...Behind the Pink Curtain Author, Jennifer Price, in her essay, The Plastic Pink Flamingo: A Natural History, establishes her thoughts on the plastic flamingo in the 1930s. Price’s purpose is to uses the horation style of satire in order to serve her point that American society is based on the impractical concepts of capitalism, and the American Dream. She adopts a humorous tone in order to appeal to the average American who may not be conscious of how ignorant they are on the subject of marketing and corporal influences. When the flamingo “splashed” into the 50s, it symbolized the beaches of Miami in the artificial world that was associated with the plastic yard decoration as well as the resort's destination (Miami). Price establishes humorous syntax to bring a joyful and jocular tone to her essay. The "wealth and pizzazz" is comparable to the American dream that died away long ago while it lightly mocks how Americans conceive that planting a pink plastic bird in the front of their yard can be a symbol of “pizzazz" or extravagance. Based on the fact that the flamingos were hunted "to extinction in Florida ", it is strange how the Florida tourist industry could market and build gigantic tourist attractions and tremendous amounts of money based on this long-lost idea, the (American Dream) the flamingo. It's like planting a dodo bird in your front lawn; the animal is instinct and does not fit in with the surrounding landscape, however for some apparent reason, it symbolizes...
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...following texts: “What is the American Dream”, a background essay from The Library of Congress Learning Page website, 2002. “Arnold Schwarzenegger Recalls Lessons From 25 Years as a U.S Citizen – Learn English, participate in Politics, and give Back”, a comment from U.S News & World Report website, 2008. Both texts discuss the thought of the “American dream”. The texts have various opinions, but also different style and language. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s text is written in an informal language compared to the other text. In Arnold Schwarzenegger’s text the noun often comes before the verb. For instance “I became, I will, I came, I worked” This makes the language seem enumerating. He talks directly to the reader in active sentences and there are traces of spoken language in the text, for instance: “That made me feel so good, speaking only a little English”. The language is ordinary and easily understandable. The text is personal and directed towards the feelings of the reader. In the other text the language is formal. There are many passive sentences which make the text seem professional. The words are various and complex, which signals a better language. In short Schwarzenegger’s text is meant to hit the reader on a personal level. He talks about his own experiences in his life and this makes him seem sympathetic and human to the reader. The other text has a better language. This text is not supposed to touch your feelings but instead be informative, practical intellectual. ...
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... 2011 Outline: A) Introduction: general overview. B) Comparison of selected works. C) Conclusion. Foreword: This essay aims to compare plot, point of view, and theme of two authors in their respective works: Cotton Mather, “The Wonders of the Invisible World”, “The Trial of Martha Carrier”, and Benjamin Franklin, “Information to Those Who Would Remove to America”, “Remarks Concerning the Savages of North America”. Thesis: Cotton Mather and Benjamin Franklin are bright representatives of colonial literature. Their views can usefully be compared and contrasted. American writing began with the work of English adventurers and colonists in the New World chiefly for the benefit of readers in the mother country. From the beginning, however, the literature of New England was also directed to the edification and instruction of the colonists themselves, intended to direct them in the ways of the godly. Cotton Mather emerged as the dominant intellect of New England during the last decade of the Seventeenth and the beginning of the Eighteenth centuries. The approach of the American Revolution and the achievement of the actual independence of the United States was a time of intellectual activity as well as social and economic change. The variously gifted Benjamin Franklin forwarded American literature not only through his own writing but also by founding and promoting newspapers and periodicals. Benjamin Franklin was Colonial America's famous...
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...a guarantee of good jobs and a better future. Today, young adults in college often experience a lot of pressure. The journalist and professor at Yale University, William Zinsser, discusses the pressures and stress with lots of details and reasons in his persuasive and informative essay entitled College Pressures. His essay was directed to parents of college students, professors, job contractors, and college students (Zinsser, 396). Zinsser’s purpose in writing this essay was to encourage students to take risks on their college journey (Zinsser, 398). To make his essay stronger, Zinsser was effective by using persuasive rhetorical writing tools such as pathos, ethos, and logos. College allows young adults to develop necessary skills and improve abilities which they are going to need later in their chosen fields. Initially, college students often undergo a lot of stress in what is expected to be a self-enriched experience. This young generation wants to become successful students. Moreover, Zinsser works at Branford University, and in his essay, Zinsser shared, “I am privy to their hopes and fears- and also to their stereo music and their piercing cries in the dead of night” (Zinsser, 397). To make his essay more credible, Zinsser uses ethos which stands for ethical appeal (Bernanke, 2010). He uses ethos by narrating his experiences with his students, and anecdotes which he knows really well. Although Zinsser belongs to a different generation, he relates to his students’ struggles...
