Category: English
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Correct mla citation of all quotes, summary, etc.
Your main purpose in this assignment is to create a coherent, fully-developed, logically-organized argument in response to a debatable issue. The issue you choose can be based on our class discussions, one of the readings we’ve done for class, or one of the argumentative essays in our textbook (with approval from Dr. Beggs). This will…
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This week’s reading in Chapter 5.4 details a number of strategies for making com
This week’s reading in Chapter 5.4 details a number of strategies for making complex information accessible and understandable to a non-specialist audience: Defining unfamiliar terms Comparing to familiar things Elaborating the process Providing description Reviewing theoretical background Providing examples and applications Shorter sentences and paragraphs The “in-other-words” technique Posing rhetorical questions Explaining the importance or…
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Write a journal (minimum 4 pages) as the secondary character.
Read the short fiction, The Yellow Wallpaper using the COD online library resource. Think about your reading, the character/s, problem/s, solution/s, theme, plot. Contemplate the different issues, conventions, and forms of the problem/s discussed in the story. Write a journal (minimum 4 pages) as the secondary character. (Due 10/26) The conclusion: How do you understand…
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Is there a double standard in which men can act and women are expected not to do so?
How do the portrayals of women change over the trilogy? focus on Clytemnestra, Cassandra, Electra and the Furies. Is there a double standard in which men can act and women are expected not to do so?
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In “Resistance to Civil Government” (attached), also known as “Civil Disobedienc
In “Resistance to Civil Government” (attached), also known as “Civil Disobedience†(first published in 1849; “Bartleby†was published in 1853) Henry David Thoreau argues for passive or non-violent resistance to government. (Thoreau’s essay inspired both Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr.) Bartleby refuses to conform to the normal ways of the office and instead simply…
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Now that we’ve introduced ourselves a little bit to the text, let’s discuss some
Now that we’ve introduced ourselves a little bit to the text, let’s discuss some of the seeming contradictions and paradoxes at the heart of this teaching. Watch the Video lecture under the module for today to get an idea how to approach these questions. Basically we want to make sense of the idea of “disciplined…
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Write a review of a restaurant, product, album, or place that you either enjoyed or disliked
Write a review of a restaurant, product, album, or place that you either enjoyed or disliked Remember, a review is not just a book report (summary)—it is an evaluation! Your essay should be at least 3 pages long, written in Times New Roman 12-pt font, and double spaced
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Mla format needed, the goal here is to convince our reader to agree with the writers topic, about how human actions are damaging our planet and slowly killing it and what we can do to prevent the risk of it happening/what we can change.
MLA format needed, the goal here is to convince our reader to agree with the writers topic, about how human actions are damaging our planet and slowly killing it AND what we can do to prevent the risk of it happening/what we can change.
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Components of the synthesis essay:
Now, in Essay 2, you are faced with that same audience, but with one important difference: Several members of this group continue to believe one of the two “bad ideas about writing” identified below. Your purpose for writing Essay 2 is to convince these instructors that this “bad idea about writing” is, in fact, a…
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Answer those questions from “poetry is the power to transcend: A poetry Mixtape”
Answer those questions from “poetry is the power to transcend: A poetry Mixtape” by Dr.prof.Doyali Islam