In a selection‚ an author uses certain characteristics to depict the outcome of a story. In Washington Irving’s “Rip Van Winkle‚” Irving incorporates exaggerated characters‚ magical events and their consequences‚ and places the setting in past times to create an American mythology. With these characteristics‚ Irving impacts the entire story and how the ending resolves. In the story‚ Irving uses mainly Rip Van Winkle and Dame Van Winkle to show exaggeration in the characters. The townspeople
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The article I wrote about is “Chicago-area teacher who punished students for speaking Spanish resigns in disgrace.” This article was about how a teacher punished a student for speaking spanish which is a racial punishment. This story relates to “Leandro” because his teacher also punished him for false allegations that Joan made on him. In the story Joan whisted by accident and Mrs.Butler heard it. So since Joan didn’t want to get in trouble she blamed it on a boy named Leandro. Even though Leandro
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On Thursday‚ our class finished the last of the persuasive speeches. We were persuaded to take certain actions that could benefit our lives or the community around us. The speech that I was assigned to assess was Sam’s speech. His topic was why all division three colleges should have turf fields for out-door sporting events. He had positive techniques that he used in his speech‚ but there were also areas of improvement. First‚ I will begin with the positives of his speech. I was glad that he picked
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In this paper‚ I will utilize Plato’s argument on immortality‚ the ability to live forever‚ on the soul. Plato was the first to argue against immortality and in his book‚ Phaedo‚ he has three arguments on immortality: The Cyclical Argument‚ The Argument from Recollection‚ and The Affinity Argument. Socrates believes that the “souls of the dead in the underworld” come from people who are living today and that the “living souls come back of those from the dead.” In Plato’s first argument‚ The Cyclical
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1. The lighting and set design performance by Kristin Chenoweth looked more professionally overall compared to Ben Hensley’s performance. In Chenoweth’s performance‚ she was positioned stage left‚ and had calm blue lighting in the background with a grand piano. Additionally‚ the main focus was on Kristin‚ the camera person had an up close view that had lighting that flattered her face. On the other hand‚ Hensley’s performance was distracting because he was not the main focus. There were too many
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"The Waking" by Theodore Roethke I wake to sleep‚ and take my waking slow. A I feel my fate in what I cannot fear. B I learn by going where I have to go. A We think by feeling. What is there to know? A I hear my being dance from ear to ear. B I wake to sleep‚ and take my waking slow. A Of those so close beside me‚ which are you? A God bless the Ground! I shall walk softly there‚ B And learn by going where I have to go. C Light takes the Tree; but who can tell us how? A The lowly worm climbs
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The Turtle On The Beach Once there was a poor man. He was very happy‚ but could not afford the house of his dreams. Each day he walked down the beach‚ looking at the frothy‚ white waves slapping against the beach‚ the fish leaping out of the water‚ and the seagulls floating around him waiting for a careless person to drop a crumb. He loved walking down the sandy beach. But what he enjoyed most was the rainbow of houses stretched down the beach. They weren’t big‚ they weren’t small. But he loved
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Rene Magritte was a Belgian surrealist artist with a mission to keep mystery in his works. He lived an eventful life filled with many temporary homes. His father worked in manufacturing‚ which kept him and his two younger brothers clothed and fed. However‚ they were forced to follow the work and never had a permanent home. At the age of fourteen‚ Magritte witnessed his mother being fished out of a river after committing suicide. She had been wearing a white dress and it was completely covering her
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Tina Keyport Globe University Frosty the Snowman This is a story about a group of kids who have issues with abandonment‚ the lack supervision and pants‚ and are on their way to be molested by a pedophile by the name of Professor Hinkle and in the process watch Hinkle commit murder. While at school; the children are watching a magician named Professor Hinkle; who was not a very good magician. The children were less than impressed with the magic and decided they wanted to go out and play in the
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Kevin Brantley WSC 2 Professor Jarvis The Dream Freud believed the dream to be composed of two parts‚ the manifest and the latent content. The manifest content can be thought of as what a person would remember as soon as they wake and what they would consciously describe to someone else when recalling the dream. That’s all the stuff that literally happens in the dream. Freud suggested that the manifest content possessed no meaning whatsoever because it was a disguised representation
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