In the eighteen-hundreds, Thomas Carlyle wrote some letters about Ralph Waldo Emerson. Two of these letters describe him in vastly different ways. One letter was written to John Stuart Mill, and the other to a Mrs. Baring. Carlyle’s point of view and respect for Emerson remains in both, however due to the different audience, his tone and use of language is incredibly different. The difference in audience was the main reason the letters were so different. In the first letter, Carlyle wrote to another
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A.S. King is the author of the ALA best books for young adults, “The Dust of 100 Dogs”, and “Monica Never Shuts Up”. A.S. has also written “Glory O'Brien's History of the Future”. A.S. King lived in Ireland for a decade, teaching adults about literacy, she now lives in Pennsylvania with her husband and children. In the book, “ Dust of 100 Dogs”, Emer Morrisey is a pirate that is cursed to 100 years as a dog, She is then born as Saffron Adams. Saffron and her family are poor. Saffron wants to find
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As much as I like to think that I am a good writer, words almost fail me in describing Kristi Parker-Johnson, but I’ll try. The Miracle Worker, the Help, the Iron lady and the Giver scratch the surface of her multiple abilities and talents. For the last two years, Kristi has was my editor and mentor and the one who gave me a chance to write professionally. First, at the Killeen Daily Herald (KPD) and Texas Appeal magazine in Central Texas, and later at Out & About magazine and the Gilroy Dispatch
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The target age group for our children’s story, Fergus Builds a Sandcastle is students in grade one. The poetic devices we used in our children’s story, Fergus Builds a Sandcastle are hyperbole, repetition, and alliteration. We used the device, hyperbole when we explained that the castle was so big that they could not reach the top to put on the flag. This is an example of hyperbole because they would be unable to make the castle that high if we were not exaggerating. Hyperbole is a very effective
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The use of irony is the two poems “The History Teacher” by Billy Collins and “Outdistanced” by Larry Rubin punctuates the shared theme that history repeats itself, and those who fail to learn from it, repeat it. In the “The History Teacher” the teacher doesn’t teach his students correctly, he takes the violence out of the history making the ‘Ice Age’ the ‘Chilly Age’ (2-3). This exposes the audience to the fact that the teacher doesn’t value our history, despite him being a history teacher. As the
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In the poem, “The Hand”, it talks about a teacher questioning a kid, basically asking what he wants to do with his life, and if he was going to give it what he’s got or not. This was a question for the kid to answer for himself, no one else could answer it for him. In the reading, “A Model for High Schools”, it talks about kids dropping out of their original high school due to, drugs, violence, lack of care, lack of teachers caring, etc., but later in life a school opens up that gives those kids
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Lord of the flies is described as a big allegory story because the story is a symbolic level of meaning where the characters and setting represent well examples like the island represents the whole world. When Jack , Ralph were on a plane after World War 2 the world was divided in two camps the United States and the Soviet Union and there were like Jack and Ralph. During that Cold War a lot of people suffered from atomic bombs all across the country.When they suffered from the atomic bombs Jack
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In this week’s reading report, you have three different authors who have a way of conveying the same message but just a different way of doing so. In chapter 23 you have author Tulasi Srinvias, who argues against pre-packaged food and how since women became excited about it, the pre-packaged meals started to flood the urban Indian market. In chapter 28 you have author Alison Leitch who argues in hopes to bring attention to “slow foods” and in chapter 29 you have author Jeffrey M. Pilcher, who argues
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Lit Device #4 - Repetition Repetition: “Literary device that repeats the same words or phrases a few times to make an idea clearer.” Example: “It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known”(386). Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities Context: In A Tale of Two Cities, by Charles Dickens, Charles Darnay is condemned to death because of the Evremondes’ bad awful reputation among the common people in France. Living up to his
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Over the course of history, a recurring theme of American literature authors utilizing their stories as “moral purifiers” has manifested. These authors use their works of literature to attempt to draw attention to and reform ideals and occurrences that they deem wrong or immoral within their time period. Three stories that efficiently display this concept are “A New England Nun” by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, “A Pair of Silk Stockings” by Kate Chopin, and “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” by Ambrose
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