If Paul Baumer were to respond to my first essay he would strongly disagree with it. Also‚ he would disagree with the Roman’s saying‚ Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori‚ for many reasons. First‚ Paul would disagree with my first essay because soldiers detach themselves from their feelings for the sake of surviving another day in the brutal war. “Just as we turn into animals when we go up to the line‚ because that is the only thing that brings us through safely…We can do nothing else‚ it is a sheer
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Emily Andrews argues in her essay “Why I Don’t Spare “Spare Change”” that it does more harm than good to give money to beggars on the street rather than giving to an organization such as United Way to help the needy‚ pointing out that “one cannot be certain that one is giving to a needy individual” and that by giving to a charitable organization “ones money is likely to be used wisely.” I believe Andrews has set up her essay well‚ her title alerting the reader of the topic‚ having an attention-grabbing
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Objective Reading Response In the reading ‘2b or not 2b’’‚ there are figurative devices that can be identified as used by the author. Metaphor; the metaphors found in the passage is used to make a compare the text messages to’ bleak‚ bald sad shorthand‚ Drab shrink talk.’ The comparison continues ‘Texting is penmanship for illiterates’. Another comparisons without the use of the terms ‘as’ or ‘like’ with unlike things that in this case seems to have similar characteristics‚ was
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The Little Refugee – Multimedia Text 1. The Little Refugee is a multimedia text. This book is a great example of belonging due to the representation of Anh Do and his family moving from Vietnam to Australia and belonging into the Australian culture. I chose this article because of the several aspects of belonging represented in this text. These aspects include social belonging‚ cultural belonging and just the overall acceptance in a new country. Anh has many difficulties during his life in Australia
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Response to an atheist 1. McCloskey refers to the arguments as “proofs” and often implies that they can’t definitively establish the case for God‚ so therefore they should be abandoned. What would you say about this in light of my comments on the approaches to the arguments in the PointeCast presentation (Lesson 18)? 2. On the Cosmological Argument: McCloskey claims that the “mere existence of the world constitutes no reason for believing in
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A LITTLE INCIDENT Lu Hsun Six years have gone by‚ as so many winks‚ since I came to the capital from the village. During all that time there have occurred many of those events known as “affairs of the state”‚ a great number of which I have seen or heard about. My heart does not seem to have been in the least affected by any of them‚ and recollection now only tends to increase my ill temper and cause me to like people less as the day wears on. But one little incident alone is deep with meaning
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began my sophomore year in high school. There was a summer exchange program in which I would be able to travel to my sister city in Chichibu‚ Japan. I was excited beyond all recognition. I went through all the motions of such an opportunity: writing essays‚ commissioning letters of recommendation‚ and having a sit-down one-on-one interview. After all this I would be notified in eight weeks if I was selected to go. I waited patiently by the mailbox for days on end‚ waiting as if to see if I had won the
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All the world’s a canvas‚ and all the men and women merely the colors; They have their debuts and their disappearances into the background‚ and red in its time takes on many jobs; the coloration of a red sunrise of a wartime morning‚ and then the crimson blood of wounded soldiers bearing arms against brothers‚ and the last scene of all‚ that ends this strange eventful history‚ is scarlet dusk bathing the war-torn battlefield as it dips beyond the horizon. Over the thousands of years‚ art has irrefutably
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Burt’s Bee’s: Leaving the Hive Case Study Burt’s Bees definitely has the potential to become the “Starbucks of personal care”. Unlike most mainstream companies‚ Burt’s Bees has been to grow at a rate of 30% a year starting 2006‚ which indicates the success of their products over a large market it governs. All of this being done with extremely less marketing compared to their competitor Aveeno. They have an extremely loyal customer base built on the back of an effective product‚ which shows results
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know how many great women have had great fathers and husbands behind them” (Sayers 1). This quote demonstrates that a great man comes from a great woman and one is not better than the other‚ but how many woman have great men behind them. In the The Little Mermaid‚ Ariel’s father is hard to please and is seen as dominant. He is in control of her and everything she does. If Ariel did something that he did not approve of‚ she would hear about it and get upset. Ariel did not listen to her father and did
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