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One tends to meet someone who seems to be in charge of everyone around him or her. The grandmother in Flannery O’Conner’s A Good Man is Hard to Find is an extraordinary, scheming character that is extremely unrelenting in her actions to control people. On the contrary, she may have been a person just trying to attempt to save her own life without trying to be controlling. Maybe the fact that she was raised in a time when woman wore dresses to go out and never did anything unlady-like, made her think

ENG 0950 Spring 2014 Essay 3 The Longman Reader Select one of the topics below and respond in an essay of between 650 and 1000 words. Develop your own thesis and supporting ideas/details. Include clear, concrete examples so that you can “show” rather than “tell.” Write a 1-3 sentence summary of either the TedTalks Video or The Longman Reader essay in your essay so that your readers understand your references. Also include a quotation from the essay. Acknowledge any source you use in your essay

The Longman Writer Chapters 4, 5, and 6 In brief, chapter 4 of The Longman Writer by Judith Nadell and John Lang taught the reader how to support the thesis using evidence. As an addition to chapter 3 “Identifying a Thesis”, chapter 4 emphasizes the importance of supporting the central idea by using enough evidence to convince the reader. Forms of evidence include “examples, facts, details, statistics, personal observation” (41) or anything that furthers the reader’s understanding. The evidence used

Metalsmithing is a difficult art because there are many specialized skills. So many, that is hard to ever achieve mastery without developing a focused tract. China has many masterworks that are above comprehension in complexity as we will see at the Longman Grotto and with the Terracotta Warriors. To view these different masterpieces is not an opportunity that is readily available in the Buffalo region, due to our country's young age, which decreases the amount of art that is available, and because it

our intellects and address our wills, which appeals directly to the whole person. Nevertheless, poetry is difficult to interpret, especially for the poetry which is thousands of years old and written in the context of a foreign culture. Dr. Tremper Longman is an excellent old testament scholar with a longstanding reputation. He attained his M.Div. at Westminster Theological Seminary and his Ph.D. at Yale University. In this particular work, he seeks to help the readers better interpret these Hebrew

claim. Moreover, the statements allegedly made are insufficient to support an UDPTA claim because they are opinion or “mere puffery.” General statements of comparison or superiority are puffery and are not actionable as a matter of law. See, e.g., Longman v. Food Lion, Inc., 197 F.3d 675, 685 (4th Cir.1999); J.I. Case Threshing Mach. Co. v. Feezer, 152 N.C. 516, 67 S.E. 1004, 1006 (1910). Dr. Stout could not have reasonably thought that these statements were more than opinion on the part of the Hospital’s

sub- divisional officer of the town, and in an aimless, petty kind of way anti-European feeling very bitter” (Longman 146). The instant George Orwell presents the direct reference, “I was a sub-divisional officer...” he gained credibility as being a believable and reliable source. Later, in his essay he established his authority when he stated,” I was hated by large numbers of people” (Longman 146). An author allowing themselves to be looked at negatively an unfavorably establishes George Orwell as

destruction and the lack of progression it brought the world; a "second coming" of the "rough beast…/slouching towards Bethlehem" (Yeats, Longman p. 2329, ll. 21-22), or in other words "slouching towards" religion.  I think this because earlier in his stanza, Yeats speaks about "twenty centuries of stony sleep/ Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle" (Yeats, Longman p. 2329: ll. 19-20), which leads me to think of the two thousand years religion had a grip on people's lives, and then as the more Modern

Webster's definition 1), is Marlow's deliberate falsification of Kurtz's last words - "The last word he pronounced was - your name" (Longman p. 2246), when we all know that Kurtz's last words were, "The horror! The horror!"(Longman p. 2240). Marlow's intentions -

period.  He says, "Do I dare/Disturb the universe?" (Eliot, Longman 2419 ll. 45-46).  He speaks here, not of the universe as you and I think -- a celestial body -- but of the universe in the sense of the Victorian period itself.  The world where everything is a mask of propriety, manners, and tradition; this can be seen in his reference to the popular Victorian custom of afternoon tea, "Before the taking of tea and toast."  (Eliot, Longman 2419 l. 34).  A word or simple action could topple a system