How To Write A Short Story: America's Worst Mistake

Over the past few weeks of class, we have covered the first five chapters of our textbook, written by George Brown Tindell and David Emory Shi called, “America, A Narrative History.” Each chapter told the reader a narration of the history of America, as opposed to an expository version of America’s history. Each chapter had its own main idea over a portion of history, along with many details that cover the importance of the main idea. As a reader, one may obtain a deeper appreciation for the country 's history, prior to entering the class on the first day. The most important aspect of history, besides the battles that are fought, is the different cultures that make up today’s modern America.

Throughout a person's life they are bound to do one of the following; be apart of a single story, struggle with their identity or stereotype someone or something. Literature reflects this experience people have with their identity. The "single story" is something that affects everyone, consistently and can be seen throughout literature; everything and everyone has a single story. In "The Danger of a Single Story," Adichie talks about its impact; this is also explored in Supaman's lyrics, and "Hope Against Hope" by Sherman Alexie.

Life is unpredictable and no one could gifted with a foresight. I still remember that day when I boarded the plane, from China to America, up to eighteen hours of travel. When I step on the land of America, my life instantly changed. The exaggerated graffiti on the wall with a twisted smile looks like the one who is saying “Hi.” to me. When I go in to my “home”,mice and cockroaches are all around. The teen who stand near the door says, “Welcome to America.”

By 1600, England’s feudal system was nearing extinction, as a new family (Tudor’s) came to power and wanted support from the middleclass and the establishment of new liberties for Englishman (i.e. trial by jury and no arrest without a warrant), which resulted in a large amount of local and self initiative to prosper in the community: yet many beggars now existed, culminating in an increased need for colonial expansion both for personal prosperity and more space for the existing population.

As Morgen walks into her AP American History class, she notices that there are weird box type tablets on every desk. She’s never seen anything like these before. By the looks on the faces of her ten classmates, she’s not alone. She takes her usual seat in the back of the classroom. While waiting for her best friend to arrive, she listens to her favorite song, Hello by her favorite classic artist, Adele. What are these weird looking tablets? How are you supposed to turn them on? She wondered.

The three essays of rhetorical criticism, Telling America 's Story: Narrative Form and the Regan Presidency by William F. Lewis, The "Promiscuous Audience" Controversy and the Emergence of the Early Woman 's Rights Movement by Susan Zaeske, and Medicine, Rhetoric, and Euthanasia: A Case Study in the Workings of a Postmodern Discourse by Michael J. Hyde each employ a variety of strategies to examine the rhetoric of three distinct situations. This paper will attempt to dissect each of the essays in a comparative manner. Specifically, it will evaluate the introductions, how effectively they are constructed, and how the essays follow according to the expectations set forth in the introductions.

Before Church on a Sunday in 1978, when our Nation was drafting difficult working, young, southern folks to go to war, I was going to face my greatest fear. There was a storm brewing on the horizon towards the west. Lightning filled the sky like fingers stretching across the sky. It noticed like a showdown between the sun and the storm clouds. Each time the storm roared, the gobble of all of the turkey in southwest Arkansas fell silent and skittish. The silence seized over the town except the storm.

Every time when Hope leaves a place, she always writes “ Hope Was Here” in a unnoticeable place as her way of saying goodbye. Addie and Hope get a job at the Welcome Stairways in Mulhoney. Owner G.T. Stoop hires Addie as the head chef and Hope as the waitress. G.T. has been treated with leukemia and needs all the help he can get. When Addie and Hope arrived, G.T. announces that he wants to run for mayor. He can’t stand how the corrupt Eli Millstone takes cares of the city, Eli has been in office for eight years, and wants to make sure Mulhoney is a safe place while he still can. Millstone works with the Real Fresh Dairy, so he could get votes from the workers. In exchange for the votes, Millstone lets them do anything and not get in trouble. Real Fresh Dairy is disliked by the citizens because of the things they do to the city. The things the Dairy does is not pay taxes, cracking roads with overweight trucks, and disturbing the peace with their big milk

The time that George and Lennie where around it was a difficult time in America, on page 5 they went to Murray and Ready’s and got work cards and bus tickets because they didn’t have cars so they would of had to walk or take buses anywhere they where going in today's America a lot of people would think of that as unbearable . If you had to live like Lennie and George had you would have to almost depend on the bus or you wouldn't be able to get to job to job every month or sometimes into town.

Walking through the doors, she notices a couple things almost immediately, the first being that shes practically having heart palpitations in which someone could possibly mistake as having a stroke/and/or heart attack.

Last place. 6th out of 6. Failure. Loser. All things you never want to see or hear. When I saw my name at the bottom of that sheet my heart dropped. I was at a figure skating competition, and after competing I didn’t feel great about my performance but I didn’t feel horrible. I had fallen on 1 of my jumps and messed up a little bit in my footwork but my far my spins were the hardest and I executed them nicely. Overall it wasn’t an awful program. Besides all of the other girls had fallen on the same jump I did. About 20 minutes later, this girl walks over to the wall with a clipboard, removes a piece of paper from the top, and tapes it to the wall. I knew it was my group so I walked over to check, my heart beating faster than ever. I looked

America’s gift to my generation is freedom. Freedom is the right to do what one wants, lives where he/she wants, eat what they want, and choose the religion in which he or she believes in without ignoring or harming other people’s rights. Freedom is an important gift. Freedom allows schools, buildings, and public places to have many types of people; gays, lesbians, Asians, African Americans, girls, and boys. Back when Martin Luther King Jr was alive, their schools were segregated; meaning Caucasian people couldn’t go to school with African Americans. Some of my best friends are not the same race or religion as me. Well I, had the gift of freedom to choose my friends. I have one best friend since the second grade who isn’t the same race or religion

My generation is very fortunate , because there were amazing people that fought for the things that we have today . Americans Gift to my Generation involves freedom , free speech , the freedom to believe in your own religion , and that all people are treated equal . All of these things are very important so that you can be your own person .

The question of whether the impact of European contact had on indigenous populations should be addressed as historical or moral is an ineffably difficult one to answer. On one hand, a moral point of view could add more emotional and thoughtful aspects into history. However, on the other, a historical perspective would help give the audience an objective point of view and an understanding of past events without the main point being an ethical issue. Thus, the impact European contact had on indigenous populations in North America should be directed as a historical question, as it showcases every detail and account of history from a neutral perspective that allows questions about the morality or immorality of past actions to be answered by the

The speaker illustrates the struggle and several conflicts: between private and public, frivolity and necessity, the individual's need for expression and society's need for control.