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...Essay #2: Critical Response of an Image 15% of final grade 3-4 pages, double-spaced Far from being a passive mirror of society, advertising is an effective and pervasive medium of influence and persuasion, and its influence is cumulative, often subtle, and primarily unconscious [….] It is both creator and perpetuator of the dominant attitudes, values, and ideology of the culture, the social norms and myths by which most people govern their behavior. At the very least, advertising helps to create a climate in which certain attitudes and values flourish and others are not reflected at all. (Kilbourne 120-21) As Jean Kilbourne notes in her article “’In Your Face . . . All Over the Place’: Advertising Is Our Environment,” advertising serves as a form of mediation that not only presents us with products and information, but also influences our behavior, our beliefs, and our choices. For this assignment, you will work to understand the messages advertisements send by analyzing an advertisement of your choice, keeping in mind the ploys that advertisers use to manipulate and exploit consumers. The important question here, as Kilbourne says, is not ‘Does this ad sell the product?,’ but rather ‘What else does this ad sell?’. For this assignment, you will select one advertisement from a newspaper, magazine, or website that contains graphics and written text and analyze it according to the criteria that follow. Your reading of the assigned essays for this unit, our class discussion...
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...Choice, Sports, Stem Cell Research, Steroids, Terrorism, Violence, War on Drugs, more... Business - Advertising, Business, Buy Web Sites, Economics, Finance, Management, Marketing, Sell Websites Education - ADHD, Learning, Philosophy of Education, Privatization, Public Schools, School Violence, School Vouchers, Teaching, Technology and Education, Test and Testing, Writing English Composition Essays - Analitical, Autobiographical, Argument, Cause/Effect, Classification, Compare/Contrast, Comparison, Conversation, Creative+Writing, Critical, Deductive, Definition, Descriptive, Description, Dialog, Division, Exploratory, Expository, Informative, Interview, Inquiry, Journalistic, Narration, Observation. Personal Narrative, Place, Profile, Process, Proposal English Literature and Literary Analysis - Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, A & P, Antigone, Apocalypse Now, Araby, The Awakening, Barn Burning, Beowulf, Beloved, Bible, Birthmark, Blade Runner, The Bluest Eye, Candide, Canterbury Tales, Catcher in the Rye, Cathedral, Chrysanthemums, A Clockwork Orange, The Color Purple, Comparing Literary Works, Crime and Punishment, Death of a Salesman, Death in Venice, Desiree's Baby, A Doll's House, Dr. Faustus, Epic of Gilgamesh, Everyday Use, A Farewell to Arms, Frankenstein, The Grapes of Wrath, Great Gatsby, Great Expectations, Glass Menagerie, Gulliver's Travels, The Handmaid's Tale, Heart of Darkness, The Iliad, Invisible Man, Jane Eyre, The Joy Luck Club, The Lottery, ...
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...Pre writing assignment for Informational Essay 1. Explore topics 2. Immigration in the united state 3. American dream can be achieved by hard work 4 Attending college in a non-English speaking country 5 Marriage with in the Krahn tribe Evaluate your topic. Is your topic that you will focus on enough broad so you can find enough information? Is it narrow enough so you can cover it adequately? Yes I did a research on the Krahn tribe from Liberia and found information about them: who are the krahn tribe? Where do they come from before going to Liberia, what part of Africa where they settle? 4. Establish a goal. What do you want to accomplish in your essay? Do you want to analyze the topic? What I wish to accomplish from this essay is that my readers should have a clear ideal on how the Krakn tribe became known among the other tribes and where they migrated from. 5. Your audience. What do they need to know? My audience, at the end of this essay will be able to know some interesting historic information about the krahn tribe. Some of which includes culture; marriage, rising up a family, farming, and tribal wars. Why are tribal wars fought and how messages are spread to different towns to informed them of danger and how peace treaties are reach. 6. Consider your purpose. How can you express your purpose in a single sentence? That statement can help you stay on target as you do research...
