Knowing Your Audience Paper BCOM 275 Jackie Crawford April 21st 2014 No one could have guessed that a small town in northern Chili would have become such a hot topic in the news in August 2010. After a cave-in occurred in the San Jose mine, the story went national and everyone was reading about the tragedy across the globe. Thirty three people had been trapped underground and a fairy tale happy ending did not seem probable. Rescue workers started drilling holes in the area to reach the
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Riley v. California In the case of Riley v California the defendant and petitioner David Leon Riley was arrested August 22, 2009, after a traffic stop which resulted in the finding of loaded guns in car. The officer stopped riley searched him and took hold of his phone and then searched through messages, contacts, and photos. The officer charged Riley with an unrelated shooting that had taken place before his arrest based on the data stored in Riley's phone. The data found in Riley phone were images
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History 112 05/09/2013 World War I triggered a number of important changes in American society: gradual and immediate. At war’s end, with the return of male workers, women were expected to quit their jobs. Between 1910 and 1920, only 500,000 more women were added to the workforce. The war had harsh consequences for immigrant families. Further immigration to the United States was halted. Many immigrant families already in the country faced fierce social and job discrimination in an
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Doctor Harrison Wells, was a scientist and he was married to a woman named Tess Morgan; he was talking to her about an idea of making a laboratory one night. Eobard Thawne, a man with the ability of having super speed who is called “The Reverse-Flash”, was stuck in their timeline and decided to kill Wells and steal his identity. As Harrison Wells, he decided to make the original Harrison Wells Theory of a particle accelerator, but instead of it being ready in the year 2020 he decided to use a futuristic
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Draper uses the rhetorical device of pathos, involving an emotional appeal to the product he is trying to sell: The Carousel. His entire speech reminisces over how technology can be used as a type of metaphorical “time machine”. He elaborates by showing pictures of his wife when she was pregnant and another of his children around what seems like the ages of four and seven. He continues by saying, “it allows you to go backward [and] forward”. Restating his last statement of the “time machine.” Pathos
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his non-mathematical coursework. He joined another college to pursue independent mathematical research, working as a clerk to support himself. Between 1912 and 1913, he sent samples of his theorems to three academicians at the University of Cambridge. G. H. Hardy, an academician at the University of Cambridge, recognized the brilliance of his work and invited Ramanujan to visit and work with him at Cambridge. He became a Fellow of the Royal Society and a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. During
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in the game and is considered to be out of the game for that turn. I had some pre conceived notions about my eight friends that were playing with me. But during and after the game, I realised that majority of them, six to be precise did not behave the way I thought, they would attributed by their personality. Though, the cooperative part asked for cooperation so my friends did the same. But, six of my friends acted selfishly during the game when they had to save one person as a doctor and they saved
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The Supreme Court Leshea Hicks Professor Dorothy Sliben LEG420 January 22, 2012 The United States Supreme Court is the last level at the federal level. It is also the only court mentioned in the Constitution. “The constitution states, “the judicial power of the United States shall be in one supreme court”, and Congress may ordain and establish from time to time” (Champion, Hartley & Rabe, 2008). The Supreme Court consists of eight associate justices and one chief justice. Each year
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American Life in the “roaring twenties” The republican “Old Guard” returns * Warren G Harding was inaugurated in 1921 and was unable to detect immoral people working for him-hated saying “no” to people * Charles Evans Hughes was secretary of state, Andrew W Mellon was secretary of treasury, Herbert Hoover was secretary of commerce * Were bright and capable officials * Senator Albert B Fall (anticonservationist) was secretary of interior, Harry M Daughtery(a big time crook) was
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Srinivasa Ramanujan Srinivasa Ramanujan was one of India 's mathematical geniuses. He made wonderful contributions to the field of advanced mathematics. Ramanujan was born in his grandmother 's house in Erode, a small village near Chennai in Tamil Nadu. He joined the Town High School there in January 1898 and was a very good student. But his real aptitude lay in mathematics. He got a scholarship for his first year at the Government College in Kumbakonam. But he devoted more time to mathematics
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