...Atticus represents Lincoln’s beliefs by not giving up the fight. In the Gettysburg Address, Abraham Lincoln challenges the american people to continue the civil war so that the men who have died will not die in vain. Atticus tells his children something similar. Atticus tells them that even if you know you will lose, you must try your best for justice. In the book, Scout says this, “Atticus had used every tool available to free men to save Tom Robinson, but in the secret courts of men's hearts Atticus had no case. Tom was a dead man the minute Mayella Ewell opened her mouth and screamed.”(Lee 266). This shows us that Atticus does his best to uphold justice for Tom Robinson against racism. Tom Robinson’s verdict did not represent the ideas expressed by Lincoln. He was convicted because he was black. Under the 14th amendment, Tom Robinson should have equal protection under the law and in the poem it says that “justice is a blind goddess.” In this case it was not. Tom got the guilty verdict because he was black. "Atticus, you must be wrong.... How's that? Well, most folks seem to think they're right and you're wrong....”(Lee 178). This shows how people have already made up their minds about the trial therefore making justice unjust. “Mr. Tate found his neck and rubbed it. ‘Bob Ewell’s lyin’ on the ground under that tree down yonder with a kitchen knife stuck up under his ribs. He’s dead, Mr. Finch.” Sheriff Tate’s actions represent the ideas expressed in the Gettysburg Address...
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...When Atticus gives Scout and Jem toy guns he tells them that he would prefer it if they would shoot tin cans, but he knows that they are going to go after birds. He instructs that they can shoot all the birds they want, but they may not shoot mockingbirds because they do nothing but good. Miss Maudie tries to explain this to Jem and Scout by saying: “Your father’s right,” she said. “Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up people’s gardens, don’t nest in corncribs, they don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.” Therefore if a character does nothing but good, he is considered a mockingbird. And if that character is harmed, it is considered a sin. Tom Robinson and Arthur (Boo) Radley are considered mockingbird symbols in the novel To Kill a Mockingbird. Tom is a mockingbird symbol who helps Mayella Ewell whenever she asks him to when he passes her house because he feels sorry for her and her situation. Mayella raises her siblings all by herself and is abused by her father. She seeks attention and eventually tries to take advantage of Tom. Mayella’s dad sees this and decides to accuse Tom of rape, although he is innocent. Because Tom is black, he is convicted and sent to jail. When he tries to escape he is shot multiple times. This is an example of the sin of killing a mockingbird because Tom was killed even though he had done nothing wrong. Boo is a mockingbird symbol who remains...
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...Witness/Narrative: Harper Lee Before I begin telling you my story I want it to be clear that you are a very lucky group of people because I don’t like talking about myself and if you haven’t caught on yet I’m Harper Lee. My childhood best friend Truman Capote used to make me write on his old typewriter for two hours a day every day. At the time I hated to write but soon writing became my life. I once threw a Halloween party as a child and invited my black friend John White as a guest. The KKK showed up on my front lawn to kill John but my father rushed outside and put a stop to the violence. That night I learned how cruel and racist people could be and I knew I wanted to make that stop. Eventually I grew up and wanted follow in my sister’s...
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...Edith Cowan University Academic essay Academic Tip Sheet This academic tip sheet: • explains the academic essay as an academic style of writing; • looks at the structure of an academic essay; • looks at the main types of academic essays; • explains how to write an academic essay; and • provides you with a quick checklist that covers most aspects of writing an academic essay. CRICOS IPC 00279B What is an academic essay? For our purposes, we can define an academic essay as a document that has a defined structure – an introduction, a body and a conclusion. What are the main types of academic essays? If we look at the intent of the academic essay we can define three main types: • Descriptive – describes a subject, e.g.; a person, place or event. • Expository – explains a concept or theory. • Argumentative – presents an argument through reasoning and the use of evidence. 01/08 The argumentative essay Most academic essays will require you to present an argument through reasoning and the use of evidence. In the process of planning and drafting your essay, you will need to respond to the assigned question by thinking, reading and writing your way to a considered position/stance, or thesis statement. The thesis statement is expressed as one or two sentences in the introductory paragraph of your essay, and supported in the body of the essay by a series of topic sentences, one in each paragraph. Each topic sentence is in turn supported by evidence and examples from...
