Thomas Jefferson Sister Stella October 13 2011 Reliable vs. Unreliable Narrator I believe that the unnamed narrator of “Araby” lacks the qualities that would make him a reliable narrator. The plot of the story deals with an unnamed narrator who is a young boy. He has a childhood crush on his friend’s sister whose name is also never stated. The plot then deals with this boy’s struggle with his own self to rack the nerves up to go talk to his childhood love. Eventually‚ his friend’s sister asks
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May 2‚ 2013 THE NEVERENDING STORY- Turning Points There are many important life lessons displayed in THE NEVERENDING STORY. There are battles between good and evil and wishes that can change everything. There are two events in THE NEVERENDING STORY that have much more importance than the rest- these two events are The Battle of the Ivory Tower‚ and when Bastian visits The City of Old Emperors. The Battle of the Ivory Tower starts when Xayide convinces Bastian that Atreyu and Falkor are trying
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characterization is largely dependent on point of view as to how successful it is in illustrating the theme and allowing the audience to understand the theme. Point of view is able to enhance and improve characterization which in turn is able to clarify and create the theme. In The Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin‚ the ability to understand the theme lied heavily on the point of view and its interaction with characterization. Throughout this story the point of view changed between first person limited
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Characteristics of Effective and Ineffective Speakers Effective 1. Confidence - Confidence comes from believing in what you are saying and being passionate about your subject. Self-confidence is developed by knowing everything you can about your subject and thoroughly preparing and practicing. 2. Likeability - As a general rule your listeners want to like you. When they do like you it makes delivering your speech easier. Your likeability is helped by smiling and being positive and friend
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Base Details Siegfried Sassoon’s epic war poem "Base Details" focuses on a soldier’s bitterness toward the fact that old men wage war while young men fight it. Sassoon uses various literary devices to express his anger toward such injustice. The main ones being rhyme‚ strong connotative words and especially diction. The speaker‚ a soldier in World War I‚ contemplates what it would be like to be an officer in during war. By using a sarcastic and cynical tone‚ he is effectively able to condemn war
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In making an introduction of a speaker speech‚ you must of course first interview or at least have the biography of the speaker. Ask or find for his achievements and accomplishments. To start you speech‚ start in with a warm greeting to your audience. It is the start of the speech so you must see to it that you give the audience an impression that the speaker will not be boring. Give them excitement not boredom. You must not speak on a monotonous way because once you speak
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The Alternate Speaker The story The Alternate Speaker is about a boy named Daniel‚ who is in a speech competition and has high hope in getting into the regional competition. Unfortunately‚ Daniel comes in as fourth place which means he can’t get into regionals‚ unless someone can’t make it. Daniel becomes sad‚ and looses hope in ever making it to regionals. He looses all hope until a girl in regionals gets sick and Daniel has to compete. Daniel gets so excited to compete in regionals. He enters
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By Sonam Shah Good and Bad public speakers Martin Luther King achieved equality between black and white people. He was born in 1929 and died in 1968. I think that Martin Luther King is a good speaker because he is confident. This makes people more interested in what he is saying since they believe in him. The fact that Martin Luther King has compassion for what he is saying makes his speeches more effective. With this he achieved desegregation and equality. Martin Luther King also uses appropriate
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Mr. Know-All – Literary analysis THE STORY Mr. Know- All is a story with a moral lesson. The subject is simple. A rich Britishmerchant of Oriental origin‚ called Mr. Kelada‚ meets a group of Westerners on a shipsailing across the Pacific Ocean. His cabin-mate‚ a British citizen who is the namelessnarrator of the story‚ dislikes Mr. Kelada even before he sees him. However‚ at theend of the story Mr. Kelada‚ the Levantine jeweller‚ proves to be a real gentlemanwhen he sacrifices his own pride
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3rd Speaker Good afternoon Chairman and panel‚ ladies and gentlemen. The topic for discussion is “Science drives Technology”‚ clearly my team is here to today to negate that statement to indicate to you that it is not science which drives technology but the other way around. People often confuse science and technology. Briefly‚ scientists (science) discover new aspects of Nature. Engineers and inventors (technology) use scientific discoveries to design and build new things. Scientific endeavors
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