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Prince of tides

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The prince of tides The passage ‘Prince of tides’ is an article written by Piyush Roy and published in the Hollywood gossip magazine. The text features a Bollywood icon actor named Saif Ali Khan. The intended targeted audience are people who read these types of magazines as well and mostly individuals who are interested in Bollywood actors and the Indian film industry and are captivated by Bollywood fanatics while following up on different movies. This is supported as the text is mainly focused on the career life of the actor and his roles in different movies as well as touching on some details about his personal life including his family. The purpose of this text is to inform the audience about Saif’s Khan successful career path that made him “ undoubtedly Bollywood’s most unplanned success story in its super league of stars.” Which led him to be the ‘prince of tides’. Moreover, this article informs the audience on obstacles he faced that are both external such as struggles i...
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Interview with Michal Jackson

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MICHAEL JACKSON INTERVIEW- THEY DON'T CARE ABOUT US  Black - Interveiwer Ruby- Michael Jackson They don't care about us (from the music video) Good morning Michael, I hope you are doing well, you have just released your new single 'they don't care about us', how do you feel about the song? Good morning, and yes, I have just released my new single, I feel really good about the song I think it holds a lot of meaning about political and civil disobedience and ties very well with human rights. And how did you express these issues and meanings throughout your song?  I myself am not a racist, I have many friends from many different ethnicities. However; The first line of the song "skin-head dead head" refers to the 'skinheads' which were individuals part of an anti-hippie movement in the 60's and 70's following a movement against racism.  And some  people were very violent racists that influenced others around them.  ...
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Memoir- Time in my life

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KARATE AND THE HIJAB Language and identity work hand in hand in creating an individuals person, and they cannot be separated since language identifies you in terms of the way you think, speak and your perspective on different ideas and thoughts, they could be your own or someone else. Language allows you to communicate in a different way, although language to me is not just represented using words through reading yourself and reading other people through movements and techniques, to me karate was a language.       Karate is a sport that has a played a big part in my life and shaped me into who I am today, I've been playing karate for 8 years currently, and still continue to play, although there was a very challenging part of my life in which I started to wear the hijab, I was focused not only on the opinion of others but what I thought of myself.  The feeling of my own identity was a challenge and exposing it to the faces and thoughts of others. When f...
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2 pack - My block

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Tupac grew up in a ghetto environment, where crime rates are high and the environment is poor, his lyrics in the song "my block" clearly reflects some of the experience that he encountered during his life. Furthermore, in his song, he represents his rough and aggressive emotions about his younger self and younger experiences. In the first few lines of his first verse  he mentions "sh**ts scary, our black on black crime is legendary but at times unnecessary, I'm getting worried", this shows in multiple experiences of black to black crime he experienced due to his own actions and the actions of others that was done for no good reason making him worried about his own life by being a black person in such a dangerous and risky environment. he follows up by saying "teardrops and closed caskets" where he starts to remember all the funerals he attended of people in his community and the dull times where he views his loved ones, friends and the people of his...
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Me talk pretty one day- Tone and mood paragraph.

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TONE AND MOOD - ME TALK PRETTY ONE DAY The author of "me talk pretty one day" coveys a humorous tone by sharing and exposing his feelings also by being self-deprecating, this is depicted when he states "They were all you, attractive and well dressed, causing me to feel not unlike Pa kettle trapped backstage after a fashion show." The author presents his teacher as being very strict and cruel towards not only him but his peers as well, which sets out a very fearful tone in some areas of the text. The teacher is directly shown to be cruel when The author starts to write about her backslash at every person responds to the question asked by her. Furthermore, The author uses hyperbole to further describe the teacher, for example, Sedaris   states " her teeth are the size of tombstones." The author uses these literary techniques to show his tone and attitude that is depicted by his teacher; this includes a fearful, timid and nervous attitude. 
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"Broken English"..how is it perceived?

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Broken English how is it perceived?  The way we communicate reflects they way we understand the world and people around us, it enables us to understand different ideas, perspectives, and points of view. language is an essential in creating individuality and flourishing new ideas and blooming our own individual life stories. Language allows us to create interesting points of view that are creating through our interaction with other individuals. Modern society has embedded us to view the way people speak and then enable us to categorize and stereotype these people by the way they make words escape their mouths. We begin to have a standard of how people should speak, but who are we to decide how an individual should speak?. When we notice someone talking in "limited" or "broken" English we instantly think of them as being "uneducated" and "ignorant"; We categorize these people as being in impoverished thus we belittle them look down on...
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I have goals and fulfillments that i would like to achieve in the upcoming 2 years that will help me be successful in my future as well as in my academics. My short term Goals which are more or less academic consist of: getting 6's throughout all my subjects in the DP being more active in order to maintain a balanced life being more comfortable with math being able to write essays in a clear and concise way, with good structure. I am willing to try many new things in order to achieve my goals, one of them being able to manage my time well and finish all my assessments before the given date in order to go over any mistakes and improvement that could be made in my work with my teacher. Furthermore, I will try to be more organized when it comes to my subjects so that when studying I will know where everything is and be able to study in a better way. The material that we will cover in this class will help me in writing essays, thus I will be able to write in a struc...
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