Grammatical mood

"In Defense of Gender", written by Cyra McFadden describes—in a satirical fashion—the nonsensical, all too often ubiquitous neutering of the English language across the country, both spoken and written. McFadden brings to light the issues that arise, as oppose to lessen, when gender-specific components are removed. I found myself in agreement with the author on many, if not all, of the points addressed within the article. To disassemble the English language—both written and spoken—and then…

I had to be very consistent when building my character’s identities to make them believable. I had to make it clear to my audience, why the character was acting the way they were. I also had to avoid cliches because the audience tends to see cliches as superficial. In term of my characters motivations I wanted to make my main character, Scarlet, not know how to live independently or act politely around people. Therefore, I created a situation where she was spoiled as a child. Scarlet’s…

In her memoir, Sonia Sotomayor expresses the emotional and commemorate events from her childhood through adult life that helped her become the persevered and intelligent woman she is today. At the age of eight, she was diagnosed with type one diabetes, which implicated that she had to learn over her childhood how to apply her insulin shots on her own. The parents were always arguing because the father was an unreliable alcoholic, and the mother a nurse who worked long hours. To avoid conflict…

On January the third, as we began our American Literature class, our professor put the whole class into groups. Everyone was assigned to write an essay about their group’s hobbies, accomplishments and goals. The people in my group are Klovis, James, and Spencer. The first person’s hobbies, accomplishments, and goals we are going to discuss is Klovis. The hobbies that Klovis enjoys we learned are drawing and watching anime. The things that he likes to draw are anime characters from movies,…

A Jury of her Peers by Susan Glaspell. This story was from the point of view of Mrs. Hale. It is in third person, although we hear mostly Mrs. Hale’s thoughts. I would consider this a drama. The story was about a man that was murdered (John Wright) by his wife, and how her friends judged her guilty in their minds, before she even went to trial. Mrs. Wright hung and murdered her husband because he killed her bird, which was very precious to her. When Mrs. Wright was questioned by Mr. Hale,…

When I first time hear about we have this trip, I disliked the trip and hated the person who created out this trip, because I don 't like camping, and it wasted my labor weekend, but after I had gone to the retreat, those things happened over the trip changed my mind. During the trip I got lots of new friends, have a chance to know the diversity around the world, and I enjoyed the teamwork with my teammate, I glad to I can join this fantastic retreat, you will know what some experience I got in…

Don’t Get Caught Making These 10 Common Writing Mistakes, Or Else I know, right? Rules sometimes hinder creativity. This is the reason why some writers don’t like to follow rules on grammar and sentence construction. It’s so hard to play with words if you have to think about the restrictions. But if you 're writing a book or a formal paper, then you need to stick to the rules. There’s no other way to do it since you 're writing for a larger audience and much more formal audience. Now, if you…

The story “The Yellow Wallpaper” and “The Open Boat” has many different qualities they both share. They both display a prominent use of the same key figures of speech, but one that stands out the most for both is imagery. Imagery is any sensory detail in a work. Meaning anything that seems very detailed and that can be imaged in people’s minds is imagery. Throughout the whole story they show a pattern of imagery very deeply. Another key figure of speech that both of the books use is third person…

In the crucible it shows how two people can have opposing views and each having valid points, but at the end they can both be wrong. In this analysis I will describe three different points about the crucible. Many moments throughout this book where you see this type of stuff. It's something not only seen in the book and is also seen in real life moments. Many people encounter these type of things because everyone thinks they're right, but in reality and at the end of the day they're wrong. It's…

Symbols are images and quotes that have a deeper meaning for another object or another action. In the book, The Book Thief by Markus Zusak there are many times when symbols are used there are three symbols that are most prevalent in the book. These three symbols are the book, Hans Huberman’s accordion, and the bread. The books gave Liesel Meminger a newfound power through reading and, also represented hope in the worst times. The symbol of the accordion represented Hans Huberman’s gratefulness…