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Jamaica Kincaid was originally Elaine Potter Richardson, an islander from Antigua. While living in Antigua, she received a British education and performed at the top of her class. She was the first of four children. Her relationship with her mother tumbled downhill once she began to birth her three sons. At age 16 she left Antigua, became an au pair, and went on to pursue her writing career while in college. Her family rejected her writing. It was then that she changed her name to Jamaica…

in and I have to follow your “rules”, then I will just try to blow it off. I have always hated the way Professors and the world had this “image” of their version of a “perfect” essay. I always messed up on the rules like where to put my commas or semicolons, that to me is the hardest part to not have a run- on sentence. I still struggle with this on a daily basis. For me writing has always been hard because I usually…

After the Albatross, the Pequod crosses paths with the Town-Ho (Melville 195). The encounter with the Town-Ho is unique to the rest of the whaler-encounters, as Ishmael tells it in the form of a story within a story. The Town-Ho “gave [the Pequod] strong news of Moby Dick”, but not in any way that Ahab would want (Melville 199). Indeed, “the tragedy” the Town-Ho describes “never reached the ears of Captain Ahab” (Melville 199). The story represented by this ship raises an unanswerable…

Writers Writing Processes “ Writing became such a process of discovery that I couldn’t wait to get to work in the morning: I wanted to know what I was going to say,” as Sharon O’ Brien said. For many writers including myself and Richard Marius, the author of Writing Drafts, writers have different writing processes that can construct a great essay. I have written many essays, but I stay consistent when it comes to my writing process as does Marius as he illustrates in his article Writing Drafts…

Throughout history there have been several events that I have been extremely pivotal moments in the development of the human race. This list includes momentous occasion such as domestication of animals, the invention of agriculture, the invention of writing and written laws comma the invention of the firearm, however no one event contributed to a greater ecological, economic, political, and social upheaval as the bridging of the old world and the new. In discovering the Americas, Christopher…

Vera Brittain, in her memoir, Testament of Youth, analyzes and describes her experiences being a young lady during the First World War. Her memoir consists of clips of letters, from her brother (Edward) and her fiancé (Roland), and clips of her journal in order to better understand her thoughts and feelings concerning both the war and her personal life. Brittain’s purpose is to try to unravel all the feelings she has, while trying to understand them, because, at the time, it was difficult for…

to be polluted by plastic and the chemicals that come along with it, which in turn causes the marine life to die; because recycling is done improperly, researchers need to find ways to make plastic biodegradable or improve the recycling methods. (Semicolon) Plastic…

anatomy. Every course tested me physically, mentally and emotionally. Let 's be honest, my favorite class was English. The most interesting, most familiar, and by far the one class I didn 't mind learning new things in. I learned more about commas, semicolons, the proper ways to write a review. How to write so many different kind of papers. Which every paper I truly enjoyed. They all were creative, and tested my creativity. Of all of the papers…

David Bartholomae sought to explain the difficulties students had in adjusting to the writing style expected of them in your standard university. This urge led him to write an essay which he named “Inventing the University” In this radical essay he explains in great detail why students seem to have such difficulty in writing university discourse and some practices we could put into the current public school systems that would help alleviate some of the difficulty most college freshmen face. In…

Have you ever enthusiastically followed a series of videos or dramas, which unfortunately is made in another language? Video sharing has become a significant part of people’s daily entertainment in the modern society, and such need created an emergence of abundant video producers for the need of various types of video. However, due to the process of globalization and introduction of the internet, people also began to found their own favorite series often made in a language beyond their lingual…