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Social Sciences
Please identify and define the different sections of a discussion section. Then, upload an article of an experiment...
A discussion section explains the results of your research and presents their deeper meaning. It is not so much descriptive as it is interpretative. Let’s look at some of the sections of a...
Literature
Explain the ethos, logos and pathos of “Laying out the Bare Bones of Genocide” by Alan Whitehorn. Provide a...
Authors use ethos, logos, and pathos to persuade their reader and appeal to them, and Alan Whitehorn uses all three in “Laying Out the Bare Bones of Genocide.” When using ethos, a writer...
Thank You, M'am
What are the signposts in the story “Thank You M’am”?
There are six signposts that help guide readers through a story like Langston Hughes’s “Thank You, M’am.” Let’s review those signposts and look at examples of them in the story. The signposts are...
Fahrenheit 451
What metaphor does Bradbury use to describe earbuds in Fahrenheit 451?
In Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury uses the metaphor of seashells to describe earbuds. Let's look at this in more detail. We read about it first when Montag finds Mildred on the bed with the “little...
Skellig
Write a diary entry for chapter 13 of Skellig in Mina's voice.
David Almond's Skellig offers plenty of room to imagine how the characters would think and feel about various situations. That is what you are being asked to do in this assignment to write a diary...
Skellig
In Skellig, Mina takes Michael to Crow Road. Write a diary entry from Mina’s point of view. Your diary entry will...
A diary entry from Mina’s point of view about Crow Road and showing Michael the house should probably showcase her commanding and quirky personality. As the diary entry must start with “I decided...
The Canterbury Tales
Explain in what ways coexist the two great literary currents of the Middle Ages, the romance and popular literature,...
Romance was one of the most common genres within the popular literature of the Middle Ages. Courtly love and chivalry often feature in romance. While popular literature had strongly religious...
Literature
Explain the ethos, logos, and pathos of "Game Theories" by Clive Thompson. Provide rhetorical analysis with arguments...
Clive Thompson builds ethos or credibility by writing authoritatively about the gaming world and by interviewing a wide range of experts, such as Roger Shapiro, a former undersecretary of commerce,...
Albert Camus
Explain ethos, logos, and pathos for Albert Camus’s “Banquet Speech.” Provide a rhetorical analysis.
The address that Albert Camus wrote for accepting the 1957 Nobel Prize in Literature is usually known as the “Banquet Speech” because he presented it at the awards banquet, and the address contains...
Literature
Explain the ethos, logos, and pathos of Edward Said’s “Keeping Time.” Provide rhetorical analysis with arguments and...
The ethos, logos, and pathos of Edward Said’s “Keeping Time” revolve around humor, melancholy, tragedy, and Said’s relationship with his mother. At first, the pathos mostly centers on Said and his...
Literature
Explain the ethos, logos, and pathos of “PowerPoint Is Evil” by Edward Tufte. Provide rhetorical analysis with...
The ethos, logos, and pathos of “PowerPoint Is Evil” by Edward Tufte relate to his humorous frustration and his statistical reasons for why PowerPoint presentations are so aggravating. For pathos,...
Janet Malcolm
Explain the ethos, logos, and pathos of Janet Malcolm’s “Pandora’s Click.” Provide rhetorical analysis with arguments...
The ethos, logos, and pathos of Janet Malcolm’s “Pandora’s Click” relate to her humor, her critique of people of all ages, and her reoccurring references to a book. Janet Malcolm’s essay “Pandora’s...
Mein Kampf
Explain the ethos, logos, and pathos of "Nation and Race" by Adolf Hitler. Provide rhetorical analysis with arguments...
Ethos is the character or credibility of a writer. A piece of writing will not persuade if readers don't believe the author knows what he or she is talking about. In this piece, chapter 11 of Mein...
The Colonel
Explain the ethos, logos, and pathos of “The Colonel.” Provide rhetorical analysis with arguments and examples.
Ethos, logos, and pathos are types of persuasion used by authors. Ethos moves the reader by using ethics and convincing him or her of the writer’s credibility. Carolyn Forché in “The Colonel” uses...
Math
Point P is inside square ABCD such that PA = 5, PB = 8, and PC = 13. Find the area.
First, we need to find the area of the square. Denote the side length as `a , ` the distance from P to AB as `x ` , and the distance from P to AD as `y . ` Then we have three equations for three...
Mikhail Bulgakov
Could you compare a handful of the absurdist, surrealist, fantastical, magical realist books in Russian and Persian...
