...The life of the American Expatriates in Paris in the 1920’s according to Hemingway’s Memoir “A Moveable Feast” “If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast,”- with these words Hemingway starts his memoir. The writer himself was “lucky enough” to spend seven years of his youth in the European center of culture and entertainment of the Jazz Age. Throughout the literary works of Hemingway it can be observed that Paris had a special place in his heart. He adopts Paris as a setting not only in “A Moveable Feast” but also in “The Sun Also Rises” and “Midnight in Paris.” But what makes “A Moveable Feast” stand out from many other works written by Hemingway is that it is a memoir, thus, the characters are real people and the events are actual as well. However, “various critics have pointed out that “A Moveable Feast” contains serious factual errors." Though, the most of the factual errors are about the workplaces of the characters, for instance the one of Walsh, and do not significantly influence the understanding of life flows of the memoir’s main characters. Hemingway along with other expatriates viewed Paris as a place where he could find a market for his literary works. “Many Americans who settled in Paris [believed] their native land was a cultural sink.” Those who caught the drama of the World War I and the time of...
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...the pen of American writer Theodore Dreiser. Despite the fact he was born in the USA and lived there, Theodore Dreiser wasn’t American in a true sense of this word. The Dreisers were an international family, for example his father was German and this fact had an impact on Dreiser’s works which were aimed at dispelling the myth of the “American Dream”. He treated the American world and its society negatively and attacked its false ideas, cutthroat competition and lack of responsibility. The extract from “Typhoon” pivots on the same idea shown through Ida Zobel’s life. Ida is a teenager who lives in the USA, in the family of immigrants from Germany. The author knows about the ordinary run of things in such families not by hearsay, that’s why he manages to provide the reader with the most significant feature of it in few expressions: “singularly restricted” and “indifferent”, “extremely reserved” and “orderly respect for labour and order”, narrow, sober, workaday Germans “. No emotions, no colours, no entertainment, no events – if you were a young girl would you enjoy such a style of life? Moreover Ida lives with her father, aunt and stepmother who seemingly have to take care of her from other teenagers because they are “restless, seeking” and all these features lead the degradation of the nation. And the Zobels are the representatives of the German nation which is opposed to the American nation with its “brash gayety and looseness”. This antithesis of German and American worlds could...
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...Ernest Everett Just was an African-American biologist who pioneered a path in primarily marine biology. Just mainly studied how marine invertebrates developed. He was highly educated and was well respected in the bio community. Just was born on August 14, 1883 in Charleston, South Carolina. He attended public school in Charleston and later went to New York City at the age of 17 to attend the Kimball Academy in Meriden, New Hampshire. Just graduated as an honors student in 1903 when he was 19 (Just, Ernest Everett). Just then continued on to Dartmouth College, where he excelled in all his classes. He graduated in 1907 as a magna cum laude student and also received honors in botany, sociology, and history. His first job out of school was a teacher...
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...storytelling. However, books are the only one that will stand the test of time and that is why people continue to write. Writing is a powerful device to relay messages when telling has become difficult. People often know little to nothing about the Arab world or culture. The voices of Arab Americans or even just Arab immigrants in particular is important in storytelling because they are such an oppressed group. Immigrant writers who are writing their life stories are often mistaken for writing on par with the stereotype...
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...Have you ever thought about how a writer carry out their purpose to an audience? Writers use rhetorical strategies for audiences to understand their purpose. Throughout history many writers have demonstrated this skill to send a message to their audiences. Writers such as Martin Luther King Jr, and Sojourner Truth use pathos and repetition to express their person to an audience. Martin Luther King Jr and Sojourner Truth use emotions to persuade their audience to support their cause. In Sojourner Truth’s speech entitled “Ain’t I A Woman” she expresses her misery when she talks about motherhood as a slave. Sojourner Truth says “ I borne thirteen children, and when I cried out with my mother’s grief, none but Jesus heard me!” (Truth). This reveals...
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...hName: Johnson Waweru Occupation: Freelance writer Date: 26th November, 2014 Book Review: Playing for Keeps: A History of Early Baseball, 20th Anniversary Edition The development of sports from their early stages, their metamorphosis and evolution to their current form and status is one of the most interesting areas of study. Unfortunately, most writers on such subjects only concentrate on the sport itself and players without exploring other ulterior factors that influence the development of a sport such as the emotional, economic and social environment. The book, Playing for Keeps: A History of Early Baseball by Warren Goldstein is one of the few that have managed to avoid this perennial mistake. This paper is a review of the book, its content, author, objectives and ideas. The book traces the roots and development of baseball. It explains how it began with the culture of organized baseball in 1850's and later graduated from an amateur sport to a professional one a few decades later, thereafter developing into a business. The book not only traces the sport’s linear development, explaining the chronological events that marked its evolution, but also the constant and recurrent elements that have characterized it through different generations, the cyclical history. The writer shows how the game was an amateur club-based sport when it began around 1857. At the time, the main players were clerks, artisans and shopkeepers; there was nothing professional about the sport. Around...
