AMERICAN STUDIES 301 MIDTERM Please include a title for the midterm‚ TA name‚ and staple Description of assignment: Compose an anthology of thirteen quotations drawn from the materials assigned for the first three sections of this course (Parts I‚ II and III). The anthology will consist of a preface‚ short commentaries on each quotation‚ and a conclusion. The anthology should be governed by a theme (or a set of two topics aligned to the concerns of the first four sections of the syllabus)
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Have you heard about how high the rate of teen mortality has been rising over the last few decades? Indeed‚ it is a problematic issue that has been ignoring most of the young-drivers’ parents. As Anna Quindlen expressed on her article‚ teen’s crashes and deaths are highly common and ignored. Moreover‚ Quindlen’s purpose is to highlight the seriousness of the teens driving issue and how states around the United States handle the issue. As a matter of fact‚ Quindlen’s concern is mainly in how the short-age-limit
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through the pain that dictates an individual’s thoughts and actions. In both text‚ loss has plagued the characters which significantly changes them both mentally and physically but it is how they deal with it that separates them. In the novel‚ “Wake” by Anna Hope‚ the characters are enervated by war and its aftermath whereas in Elizabeth Bishop’s “One Art”‚ the characters accept loss and conquer it. Both authors shared a similar conclusion showcasing the positivity of getting over loss. The characters
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The examples and evidence on a lecture’s content are important when writing an essay in order. Anna Quindlen evidence on Driving to the Funeral does not convey a satisfactory and concrete solution -raise the driving age among teenagers- because does not present consistent statistics or analysis‚ most of its evidence are based on collective anecdotes‚ and the evidence makes biases on the crashes related to young driving and the evidence makes biases on the crashes related to young driving and does
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Case Study A: Anna. O Bertha Pappenheim‚ who was given the pseudonym‚ "Anna O.‚" is a perfect example of a case study dealing with somatoform disorder. Specifically‚ she suffered from conversion disorder‚ which is a set of "neurological symptoms such as weakness‚ sensory disturbance and attacks that look like epilepsy but which cannot be attributed to a known neurological disease." (Wikipedia.org‚ 2006) Pappenheim suffered from epilepsy‚ she lost control over half of her body including paralysis
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describe who the audience is for each poem‚ what the poet hopes to gain from the audience‚ and what rhetorical strategies are used to affect the audience. To a Little Invisible Being Who is Expected Soon to Become Visible by Anna Lætitia Barbauld In Anna Letitia Barbauld’s poem To a Little Invisible Being Who Is Expected Soon to Become Visible is full of excitement and anticipation for the upcoming birth child. On the surface it appears that the poet is talking directly to the unborn
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Chloe Anna Schmidt was undoubtedly privileged. She’d grown up with her family in the affluent DC suburbs‚ and although she’d always moved around with her family‚ they had never lived in anything other than relative luxury. Indeed for as long as she’d been alive her parents had been people of significant means. Yet it was more than money‚ both of her Chloe’s parents had friends and old colleagues connected to some of the biggest and most prestigious institutions in the city. Her family on the whole
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In slip-shod measure loosely prattling on‚ Of farm or orchard‚ pleasant curds and cream‚ Or droning flies‚ or shoes lost in the mire By little whimpering boy‚ with rueful face- Come‚ Muse‚ and sing the dreaded washing day (Pg. 70 Lines 1-8) Anna Letitia Barbauld’s poem “Washing Day” is categorized as mock epic. A mock epic is defined as: epic tone and form but for ‘ordinary’ subjects. Another example of a mock epic is Alexander Pope’s The Rape of the Lock (1712). This literary work stands
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Friction discloses the particularities of different collaborations that disrupt or develop processes of economic transformations that reflect on landscapes‚ and at the same time accentuates the role that imagination plays in recreating the wild as fields of profiteering. The title is so well chosen‚ that I can’t even begin to write about how significant the idea of ’friction’ should be in understanding the creation of new enclosures. Friction does justice to a real account (not just a romanticized
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Saeed Kureshi – Admiral‚ Artist and Musician `Obsessed with the discovery of unexplored areas of the hugely visual terrain‚ Saeed Kureshi perpetrates deliberate deconstruction of line and form‚ It all begins with random‚ but pre-reckoned linear strokes to form a dynamic skeleton of the intended subject or composition…’(quote) Entering the residence of M Saeed Kureshi and his artist wife‚ one closes the door on the pin-pricks of daily routine. There one discovers paintings‚
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