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...Historical Analysis of american history asjdklfjasdl dkk dk Basically, a 250 word essay turns out to be one of the shortest academic written tasks, which you may get. That is why, a great number of students may be mislead by this fact and consider it to be very simple to fulfill. However, if you gain an insight into creating this type of essay, you’ll see that the most significant thing while completing it is to be neat and concise. It means that to succeed in creating a fantastic paper with a 250 word limit, you ought to use short but clear sentences. Only in this case, you’ll be able to highlight the topic of your essay in a proper way as well as meet all the requirements. How to Develop a Concise and Suitable Thesis Statement Obviously, a thesis statement is sure to have a large impact on the grade you’ll get for your essay. Thus, while creating it, you should demonstrate all your writing skills. At the same time, you shouldn’t forget about the peculiarities of the essay type you are to cover. In other words, you need to take into account the word limiting factor, which appears to be of one of the main determinates of your success. All in all, to make your thesis statement informative, captivating and short you ought to follow these simple and clear guidelines: * Avoid using abstract notions and terms. Indeed, word selection matters a lot. Consequently, try to be exact, accurate and specific. * Don’t use long and complex sentences to express your thoughts...
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...May 3, 2015 Macroeconomics 2301 Professor Leonie Karkoviata Economic Impact Essay The Macroeconomics Course was very informative this semester. The concept that took my interest the most came from Chapter 12: Public Sector. The taxation principles; Benefits-received principle, and Ability-to-pay principle. I didn’t really understand taxes until now. I remember when I got my first job in a warehouse loading and unloading truck with cubes of brick and accessories to build houses. I was making $ 7.25 an hour. I was so anxious to get my check and see how much I made. 2 weeks went by and it was finally time for me to get paid. My boss was calling out names to collect their pay, and he couldn’t get to mine fast enough. Once my envelope concealing my check was handed to me, I walked to the bathroom and ripped it opened. Too my surprise, federal taxes and Social Security had been taken out. I was a little upset because I didn’t make that much as it was, and now the government had taken their share before I even got a chance to cash it. I soon realize that was the least of my worries, I still had to ration what was left over between necessities such as groceries, gas, and rent. As I was purchasing groceries, I noticed that the bill racked up fairly quickly, same with gas partially due to taxes. It wasn’t until after a few checks that I had realized that taxation was not going away anytime soon. I needed to figure out a way to either make more money or...
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...| | CCRS | CONTENT STANDARDS | EVIDENCE OF STUDENT ATTAINMENT | RESOURCES | 91929384130 | EIGHTH GRADE: TO BE COMPLETED THROUGHOUT THE COURSEREADING LITERATURE: RANGE OF READING AND LEVEL OF TEXT COMPLEXITY By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poems, at the high end of Grades 6-8 text complexity band independently and proficiently. [RL.8.10]READING STANDARDS FOR INFORMATIONAL TEXT: RANGE OF READING AND LEVEL OF TEXT COMPLEXITY By the end of the year, read and comprehend literary nonfiction at the high end of the Grades 6-8 text complexity band independently and proficiently. [RI.8.10]WRITING STANDARDS: RANGE OF WRITING Write routinely over extended time frames, including time for research, reflection, and revision, and shorter time frames such as a single sitting or a day or two for a range of discipline-specific tasks, purposes, and audiences. [W.8.10]KNOWLEDGE OF LANGUAGE Use knowledge of language and its conventions when writing, speaking, reading, or listening. [L.8.3]VOCABULARY ACQUISTION AND USE Acquire and use accurately grade-appropriate general academic and domain-specific words and phrases; gather vocabulary knowledge when considering a word or phrase important to comprehension or expression. [L.8.6]SPEAKING AND LISTENING STANDARDS Engage effectively in a range of...
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...29.09.2012 ‘Tragedy is an imitation of an action’ is what Aristotle said about the theater genre, tragedy. I have been curious about the ‘imitation of an action’ part and asked myself question such as what could the’ imitation of an action’ as a phrase in this context of tragedy mean so, under the light of the emphasis our instructor put on the chapter ‘the definiton of tragedy’ in ‘Aristotle’s Poetics’ reading that we were assigned to read and since I wanted my question to be cleared and I also wanted to understand the foundation of tragedy and prepare myself, base knowledge wise, for readings that were to come, I started my reading with that particular chapter. Through the chapter I partially understood, through my own reading without anyone’s help, the combination of artistic beauty of changing the places of the words, harmonious rhythms of songs that provide an emballishment to the ongoing play on the stage and the crucial components such as ‘the soul of tragedy’ and another component as important as the plot that I am not too confident about whether I absorbed its meaning and relation with other parts of a tragedy, that element is thought. I think through the chapter I found an answer to my question of what is imitation of an action, let me expand my question for beter understanding and my own answer through the information I gained through my reading . I think my question of what imitation of an action is pretty straightforward to understand, in literal base I know...
