Part One Essays CONTENTS INTRODUCTION: THE FORM OF LITERATURE a. Elements of Essays b. The essay and other forms of literature c. The essayist and the reader d. Four essays and commentaries • The essay as argument: Persuasion • The essay as story: history • The essay as poem: Meditation • The essay as play: Dialogue Total Essays 10 1. Cocksure
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The Upper East Side 1. Gossip Girl ‚ “Gone with the Will” 2. Plot Summary The episode begins with Blair Waldorf and Jack Bass attending the will reading with Chuck Bass‚ who has recently lost his father. The late Bass wrote Chuck a letter before he died‚ and Chuck is presented with the sealed letter. Chuck becomes angry‚ and refuses to read the letter. He says that he does not want his father to call him a failure once again. Blair snatches the letter away from Chuck’s uncle‚ Jack. Blair reads
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5. This article differs from articles we have read so far because it is an investigative piece. It is the raw truth about something extremely unfortunate that happened. DeGregory gives both sides of the story but you always feel bad for the poor girl. 6. Qualities that this piece shares with others that we have read is the amount of detail and descriptiveness in the writing. 7. Tone and mood were two techniques that were utilized in this piece. DeGregory did a great job of using tone
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Golden Girl Gordon Lee McCallum’s perspective The drive to the school was quite smooth; the weather was nice‚ and there were no traffic. As I approached the school‚ I began to recognize a few of my colleagues’ cars. After having parked my car‚ as I got out‚ I noticed Miss Grainger‚ from the corner of my eye‚ waving at me. I waived back‚ and quickly joined her. She greeted me enthusiastically‚ and led me to the dance. Just
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For the Final assignment‚ the image I chose to analyze and critique was Girl with a Kitten by Lucian Freud. My first impression of this piece was that it was pretty perplexing. There is not much happening in it besides a woman who seems to be strangling a little kitten without what seems to be any remorse for doing so—so‚ naturally‚ I immediately had questions regarding what exactly is happening in this work. Though there is still so much to understand and comprehend about it‚ I initially
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The Affect of Different Colored Light on Plant Growth Puprose: Just as we are happier and healthier when we receive adequate sunlight‚ so are the plants and vegetation that we grow. Sunlight‚ or other means of artificial lighting is essential to help a plant grow into maturity. It is also necessary in aiding the plant to get the nutrients it requires to mature into a strong healthy plant. The process of the sun or other light helping to feed the plant is called photosynthesis. The light acts
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The movie ‘Girl Interrupted’ is a story of a nineteen year old girl (Suzanna) in the 1960’s who‚ after being suspected of trying to commit suicide‚ gets sent away to the Mental Institution (Claymoore) for a short ‘resting period.’ Her psychiatrist had suggested to her that the affair with one of her parents’ friends‚ along with her misconception that chasing a bottle of aspirin with a bottle of vodka is anything other than a suicide attempt‚ could be signs that she may be suffering from ‘borderline
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How It Feels to Be Colored Me by Zora Neale Hurston (1891 - 1960) 1 I am colored but I offer nothing in the way of extenuating circumstances except the fact that I am the only Negro in the United States whose grandfather on the mother’s side was not an Indian chief. 2 I remember the very day that I became colored. Up to my thirteenth year I lived in the little Negro town of Eatonville‚ Florida. It is exclusively a colored town. The only white people I knew passed through the town
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The Effect of Different Colored Light on Plant Growth Results I measured each plant on days 7‚ 9‚ 11‚ 13‚ 15‚ 20‚ and 32‚ after planting. The plants under the green cellophane grew the most in every measurement. The biggest growth spurt for the plants under the green cellophane was from day seven to day nine. By day 13‚ the plants under the purple and red cellophane started to grow at similar rates as compared with those under the green cellophane. By day 32‚ the plants underneath the green
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Ali Cox Psych 350 Steve Illardi 15 November 2012 Applied Paper For this applied paper I chose to read the novel Girl‚ Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen. In her biography she writes about her time at McLean Hospital‚ a residential psychiatric facility in Massachusetts. She tells about the experiences she had there‚ the people that she met‚ and most importantly her diagnosis; Borderline Personality Disorder. Through reading her novel I was able to see what caused her diagnosis‚ the symptoms that
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