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...relevant biographical facts summary of the poem’s subject or topic. Thesis • In your thesis, identify the literary element(s) to be analyzed and the approach or direction of the analysis. • What message is the poem sending? Sample Thesis Statement #1 In “First Lessons,” R. Zamora Linmark uses allusions to describe how not to write a poem, and then he uses imagery and allusions to describe how to write a poem properly. Sample Thesis Statement #2 R. Zamora Linmark in “First Lessons” uses imagery and verbal irony to describe how a writer can discover his or her topic, then through diction and allusion, tells the writer how to write a poem that will leave a lasting impression on readers. Sample Thesis Statement #3 In the poem “First Lessons,” R. Zamora Linmark uses allusion and visual imagery in a playful way to teach writers what to avoid and what to incorporate when composing poems based on other literary works. Linmark advises writers that it is okay to borrow, or even steal, from others’ literary works as long as they replace them with works of their own. Body Paragraphs • The number of paragraphs will be based on the number of elements you analyze and the number of claims that you make. Sample Organization #1 In “First Lessons,” R. Zamora Linmark uses allusions to describe how not to...
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...University October 3, 2010 Paraphrasing There is agreement among scholarly writers that paraphrasing involves putting a passage from source material into your own words. A paraphrase must be attributed to the original source (Scholarly Writing, 2013). Paraphrased material is usually shorter than the original passage, taking a somewhat broader segment of the source and condensing it slightly. In this paper the following passage will be paraphrased. Original Passage "A good writer is one you can read without breaking a sweat. If you want a workout, you don’t lift a book you lift weights. Yet were brainwashed to believe that the more brilliant the writer, the tougher the going." "The truth is that the reader is always right. Chances are if something you’re reading doesn’t make sense, it’s not your fault it’s the writers. And if something you write doesn’t get your point across, it’s probably not the reader’s fault it’s yours. Too many readers are intimidated and humbled by what they can’t understand and in some cases that are precisely the effect the writer is after. But confusion is not complexity; it’s just confusion. A venerable tradition, dating back to the ancient Greek orators, teaches that if you don’t know what you’re talking about, just ratchet up the level of difficulty and no one will ever know." "Don’t confuse simplicity, though, with simplemindedness. A good writer can express an extremely complicated idea clearly and make the job look effortless...
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...Portrait of Raymond Carver Mathias & Jonathan Raymond Carver was an american writer and was born in 1938 in Clatskanie, Oregon wherein he loved to fish in the rivers. The landscape portrayed in the video seems very old and depressing (old houses, rusty old cars etc.). His father was an alcoholic which was, unfortunately, eventually passed down to his son, Raymond. His father used to buy him books, when he was a child, which was a reason to him becoming a writer. His first stories were often centered around hard working people, who could barely make it, money-wise. In 1957 Carver married a woman named Maryann Burk, with whom he had two children. They themselves had a lot of monetary issues and could barely make a living, but Carver still wanted to write. They worked hard and his wife worked at several different places e.g. cafés. His stubbornness finally paid off and he got a scholarship for Stanford University. After that he started teaching, and that was the beginning of his alcoholism. Their life got more and more hectic from here on. Carver was even hospitalized for alcoholism four times. It was during the first hospitalization that Carver’s first collection of short stories: “Will You Please Be Quiet, Please”. Eventually Carver and Burk were divorced in 1982, which lead to Carver’s second marriage with poet Tess Gallagher, even though that had been living together for a long time before the divorce. He married Gallagher in 1988 just two weeks before his death. After...
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...Writing Chapter 8: Exemplification What is Exemplification? What is its basic purpose or value? pages 203-217 Name_______________________________ Using Exemplification Is exemplification used only as a basic essay pattern? In what kind of writing situation is exemplification used? According to the text, what are four purposes for which a writer might use exemplification when writing an essay? Planning an Exemplification Essay How many examples are required for there to be “enough” examples when using exemplification in an essay? What do the two examples given by the text illustrate about the number of examples needed? What is as important as choosing an appropriate number of examples? What do effective writers use to help readers see the connection between an example and the general statement it is illustrating? Structuring an Exemplification Essay What is the basic structure of the exemplification essay? Where is the writer’s thesis usually presented? What problem can result from a poorly organized exemplification essay? How can this problem be avoided? What order or arrangement strategies can be used effectively? Student Writers Read Kristy Bredin’s letter of application and the commentary that follows the student model. What arrangement strategy does Kristy use to support her thesis that she is qualified for the position? Read Grace Ku’s essay “Midnight” and the commentary that follows the student model. How does Grace introduce her topic? Do you find her introduction...