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...Social Work and Human Rights Essay Introduction The recent news of the two aboriginal teenagers with their contrasting stories caught my attention. One was of a 17 year old, Ms. Victoria Lansen, an aboriginal single mom, who after facing much struggle, completed her Year 12 graduation from Gunbalanya School in West Arnhem Land on January 21,2016. The second was of another aboriginal teenager from Goldfields-Esperance region, Western Australia, who took his own life just two days after, becoming one of the at least five people in the Goldfields-Esperance region who have committed suicide in the past two months leading up to Christmas. The journey of the 17 year old Ms. Lansen, who comes from a remote Aboriginal town, has not been easy but in the interview to (1) ABC News she stated that she could cope owing to the support from family, friends and range of core local services. Her environment was in contrast to that of the troubled youth whose death highlights the sense of hopelessness, radicalized and economic inequality. The deceased youth’s uncle, Trevor Donaldson, is demanding a safe house set up for troubled aboriginal youth in Goldfields, Western Australia. The human rights issue which can be seen in the light of just these two unbiased media reports is how presence or absence of some core local services can change the direction in which the life takes the Aboriginals in this case. (2) Western Australia leads the Aboriginal suicide rates, with 35.8 per 100,000 Aboriginal...
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...section Vi essay forms Many people use the term “essay” to mean any paper written for a class. In actuality, there are many different types of essays, each of which has a unique purpose, form, and style. We call these different types of essays “modes of discourse,” and they include expository, persuasive, and comparecontrast essays to name just a few. This section of the Guide has a dual purpose. First, various types of essays are described and suggestions are included about how to approach each particular type of writing. Second, the sample essays are good tools for you to see how these different essays look in their final form. These are not templates (no essay can be a carbon copy of another even in form), but they will give you a good idea of what a final piece of writing for each mode of discourse looks like. It would be advantageous to critically analyze the form and content of each sample against the instruction for how to write each type of essay. chapter 21 expository essays Jennifer propp An expository essay explains something using facts rather than opinions. The purpose of this type of essay is to inform an audience about a subject. It is not intended to persuade or present an argument of any kind. Writing this type of essay is a good way to learn about all the different perspectives on a topic. Many students use the expository essay to explore a variety of topics, and do so in a wide range of formats, including “process” and “definition”...
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...be a Catholic means to have complete faith in God and his divine grace. Having God's divine grace means to obey it and keep it holy as it was created by God and given to his people. The religion itself is based on this and the people take it very seriously. Catholics believe that all people are of good nature but when one commits a sin it not only hurts that one person but the people and the Church.... [tags: Catholicism, What Catholics Believe, informative] 1922 words (5.5 pages) $14.95 [preview] Catholic religion - CATHOLIC RELIGION To belong to the church one must accept as factually true the gospel of Jesus as handed down in tradition and as interpreted by the bishops in union with the pope. The most important thing in this divine tradition is the Bible, its text determined and disseminated by the church. The church, according to the Roman Catholic catechism, is the only Christian body that is “one, holy, catholic (universal)”. The doctrine of apostolic succession is one of the key parts of the Catholic faith.... [tags: essays research papers] 748 words (2.1 pages) $14.95...
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...7 ANALYZING THE AUTHOR’S PURPOSE AND TECHNIQUE he writer’s overall purpose determines the techniques he or she uses. The writer’s reason for writing a particular article or book may be manipulative, as in propaganda or advertising, or may be more straightforward, as in informative writing. In either case, understanding the writer’s underlying purpose will help you interpret the context of the writing. It will also help you see why writers make the decisions they do—from the largest decisions about what information to present to the smallest details of what words to use. The chapter concludes with instructions on how to write an analysis of purpose and technique. This kind of rhetorical analysis will provide the perspective required to keep you from being pushed by words in directions you don’t want to go. T 103 104 Part 1 Writing About Reading The Writer's Purpose Insofar as people know what they are doing, they plan their actions to achieve their purposes. Someone who selects the purpose of being rich will design and carry out a set of actions, legal or illegal, to gain the desired wealth. A person who wants to gain great wisdom will design an entirely different life course. Writers, whether they want most to be wealthy or wise, have specific purposes they hope to achieve by any piece of work. If they are skilled writers—that is, in control of what they write—they design each aspect of what they are writing to achieve their purpose. Being aware of the writer's...
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