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    Stephen Crane, was a leading American author of the Realist school, who enjoyed both popular success and critical acclaim. Being the youngest of fourteen children, Crane was born in Newark, New Jersey in 1871. His father Jonathan Crane was a Methodist minister, who died suddenly when Crane was only 9 years old. Leaving his mother Mary Crane, who was a devout social activist at the time, to support the family. By working for the church and writing religious journals, Mary Crane raised her son in the

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    Descriptive Adjectives

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    Analysis of Descriptive Adjectives in Two Stories In any story, the reader needs some way of imagining what the author is writing about. When writing, authors use descriptive words to illustrate what they are trying to convey to the reader and to enhance their story. In the stories "The Treasure of Lemon Brown" by Walter Dean Myers and "The House of the Scorpion" by Nancy Farmer, both authors use descriptive words to develop the mood of the setting and the characters. In "The Treasure of Lemon Brown

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    the buildings. These literary works talk about the same event, they share elements as setting, the use of witness account, and tone but the authors tell the event in different ways. Even though their works have the same setting, they have differences like how the authors tell their witnesses testimonies or

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    Richard Shone entitled, ”Oh brother!,” Shone argues while the information presented by the book isn’t necessarily new, the different ways in which the authors approach the subject makes for an interesting read. Yet, Shone often contradicts his own claims, with his diction often invalidating what he said previously, establishing credibility for the authors then destroying it by pointing out their biases which results in an overall inconsistent, disorganized and chaotic article. He fails to adequately

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    initiated by the Otsuka PoC through the TCS Engagement Lead. 2. The PW will communicate with the PoC and lead author to collect all the available data, authors list, author order, conference name, etc. PW will check for the conference specific requirements. 3. The PW will set up project timelines with the relevant abstract development steps. 4. The TCS team will have a kick-off meeting with the authors, PoC, and the Engagement Lead to review the data and discuss the development of the abstract, timelines

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    Little Store’. The stories are written by two different authors namely, E.B White and Welty respectively. The purpose of this paper is to analyze and explain the stories and also compare them in order to enhance the value of this paper. The comparison of both the stories will be in the form of analysis in which the similarities and differences will be discussed. More importantly, the paper will be shedding light on the hidden message that the authors give to the readers as an output of these stories and

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    The Writer’s Diet Helen Sword, in her book, dispenses with vivid and elaborate explanations accompanied with succinct analysis. The author provides the reader with an easy-to-follow set of writing principles. What is perceive to be the most significant take-away ideas are the use active verbs at the appropriate time, the application of concrete language instead of vague abstractions, and avoiding long strings of prepositional phrases. Additionally, I value the concepts of employing adjectives and

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    Compare/Contract of Male to Female Authors Male authors and female authors are very similar and very different. The two authors both have a meaning life story to every novel. Both authors express their feelings and frustrations in their stories. Almost every author has a meaning and significance to their story. The two authors use great detail and understanding of their stories. Male authors typically write about freedom, self-seeking adventures and self-instincts. Meanwhile, female authors write about their struggle

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    this primary source that was created in this investigation “The Philosophy of Manufactures” (Ure 1835), I had a couple of questions about this document. Who is the author? Why did he create this reading? Who is his audience? And what was his goal in this reading? These are the basic questions that I am going to answer. The author that wrote this document is Andrew Ure. Andrew Ure was born in a weathly upper class family with great education. He wrote this reading in 1835 investigating the city

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    to him or her, the company, and him or herself. To strive for excellent customer service continuously with a cheerful attitude while focusing on reasonable costs for individuals. The name of the author’s product is Natural Hair Loss Treatment. The author chose this product because he or she struggled with hair loss for many years and he or she wanted to make a difference in individual’s life that was currently faced with the same issue. The author’s natural hair loss product have several benefits

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