‘The Twelfth Day of July’ Task: Explain how Kevin and Sadie change by the end of the novel ‘The Twelfth Day of July’ is a book by Joan Lingard. This book is about the discord between the Catholic and Protestant religions. It centres on the characters of Kevin McCoy‚ who is Catholic‚ and Sadie Jackson‚ who is Protestant and how their friendship develops despite the religious bigotry which affects the country they live in. The Twelfth Day of July is a celebration in Northern Ireland‚ for Protestants
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PART I ESSAY Origin of Essay History of essay as a literature form has begun in 1580 when Michel de Montaigne has published the book “Les Essais”. In French term “essais” means “try” or “experience”. It was a book written because of boredom; it did not have a distinct structure or plan‚ and consisted of individual chapters‚ formally unrelated to each other. Montaigne suggested his literary tests in form of initial essay‚ highlighting their subjective‚ relative‚ and inconclusive sides. In fact
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Mr. Smith English 101: Composition 1 January 27‚ 2014 Reading Response Paper 1: The Fourth of July In “fourth of July”‚ it seemed to me that the main character was never really aware of the racism in the world‚ as if her parents were trying to hide it from her. Her eighth grade graduation was supposed to mark the end of her childhood‚ But I believe it was her fourth of July graduation present trip to Washington D.C. that really ended her innocence‚ because there she
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Tips for Drafting an Essay ( The Narrative/Descriptive Essay) 1. Begin brainstorming‚ clustering‚ and/or free writing to help you find or narrow a topic. 2. I actually like a free writing because I like to see words on a page. This is the actual beginning of a draft. Use free writing to help you figure out how much you have to say about your topic. Feel free to take parts of the free writing and elaborate on parts of your story. a. Example: if you are writing a physical story (racing in a car
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TITLE: DESCRIPTIVE: A NIGHT OF HELL SUBJECT SENTENCE: I AM GOING TO DESCRIBE TO YOU THE NIGHT THAT I WORKED BEHIND THE BAR‚ WAITRESSED‚ AND TOOK LIQUIOR COUNT. INTRODUCTION: I. HOW MANY OF YOU HAVE GONE TO WORK AND HAD TO DO SOMEONE ELSE’S WORK ON TOP OF YOUR OWN? II. I DEFINITELY HAVE. LET ME DESCRIBE TO YOU THE NIGHT THAT I CALL THE NIGHT OF HELL‚WHERE I NOT ONLY HAD TO DO MY JOB BUT THE JOB OF SOMEONE ELSE AS WELL. BODY: I. MY REGULAR JOB DUTIES AT WORK. A.) I WAS REQUIRED
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The moment when the Declaration of Independence was written and signed on the Fourth of July‚ 1776‚ you can say‚ the nation is an emptiness world that adds a stripe of color and hope into it making it plentiful. This is why many of us are celebrating the meaning of this day. It’s like a cage bird being set free. We the people‚ we as a whole union represent the American eagle. “We hold these truths to be self-evident‚ that all men are created equal‚ that they are endowed by their Creator with certain
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An essay is a short piece of writing on a topic and presents the author’s point of view on the matter. It is a pure non-fiction presentation of the writer’s outlook on the topic that is the focus of the essay.1 An essay should be structured in different sections that make it easy for the readers to read and follow the author’s thoughts clearly. It is composed of the introductory paragraph‚ supporting paragraphs and the summary paragraph. The introductory paragraph is the first paragraph of
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Description of a Remarkable Place My remarkable place that I will be talking about in this essay is an amusement park called Six Flags. It was one of my most favorite places to visit and I was there with my family members. The amusement park was also in a larger city and it was our first time visiting. This essay will consist of three hundred words and 3 short essays. There are many other parks in the United States with the name “Six Flags‚” but I went to the one in Arlington‚ Texas. Arlington Texas
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A Strange Day in July One day on July 13‚ 1995‚ at around 9:00 pm‚ two boys were skipping rocks on a long gloomy pond. The boy named Jack decided it would be more fun to play in the mud‚ so he went to a nearby mud pit to frolic in. The other boy (John) kept skipping rocks. On around his third throw he realized that the stones were coming back. Curious‚ John hurled a stone along the pond. No sooner then he threw it the stone came skipping back twice as hard. As John narrowly dodged the stone it
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“Jack‚ July‚” my initial impression was that the story was average and did not know why many people praised it. I did not like the story because the story was moving from one idea to the other without any real break in the character’s thought in between each scene. Victor Lodato also writes paragraphs that are trying to explain what happened in the scene or why it happened‚ but he writes it in a way that is dense and confusing to me‚ who is reading his work for the first time. He writes about a meth
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