... 2011 Outline: A) Introduction: general overview. B) Comparison of selected works. C) Conclusion. Foreword: This essay aims to compare plot, point of view, and theme of two authors in their respective works: Cotton Mather, “The Wonders of the Invisible World”, “The Trial of Martha Carrier”, and Benjamin Franklin, “Information to Those Who Would Remove to America”, “Remarks Concerning the Savages of North America”. Thesis: Cotton Mather and Benjamin Franklin are bright representatives of colonial literature. Their views can usefully be compared and contrasted. American writing began with the work of English adventurers and colonists in the New World chiefly for the benefit of readers in the mother country. From the beginning, however, the literature of New England was also directed to the edification and instruction of the colonists themselves, intended to direct them in the ways of the godly. Cotton Mather emerged as the dominant intellect of New England during the last decade of the Seventeenth and the beginning of the Eighteenth centuries. The approach of the American Revolution and the achievement of the actual independence of the United States was a time of intellectual activity as well as social and economic change. The variously gifted Benjamin Franklin forwarded American literature not only through his own writing but also by founding and promoting newspapers and periodicals. Benjamin Franklin was Colonial America's famous...
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...The Other Meaning of Race This essay “What’s in a Name,” Henry Louis Gates created a expresses on his viewpoint of the discrimination that his parents, particularly his father, experienced during his childhood in the South. The specific example that Gates refers to involves an incident where a shopkeeper who was friendly with his father referred to him as “George,” a name that Gates now realizes was a popular way of referring to African Americans in those times. Perhaps because his father made good money and the shopkeeper felt uneasy about his status, or simply because of the color of his skin, Gates’ father had to accept this discrimination and there was nothing he could do about it. “The “Black Table ”Is Still There,” Lawrence Otis Graham, this story he created a point of view I would never imagine over something so small, like sitting at the wrong table. Mr. Graham had mention,” It was always something that was a source of fear and dread for three hours each school morning of my early adolescence. What I found interesting was that the Gates family was different than the other African American families in the town. They were treated with a mix of dislike and respect. An example would be “Them being allowed to eat where other blacks couldn’t due to Mr. Gates’ reasons and were of privileged status.” Once the incident with Mr. Wilson had occurred, the author might have felt ashamed or a bit embarrassed. Also Henry Louis Gates Jr. “What’s in a Name?“, Gates deals with a...
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...Summary: In the essay, "Auto Liberation," Brent Knutson argues that we should repeal speed limits on U.S. highways. Knutson uses one scenario, the Japanese sports car's driver showed his excellent driving ability, to support his viewpoint. Knutson concludes by referring to personal freedoms of American citizens and the most compelling "driving fast is enjoyable" reason. Knutson also reports the opposite view, those people do not believe American drivers have the enough capacity of operating vehicles and driving without speed limits. And it's not responsive to others. Knutson claims that nowadays automobiles are able to travel safely at highways. The speed is not the cause of accidents but incompetence, alcohol or hazardous conditions. What’s more, Knutson states that some activities will make Americans drive responsibly, such as intensive driver-education, stringent licensing criteria and public-service announcement campaigns. Knutson also give some data which shows the accident rates declined since the interstate speed limits increased. Knutson concludes that we should take control of the automobiles and free from speed slavery. Test-Based Analysis: I disagree with Knutson's point of repealing speed limits on U.S. highways. First, the scenario Knutson presents in this essay is quite inconclusive. Then he claims that “In fact, there is solid reasoning to support...should be repealed,” The reader can only admit that this driver who drives the Japanese sports car has a pretty...
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...Friday in 2008 was not the only individual to be killed in such a gruesome manner. An eerily similar situation occurred to a pharmacist trying to shop at a Target in 2011. The items sought after by the shoppers were not what caused the two deaths. Likewise, the majority of stuff itself is not creating problems in the world, in fact, it’s finding new, innovative ways to fix them. The real issues at hand are the people with access to the growing amount of elaborate commercial products. That is the theme Quindlen is attempting to convey in her report: to be happy, people need to be smart and spend their money on things that they need or that actually matter. Generally, I agree with Quindlen’s overall message, however I do not agree with her essay as a whole. Many of her examples and arguments were...
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...life. Like my Grandpa always tells me, Marissa you're beautiful don't let anyone change you. This wisdom that he gave me helps me pick out who I want to date or be around because I will not adjust who I am or my personality for others. In this essay I am going to talk about how you get wisdom from older people in your life or from stories you read. Poor Richard Almanack from the Colonial American culture exhibits the value of this type of wisdom. “This wisdom” now plays out in current events in the United States as reported in the article ¨ 10 Wise Lessons: What I Wish I Knew When I Was Younger.¨ In this essay, I will compare and contrast the value of...
