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    judged or not given the same opportunities because of the color of their skin is still a major issue in America. Everyday people are speaking out about this or writing letters to our leaders in hope that someone will try and make a change. Hoping that someone will take action to fix these issues instead of just mentioning them for political gain. In a way this poem is trying to achieve the same thing. Phillis is asking for equality and freedom and many people suffering from discrimination today are

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    James Baldwin was born on August 2,1924 in New York, New York, James was an American essayists, novelists, and a playwright. Go Tell It On The Mountain published 1953 was the first novel he wrote. James developed a passion for reading at an early age. He attended DeWitt Clinton High School in the Bronx. After he graduated high school in 1942 he put his college plans on hold to support his family. James first novel Go Tell It on The Mountain was telling a story about racism. The story talks about

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    David Brooks, a political and cultural writer for New York Times, in his article “When Life Asks for Everything” (2017), Brooks states that there are two types of human development and described the differences between both schemes, while hinting at individualism and transcendentalism. Brooks supports his article with spiritual and emotive writing and/or topics, which includes happiness, marriage, and satisfactory. For example, in paragraph 1, Brooks speaks about the “The Four Kinds of Happiness”

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    playwright, movie and television writer, literary essayist, political journalist, and social commentator. He is best known for his plays Silence! The Court Is in Session (1967),Ghāshirām Kotwāl (1972), and Sakhārām Binder (1972). Many of Tendulkar's plays derived inspiration from real-life incidents or social upheavals, which provides clear light on harsh realities of life. He provided his guidance to students studying "playwright writing" in US universities. For over five decades Tendulkar had been

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    Writing 205 has taught me more then just writing stratagies, it has taught me who I am as a writer. Throughout the course of the semester I have learned new strategies, techniques, and tools that have helped me develop as a writer, as well as establishing my voice. Through vigorous course work I can say that I am more educated on writing skills in addition to annotating sources and genres. Reflecting back on this past semester I see how each unit has branched from each other as a guide for what was

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    With this year being the year that a new president takes over, there has been a lot of news surfacing that may or may not be true. When looking at an article we must look at different criteria of things like the facts used, names mentioned, publication dates, and altogether the article and what it is saying. The article I reviewed was “Obama Signs Executive Order Banning The Pledge Of Allegiance In Schools Nationwide” by Jimmy Rustling from ABC.CO published on 11 Dec. 2016. This article talked about

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    Approaches to Writing Introductions Each of the introductions below presents the same thesis statement: "Identity theft is a serious problem that claims millions of innocent victims, and the government must implement better regulations to help put an end to this crime

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    Warren’s life was filled with many failures and these experiences had a heavy effect on him and his writing. Robert Penn Warren was a man heavily affected by a fractured relationship with his parents, a deep connection with his extended family, and a feeling of inadequacy; all of these factors led to his writing of All the King’s Men. Robert Penn Warren’s relationship with his parents affected his writing in All the King’s Men in many ways. He had

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    As one aspect of skill, writing for someone does not come just like that, although some people argue that writing skills are talent since childhood. Writing is one aspect that is very important language skills mastered into learning languages to support the function of language as a communication tool. Therefore, learning a language is learning to communicate both orally and in writing. One of language skills which must be mastered in communication is the result of learning in expressing and developing

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    confused by the binary and programming languages that were thrown at me during the course introduction, but after about a month of getting acclimated, everything clicked. I picked up the basics of the java programming language in a month and was writing my own simple programs that could store, organize, and even calculate data. Halfway through the year I’d began to rethink the career path I’d thought I’d chosen. Maybe programming would be better for me to pursue than American History. I looked into

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