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is Ichabod Crane a school teacher from Connecticut. For Brom to win Katrina’s heart he has to overcome his obstacle. Brom has liked Katrina ever since they were little kids, he has dreamed they would be together forever and eventually marry each other.But since Ichabod is in…

second act only to meet the boy again and to receive the same news. Previously, Vladimir was excited and faithful in a world in which Godot’s arrival is imminent. However, this time he responds to the news passively. The boy announces he has a message from Godot. Vladimir guesses the message immediately: “He won't come this evening” (Beckett 81). Vladimir becomes accustomed to Godot’s unreliability, and in turn, loses faith in his existence. In addition to this existentialism, when Vladimir asks…

Scholars; he is guilty of the Transgression of Preference. (Rand 23). When the Council of Vocations assign him to be a Street Sweeper; he accepts it as a way to atone for his Transgression. He lives an average life there until he discovers a tunnel from the Unmentionable Times, the time before individuality was forbidden. In the tunnel he finds lost technology, and begins to experiment with it. He eventually learns to create a flameless light, and despite knowing the dangers he decides to show…

In his story The Birthmark, Nathaniel Hawthorne uses the female character, Georgiana and her corresponding traits and personalities to symbolize traditional femininity and male dominance found in earlier times. He also uses this symbolism to deliver the message to the reader that perfection is not real and should not be perused, because it will eventually lead to misery. Aylmer, the husband of a beautiful woman, is in love with science perhaps as much as he is in love with his wife. But, he is…

shows the inspirational and charismatic elements of a transformational leader. It was through his speeches and his actions that he was able to come across as a very calm person and one that had a goal, to preach the word of the Lord and to free blacks from segregation. Luther inspired people to get behind his cause by going to lengths no one else would. Protesting to the point of being thrown in jail, and still whilst being held in captivity writing letters to say…

In “Letter from Birmingham Jail” by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., there are many opportunities for analysis. Though there are countless ways to analyze this piece of literature, its rhetoric that is most prevalent in this particular selection of writing. Through carefully illustrated allusions and rhetoric, Dr. King effectively addressed and made efforts to the disparity in the socioeconomic problems in America involving people of different races and responded towards the questioning clergymen. Dr…

In Martin Luther King Jr.’s, “Letter from a Birmingham Jail” and in Thoreau’s letter, “Civil Disobedience”, it can be seen that both essays are similar in many ways such as writing styles, strategies, audiences, and purposes. Dr. MLKJ writes to inform his audience on the discrimination on people of color and Thoreau writes to inform his audience on the injustice of unfair and unequal taxes. They both write their essays in a formal letter form to show that their pieces are casual but still…

Introduction Martin Luther King Jr. had many talents, one of his strongest was his ability to convey his message via the written word or oration. In King’s letter from Birmingham jail, he utilized several persuasive methods to gain the reader’s buy-in. Some of the more obvious techniques were two-sided messaging and “ethos (credibility), logos (reason), and pathos (emotion)” (Higgins 2012) to leverage a mutual understanding by the involved parties (p 195). “King’s greatest political pluralism…

Martin Luther King Jr. was one of the leading figures in the Civil Right Movement. He led thousands of African American people though nonviolent protests on the streets. One nonviolent protest was a sit-in that was against the unjust treatments of Blacks in Birmingham. Birmingham was used as an example to symbolize society at the time. Dr. King was arrested and trialed for boycotting in Birmingham, since it was deemed illegal during this time. During his time in jail, Dr. King wrote an open…

Hawthorne uses the forest to symbolize a free, lawless world where no Puritan governing exists, supporting the story’s overall idea... (!!!) Throughout the story, the forest stands a place where one can go to free themselves from the views of society. Hester’s journey to meet Dimmesdale in the forest is depicted, as the road she walked on “straggled onward in the mystery of the primeval forest… [the forest] stood so black and dense on either side, and disclosed such imperfect glimpses of the sky…