Text editor Essays

Trump shames us all’, and the letter to the editor in The Sydney Morning Herald written by David Whitcombe of Maroubra, New South Wales, the use of rhetorical questions was abundant, however, their use in each text had a different effect on the audience. The editorial uses short, blunt rhetorical questions such as ‘how?’, ‘why?’ and ‘is this right?’ in relation to Trump’s leadership, and decisions made by him. On the other hand, the letter to the editor uses longer rhetorical questions. An example

The final theory that I would use to describe Jeff is the self-objectification theory. This theory includes insight and humor. According to the text, mature individuals are capable of self-objectification, seeing themselves accurately and insightfully, often with a sense of humor. I say that Jeff fits this opinion because he can not only laugh at others, but also himself with his dummies. Jeff

7 Telecommunications The telephone is one of the most important means of communicating with the outside world. It is also frequently used for contacting members of staff within an organisation. 7.1 The advantages of telephone communications The telephone has a number of advantages: • The most important is the speed with which people can be contacted and the ease of use. • It allows instant feedback and is considerably more personal than written correspondence such as letters or emails. • Short

Phones have become more popular today. Every where you go they are glued to students and adult's hands. New phones are coming out every year, and students just can not seem to let their phones go. These students always have these phones by their side, in class, and not in class, they always have them. Students are addicted to these phones, so what do the teachers, and administrators do about these phones during school hours? Many people think that students should use their phone in class, but there

In American Football, quarterbacks throw the ball on the major axis, spirally to pass the ball to a person in a long distance. The quarterbacks increase precision and accuracy as they throw spiral because of two reasons. As the ball rotates until it reaches to the receiver, the ball is able to go through the air, instead of going against and blocks wind, which means that it stops wind from affecting it better than it being thrown in normal ways. The ball can experience this due to the moment of inertia

When discussing assessments most people envision a pen and paper evaluation that measures the acquired knowledge on any given subject. While this is partly true it’s important as educators that we understand that there are many different ways that a student’s knowledge can be assessed. One ideal way is to provide the students with an authentic assessment. Authentic assessments demonstrate what a student actually learns in class rather than their ability to do well on traditional tests. Which makes

Activity#1: The Pros and Cons of Testing from Two Perspectives Standardized testing is advantageous in many ways. One of the most important benefits is that standardized testing holds teachers and schools responsible for teaching students what they should know, since the student’s achievements in these tests become public record and schools and teachers can come under scrutiny if the scores indicated that they aren’t up to the par. It also guides teachers and helps them determine what to teach and

The two texts are both websites in the written mode for the schools Alia College and St Kevin's College. The text from Alia college is regarding the Schools VCE program whilst the text from St Kevin's College is the headmaster's address and gives his overall vision for the school. Nevertheless the two texts share a persuasive function that aims to advertise the school with the audience. This is achieved through efforts to associate a unique set of values with each text and its respective school,

and a text never conceived? If the story is expunged and replaced with these acts of life’s choices, how does the story change? Would Sarah Littman’s book Backlash be the same? While taking apart the novel Backlash there are three objects that makes the reader question what if the story differentiated itself into these other possible factors. The objects that are meaningful to the story are the pills Lara is capable of taking, the laugh that is perceived, and Bree’s mother’s obsessive texts. Lara

Humphrys employs the appeals logos, pathos, and ethos, directed toward texters; to address the destruction of the English language by mainstream grammatical errors used in text messaging. Humphrys utilizes logos, persuading with the use of reasoning; through analogies and hard evidence to recognize the loss of English language by text messaging. Grammatically incorrect language is compared to Genghis Khan as it has “destroyed” the English language; “pillaging our punctuation; savaging our sentences;”

This text was sourced from the University of Melbourne library. This book was one that was repeatedly mentioned in any online reading I did on the topic and was one I needed to review. This text presented a very interesting, yet controversial idea that Greek philosophy and culture was derived heavily from the influence of Ancient Egypt, and this was

constant updating of their status on their social media. There are ways to avoid the used of cellphones when you’re driving. One of my classmates in Pathway suggested, that if we were traveling with someone in the car that we can perhaps ask the person to text for

real life. Nowadays, when people text, people can not express emotions, tone, or voice, like people could with talking face to face (Toadvine). This is important because emotions are a huge part of talking with another person, and technology does not allow the use of emotions, tone, or voice. Additionally, the introduction of phones to society has changed the way people talk to each other, and this may be a bad thing. Melissa Nilles, an Arts & Entertainment editor has stated, “Instead of spending

Teen Driving On average, two people die every day across the USA in vehicles driven by 16-year-old drivers. Should the minimum driving age continue as 16 which can cause up to 2,000 fatalities every year? “One teen’s text or call could wreck it all.” (Owensboro Police Department). The driving age should be raised to improve roads in society. The amount studies done on teenager’s brains reveal that raising the driving age would decrease the amount of car crashes tremendously. Brain researchers

“Social media and text messages that have become so integral to teenagers life , are promoting anxiety and lower self esteem” (Rachel Ehmke is managing editor at the Child Mind Institute. “How Using Social Media Affects Teenagers.” Child Mind Institute, childmind.org/article/how-using-social-media-affects-teenagers.). Modern teens tends

communicate with others. Such as: using smart phones with that high rate of spread in a very short time especially with teenagers. The Pew Research Center 's Internet & American Life Project stated that in 2009 the normal teen ager could get more that 200 text message daily and that number is increasing by the passage of time. Teens changed by the way they see and quality their cell phones that it get been all the more close highlight to them. Then

Teachers, and parents debate, whether allowing students to use cellphones school is a good or bad idea. I believe that allowing students to use cellphones in class is a wonderful idea. The issue is teachers think that having a student using cellphones at class is a bad idea. This is false because students using cell phones at class could enhance their learning. I have chosen three reasons to support my argument. The first is children can warn their parents to what they are doing after school or where

There are many companies working on self driving cars, including Honda, BMW, Mercedes-Benz, Audi, and Tesla. However, driverless cars have caused many accidents, some even end up fatal. Self driving cars are unsafe because they are at a high risk of being hacked, having an incident happen that the car cannot administer, and the cars are not predictable enough to put peoples lives in danger because of mistakes. Self driving cars are vulnerable to getting hacked. Everybody has heard of computers

The cell phone is a drug to the teenage generation. A cell phone goes off in the middle of a lesson and causes the student to take his or her attention off the lesson and on to the text message he or she just received. A conversation starts between two students in different seating 's, different classrooms or even different schools. In a different scenario a student makes a group chat with multiple other students to discuss answers on an assignment. These are the two of the many reasons why phones

other websites that they could cheat on and find answers to hard questions. Especially when we have online test. To add on kids could be texting each other about answers and explanations for the test or quiz. My evidence for this is that in the text of “ Cell phones in school? No kids need to pay attention it says, “ Out of a class of 25, only one or two still value shutting everything off and focusing completely on their