Grammar as Rhetoric and Style The Appositive An appositive is a noun or noun phrase that tells the reader something about a nearby noun or pronoun. In each sentence below‚ the appositive is underlined. The italics shows the noun or pronoun that the appositive details. It turned out that one of the top students‚ Denny Davies‚ had learned of this rule. Kennedy‚ a wiry fifty-nine-year-old who has a stern buzz cut‚ was in 1997 the principal of Sarasota High School. In 1981‚ two professors
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During the nineteenth century‚ Manchester became one of the most industrialized cities in the world. Although the industrialization of Manchester was very efficient and successful for the modernization of man‚ the city’s growth also raised many issues in society. The growth of the city had negative and positive effects. Although the huge population growth in Manchester in the 1800s‚ delighted many people‚ for they though this had led to advances in manufacturing and other industries-the increase
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China‚ Spain‚ and Europe affected the global flow of silver from the sixteenth century to the early eighteenth century‚ socially and economically. China affected the global flow of silver socially and economically. (Doc.’s 1‚3‚5‚7) In Document 1‚ the author believes that a frugal man with only one bar of silver can pay for his wedding and still have something left over‚ but an extravagant man can have thousands and still not have enough. The author feels this way because of his bias towards
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AP World History Notes Ch 6 Early Americas & Oceania August 4‚ 2004 The cultures of the Americas and Oceania developed in relative isolation to the other early complex societies. Nevertheless‚ they too developed an agricultural base sufficient to support growing populations‚ specialized labor‚ political institutions‚ diverse societies‚ and long-distance trading networks. Less is known of these cultures than those in other parts of the world primarily because either writing systems did not develop
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The period of time between the mid 1860’s and the late 1870’s‚ referred to as the reconstruction era is quite similar to the first revolution . This period of time should be considered as the second American revolution because of the indistinguishable difference in the set of events that took place in the first and second American revolution. During these revolutions a large group of people was being oppressed likes the colonist in the first revolution and slaves in the second American revolution
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The government should not approve the compromise‚ because of the fact that slavery is immoral and every step should be taken to slowly ablolish it. The government should not approve the compromise‚ which might have avoided a war. Another compromise could have been created to keep the north and the south satisfied. The compromise should not be approved because it leaves both sides unbalanced. The south would not have slaves in Utah or New Mexico simply because of thier geographical features. Slavery
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US History: Midterm Review Big Ideas: Geography. Great Plains: The Great Plains is the broad expanse of flat land‚ much of it covered in prairie‚ steppe and grassland‚ that lies west of the Missouri River and east of the Rocky Mountains in the United States and Canada. Central Plains: In the U.S In the U.S. state of Wisconsin‚ the Central Plain is a geographical region consisting of about 13‚000 square miles of land in a v-shaped belt across the center of the state. Miss. River: The Mississippi
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Johnston English Composition (sec2) 26 March 2014 The Distance Between Us: A Memoir by Reyna Grande The term “The American Dream” is very broad with many meanings and certainly broader than any single statistic can measure; however we all our own definition of that. Some would say it is building their dream house‚ going to college‚ being wealthy‚ or just having a family. While Reyna Grande’s memoir‚ The Distance Between Us it became clear that term defines most people no matter where you were
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Using the following documents‚ identify and analyze at least three major reasons for the persecution of individuals as witches in Europe from the late fifteenth through the seventeenth century: It was extremely easy to be accused of being a witch in the fifteenth‚ sixteenth‚ and seventeenth century. During this time period‚ Europe was going through many changes such as the Protestant Reformation‚ the Catholic Reformation‚ the Scientific Revolution‚ and the consolidation of many national governments
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Imperial Rome vs. Han The Classical Period was a time where large‚ land-based empires were developed. The leaders of these empires were met with many questions on how to control their territories. While both the Han empire and Imperial Rome exercised political control over their empires through government structure‚ they differed in their organization of bureaucrats and their reliance on slavery. Both the Han and Imperial Rome exercised political control through similar government structure. The
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