...A Separate Peace Essay Introduction John Knowles’ novel A Separate Peace is the story of Gene Forrester who struggles to come to grips with the guilt over his role in a traumatic event from his childhood. The novel, told as a flashback from the perspective of an adult Gene, looks back on his friendship with a private school classmate and Gene’s destructive feelings of jealousy, fear, and anger. Assignment Write a 3-5 page literary analysis that explores one of the attached essay topics. Structure You might want to think of a five-paragraph structure, but because of the length requirements, you may need to expand on that to adequately explore your topic. Intro: This should include a “hook,” background information, and a thesis. It should clearly lay out what you are going to discuss in your essay. Body: Provide analysis and supporting evidence. Mention several key events or moments from the novel. Include at least three carefully chosen quotes to help capture larger ideas from the novel. Blend them in with your own writing. Conclusion: Finalize your argument with final thoughts related to the main idea. Reminders: This is a literary essay so there should be no uses of “I” or “you.”Include an original title to capture interest. Requirements Your essay should have the following: ✓ A clear argument of opinion and purpose expressed in a thesis statement and introduction...
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...Essay films are arguably the most innovative and popular forms of filmmaking since the 1990s”, Timothy Corrigan claims in his diligent new study, The Essay Film. Corrigan may have an agenda to press, and a thesis to justify, but the recent critical and commercial success of the genre is hard to ignore. A cinematic wave that arguably has its contemporary roots in the late 1980s, when American filmmakers such as Michael Moore and Errol Morris rose to public prominence, reached an apotheosis with Moore’s hugely popular, though hugely flawed, Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004) and Davis Guggenheim’s information-heavy An Inconvenient Truth (2006), which conjured a compelling piece of screen drama from Al Gore’s Powerpoint presentation. Nowadays, the Award for Best Documentary Feature at the Oscars is one of the most highly coveted. For Corrigan, the essayistic film “describes the many-layered activities of a personal point of view as a public experience”. While this is a perfectly good starting point, the author is so convinced of the elasticity of his subject that he has trouble constraining it under the broader umbrellas of documentary, non-fiction or even fiction. At times it appears that, for Corrigan, all filmmaking is essayistic. Nevertheless, he traces a convincing history of the genre(s) from D. W. Griffith’s prototypical A Corner of Wheat (1909), which contrasts the lives of the agricultural poor with those of their capitalist exploiters, via Dmitri Vertov and Sergei Eisenstein to...
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...A Separate Peace Essay Introduction John Knowles’ novel A Separate Peace is the story of Gene Forrester who struggles to come to grips with the guilt over his role in a traumatic event from his childhood. The novel, told as a flashback from the perspective of an adult Gene, looks back on his friendship with a private school classmate and Gene’s destructive feelings of jealousy, fear, and anger. Assignment Write a 3-5 page literary analysis that explores one of the attached essay topics. Structure You might want to think of a five-paragraph structure, but because of the length requirements, you may need to expand on that to adequately explore your topic. Intro: This should include a “hook,” background information, and a thesis. It should clearly lay out what you are going to discuss in your essay. Body: Provide analysis and supporting evidence. Mention several key events or moments from the novel. Include at least three carefully chosen quotes to help capture larger ideas from the novel. Blend them in with your own writing. Conclusion: Finalize your argument with final thoughts related to the main idea. Reminders: This is a literary essay so there should be no uses of “I” or “you.”Include an original title to capture interest. Requirements Your essay should have the following: ✓ A clear argument of opinion and purpose expressed in a thesis statement and introduction. ...
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...people, vivid colours, and the intricate details within the image surroundings. The mnemic traces within this image are hidden in plane sight, giving emphasis to a moment that has already passed or may be yet to come. This ambiguity of nature and tone of the image allows the viewer to explore the image that is presented to the viewer through their own perceptions. In order to further the understanding of Gregory Crewdson and his relation to the real, it is necessary to discuss the...
