What makes a good scary story? A good scary story is only good if it’s based on something that happened in reality and could happen to anybody. My story is something similar to that. Now that I look back at it‚ maybe it was just the sugar rush I had from the Surge soft drink. It had my blood pumping and my heart beat was racing. I haven’t been back to those woods since that day; however‚ there was still a part of me that wondered if what I saw was there in reality and not just my imagination. Either
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Essay # 2: The Moral of the Story It takes a second to change everything It was a summer night‚ August 17 to be exact‚ at 10:30 PM. I still remember how quiet it was sitting on the kitchen table with my hands close together. All you heard was the tick-tock of the clock. It was the night that I found out that a secret was released. As I sat down in my wooden chair‚ with my hands crossed‚ me eyes wide open‚ and my feet touching the floor; I heard my aunt Elizabeth speak of what had happen
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Glaspell uses general stereotypes of the time periods gender specific roles. Leonard Mustazza very helpfully points out the difference between the genders and how the characters react to their position (Mustazza 1). Throughout the play‚ the male characters steers the readers into believing that a woman’s place is at the home‚ where she is spending most of her time cleaning and taking care of her husband. One knows this because the county attorney remarks‚ “I shouldn’t say she had the homemaking
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Title of Speech/ Business | Summary/ Description | Ethos | Logos | Pathos | Rhetorical Devices | Audience/ Purpose/ Effectiveness | Speech #1Susan B. Anthony: After Being Convicted of Voting | Susan B. Anthony stands up for her gender and fights for women’s right to vote. | Susan B. Anthony is the speaker; her reputation is being set by this speech. This speech could either ruin her chances at a great reputation‚ or transform her into a hero (which it did). | She uses logical points when she states
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Ariel Okech Diana D’India ENGL 101 055 31 October 2014 In "A First Amendment Junkie" Susan Jacoby argues that censoring pornography goes against the First Amendment. She believes that the First Amendment should be absolutely interpreted. She states that people will never be able to agree on what should be censored. She points out that censoring pornography will lead to censorship of other topics that need to be discussed and brought to attention in American society. She believes that pornography
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Susan. B Anthony- On women’s right to vote In the 1800s‚ women in the United States had few legal rights and did not have the right to vote. This speech was given by Susan B. Anthony after her arrest for casting an illegal vote in the presidential election of 1872. She was tried and then fined $100 but refused to pay. | | | Friends and fellow citizens: I stand before you tonight under indictment for the alleged crime of having voted at the last presidential election‚ without having a lawful
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The Creation Story The Iroquois story and the Judeo-Christian story are very similar stories but they also have very different concepts. Both stories explain how the earth was created and who it was created by. They talk about different beliefs and share their opposing thoughts about certain topics. In the story about the Iroquois it mentions that the earth was started on a turtle’s back and that there was no all-powerful God. Yet the other said that earth was created by an omniscient being called
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Meaning in life (Wolf‚ 2010) Introduction Susan Wolf is known as a philosopher‚ she wrote a book in 2010 known as Meaning In Life And Why It Matters. In this book Wolf give a sophisticated philosophical argument on the importance of meaningfulness in life. This book consist of two short lectures here I am going to summarize the first lecture of this book she mainly attributes the idea of meaningfulness in life and present this idea in such a way as it look well-intentioned for ourselves and for others
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In “A Jury of Her Peers” by Susan Glaspell‚ the state of the things in Minnie Wright’s life show the state of the relationship she has with her husband. This is shown through the terrible state of her house‚ the piecing together of her quilt‚ and constantly state of being alone. These also give light to key themes Glaspell is portraying throughout her story. In the story‚ multiple things were left half done in the house. According to the story‚ one example of this was the kitchen table‚ “One half
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No matter how young or old‚ people can still find themselves enjoying Disney princess movies. I remember watching them over and over with my entire family growing up. Their messages tend to change with the time but they tend to use stereotypes. In Susan Bordo’s essay‚ Gentleman or Beast? The Double Bind of Masculinity‚ she focuses on how men are expected to have the characteristics of two different kinds of people. They are expected to be dominant and have a beast-like sexuality while being able to
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