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    Greasy Lake Summary

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    the short story is properly structured. In the beginning, the author tells a story about himself and two other friends when they were young men who considered themselves “ bad characters”. Most of the story takes place in 1985 at a town lake referred to as “Greasy Lake”. The author states that after cruising around the town with nothing to do; he and his friends decide to go to Greasy Lake at around 2:00am. Up until this point, the author and his friends considered having sex, underage drinking,…

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    intend to not be biased since you are human you will always be biased. The author of Follow the Food also thinks of the Paleo-Indians as very intelligent,crafty,and determined Based on reading the article the author believes that the Paleo-Indians were smart and intelligent. In paragraph eight the author states “ Over the centuries ,they learned to adjust to the environment in which they settled. This shows that the author believes that these indians were indeed smart by stating that they…

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    World Cup Brazil Analysis

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    One objection to hosting the World Cup mentioned by author one includes the excessive amount of government money used to host the event. In addition, concerns that hosting the event led to increased government corruption have also led to objections. On the other hand, author one explains how hosting the World Cup benefitted Brazil’s tourist industry. Due to the World Cup, companies trained workers to better satisfy customers by learning new languages. As a result, workers in Brazil became more…

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    Summary Of Rhetorical

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    The authors used rhetoric to strengthen their claim . the authors used ethos, and logos in the articles. The main idea of each article is soda is bad for students health. The author of “Budget News: New High School Team Sponsorship” states their claim that “ this sponsorship will be great benefit to the football team and the high school in general. The authors argument was strong because it helped the school save money so the students could get new textbooks and other thing that they and it…

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    to the beauty of a river. He is an author, and in a scene of one of his books, Life on the Mississippi, he describes what it is like to sail through a river. The author combines figurative language, descriptive language, and imagery to describe his experiences to the reader. As the text progresses, his viewpoint of the river evolves as a result or his experiences. Mark Twain is very effective in describing his view of the river. Throughout the text, the author uses descriptive language,…

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    Caesars”, the author opens the article with a summary of the of all emperors that were responsible for the Romans society declining. The author starts by explaining how the Caesar family became the royal family of the Romans. The author starts off by introducing the audience to the Octavian family and how they are connected to Augustus’ family. Once the author gave the back ground of the Octavian family, he explains how they are related to Augustus’ family. That is when the author started…

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    Authors can keep you on your toes with their exhilarating and suspenseful stories they draw you into reading. To keep you from being fatigued with reading the book, the authors use different techniques to make you suspicious and want to keep reading. Out of all the techniques authors use to create suspense, some of their tricks include ending the story without saying what happens at the end or using specific details about the setting and actions of a character(s) to create an interesting scene…

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    The author makes use of rhetorical questions to get the reader to start thinking about the idea of barbarism and civilization. The author introduces the violence in the destruction of the two twin towers using rhetorical question such as: “What was the point of finishing so laboriously insignificant a task as mine?” Through the use of rhetorical question like the one above, the author gets the reader to think about the significance of the act of barbarism that has occurred. The author goes as…

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    In this lecture, the author introduces a piece of art and literary movement that was influenced by World War I. In the first few paragraphs he explains 2 movements that were created inclined by the war. He provides a general artistic background followed by an extended example. The author offers a postmodern writer, named Kurt Vonnegut Jr, a well-known American author. He is well known for his style of writing, often jumping around in time, place and character between each chunk of texts. In…

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    The author of The Rugmaker of Mazar-e-Sharif, Narja Mazari escaped from the Taliban to Australia to only be treated like a prisoner in a detention centre in Woomera. The camp of Woomera is in the southern states of Australia. Mazari then met with Robert Hillman who helped him write up Mazari’s autobiography. The reader can tell that the author is in a “prison-like” centre by the way he describes the setting. The use of language informs the reader about the author about Mazari’s attitudes and…

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