Absurd, surrealist, fantastical, magical realist books in Russian and Persian literature reflect the political conditions at the time and often demonstrate how bleak and alienating life in these...
A Single Shard
Should we let something or someone keep us from our dreams, according to “A Single Shard”?
Linda Sue Park’s story “A Single Shard” conveys the message that people should not let something or someone keep them from achieving their dreams. The story also reveals that an apparent obstacle...
The Odyssey
Identify a section of the epic adventure that presents a recognizable feature of our own ideology: What are some...
In Homer's Odyssey, the cultural world is quite different from our own, yet there are still a few similarities. Let's take a look at the area of hospitality and gift giving to get you started on...
Mulk Raj Anand
The protagonist's communication abilities are limited—being untouchable means that he or she cannot be touched or...
In Mulk Raj Anand's Untouchable, Bakha is one of the “untouchables,” and he must develop ways to communicate with others while not violating the restrictions of his caste. Let's look at some of the...
Literature
I need an essay about trauma and post traumatic stress disorder in modern drama
An essay about trauma and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder in modern drama will examine these themes across several plays and support a thesis statement that makes a claim about how these plays...
Social Sciences
Questions are in the Image.
Most of the questions in your assignment are specifically medieval in focus and get to the heart of the culture of the Middle Ages. Let's look at some directions you might take as you write about...
Math
Mary to Jack that in a right triangle ABC, angle C = 90 degrees and angle A = 30 degrees. AE is the angular bisector...
Denote the side BC as `x, ` then `AB = 2x ` and `AC = x sqrt(3) . ` The area in question is `A = sqrt(3) / 2 x^2 .` Also denote `CE = y, ` then `BE = x - y .` By the Pythagorean theorem `3x^2 +...
Literature
Explain the ethos, logos and pathos of "Building Paranoia by Steven Flusty", rhetorical analysis with arguments....
Steven Flusty's “Building Paranoia” definitely makes use of the rhetorical elements of ethos, logos, and pathos. Let's review those elements and note examples of them to get you started on this...
Literature
What are the main points of “Against Ulysses” by Leo Bersani?
The main points of “Against Ulysses” by Leo Bersani are that James Joyce’s novel isn’t so hard to grasp and that it’s more traditional than critics tend to allow. In his essay, Bersani doesn’t...
Pygmalion
How does the quotation from Nietzsche that Shaw quotes at the end of Pygmalion, “When you go to women, take your whip...
The quotation from Nietzsche that Shaw quotes at the end of the play relates closely to Eliza’s relationship with Higgins because their relationship is abusive and despotic. At the end of the play,...
True Grit
Compare and contrast the novel True Grit and the movie True Grit (2010 version). Your analysis may be in terms of...
Whether the 2010 adaptation of True Grit succeeds or fails as a movie is an opinion question; however, it’s possible to argue that the Coen brothers try to remain faithful to Charles Portis’s 1968...
Social Sciences
Summarize the main points of "Boundaries of Time and Being: Benjamin, Baudelaire, Nietzsche" by Leo Bersani.
The main points of "Boundaries of Time and Being" by Leo Bersani center on the topic of modernity and how modern humans, with their fragmented and sensationalized environment, understand and create...
The Cocktail Party
Discuss love and relationships in T. S. Eliot’s The Cocktail Party.
Several types of love and relationships figure significantly in T. S. Eliot’s play, including self-love, romantic and sexual associations, friendship, and the love of God or spiritual connections....
The Giver
How do you think Jonas in The Giver would have performed in his Assignment if Gabriel had not been in the novel?
How Jonas would have performed in his Assignment without Gabriel in his life is a matter of speculation and personal interpretation, but given Jonas's empathetic nature, one might suppose he would...
Political Science
Provide examples of "social construction deviance" or "constructionists" in daily life or recent news.
Constructionist typically refers to someone who interprets the constitution in its strictest form. Legal documents may be created to address specific issues at the time. However, as time goes on,...
History
Could you please answer this question from chapter 7 of Sources and Debates in English History, 1485–1714 by Newton...
Challenges to the Anglican Church beginning in the sixteenth century can be seen as foretelling the radical changes to the English state in the mid-seventeenth century. Under the Tudor and Stuart...
Science
Is de-extincting animals like the woolly mammoth a good idea?
The idea of bringing animals back from extinction has both positive and negative features, and individual opinions will vary about whether such attempts are desirable. By making animals de-extinct,...
The Taming of the Shrew
Shakespeare's plays were written over 400 years ago, but the themes remain relevant today. To what extent is this...
