Narrative Text

Narrative is a text focusing specific participants. Its social function is to tell stories or past events and entertain the readers.

Generic Structure of Narrative

A narrative text consists of the following structure:

1. Orientation: Introducing the participants and informing the time and the place

2. Complication: Describing the rising crises which the participants have to do with

3. Resolution: Showing the way of participant to solve the crises, better or worse

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Passive Voice

In English, as in many other languages, the passive voice is a grammatical voice in which the subject receives the action of a transitive verb, and passive refers more generally to verbs using this construction and the passages in which they are used. In English, a passive verb is periphrastic; that is, it does not have a one-word form, but consists of an auxiliary verb plus the past participle of the transitive verb. The auxiliary verb usually is a form of the verb to be, but other auxiliary verbs, such as get, are sometimes used. The passive voice can be used in any number of tenses.

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Advertisement

Advertising is a form of communication that typically attempts to persuade potential customers to purchase or to consume more of a particular brand of product or service. “While now central to the contemporary global economy and the reproduction of global production networks, it is only quite recently that advertising has been more than a marginal influence on patterns of sales and production. The formation of modern advertising was intimately bound up with the emergence of new forms of monopoly capitalism around the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century as one element in corporate strategies to create, organize and where possible control markets, especially for mass produced consumer goods. Mass production necessitated mass consumption, and this in turn required a certain homogenization of consumer tastes for final products. At its limit, this involved seeking to create ‘world cultural convergence’, to homogenize consumer tastes and engineer a ‘convergence of lifestyle, culture and behaviors among consumer segments across the world’.

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NOUN PHRASE

Noun phrases normally consist of a head noun, which is optionally modified ("premodified" If the modifier is placed before the noun; "postmodified" if the modifier is placed after the noun). Possible modifiers include:
determiners: articles (the, a), demonstratives (this, that), numerals (two, five, etc.), possessives (my, their, etc.), and quantifiers (some, many, etc.). In English, determiners are usually placed before the noun;
adjectives (the red ball); or
complements, in the form of a prepositional phrase (such as: the student of physics), or a That-clause (the claim that the earth is round);
modifiers; pre-modifiers if placed before the noun and usually either as nouns (the university student) or adjectives (the beautiful lady), or post-modifiers if placed after the noun. A postmodifier may be either a prepositional phrase (the man with long hair) or a relative clause (the house where I live). The difference between modifiers and complements is that complements complete the meaning of the noun; complements are necessary, whereas modifiers are optional because they just give additional information about the noun.

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PROCEDURE TEXT

A procedure is a specified series of actions, acts or operations which have to be executed in the same manner in order to always obtain the same result under the same circumstances (for example, emergency procedures). Less precisely speaking, this word can indicate a sequence of activities, tasks, steps, decisions, calculations and processes, that when undertaken in the sequence laid down produces the described result, product or outcome. A procedure usually induces a change.It is in the scientific methood.

Procedure may also refer to:

• Algorithm, in mathematics and computing, a set of operations or calculations that accomplish some goal
• Instructions or recipes, a set of commands that show how to prepare or make something
• Legal procedure, in law, the within a larger program
• Surgical procedure, in medicine, treating diseases through an operation; see also List of surgical procedures

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Procedure

SIMPLE PAST

Simple past is formed for regular verbs by adding –ed to the root of a word. Example: He walked to the store. A negation is produced by adding did not and the verb in its infinitive form. Example: He did not walk to the store. Question sentences are started with did as in Did he walk to the store?

Simple past is used for describing acts that have already been concluded and whose exact time of occurrence is known. Furthermore, simple past is used for retelling successive events. That is why it is commonly used in storytelling.

Past progressive is formed by using the adequate form of to be and the verb’s present participle: He was going to church. By inserting not before the main verb a negation is achieved. Example: He was not going to church. A question is formed by prefixing the adequate form of to be as in Was he going?.

Past progressive is used for describing events that were in the process of occurring when a new event happened. The already occurring event is presented in past progressive, the new one in simple past. Example: We were sitting in the garden when the thunderstorm started. Use is similar to other languages' imperfect tense.

Present perfect simple is formed by combining have/has with the main verb’s past participle form: I have arrived. A negation is produced by inserting not after have/has: I have not arrived. Questions in present perfect are formulated by starting a sentence with have/has: Has she arrived?

Present perfect simple is used for describing a past action’s effect on the present: He has arrived. Now he is here. This holds true for events that have just been concluded as well as for events that have not yet occurred.

Present perfect progressive is formed by prefixing have/has before the grammatical particle been and the verb’s present participle form: We have been waiting. A negation is expressed by including not between have/has and been: They have not been eating. As with present perfect simple, for forming a question, have/has is put at the beginning of a sentence: Have they been eating?

Present perfect progressive is used for describing an event that has been going on until the present and may be continued in the future. It also puts emphasis on how an event has occurred. Very often since and for mark the use of present perfect progressive: I have been waiting for five hours / I have been waiting since three o’clock.

Furthermore, there is another version of past tense possible: past perfect, similar to other languages' pluperfect tense.

Past perfect simple is formed by combining the simple past form of to have with the past participle form of the main verb: We had shouted. A negation is achieved by including not after had: You had not spoken. Questions in past perfect always start with had: Had he laughed?

Past perfect simple is used for describing secluded events that have occurred before something else followed. The event that is closer to the present is given in simple past tense: After we had visited our relatives in New York, we flew back to Toronto.

Past perfect progressive is formed by had, the grammatical particle been and the present participle of the main verb: You had been waiting. For negation, not is included before been: I had not been waiting. A question sentence is formed by starting with had: Had she been waiting?

If emphasis is put on the duration of a concluded action of the past, since and for are signal words for past perfect progressive: We had been waiting at the airport since the 9 P.M. flight. / They had been waiting for three hours now.

