concepts of the fine arts (Knowledge par 4). Writing, like other careers, have classes that will help you get to the career. Some high school courses that will help with writing are American Literature, Computer Applications, Creative Writing, English Literature, Keyboarding, Technical Writing, and World Literature (Helpful par 3). These classes all focus on writing and computers, but since most writers are self-employed other classes that could be useful are Accounting, Entrepreneurship, and Introduction
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CROSSROADS OF MORTALS is a character driven drama about past family secrets that have the ability to emotionally impact various people’s lives. It’s adapted from a novel. The goal is both tangible and emotional. The goal is to unravel a family secret and the emotional goal is to reconcile the past and move on with the future. The story is driven by solid themes about secrets, healing, and second chances. The eventual secret that is exposed is powerful. One can perceive how this plot could make
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The Novel Lord of the flies written by William Golding shows many different essential themes. The themes in this story stand out a lot for the reader, especially three specific ones. The three main themes that would stand out the most for the reader would be Identity, Civilization, and Morality. William Golding uses these themes to tell the reader how easily Civilization could change for the worse. In Lord of the flies William Golding used the theme Identity very effectively. During Lord of the
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Robert Frost, one of the most renowned and well-known writers in America and England, lived a very hard life. He and his wife had six children, but only two were healthy, two had mental illnesses and two died of disease. Also he had many financial troubles, when he attempted to farm, but it is these struggles that made his writing as powerful as it has been. Frost first had struggles finding someone to take his poetry seriously, so he went to England. He became one of the most well known writers
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Response to “Changed” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow This poem expresses the emotions and unfamiliarity that results from change over time. It uses imagery to express negative and positive feelings that are evoked in the narrator by the same place. This change in feelings shows the evolution of people and their views. The narrator even asks himself, “[i]s it changed, or am I changed?” (Longfellow 6). His search for answers on what caused this emotional shift is explored but none the less he acknowledges
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Browning who was also a famous writer. She was one of the most prominent English poets of the Victorian era. Her works of poetry are widely popular in England as well as in the United States, and she is greatly admired for her successful works in literature and poetry. She was born in Coxhoe Hall, Durham, England on March 6, 1806 to Edward Barrett Moulton-Barrett and Mary Graham Clarke. Elizabeth was the eldest of 12 children. There were eight boys and four girls in her family. She was very fortunate
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Fitzgerald’s use of smooth, flowing sentences and continuous dialogue differs greatly compared to the terse dialogue and almost an insufficient writing style of Hemingway, which affects the portrayal of the characters in each of their novels. The differences in sentence structure and the wording the authors use in their novels conveys different imitations of the characters’ actions or appearances. For example, Hemingway’s use of the Iceberg Principle in his writing in contrast with Fitzgerald’s
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I utilized the literary devices of personification and repetition. Repetition is often used to create rhythm within a poem, providing structure as well as ultimately changing the way in which the poem is perceived. In my verb-heavy poem, repetition is used to emphasize the rhythm which I experienced once “I woke again” every day “And I continued / My routine.” Rhythmic language within Yours Truly was primarily meant to create a sense of urgency in the speaker’s life as well as aid in visualizing
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Summer Reading Assignment- Speak Part I-Précis Laurie Anderson's Speak is a realistic fiction novel set in Syracuse, New York during modern day. The protagonist and main character is Melinda Sordino, while the antagonist is a senior named Andy Evans. The main conflict occurs because Melinda doesn't tell anyone she has been raped, forcing herself to become isolated and treated like an outcast by everyone else. Thus, Melinda begins high school with no friends after calling the cops at the summer
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In the book “My Side of the Mountain” by Jean Craighead George, a boy named Sam Gribley decides to go off and live in the wilderness to get away from the city. He lives in a forest for over a year, and at the end, his family comes to visit him. The book ends with Sam’s family deciding to move in with him to his little section of the wilderness. He had lived alone in the base of a tree happily and was upset that his family was deciding to build a house for him and the rest of his family to live in
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