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    writing a paper, be it a think sheet, essay, or report. Over the years, I have fine tuned my writing process and strived to make it as efficient as possible, but as with all matters, there is always improvements to be made. The field trip to the Harry Ransom Center (HRC) was illuminating in the sense that I got to see firsthand how professional writers and great thinkers did their writing process. While there were several similarities between their writing process and mine, I also gathered some…

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    Ransom of Jimmy, a Story of Brains A wonderfully bright yellow sun rises over the small town of Broken Bow, Oklahoma. A young small boy named Jimmy runs across his yard to his bright blue house, He see’s his Dad working on something in the shed. But more importantly, he smells the sweet and powerful aroma of pancakes being cooked by his Mom. “Jimmy!, Stephenie! Breakfast is ready” yells Jimmy’s Mom “Coming, mom” Yells Jimmy back Jimmy runs as fast as he can towards the kitchen, but also…

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    In Doriani appendix A he explains that how to form a sermon properly using CAPTOR. Doriani breaks one of his sermon titled Jesus Christ the Ransom, for many which focuses on Matthew 20:20-28. He shows that his sermon is focused on the fallen-condition focus. The sermon has a theme statement, applications, and multiple context breakdowns such as historical, literary, and a broad context. He also breaks his sermon down by main points that will have an explanation by a given application. Then…

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    Red= Adjective Orange= important details The story, Ransom of Red Chief is a good story for multiple reasons, one being the irony of it. However, everyone makes mistakes or changes to the original story and make revisions. The short story starts off with Sam narrating the intro, just like the movie. Then they’re riding around town in their old, rough Wagon. In the story it shows them in an old Car… not a wagon. THEN it gets worse. You know how they asked Johnny if he wanted candy, well in the…

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    The Ransom of Little Lola Lola was just playing outside a mile away from her house in the woods by this pond, singing and humming to Shower by Becky G her favorite song. You could hear the birds chirping, the wind screaming, all the animals talking, and Lola singing her song. Then all of a sudden she stopped singing, she only saw black, and could barely breath. All you could hear is her breathing heavily, the rest of the woods where total silence. For a second she thought she had passed out but…

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    The Ransom Call In the simple, neat town of Neride, April Bartoli was waking up for the first day back at Northside Middle School. She forces herself up out of bed, rubbing her eyes. She goes through her normal routine of picking out clothes to straightening her hair and packing her school bag. Her parents have already commuted to work, both being well paid doctors, so she has to walk to school. Nearly instantly after stepping outside her large wooden front door, she hears a shout from the left…

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    Jacqueline Moreno 5th Hour Monday,October 26th Type 3- The Ransom Of Red Chief In O. Henry’s short story, The Ransom Of Red Chief, the main character, Red Chief, also known as Johnny Dorset, is known to be quite talkative. Through the character’s dialogue and some inferences, O. Henry makes it quite clear that Red Chief is very talkative. In the short story, Sam and Bill quickly realize kidnapping a talkative boy was a bad idea when Red Chief didn’t stop speaking; “I like this fine. I…

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    To begin with, the stories of Red Chief’s Ransom and the short video both have similarities and differences of their own. One difference is, in the book the criminals Bill and Sam have a buggy, although in the film they have a mobile car. Second, is that Bill doesn’t have a brick thrown at him during the kidnapping like in the story. Also, to add, they didn’t offer him candy but instead threw Red Chief into a luggage box. Third, they never say Red Chief’s actual name in the movie but his real…

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    stories humorous. In the story, “The Ransom of Red Chief,” by O Henry. Also the story,”The Necklace,” by Guy de Maupassant, the authors try to mix the reader’s emotions. Situational irony can make someone laugh, cry, or feel sorrow. It can make you feel sorrow for a character when something bad happens to them. Authors try to make his/her readers entertained while keeping them attached to the story. How O. Henry creates humorous situational irony in, “The Ransom of Red Chief.” For instance,…

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    The Ransom of the Stolen Jewels A museum in Paris, France was robbed of its prized jewels, The French Crown Jewels. A man named Dan Crawford, the criminal, Dan is very tall, has black hair, he is very built, also has a gang. Dan is the thief that stole the French Crown Jewels. “ What do we do now boss,” says Troy, Troy is one of the youngest gang members. “ We could celebrate by going to a club and partying,” says Dan. “ Ok boss,” Said cheerfully by the gang. “ Let's get some croissants at…

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