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...The writings of Mary Wollstonecraft directly and indirectly explore the irony of the woman’s position in Wollstonecraft’s culture: the female figure is at once central and alienated. The following annotated bibliography features articles about the writings of Mary Wollstonecraft by Steven Blakemore, Maria J. Falco, Cindy L. Griffin, and Vivian Jones. Three of the four authors take a feminist approach: Falco provides a collection of feminist critiques of Wollstonecraft’s work; Griffin asserts that Wollstonecraft is the first author to write about an alienation from the perspective of women’s issues and rights; and Jones’s essay comments on the sexualizing of the historical narrative by Helen Maria Williams and Mary Wollstonecraft. Blakemore provides a different approach, examining Miltonic references in Vindications of the rights of woman. References (Blakemore S 1992 Rebellious reading: the doubleness of Wollstonecraft's subversion of Paradise Lost)Blakemore, S. (1992). Rebellious reading: the doubleness of Wollstonecraft's subversion of Paradise lost. Texas Studies in Literature and Language, 34, 451-80. Blakemore’s article is a close reading of the Miltonic references in Wollstonecraft’s Vindication of the rights of woman. His argument centers on the proposition that during the revolutionary period writers attempted to subvert texts which “stressed the satanic dangers of epistemological curiosity” (p. 451). However, he feels that Wollstonecraft’s use of Milton rebounds...
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...Crime Fiction: The Hard-boiled Detective In Raymond Chandler’s essay ”The Simple Art of Murder” (1944) he introduces the world to his personal definition of a true hero in a new branch of crime-fiction. The essay circulates around a new type of crime story, having the real world as its steppingstone. Contrary to the typical British so-called Golden Age Detective Fiction, this sort of crime story reflects itself in the real world, a decentred world. A world that undermines basic predicates, such as order, stability, causality and resolution. Writers who occupy themselves writing these stories strive against describing a centerless world, in order to capture reality and put it straight to paper. He describes it as, “…not a very fragrant world… but continues”…it is the world you live in.” (p. 197) Chandler singles out Dashiell Hammet as the one person who actually rescued crime fiction by bringing it back to the people, in a renewed version, that embodies life in the hard-boiled world. According to Chandler, the hero, solving crimes in a ruthless city containing only people with a perverse satisfaction of being corrupt, must be a man of certain character: “He must be a complete man and a common man and yet an unusual man.” (p. 197), saying that the detective, if necessary has to have the ability to identify himself with anyone, and simultaneously also be able to elevate himself from the general population, in order to create distance from the violence-torn local society. With...
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...Mineral and Water Function Essay * Mineral and Water Function Essay Kaylah Oswalt BEN VALLEJO SCI/241 9-21-2014 The vitamins and the minrals are the chemical compound and they are needed for a proper function for the body. What I have read I have found out that there are two different types of the vitamins and they are water solubles and also the fat soluble(5). Now the water solubles are the b complex and lets not forget the C that dissolves in the water soluble of vitamins. What I think that is interesting that the minerals are the inorganic elements. Did you know that the vitamins and the minerals have the specific functions(1)? Plus they are derived from the variety of foods of sources. The vitamin A is responsble for the promoting the vision, tooth development, bone growth, formation of hormones, cell reproduction healthy skin, mucous membranes, healthy skin, and finally hair(2). Now lets talk about the retinol because it is a form of a vitamin A and it is also found in the animal products for example milk, liver and eggs. Just while the beta carotene is just about an abundant that is in the plant of foods for example mangoes, carrots, spinach, sweet potatoes, apricots, and pumkin. Finally the vitamin D is known for the sunshine becaouse for this partiqular vitamin is produced by the human body from and after the exposer for the sunshine(3). The vitamin D is also found in the dairy products which that is coll and also sunflowers seeds, and finally the egg...
