The text I will be analyzing is a political speech by Adolf Hitler, which was delivered in January 1940 at the Berlin Sportspalast. We know this text is a speech because it uses second person in order to address the audience. Further, as it is a text spoken by a political leader, Adolf Hitler, we can further ensure that it is a speech. This speech is directed towards Hitler’s “comrades” as mentioned in the speech repeatedly, however...

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The Tempest Practice IOC

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1RzIF3v6xYHZGxJcnotMTN2QlU/view?usp=sharing Act 5, Scene 1. Lines 62-9...

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The Language of Power

In her article, The Language of Power, bell hooks reflects on the idea of standard English dominating language in the United States. She looks at the way African-Americans lost their unique languages and were forced to speak English. She goes on to talk about a very interesting idea where African-Americans went around creating a unique form of the language that was forced on them. This gave them a sense of identity and allowed to show resistance....

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Linguistic Imperialism through Popular Culture

Linguistic imperialism is defined as the "transfer of a dominant language to other people.” This can be done in a number of ways and there are many modern threats to the preservation of language. This allows English to become the dominant language rather than the many other languages previously spoken. One of the ways that this is done is through popular culture. Popular culture defines the mainstream ideas that are created through movies,...

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