debates that whether or not it has a positive or negative effects on society. Graff‚ Gerald. “Hidden Intellectualism.” “They Say/I Say” The Moves That Matter in Academic Writing with Readings. Gerald Graff‚ Cathy Birkenstein‚ and Russel Durst. New York: Norton‚ 2012.
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Cited: Aristotle. “Virtue Ethics.” Moral Philosophy‚ A Reader‚ Third Edition. Ed. Louis P. Pojman. Indianapolis‚ IN: Hackett‚ 2003. 249-259 Norton‚ David L. “Moral Minimalism and the Development of Moral Character.” Moral Philosophy‚ A Reader‚ Third Edition. Ed. Louis P. Pojman. Indianapolis‚ IN: Hackett‚ 2003. 296-307
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essay a more comical sarcastic atmosphere. This informal diction confuses the reader. Her tone is also very sarcastic and rude‚ creating a rather hostile environment. Littering the facts she is trying to get across with sarcastic comments pulls the reader away from the actual information. In doing so‚ Rollin weakens her argument dramatically.
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Sympathy for Protagonists in “A Rose for Emily” and “The Country Husband” Typically‚ readers have a difficult time rooting for or even sympathizing with characters who engage in behavior which is considered deviant or morally wrong. Two writers who challenge readers to find fallible and immoral characters sympathetic are John Cheever and William Faulkner. In John Cheever’s‚ “The Country Husband”‚ the reader truly sympathizes for Francis Weed‚ an adulterer who feels neglected by his family and put
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Rebecca Davis and Stephen Crane portray the darker side of humanity by making the reader feel they are observing the social environments of animals. In Life in the Iron Mill and Maggie: A Girl of the Streets‚ the animals are penniless products of the America’s Industrial Revolution. Through realistic and naturalistic lenses‚ Davis and Crane are connected through their abilities to create a unique spectator-to-subject relationship between the audience and characters. To speak to a broader issue of
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OnOnce More to the Lake White‚ E.B. “Once More to the Lake.” The Norton Reader. 13th ed. Linda Peterson et al. New York: W.W. Norton and Company 2012. 79-83. Print. In E.B. Whites essay “Once more to the Lake”‚ E.B. White writes of childhood memory going to the lake camping with his father as a young boy and now taking his own son to the lake. Most of the essay is very descriptive detail of memories camping at the lake as a child and White conflicting growing older as he makes new memories with
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Ralph Waldo Emerson once wrote ‘The world is nothing‚ the man is all; in yourself is the law of all nature’(Norton 548). Emersonian individualism has had a burning influence on American society‚ where the individual mind is perceived as something divine‚ where man stood alone‚ independent and all-knowing. A contemporary author‚ Edgar Allan Poe‚ had a different take on this. What if you look inside and you cannot find anything? What if instead‚ you find something abhorrent and repulsive? Worse yet
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Death Revealed In Emily Dickinson’s poem "Because I could not stop for Death" the main emphasis seems to be the acceptance of Death. Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) gives reference to the theme by using "death" in the first line. The poem is unique and interesting because she presents Death in a different way by referring to it as an escort taking her on a journey towards eternity rather than making it seem like something frightening. Each stanza of the poem breaks down the journey through the stages
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Romantic Orientalism in his lyric "The Indian Serenade". Before even reading the lyric‚ the title gives the reader a hint of Romantic Orientalism‚ through the idea of looking through the eyes of a group of legendary people the Indians. By the end of the lyric‚ it is possible to receive a mental picture of the surroundings that the Indian speaker sees‚ but if it were not for the title‚ the reader would not make the connection that this lyric is from an Indian ’s perspective. So since there is a title
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details she used helped me stay interested and keep reading. The tone Rowlandson used was hopeful. Even though she was taken captive by Indians she stayed hopeful that she would return to civilization. The purpose of Rowlandson’s story is to inform the reader of the story of her and her family being abducted by Indians in the attack on Lancaster in 1675. During these rough times she turned to Christianity and the comfort of the bible to help her through this devastating time in her life. Rowland states
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