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...College students should not be able to write formal essays in their preferred dialect for the simple reason that there are hundreds of different dialects. If every student decided to write a formal essay this way I am sure that professors would have a difficult time analyzing papers that might not even be understood. In, Border Crossing: Leave your Name at The Border, Munoz explains how his father had to anglicize his name from Antonio to Tony. Doing so, he would be able to be more appealing for better chances of receiving more work. Munoz did not care that he anglicized his name, even though he was not being true to his identity, he knew is that there was more work coming his way. At work, his name would be Tony, but at home and in his heart...
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...Essay My option on this argument over the government watching us, and Americans want to have privacy. I choose for us to have privacy because, the government is people to. What if American citizens decided to find a way to watch the government? Wouldn’t they be mad too? For example the government trying to kill Barack Obama, but the government is keeping it for a secret for a while. But citizens tap in the (NSA) and see what they doing, they would be mad, that we tap in there system. Since Obama, and Osama Bin Laden in 2001 surveillance has been more in use now. Just like it was a leak in the white house about somebody telling the press, that the government was going to start listening and looking through people’s phones. But Obama was on a press conference talking about that’s not what they were doing (“Yest”). Obama was trying to say was, he wasn’t taping people’s phone, because yeah did something wrong. It’s just because, of 9/11, Boston bombing, and who knows what’s next. That’s why there going to see what’s happening next (“Yost”). I think its right for Obama to be checking all electronics to see if any bombs, robberies, or e.t.c will happen (“Yost”). Since the government is the higher authority, they can search what ever they want on a person if they want (“Anger over US Spyware”). So, basically Obama is taping people’s phones to see is anything like bombs, robberies, or e.t.c will happen. Not for him to know yall daily...
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...“If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down all alone, these women together ought to be able to turn it back, and get it right side up again! And now they are asking to do it, the men better let them.” With this statement the ideal of feminism had been implanted within the souls of every oppressed woman within the sound range of the speakers’ voice. In fact, the first prominent feminist was NOT Beyonce—albeit “Flawless” is a very catchy song. In fact one of the first very prominent female activists didn’t need such a huge following to not only be uneducated but easily eloquent. Sojourner Truth became a symbol of hope and strength for not only African Americans, but African American women...
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...Press and Society February 9, 2012 News in American Society News is defined as “a report of recent events” or “previously unknown information” (Websters Dictionary). News should be something that has a specified influence of effect. For instance, good news would be the end of a war and bad news would be the beginning of a war, and so forth. “News has two priorities: it must be current, and it must mean something to people” (Media Awareness Network). What is the purpose of this news though? There are many objectives of news, but the main objective of news is to inform the audience (Media Awareness Network). This is because of the notion “Intrinsic Human”, better said as a need to know society. We live in a society that definitely needs to know what is going on around them; whether it is locally or half way across the world. Without news, people tend to stress and sometimes are faced with anxiety (Philip Benoit, Powerpoint). With that said, informing the people of such “news” is the job of the news media. The media inform people locally, nationally, and globally about what is going on around them and the important events that have happened in the past, present, and are going to be happening in the future. If we cannot directly observe everything that is going on around us, we must have another way to observe; and the only other option is for a person(s) to find that news for us and make us, as a society, aware. “For much of American history the mass media have been the center...
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...to live in America for working privileges. Their real desire is to become something that depicts pride and honor, an American. Being an American in a country as diverse as ours means more than just living on American soil, it has endless benefits that allows one to feel free. Unfortunately, the rapid flow of immigrants into America has led to many issues. One of the main ones is the concept of assimilation, which has been disputed for years due to the capacity of the incoming immigrants. Jay Nordlinger, in his essay “Bassackwards: Construction Spanish and Other Signs of the Times” notes that not “everyone who comes to America is dying to melt into the pot”. Yet he stresses, as does Linda Chavez in her essay “Supporting Family Values”, the need for immigrants to assimilate to American culture. These two concepts have been floating around America since the first illegal immigrants started to show up and they’ve been controversial ever since. Everyone is looking for a happy medium for the issue but can’t seem to find it. Recent immigrants are being expected to trade their ethnic and national identities for new American identities, and the concept of ‘Americanization’ commences. Is the idea of American culture as a “melting pot” still valid, or are immigrants becoming ‘Americanized’? Being an American means to live on American soil. But more than that, to be American is to...
