Elements of good writing Being clear: Being clear is the most basic requirement of good writing. How can you be successful if your reader doesn’t understand you? Being clear doesn’t necessarily mean being overly direct or obvious in your statements. It really means that you try to avoid confusing your reader‚ unless you have a very good reason for doing so. Being convincing: Whenever you write anything‚ you are essentially going about the business of convincing your reader that what you are saying
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Are people evil or is there behavior evil. I say people are evil in general. FDR once said “all we have to fear is fear itself.” to me this is a lie I would’ve said all we have to fear is the evil people that create fear. Meursault in the book The Stranger by Albert Camus is a evil man by producing fear in multiple cases. With Meursault spending the day with his girlfriend they had this conversation.”She asked me if I loved her. I told her it really didn’t mean anything but that i didn’t think
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of adultery‚ lead her to receive the punishment of wearing a scarlet-colored letter “A” over her chest. Hawthorne uses the symbolism of Pearl‚ Hester’s Cabin‚ and the Governor’s House to contribute to the theme of good vs. evil. To begin with‚ Pearl is the literal embodiment of good vs. evil in this book. She is the product of adultery‚ making her evil‚ yet she brings happiness to her mother’s
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Throughout the short story ’The Large Ant’ Howard Fast’s character Mr. Morgan displays the natural fear humans have against the unknown; by killing it. As a species through history‚ we have grasped an ideal that the development of superior weapons is supposedly a demonstration of one’s technological advancements; though it may also be seen as a compensation for the social fears of that society. As a race the unknown presents us with a great fear. Thus when the idea of an eternal vacuum like space
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between good and bad. The two opposite qualities are competing impulses that exist within all humans. The instinct to live by the rules and exist peacefully with others is often in conflict with selfish desires which cause individuals to act violently to achieve supremacy over others‚ boost one’s ego and enforce their own will. This constant conflict that occurs within a persons mind on a daily basis can be expressed in a number of ways: civilization vs. savagery‚ order vs. chaos‚ reason vs. impulse
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Good vs. Evil Cara Masterson Capella University Human Lifespan October 21‚ 2012 Abstract For this paper on Good vs. Evil‚ I chose to write on the movie High Noon. High Noon is a 1952 American Western film told in nearly real time. It’s the story of a town marshal‚ Will Kane‚ personally compelled to face a returning deadly enemy‚ and finds that his own town refuses to help him. Minutes before learning this‚ Will marries his pacifist Quaker wife and his plans are to turn in his badge for a
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The ant and the grasshopper by W. S. Maugham The aim of the following paper is to analyze a story by Mark Twain called A Curious Dream. We propose in this paper firstly‚ to analyze characters‚ theme and point of view; secondly‚ the author’s style and thirdly‚ the author’s beliefs. Firstly‚ Characters The participants in the story are: the author‚ John Baxter Copmanhurst (the skeleton). The author in the story is the narrator presented with the subject pronoun “I”; he is the one who describes
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tight Grendel has never felt this before. Beowulf then tears off Grendel’s arm. Grendel screams in pain. I think this book would be a good book for people because Beowulf has weaknesses and strengths. He is a fighter but a good person inside. He doesn’t get forced to do things‚ he does them because he wants to help his people and he cares about them. He faces Good vs Evil. This book is about a guy named Hrothgar who builds a hall and a monster named Grendel comes and tries to kill everyone. Then
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The Good Life: Various Views and Ways to Achieve It PHI200: Mind and Machine The Good Life: Various Views and Ways to Achieve It Money‚ clothes‚ cars‚ houses‚ and even marriage – these are all things that some may consider to determine whether or not they are living the “good life.” Others may view the good life as being able to enjoy nature every day‚ being able to run and jump‚ or even being able to read as many books as they please. Whatever one’s view of having or living the good life
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of literature‚ a prominent theme has been “Good vs. Evil”. Many authors base the plot of their novels around “good guys” fighting the “villain”.Robert Louis Stevenson contrasts good and evil through many of the characters thathe creates. In the story “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde”‚ Stevensoncontrasts the characters of Dr. Jekyll to Mr. Hyde to further the theme “Good vs. Evil”. This theme is common to many of Stevenson’s
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