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    THE COVER LETTER 1. Match these 4 basic types of cover letters with their definitions. Then decide what their synonyms are from the words in italics below. 1. standard 2. cold-contact 3. referral 4. follow-up A. a letter sent to a company which does not have publicly open positions B. a letter sent to a company usually after the interview C. a letter sent to a company in reaction to a published opening D. a letter sent to a company mentioning the person who recommended the job broadcast

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    Scarlet Letter Review

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    Name: Professor: Bernhard Radloff Subject: ENG 2450 B Date: December 4‚ 2012 Scarlet Letter Review Introduction Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter remains one of the best examples of Puritan literature‚ a novel‚ which points to the inadequacy of the Puritan beliefs and the moral duality of the Puritan culture. This paper reviews the author’s novel from a new‚ conformity vs. individuality angle. The context in which the novel was created is discussed. Hester’s silent challenge against

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    Romanticism in The Scarlet Letter “The Scarlet Letter” written by Nathaniel Hawthorn is a book about a woman named Hester Prynne and her life after she is found guilty of committing adultery. Hawthorn uses romanticism throughout his novel often using symbols‚ fanciful objects and nature. The scarlet A‚ Hester’s daughter pearl and the rose bush are all examples of this. The scarlet A is first described to the reader in Chapter Two. It is very extravagant and decorative despite its purpose; which

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    Huston 1  Zakary Huston  Mr. Montalbano  AP English Language and Composition  11 August 2014  The Scarlet Crucible    Both Arthur Miller’s ​ The Crucible​  and Nathaniel Hawthorne’s ​ The Scarlet Letter​  include  instance of settlers of the New England colonies being affected by Puritan law. Their  commentary on Puritan society is spread throughout their works. Their views on the laws set  forth by Puritanism are easily found within their stories about the various occurrences in a  theocracy

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    Scarlet Letter Notes

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    Question 1: A Prison and a cemetery are the first things needed. It shows how strict the laws there were. Additional was the fact that for a punishment‚ for whatever sin‚ you either went to prison or were killed some way and buried in the cemetery. It sets the precedent of strict rules through the church. The Puritans ruled everything in their entirety through the church. They constantly went through the bible picking out different verses “deciphering” their meaning and utilizing these as evidence

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    Scarlett Letter Dialectical Journal “On one side of the portal‚ and rooted almost at the threshold‚ was a wild rose-bush‚ covered‚ in this month of June‚ with its delicate gems‚ which might be imagined to offer their fragrance and fragile beauty to the prisoner as he went in‚ and to the condemned criminal as he came forth to his doom‚ in token that the deep heart of Nature could pity and be kind to him." Chapter 1‚ pg. 46 | -This rose-bush represents Pearl afterwards in Hester’s life. The prison

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    A CHAPTER-BY-CHAPTER READING GUIDE FOR THE SCARLET LETTER A 1636 Plymouth Colony law required anyone convicted of adultery to "wear two Capital letters viz AD cut out in cloth and sowed on theire uppermost Garments on their arme or backe; and if att any time they shallbee taken without the said letters whiles they are in the Govrment soewarn to bee forthwith taken and publickly whipt."[1] Other Massachusetts colonies had their own versions of this law. In fact‚ "The Capitall Lawes of

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    one has no control over . Regardless of which feeling of guilt‚ each person has experienced this feeling at one point of a their life. One can attribute this feeling to what Reverend Dimmesdale‚ member to the Puritan society‚ felt in The Scarlet Letter when he directly committed adultery with Hester Prynne. Dimmsdale considered himself the “deepest man of guilt” after going against his teachings of quintessential Puritan behavior‚ and also left Hester to suffer

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    The Rosebush The rose bush is a discreet yet important symbol in the novel The Scarlet Letter. The rosebush is first mentioned in the chapter‚ “The Prison Door.” The narrator is setting the first major scene by describing the scenery. He is comparing the Puritan society to and “ugly edifice” and contrasting the rose bush to “the deep heart of Nature.” Later‚ in “The Governor’s Hall‚” Hester and Governor Bellingham are talking about taking Pearl away from her. Pearl starts throwing a tantrum until

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    Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote The Scarlet Letter as an exemplum on pride. His creation of Hester Prynne‚ the protagonist of The Scarlet Letter‚ and her selflessness was the moral behind keeping her alive. The characters in The Scarlet Letter are nothing more than symbols representing abstract qualities and are dispensable. Names play an important role in The Scarlet Letter it is Hawthorne ’s way of distinguishing not just the characters but their personalities. The latter is the most important when

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