The Blue Cross Sparknotes

In the novel The Scarlet Letter Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale, a supposed holy man, is no more than a mere low life coward that deserves respect from no one. He committed adultery with a member of his own congregation, and lied to and deceived the rest of his flock, but he left the one who got caught take all of the burden.

In a debate, one aims to have the audience develop a certain opinion on a topic by presenting logical evidence and data that supports their point of view. The person that presents the most compelling argument that is supported by evidence wins the debate. The application of logical information to influence one to form a certain opinion is applied in all life scenarios , and especially in literature,. In The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, a contemporary biography, by Rebecca Skloot, Skloot uses logos to convey the immoral practice of doctors to the readers.

The story ‘Scandal in Bohemia’ starts of very odd, “To Sherlock Holmes, she is always the woman’. This has already given the reader a hint of suspense as it is something unusual. It was always thought that Holmes had no feelings and no emotions for anyone, but according to this opening the above phrase is

He never finds any proof of evilness in his wife or the respected people around him, but he still chooses to be doubtful. The subtle message that the story gives is that “doubt” is the culprit and men are at fault for succumbing to it. Doubting does not make Brown’s life any better. He never trusted anybody and he were not even deceived by anybody. So the story shows that by having faith, he could have changed his life. He could have lived much more happily.

The last and most notable rhetoric element in this article is logos, which refers to the logical appeal of the argument. In this article, Robinson’s strength lies in her ability to make logical appeal to the readers. Robinson used causes and consequences, analogy, testimony and syllogism to appeal to logics.

It is possible to assume that Goodman Brown had placed a majority of his spiritual faith in his wife Faith. Even the story explains that Faith

The American Red Cross is a major organization in the United States and around the world. Clara Barton founded the American chapter in 1881. She was a public servant who decided to get involved during the civil war by attending to wounded soldiers and feeding them on the battlefield. Her sense of humanitarian work was only strengthened by her trip to Europe during the Franco Prussian war, where she discovered the initiative of Henri Dunant (Reitman, 1996). After the battle of Solfinero, this Swiss banker was shocked by the carnage of war and decided to gather doctors and volunteers around the village to help tend to the wounded. This action motivated him to create a nonpartisan organization that can focus on caring for people wounded in wars and conflicts regardless of their origin. (Reitman, 1996). The organization was ratified in the 1864 Geneva Convention by twelve countries and later by many others. The United States Red Cross was founded due to the efforts of Barton in Washington (Reitman, 1996). The first chapter of the national American Red Cross was created in upstate New York. Later, the organization received funding to create its national headquarters in Washington. Since then, the Red Cross has benefited form a close relationship with Washington as it was created by congressional charter more than a century ago and plays a

Clara Barton is not only an example of women/ Americans at their finest, but she also can and should be revered as a national hero. Clara Barton answered the call to duty in a time when women weren 't necessarily valued not only socially but as assets of contribution. Clara Barton took up the call by helping save thousands of lives through nursing and providing supplies during the Civil War while also introducing one of America’s first responding organizations, the American Red Cross. Clara Barton was a servant to this country and to mankind, something our world is shorthanded of currently and what others can aspire to be.

Charles Richard Drew was born June 3, 1904 into an African-American middle-class family in Washington, D.C. His father, Richard, was a carpet layer and his mother, Nora Burrell, was a teacher. He graduated from Dunbar High School, in Washington D.C.'s Foggy Bottom neighborhood in 1922. An outstanding athlete in high school, he won an athletics scholarship to Amherst College in Massachusetts, where he graduated in 1926. He went on to attend medical school at McGill University in Montreal, Canada, and graduated in 1933. He was ranked 2nd in his graduating class of 127 students. A few years later, Charles Drew did graduate work at Columbia University, where he earned his Doctor of Medical Science degree, becoming the first African American to

The young man seized it, and beheld a pink ribbon”(258). Some say that the ribbon can represent when Brown thinks Faith loses her faith in God. Also,

By Corder’s opinion, our argument is not necessarily a verbal disagreement, but our beliefs and experiences that shape and define who we are. Corder introduces his ideas by first critiquing common

In the year of 1989, an infant named Eric was born. However, he wasn’t your mediocre child that everyone hopes for. He was fairly sick, which was because doctors and hematologists found out he had anemia. He was suffering shortness of breath and fatigue, due to him not having enough red blood cells being produced in order for him to survive. It was because he has a very rare case of anemia called Diamond Blackfan anemia. This is where the bone marrow fails to function. He was expected to only live for 6 years.

While the men in the story where playing Sherlock Holmes looking for evidence that Mrs. Wright killed her husband, they missed the bad fruit and the bread left out of the bow, a quilt that was not finished and had a few bad stiches, an unclean table and a birdcage that was empty. They were so determined to find specific clues of the murder, that they missed the clues of the emotional abuse that Mrs. Wright was subjected to from her husband. They were also so busy criticizing everything that Mrs. Wright did or did not do, that they missed everything that was right in front of their eyes. They even slipped with some sexist remarks Mr. Hale says ‘Well, women are used to worrying over trifles’, not realizing that the women were in the room.

Evaluate credibillity of the argument maker by applying the 12 criteria for the trustworty expericae learned in ch 6

Although Puritanism, Romanticism and Transcendentalism do not coexist peacefully, these almost worldview kind of people groups are deeply embedded into three fictional characters from the book, The Scarlet Letter written by Nathaniel Hawthorne. This enthralling and rich classic which takes place in Boston Massachusetts during the time of Puritanism gives the reader not only a taste of the Puritans and their staunch attitude, but also of a less common way of thinking and behaving which is expressed through a certain character in the book. The three main characters in this book are all diversely different but are bound tightly together by a long kept secret and discovering their methods of thinking and acting upon