EXAMINE THE SCARLET LETTER AS AN OPEN-ENDED NOVEL Hawthorne wrote during the Romantic Period in American literature which lasted from 1830 to 1865. Ralph Waldo Emerson‚ Henry David Thoreau‚ Herman Melville‚ Harriet Beecher Stowe‚ Edgar Allen Poe‚ and Walt Whitman were his literary contemporaries. The Scarlet Letter is considered a piece of American Romantic literature because it is set in a remote past‚ the Puritan era 200 years prior to Hawthorne’s time‚ and because it deals with the interior
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ourselves. This is certainly true of the way readers perceive Dimmesdale’s actions to be in The Scarlet Letter‚ an acclaimed novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne. The story is a romance involving characters that have been embroidered so intricately
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3/6/10 Journal 8 “An Open Letter to Ninth Graders”‚by Patrick Sullivan is not just a “letter” to “ninth graders”. It as an article to the general public and those of which are interested in higher education offered at colleges. Some of the key points he talks about in this letter that tell you how to succeed are‚ reading‚ writing‚ thinking‚ listening and “grit”. Patrick Sullivan in detail describes to you that reading is essential to being successful in a liberal arts education. In addition to
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My Friend Max By: Shane Droske FOREWORD By: Brittany Mineard Many people don’t recognize suicide as a major problem until it directly effects their lives. Many people also don’t connect suicide with the amount of deaths within the teenage population. In fact‚ teen suicide is a major cause of death among teens‚ being the third leading cause. According to the National Institute for Mental Health (NIMH)‚ about 8 out of every 100‚000 teenagers committed suicide in the year
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Letter from Birmingham Jail (Rhetorical Strategies) Since ancient times‚ promoters of justice have brought into play rhetorical strategies to persuade their opponents. On April 16‚ 1963‚ Martin Luther King Jr. wrote a letter regarding the criticism several clergymen made‚ stating that the movements of nonviolent resistance to racism from Dr. King were “unwise and untimely”. In this letter King uses several rhetorical strategies but mainly he makes use of 3. In the first one‚ King uses an outside
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winter quarter with the former knowledge from the class. After taking WRD 103‚ I thought I had a good understanding on rhetorical appeals and how to write a well-organized paper. Because of my previous knowledge I had the expectation that WRD 104 would solely focus on how to research a topic and properly cite sources. However‚ I soon came to realize that the class will broaden my perspectives on academic writing even more. To begin‚ a memorable experience that sticks out is one of the first days
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Martin Luther King’s Rhetorical Modes in: Letter from Birmingham Jail Martin Luther King wrote a letter while in Birmingham Jail‚ this was received on April 16‚ 1963. Months earlier King was involved in a nonviolent direct-action against segregation‚ King was called upon by the Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights. This nonviolent action was mostly demonstrated through sit-ins and marches along the streets where Negroes showed their aggravation and irritation towards all of the segregation
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We have been friends for quite a while now‚ and I just want to say thank you for being there when times got tough. I know you more than I know anybody and I’m so glad that we started hanging out together. Lately I’ve been thinking about the way that we always compete with each other and it’s really starting to get to me. I know that it’s not always intentional‚ but it just seems like you enjoy getting into those little arguements that we seem to almost always come across. You and I have alot of the
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inspiration for this letter to the incoming freshmen
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Controversial Speech- Eliza Froemel Should Sex Ed be taught in school? Intro: I remember when I was in 5th grade in Hayward Intermediate School in Mrs. Helander’s class. We learned songs that helped us remember The Preamble of the Constitution‚ and songs that helped us remember that before a bill became affective it was sent to Capitol Hill to be approved or vetoed. I also remember when we watched a video that had a singing sperm‚ and a singing egg. I thought it was the funniest thing that was
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