...This is the fourth strategy of exposition. Comparison is the state of finding the differences and similarities between two people or things. Contrast is the state to put two things or people in opposite positions. To be more specific, Comparison and Contrast essay are developed by two methods including Point by point and The Block. Precisely, Point by point is organized by points. Taking the topic of comparison between your life and your grandparent’s life as an example, the essay should be developed by three main subjects: food, education and clothes. In each paragraph, one subject will be analyzed and compared clearly between two generations. Turning to the way to write a Block, only two paragraphs will be included in the body paragraph. In comparison to the topic above, the structure of a body paragraph can be divided into two main paragraphs. The first paragraph is written about the grandparents’ lives and the other one is describing yours along with comparison of lives. Basically, people can choose any one of those two methods to write an essay. While using the strategy of Comparison and Contrast, transition words are very useful such as in contrast, however and whereas and so...
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...1B Short Story Essay Prompt Essay Due: Monday 10/15 at the beginning of class (100 points) Please write a 4-5 page essay. All papers should be typed, double-spaced, 12-point font (Times New Roman), with one-inch margins. All papers must analyze how the rhetorical/formal/symbolic/narrative elements of the short story contribute to your understanding of the text. Please review these terms from your literary terms quiz and your class notes to remind yourself how authors deploy them in the stories. Please choose one of the following topics. Note: I ask a lot of questions within each of the topics because I want to give you many options to consider; however, this does not mean that you have to answer all the sub-questions. Use them as guides to jumpstart your thinking. 1. Hawthorne’s “Young Goodman Brown” Poe’s “The Tell-Tale Heart,” Jewett’s “A White Heron,” Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper” and O’Brien’s “The Things They Carried” track a particular symbol throughout the short story. Focusing on one of these stories, show how the author uses the development of the symbol in order to reflect the demise or spiritual growth of the main characters. Hint: for “The Things They Carried, you can focus on the word carry rather than on a specific individual symbol. 2. Poe’s “The Tell-Tale Heart” and Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper” are both narrated by unreliable narrators who go crazy. Focusing on one of these stories, how does the author portray insanity? How does the insanity...
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...Essay – Letter to a cat Letter to a cat was written by the author Sheelagh Morris and published in 1997. The story’s main theme is loneliness: “`Colonel do you think it acceptable practice to ask only the useful and or decorative to your wedding?´ June swung around in her chair. `Mother, would you stop pretending you’re talking to the cat.´” (ll.12-14, p.1), this quote catches the main theme loneliness well as she began to talk to the cat Colonel instead of her husband and daughter. Norma does not feel comfortable at home and wants to get out of there. Then she meets Arthur and he cares about her, which she’s not used to: “It was nice to be looked after” (l.2, p.2) She was feeling looked after when Arthur stopped the bleeding of her foot, which she clearly not feels at home. As a woman in her forties and highly overweight she’s not use to being cared about, at home she doesn’t get a lot of attention, as we can see in the introduction. Her daughter and husband ignore her and talk to her in a condescending way: “June and Daragh did not look up from the newspapers.”(l.80, p.2) It shows that they don’t even care if she said something or not. At the beginning of the text she has a conversation with her family. It ends in a negative way and she says she is going for a walk. Her way of slamming the door on her way out: “’I am going for a walk,’ she shouted from the hall. ‘There’s shepherd’s pie in the fridge.’ She slammed the door of number 42 behind her.” (l.20, p.1) This indicates...
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...school in sixth grade, both of us terrified by the massive size of the middle school. She had the locker right above mine. I told her I didn’t know anybody in our class and she said “You do now.” We’ve been friends ever since. Most boys think Liz is cute. She has long red hair, cascading over her shoulders. She laughs about everything and when she does, you see about a hundred white teeth – so bright, you almost need sunglasses. When she laughs, her eyes grow wide, glowing emerald green. Liz likes to dress kind of skater-ish, in camouflage pants, sweatshirts, and wristbands. But, she’s unpredictable, too. Sometimes she’ll wear overalls or a fancy dress. She must have three closets full of clothes, because she barely ever wears the same outfit twice. Liz is the most lively, animated character I’ve ever known. She’s always rushing around, trying to get the latest scoop on everybody. It’s like she’s in the FBI. Right before she shares important news, Liz tosses back her hair, takes a deep breath, and quickly looks side to side, to be sure the coast is clear. She never says anything mean about people, she just wants to know what’s going on. She always supports me in everything I want to do. Not many girls in our group of friends play sports, but when I told Liz I wanted to go out for basketball, she said “Go for it.” Now, she comes to see almost every game I play and cheer me on. Not only is Liz a tremendous supporter, she also trusts me to give her my honest opinion and to say...
