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    majority of her audience are women and most of them have similar stories she continues to express her equality to men. She stated “ Look at me ! Look at my arm! I have ploughed and planted, and gathered into barns, and no man could head me!” using exclamations to make her claim she again closes with the question “ Ain 't i a…

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    In Robert Frost’s blank verse poem “‘Out, Out-,’” the speaker recounts the story of a young boy who loses his hand, and ultimately his life, while working with a buzz-saw, presumably on his family’s farm. The speaker remains an observer throughout the narrative, presenting the poem in the first person. The use of first-person narration establishes an intimacy between the speaker and reader, so that the reader sympathizes with the speaker and not the “they.” “They” remain ambiguous throughout the…

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    during their confrontation, the audience’s understanding of Jason’s character is one of pitilessness and callousness, as he attributes all blame to “her own choice”. It is evident in the arguments with which Jason rebuffs Medea, together with the exclamation “I have to show myself a clever speaker, it seems”, that his entire argument is pure sophistry, not argued on the basis of truth. Behind a mask of eloquent rhetoric, he argues with the sole intention of convincing, Euripides constructs Jason…

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    English Composition. I guess I had been hoping it was something along the lines of grammar. Topics like nouns and subject verbs were among my hopes. Imagine my shock and dismay when I discovered it was writing! “Writing!” horror was evident in my exclamation. “I can’t write” I grumbled to myself, “I hate writing!”. I have never had any interest in writing, anybody who knows me would be able to tell you three things about me. One, I am good at art, and two; I am good at math. I am not entirely…

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    Ethics and/or moral reasoning is the invisible set of rules we live by, or most of us live by anyway, that help us to distinguish between what is right and what is wrong. A lot of these rules and guidelines are just so natural and automatic to us in nature that we don’t even have to think about them, we just know what is right and go along with it. These morals can change from person to person based on cultural and religious beliefs, but are overall very similar. “The identification of ethics…

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    including his own daughter. When John Proctor was attempting to save his wife by shedding light on Abigail’s dishonesty, Parris loudly retorted “Excellency, you surely cannot think to let so vile a lie be spread in open court!” (Miller 1251). This exclamation is extremely ironic due to all of the lies that have already been told in the court. Abigail had just spent a massive amount of time lying to many about how she had been a victim of witchcraft. Abigail lied about Elizabeth being a witch,…

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    initiates and wins an election for leadership, or “chief,” after they notice the presence of “no grownups!” (8) — in other words, a lack of power. In an orderly manner, a democracy in miniature begins. With the power of the conch, he approves the boys’ exclamation of, “We’ll have rules!” (33). Equality is set as the rule of the-one-with-the-conch-speaks is firmly established, allowing for a fairer distribution of power. In addition, he leads the boys in their endeavors for rescue and survival by…

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    this person felt. First, we feel happy as we read play, then family connects our emotions to this sentence and the wife all of sudden our feeling of fun changes into feeling of uncertainty. Then we get to the sentence “I was Six!” That Six and exclamation point succeeds in giving us a jolt. All of sudden we realize this was not a normal game of family that usually little children play, but it was something very serious. Thus this sentence starts appealing us through our emotions then goes…

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    Analysis: Comma Exercises

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    continued for an hour so the game was called off. 9. He would not let them fight nor would he allow them to give up. 10.They would have to agree or they would not get anything. Using commas to separate nouns in direct address, dialogue guides, exclamations, adverbs that modify the while sentence, and words that respond. Directions: Punctuate the following sentences with commas. 1. Jim are you sure that the building is safe. 2. Mrs. Winston your class has helped me. 3. Steve said “What do…

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    Much Ado About Nothing centers around the power of words, whether a character speaks them, or they are implied. Beatrice is an adequate representation of the effect that words and language can have on how others perceive a person. They also are a strong indication of who a person is on the inside. She overcomes and moves beyond the life that she is told to live based on the societal norms of her time by making herself respected and known through her wit and intelligence. By doing this, Beatrice…

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