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Until the first semi-colon, the author uses simple past participles, which leads to back to the assumption that this sonnet may be describing an event that happened a while ago. */“Surprised,” one of the past participles, is used unusually because it’s not modifying anything/* The semi-colon after “forgotten” is known as a super comma, because this list could use a comma, but instead the author uses a semi-colon. The purpose for this semi-colon serves the same purpose…

may have read the short story “A good reason to look up” by Shaquille O’Neal or the poem “Mother to son” by Langston Hughes. Did they know that in each of these poems/short stories the author is trying to teach the reader a lesson? The short story “A good reason to look up” by Shaquille O’Neal is about the author and why he was a class clown and a bully growing up. The poem “Mother to son” by Langston Hughes is about a mother telling her son what she went through in life and how she kept going,…

autobiography, the author is not the exact same person as the Augustine character that appears in the text. The author uses “Confessions” to argue that the motives and manner in how education is taught, such as Augustine’s schooling and Manichee teachings, puts the focus on pleasure of oneself and others. As a result, this strays oneself away from learning about God due to how Augustine’s teachers, both from school and Manichaeism, turn the focus towards gratification. The author argues this by…

Alternative Medicine Thesis: Alternative medicine is a wise choice for the health care system. Schneider, Jodi. “Hospitals Get Alternative.” U.S. News & World Report 133.3 (2002): 68. TOPIC search. Accessed. 9 Oct. 2016. The author stars of talking about Alternative Medicine being a part of hospital treatment. Schneider indicates that the use of Herbs and Needles can be a wise choice for health care system. Schneider explains that Alternative Medicine benefits are not being cures but it can…

popular in the book of Black Like Me. The author was a white male who doesn’t live in the south and sees how blacks are treated. The author became curious to see how blacks are treated so he decided to dye his skin color to be brown. The author then left his family and moved to the South with a brown skin color. The author then started to see how it was to be segregated from whites. Segregation between the whites and blacks in the south was harsh. The author was then introduced to being only…

Everyone at some point whether they know it or not has been persuaded by advertising. In the mock press release The Onion, the author uses humor, over exaggeration, and jargon to show the effects that marketing has on consumers. The author uses humor to show the outrageous things marketing directors will say to get consumers to buy their products. In the last paragraph the author states, " Why should I pay thousands of dollars to have my spine realigned with physical therapy when I can pay $20…

take away from the story. A nonfiction narrative is usually about something that has happened to the author, whether it was good like winning the lottery or bad like losing their favorite watch. A fictional narrative is something that hasn’t happened. Usually these are written solely for the purpose of entertaining their readers. A fictional narrative could either be realistic, meaning…

island and how different and unwanted the tourist often is. In this piece, the author expresses a critical tone towards tourists through the use of imagery, parallel sentence structure, and the connotation of her words. In the opening paragraph of this essay, the author describes a tourist visiting a new place and describing what this tourist is seeing as they visit this place. One usage of imagery would be the authors description of the ocean."...the colour of the water is navy blue; nearer,…

negativity weighing on America’s holiday spirit. The author presents presidential campaigns that were starting up for the 2012 general election saying that it’s too tiring and unhelpful: “we are just exasperated and fatigued with the perpetual nature of politics that we must endure these days; endless presidential campaigns, endless recall elections” this indicates that the entire nation would feel exasperated and fatigued, however, the author does not have the any studies to back up their claim…

Such A Pity...: Author explained how she struggled balancing her dream job working for Clinton in Washington and her personal life. Her decision to go home resulted in her peers/ audience’s disappointment. Chapter 1: Author explains why the three mantras are only half-true, and explained she felt like she is sacrificing loved one's well being for her own aspirations. Author also explained the meaning of balancing and how some women who took breaks go into mommy track, which they usually are…