The three prewriting strategies that I liked best was listing, clustering, and sketching. I have written plenty of essays and stories in my lifetime, so I have my own system of prewriting. Out of the prewriting strategies we have discussed I like listing the most. I feel like writing whatever comes to your mind helps you to see what really peaks your imagination. Listing could help me as a writer by opening my topics to new things that I might not have been able to see. Listing does not have restrictions
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descendants behind in their new habitat and so “… the genes for dangerous wanderlust will have done well in the lottery of natural selection” (Heinrich, 57). I did indeed like this book. Like mentioned before, I was accustomed to reading books that would teleport me away from reality and so it was quite the refresher to find something completely new and different. I originally chose it because it did not seem as intimidating as the others and seemed to offer facts about plants/ecology enveloped
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“Do you really believe… that everything historians tell us about men or women- is actually true? You ought to consider the fact that these historians have been written by men, who never tell the truth except by accident.” As Moderata Fonte says, you cannot always go by what was written down on paper because it is not what actually happened. These words spoken by Fonte relate with the story The Necklace, by Guy de Maupassant. Not only do they both describe different thoughts between men and women
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Two poems from two different eras, how could they possibly be similar? “Sadie and Maud” is a 1963 poem by Gwendolyn Brooks about two sisters who take separate paths with their lives and neither could please society. On the flip side, “Differences of Opinion” is by Wendy Cope from 2006 about an argument between a female and a male who would not accept a clear fact. While “Sadie and Maud” and “Differences of Opinion” are from two vastly different time periods, they both share the topic of gender inequality
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The book that has influenced me the most would have to be Flatland by Edwin A. Abbott. This novel tells the story of a two dimensional shape who goes by the name of A Square and discovers the realm of the third dimension. The story has influenced because as a result of having read it I know approach not only science and math problems in a different perspective, but I approach life with a new set of eyes. In the novel the square has a sphere revealed to him, which was a traumatic incident to the square
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The two poems, “For Mohammed Zeid of Gaza, Age 15” (p. 572) and “Why I Could Not Accept your Invitation” (p. 573), written by Naomi Shihab Nye, can be interpreted as updated examples of George Orwell’s points in “Politics and the English Language” (p. 529) because both poems serve to open up several of Orwells points made about language. In the poem, “For Mohammed Zeid of Gaza, Age 15,” Nye talks about how the death of a 15 year old, by the name of Mohammed, is downplayed by the people’s justification
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They Marched into Sunlight Review After reading the first eighteen chapters of David Maraniss’ They Marched into Sunlight, I was really shocked to find out all about what I was uneducated on about the Vietnam War. Also, after reading the first eighteen chapters, I had to read all of it. I’m not one to put a book down, without finishing it. I felt like I had to know what happened to the characters, because they became part of a story in my head. Over all I think this novel was wonderfully written
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Death can cause different responses in people. When someone you know dies, many thoughts go around your mind. Some people become murderous in revenge, others become sad and depressed and shut out the world. The Lord of the Flies is a novel about a group of boys that are in a plane crash and became stranded on an island. The boys are forced to adapt to their environment and struggle to survive and in the process, several of the boys are lost. Simon’s death is the most important event in the Lord
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To give an insight into society and humanity whilst still being aesthetically interesting and thought provoking is a feat that only the best of classic literature can accomplish. Dracula, by Bram Stoker (1897) and The Picture of Dorian Gray, by Oscar Wilde (1893) are such novels and they both reveal different aspects of life in the Victorian era. Whilst Stoker’s writing affirms the ideas of British supremacy in technology as well as the fear of foreigners, Wilde’s writing sheds light on the superficial
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The book Kindred written by Octavia E. Butler tells the story of slavery in a very unique way. This book takes place in two different time zones, the 19th century and the 20th century. Although this book does have a sci fi aspect to it, the author does a very good job of telling the story for her purpose, to depict slavery. This book is written in such a way that we are fully immersed in the main character, giving us insight on what it felt like to be a black women living not only in a time when
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