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    Stephan Crane’s "Maggie: A Girl of the Street" and Upton Sinclair’s "Jungle" are both representing the real life when they are compared with each other. The events and the opinions in these short stories are corresponding with naturalistic thought and it is showed by observation technique to the readers. The characters of the stories are become the victims of the social laws that they are struggling to breach the social and economic problems which are set upon them at birth. Thus‚ it is important

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    Topic: Cars enslave us rather than liberate us. How much effort do you put in travelling to school or workplace each week? Created in 1870‚ cars have been one of the most useful and spectacular inventions of human beings. The society we live in has recently became completely reliant on these fuel-burning vehicles. It is widely discuss whether cars are a blessing or a real nightmare that may lead people astray. As a young driver‚ I firmly believe in the liberating power of cars. Not only do they

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    focus on are “Maggie: A Girl of the Streets” and Clockwork Angel. “Maggie: A Girl of the Streets” was written by Stephen Crane and published in 1893 under the pseudonym‚ Johnston Smith. Later‚ when Crane obtained success through The Red Badge of Courage‚ he was able to publish a revised version of the story under his own name in 1896 (sparks). With “Maggie”‚ Crane attempted to show American life in New York as he had experienced it personally. The piece tells the story of Maggie Johnson who falls

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    Michelle and Maggie are at baseball practice. Michelle throws a ball into the air and when it drops to a height of 5ft.‚ she hits the ball. The height of the ball is modeled by the graph below where t = time in seconds and h = height of the ball from the ground. Maggie is throwing a ball into the air and catching it. The height of Maggie’s ball is modeled by the function h(t) = –16t2 + 48t + 15. Part 1. Which ball goes higher in the air‚ the ball that is hit or the ball

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    Certain foods and drink could worsen an individual’s health‚ such as drinking alcohol with certain medication such as antibiotics. It is important to offer advice and information to the individual when they make their choice with food they eat. Explain and give advice on a balanced diet and to be healthy‚ as eating too many fatty goods could cause gain of weight and possible health problems. By giving an individual two or more choices and giving more detail about the food they are being offered

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    “In Wuthering Heights‚ love is presented as an emotion which provokes violence rather than tenderness” To what extent do you agree with this view? In gothic literature‚ love can be presented as a transgressive emotion – one which crosses the boundaries of life itself‚ as exhibited in Wuthering Heights. There are however different interpretations of the presentation of love within this novel‚ whether it be love as an emotion provoking violence or love as an emotion which provokes tenderness. Although

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    Rhetorical Analysis Essay As a guest editor I was asked to review and analyze Dee Dee Myers article “What class warfare really looks like”‚ and either recommend it or not for publishing in The Shorthorn. After considering all rhetorical appeal in Myers’ writing‚ I concluded that it should not be read at large by the UTA community. Therefore I must recommend that it should not be published in The Shorthorn‚ due to the fact that Myers states the gap between the super-rich and everyone else has steadily

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    Baker‚ Houston A. and Baker‚ Charlotte Pierce. "Patches: Quilt and Community in Alice Walker’s ‘Everyday Use’." Short Story Criticism: Excerpts from Criticism of the Works of Short Fiction Writers. Gale Research Inc.‚ 1990. 5: 415-416 In a critique titled "Patches: Quilt and Community in Alice Walker’s ‘Everyday Use’" (Short Story Criticism: Excerpts from Criticism of the Works of Short Fiction Writers‚ 1990)‚ the authors reveal that tradition and the explanation of holiness were key elements

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    Tone and Diction in Quilt of a Country and The Immigration Contribution Quilt of a Country by Anna Quindlen is an essay written after the 9/11 terror attacks in New York. In this piece Quindlen explains how America is like a quilt‚ and made up of all different cultures sewn together by a common enemy. In her essay Quindlen uses a diction that easy to understand‚ but at the same time it gives you good information. In the first paragraph of the essay the author states “America is an improbable idea

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    Samantha McCoy English 1102 Ms. Bell 6/17/2015 Maggie Character Analysis Today I will be writing a character analysis on Maggie from the short story Everyday Use by Alice Walker. Maggie is a quiet and shy individual that is always being looked down upon by other people. Throughout the story she is shown to have “no confidence or self-esteem. One occurrence that motivates her is the burn scars she got from the house fire several years ago. “Maggie will be nervous until after her sister goes:

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