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seats in the cab of an aged truck as it heaves up and down the stone filled dirt road. Duke is behind the thin steering wheel. He shifts the gear into third and switches the small radio off without taking his eyes from the road. "We need to talk about last night." The Passenger wears his seat-belt across his chest, he feels restricted. His chest heaves like the truck—up and down. He doesn 't move. He doesn 't speak. Sweat builds on his thick brow as he forces himself to stare out the clear window.

Wilfred Owen’s Dolce et Decorum Est and Carol Ann Duffy’s The Last Post are both refusals of war propaganda and intended to convey an anti war message to populations at war. Both texts use the point of view of a poet Wilfred Owen’s being from a veteran. However, both speaks clearly convey a message desiring change, and a greater understanding of the horrors of war within the general population. Owen’s first stanza is a myriad of techniques, beginning with similes and metaphors describing the worn-out

Social media is a medium in which people post about whatever they deem necessary. According to Sherry Turkle’s book Alone Together, a vast majority of teens also use it to create a name for themselves and to pretend to be someone else; someone they want to be. However, in analyzing my social media, it was very difficult to find any trace of what kind of character I was attempting to portray. One similarity that I can see between Turkle’s analysis of social media and my personal account is that my

access to your profile and see what you post. Hackers are another reason your profile isn’t considered private. There have been different cases in which so many people are getting hacked nowadays. People realize that online networking can enable to land a position, yet not every person understands that it can be justification for losing one, as well. With your Facebook profile being set to a public setting, everyone that isn’t on your friends list can see your posts. Some people not realize it and are

Artifact Three Artifact three was obtained through weeks 10-13, which consisted of two units. The artifact to analyze is presented as follows: “Hi! This is a very interesting topic, as I have used telehealth many times. As an educator for rural cancer centres, I do not have the ability to meet with the staff face-to-face, so telehealth is often used. I have found it can be more difficult to engage others in telehealth occasionally. With FTF interactions, people are more willing to respond to

Obama became out first “Social Media” President. In 2010, Twitter launched the ability to post sponsored tweets, with Instagram following in 2013. We often view social media as just a place to do social networking, but for businesses it is a much different animal. Facebook became an avenue for new user engagement tactics by companies looking to expand their customer base. (What We Learned About Marketing in the Last Decade of Social Media Evolution”, n.d) Marketing is key to any business’s success. With

forward to today. We have everything we had twenty years ago and more, but it is all faster, easier to access, global, and is in most of our hands within one device. Is this better or worse? Well, let me ask you this, "How do you feel, and what was the last thing you read or saw on your phone, tablet, or computer? It was not something positive was it? Our current advances in technology have resulted with a boom of popularity of social media and access to the Internet for daily communication and is resulting

Why I’m Keeping My Company Name as the Designer in the Footer For the last several months, I’ve been answering posts from people who are looking for contractors. Why would someone who has been been developing WordPress sites for the past seven years and exclusively in Divi for the last three years, look for contract work? Here’s the short story: First, for two and half years, I was the health care surrogate for a family member suffering from Crohn’s and Ulcerative Colitis. Both are hideous diseases

first started using Tumblr, I could tell that it was a much different platform than Facebook. The things I would post would just not go over well with my family and friends who would just believe what they would see on television. I've had bad experiences on Facebook for posting just about everything, but that was a while back. They took quite an offense to some of the things I would post about that are going on in not only America but on a global level. Let's begin with my experiences and expectations

media has changed over the last thirty years and its affected us in many ways. Social media, along with any other internet source, is used for lots of different things and it has impacted our lives drastically. Social media is harmful for us because it changes who we are, influences us negatively, and may cause mental pain and to some extent physical pain too. Everyone in the world today is using social media for one thing...entertainment. We all see a bunch of post about what people are doing