2/6/13 Demonstration Speech Outline Topic: How to drive a Stick shift Car. General Purpose: To Inform. Specific Purpose: To teach my audience how to drive a stick shift car. Thesis Statement: By learning how to start a stick shift car‚ changing from first to fifth gear and reverse you would someday like to buy a stick shift car. Organizational Pattern: Chronological Introduction: Did you know that by knowing how to drive a Stick shift car you can save money on the initial price‚ maintenance
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An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge While reading "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" by Ambrose Bierce. The sense of time‚ descriptive writing‚ and plot make this short story‚ I feel‚ very worthy of a literary analysis. At the beginning‚ there is not a good ending. The main character‚ Peyton Farquhar‚ is being hanged. The events leading up to his hanging give the reader a case of anxiety‚ the reader assumes the death of Peyton as he meets his end. Immediately following‚ there is a transition into
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The title‚ "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" is an extremely interesting title making you want to read the story. The word "Occurrence" in the titlet made me want to find out what the "Occurrence" was. The title made me start thinking about what the story really could be about. The main character is a planter named Peyton Farquar. Farquar wanted to be a soldier in the civil war fighting on the Confederates side‚ but instead of fighting he stayed home to care for his family and farm
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There are many possible themes from the story “Sticks” by George Saunders. One big theme observed is when his dad dresses up the pole for every holiday and day of significance. His dad is expressing emotion through dressing up the pole. When his wife dies‚ he puts pictures and items that were hers around and on the pole. On veterans day he dressed up the pole as a soldier. Many themes can be found in the story but the biggest one is his emotions and the way he shows his emotions‚ and that everyone
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Visiting one of the most significant features on the UC Davis campus‚ Putah Creek represents the university’s ability and effort to improve wildlife conservation on campus. After observing 12 different stops on a three-mile long trip of Putah Creek‚ the average score I calculated as part of the university’s sustainability program is 1.83 on a scale of zero to three. This is a score that I expected from a university dedicated to sustainability and conservation‚ but there is room for improvement
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AN OCCURRENCE AT OWL CREEK Upon reading "An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge" by Ambrouse Bierce I immediately found myself pulled into this story from sentence one. The story is both vivid and simplistically complex. Bierce’s telling of this story read like so many movies I’ve seen in the past. We’ve all seen these movies. The movie starts in the present or what we preceive to be the present and then like a sling shot catapults us back in time to account for what we’ve just seen. The story
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ever had the feeling of being scared to the max and see your life pass by in a flash? This story written by Ambrose Bierce illustrates the struggle and deep thinking that the character feels while getting his life taken away. ¨An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge¨ is a suspenseful‚ thrilling‚ and a chilling story. Peyton Farquhar struggles to escape during the hanging of other people including himself. As Peyton Farquhar rushes through the labyrinth of woods he finds himself hopeless. He just wants
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The Massacre of Sand Creek is a tragedy that occurred due to the greed of American’s. American’s have been trying to take away the Indian American’s land for years to expand the United States and it isn’t new for American’s to burst in on the Indian’s territory and remove their rights. This isn’t the first time the American’s have taken control of the Indian’s land for the purpose of pursuing something that is on or in their lands‚ such as gold in the Rocky Mountains. This gold found in the mountains
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Desiree Baby Chopin 1 One of Kate Chopin unique styles of putting the readers in the mood of the moment of painting a picture of a person reminiscing of a very special time in their life-Namely Madame Valmonde ‚first encounter with Desiree which introduce “Desiree Baby” and her husband Armand Aubigny and what his last name encompass.Recognizing that Kate Chopin story of Desiree Baby is influence
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I was asleep in our dorm at Culver Creek when all of the sudden Mile Halter‚my roommate slammed the door to the room waking me up. He was not in a good mood and went into the bathroom. I knew he was just probably mad because the Weekday Warriors‚ Also known as the rich bullies of Culver Creek threw him in the lake‚but I wondered what took him so long to get back. He came out of the bathroom and I said‚ “ what took you so long” ? He began to tell me that it was my fault that they did this to him and
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