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that they are able to give her a perfect birthday party. These two sisters, maybe twins because they can fit each other’s clothes, are not able to celebrate their mother in a respectable way. They feel bad with each other and both fights for their moth-er’s attention. None of them acts very well in the café. Very small things can make the sisters fight. Even a…

Paul Bogard attempts to persuade his readers about the neglected importance of darkness, showing mastery of several persuasive techniques, especially the techniques concerning emotional appeal, within his article, "Let There Be Dark." It appears that Paul has tailored the article towards people around his age or older, as evidenced by his many uses of reminiscence. Additionally, he also uses credible sources, such as the World Health Organization, thus satisfying the lust for logic from the…

The imaginary forces of a child can't be focused on enough. A youngster can change things inside of his or her own particular personality to improve the world show up and more significant. This conjured up universe starts to mix with this present reality until it might get to be hard to differentiate the two one from the other. In the selection gave from "A White Heron", the child Sylvia is depicted as being lost in the middle of a world as she trips to the huge oak tree. To Sylvia, the basic…

this so many times that he could disconnect from what he was saying, just let his mouth run on autopilot while he looked for his next mark. There was always one in the crowd, projecting a sense of weakness, an aura of failure that pulled him in like a moth to a lamp. Once he found the loser among losers, he would focus his attention and make them feel like they were the only person in the room, and that he would turn their pathetic lives around. There in the sixth row. The overweight redhead in…

POINSETTIA In the grocery store buying beer and a poinsettia I meet a deaf woman she is old and her hair is white and gray I am overacting at the hands her husband has deep wrinkles and the beard of a homeless man going out at the ends in wisps of smoke she points to a sticker 50% off on the bag of dog food now rolling down the blackness toward glowing hands I set the plastic bar between our items she smiles at the sticker and I give her a cartoon thumbs up and the sensor stops the blackness…

Technical Definition of Batesian Mimicry Sentence Definition Batesian mimicry is an ecological phenomenon in which a harmless organism copies the physical appearance of a harmful or irritating organism in order to deter predators. Origin and Use Batesian mimicry is named after the English naturalist, H.W. Bates, who discovered the phenomenon in the 1800s (The Editors of Encyclopædia Britannica, 2012). The term is used by ecologists when classifying and comparing similar looking organisms.…

often leads to the using of other people in the hopes of attaining this goal of wealth and living in the moment. Personal pleasure and wealth, a hedonistic and selfish goal, is demonstrated in the hordes of people that flock to Gatsby’s parties like moths to a flame. Hundreds of guests came to his extravagant and glamorous parties that were fitting with the ideals of society at the time, but none of the guests attempted to make a personal connection with Gatsby except for Nick. The people used…

There are various ways in which people talk based upon an individual’s social context. Within California there are communities that are affected by other neighboring communities’ language. The language of these neighboring communities eventually adapts and have a great impact to the daily usage of language and culture. There is a difference between Northern California culture and Southern California culture because of the social context. If individuals from two different societies come together,…

We got up to our room and found a nest of moths swarming around our door (something that we joked about the entire trip). Throwing our suitcases on the bed, we quickly got dressed into our dorky garbs and took the first bus to the convention hotel, only three blocks away. The hotel was pretty average-sized;…

Ayn Rand once said, “Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.”Nothing reflects this more than in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby. The novel focuses on the highly rich struggling with their own personal problems, dealing with deceit , wanting to evoke the past and, not being satisfied with what they have in life.The characters in Gatsby remind the reader even when seemingly untouchable by the world everyone is human. Through the…