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    Discuss/Analyze Calixta Whom Was Loathed in “The Storm” by Kate Chopin “The Storm” by Kate Chopin was written to portray sex as an exuberant part of life‚ not to be looked down on. Some would find it hard not to loathe the adulterous Calixta after reading the short story that involved her and her ex-love interest. Authors use different techniques to communicate to reader’s reactions to the characters they are realistically depicting. To get an emotional and realistic analysis from their readers‚ an author

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    romantic encounter and the disillusionment the results from it. Liz obsessed with Jim‚ the town blacksmith‚ has a lot words and behaving as tries to tempt he to have sex with her. The struggle which Liz Coates faces between her sexual attraction to Jim Gilmore and her naïve inexperience is embodied in the gloomy and uninviting setting. Liz’s words and action are obsessed or tempts Jim. She works at the kitchen door and she likes everything about him from his moustache to his white teeth. For example‚

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    members of the category • SS: Secondary Support: Details from 2 stories which are examples of the category description CONCLUSION (Paragraph 5) • Restate the thesis and three major categories • Return to issues addressed in the general comments SAMPLE CLASSIFICATION ESSAY PARAGRAPHS Essay Question Classify female characters in Tales of Wonder from Many Lands. Notation Explanation The thesis is in bold face.

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    discusses the application of Provus’ Discrepancy Approach to the evaluation of DriveSmart‚ focussing on the identification of discrepancies with the standards‚ and the changes which were made to the product as a result. INTRODUCTION In 1995‚ MUARC was contracted by the Victorian Transport Accident Commission (TAC) to conduct research using an advanced driving simulator‚ to investigate and to determine techniques for effectively training four skills which were identified (Triggs‚ 1994) as critical

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    government? Not knowing every colonist’s thoughts makes it hard to have a set yes or no if the latter was what was planned. Before trying to justify the revolution we must first understand what brought about the anger and resentment towards Britain in the first place. The colonies were settled by Britain and consisted of mainly British immigrants‚ some who were seeking religious freedom‚ some were sent from Britain to the Americas as a punishment‚ and some just wanted to move across the ocean. No matter

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    Are America America — a land known for its ideals of freedom and new opportunities‚ a nation built under the idea that every man and women is created equal. However‚ the definition of what makes a person an American is entirely different from what it is that makes up America‚ itself. J.Hector St. John Crevecoeur‚ author of Letters from an American Farmer (1782)‚ exposes what he believes makes an American. However‚ when compared to the standards of what makes an American in today’s world‚ it seems

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    From Spanish American War to World Power During the late 1800s and early 1900s America reached a point as a nation where getting involved in one war drastically changed other country’s prospects of them and led them on a coarse to become a world power. This war was known as the Spanish American War and the aftermath of the war led to the official end to Spanish colonial rule in the United States and the U.S gaining more land. While on a quest to become a world power the Spanish America War was a

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    you hear The Old West‚ however was that actually what happened? The movies portray the west as an action packed‚ good vs evil utopia of sorts. There’s always an antagonist‚ a protagonist‚ some love interest‚ and a gun fight of course. This just leaves me with a few questions: what is a myth and why are they important?‚ how has the old west myth affected our society?‚ and why was the west so popular? First off‚ what is a myth? Webster’s Dictionary defines a myth as: “a story that was told in an ancient

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    “I was never an American. I was immediately a New Yorker.” How is Changez’s sense of identity altered over the course of the novel? Identity is as much about public perception as it is self-perception. In Mohsin Hamid’s novel The Reluctant Fundamentalist the reader is confronted with this fact in a bid to understand what it means to be American and Pakistani. The narrator Changez is unsure of who he is‚ and whilst certain personality traits remain‚ his sense of identity is changed significantly

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    What does it truly mean to declare I am an American? Is it just another way to say I am an inhabitant of America? If an early American immigrant had declared I am an American what would the phrase have meant? Hector St. John de Crevecoeur‚ an influential writer and farmer from the late 1700s to early 1800s‚ wrote Letters from an American Farmer‚ in which he answered the grand question‚ What is an American? Of the many elements and attributes of early American life as discussed by Crevecoeur‚ freedom

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