Prehistoric numerals

Karina Verano Pd. 2B 12 Angry Men 1. Which characters base their decisions on prejudice? Juror number 4 based his decision based on the fact that the boy on trial grew up in the slum. Juror number 4 said, “He was born in a slum. The slum is a breeding ground for criminals. I know it and so do you. It’s no secret that children from slum backgrounds are menaces to society.” While Juror number ten just doesn’t like the boy bases on his race. Throughout the entire movie, he referred to the boy

Exceptional artists often create in a way that allows for infinite interpretations of their work. However, it is the author’s job to immerse their readers into the storyline as they grasp an understanding of the overall mood and feeling of the story. Some may argue that patterns within a work may be merely coincidental, but in Ann Beattie’s “Weekend,” the repeated mentioning of weather patterns and the fireplace are used in order to portray a certain mood throughout the story. These patterns allow

Why did he shoot the elephant? There are many different reasons as to why George Orwell chose to shoot the Elephant in the short story, ”Shooting an Elephant”. In the following essay, there will be a wide and deep response of why George Orwell chose to shoot the elephant in the end. The first and primary reason for George Orwell shooting the elephant is simply Orwell being afraid. He was originally not intending to shoot the elephant; he merely brought the rifle for his own protection. “I had

Memories and stories swarming the mind and twisted by imagination are the only glimpse of humanity a man can hold on to while at war. Through stories, men at war can share their thinning humanity with one another. The deafening silence of war defeats the human spirit and moral compass, thus it is not only man against man but man against sanity. Tim O 'Brien 's “The Things They Carried” provides a narrative of soldiers in the Vietnam War holding on to the only parts of themselves through their imagination

If,for the same work,women make only 77 cents for every dollar a man makes, why don’t business hire only women? Wages are the biggest expense for most. So, hiring only women would reduce costs by nearly a quarter and that would go right to the bottom line. Don’t business want to be profitable. Or, are they just really bad at math? Well,actually,it’s the feminists,celebrities and politicians spreading this wage gap myth who have the math problem. Here’s why. The 77-cents-on-the-dollar statistic is

Even though me and my grandpa are over one thousand miles apart, we keep a good relationship. Every week we call each other and our conversations are just as good as if he were right there. Me and my grandpa have always been close. My grandpa who I like to call Poppy is one of the best people I have in my life. Me and him treasure the time we have together. We love to cook and basically do everything we can together whenever possible. He is in my life just as much as any other member of my family

At the beginning of the Kindergarten class the class did their normal routine of calendar time. The teacher tells them to go to the carpet for calendar time and that gets them on task. They count the number of days they have been in school out-loud. They also count the days with straws and put them in a ones, tens, or hundreds pocket. The students also keep record of the number of days they have been in school with change. They count out change to the number of days they have been in school. They

This paper tackles how cohesion can be effective to make the text more united. Both cohesive devices; lexical and grammatical, have a powerful role in giving the text texture. Lexical devices are repetition, antonyms, synonyms, and general words. On the other hand, grammatical devices are reference, conjunction, and ellipsis. Both of them provide the text harmony and meaning. Lexical Cohesion Lexical cohesion occurs when two words are semantically related to

Questions on Rhetoric and Style: 1. Describe the tone Thoreau establishes in paragraph 2. How does it contribute to the rhetorical effect of the paragraph?     In paragraph two, Thoreau uses a depressing, problematic and facetious tone to get his message across. Thoreau explains how he is strongly against the United States government, and also points out problems of the government. Thoreau uses depressing diction when describing the problems of the government in order to make people feel hatred toward

The Babylonian civilization existed from around 3000 BC until 539 BC. The civilization has its roots to Mesopotamia, a plain between the Tigris River and the Euphrates River, which is now in modern day Iraq. The Babylonians are notoriously famous in their discoveries and inventions, most of which we still use today. The civilization-developed ideas such as astronomy, in which they created the Saros Cycle, a cycle used to predict solar and lunar eclipses. The Babylonians were also masters in architecture