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...AP USA Essay Writing Seven Steps of Essay Writing 1. Read and Analyze the question. • What is the question asking? • What is the question asking you to do? • What type of question is it? 2. Collect and sort the data needed to answer the question. • Brainstorm a list of factual information. • Create categories for this information. 3. Create your thesis statement. • The thesis is your answer to the question. It is the guiding argument of the essay. • The thesis must fully address the question, take a position with regard to the question, and provide organizational categories for analysis. 4. Write the introduction to your essay. • Begin with a broad statement on the topic. • Narrow the paragraph with 2-3 sentences that bring the question into focus. • Conclude with the thesis statement. 5. Write the body of the essay. • Each paragraph must have a topic sentence. • Each paragraph must have evidence, or historical fact. • Each paragraph must have analysis, which may be presented as interpretation or commentary. • Each paragraph must contain a “clincher” sentence. • Each paragraph must contain a transition sentence that directs the reader to the next paragraph. 6. Write the conclusion. • The conclusion must reinforce the thesis, not restate it. • The conclusion must summarize the main...
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...It looks like a hexagonal shape. Even today’s scientists try to figure out what exactly made the fossils those specific shapes. In aspects of fossils being the first trace of human life, Vinci gave some interesting theories about paleontology. Also, he is said to be the founding father of ichnology, a discipline talking about the behavioral traces of plants and animals. Leonardo da Vinci was far ahead of his time. He made shapes and mechanical forms which were not even in the imagination of people’s minds in his time. He made the first humanoid robot. It looked like a knight and the automation system included complicated combination of pulleys and springs. The robot body could raise its hands and move its joints when it is powered on. Moreover, he discovered some mechanical lions that had the ability to walk on their own with the help of clock-shaped apparatus. In 1516, da Vinci left Italy for good though even though French ruler that time offered him a good position close to king. The final years before his death, he did not quite have a good time as some of his correspondence with others showed bitter dealings. Also, his pupil Melzi, to whom Leonardo left his estate, went on to marry and have a son. Da Vinci died at the age 67 in 1519. His grave was in the palace church of Saint-Florentin. However, after the French revolution, the church was obliterated, and Vinci’s grave was not identifiable...
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...This essay will explore the five hypotheses that comprise Stephen Krashen’s model for second language learning. It will define each hypothesis and discuss a number of practical implications of Krashen’s model for the classroom. The implications will focus primarily on the “Input Hypothesis” and the “Affective Filter Hypothesis” which are the cornerstones of his model. This essay will also briefly discuss some criticisms of the model. Krashen’s Theory for Second Language Acquisition Krashen’s theory consists of five hypotheses: 1) The Acquisition-Learning Hypothesis; 2) The Natural Order Hypothesis; 3) The Monitor Hypothesis; 4) The Input Hypothesis; 5) The Affective Filter Hypothesis. The Acquisition-Learning Hypothesis states that second language learners develop their ability in the second language in two ways: acquisition and learning. Acquisition is generally subconscious. People are not usually aware of their increasing proficiency. They acquire a “feel” for the language and have little conscious knowledge of the rules of that language. Learning, on the other hand, is a more formal process which is aided by rules and error correction. Krashen (1994) summarizes: “In everyday terms, acquisition is picking up a language. Ordinary equivalents for learning include grammar and rules” (p.52). The Natural Order Hypothesis states that “students acquire (not learn) grammatical structures in a predictable order” (p.52). In other words, some structures are acquired...
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...information table for annual almanacs that were published for the years 1792 through 1797. In 1791 Banneker was a technical assistant in the calculating and ever first-ever surveying of the Federal district, which is now Washington, D.C. The “ Stable Astronomer" was often pointed to as proof that African Americans were not intellectually inferior to European Americans. Thomas Jefferson wrote himself a note this in a letter to Banneker. On Sunday, October 9, 1806 at the age 74 Benjamin Banneker died. A small memorial traces still exist in the Ellicott City of Maryland, where Banneker spent his entire life except for the Federal survey. It was not until the 90s that the actual site of Banneker house was burned on the day of his burial, was determined. In 1980s the UPS issued a postage stamp in his honor. Benjamin Banneker was the first african american to invent the first clock Banneker's life was inspirational. Despite the popular judices of his times, he was quite unwilling to let his race or his age hinder in any way his thirst...