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...John Doe INDS 400-001 March 25, 2014 Cognate Listing Sample IPS Integration Essay Cognate/Career Synthesis Paper: Incorporating a Christian Worldview MLA Presented in Partial Fulfillment INDS 400: Capstone John Doe Professor Sherman INDS 400-001 17 March 2014 Sample Cognate/Career Synthesis: Incorporating a Christian Worldview This final essay will synthesize chosen cognates with a view to career application with a Christian worldview. The first paragraph of your paper will be the introduction to your paper. The function of this paragraph is to obtain the reader’s interest, and should also present the content and context of your paper. It must tell your readers why you are writing the paper and why the topic is important. The final sentence of your introduction should be your thesis sentence. The thesis statement is the “point” of your essay, and is the idea that you will be supporting throughout the body of your paper. The paragraphs following your introductory paragraph will make up the body of your paper. An integrative device such as an analogy or metaphor must be used within the body of the essay as a vehicle for clarity. For example, an essay from a female with Business/Communications cognates could use the example of the Proverbs 31 woman. The very first page of your assignment should be a cover page that includes your name, course and section number, date, cognate listing, paper title, and chosen formatting style. Please note that this sample...
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... 1. Write English Essay - Free Essay Writing Samples Online Adwww.curriki.org/writing-essays 1. Get Samples for Teachers & Students * Support Child Education * Register With Us * Open Educational Resource ------------------------------------------------- Top of Form Bottom of Form Search Results 1. www.scribendi.com a short literary composition on a particular theme or subject, usually in prose and generally analytic, speculative, or interpretative. 2. anything resembling such a composition: a picture essay. Essay | Define Essay at Dictionary.com dictionary.reference.com/browse/essay More about Essay Feedback Essay - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia en.wikipedia.org/?title=Essay Essays are generally scholarly pieces of writing giving the author's own argument, but the definition is vague, overlapping with those of an article, a pamphlet and a short story. Michel de Montaigne - Five paragraph essay - Application essay - Introduction Writing Tips: Essay Builder - WritingDEN www2.actden.com/writ_Den/tips/essay/index.htm Explores the parts and provides step-by-step directions for writing essays. Essay | Define Essay at Dictionary.com dictionary.reference.com/browse/essay a short literary composition on a particular theme or subject, usually in prose and generally analytic, speculative, or interpretative. 2. anything resembling such a composition: a picture essay. Images for essayReport images More images for essay Essay Structure | - Harvard...
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...Purpose of reports 6 3.2 Report Format 6 3.3 Table of Contents 7 3.4 Executive summary 7 3.5 Headings and series 7 3.6 References 8 3.7 Appendices 8 4 Essays 9 4.1 Essential features 9 4.2 Essay format 9 4.2.1 Title page 10 4.2.2 Synopsis or abstract 10 4.2.3 Reference list and appendices. 10 5 Plagiarism 11 6 Referencing within the body of your work 13 6.1 Paraphrased References. 13 6.2 Short quotes 13 6.3 Long quotes 14 6.4 Same author, same year, different work 14 6.5 Documenting tables/charts 14 6.6 The Reference List 16 6.7 Examples of referencing 1 7. References 1 Introduction Good writing takes practice and there are many ways that students can enhance and support their writing to achieve sound academic results. This guide has been designed to help students meet the requirements of academic writing. In essence, this is a style guide. There are rules to follow to correctly present the original author and avoid plagiarism, and there are suggestions to follow to communicate clearly and concisely. This guide will not replace the generally accepted academic practices of using a spell checker or proof reading your work for grammar errors. Rather, this style guide is designed to support you in your writing process. You will still need to determine whether you are required to write an essay or a report, whether the work is formal or informal. Before consulting this guide, make sure that you understand the requirements of your assessment. Ask your...