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...“A Good Man is Hard to Find” by Flannery O’connor is a short story about a family whose vacation trip turns quickly into a tragical experience when meeting a runaway criminal known as the Misfit. The story mainly focuses on the definition of a “good man”, by exploring this the story reveals the gender roles that are being played in the story. “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” shows how women are being treated and are portrayed in the story. The female characters in the story demonstrate how a woman should dress and act in ordered to be considered “good” to a “good man”. According to society, a couple of the many expectations of a women is being understanding and submissive; In O’connor’s story, the grandmother demonstrates these qualities when...
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...not come out of her room. Later Dolores has a nightmare about her teacher and says "she hates her" but instead of the truth she points at her grandmother. Soon the family move sot Treetop Acres, where her father becomes obsessed with his yard. He is always outside working when he isn't working for Mrs. Masicotte. Her parents still continued the abuse and her mother kept taking it. Soon Dolores makes a best friend, Jeanette Nord. Jeanette teaches Dolores about sex and Dolores finds it repulsive and thinks she will never have sex. Dolores father decides to have an in ground pool put in which prompts a fight between her parents. He hits his wife and let her parakeet go. He tells Dolores that what happens in the house stays in the house, she's not to tell anyone else. She soon learns that her parents are getting a divorced. Her mother has a mental breakdown and goes into the physic ward. Dolores gets sent to live with her strict catholic grandmother in Rhode Island. Dolores and her grandmother are cautiously polite, both remembering Dolores' outburst about hating her grandmother. While Dolores hates school, she makes an unlikely friend in Roberta, the woman who runs a tattoo parlor across the street from Dolores' grandma....
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...I’m not sure how all this works on term paper warehouse but trying to find out. Just trying to get my 250 words so I can upload and find out. Really I just want to see what this website is about. Bless my wife’s heart, she is having a time getting started with a paper and I am just trying to help her out. She has said no to these websites but if I could get her some hints on how to start she would never know and think I was a genius. Lol. Anyone else out there have issues? Dang she is smart I don’t know why she’s having so much trouble. Stress I guess. So sorry to whoever got stuck reading this. Really I just needed to upload an essay that is 250 words for some help. Now what to write. I am 145 words in and stuck. Writing was never my thing so now I guess I will ramble on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on. 183 words in now. Man this is tough. Ugh. Wish I had something interesting to talk about and this would be easier. 205 words in now. Almost there. My hands are killin me. Killin me I say. I wonder if my wife will kill me when she sees I used her email to log in? probably should have used my own but I hate spam. Hate spam....
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...people be so rude even when I was a kid!" We should really check ourself even for someone who worked at a grosery store for about 20 years and now rudness is out of control. My uncle, who pizza delivery for 10 years says " When I did this 10 years ago people would tip me from left to right and now I just get a door slammed in my face." This prove that people now that rudeness is way out of control and people 10 years ago would be nice enough to tip and now my uncle get a door slammed in his face and get rude comments. Sari Grosenbach Eng.101 Mr. Powell Assignment 6 2/19/13 She's Your Basic LOL In the essay She’s Your Basic L.O.L in N.A.D, author Kerri Klass’s main point is the languge she has to learn when becoming a doctor. According to Klass (passage 1) I didnt even know what C.P., S.O.B, N/V means chest pains, shortness of breath, or nausea and vomting. (pharagraph 2) Klass also writes (passage 2) Well we've already had one hit today and we're up next this means that our team (group of doctors ans medical students) has already gotten one new admission today (pharagraph 6). Finally she states (passage 3) When the intern hangs up the phone and annouces...
