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    No matter which type of job or career the author is looking for, a resume is a great first step. Generally, resumes are built and created in early adulthood by the author them self. There are a few things that can be assumed about the authors. First, they are middle to upper class individuals who like to show off their own personal qualifications, education, and academic and professional experiences they have obtained throughout their life. The audience in which will be looking over these resumes

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    Hillbilly Elegy Memoir

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    Memoir Essay Memoirs, and writing in general, reveal a truth about the author. Oftentimes, said truth is revealed intentionally. Universal truths such as struggle, endurance, and agony help authors influence their audiences. These truths cause the readers to become cognizant of and appreciate the authors. It is a writer’s duty to write from the heart—to write about the good and bad sides of a story. Annie Dillard’s An American Childhood fails to use universal truths and instead presents a very superficial

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    Throughout every story, every author had reflected their particular own life as themes in their stories where the character considers about authors’ regular life like family, friends, works and the media. Most authors can relate their life experiences as an important theme that resemble the character's stories where they recall their past memories in their life from the cheerful recollections where they feel the excitement with their parents or friends to depression and painful memories that they

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    book lovers and authors around the world. There's also one other detail. Goodreads is now part of the Amazon umbrella. Got your attention now? Good. What is Goodreads, anyway? GoodReads logo For those who haven't heard of Goodreads, imagine the world's largest book club, social networking site, book recommendation machine all in the same place. Goodreads is a place where readers can share what books they have read, discover new books, learn more about books, and the

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    evidence and examples which support their ideas: also the authors effective use of structuring the article to draw your attention to the main issues being discussed to successfully connect to their thesis. Effective introduction of their topics and ideas in a sufficient orderly fashion and present these ideas which give a lot of their theories and ideas strength in persuading the readers to think a certain way about the topic. The authors succeed in addressing their theory that in Disney’s Pixar

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    of self-sacrifice. Later on, when discussing the work of authors who disregard the universal truths of writing, Faulkner once again employs a balanced sentence. He claims such works are “of defeats in which nobody loses anything of value, of victories without hope and, worst of all, without pity or compassion”. Defeat and victory juxtaposed blurs the lines between the two and emphasizes the lack of meaning found within the works of authors unwilling to share the problems of the human heart. The parallelism

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    Though not considered by most to be an author, Louis Sullivan, an architect, was an influential figure whose works changed architecture for generations to come. His work was the beginning of an entirely new style of architecture that rewrote the rules that govern the construction of buildings. Without ever writing a book, Sullivan exemplified all the characteristics that make up a true author. His most famous creation, the skyscraper, continues to influence modern architecture in much the same way

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    While the term authored is traditionally applied to literary works, the term can be used in a broader sense to refer to any piece which employs rhetorical devices in order to serve a specific purpose or put forth a specific message. In terms of an audio album, the cover artwork is the first part a listener is exposed to and can be expected to pique that person’s curiosity so that they are led to learn more about or buy the album. The artwork created by Christopher Austopchuk for Billy Joel’s album

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    suggestions about what celebrity should come to the school. You can stop looking now, I have the best person! The one celebrity that should come is Bernadette Peters, she is an accomplished actress on Broadway. Also she is singer, and a children’s author. According to IMDb Peters is one of the most critically-acclaimed Broadway performers, having received nominations for seven Tony Awards, winning two, and eight Drama Desk Awards, winning three. She is a very successful woman. I know she should talk

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    comparing it with feminist literature. Why do we see men as the prototype of an author? Why do we utilize the term “female author” if we are talking about a woman, but just “author” if it’s a man? In Judith Lorber’s essay, Susan M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar’s essay “The Madwoman in the Attic,” they claim “The poet’s pen is in some sense (even more than figuratively) a penis” (Gilbert 4). Many prominent female authors have spoken to the fact that males are seen at the supremes in the world of femininity

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