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    In our current technological era, the beauty of art and literature has been forgotten despite its heavy importance in the past. For my Rhetoric-In-Practice project, I wanted to create a product that corresponds with the message of Emily St. John Mandel’s Station Eleven. I created a website that highlights the message of the novel that art has a strong influence in finding a person’s identity. This website is intended to be accessed by a technological literate audience of all ages since this type

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    American literature is the literature written or produced in the area of the United States and its receding colonies. American literature as a whole is the written literary work, and the new England colonies were the center of early American literature. American drama attained international status only in the 1920s and 1930s, with the works of Eugene O’Neil, who won four Pulitzer prizes and the Noble prize. During the Middle of the 20th century, American drama was dominated by the works of eminent

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    The Establishment of Wrongness Fantasy literature typically follows the same formulaic flow of story through wrongness, thinning, recognition, and healing or return. Despite this typical progression of story, the way novels approach these themes and thread them together differs between each author. Wrongness, the recognition that the world is or is about to change, is the start of the chain reaction that pushes the story further. Three novels that provide variations on this theme are, The Year of

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    For me, writing has always been a challenge. I always felt like that I could not express myself with the words I had been taught or that somehow I had been left out on the instructions on how to properly write. It’s always frustrated me that writing has been a challenge, and that may be why I enjoy reading so much because other people seem to have a way with words that I don’t. I love reading other people’s words a lot more than my own so much so that I tried avoiding writing as much as possible

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    Reading works of child soldier literature is, for someone amateur first-hand in atrocity, to be humbled. For such a reader inescapably bestows moral authority to those authors prematurely enlist to fight in hostilities, or who dare mention a fictional demonstration of the same. A sterling similarity which will be noticed at once we go through all these three pieces of works is their dealing with child soldiers. Portraying child soldiers as a victim of warfare is a common phenomenon in recent African

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    Child G is 6 years old female and her parents express that she enjoys writing both in school and at home. Her older sister goes to sleepaway camp during the summer months and so in this piece of writing Child G talks about her weekend at her sister’s camp reunion. This writing is part of a weekly classroom activity, ‘weekend news’. According to Gentry’s five stages of spelling development, Child G’s writing suggests she is in the phonetic stage, with some examples of transitional writing present

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    TEACHING WRITING TO STRUGGLING STUDENTS Rosanna Corona University of La Verne A Paper Prepared for EDUC 306 In Partial Fulfillment of The Requirements for the Degree Bachelor of Arts May 2016 Abstract Students are subjected to write an array of essays, but they lack the required tools needed to effectively deliver a great paper. They are struggling to write and teachers are needing to design and conform to their current student’s needs. New methods are created and implemented in order to execute

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    Nayiri Khatchadourian HNRS 63W Prof. Bruce Stone 6 June 2017 The Consequence of Reading Fiction In his essay ”Formative Fictions: Imaginative Literature and the Training of the Capacities”, Joshua Landy, professor at Stanford University, aims to explain the function of fiction and the reward of our engagement with literary works. Landy highlights three theories of the function of fiction: the exemplary branch, which invites the reader to consider characters as models for emulation or avoidance,

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    Literature can briefly be defined as written works, especially those considered of superior or lasting artistic merit; books and writings published on a particular subject or leaflets and other printed matter used to advertise products or give advice. One of the most popular forms of literature would be English literature. If one would look up the definition for English literature, the best descriptive information would be that it’s impression and format is over one hundred years old, and continues

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    James M. Cain’s Double Indemnity is a typically literary work of roman noir genre, adapted for a film later. The story itself is about a premeditated murder planned by the married femme fatale Phyllis Nirdlinger and her secret lover Walter Huff, specifically consistent with roman noir genre. Phyllis Nirdlinger is a typical femme fatale in this novel. She seduces the insurance agent Huff regardless of her own husband. For example, “She pulled me to her and kissed back” (Cain ch2), “I liked you all

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