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...Achievement of Desire," an autobiographical essay, Richard Rodriguez reflects on his life as a young boy as he suffered to balance life in the academic world and the life of a working class family. Through out his essay, he identifies as a “scholarship boy”, someone who pushes his family and friends away all for the sake of “knowledge”, a definition he found in a book he came across called The Uses of Literacy by Richard Hoggart. Rodriguez explains that in order for him to achieve success, it was necessary to disconnect himself from the life he knew before education. Even though leaving home and branching out towards new ways of thinking are considered key elements in education, it does not necessarily mean that we have to alienate ourselves in the process to become successful. Rodriguez is present in three different forms in his essay, the child, the graduate student who first comes across The Uses of Literacy, and the adult who has “completed his path” in education. The first section in his essay focuses on his life and the difficulties he faced growing up in a bilingual environment. We notice how he associates academic success with alienation from a very young age; as he mentions in his essay “He takes his first step toward academic success, away from his family” (Rodriguez, pg. 4). Rodriguez also focuses on his parents a lot and elaborates how they helped shape the person he is today, and not strictly in a positive way. In the begging of his essay, Rodriguez mentions how he wasn’t...
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...Introduction: In Argentina It is a season for religious celebrations as well as enjoyment of gatherings with family and friends.From Europe and America, the influences to the Christmas traditions of Argentina include the Christmas tree, red and white flowers, and the boots of Father Christmas. People even go to the extent of putting cotton on and around Christmas trees and the manger to simulate snow. The decorations on the Christmas tree are meant to produce a spectacular effect through candles or electric lights and other ornaments. Gifts surround the foot of the Christmas tree, while a figure of a star or Father Christmas is placed on top. Like Peru, Christmas dinner is served in Argentina on the night of December 24th. Upon the initial...
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...writing goes beyond representing characters’ egoistic self to “a merging of the self with someone or something outside” (Naremore, World 152). So, it is not only characters’ mentality, but also their experience with the surrounding are what distinguish Woolf’s stream of consciousness. The function of interior monologue and free indirect discourse is obscuring the boundaries between abstract thoughts and concrete environment. Woolf’s application of narrative perspective challenges the view of holistic realism and foregrounds subjectivity. By introducing ‘psychological realism’, Woolf exposes the relationship between the individual and the society. Her novels negotiate the possibility of maintaining individuality in a chaotic and disrupted age. She raises the question of whether “subjective perception can locate a unifying truth of the subject beyond the sphere of social and economic conflict.”(Katz 235) Therefore, the adaptation of multiple perspectives emphasizes personal experience over objective appearance. Furthermore, it presents a distinctive reaction to the social and historical context each character encounters. In Jacob’s Room, for example, the life of Jacob Flanders is reported by the women he was acquainted with. Over 150 characters, some of them are unnamed, contribute to creating an image of the deceased Jacob through the impressions he had on them (Goldman 50-51). Therefore, Jacob’s subjectivity is undermined, since he has an absent role in the novel, giving space...
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...billions across the world. With the progression in time, the Internet has become a necessity, playing a major role in various human activities. Despite the Internet being an indispensable tool of human living, it can also be a double edge sword. The purpose of this essay is to examine how the internet brings about benefits which at the same time harm us. With endless factors available for discussion, this essay will focus on its impact on banking, politics and society to surface the double-edged nature of the Internet. Physical transaction time and fear of theft are some of the common worries among the users of our traditional banking system. However, by incorporating the Internet with banking, all of these doubts can be removed with just one click of a button. Banking services are accessible in any location with internet connection. One no longer needs to adhere to the bank’s operating hours as it turns twenty-four hours. In addition, users can enjoy higher transaction efficiency through e-banking. On the other hand, these advantages have unintentionally created a perfect landscape for lawlessness. Personal information is being exposed to virtual theft. These cybercriminals can cause various damages with little trace of evidence left. Furthermore, once the bank server fails, users are left helpless. In the worst case scenario where companies require immediate funding, this could result in extensive monetary losses. Thus the efficiency of Internet banking solely depends on the...
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