Feature Article

The article I have chosen to summarize is titled, "Driving Impression: Acura NSX One For The Road." Words and Photography are both by Keith Buglewicz. At first the selection starts with a humorous take on the feature cars color, "Long beach blue". Mentioning the cars lengthy 12 year history in the Honda lineup along with its $85 ... rpm, or a suspension so stiff that it requires kidney belts to drive, were happy the NSX was devoid of those character traits," says Buglewicz. Then the article quickly turns to the downside of the NSX's age, a few very apparent anachronisms. Pop up headlights th...

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• Grade Level: High School

... at the profiled students is similar to the cover girl; questions of sexual preference as opposed to life feature predominantly. The magazine further depicts the notion of voyeurism, as the reader constitutes the male gaze for "normal" people and not just celebrities. This article also makes further reference to the profile of the magazines readership in terms of class and age representation ... . "Sexiest University in Britain" and other articles such as "FHM kills a super car" appear to represent a readership of working class and middle class. The university student is also regarded as a...

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• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... And then I knew. It was a matter of distance, the distance between a hard, hot, dirty, dangerous job, and a shovel handle" (7). In a feature article called "For Better Or Worse,"" Rick wrote for "Garden and Gun," his tone is sardonic for humorous effect. When you marry a woman, you marry her ... up a softball soaked in kerosene and, bare-handed, throw a comet cross the evening sky? (107) "The Prince of Frogtown," incorporates a unique feature. After years of being a bachelor with no children, Bragg married a woman who already had three sons. The youngest was only ten when Rick entered ......

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Expository Texts Assessment Mixed Messages The genre of this text is that it is a feature article. The source is the West Australian newspaper and the writer is Nick Miller. This feature article is aimed at basically everyone. Because everyone at some stage watches television, movies, listens ... to music or has in some way had contact with drugs or knows someone who has. Mostly aimed at children and young adults, who tend to watch, listen and attend drug related things. The purpose of this article ... Gabriel G. Naha, a professor of anesthesiology. The intended audience is anyone really who ...

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• Grade Level: High School

... at least one of the subjects. Magazines almost always have a picture on their covers. The picture is usually of the magazines feature story. Maxim's cover picture in every issue is the feature article and photo layout. Every picture is a very beautiful and sexually enticing woman. It is a known human fact that most men ... to open the magazine. PAIN STREET U.S.A?Horrible tales of human anguish?you?ll laugh your damn head off!? Instead of just a simple line telling what an article is about, Maxim puts a little humor into them, further interesting readers. The editors of the magazine know...

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• Grade Level: High School

... repetition of size (170x142pixels), color (greyscale), and angle variance in the graphics create a complimenting montage. Each of the repetitious graphics also lead way into the article they represent. A repetitious feature is also utilized in the navigation bar above the graphics. A mouse rollover displays a description of each topic area. The text appears on a white-on- ... leading the audience to what lies within the page. However, once the site is entered, the navigation bar loses the rollover feature. They could have simply copied the code from the homepage and changed the color of t...

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• Grade Level: High School

... an authoritative tone and informative style to aid this respectful relationship. An obvious textual feature is the use of short, blunt and to the point sentences and simple language to enable access to the article by less educated readers and to hold their short attention spans in check. Following ... paragraph summarises the rest of the article in one short sentence to provoke further ease of reading. The article also makes use of a small textbox with another related article to increase the interest rating of the main article even further. One other highly noticeable feature employed is...

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... , both magazines were ninety-eight pages long. Time had one main cover story and thirteen full length feature articles about the events of that fateful day, while The Economist had nine full length feature articles and twenty-six stories various regions around the world including The Americas, Asia, Europe, Britain, ... at that. They leave an aura of pessimistic feelings that another attack is on the way and that Americans aren't safe anymore. Had I read this article after the events of September 11, instead of now, I would be sure of more attacks coming. "The Day the World Changed" is th...

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• Grade Level: High School

... the many cultures that exist in the world. Such a system would sort emojis into country or region sections. The system would also have a feature that allows emojis users to update the emojis lexicon by inserting new emojis within the appropriate country or regional section. The roots of smiley faces ... and emoticons go back to the 1880s, Shigetaka Kurita created the emojis in the mid-1990s and added it as a special feature to pagers that were popular with teenagers (Blagdon). Thus, emojis were created for a younger audience to include people between the ages of 13-19. ... Unlike Darlin,...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... more. The coverage in the Post doesn't compare to the amount of coverage the Sun designates to celebrities, throughout the paper various stories, rumors and pictures feature popular celebrity. One of the cover stories with contained a full body picture of Kylie Minogue in lingerie on the front cover and 4 pages of pictures ... of her modeling her new lingerie line, there was a small article in the Post mentioning her new line the same day. I chose The War on Terror " There's No Turning Back- as my common story. I ... team, 6500 chemical bombs plus nerve gas missing, 550 shells filled wi...

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