Semicolon

The “General Review of the Sex Situation” by Dorothy Parker and “Pie Dance” by Molly Giles, provide the readers with a comparison of a woman’s way of loving with a man. Both the poem and short story illustrate the male wrongdoings towards a woman by a woman’s sharp wit, humor, and pointed cynicism. Parker demonstrates the dominance of a man in a relationship. The opening two lines of the poem express the differences of a man’s faith to a woman by the a/a rhyme scheme: Woman wants monogamy; Man…

In her editorial, “Why Establish This Paper,” Mary Ann Shadd Cary uses syntactical strategies and deliberate choices in structure (parallelism and rhetorical questions) to prove the necessity and legitimacy of her newspaper, Provincial Freeman. Cary uses interrupted syntax to qualify her statements in order to highlight the reasons why her newspaper is necessary. The first reason she gives is written in this manner, “We need an organ, too, for making our voice heard at home.” (Cary 1). The…

During this the first semester of Comp. 111, I have grown tremendously as a writer. I remember when I was first signing up for this class I was extremely nervous. I had no idea how difficult the class would be and how it would affect my overall love of writing. I love to write but, the rules of writing take the complete joy out of it. I’ll usually be writing and it would seem perfect to me. But when I would have somebody else look over it, they would tell me the flaws to the writing and help me…

Writing is only improved by practicing and having errors. In the beginning of the semester my writing was not as academically as it should had been, based on the educational level that college writing requires. My grammar was mostly what affected my development as a writer. Most of my grammar grades in the beginning were about from twenty or thirty point out of fifty. My hopes for passing this class weren’t as strong as they were further in the semester. Obviously I was very insecure as college…

In Hsün Tzu’s “Man’s Nature is Evil,” It becomes apparent that he has done much thought upon the subject of man's nature. Hsün Tzu What's a philosopher in the time of 300 to about 230 BCE. His writings consisted of well-developed arguments that contributed to the Chinese philosophy of legalism. He believed that inherently humans are evil, and must be taught by Society how to act civil. Strangely, his writings did not confer with the ideas at the time as most believed that humans were inherently…

Composition one has helped me grow as a writer and has taught me skills I can use in the future. I have learned how to use commas, passive voice, semicolons, and format a paper in MLA. From my first essay to my last one, it is noticeable that a major improvement has been made. I did not know that even after teacher feedback that you needed to revise your own work. Although I have learned many skills, I believe that the most valuable one is how to revise my essays. When I got my first feedback…

Jamaica Kincaid’s Girl is an interesting poem that contains a conversation between a mother and a daughter. It is a story of a mother who struggles to impart knowledge on her daughter. The poem is a representation of the roles of a mother in the society. The aspect of parental care runs through the entire poem as the mother works hard to educate her daughter. On the contrary, the daughter continuously ignores the teaching from her mother and prefers to behave like a slut. The author stresses on…

Chapter 30 in The Norton Introduction to Literature talks about the research essay. A research essay is in essay that requires research on a particular topic. You still have to make a plan, draft the essay, and revise it. Research essays use secondary sources. The types and functions of secondary sources is also talked about in this book. Secondary sources are literary criticism, biography, and history. The type of essay that you use will determine which type of source that you will need. Unless…

to me. It was the dream of being able to finally make this game that kept me ticking. As a result of this endurance, I finally understood why my code was underlined with red scribbles when I defined a decimal value as an integer or if I forgot a semicolon (a necessary element to end a statement in java). By the end of the year, I decided that I had enough knowledge to make my first application. Starting off small, I created a simple calculator that computed the volume and surface area of a…

When it comes to being put in a crisis, people have different mechanisms to cope. Avoiding the reality of an unpleasant situation is a common theme in both William Stafford’s Traveling through the Dark, and Shoshauna Shy’s Bringing My Son to the Police Station to be Fingerprinted. Both poems use literary elements such as diction and imagery to exemplify different ways of coping when put in a high-stress position. Although these two poems share a similar theme, each author uses the literary…