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...ENGLISH HANDBOOK -“Welcome to my evil lair…” -Mr. Braiman Brooklyn High School of the Arts www.mrbraiman.com http://handbook.mrbraiman.com “EVIL” Welcome to my evil classroom lair. In order to become full-fledged evil “minions,” you need to read this handbook carefully. It explains everything you need to know. “English,” as you may know, is shorthand for “English Language Arts.” Being that we are in an Arts school, but one where academics must and always do come first, it is important that we approach the subject as what it is: an art form. How does one study the arts? What exactly do we do when we study drawing, sculpture, music, or dance? Well, anyone who has studied the arts will tell you that studying the arts essentially involves two things: • Learning about, and developing an awareness of and appreciation for, existing works of art in that particular form; • Developing the skills and techniques associated with the art form, in order to create our own works. In the case of language arts, much like any other art form, we will be studying existing works of art (i.e., reading books, stories and poems), and developing the skills to produce our own (i.e., writing). That’s what English Language Arts is. We will also be preparing ourselves for New York State’s Regents Comprehensive Examination in English, which we’ll all be taking in June. This two-day, six-hour, four-part exam requires no specific knowledge or content, but it does require the skills to listen, read,...
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...To kill a Mockingbird essay is written to explore and analyze the message given out by novel To kill a Mocking Bird. This novel was written by Harper Lee and published in 1960. It portrays the time period of 1930's in Albama. It shows dominance of white people in the society during that period. The narrator of the story is Scout Flinch. Her father Atticus Finch is a lawyer who has high ethical values and respect for humanity. He is very optimistic. Atticus stood to his character when he defends Tom Robinson, a black man on trial for the rape of a white woman. He sets up example for society and his children to stand up by his values, even when he faces the roughest time of his life in the course of defending Tom. Mockingbird is a long-tailed gray-and-white songbird which does not harm anyone. Author tries to relate the trial of Tom with killing a mockingbird. Our company is equipped with a team of professional writers who are skilled in writing essays related to every field. This kind of work requires an in depth knowledge of literature and expert skills in essay writing. The writer must be able to comprehend the view of the author so that the readers of the essay can associate themselves. Our company ensures that the essay writers strictly follow all the standard guidelines of MLA essay format for the perfect presentation of the literary essays. "To kill a mockingbird" essay should necessarily cover the following points to get a good grade in essay rubric: - Social...
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...This essay is going to be about how Atticus is a hero. Atticus is a very nice guy. He help Scout read, and and he help defend Tom Robinson. Everyone in Maycomb Alabama didn’t want him to defend Tom Robinson. In Harper Lee’s novel To Kill a Mockingbird, the character of Atticus Finch represents Lee’s idea of social justice by demonstrating heroism, righteous. and compassion. In To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee present heroism, by teaching others to read even though the teacher condone it. For example the Novel says “Atticus has to been teaching Scout to read since she was little” (Lee, 25). Atticus still teaches Scout to read even though the teacher condone it. Lee show that Atticus does care about what the teacher says and does the...
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...Academic essay on Annie Proulx's "Job Story" Choices are something we all make. Not necessarily important choices, but there will always be a time to make them. It's not always good choices, but they have to be made. There will always be consequences, whether it's bad or good. Throughout the story, Leeland Lee has to make a lot of choices. Where to live, where to work and when to work. All the different choices he made, put him in the position he is now. Leeland Lee is an awkward-looking young boy. His face is heavily boned, which he has gotten from his mom, his neck is quite thick and he has red-gold hair. His eyes are as pouchy as a middle-aged alcoholic. His nose is broad and lays close to his face. Lori Bovee is Leeland Lee's wife. She has an undistinguished oval face, and hair of medium length. Leeland Lee is the protagonist of the story, because he is the main character. I would say Leeland is a flat and static character as he is an endless optimist. He doesn't give up when it comes to finding a new job, and despite his wife dying he still gets a job at Unique Eats. The reason he is a static character is because he doesn't change at all. After getting several different jobs he doesn't change anything, after his mom and wife dies he doesn't change one single thing except the fact he isn't listening to the radio anymore, but since that have been an important factor of the story all along, it can also show a lot about how he has changed. The story starts November...