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...As a reader of this essay, many people will read the title I have presented and come up with a general picture in their heads of what I will be talking about. Knowing the background of this essay, being an abstract concept to define, people may be confused as to what’s so abstract about a dog? Well here is why all of those thinkers are wrong. The word pit bull is thrown around so often, that it is not even questioned about what the word truly means. In fact, a pit bull is not a breed of dog, but it is a “...class of dogs that includes several breeds: American pit bull terrier, American Staffordshire terrier, Staffordshire bull terrier and any other purebred or mixed breed dog that is a combination of these dogs” (Pit Bull FAQ). There are many laws banning pit bulls; they are categorized by their physical traits and then based on that, get taken away from their families. Although there are many problems with this, one major problem is that non pitbulls get caught up by this checklist and get...
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...Personal Connections Essay part two Gerald Washington ENG496 /19/2014 Anegla Mullennix Personal Connections Essay part two The two themes that I chose was “Up from Slavery” by Booker T. Washington and The Souls of Blacks Folks” by W. E. B. DU Bois. In my essay I will tell how these two pieces talk to me and how these two pieces have an effect on the things that was going on during this era. In this essay I will analyze these two pieces and show their relation to the historical and societal context of the era in which they were written. In the first piece “Up from Slavery” by Booker T. Washington was the account of his life. This autobiography takes us through the traces of Washington life to find out where he came from and where he was born to an African American cook and having a white father. How this autobiography of Booker T Washington have effect on me is I could remember when I was a kid how my mother would tell me about her mother my grandmother the work that she had to do when they lived in Mississippi. How she did not finish school because she had to take care of her brothers and sisters and also work on the land. This story showed me how strong Washington was just like my mother and her mother was just living in Mississippi was hard enough. I can relate because this shows me Gerald Washington who I am the many things ancestors did for me to get to where I am at today. This piece in relation to the historical and societal context of the era is because it shows...
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...a wild elephant on the loose and it needed to be done. When reading this essay, I felt Orwell did a wonderful job making us feel what he was thinking and the setting he portrayed he also did really well. His struggle he was internally facing between the government and the Burmese people was really interesting to me. Because I’m sure many other soldiers at the time felt that way. Including my own grandfather. He was born and raised in Burma and served in the military and when reading this I was thinking of many similarities he’s told me about. He also wanted to be freed from British rule and when Orwell talks about a rampant elephant theres also similar stories. What struck me most was all of his feelings came out just because of an elephant. And made me wonder why was he scared of looking like a fool if he didn’t shoot the elephant? Why was it such a big deal if he didn’t shoot the elephant, it was his choice he was the authority in the situation. But, overall I really enjoyed this essay. In Judith Ortiz Cofer’s “Silent Dancing,” she talks about how immigrating from Puerto Rico to New York her life was in shades of gray and she only remembers one time when it was in color. She recalls her childhood through a film that was made when she was at a party when she was young. In the film `she idolizes her aunts, uncles, and cousins but is very young and naive to what’s actually going on. I thought Coher’s essay was really raw and open about her childhood. I’ve never had to move far...
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... 1. Write English Essay - Free Essay Writing Samples Online Adwww.curriki.org/writing-essays 1. Get Samples for Teachers & Students * Support Child Education * Register With Us * Open Educational Resource ------------------------------------------------- Top of Form Bottom of Form Search Results 1. www.scribendi.com a short literary composition on a particular theme or subject, usually in prose and generally analytic, speculative, or interpretative. 2. anything resembling such a composition: a picture essay. Essay | Define Essay at Dictionary.com dictionary.reference.com/browse/essay More about Essay Feedback Essay - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia en.wikipedia.org/?title=Essay Essays are generally scholarly pieces of writing giving the author's own argument, but the definition is vague, overlapping with those of an article, a pamphlet and a short story. Michel de Montaigne - Five paragraph essay - Application essay - Introduction Writing Tips: Essay Builder - WritingDEN www2.actden.com/writ_Den/tips/essay/index.htm Explores the parts and provides step-by-step directions for writing essays. Essay | Define Essay at Dictionary.com dictionary.reference.com/browse/essay a short literary composition on a particular theme or subject, usually in prose and generally analytic, speculative, or interpretative. 2. anything resembling such a composition: a picture essay. Images for essayReport images More images for essay Essay Structure | - Harvard...
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...“ And if there yet remains one thoughtless wretch who believes it not, let him suffer it unlamented”. Thomas Paine, a writer during the American Revolution, wrote a very famous essay called “ Crisis No. 1” in the year 1776. At this time the British were trying to take over the colonies. Many people were nervous of what the outcome would be. Thomas Paine’s “Crisis No. 1” uses the technique of appealing to one's emotions throughout his writing to get the colonists to fight back against the British. Thomas Paine wants the colonists to understand how he feels about the British. Through pathos, Thomas Paine explains a thief breaking into his house. “ If a thief breaks into my house, burns and destroys my property… am I to suffer it?” ( Paine 111)....
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