Dear Obama‚ My name is Jane Doe. I am an 11th grade student from Knoxville‚ Tennessee. Do not let my age fool you. I am well aware of the atrocities happening within our government. I am writing this letter to you‚ because I have a few concerns with our government today. I am concerned with the start of the war in Syria‚ the possible cancellation of Social Security checks‚ and the eavesdropping on our personal communication devices. First off is the war in Syria. As you probably know‚ it is
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The pain of betrayal transcends all boundaries. Two complementary poems illustrate this fact‚ despite being written 150 years apart. Robert Browning’s “My Last Duchess” is set in 16th Century Italy. The Duke of Ferrara is discussing the portrait of his last duchess to an envoy of a nobleman‚ whose daughter he is planning to marry. Similarly‚ the contemporary woman in Gabriel Spera’s “My Ex-Husband‚” relates the details of her first marriage to the man in her new relationship. Throughout both dramatic
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”Dear Friend” (?): Culture and Genre in American and Canadian Direct Marketing Letter Md Rishad Zaman 001100341 Professor Neil Stubbs Introduction to Academic Writing Section WRIT 1000B 17 July 2013 In “”Dear Friend” (?): Culture and Genre in American and Canadian Direct Marketing Letter”‚ Roger Graves examines how English speaking Canadian people are different from Americans‚ and how business communicators need to identify those differences to be
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In Anne Trumbore’s “Spite” dramatic point of view and juxtaposition of the mother’s screams with the math problem characterizes the narrator as someone who feels unloved. She distances herself from her mother in the opening paragraph. In this excerpt the author describes the incident as‚ “A thirty-five-year-old woman with multiple sclerosis fell while taking a shower. She screamed for her husband. He did not hear her (1)”. This paragraph‚ including this specific line‚ are delivered in 3rd person
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In the poem "After Auschwitz" by Anne Sexton‚ the speaker talks about her feelings after touring a concentration camp. The speaker writes about what humans are able to do to other humans and how horrible this specific time was. The speakers tone is mostly angry. During the poem‚ the speaker’s tone becomes more and more angry and dark but at the end of the poem in the last two lines it also turns into a sad tone. These tones are created to confirm the bad things that happened in the concentration
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The Loving case was based off of Richard and Mildred Loving’s marriage. Richard Perry Loving‚ a white construction worker‚ was born on October 29‚ 1933 in Central Point‚ Caroline County. Mildred Dolores Jeter‚ a mixed African American and Indian woman‚ was born on July 22‚ 1939 who was also born in Central Point‚ Caroline County. In the state of Virginia‚ the location in which they both had lived‚ there was a law called the Racial Integrity Act (“American...”). The Act restricted anyone of the opposite
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Algeron Charles Swinburne’s “Love and Sleep” established a theme of his lover’s beauty and his unconditional love towards her through strong diction which creates a passionate form of image. In the poem‚ such words as “lying” (1)‚ “asleep” (1) and “night” (1) implies the speaker is in his bedroom‚ creating a lonely‚ quite atmosphere. In this immersive atmosphere‚ the writer strikes a chord with the readers and graphs the sorrow and yearning incisively and vividly. Moreover‚ the word “saw” (2)‚ being
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An Ideal Husband Analysis of characters Sir Robert Chiltern The play’s "tragic" hero‚ Sir Robert Chiltern is an accomplished government official‚ considered by all as an ideal husband and model politician. As described in the stage notes‚ Sir Robert has effected a violent separation of thought and emotion in his personality; moreover‚ he suffers from divided loyalties. Though a portrait of distinction and good breeding‚ Sir Robert conceals a blemished past. Extremely ambitious‚ he succumbed to
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Secretary Chant” by Marge Piercy feel unappreciated and lost as employees. Jorge is “outside…of [Americans] understanding” and The Secretary is lost in her work and compares herself to objects such as her “hips are a desk.” The employees from these poems have become hidden behind their duties and are slowly sinking into the unknown. “Jorge the Church Janitor Finally Quits” begins with Jorge’s point of origin. While working as a janitor‚ “no one asks where [he’s] from” assuming he’s “from the country
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The Romanticism was a literary movement that developed mainly throughout the influences of the philosophy of Locke and the causes and consequences of revolutionary spirit of the French revolution. Wordsworth was brought up reading the Augustan´s metric poetry and the neoclassicist’s descriptive complex language which fully expressed the ideas of reasoning over sentiments. Influenced and inspired by the changing ideological atmosphere of the late XVIII and the first third of the XIX century‚ Wordsworth
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