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Jimmy Owen Sullivan, (born February 9, 1981) better known by his stage name, The Rev, or The Reverend Tholomew Plague is the drummer and back-up vocalist for the band Avenged Sevenfold, and lead vocalist in the Avant-Garde Metal band Pinkly Smooth with fellow Avenged Sevenfold guitarist Synyster Gates. Sullivan currently resides in Huntington Beach, California.

Avenged Sevenfold & Pinkly Smooth

Jimmy is recognized for vocals and piano in his and Synyster Gates' side project, Pinkly Smooth. He is also utilized as a back-up vocalist in Avenged Sevenfold. Besides screaming with lead vocalist M. Shadows in songs Chapter Four and Eternal Rest, the song Critical Acclaim features Sullivan on lead vocals during the chorus of the song, both singing and screaming. His vocals are also featured in other songs from the Avenged Sevenfold eponymous album, such as "A Little Piece of Heaven", "Brompton Cocktail", " Afterlife ", and "Almost Easy". The Rev is known for his "drumstick spinning" and his song writing ability, having written songs such as Afterlife.

Gear

The Rev endorses DW Drums & Hardware, Evans Heads, Pro-Mark Sticks and Sabian Cymbals.

Self Titled Album Recording Setup

-DW Drums plain black w/ chrome hardware 22"x18" bass drum (x2), 8"x5" tom, 8"x7" tom, 10"x8" tom, 12"x9" tom, 14"x11" tom, 16"x14" tom, 18"x16" tom

With DW 9000 hardware including pedals.

Cymbals

-Zildjian Cymbals 14" Sabian AAX X-Celerator Hi-Hats, 18" Oriental Classic China, 21" Zildjian Z-Custom Mega Bell Rides (X2), 2 Zildjian Splashes,19" A Custom Projection Crash and 18" AAX Metal Crash.

Self Titled Album Tour Setup

Drums

-Dw drums custom snakeskin wrap and black hardware: 8"x5" tom (not in use on tour) 8"x7" tom 10"x8" tom 12"x9" tom 14"x11" tom 16"x14" tom 18"x16" tom 22"x18" bass drum (x3) and a 14x5 snare with chrome hardware and 14"x6,5" DW bronze metal snare drum series with black hardware. Jimmy uses differents DW rack parts including DW Super Main Rack, DW Side Rack, many clamps and boom stands for microphones and cymbals.

-DW Pedals:

DW 9000 PC Single Pedal x2: The Rev only uses 2 single pedals because he doesn't use his third bass drum since it is only used for esthetic.

Also, The Rev uses black Roc-N-Soc Nitro drum throne.

Cymbals

-Sabian cymbals: 14" AAX-Celerator Hi-hats, 18" AAX Metal Crash 19" Paragon China, 19" AAX Metal Crash, 22" AAX Metal Ride (x2), 19"AAXtreme Chinese, 10" AAX Splash, 8" Chopper Effects Cymbal, 11" Signature Max Splash and a 12" HH Mini Chinese

In the studio for the last self-titled album, The Rev used also Zildjian cymbals: he used an 18" Oriental Classic China instead of the Paragon, two 21" Zildjian Z-Custom Mega Bell Rides instead of the AAX Metal Rides and an A-Custom Projection Crash instead of the AAX Metal Crashes.

-Drum Sticks:

Pro-Mark TX5BW Signature Model(5B) and Easton Ahead 5B for self-titled album recording

- Evans Heads:

Batter/Resonant

Tom: Clear G2/Clear G1

Snare: Coated Power Center Reverse Dot/ Hazy 300 snare side

Bass drum:Clear EMAD/EQ3 Black Resonant (excepted that for the third bass drum it is a DW 22" Clear/Coated batter head because it comes with the kit and he stills not uses this bass drum.)

City of Evil Tour set-up

Drums

-PDP LXE Series Drums and DW Hardware: 8"x7" Tom, 10"x8" Tom, 12"x9" Tom, 14"x12" Tom, 16"x14" Tom, 22"x18" Bass Drum (x2) and a 14"x5" Snare.

Cymbals

-Sabian Cymbals: 14" AAX-Celerator Hi-hats, 18" AA Metal-X Crash, 19" AA Metal-X Crash, 22" AA Metal-X Ride, 18" AA Metal-X China, 7" Signature Max Splash and a 11" Signature MAX Splash.

Drum Heads

The Rev uses Evans drum heads exclusively.

zacky vengeance

Zachary James Baker, (born December 11, 1981) better known by his stage name Zacky Vengeance, is the rhythm guitarist and harmony vocalist for the American rock band Avenged Sevenfold.

Guitars

Zacky uses Schecter Guitars, and endorses the company.

• The Vengeance custom S-1
• The Vengeance Standard model
• The ZV special designed by zacky vengeance
• The ZV Blade designed by dan
• The ZV special with FR (as seen behind the scenes in the Live in the LBC DVD)
• "Gynecologist"(blood splatter)
• Zacky has many custom shop S-1 models made exclusively for him.
• All models are loaded with Seymour Duncan JB Pickups
• Zacky has been seen using two Custom Shop Fender Telecasters in recent live performances (one in white one in yellow).

Amps

• marshall 1960b 4x12
• marshall jvm205 head

Effects units and accessories

• Boss TU-2 Chromatic Tuner
• Boss NS-2 Noise Suppressor
• Line 6 PODxt Pro
• Voodoo Lab GCX Audio Switcher
• Ernie Ball "Skinny Top, Heavy Bottom 10-52" strings^[2]
• Dunlop Tortex Yellow plectrums 0.73mm (Avenged Sevenfold logo)
• White Get'm Get'm Sergeant Stripes Strap
• Dickel Reserve