Driving to the Funeral by Anna Quindlen “It’s become a sad rite of passage in many American communities‚ the services held for teenagers killed in auto accidents before they’ve even scored a tassel to hang from the rearview mirror”. Anna Quindlen wrote the article ‚”Driving to the Funeral” in June 11‚ 2007 issue of news week to make parents think twice before allowing their 16 year-old drive a car. Anna discusses issue on how too often teens are killed in car accidents and why something should
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“The Case for Single- Child Families” Mckibben "The Case for Single –Child Families." first appeared in the Christian century in 1998. In this essay Mckibben aims to convince his readers that having one child doesn’t mean that you’re child will follow the single child stereotype‚ and that the environmental status of our planet will worsen if we continue to have a growing population. "If we keep heating the planet at our current pace‚ the seas will rise two feet in the next century.” Personal
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Reading the whole article‚ the biggest things that stood out to me was on page 63; “It usually takes a lobster between thirty-five and forty-five seconds to die in boiling water.” I took some time to think and at first I came up with putting a lobster into a boiling pot of water. But I couldn’t find the metaphor in that because that was the main idea I wanted people to see. So I decided to draw a healthy tree falling into a wood chipper and how when it goes through a wood chipper‚ the time it takes
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The 37th president of the United States‚ Richard Nixon‚ was involved criminally in a case during his presidency. He took many steps to try to cover the crime‚ steps that were crucial to his presidency. Nixon may not have planned the scandal‚ nor was he even a part of the burglary‚ but he did many things to make it seem like he had no idea that any of the scandal had occurred. Nixon was eventually caught and it impacted him and the government immensely. On June 17‚ 1972 several men were arrested
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Rhetorical Analysis In the early spring of 1986‚ The Challenger was scheduled to launch in the morning from the Kennedy Space Center. The Challenger had seven passengers. One of these passengers was a Christa McAuliffe‚ a social studies teacher from New Hampshire. She was the first ordinary citizen to be going to space. The social studies teacher had won the opportunity through NASA’s Teachers in space program. The spacecraft was in the air only seventy-three seconds before it exploded and broke
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Peace only comes at the price of great struggle and sacrifice for most people. In essence‚ it only comes when you have defeated the enemy‚ or the enemy has defeated you. John Knowles was able to capture the subtle goal and essence of his novel by titling it A Separate Peace. A Separate Peace is a story about Gene Forrester‚ the protagonist of the story‚ and his constant struggle with the underlying emotional conflicts present in him. He has to fight a war within his own mind that every man has to
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Claudia Baiz ENGL 1311 MWF 12:30pm - 1:20pm Professor: Jonathan Nehls Rhetorical and Visual Analysis on “How Performance-enhancing Drugs Work” Throughout this essay‚ I strive to analyze the rhetorical and visual strategies used within Craig Freudenrich ’s article‚ "How Performance-enhancing Drugs Work‚" with the purpose of examining his explanation and description about performance-enhancing drugs and determining whether he succeeded or failed at it. This article bases itself around familiarizing
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Rhetorical Analysis of Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle The Jungle‚ being a persuasive novel in nature‚ is filled with different rhetorical devices or tools used by Sinclair to effectively convey his message. Sinclair’s goal of encouraging change in America’s economic structure is not an easy feat and Sinclair uses a number of different rhetorical devices to aid him. Through his intense tone‚ use of periodic sentencing‚ descriptive diction and other tools of rhetoric‚ Upton Sinclair constructs a moving
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Anti-Wal-Mart Advertisement Claim: Wal-Mart’s uncharacteristic low prices on merchandise in comparison to other businesses have jeopardized the survival of smaller companies. When anyone in general thinks about Wal-Mart‚ they would probably think to themselves that it is a great place to shop for merchandise and apparel‚ and how there is so much selection. While they think of the previously mentioned‚ their number one reason in all likelyhood for considering Wal-Mart is the low prices
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Jose Perez P.4 8/20/13 Humorists and their Role “There are people who can talk sensibly about a controversial issue; they’re called humorists.” Alen De Botton states that “the chief aim of humorists is not merely to entertain but`to convey with impunity messages that might be dangerous or impossible to state directly`” I agree with his opinion. Humorists are entertainers; even before written history they have always been essential to society. Comedians such
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