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...Essay on “Job History” written by Annie Proulx In the short story “Job History” written by Annie Proulx, we follow Leeland Lee from the time of his birth, until he is about fifty years old. In the short story we follow Leeland through his harsh life, with ups and downs, in the form of thoughts, feelings, incidents, etc. Leeland is born in a ranch in Wyoming, and lives there with his wife Lori. Leeland does not look particularly good, in fact he is a very unattractive man; (page 91, line 12)“Leeland’s face shows heavy bones from his mother’s side. His neck is thick and his red-gold hair plastered down in bangs. Even as a child his eyes are as pouchy as those of a middle-age alcoholic, the brows rod-straight above wandering out-of-line eyes. His nose lies broad and close to his face, his mouth seems to have been cut with a single chisel blow into easy flesh” And in the top of that, we see how Leeland through his life, tries to find a successful career, but fails consistently. He moves various times from place to place, too seek occupation and good business. But it is hard when you’re a high school dropout, without a career. Leeland have to changes his job constantly, because of his lack of luck, and since he can’t get along white his bosses. He is never able to stay at one job or place for long, which lead to problems in the family. He has a hard time supporting his wife, and their children financially. Throughout the story the author, Annie Proulx manages...
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...An essay is a piece of writing which is often written from an author's personal[->0] point of view[->1]. Essays can consist of a number of elements, including: literary criticism[->2], political manifestos[->3], learned arguments[->4], observations of daily life, recollections, and reflections of the author. The definition of an essay is vague, overlapping with those of an article[->5] and a short story[->6]. Almost all modern essays are written in prose[->7], but works in verse[->8] have been dubbed essays (e.g. Alexander Pope[->9]'s An Essay on Criticism[->10] and An Essay on Man[->11]). While brevity usually defines an essay, voluminous works like John Locke[->12]'s An Essay Concerning Human Understanding[->13] and Thomas Malthus[->14]'s An Essay on the Principle of Population[->15] are counterexamples. In some countries (e.g., the United States and Canada), essays have become a major part of formal education[->16]. Secondary students are taught structured essay formats to improve their writing skills, and admission essays[->17] are often used by universities[->18] in selecting applicants and, in the humanities and social sciences, as a way of assessing the performance of students during final exams. The concept of an "essay" has been extended to other mediums beyond writing. A film essay is a movie that often incorporates documentary film making styles and which focuses more on the evolution of a theme or an idea. A photographic essay[->19] is an attempt to cover a topic...
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...We all know love. We have all loved in some kind of way. We love our parents, significant others and even our friends. But we can also love other things like animals or material things. But what is the difference between loving and liking? And is it better not to love and feel pain or to love and be hurt in the progress? Jonathan Franzen seeks to answer these questions in his essay “Liking Is for Cowards. Go for What Hurts”. The essay “Liking Is for Cowards. Go for What Hurts” is, as mentioned, written by Jonathan Franzen and published in The New York Times, May 28, 2011. Jonathan Franzen is born in 1959, and he is an acclaimed American novelist and essayist. The essay is based on the commencement speech he delivered at Kenyon College in Ohio, USA. “Our technology has become extremely adept in creating products that correspond to our fantasy ideal of an erotic relationship, in which the beloved object asks for nothing and gives everything, instantly. (…)” As Franzen claims in his essay, many people can feel like they love their technological object. It gives them a satisfaction, which human interaction maybe wouldn’t. Franzen however thinks, that people in general don’t love material things: they like them. There is a major difference between loving and liking – even though it might appear small. “Liking, in general, is commercial culture’s substitute for loving.” Products are made to be likeable, but if that concept in transferred to a person, you would instantly see...
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...Reaction – “Salvation” The nonfiction short essay “Salvation” written by Langston Hughes in 1940, presents a theme on the literal and often manipulated perception of children. Hughes narrates the essay as he recounts his disappointing attempt at salvation. Hughes aunt told him that when she was saved by Jesus she saw a light, and felt something happen within herself. As children will do, Hughes took her story literally and was heartbroken as he sat in front of the church and watched other children “saved” while he was not. He believed that Jesus must not want him because he did not see or feel anything. In the end, Hughes is forced to lie about accepting Jesus and in turn rejects the Christian faith all together. I related to Hughes story on many accounts. I am a mother of three young children who perceive everything in life literally, and as a young girl I was raised in a very religious environment. I could visualize and almost feel Hughes devastation as he sat at the front of the church crushed by the thoughts of God not wanting him. “Still I kept waiting to see Jesus” (Barnet, Cain, & Burto, 2011, pp. 351). One of the churches that my family attended for a short time during my childhood practiced speaking in tongs. I specifically remember feeling just like Hughes during a service when other children were speaking in unnatural languages perceived to be sent from God himself. I could not understand why I was not chosen to talk for God and intern was hurt and...
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