Category: Writing

Which sentence should be revised to reduce wordiness?
A. People live with a general expectation of privacy, but in reality their daily actions are being monitored and recorded by various devices.
B. People live with a general expectation of privacy, not considering how thoroughly their daily actions are monitored and recorded by various devices.
C. People don’t often consider how thoroughly their activities are monitored and recorded.
D. Some monitoring, such as video surveillance in many businesses, including banks and retail stores, is to be expected as necessary in order to provide security for the businesses.

Directions: Use Chapter One ‘Mockingbird Players’ to answer the following questions.
1. What crisis was growing in Alabama and how did Bryan Stevenson and Eva Ansley want to fix this growing problem?
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2. What has Bryan Stevenson learned to accept about clients upon their first meeting, why?
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3. By the 1950s, what businesses began to grow in Alabama? How did Black people fare in these growing businesses?
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4. So, when it came to Walter McMillian, who is a poorly educated Black man, according to the white people of Monroe County, what is the only explanation for Walter McMillian’s success?
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5. In the case of Walter McMillian, what is one of the biggest issues people have with him and the beginning of his downfall? How does this downfall put him on the police radar?
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6. How do the “anti-miscegenation statutes” play into Walter’s case?
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7. Lynching had occurred not long before Walter’s affair, and when Walter is pulled over by Sheriff Tate he threatens Walter with lynching, what is the purpose of these lynching threats?
8. Despite the Emancipation Proclamation and the Reconstruction period, how were the now freed slaves and Black people for the next 100 years and counting still denied basic human rights?
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9. How do Ralph Myers and Karen Kelly get involved with each other?
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10. How does Myer’s name get put on the map?
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11. How does the ABI ensure that Myers and McMillian are in cahoots? What did this reveal about the relationship between Myers and McMillian?
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12. Walter’s arrest can be blamed on two people, who are they and why are these two to blame?
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Regarding Marcus Garvey’s UNIA, it is most accurately described as: A mass grassroots Pan Africanist organization aimed at building political power on a level with the global white power structure, through first establishing an independent economic base for Blacks A black militant movement whose primary goal was mass repatriation turn of blacks to Africa as soon as possible; Liberia West Africa was to be its capital A mass, middle-class based organization aimed at acquiring political power; this would enable Blacks to secure an economic base independent of the White power structure A moderately sized but economically powerful Black separatist group limited to Harlem’s radical blacks; the UNIA guided and inspired the Black Harlemites by using parades, pageantry, and political alliances with the KKK

When Count Rugen and his men spot Inigo, Fezzik, and Westley, Rugen tells his fighters to “kill the dark one and the giant, but leave the third one for questioning.” Why does he want Westley’s life to be spared?

Richard Cory by Edwin Arlington Robinson
Whenever Richard Cory went down town,
We people on the pavement looked at him:
He was a gentleman from sole to crown,
Clean favored, and imperially slim.
And he was always quietly arrayed,
And he was always human when he talked;
But still he fluttered pulses when he said,
“Good-morning,” and he glittered when he walked.
And he was rich—yes, richer than a king—
And admirably schooled in every grace:
In fine, we thought that he was everything
To make us wish that we were in his place.
So on we worked, and waited for the light,
And went without the meat, and cursed the bread;
And Richard Cory, one calm summer night,
Went home and put a bullet through his head.
“Why do you think that the poem ends so abruptly with Richard Cory’s death? Why doesn’t the poem reflect on it at all?
What distinctions does the poem make between our interior and exterior lives?

