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and April Lidinsky. From Inquiry to Academic Writing: A Text and Reader. 2nd ed. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2008. Print. Greene, Stuart, and April Lidinsky. "While I Was Sleeping." From Inquiry to Academic Writing: A Text and Reader. Second ed. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2008. 626. Print. Greene, Stuart, and April Lidinsky. "While I Was Sleeping." From Inquiry to Academic Writing: A Text and Reader. Second ed. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2008. 627. Print. Greene, St

symbolize, and reflect upon the truth of life and society and to break down the barrier between appearance and reality.     One function of Dr. Rank in the play is to foreshadow events to come. Upon Rank's introduction in Act I, the reader is immediately given

him, it makes me so nervous.” This quote talks about basically states that she can’t be with the baby and she can’t deal with the pain. I believe the reason she wrote the story is to describe about her life and what she went through also to show readers that this disease is really and she wants to show what goes on in the mind of someone with

Many times readers lose interest in stories that they feel are not authentic. In addition, readers feel that fictitious novels and stories are for children and lack depth. Tim O’ Brien maintains that keeping readers of fiction entertained is a most daunting task, “The problem with unsuccessful stories is usually simple: they are boring, a consequence of the failure of imagination- to vividly imagine and to vividly render extraordinary human events, or sequences of events, is the hard-lifting, heavy-duty

Wallpaper, Story of an Hour, and Lottery       Authors often write literature to have an emotional impact on the reader. These effects vary from work to work, and they may include happiness, sorrow, anger, or shock. Even authors who try to achieve the same effect may go about it in very different ways. This paper discusses three short stories written to shock the reader, but each uses a different method to achieve its effect. While Kate Chopin's "The Story of an Hour" uses a sudden shift in

In “The Bedford Researcher,” Mike Palmquist (2015), identifies the consequences regarding work that has been plagiarized, and plagiarism is taken very seriously, because it guards intellectual property, and recognizes academic work has owners, this “protects an author’s time and energy that is invested into creating a document” (p. 127). Plagiarism can be an accidental or deliberate use of someone’s else’s ideas, thoughts, writings, and evidence without giving credit to the source(Palmquist, 2015

The Second World War ended in a tragic defeat for the Axis Powers; Japan in particular suffered two atomic bombs and two to three million casualties. Immediately after the war, destruction and despair spread across the nation, and the citizens of Japan suffered depression and hopelessness. Ryuichi Tamura (the last names comes first in Japanese, so his first name is Ryuichi), an editor and member of a literary group named “The Waste Land,” wrote a poem called “A Vertical Coffin” in response to Japan’s

In chapter four, “Narration: Telling a Story”, from the book The Bedford Read, published by Bedford/St. Martin’s, the authors suggest that when narrating a story the writer keep a few points in mind. To begin with, the writer is advised never to reveal the thesis statement while, but instead save it till the end. The closer to the conclusion the thesis is revealed, therefore more intrigued the audience will remain. Next, it’s strongly suggested the writer keep a past or present verb tense. Third

The last way for Shakely’s argument to be effective, he needs to prove to his readers how he is credible enough to be writing about this topic. Skakely does this by explaining how his friend of his “was president of Stanford at the time. He said the university lost millions of alumni dollars in the short run, but it was the right thing

When Upton Sinclair’s novel The Jungle was published in February 1906, it provoked outrage among the American public and prompted much needed legislative reform within America’s meatpacking industry. Responding to public pressure, President Theodore Roosevelt launched a government investigation. The ensuing report, “Conditions in the Chicago Stock Yards,” confirmed many of Sinclair’s accusations and quickly led to the passage of the Meat Inspection Act and Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906. However