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crisis through the many articles we read and also got the opportunity to work with others in class for a group project. The class exhibited a friendly and helpful atmosphere as I saw many students quickly befriending one another. Although I was not as interested in the subject, I still like the atmosphere of the class and how easygoing the instructor was. English 2 consisted of many essays, most which relates to the water crisis. The first essay was about the Cadillac Desert article where it…

What are the biggest challenges immigrants face when going to America and to what extent can they be overcome? The issues focused on in the essay are the biggest challenges that immigrants face in their day-to-day lives in a new place. An immigrant is someone who moves to another country permanently. Some issues they struggle with most are the cultural differences, the language barrier and trying to make a living. Those points and more are explored through the sources used to write this essay.…

emotional, physical, and mental effects between single parents and their children. The first evaluation is an article from a website. The title is “Single-parent families” and has no author. The second evaluation is on a magazine article, “Understanding Single Parent Families” by Kirsten Schuder from Lifestyle magazine. The final evaluation is on a peer-reviewed scholarly journal article. The title is “Employment, Work Conditions, and the Home Environment in Single-Mother Families” by Christy…

stealing products from artist. The articles Contextualizing the Copyright Debate: Reward vs. Creativity by Nate Anderson and The Internet Debacle: An Alternate View by Janis Ian argue the different reasons on why illegally downloading stuff is right or not. Each article was written in a certain…

The texts “I Escaped A Violent Gang” and “Making Sarah Cry” have similar themes of courage. Each text shows the theme differently throughout the text. In “I escaped A Violent Gang” the author had to go through different events needing courage. In “Making Sarah Cry” Sarah shows courage while standing up to her bullies. While both of these texts share a common theme, the mood of the texts is completely different. The memoir “I Escaped A Violent Gang” has a mood of sadness and is a bit scary…

Football Games." Charleston Gazette- Mail. The Associated Press, 12 Feb. 202. Web. 8 Oct. 2015. This online newspaper article depicts…

The poem ‘Leda and the Swan’ by William Butler Yeats retells a renown story from Greek mythology. According to the myth, Leda, a queen of Sparta, was raped or seduced by Zeus in the guise of a swan. Leda then gave birth to three eggs, one of which did not hatch. The other two gave life to Helen (of Troy) and Pollux, who are assumed to be children of Zeus, and Castor and Clytemnestra, children of Leda’s husband Tyndareus. In the poem, Yeats alludes to the Trojan war and depicts unusually violent…

In Praise of Margins “In Praise of Margin” by Ian Frazier, Frazier reflects on his childhood to manifest the importance of margins, which involve any type of activity having no certain purpose to. In his case, it is the woods. He concludes that these activities are very important to our ordinary lives, providing some sort of comfort. He continues to argue that marginal activities should continue to be done; he provides an amount of examples of the wonders these marginal activities provide to…

Primogeniture, a system that provided a form of transfer from the deceased to their children in chronological birth order, had revealed itself present during the Elizabethan Era, and also has shown present in Shakespeare's’ works, such as the comedy As You Like It. Primogeniture had played a hefty role in the Elizabethan Era, shaping society to what it is known as today. Numerous factors tell of the importance of primogeniture, and during the Elizabethan Era, it not only influenced many writers,…

Library. Despite the unidentified author, the article remains credible because of the status of the publication on an academic database. The article addresses the danger signs that are found in pregnancy. The layout of the text is a bulleted list of information of all the dangers, and then an in-depth coverage of the listed topics, in addition to the bulleted list, the article lists symptoms of when a medical doctor should be notified. This article will be helpful in determining differences in…