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A summary briefly states the main points of a piece of writing. A summary of this first paragraph might be (and you will want to use your own words, but the summary should be no more than one...
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Firstly, there are different types of advertisements: print, radio and television commercials, and Internet ads, which may still be images or commercials similar to what one would see on...
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In an article for New America Media, second-generation Vietnamese-American Andrew Lam relates a trip he and his family once made to the site of the battle of Waterloo. The poignancy of the piece is...
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After Kevin rescues Max and Killer Kane is thrown in jail, the boys return to school, and the atmosphere around the school is drastically different. The two friends have become locally famous for...
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Kennedy appeals to emotions in his audience (pathos) when he mentions "the graves of young Americans who answered the call to service surround the globe." Here, Kennedy reminds his audience of the...
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I cannot really write a thesis statement for you, but I can suggest some potential lines of argument. Jasmine and the narrator are trying to negotiate the complicated passage to adulthood: they are...
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While the story contains no explicit mention of a motive, it may be gleaned somewhat from the narrator's choice of words and the dialogue. Montresor's motivation is complicated. It has to do not so...
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Your quotation comes from English poet Stephen Spender's 1928 poem "The Truly Great." The speaker begins the first stanza speaking of "the truly great," who were the ones who passed down...
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Jonas is the eleven-year-old protagonist of the novel, who is chosen to be the community's next Receiver of Memory. Jonas is forced to experience the pain of the world's memories in order for his...
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When Napoleon takes the puppies from their mothers in chapter three, he claims that he is making himself "responsible" for their education. In other words, he convinces Jessie and Bluebell that he...
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The line "I am entirely longing—" from "The Wife's Lament" is reinforced by the circumstances and setting in which she lives. Her husband, whom she loved and felt a great affinity for, has left...
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Obierika is Okonkwo's closest friend and a respected member throughout Umuofia. Obierika demonstrates his loyalty to Okonkwo by continually giving him advice and helping Okonkwo throughout his...
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A mission statement, simply put, defines a company or organization's purpose. It tells the world why it exists. For this purpose, it is essential that the mission statement expresses a clear...
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Dracula wants to move to England because it was, at the time, the center of the world's most powerful empire. Britain was the most admired and feared superpower in the world, and its culture was...
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From the literature of ancient Greece, such as the Odyssey, we can infer several things about Greek culture. 1. First, the ancient Greeks value hospitality highly. Odysseus must rely on hospitality...
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A good theme should be written in the form of a complete sentence. It should also be a statement for which you can provide textual evidence in the form of quotations from the book. Further, a...
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This poem is written from a first person objective point of view. This means that the speaker is a participant in the action and that he uses the first person pronoun "I." The "objective" part...
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Telemachus has grown up in a very insecure home as a result of his father's being away. His mother, Penelope, has been pursued by suitors for years, and these suitors have essentially been camped...
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I think the theme of "family honor," and the lengths to which the Winslows will go to protect it, is used by Rattigan as the basis for a complex critique of British notions of justice, marriage,...
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The Giver shows us what could happen if we were willing to sacrifice personal freedom for the opportunity to never feel pain. We tend to place a great deal of importance on "being happy" and we...
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The Biblical allusion within this story's title refers to Psalm 104, verse 21: "The young lions roar after their prey And seek their food from God." The purpose of this psalm is really to praise...
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There are several critical themes articulated in Paul Johnson's Sam Patch, the Famous Jumper. Johnson relates how Sam Patch grew up in the mill town of Pawtucket, Rhode Island, exploring his early...
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"Code Hero" stems from many of Ernest Hemingway's novels, in which the term is often used to describe the protagonist and his values. Typically, the protagonist operates under a "code" of his...
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One could compare and contrast two characters in a text. What motivates them? Are they static (fundamentally unchanged in the text) or dynamic (undergoing some significant change in the text)? What...
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In a compare and contrast essay, your job as the writer is to discuss and analyze the ways in which two (or more) texts, characters, settings, and so forth, are similar (this is the "compare" part)...
