This passage taken from the memoir‚ The Horizontal World‚ written by Debra Marquart‚ is an excerpt that demonstrates Marquart’s indirect expression of love for the Midwest. Through her development of changing tones‚ which is propelled by diction and an appeal to ethos‚ she is able to advance her message about the unknown yet special qualities of the Midwest. Debra Marquart uses a change of tone from the beginning of the passage to its end in order to juxtapose the two contradictory perspectives
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Interclean inc and envirotech | New Cleaning Solutions Department | Job analysis | | [Type the author name] | 8/11/2008 | The merger of Inter Clean inc‚ and Envirotech is now complete‚ The company has plans to incorporate a new sales department that will be responsible in providing full service cleaning solutions‚ for organizations in the healthcare industry. The purpose of this department is to gain the reputation‚ of providing excellent consumer care‚ and build long-term
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The Horizontal World‚ Debra Marquart In her essay‚ Marquart characterizes the upper Midwest. She uses both positive and negative strategies to do so. She describes the landscape itself as a negative place while its people as good‚ positive people – she switches back and forward between the two. She starts out her essay by describing a road in the Midwest‚ a road that according to her is “lonely‚ treeless‚ and devoid of rises.” She then says that the road “curves in places that it [feels]
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INNOVATION AT 3M CORPORATION: CASE STUDY There are two major issues highlighted in this case study: 1. Is the ‘lead-user’ process‚ an effective method for research and subsequent product innovation? 2. Should the Medical-Surgical Markets Division (MSMD) lead-user research team present its revolutionary new approach to treating infection to senior management despite the fact that it challenged the existing business strategy? QUESTION 1 The answer to the first question is ‘yes’. By the
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For Laura Ingalls Wilder‚ her childhood meant growing up on the prairie and moving west with her pioneer family on covered wagon. When she was older‚ Laura remembered her days in covered wagon‚ and wrote a series about her childhood life. In it‚ she tells all that happened to her when she was moving west into new land. Did you know that when you come to a river when traveling on covered wagon‚ you have to move it through the water like a boat? There were many challenges in to traveling in that way
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Qui’Shawn Parker October 29‚ 2012 S3 Words: 636 Fannie Lou Hamer Fannie Lou Hamer‚ known as Fannie Lou Townsend Hamer was born on the date of October 6‚ 1917 Montgomery County on a plantation‚ Mississippi and during the time she has lived she has accomplished many beneficial things for the black African American ethnic group in America. Due to heart failure Hamer died at Mound Bayou Hospital‚ Mississippi March 14‚ 1997‚ at the age of 59. Fannie Lou Hamer was later buried in her
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Natalie M Phillips English Research Paper November 30‚ 2010 Imagine an Indian Reservation‚ what do you see? A tribe united‚ as if all were born from the same mother‚ inseparable‚ and connected in ways only the tribe’s members could appreciate. All of the tribe members gathered together to honor their ancestors and culture. This is what the majority would assume about Native Americans living on a reservation‚ but in Oral History by Louise Erdrich‚ the families living on
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few years‚ citizens of Minnesota have discovered deformed frogs scattered throughout the state. There are many speculations as to how the frogs got such deformities. Some scientists believe that its something in the waters of the Minnesota wetlands‚ other factors could be parasites or ultraviolet radiation. Minnesota is not the only location in the world that has reported deformed animal sightings‚ but almost three-quarters of the deformed frogs were reported in Minnesota. This is not necessarily
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VERMONT Application for Addition to the Checklist (VT VOTER REGISTRATION FORM) 17 V.S.A. § 2145 (Please print clearly‚ use ballpoint pen‚ and bear down hard.) I‚ ______________________________________________________________ apply to have my name (Last Name) (First Name) (Middle Initial) added to the checklist of the Town/City of ______________________________________. By checking the boxes below‚ I swear or affirm that these are true statements: Yes No Are you
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Metropolitan areas that are mostly represented by democrats‚ especially Portland‚ have become a dominant political power in Oregon. Our informants argued thatthe voice of the conservative population from largely rural areas cannot reach the political decisions‚ and the bills that are pushed through by Democrats largely affects rural communities. As an insider who observed state politics‚ interns had a deeper understanding of Oregon politics than the average voter. To explore these two conceptions
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