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    English connected text essay - How do the authors use literary techniques to explore common themes throughout both novels? One would think the deep by Claire Zorn and Breath by Tim Winton Tim Winton and Claire Zorn are two Australian authors of the novels Breath and One would think the deep, respectively. The two texts are based in small Australian towns along the coast, and are set between the 1970s to 1990s. They feature the use of Australian slang and pop culture, including surfing, which is…

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    Authentic: Margaret Fuller: A New American Life tells “Margaret Fuller’s story from the inside, using most direct evidence-- her own words, and those of her family and friends, recorded in the moment, preserved in archives” (Marshall, 2013, pg. xxi). Because Marshall, in her writing, used Fuller’s “own words” there was little need for the author herself interpret Fuller's thoughts or draw her own conclusions; rather, Marshall was left to research and provide Fuller’s ideas and beliefs in a…

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    In the three books Behind the Beautiful Forever’s, Disposable People, and Sustainability there were many similarities that connected them. It was very interesting how there were so many similarities in three books with different overall messages. One topic that all three books had in common was poverty. Poverty is an issue that affects all cultures, in all parts of the world no matter what race, gender, or sex. In each of these books there are different groups of people in different parts of the…

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    3. Point of view/narration often contributes to the meaning of a story. Choose one story and describe the point of view. Why is this point of view significant in the story? How does the point of view contribute to the meaning/theme of the story? How would the story change if the point of view were different? In Battle Royal, the point of view is that of the main character whom we never learn his name. The story is about the life of a young boy being brought up in a very oppressive white to black…

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    Stoics

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    A person gets depressed when his or her boyfriend or girlfriend breaks up with him or her. Parents feel life is miserable after the departure of their children. A businessman is thwarted because he has lost all his possessions during the financial crisis. Stoicism presents you a fantastic approach to avoid grief. All these negative emotions are the result of caring too much of what does not belong to you. You must let it go because those you do not have complete control over are externals.…

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    Who is Melissa Hershey? Psychology case report Mariah Avila Walden University Wyatt E. Fisher Introduction to Psychology 8/3/2017 Miss. Melissa Hershey is a 7-year-old little girl who enjoys soothing music and learning to play with friends. She has two sisters in which she is the middle child. She is under the guardianship of her mother Amy Hershey. Her father left the family 2 years ago. She has been known to get upset when she smells he fathers cologne (this has got better over…

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    A Humorous Wedding Speech

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    To all my fellow classmates and teacher, Address the host I Mykeria Adkins of African American and Who I am Catawba Indian descent, daughter of a caesura Stout-hearted king and queen, caesura Granddaughter of a tenacious woman of Steele kenning and Proud granddaughter of a noble preacher. Will, with my battle sweat helmet bearers…

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    not related to the type of subject in the sentence (D’Alessandro, 2014). The grammatical person, whether it is first, second, or third, and the grammatical number, singular or plural, do not affect the null-subject parameter. For instance, in sentence (2) the unexpressed subject in Italian is the third person plural “loro”, while in sentence (4) the implicit subject is the second person singular “tu”. The grammatical person and number are different; however, the subject remains unexpressed, or…

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    American Standard English should adopt they as a third person epicene pronoun, also coined a gender neutral, gender-fair, or common-gender pronoun (Adami 281, Baranoski 379). Generic he has persisted since the 1850 Act of Parliament that declared it so, but is he truly generic (Zuber and Reed 519)? The use of he is sexist, excluding females and people who do not fall neatly within the male-female gender binary (Strahan 17). English also lacks a third person pronoun for instances when a person’s…

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    Point Of View Examples

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    presented; how the use of point of view affects the text; and if the narrative were in another form, would it be as effective. In texts i, iii and iv, the use of the personal pronoun ‘I’ and the possessive determiner ‘my’ are lexical markers of the first person narrative and are therefore homodiegetic as the narrator is situated inside the narrative. However, where text iii and iv include verba sentiendi, this is evident through the reference to the narrators personal feelings and thoughts, “I…

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