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    notion that being like “other girls” is a negative trait‚ but it also pits women against one another. In order to stand out from “other girls‚” women feel the need to criticize feminine traits and the women that comply with these characteristics. Debra Merskin reflects this sentiment by questioning the need to conceal and suppress menstruation. She expresses that “girls are responsible for hiding

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    greater than credited. Debra Marquart illustrated the history of her small town. Throughout the passage described in first person narrative by Debra‚ herself‚ explained her story of what she has seen and been told. In “Horizontal World” author Debra Marquart applies vivid imagery‚ unique diction‚ and a personal anecdote to convey the importance and uniqueness of small towns. First‚ Debra Marquart uses vivid imagery to emphasize the small details that make a town unique. Debra opened the passage with

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    Author Debra Marquart in her memoir “The Horizontal World”‚ writes about North Dakota and how she confesses her love for it in a very indirect way. There were very many considerable amounts of situations in her hometown and visitors would think that the land is plain and unimpressive. Debra includes many strategies to characterize the upper Midwest. Some of these strategies include imagery‚ tone‚ and syntax‚ also‚ diction‚ personification‚ and pathos‚ and lastly‚ ethos‚ logos‚ and audience. Imagery

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    Aaron Patron 10/9/10 rewrite 2010 AP English Free Response Question (Form B) Question 2 In this passage from The Horizontal World‚ Debra Marquart shows her love for the upper Midwest despite the common negative opinions that most would first think about the region. While others would say that the region is dull and monotonous‚ Marquart finds her hometown as a place of great significance to her life. By her use of similes and allusions‚ she attempts to overcome the common negative first

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    Horizontal World‚ written by Debra Marquart‚ is an excerpt that demonstrates Marquart’s indirect expression of love for the Midwest. Through her development of changing tones‚ which is propelled by diction and an appeal to ethos‚ she is able to advance her message about the unknown yet special qualities of the Midwest. Debra Marquart uses a change of tone from the beginning of the passage to its end in order to juxtapose the two contradictory perspectives of the Midwest. Marquart clearly shows this variation

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    Memorist‚ Debra Marquart‚recalls what it was like growing up in North Dakota in her meir The Horizontal Winds. Marquart’s purpose is to characterize the Midwest as the opposite character that T.V has made North Dakota out to be. She use exaggerated diction to importune a humorous tone in her audience‚ the readers of the memoir and anyone who has had a false view on what North Dakota is really like. Marquart begins with introducing the idea of how television‚ more specifically television comedians

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    memoir‚ The Horizontal World written by Debra Marquart‚ she describes growing up in the Midwest region. By using literary devices‚ she tells the readers about her profound love for the area‚ even though it may seem to the blind eye as a boring and lonely place to visit. Literary devices such as allusions and charged diction suggest that the Midwest has a unique beauty that not everyone notices‚ or bothers to notice. By using these literary devices‚ Marquart is able to convince her readers of the beauty

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    Through the year‚ I believe that I significantly changed as a writer‚ reader‚ and thinker. I think one of my biggest improvements as a writer was definitely my development and finding of my voice in argument and synthesis essays‚ especially since many of the essays I had to write in previous years were mostly objective analysis that did not require any voice in argument. As a person‚ I find myself to be frank and sarcastic‚ and I think I have incorporated some of that voice in my argument essays

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    When one thinks about the midwest‚ you generally think it is just a desert‚ but it is much more than that. Marquart characterizes the upper midwest as more of a lonely place especially “While your driving west from Fargo on I-94” It is not very difficult to drive in the midwest‚ simply because there are no “rises or curves on the road.” The midwest is also considered a square state‚ meaning it is more conservative and rural. Something many people are not aware of. It is also more republican than

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    D. M.‚ Cohen‚ A.S.‚ & Wollack‚ J. A. (2002). Item parameter estimation under conditions of test speededness: Application of a mixture rasch model with ordinal constraints. Journal of Educational Measurement‚ 39‚ 331-348. Elliot‚ S. N. & Marquart‚ A. M.. (2004). Practical assessment‚ research and evaluation. Retrieved June 28‚ 2012‚ from: http://pareonline.net/pdf/v14n18.pdf Lu‚ Y.‚ & Sireci‚ S. G. (2007). Validity issues in test speededness. Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice

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