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...Rochester is already married, despite his love for Jane. However, she continues to rely on Rochester for comfort. Jane realizes that’s she’s deceiving herself about Rochester and is skeptical about their relationship when hints pop up such as saving Rochester from a fire and her torn wedding veil. 2. What happens during Jane and Rochester’s wedding ceremony? When Jane and Rochester are entering the wedding ceremony at the church, a stranger who was already present declares that Rochester cannot get married to Jane because he’s already married. Rochester admits to his mistake but wants to take everyone to show them Bertha and the room where she stabbed Rochester’s brother. 3. Describe how Jane’s reaction and choice regarding Mr. Rochester’s proposal are consistent with her character. Jane is skeptical about the marriage with Rochester, but she still accepts his proposal because she is reliant on Rochester for compassion and social status. Her reaction is consistent with her unsteady, inferior character as she can’t deny a marriage proposal from an older, wealthier man who is the first to offer her love. 4. Describe Jane’s experience as a beggar, and discuss how Jane’s faith in God gives her the strength to survive When Jane is without a home or food, she is caught between the upper class and a beggar because she’s well-dressed and from a wealthy background but is...
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...202: Brandel Of Prisoners & Superheroes Shalin Patel Poem Title: Prisoner No. 786 Drama Title: Love is Bl(ow)ind Creative Non-Fiction Title: v/s The Biased Media of the 21st Century Fiction Title: Sub-Urban Superhero Reflection Essay Included Total Word Count: 5095 Prisoner No. 786 I, prisoner number 786, stick my head out through these iron bars. I watch as days, months and years turn into eons. The smell of the warm moist mud reminds me of all those carefree afternoons I spent on my mama’s porch watching the rain pass by. The scorching sun on my face reminds me of the sweetest iced tea my sister used to so carefully prepare. The unflinching rain at times takes me back to the fields where I would play soccer for hours at end with my cousins. The bitter cold within my bones reminds me of the steaming hot barbecue my father would make so passionately, never failing to impress. This man standing outside my cell tells me this is not my country, then why does it feel like I’m right at home? He says I’m not like him, then why do I feel like he’s like me? I, prisoner number 786, stick my head out through these iron bars. I stare towards the heavens as a white fairy descends from the village of dreams. I don’t know who she is, but she talks like she’s all mine. When I listen to her, it feels like I want to go out there and live again. When she makes all those fake promises, she makes me want to believe in myself again. I, prisoner number 786, stick my head out through these iron...
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...WR 115 Assignment Essay One—Literacy Narrative 600-1000 Words Basic Prompt As you begin this essay writing process, reflect on your experiences and attitudes about reading and writing. Regardless of our backgrounds, our ideas of literacy often become deeply engrained as good or bad without much thought about to how these views have come to be. As a result, many of us have definitions of literacy–of reading and writing–that could benefit from a thoughtful and honest close self-examination. Choose a Topic: Please draw from the following as you develop your essay focus: • Narrate an early memory about writing or reading that you recall vividly. Then explain why this event is significant to you now. • Describe someone who taught you to read or write and explain this person’s significance in your life. • Identify a book or other text and explain its significance for you in your reading and writing. • Narrate an experience with a writing or reading task that you found (or still find) difficult or challenging. • Describe a memento and explain how it represents an important moment in your reading/writing development. Then Create a Narrative: Use sound writing and story-telling skills to organize and articulate your story. Make sure to stay focused on your one, main idea. Key Elements • Create a well told story. Bring your narrative to life by using concrete and vivid details. • Develop your main idea. (make sure you only have one main idea) • Develop the significance or affect of your...
