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    Sophisticated Words on the Simple Life: Thoreau’s Rhetoric Nature is a complicated entity whom countless poets and writers have written about. Henry David Thoreau, a highly educated author who frequently wrote about nature, wanted to understand nature and, more importantly, life better. To do so, he went to live in the woods of Walden Pond for two years, and wrote a book about his time there. The resulting work, entitled Walden, discussed Thoreau’s time in Walden. The second chapter named…

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    tried to make sense of how we currently regulate our roadways. I first looked closer at the vehicle titles the state provides, given the fact this this was of great interest to me. What I discovered was that the titles they provide are not an Allodial titles which would constitute absolute ownership of real property but instead feudal titles. These feudal titles are exactly like the land titles granted to peasants by nobles in medieval Europe when feudalism was the dominant social system. These…

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    Morph syntactic Analysis: 12th Grade Male from Mexico #2 Introduction This Morph Syntactic Analysis project allowed me to explore the word formation of an ESL student. The student I examined was a twentieth grade male from Mexico. The Spanish aspects of his prior knowledge may have affected his English composition. The analysis features morphology and syntax areas of language. Noun phrases, corpus, verb phrases, verb tense, sentence composition, orthography, and other parts of speech…

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    Leo Tolstoy pulls no punches when the story of The Death of Ivan Ilyich begins. The revelation that Ivan Ilyich has died was met with dismay and shock for all of the wrong reasons. Colleagues and “friends” became concerned for his death not because of the loss of his life, but for the inconveniences and changes it would cause for them. The lack of sincerity surrounding Ivan became very clear in the opening scenes of the story, and we quickly start to realize that Ivan lived a “false” life.…

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    2) a,b : This passage is taken from "What is Enlightenment", by Immanuel Kant, from the first page of the essay. Kant is criticizing the over dependence of a grown up individual for nurturing and caretaking and possibly resisting the responsibilities brought to him. He says these deficiencies are caused by laziness and cowardice. Kant states that enlightenment is a man freeing himself from self-imposed nonage. He moves on explaining the reasons why this nonage takes place, and then moves on…

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    "Lamb to the Slaughter" All around us, we are faced with people who lie and commit awful crimes. While there is not much that meets the eye to these people, inside their actions are driven by a deep vengeance. In the short story "Lamb to the Slaughter" by Roald Dahl, we are introduced to a character who goes by the name of Mary Maloney. The story centers around Mary murdering her husband Patrick, and the actions she takes to cover up the crime. In the beginning of the story, Mary gushes to…

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    Henry David Thoreau

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    I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run” (29). Therefore, he echoes the argument that money, or items purchased, can only be measured in the time given up to acquire them. However, while living a simple life, materialistic items have less value over time. Inner peace and freedom carry a greater merit, which enables humanity to enjoy spiritual…

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    1950s. Edie, who is the main character of the story, is a live in housekeeper for the Peebles. Mr. and Mrs. Peebles purchased a rather large home right outside the city limits across from the old fair grounds. While Edie was brought up to lead a simple lifestyle one could say she has come jealousy directed towards Mrs. Peebles by the way she judgmentally talks about the finer things within the household, with that being said, she is an extremely dedicated worker to Mrs. Peebles and tries to…

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    In Chopin’s story “Desiree’s Baby”, Desiree and her husband, Armand, are ecstatic when she gives birth to a child. Later on Armand starts acting distant because he believes that she and her child are mixed. He suggest her to leave to her mother's home. Desiree then disappears and walks the opposite direction of her mother’s home, with the child in her arms. In Dahl’s story “Lamb to the Slaughter”, a detective's wife, named Mary, is in shock after the devastating news that her husband is leaving…

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    in my life , primarily saying that it is the thing to do for especially becoming a man. But there were some things I have never put through my mind until it was a little later in my lifespan. Learning many attributes may be considered some of the simple things that I should have known in life, to changing who I am and what I appeared as, to becoming who I am today. Learning new things is very important from a young age because it is best when younger kids are not pushed too hard, they have an…

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