In the selection‚ "Teaching History Through Fiction: Valuable or Dangerous" there are two different arguments on whether historical fiction should be used to teach history or not. The Point text‚ "There is Value in Teaching History Through Fiction" argues that teaching history by using fiction is great at making readers and students by interested in the topic and have the topic mean something to them. In paragraph one‚ the text says‚ "...fiction can make history matter—make it irresistible—to young
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Why shouldn’t Fan fiction be forbidden? (Positive and negative sides of fanfiction and which overbalance the others) Does fan fiction infringe the copyright? Yes‚ it does. And there are many people who consider fan fiction to be plagiarism or cheating. They claim that fan fiction writers are just thieves and some even consider these works to be immoral or illegal. In this essay I would like to present some arguments why fan fiction isn’t such a bad thing and why we should not try to forbid it
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care he because he have families 3. What kind of goals did he have before becoming a superhero? The captain of his team 4. What sort of problems did his world have before he became a superhero? Did he notice/care about these problems? (Or did he have a happy and carefree childhood until he saw his parents get murdered?) His team was losing. Origin story 1. Was he born super? No 2. Did he choose to be a superhero? Why? (Which personal
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This is a Fan-Fiction for Hunger Games written by Elsie Egilip. Life has been hard in District 12 over the past couple of years. The government has stopped its partnership with few of the districts because of its unforgivable protest that cause major destruction and riot due to the districts’ disapproval on the new government. Katniss Everdeen was an intelligent hunter living amongst the people who stayed in District 12. During her whole life‚ she had been living in poverty. So has the rest
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In this very short story‚ Alice Walker tells of a young‚ African American girl who‚ while gathering flowers‚ stumbles quite literally upon the body of a dead man. The atmosphere‚ language and subject matter of the story suggest the southern United States as a setting-sometime in the mid- to late-20th century seems an appropriate time period‚ though this is far less clear. The contrast between the story’s beginning and end is striking. We begin with a light-hearted description of the life of Myop
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What is a Story? * a narrative‚ either true or fictitious‚ in prose or verse‚ designed to interest‚ amuse‚ or instruct the hearer or reader; a tale. * a fictitious tale‚ shorter and less elaborate than a novel. * a narration of an incident or a series of events or an example of these that is or may be narrated‚ as an anecdote‚ joke‚ etc. * Therefore‚ narrative or story in its broadest sense is anything told or recounted; more narrowly‚ and more usually‚ something told or recounted
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Pulp Fiction is an American crime film directed by Quentin Tarantino‚ who cowrote its screenplay with Roger Avary. The film is known for its rich‚ eclectic dialogue‚ ironic mix of humor and violence‚ nonlinear storyline‚ and host of cinematic allusions and pop culture references. The film was nominated for seven Oscars‚ including Best Picture; Tarantino and Avary won for Best Original Screenplay. It was also awarded the Palme d’Or at the 1994 Cannes Film Festival. A major critical and commercial
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Chapter 1: Conception: The Origin of a Story The origin of a story may come from a plethora of triggers in life such as a notebook‚ memory‚ or even pure intuition. In Kingston’s novel‚ The Woman Warrior‚ she primarily uses her memory to recall the legend of Fa Mu Lan‚ a Chinese girl who took her father’s place in battle illegally (21). Kingston uses this familiar Chinese story that leaves a “direct personal impression” on her and links it to her own imagination (Lanning and Macauley 3). This
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Brandy Ricker WR122 Global Warming…Fact or Fiction? One of the largest current debates in the world is whether or not global warming is being caused by unnatural interference to the environment or is it a part of the Earth’s natural cycle of climate patterns. It is glaringly obvious that the world as a whole should agree on some drastic changes to improve our environmental situation immediately. ProCon.org states that the US National Academies of Science‚ the National Aeronautics and Space
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Nicole Nick Mr.Burlingame AP LA 3 4th hour October 30‚ 2014 Non-Fiction Essay #1 Rhetorical strategies are everywhere especially in the book As the Caged Bird Sings By: Maya Angelo. There are several examples of repetition‚ rhetorical questions‚ dialect‚ and similes but there are three that really stood out to me allusions‚ alliteration and parallelism. Just by knowing and understanding what these three rhetorical strategies were it made the book a lot clearer and I could understand it more. By
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