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A metaphor in Willa Cather's 1941 short story "A Worn Path" is found in the first paragraph as the narrator describes the manner in which Phoenix Jackson walks: "with the balanced heaviness and...
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Readers can consider the narrator of "The Tell-Tale Heart" reliable in that he was the only person present at the time of the murder besides his victim and would therefore know where the corpse was...
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"A School Story" is a horror story written by English author M.R. James near the turn of the twentieth century. It seems unlikely that your question is about a story that is not well-known in...
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The first character, of course, is Sam Patch himself. Sam Patch grew up in an impoverished town in Rhode Island. His fate, as an uneducated boy born into poverty, would be to work in a mill....
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Sam Patch is widely considered America's first daredevil. His "career" began when Patch and his fellow mill workers would jump from a bridge into the churning waters of the Blackstone River as...
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The ancient adage which Old Man Warner cites that pertains to the value of retaining the lottery is "Lottery in June, corn be heavy soon." Old Man Warner, the oldest man in the village, is...
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In "Once Upon A Time," Gordimer notes that her house is built on "undermined ground." Underneath the foundations, she explains, are the remnants of a gold mine which causes the structure of her...
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Asking "what is Motivation?" is equal to asking about happiness, satisfaction, and even sadness. It is entirely up to the individual's life experiences. Evidence of this is the fact that there are...
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First, and most simply, we have a protagonist, an antagonist, and a conflict in this story: these are all conventions. The protagonist is the narrator, a woman who has recently had a baby. We might...
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The answer to the question regarding the roles of family and community amidst a life-threatening crisis differs from culture to culture, especially with respect to the role of community. In the...
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Ralph is the elected leader of the boys and a proponent of civilization throughout the novel. His main concerns revolve around making an effort to be rescued from the uninhabited island. Ralph...
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In The Thorn Birds, Anne Mueller is the husband of Meggie's employer, Luddie Mueller. Anne had infantile paralysis when she was younger and knows what it is to suffer. Anne is considerate and kind,...
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In this film, Molly and Daisy, two "half-caste" girls of half Aboriginal origin, are forcibly taken from their home along the rabbit-proof fence and transported to a reeducation center in the...
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The Latino population in the United States is the most heterogeneous cultural group in the nation. Not only is the population derived from different countries, such as Puerto Rico (a U.S....
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The link below from Generations United, a national organization "focused solely on improving the lives of children, youth, and older people through intergenerational strategies, programs, and...
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This book is about an eleven-year-old girl named Melody who has a condition called cerebral palsy. Because she cannot speak, walk, use the bathroom on her own, or feed herself, people assume that...
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In Goethe's Faust Mephistopheles tempts Faust by appealing to his desire for knowledge and control of nature. Faust then falls prey to sensuous delights after Mephistopheles promises him a moment...
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Auden's poem is named for the day World War II began. The poet uses a blunt, conversational tone, communicating both a sense of despair over what led to the war and a clear vision of what he argues...
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In terms of structure, this poem is one long stanza. It is written in the AABBCC (and so on) rhyme scheme. That means each consecutive pair of lines rhymes with each other. In poetry language,...
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The relationship of gender and society is complex. First, it is important to understand the difference between "gender" and biological sex; the latter has to do with anatomy, while the former...
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The poem is written as a second-person narrative. This technique involves the reader directly by describing the experience as one in which the reader is involved. The reader becomes, in the context...
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The poetry of John Clare, who was born in England in the late 1700s as the son of a farmer, documents the end of the open fields and grazing lands and the effect of the Enclosure Acts in England....
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Of the thirteen sonnets assigned, the two that are most famous and perhaps most beloved are Sonnet XVIII and Sonnet CXXX. These sonnets are easy to understand and have wonderful wording and...
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In "Of the Churl that Won Paradise," it is first important to define the term "churl." A churl, according to Dictionary.com, is a "rude, boorish, or surly" peasant, someone who does who does not...
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Chuck Palahniuk uses a number of structures to show the chaotic inner world of the narrator of Flight Club. The story is structured as a flashback; it begins as the narrator is with Tyler Durden on...
