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With the safety of being anonymous on the internet and on social media sites, we don 't need to improve this skill. Maria Konnikova the Author of “The limits of friendship” talks about the Dunbar number. There is a limit to the amount of friends placed within four different groups. The first being one hundred and fifty people that we know and can name at any one point…

In an excerpt from a lecture delivered in Boston in 1832, Maria W. Stewart uses many rhetorical strategies such as formal diction, appeal to pathos, and long syntax structures to initiate the “drudgery” labor that affects the society. Throughout the excerpt, Stewart uses extended syntax structure to communicate and educate her audience about the hardship that laborers go through. The use of semicolons allows her to issue the importance of liberty that they have been “crying” for. “Worn out…

I read Out of Nowhere by Maria Padian. Out of Nowhere is about Tom, a senior in high school. He is on the school soccer team, has a popular girlfriend, and has lots of friends. He thought his life was perfect, but he thought wrong. In the fall of Tom’s senior year, kids from Somali started to swarm into his town. They took over the school. A Somali kid named Saeed started playing soccer with Tom. Tom ended up vandalizing the rival soccer team’s school, so he had to do one hundred hours of…

Helena Maria Viramontes’ short story “The Moths” follows a latina narrator as she recounts her childhood struggles with religion and family. To escape beatings from her father, her mother would send the narrator to “help Abuelita plants wild lilies” and other plants in “coffee cans”(322). Throughout the turmoil of her teenage years, the narrator’s Abuelita was always there to care for her. As the story continues, it is divulged that this time the help will be different because Mama Luna is dying…

world and their concept of war. In Remarque’s All Quiet on the Western Front, he shattered the idea of war everyday citizens had by telling the story of a platoons journey in gruesome detail and unveiling the truth about the horrors of war. Erich Maria Remarque’s primary war experience enabled him to compose a raw war story about his own experiences…

complicated. Especially when you are young. Sometimes you have to make choices to find your self. In the short story “Dead end” Maria deals with a struggle and tied between two things: keeping the promise she made to her mother or becoming like the other girls in school dressed all fancy an popular. In her mother’s bed death she promised her to get an education no matter what. s Maria is the main character in the story and she is a protagonist. She is the center of the story. Without her, there…

“Let them eat cake,” is part of a line that many assume was uttered by Marie Antoinette, Queen of France. This portrayal of Marie Antoinette is a far cry from the compassionate, humanitarian she preferred to be. Above all she wanted nothing more than to be a mother and had a fondness for children that no wicked queen could have. Pamphlets produced during her time as Dauphine and then as Queen has ultimately written her in a negative light, not at all the once beloved girl who had won the hearts…

Have you ever argued about something? If you had, did you win or lose? Gretchen Maria, the author of "The Freedom to Be Me," argues about the effect of school uniforms, and provides a strong argument why students shouldn't wear school uniforms. She proves this by describing her own experience with school uniforms(as well as the impact), using statistics and facts, and then using that to back up her opinion about school uniforms. By using this structure, she develops a argument that becomes…

Maria Theresa was the Austrian archduchess and the Holy Roman Empress for the Habsburg Dynasty. She reigned from 1740-1780. After the death of her father Charles VI, she took over the throne and was accepted by the Austrian duchies, Netherlands, Bohemia, and Hungary. Maria Theresa built a solid basis for future generations of the family empire. While some empires accepted Maria’s reign, she faced resistance from European powers who had previously agreed to her father’s Pragmatic Sanction.…

In the poem “Alone,” Maya Angelou explains that people will feel alone constantly. No matter what they do, they will always have this feeling. In the other poem “I Am Much Too Alone in This World, Yet Not Alone,” Rainer Maria Rilke explains that people will never feel alone. Anywhere people are, they will always have someone in their heart. Some similarities can be negative when people feel alone, and have no human to be there for each other. Some differences are based upon religion, and…