Shakespeare's themes retain their relevance due to their universality and Shakespeare's powerful characterization through which these themes are expressed. If you look across Shakespeare's work,...
History
Compare and contrast Fidel Castro and Luis Muñoz Marín.
In comparing Fidel Castro to Luis Muñoz Marín, several main points of similarity are that both men were the top leaders of Caribbean islands, that their terms began in the mid-twentieth century,...
Hamlet
Based on personal reaction to Hamlet, what is Hamlet like as an individual?
Hamlet seems a timely character as depression and its resulting inaction are chronic problems in our society. The young man who has a missing father and a mother who is absorbed in her...
History
Compare and contrast Puerto Rico and Cuba after 1898.
The fates of both Puerto Rico and Cuba were forever changed by the Spanish-American War, which was fought in 1898. Although Spanish colonial authorities were expelled from both islands, the path...
Literature
What are examples of five rhetorical analysis concepts/terms?
Five concepts used in rhetorical analysis are audience, purpose, ethos, logos, and pathos. Identifying audience and purpose occurs within analyzing the overall rhetorical situation. Ethos, logos,...
The Great Gatsby
What are Tom's and Nick's attitudes toward women in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby?
Tom and Nick both take a dismissive attitude toward women in The Great Gatsby. Tom, a wealthy and entitled man, feels he has a right to betray Daisy by having affairs with lower-class women, a...
The Sun Also Rises
How can the following passage from The Sun Also Rises be analyzed for a literary commentary focused on literary...
For a literary commentary focused on literary devices used by Hemingway in The Sun Also Rises, you might consider focusing on metaphor, connotation, synecdoche, hyperbole, and repetition. In a...
Social Sciences
What is Magnus Hirschfeld's theory of sexuality? What does he mean by his Zwischenstufentheorie (theory of...
Hirschfeld's theory of sexuality proposes that sexuality or sexual orientation is innate and not a choice. Being gay is not a sin, a perversion, a sexual deviance, or a disease, but rather an...
History
What political party in the 1800s would farmers belong to?
The nineteenth-century political party that would probably be most strongly associated with farmers was the Populist Party. The bedrock of the Populist Party lay in the country's agricultural...
Literature
Could you explain the main argument of Leo Bersani's The Culture of Redemption and how it is developed/supported...
In his 1990 polemical book The Culture of Redemption, Leo Bersani argues against the modern literary notion that art and literature can fix the errors of humanity's history, experience and...
Literature
How is religion shown in Kalila and Dimna by Ibn al-Muqaffa'? Please explain with related examples.
While Kalila and Dimna is not overtly religious, it does contain many values that have religious overtones, and it presents a portrait of morals meant to guide people into proper behavior and...
Social Sciences
How does the Global South’s debt problem compare with the U.S. debt in terms of the causes, the magnitude, and the...
The Global South’s debt problem compares with the U.S. debt unequally since the United States is the world’s foremost superpower and, arguably, none of the countries in the Global South has as much...
Heart of Darkness
Joseph Conrad uses repeated “doubling” patterns of opposition and contrast in Heart of Darkness: light and dark,...
Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness is, in many ways, an exploration of the human psyche, and the contrasts the author uses throughout the story point to the contrasts in a person’s own mind and in...
History
Based on the article "Race and Identity: The Culture of Combat in the Pacific War" by Craig M. Cameron, assess the...
Craig M. Cameron's article “Race and Identity: The Culture of Combat in the Pacific War” focuses on the racial stereotypes held on both sides of the Japanese and Allied conflict during World War...
Literature
What is Victorian poetry?
The influential and long-lasting reign of Queen Victoria (1837-1901) gives its name also to the literary production of the period which was characterized by important economic and social changes....
David Copperfield
Can Charles Dickens's David Copperfield be viewed as a bildungsroman? Please include textual evidence.
Charles Dickens's David Copperfield exhibits many of the characteristics of a bildungsroman. Let's look at those characteristics and how the novel expresses them. First, a bildungsroman is a novel...
The Great Gatsby
What is Gatsby's attitude towards women in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby?
For Jay Gatsby, women are prizes to be won. As the novel progresses, we learn more and more about Gatsby's desire to win Daisy back. However, throughout it all, he never mentions anything about her...
Poetry
What might a short summary of Sitanshu Yashashchandra's poem "Drought" look like?
The poem “Drought” by Sitanshu Yashaschandra is about the literal and figurative effects of a serious drought on the speaker, their family, and their community. The speaker refers to animals, human...
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