Sample Persuasive Essay Prompt: The South Kitsap School District is instituting a no-tolerance ban on student cell phones and personal electronics while on campus during school hours. Write a persuasive essay supporting or opposing this new policy. Introductory paragraph Attention Grabber: Currently‚ over 90% of all American middle and high school students own either a cell phone or a personal MP3 player and a recent USA Today survey found that 98% of teenagers admit to using their cell
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Senior Honors Language Arts February 27‚ 2009 The Road Not Taken “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost is one the finest poems written in the 20th century. It describes the difficulties of a traveler who has to choose between two diverging roads. Frost uses the roads as a metaphor for life’s many choices‚ and exemplifies how these they decide a person’s outcome in life. It can also be interpreted that the speaker in the poem is promoting individualism‚ self reliance and wondering what he might
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The main themes of Robert frosts poetry are: Nature and mans interaction with it. Also real people and real struggle; the deeper meanings of everyday life. For this essay I will discuss ’mending wall’‚ ’the road not taken’‚ ’out‚ out-’ and ’provide‚ provide’. Mending wall is about a stone wall separating the speaker’s property from his neighbour’s. In spring‚ the two meet to walk the wall and make any necessary repairs. The speaker sees no reason for the wall to be kept as there are no livestock
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Zinn 5 Paragraph Essay In “A People’s History of the United States‚” by Howard Zinn‚ Zinn states “To emphasize the heroism of Columbus and his successors as navigators and discovers‚ and to deemphasize their genocide‚ is not a technical necessity but an ideological choice. It serves-unwittingly-to justify what was done‚” this quote is true to all extent. True‚ Columbus and his followers founded Central America‚ but they were obviously not the first or the “native” Americans would have not been
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Literary Essay of “Out‚ Out –“ A Poem by Robert Frost Katrina Good South University Online Literary Essay of “Out‚ Out –“a Poem by Robert Frost The poem‚ “Out‚ Out –“ by Robert Frost (1916) uses many narrative elements‚ a few of them being the setting and characters along with climax and resolution to tell this sad story. Frost references William Shakespeare’s “Macbeth” (5.5.23-28) as the title of this poem as a way to portray to the reader that there is a feeling of sadness or even death
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beauty and innocence in human life is much the same as the years progress. Robert Lee Frost uses nature in such a profound approach; every aspect of nature can someway correlate with any characteristic of life. Whether it is the beauty in nature signifying the joy and happiness that every person experiences‚ or it be the traumatic losses and disappointments that may lead to ultimate failure or destruction‚ Robert Frost illustrates life‚ love and loss in the most natural and beautiful way feasible
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What is the Road Not Taken At first glance when reading Robert Frost’s poem "The road not taken‚" one might think that the traveler is deciding which road to take in hoping to not make bad decisions in life. Looking at two different roads as if one lead to hell and one lead to heaven. After reading the entire poem‚ I connected with the poem. It very clearly stated to me that the poem is about coming across to good roads‚ and not knowing which direction to take life into because of being afraid
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Robert Frost Ashley Bell Mrs. Jordan English 11A 12/12/14 Ashley Bell Mrs. Jordan English 11A 12/12/14 Robert Frost Robert Lee Frost was a traditionalist poet whose works are still loved today by many. Frost had a very effortless way of writing‚ which helped describe life in such descriptive ways. Because of this‚ he won countless awards and became one of the most admired poets of the 19th century. Robert Frost had the ability to imprint his works into people’s minds
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San Francisco in the spring of 1874‚ Robert Frost is considered to be amongst‚ if not solely‚ the greatest poets in American history. Around age eleven‚ Frost moved to New England where the majority of his poetic inspiration is presumably drawn from. Although he never managed to obtain a collegiate degree‚ he did attend both Dartmouth and Harvard‚ two of the countries most prestigious universities. Publishing his first poem entitled “My Butterfly” in 1894‚ Frost began his career as a poet just as
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Robert Lee Frost‚ New England’s cherished poet’s‚ has been called America’s purest classical lyricist and one of the outstanding poets of the twentieth century. He was a modernist poet. During his childhood he thrived in English and Latin classes and discovered a common thread in Theocritus’ and Virgil’s poetry‚ and in the romantic balladry. Frost’s style was influenced by the early romantic poets as we can see the romantic features in his poems and also by the contemporary British poets as Edward
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