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    experience in a way. The author explains how she always obeys the law, never does drugs, and does not cause trouble. However, because of her “friends”, she was caught in a bad situation involving the police. Just like the author, I have never done drugs and I am always obedient to the law. Also like the author, I have been caught in tough situations involving the law, due to the actions of my friends. However, my experiences do not measure up to the severity of the situation the author was…

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    different points of view on the war, and cause different effects on the reader. "Dulce et Decorum Est" makes it clear that the author is against the war, and makes the reader cringe at the thought of it. However, the author of "Who's for the game" is for it, and makes the reader want to join in on the action. The author of "Dulce et Decorum Est" is clearly against the war. The author conveys this by making the war sound as terrible as possible. It uses phrases to describe the experience…

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    and present a writer’s ideas in a clear and orderly way. The authors, Gerald Graff and Cathy Birkenstein, argue that in order to have an effective piece of academic writing you must not only state your own ideas, but to present conflicting ideas and respond to them with your own thoughts. The templates offer a way to accomplish these points in a well ordered manner. Even though some famous pieces of writing use the template that the authors gave, some people feel that the templates could smother…

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    In the short story, "The Birthday Party" by Katherine Brush, the author utilizes imagery, repetition, and irony. Through those literary devices, the author promotes the idea that the couple is unhappy and having problems within their relationship. These literary devices portray the image of being in a toxic relationship. The author identifies a couple and grasps sudden attention towards them. The author, demonstrating imagery states, "They were a couple in their late thirties, and they looked…

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    the author revealed to use that the Duke is crazy, jealous, and selfish. Firstly, the author shows us that the Duke is crazy because he said “Then all smiles stopped together.” The author could have been inferring to us that base on the words of the Duke that he could have possibly kill or send the Duchess to a mental facility because in this era it was common for this like that to happen and by doing that he won’t have to see her smile towards anyone else ever again. This is how the author…

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    editorial “Statewide $15 minimum wage would dump many low-wage workers onto welfare” by The Orange County Register, the author argues that if minimum wage is increased people will go on welfare. They claim that raising minimum wage will hurt the american economy rather than help it. In the editorial “You Deserve a Raise Today. Interest Rates Don’t.” by The New York Times the author argues the opposite, they claim minimum wage will help people boost productivity and help raise the living…

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    with Down Syndrome. Although the author used some logos to convince the audience of parents with special needs children that the therapies Children’s TherAplay provides work, the most important appeal was the author’s use of pathos to connect to the audience on a more meaningful level in an attempt to convince the…

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    essay titled “Erotica and Pornography” by Gloria Steinem, the author starts out by pointing out that humans, selfly proclaimed lords over the animal kingdom, are the only animals that have the mental capacity to separate ideas. Steinem says “ for human alone, sexuality can be and often is primarily way of bonding, of giving and receiving pleasure, bridging differentness, discovering sameness, and communicating emotion” (p.1). The author explains at the beginning of her essay how sex should be,…

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    Both of the authors had a different style of producing the resource. For proof, the author of the fictional resource put characters with much different personalities. Though not every kid is alike of course, Rhode Dahl had managed to make them completely different, as if to show the different lifestyles and attitudes of the kids to spice up the story. For example, the characters in the book were Charlie Bucket, Veruca Salt, Augustus Gloop, Violet Beauregarde, and Mike Teavee. Each of them had…

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    successful author is that all brains think differently in a unique way to bring their imagination to life. One thing most authors share in common is that they all go through many rejections and failure attempts till they become successful. Stephen King is an author of many horror fiction books. The way Stephen King wrote books was to believe that fiction was the truth inside a lie and that’s what made him a unique successful author. On the other hand, Wally Lamb was also a very successful author…

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