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    An author is someone who writes a book, letters, newspapers, reports, etc. Their tone can either be good or bad depending on what the author is writing. In Rainer Maria Rilke’s “Letters to a young poet” the tone changes throughout the whole course of the letter, the tone in Rilke’s letters #1 and #7 are friendly, encouraging, and mean. In other words Rainer is an author who is a good artist/poet. In “Letters to a young poet”- #1 Rilke’s statements are harsh/mean and friendly/encouraging. These

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    and Juliet? Well, Friar Lawrence is the one who should be held accountable for the deaths of Romeo and Juliet and making the situation worse. Friar Lawrence gave Juliet a plan when he knew there was a chance that so many things could go wrong, he didn't even go himself to make sure the letter got to Romeo. Friar Lawrence should be held accountable for the horrible plan in Romeo and Juliet that was doomed to fail. Friar Lawrence was the adult Romeo and Juliet trusted and went to and in return, he gave

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    represent something else. For example the letter A in The Scarlet Letter stands for adultery. Symbols are usually used to deliver a specific message. In the book the scarlet letter A is used to convey a message and throughout the book the meaning changes. The scarlet letter A in the beginning stands for adultery, during the middle of the book it changes and becomes a symbol for able, and finally in the end it becomes approachable. In The Scarlet Letter Hester commits a sin and her punishment was

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    enciphered his dispatches by writing D for A, E for B and so on [742]. When Augustus Caesar ascended the throne, he changed the imperial cipher system so that C was now written for A, D for B, and so on. In modern terminology, we would say that he changed the key from D to C. The Arabs generalized this idea to the monoalphabetic substitution, in which a keyword is used to permute the cipher alphabet. We will write the plaintext in lowercase letters, and the ciphertext in uppercase, as shown in Figure

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    A Letter About The Letter

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    “You should read the letter.” Colleen said as she opened the door to her motel room, closer to where Maison had parked then Maison’s room. “You might change your mind about him deserving better.” “You read a personal letter?” Maison was offended, the battered letter tucked into their pocket. They would never read something so personal if it was left in their care, well, if Sam had asked them not to. They may be nosey, but there was a line that needed to be drawn. “I didn’t read it, but I talked

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    are alone for days in the dull monotony of a narrow jail cell other than write long letters, think strange thoughts, and pray long prayers?” This is a quote by Martin Luther King, Jr. Martin Luther King, Jr. effectively illuminates the clergymen of his appeal for civil rights through the use of tone, rhetorical appeals, and tools. King’s compelling and ardent tone enlightens and informs the clergymen. In King’s Letter from Birmingham Jail he compels an old women to say in paragraph four, “my feet

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    Guilt and shame haunt all three of the main characters in The Scarlet Letter, but how they each handle their sin will change their lives forever. Hester Prynne’s guilt is publicly exploited. She has to live with her shame for the rest of her life by wearing a scarlet letter on the breast of her gown. Arthur Dimmesdale, on the other hand, is just as guilty of adultery as Hester, but he allows his guilt to remain a secret. Instead of telling the people of his vile sin, the Reverend allows it to eat

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    the story of a woman; a woman whose story is repeated so often - it ingrained on our collective imagination. She 's an archetype. She is Eve. She 's Juno. She the good woman gone bad. She is Hester Prynne. As part of NPR 's series, In Character, my colleague, Andrea Seabrook, shows how this Puritan woman is still very much alive today. ANDREA SEABROOK: Hester Prynne is the protagonist of Nathaniel Hawthorne 's magnum opus "The Scarlet Letter." Any serious literary scholar will tell you that she

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    In these two pieces of writing, we have the speech and the letter showing examples of logos and pathos. A logo is using reasoning supported by evidence, such as facts, data, or expert testimony, while pathos is using loaded or charged language and other devices to stir up emotions. In both pieces of writing we see several examples of both. King’s use of both waver from time to time. In the letter there is more pathos and in the speech there is more logos.There is a reason for this, he doesn’t just

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    is a collection of letters written by soldiers during the Vietnam War. Their letters are written to love ones back home such as parents, siblings, and spouses but they are a great depiction of the Vietnam War. The soldiers would write these letters to help keep hope alive and to keep sane. Throughout the book the letters are categorize into those who are barely arriving into the war to those who have been there a long time. The stress and anxiety grows more and more as the letters continue and the

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