COM 1102: WRITING ABOUT LITERATURE Fall 2013 class time: M W F 10:00 am office hours: M W 11:00-11:45 am; M 5:00-6:00 pm and by appointment office: 626 Crawford phone: 321-674-8370 email: lperdiga@fit.edu website: my.fit.edu/~lperdiga turnitin.com course number: 7023849 turnitin.com password: Hangman Class Schedule 9/11 E. Annie Proulx‚ “55 Miles to the Gas Pump” (87; 578-579) 9/13 Mark Twain‚ “The Story of the Good Little Boy” (615-619) Due: Peer
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The author’s purpose in this work was to convey a message to the reader that we are not as in control of our own lives as it may seem. Griffin makes the argument that people’s lives our extremely intertwined with one another’s and that many of our actions have unforeseen consequences‚ many of which we choose to ignore. The author’s audience appears to be any of the general public who seek to question the world around them. I find this writing particularly interesting because I have always been fascinated
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anticipation of what will come next leaves Griffin’s audience wanting to learn more. Through reading this paragraph also ties in an interesting element of perspective. Throughout the reading Griffin reflects back and forth to her own personal tales and Nazi leader Heinrich Himmler. However‚ at the start of the passage Griffin in having a conversation with a woman who is never referenced again in the piece until the end of the passage. This
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By: Krysten G. Navy Veteran Griffin Kirsch Did you know the Navy is the only branch where you get to pick your job and what you want to do for that branch? Also there are sometimes in the Navy where it takes about 4 months or even more to get to where they needed to be in order to fight. I did not know a lot of those facts until I decided to interview my cousin‚ Griffin. He has recently just stopped serving in the military because he never gets to see his family
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The story begins with John Howard Griffin‚ a white male from Texas‚ who explains his concern of not being able to understand the prejudice and struggles that blacks face. He wonders what it would be like to face discrimination based on a factor that he can’t control‚ the color of his skin‚ and comes up with an idea to experience discrimination firsthand. He leaves his white family in order to undergo a skin darkening process‚ which will allow him to disguise himself and be able to fit in with the
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eventually become. "We considered ourselves finer than the neighbors to our left with their chaotic household. But when certain visitors came‚ we were as if driven by an inwardly secret panic that who we were might be discovered" (Our Secret’‚ Susan Griffin pg 353). Trying to find coverings that could protect them from the apparent loop-holes
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We all think about it from time to time. Have we lived a good life‚ and how are we going to die? These questions probably crossed the minds of the kids stuck on the boat‚ in the book Adrift by Paul Griffin. It’s not something most people give a great deal of thought towards. However the longer the kids were on the boat it became a more recurring question. Would they survive or would they haft to accept their fate and die out on the ocean. In the book we first meet two 17 year old boys named Matt
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In The Bedroom and "Killings" In The Bedroom and Killings are both based around the same story‚ they are however presented very differently. The short story "Killings" jumps around in the story revealing different events at different times‚ while the movie‚ In The Bedroom tells a more straightforward story. In The Bedroom shows the viewer exactly what is happening chronologically‚ "Killings" does not and provides a more effective and suspenseful story for the reader. Each story starts and reveals
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that will grow every season. Killing elephants for their ivory is wrong because they are going extinct on the planet‚ should not be killed to make a profit and killing them will have a negative effect on the planets environment. Killing elephants is immoral because it is leading to their extinct on the planet. Human beings are killing an average 25‚000 to 30‚000 elephants a year‚ which at this alarming rate elephants will no longer exist in the next decade. Humans killing elephants simply for their
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Killing Lincoln – Part One Page Number Passage from text that shows the “good” writing (First word … Last word) What qualities make this passage so appealing? Prologue – Page 1 “His new vice president‚ Andrew Johnson‚ has just delivered a red-face‚ drunken‚ twenty minute ramble vilifying the South that has left the crowd squirming‚ embarrassed by Johnson’s inebriation.” This passage is appealing to me because you can tell that the audience was very uncomfortable and that he was
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