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...Recognizing Plagiarism Your audience can catch plagiarism in many ways. After submission of papers, professors usually catch on to your writing style. Therefore, sentences that are written in a perfected style and does not follow your usual verbiage is more than likely to be plagiarism. Complex sentence structures and sentence fragments can also serve as other clues for plagiarism. Another clue for plagiarism is when certain paragraphs in the paper are written to perfection with no misspellings or grammatical errors. Identifying Plagiarism The student has clearly plagiarized the first two sentences in his rewording of the original author’s work. For example, by using the verb tainted in the original author’s work, the student has stolen the original idea of the author. Secondly, the following sentence by Crossen (1994), “Although biomedical research incorporates rigorous scientific rules and is often critically scrutinized by peers,” is the same as this one by the student: Biomedical researchers incorporate strict rules of science into their work, which is examined by peers. Note that the only difference is that the student has only changed the words “rigorous” and “scrutinized” to “strict” and “examined,” while maintaining the same sentence structure and flow from Crossen. Examples of Plagiarism The following are two sentences that have been plagiarized. By providing quotation marks and correctly citing the sentences, the student can avoid plagiarism. 1. But it...
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...TRYING TO BECOME A BETTER WRITER At the beginning of my English 111 class, I was unsure of my writing skills for college, thus English 111, which is a writing class, was intimidating to me. I had been out of school for over thirty years, and my memory of my writing in high school is not so clear. So at the beginning of the year, Dr. Kennedy asked us what we wanted to get of our class this semester. It was not hard for me to say I wanted to improve my writing skills. The skills I learned in English helped me improve my writing in other classes as well. Learning how to take notes with the double entry journal and Kia styles were a big help in my psychology and art history classes. Accordingly, the MEAL plan was a big help with getting...
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...Imagine reading a poorly written review of a movie that you would like to see this weekend. You cannot follow the characters, action, or conflict because the author of the review rambles on and on. Without clear paragraphs, this review will likely lose your interest, and you may skip the movie altogether! When you are the writer, it is helpful to position yourself as a reader. Ask yourself whether you can focus easily on each point you make. Effective writers use a single paragraph for each new idea they introduce. Paragraphs separate ideas into logical, manageable, and distinct units. Each paragraph focuses on only one main idea and presents coherent sentences to support that single point. Because all the sentences in one paragraph support the same point, a paragraph may stand on its own. Each paragraph is shaped by Purpose: the reason why the writer composes the paragraph. < Tone: the attitude the writer conveys about the paragraph’s subject. < Audience: the individual or group whom the writer intends to address. < Content: the written material in the paragraph. < 174 WRITING FOR SUCCESS To create longer assignments and to discuss more than one point, writers group together paragraphs and link them together with transitions. The assignment’s purpose, audience, and tone dictate the content, which determines what paragraphs cover and how each will support a main point. The main point of the paragraph is the message you want to share with the...
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...When you think of writers you most likely think of famous authors and books, but the career of writing is a lot more than that. The career field of writing can be separated into two major groups, one writing what they want to write and hope they get buyers, the other works for employers or clients and write on subjects their employer wants (Overview par 2). No matter what kind of writer they are, they all use the same basic steps to create their project. The writer gathers information, sometimes interpreting complex events or information (Overview par 3). Writers review their own work multiple times to make sure what they are saying makes sense, and to see if there is anything they want to change. Many have editors or peers that read and comment...
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...conversations taking place around the way memoirs affect the writers who publish them. Based on my research, it appears that the effects tend to involve emotional and psychological consequences, as well as legal troubles in some instances. The discovery of this conversation helped me to refine my research topic into the question, “Do the benefits of publishing a memoir outweigh the risks of their effects for writers?” This research explores the positive and negative effects of memoirs on their writers to determine whether or not the risks are worth the rewards. Although writing a memoir can result in lawsuits and family discord, it more often proves to be therapeutic and can be the starting point of a nonfiction writer's career. What if I told you that memoirs are incredibly important to our society, because they document the human experience in such an honest way? Although they are valuable, they can also be risky. One key issue is that a memoir’s admissions risk causing major drama for writers, including legal trouble. In addition, they can be a catalyst for burning bridges with former employees. They can also potentially destroy long-term personal relationships. In this paper, I work to discover if it is worth all the drama to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. As I began my research, I initially uncovered several negative aspects of writing a memoir. One such risk is the potential for legal troubles. Writer and attorney Amy Cook addresses the risks associated...
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