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...WR 115 Assignment Essay One—Literacy Narrative 600-1000 Words Basic Prompt As you begin this essay writing process, reflect on your experiences and attitudes about reading and writing. Regardless of our backgrounds, our ideas of literacy often become deeply engrained as good or bad without much thought about to how these views have come to be. As a result, many of us have definitions of literacy–of reading and writing–that could benefit from a thoughtful and honest close self-examination. Choose a Topic: Please draw from the following as you develop your essay focus: • Narrate an early memory about writing or reading that you recall vividly. Then explain why this event is significant to you now. • Describe someone who taught you to read or write and explain this person’s significance in your life. • Identify a book or other text and explain its significance for you in your reading and writing. • Narrate an experience with a writing or reading task that you found (or still find) difficult or challenging. • Describe a memento and explain how it represents an important moment in your reading/writing development. Then Create a Narrative: Use sound writing and story-telling skills to organize and articulate your story. Make sure to stay focused on your one, main idea. Key Elements • Create a well told story. Bring your narrative to life by using concrete and vivid details. • Develop your main idea. (make sure you only have one main idea) • Develop the significance or affect of your...
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...girl's song…. Sing a song of life, she's been dead so long"(Shange 18), creating a voice for every woman. None of these women possess a name, only a color, to show that they represent all women of color. Shange includes themes of love, abandonment, sexuality, abortion, and domestic violence to emphasize what women in her community were and still are subjugated to. Through dance, poetry, and music these women slowly but surely find their true identity. Ntozake uses her work as a tool to empower all “colored girls” by creating these seven strong women that form a bond when they are able to find their identity as black women, and essentially in their journey make it to the end of their rainbows without committing suicide. When looking into Shange’s life there’s no question that situations, which she had observed day-to-day or experienced herself, were imposed on her writings. Born as Paulette Williams she was raised in a middle class family, which was not a childhood common for blacks. Her family moved to St. Louis and she attended a non-segregated school where she had to endure blatant racism at the mere age of eight years old. She rebelled against her family’s satisfaction with being a part of the middle class when she still had to deal with the hardships of being black and a woman. Realizing that in the real world there were limitations being set on blacks and women in society, produced her anger: the catalyst to her decision to write to not only empower women, but to...
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...ruined. Gerard is a handsome man from New York, who is approximately 40 years old. The turning point in the story is when Gerard meets Laurel coincidently after he sees her through a shop window. Gerard and Laurel are former partners, but the relationship ended when Gerard had to proclaim that he had made another woman pregnant while they were still dating. Gerard has Lucy with Issy, and after Issy moves to Los Angeles to fulfill her dreams about being a Hollywood actress, Gerard takes the responsibility of raising Lucy on his own. Four years after Issy went to Los Angeles she was found dead in a pool, possibly after a suicide as she had taken her time to write Gerard’s name as her next of kin. Gerard lives what could be conceived as a boring and regrettable life, with the exception of his daughter; Lucy. Lucy is Gerard’s light of the day. “Gerard feels a stabbing love for his daughter” [l.18], “She’s wonderful, just wonderful” [l.78], “I love you” [l.165]; in this short story we’re constantly reminded of Gerard’s endless love for his daughter, and it is clear that she is the light of his seemingly else uninteresting life. We, as readers, are never told which profession Gerard is in, nothing about his parents or childhood so none of it must important or interesting. Another reason that one can conclude that Gerard finds his life unimportant is his perception of his footprints and breath. “Gerard thinks of his own footprints and how soon they will disappear. He exhales...
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...1. Write a summary of Dusk over Atlantic Wharf: The text Dusk over Atlantic Wharf is about an Indian woman, Lata who gets married off by her father, to a man who lives in wales in England. His name is Anuj and Lata does not know him well. Everything is new for her, in a new town where she does not know anybody. She got married to him because her father thought that she would get a better life in wales. She really misses her life in India, where she had her family and friends. It’s hard for her to get used to the new culture in the new country, but she is trying to. In the end of the story she is really sad because they went to see a movie, and the movie was filmed in her hometown so it brought back a lot of memories. But she ends up accepting her new life and that this is where her future is. 2. Characterize Lata and her relationship to Anuj: Lata is an Indian girl, who has just married Anuj, it was and arranged marriage, because she did not know him, and it was planned by her father. Her relationship with Anuj is not good, because she does not know him yet. Its hard for her, because he does not know what she is going through, she has just married a stranger and moved to a new country. She is missing India, her family and her friends. And its also very difficult for her to fit in, because it is different culture. (p.8, line 55) “Lata stared at Anuj, and then at her hennaed hands. It was true, she was his bride and wanted to love him desperately, but he made it so difficult...
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