their essays. Diction makes tone since the word choices produce how the author wants their audience to understand what he/she purposed on their writing. Without diction or tone, a writing would become boring and meaningless. Using the stories that were mentioned earlier, I will find how diction and tone support the author’s claim. To me, I believe that the author of “A Quilt of a Country” would use diction that can professionally represent her readers or her audience about how united America can be
After re-reading the essay, I would honestly give myself somewhat of a B or C. There are some grammar issues and even though I use grammar check, I still struggle with grammar. My essay is somewhat sloppy when discussing covert racism, overt racism, mental health and then I include how blogs have changed the topic of racism. I believe my organizational skills could really improve my essay. However, there are some very good points that I make regarding my thesis statement. The thesis ‘Blogging changes
I remember when I first came to the Wilkes University, one of my edifier (?) (Friend, teacher, mother) told me "Don’t judge your class in the beginning, judge your class at the end of course”. In the beginning of my classes I was very nervous about how to write an essay. However, I believe my writing skills has effectively improved. To be honest, English 101 wasn’t an easy class for me in the beginning. College writing is entirely different from high school writing. I always have trouble with grammar
Garrett Hardin’s essay, “Tragedy of the Commons” has a view of the population of the world different than any other. In his essay, he writes about how the world is biophysically finite. He believes that the more people there are the less each person’s share will be. This was a main point in his essay. He goes on to talk about how agricultural cannot help fix this problem and how we can’t both maximize the number of people and satisfy every desire or "good" of everyone since every person has a different
Citizenship Debate Part II Purpose and Audience 2. I do not think Chavez expected her audience to agree with her position as it was posted in the politically conservative section of the Wall Street Journal. Before I read the political background section of Linda Chavez, I had thought the author to be liberal. But after reading the excerpt I the beginning of the publication, I noticed that she was a Hispanic Conservative. I could tell that Linda Chavez did not expect her audience to agree with
Analysis of Why the Pledge of Allegiance Should Be Revised Why the pledge of allegiance should be revised, by Gwen Wilde, is a very well written essay that the reader would most likely deem convincing. Gwen Wilde states that the Pledge in its latest from simply requires all Americans to say the phrase “one nation, under God,” when many Americans do not believe in God. She uses many different writing strategies to get her point across in a very precise and appropriate manner. Although there are some minor
This essay purpose is to show how one’s national character and major life’s obstacles influence their personal identity and beliefs. The essay explores how Baldwin, Whitman, Paine, and Nietzsche self identity and how it is discussed. This essay is to tell how one’s childhood and they way they grew up influence the art they created. The art includes essays and poems that were wrote about American identity and what they believed. The first essay “The Discovery of What It Means to be an American” was
In the essay Our Unhealthy Future Under Environmentalism, John Berlau debates that conserving and preserving our environment is unnecessary and environmentalist should inexplicitly, take a chill pill. Berlau fails to see the negative impact on the environment that humans are the cause of. We are animals, however, as the only intellectual species with reasoning skills on the planet, we should have an added responsibility of preserving this earth for our future generations. Berlau’s essay provides
8. Throughout the entire essay, Dumas is stressing her belief that diversity is an important thing in a life. She claims that Americans do not have enough diversity in their everyday life. She has many points of evidence to support her claim and argument from the very start of the essay when she says how kids made fun of her and her family do to their names just because they were different from what American children are used to. She states that some Americans when she lived in Berkeley would flock
Renaissance. Within his works, he depicted black America in manners that told the truth about the culture, music, and language of his people. Besides his many notable poems, plays, and novels, Hughes also wrote essays such as The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain which Hughes gives insight into the minds of middle-class and upper-class Negroes. Prior to reading this essay, I never heard of, nor did I know, Langston Hughes composed essays, much less an essay that outwardly depicts aspects of life that