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I liked this movie, it was subtle and amusing but succeeds admirably in conveying the whole scope and idea of the cultural gap between East and west

Historically, the Meiji emperor was only 17 or 18 when the revolution took place

I used to play, haven't hit a ball in a while though.

The movie had Ninjas in it! How could it not be good? On a more serious note, I thought the movie was quite good despite having quite high expectations of it from what my friends had told me. It was interesting, engaging and didn't feel nearly as long as it was. Although it did suffer from...

I found Mufasa's death in "The Lion King" really sad, but then I was only 10 or so at the time. I found the death of Optimus Prime in "Transformers: The Movie" quite sad. He was my favourite character...

There seems to be a trend of good History teachers, or maybe it's just on this board. My Modern History Teacher is funny, he spends most periods just paying people out. Once he came late to class and we sent him outside (as he does to late people) and he just didn't come back. Even so, we...

By the way, modality is the level of assertion in writing. High Modality: "I saw a ghost" Lower Modality: "I think I saw a ghost" Ridiculously low modality: "I think I may have seen something that could have possibly been a ghost-like figure."

Our teacher just gave us this handout with about a page on each of the '-isms' and said that it was all we really needed to know on them. I'm not certain of how deeply in covers them, but I find it quite helpful.

An important thing that I think should be mentioned is that you should speak appropriately to your audience. In school, your audience is often just a small classroom of people you know so you should speak like it. Excessive posturing becomes unnecessary and a more intimate...