During the last few years one has heard exaggerated claims that the observed cosmic structure is inconsistent with the Big Bang theory; for example, that the universe is too young for known forces to have evacuated the giant voids. The discovery of primeval uctuations by the Cosmic Background Explorer satellite (COBE), with an amplitude appropriate for creating large-scale structures, has dampe...

This study, entitled “An Analysis of Persuasive Techniques Used in Maybelline New York’s Instagram Captions” is about analyzing the persuasive techniques found caption York. The aims are to find techniques, most and meanings sentences used captions. Lamb Bonacci’s theories this qualitative method also applied study. study 11 out 33 Lamb’s theory by They Everyday/Colloquial Language, Emotive Rhe...

To avoid a sarcastic message being understood in its unintended literal meaning, in microtexts such as messages on Twitter.com sarcasm is often explicitly marked with a hashtag such as ‘#sarcasm’. We collected a training corpus of about 406 thousand Dutch tweets with hashtag synonyms denoting sarcasm. Assuming that the human labeling is correct (annotation of a sample indicates that about 90% o...

Discussions of emerging technologies are steeped in hyperbole. Promises of abundance are associated with assurances of safety and predictions of doom are frequently made by the prognosticators. In an address to the National Association of Science Writers meeting in New York on 16 September 1954, Lewis L. Strauss,chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, forecasted nuclear power would be too che...