Funder describes the Stasi as ‘innovators‚ story makers and Faustian bargain-haunters” How successful is she in the portrayal? As did Alice in Wonderland‚ Funder finds herself plunging deep into a world unknown. A world bathed in grey‚ where ‘story makers’ could ruin your future and a world where the Stasi ‘brainwashed its citizens into glorifying the GDR and spying on their friends and family’. Funder’s’ didactic text‚ ‘Stasiland’ explores the personal and societal effects of life under the constant
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Hongyuan (Paul) Lin Professor Michener AE Eng 20C 13 Oct 2014 Competitions are everywhere in our society. People compete against each other using different ways and effective behaviors. They stimulate people’s creativities and innovations. They help people promote their maximum potentials. Athletes practice and train hard to reach their goals. Companies cooperate and create innovative products to change the world. Akeelah does her best to learn and improve with Dr. Larabee’s help in order to win
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A Literary Analysis to Shitty First Drafts Writing does not always come out naturally for neither inexperience nor experience writers. In shitty first drafts‚ the talented author‚ Anne Lamott changes the misconception that writing comes out naturally for a professional writer. Lamontt also address the common problems that all writers encounter when writing while providing the reader with advice to get past their problems when writing. Lamott states “The right words and sentences just do not
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Maria Fatima B. Cerva ABLL 2 ENGL 110 INTERVIEW ESSAY FINAL DRAFT Erika Villamante Padiernos is a second year AB in Language and Literature student from Poblacion Sur‚ Talavera‚ Nueva Ecija. She was born on September 2‚ 1996. She was the eldest among the three daughters of Mr. Ricardo Padiernos‚ a farmer. And Mrs. Benedicta Padiernos‚ a public teacher. Erika has always been fond of three things. First‚ she loves to write. She want to be a part of the league of the most successful writers from
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all in high dispute at this day in age. If the Armed Forces were to have a draft‚ how would these play out in the draft‚ and how would the media and the majority of the United States’ population react? Economic factors‚ such as government budget‚ as well as the positive or negative
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Thomas Valotta Mr. K HSB4M1 July 15‚ 2014 The Saints and the Roughnecks: A power Discrepancy After wild high school experiences and memorable nights out with teenage friends‚ there comes a time to grow out of this lifestyle and into responsible‚ young adults. This was definitely the case for the two gangs within the town of Hanibal‚ the Saints and the Roughnecks. Most members of the two gangs are now respectable men who have achieved college degrees and started their own families‚ although
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First Drafts” by Anne Lamott discusses her opinions on first drafts‚ how she believes others dislike first drafts as much as her‚ how she gets past getting through her first draft‚ and her own experiences with first drafts when she worked as a food critic for the magazine California. She believes that others dislike first drafts of what others say‚ such as “We all often feel like we are pulling at teeth”. (Shitty First Drafts by Lamott) Everyone has to have a first draft‚ a shitty first draft‚ “that
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Anne Lamott’s “Shitty First Drafts” presents an argument to eliminate the understanding that writers create a masterpiece on their first drafts. The first draft is simply the first attempt that writers create to turn their thoughts into a final paper. Lamott tries to convince the “uninitiated” that everyone writes “shitty first drafts” and often times‚ positive outcomes come from those first attempts. One of the biggest obstacle in writing is the fear of creating terrible paper and many writers do
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THE ROUGH CROSSING by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) The Saturday Evening Post (8 June 1929) I Once on the long‚ covered piers‚ you have come into a ghostly country that is no longer Here and not yet There. Especially at night. There is a hazy yellow vault full of shouting‚ echoing voices. There is the rumble of trucks and the clump of trunks‚ the strident chatter of a crane and the first salt smell of the sea. You hurry through‚ even though there’s time. The past‚ the continent‚ is
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EXPOSITORY ESSAY: FIRST DRAFT ______________________________________ Name: Vincent D Dent Course: UNV- 104 Date : 7/26/2014 Instructor: Elbert Hollingsworth Violence and Video Games There is an increase in the violence being seen in society today due to violent video games and the excessive amount of time being spent engaging in violent video games. With the use of intense and suggestive graphic scenes of mayhem and carnage the excessive play of certain violent video games has increasingly
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