marquail weaver wanted to play football and he did not know what he was getting into. He wanted to play football to lose weight marquail weaver was not a big guy he just wanted to lose weight.His first day of practice marquail was struggling he could not do anything.He was the slowest one on the team every time he would run with the rest of the team he will be the last one . He was never good at running marquail never ran before . marquail weaver was at football practice he had to run two laps and
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The poem‚ Carpet Weavers‚Morocco by Carol Rumens is written in four stanzas each comprising three lines. There is no noticeable rhyme scheme. Vocabulary and sentence structure are relatively straightforward with every line except the final two end stopped. Themes of Social injustice/poverty‚ Childhood and Work run through this poem. There is an emphasis on colour in the first stanza. The bright colours of their dresses are contrasted with the black of their braids. Braids is interesting as it highlights
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of portraying life. This gives each painting or drawing a unique look that is almost the artist’s way of signing their work. Such as‚ the difference between one of the mural study pieces at the Pearl Fincher Museum and Sheep Shearing by James “Buck” Winn. This makes each painting look different‚ and gives each painting a different feel. Made by an unknown artist in an unknown year a mural study piece from the museum is an oil painting on a panel. It is a painting of several men raising‚ shearing
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Peter McPhee offers a compelling social history of the Corbiers in his Revolution and Environment in Southern France: Peasants‚ Lords‚ and Murder in the Corbieres 1780-1830. Sadly‚ the “Environment” portion is severely lacking. He makes up for this rather serious weakness in the robustness of his argument surrounding the class struggle between former peasants and their former seignior and the emergence of a peasant capitalism surrounding wine production. This emergence of peasant capitalism and
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Marie Winn demonstrates her ideas backed with evidence she supplied in the article. The evidence given are anecdotal evidence and academic studies. Her use of academic studies throughout her article strengthens her argument as academic studies is a good way of understanding the environment of families and individuals who are under the influence of television and how people are affected by it. Although out of the academic studies she referenced‚ the study referring to eye contact was most likely the
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According to Marie Winn in “The Plug-In Drug”‚ television has many negative effects on our society today. In her essay she emphasis that television today is controlling the everyday aspect of life. She inference that television has ruined family rituals‚ the communication and it’s seen as equivocal. She acknowledged that there is a problem with our society and the way that television influence us. Been said‚ I’m able to say that I agree with Winn on the subject of television having negative effects
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Peter Salem On October1‚ 1750 Peter Salem was born. Peter Salem was a black African American soldier and patriot. Though Salem’s birth year is not certain he was born a slave in Framingham‚ Massachusetts. His owner‚ Jeremiah Belknap‚ named him after his hometown of Salem‚ Massachusetts. In America’s early years‚ Massachusetts‚ monitoring an insurrection by Blacks‚ made it illegal for them to serve in the military. When the need for soldiers increased during the French and Indian Wars Blacks were
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“The Plug-in Drug”‚ written by Marie Winn‚ consists of effects of watching television as a child‚ and pessimistic consequences followed by doing so. Marie asserts that watching television-even “good” programs-is harmful to children; she reasons her argument with a range of persuasive elements such as asking rhetorical questions‚ providing information suggested by reliable source‚ and accentuating the importance of engagement of the readers. First of all‚ the author’s effective usage of rhetorical
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In 1830‚ a weaver by the name John Downe writes a letter to his wife Sukey from the United States to England. Downe’s purpose in the letter is to persuade his wife Sukey into coming to America. He adopts an objective tone in order to glorify America in his letter to Sukey using ambiguity‚ repetition‚ and pathos. Downe begins his letter to Sukey by describing the incredibility of what America has given him. He then shifts to pathos when he begins using repetition. He appeals to repetition by repeating
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Summary of “Television: The Plug-In Drug” by Marie Winn The family time that experts once believed the television would facilitate has backfired. It has been replaced with an everyday military regiment. Wake up‚ go to school‚ watch television‚ and go to bed. Parents have allowed the television to become the primary source for their children’s home life experience. Although this medium allows for peace within the home‚ the family dynamic suffers. Winn references the conflicts that family’s had to deal
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