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    Tanisha Pitts Intro to business & Technology August 15‚ 2013 Period 2nd Starting my own business as Entrepreneur Entrepreneurship is the basis of the American dream. It can be one of the most rewarding occupations. Owning a business‚ making key decisions‚ and becoming financially independent are very rewarding benefits. Many people see starting a business as something that they will never be able to do‚ be it because of finances‚ interest‚ or knowledge. If people follow certain steps‚ entrepreneurship

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    Jennifer Hernandez British Literature and Composition Mrs. Roller December 28‚ 2012 Ballade of Wordly Wealth In the poem Ballade of Wordly Wealth by Andrew Lang has a straight forward subject. It speaks about money and how money can buy everything. This gives the tone or mood in the poem a serious outlook of what money is basically all about. The speaker which is the own author himself‚ expressing on money and what money does to community or society. It doesn’t give information of the setting

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    Journal #10 Letter from Birmingham Jail November 10‚ 2014 • Subject: Answering several criticisms from the clergymen‚ Dr. King himself addressed why he was in Birmingham and why racial segregation needed to be changed now. He explicitly pointed out that civil disobedience was necessary and timely. He implicitly blamed the Christian church members for not standing up for their fellow brothers and justice; he also displayed disappointment at the leadership of the clergy. • Occasion: The United

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    Continuing my investigation into teaching grammar in context‚ I found my reading divided into text about application and text about theory. Although the theory is interesting (grammar is the confluence of prescriptive systems and descriptive analysis‚ Edlund)‚ I think the texts regarding application would be most beneficial to me. Contrary to my preference for application‚ I was intrigued by Constance Weaver’s discussion of the arguments for and against the formal teaching of grammar‚ citing the

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    Letter From Birmingham Jail In Martin Luther King Jr.‘s piece “Letter From Birmingham Jail‚” he unravels his feelings about the Alabama white clergy men statement titled “A Call for Unity.” The clergy men stated how they believe that the segregation dispute should be dealt with the courts‚ and shouldn’t be taken in the citizens hands. Being confined in a jail cell‚ King writes a lengthy letter refuting the clergy men’s opinions. He asserts his feelings by using the three appeals pathos‚logos

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    of course‚ and there’s a big game with an American agent who’s come to watch Jess and Jules. A lot of nice messages develop from the characters. Jess does what she wants but it’s only when she confronts her parents truthfully that she is able to do play with a clean conscience. There’s also a respect for and comfort with the characters’ culture that could come only from one who has lived it‚ and director Gurinder Chadha’s cheerful reverence comes through

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    leader and a powerful historical figure. He is often remembered most for his writings and speeches‚ in which he invokes many philosophical theories and speakers to justify the opinions he expresses in them. In MLK’s‚ “Letter from Birmingham Jail‚” he uses philosophical thinkers from the past to support the idea that civil rights activists should be allowed to protest peacefully‚ in spite of the laws against it. One of the thinkers MLK uses to support his argument is St. Thomas Aquinas‚ who wrote

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    Swift’s‚ “A Modest Proposal” One of Jonathon Swift’s most famous works‚ “A Modest Proposal” needs to be read after the reader gets a little familiar with Swift himself and why he wrote it. Once you realize the situation and the author’s unique writing ability and thought process the proposal seems a little less farfetched and less sickening. I am in no way in agreement with the proposal just more understanding of where it came from and why he did it. The meaning of the proposal takes a major

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    Jonathan Swift created one of the most renowned satirical writings with his essay A Modest Proposal. Cannibalism was the central issue of the writing more precise a cannibalistic economy was the proposal by Swift to alleviate the poverty of Ireland. The selling and consuming of yearlings was the proposal by Swift due to cannibalism in Ireland being a view that the British held possible. According to Frank Lestringant the British held views that the Irish could possibly be cannibals among other views

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    A preacher‚ an author‚ and a leader in the American civil rights movement of the 1950s‚ Martin Luther King Jr. defends the actions of the African American community in his essay “A Letter from Birmingham Jail.” King’s purpose is to prove why the negative “extremist” label that is slapped on the protesters does not accurately reflect the actions that are taken to fight for equality. He adopts a hopeful tone in order to connect to the rationality and humanity in his mainly white audience despite their

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