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    meaning behind Good Country People is ultimate evil in characters that are otherwise deceptively polite. Situational irony in this short story helps the read find that everything is not as it appears in Good Country people. Although by the end of the story the reader is lead to know the true intentions of the character Manley Pointer specific examples involving situational irony throughout the story help the reader to recognize evil surrounding the characters the whole time. Manley…

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    Rubber Band Lab Report

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    Method 1. Scissors were used to cut the rubber band, making the rubber band one straight line instead of a circular shape. 2. One end of the rubber band was securely tied to the middle of the skewer. The other end was securely tied to the hook of the 100g slotted steel weight. 3. The skewer was placed along the rim of the 250mL measuring cylinder, which allowed the rubber band and steel weight to hang within the measuring cylinder. Play dough was placed, to secure the skewer, to the edges of…

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    Shakespeare's play, “julius Caesar” readers pay attention to Marc Anthony's use of irony. He has to go to Caesar's funeral, and give a speech while risking his life. He wants to prove to the people of Rome that Caesar is not ambitious but an honorable man by giving them a reminder of all the good things Caesar has done for them. At the end he accomplished what he was fighting for. He wanted people to remember Caesar as the honorable man he was before he died and not as the ambitious person…

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    “The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” by Mark Twain, is about an old man named Simon Wheeler telling a story to Mark Twain about a man named Jim Smiley. Jim Smiley was a curious man who sought out to bet on anything from dog-fighting to betting on who could get from point A to B the fastest. Jim was a man that tried to get people to bet him and that’s what leads him to finding and training a frog to be the best jumper in the county. When he finds a stranger who is willing to bet…

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    One of the most well known authors throughout American history is without a doubt is Mr. Samuel Clemens, better known as Mark Twain. Mark Twain is known for his incredible realism novels that showcase life in its purest form. In Twain’s novel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Twain challenges the idea of racism and family dynamics in the 1800s through the adventures and life of a young boy and a runaway slave. As this pair travels down the Mississippi they face many trials and tribulations…

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    Mark Twain

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    Mark Twain is a great American author. In the book "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn", Mark Twain writes about a youthful boy, Huck, in this book. He effectively shows the struggle that people of that era went through. That is just one of the reasons he is my favorite American author and consider Mark Twain to be one of the greatest American authors of all time. Mark Twain, his real name, Samuel Langhorne Clemens wasn't just an author but also a humorist, whose work is set apart by his…

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    first century and was a about the death a man called Julius Caesar. Both Mark Antony and Marcus Brutus are at the “funeral” of Caesar moments after he was assassinated by a group of conspirators along with Brutus. During this Brutus attempts to make the crowd believe that murdering his friend Caesar was justified. After the people calmed down when Brutus spoke Mark Antony was seething about Brutus murdering his best friend, so Mark Antony started plotting his revenge and in his “funeral speech”…

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    explaining to his friend, Brutus, that Caesar is not the god he makes himself out to be. Instead, both he and Brutus are equal to Caesar and are just as deserving of the throne. Cassius’ speech to Brutus diminishes Caesar’s godly demeanor through irony, emphasizes his…

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    In the novel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, author Mark Twain attacks the corruptness of Southern civilization after the Civil War. Through Huck’s wild journey in helping a runaway slave named Jim, Twain ridicules numerous problems facing American society in the 1800’s to give the reader insight on the social horrors embedded in the culture and lifestyle of Americans in the South. In particular, Twain satirizes the South’s perspective of “civilization” within white society and the…

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    Mark Antony begins his speech by addresses his audience. He refers to them as, “Friends,Roman,Countrymen”( 3.2.131), this articulates that he is bringing himself down to the plebeians level so he can make the crowd feel as though he is their friend even though they are separated by status and rank.This line is an example of pathos because the line is based mostly on emotion or the sympathy and emotion in the audience.This is important to know because as his speech progresses he uses a lot of…

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