In Alice Cary’s poem “Autumn,” published in 1874, the speaker contemplates the onset of autumn. Read the poem carefully. Then, in a well-written essay, analyze how Cary uses literary elements and techniques to convey the speaker’s complex response to the changing seasons. In the response you should do the following:
Respond to the prompt with a thesis that presents a defensible interpretation.
Select and use evidence to support your line of reasoning.
Explain how the evidence supports your line of reasoning.
Use appropriate grammar and punctuation in communicating your argument.
Autumn
Shorter and shorter now the twilight clips
The days, as though the sunset gates they crowd,
And Summer from her golden collar slips
And strays through stubble-fields, and moans aloud,
Save when by fits the warmer air deceives,
And, stealing hopeful to some sheltered bower,
She lies on pillows of the yellow leaves,
And tries the old tunes over for an hour.
The wind, whose tender whisper in the May
Set all the young blooms listening through th’ grove,
Sits rustling in the faded boughs to-day
And makes his cold and unsuccessful love.
The rose has taken off her tire of red—
The mullein-stalk its yellow stars have lost,
And the proud meadow-pink hangs down her head
Against earth’s chilly bosom, witched with frost.
The robin, that was busy all the June,
Before the sun had kissed the topmost bough,
Catching our hearts up in his golden tune,
Has given place to the brown cricket now.
The very cock crows lonesomely at morn—
Each flag and fern the shrinking stream divides—
Uneasy cattle low, and lambs forlorn
Creep to their strawy sheds with nettled sides.
Shut up the door: who loves me must not look
Upon the withered world, but haste to bring
His lighted candle, and his story-book,
And live with me the poetry of Spring.
1 a spot in a garden shaded by a covering of vines or branches
2 attire
3 stem of a woolly-leaved plant
4 slender plant with pink flowers
5 plant with long tapering leaves

Page Break The Gasblycrumb Tinies Edward Gorey Edward Gorey (1925-2000) was an American writer and illustrator of “children’s” books that satirized Victorian and Edwardian Britain. He was born in Chicago in 1925 and later attended Harvard University. His books contain dark satire, often depicting characters who experience tragic deaths that are, in a way, tragically humorous. However, Gorey did not necessarily consider his work satirical. He referred to his work as “literary nonsense” in the same vein as Lewis Carroll. Gorey began his publishing career as an illustrator of various books such as Bram Stoker’s Dracula and H.G. Wells’ The War of the Worlds. He went on to write and illustrate over 10O books in his characteristic pen and ink, hashmark style. Directions Read “The Gashlycrumb Tinies” by Edward Gorey and answer the following analytical and response questions. You can find a copy of Gorey’s book by googling the title as a .pdf file. Then, complete the creative writing assignment that follows to create your own “Gorey” gothic alphabet primer. 1. Where does Gorey use repetition in the story? How does he use repetition? What is the rhetorical effect of the repetition in the book? 2. How does the setting contribute to the overall satirical message of the book? 3. The names used in the book are old-fashioned British names. What effect does this have on the story? 4. Did you find yourself laughing at any part of the story? Why or why not? . What was your favorite illustration and why? 6. What is the mood of the story? What is the tone of the story? Are they the same? Explain. 7. Can Gorey’s book be considered satire, or is it just “literary nonsense”? Why or why not? 8. Is this book really a “children’s book”? Why or why not?

Please help me answer these questions about the film Remember The Titans
What year was it when T.C. Williams High School was created?
What day does the team leave for football camp at Gettysburg College?
What reason does Gerry give when he tells Julius that he honestly thinks he (Julius) is “nothing, nothing but a pure waste of God-given talent”?
Ronny Bass joins the team during the camp at Gettysburg. What nickname does the team give him and why?
Does Sheryl approve of Coach Boone’s football camp?
What happens on the first day of school?
Before the first game of the season, Coach Boone tells the team that they are already winners. Why does he believe this?
When Gerry tells his mother he plans to go play basketball with Julius, he tells him not to go. Gerry tells his mother she should just get to know Julius. His mother replies, “I don’t want to get to know him.” This conversation between Gerry and his mom expresses one of the themes of the movie (theme=”lesson”). What is this theme?
The beginning of game three starts differently than the other games. How does it start?
How does “Sunshine” prove that he does good job as the substitute quarterback?
Why does Yoast do that causes him to lose the nomination to the Virginia High School Football Hall of Fame?
Why does Gerry end up in the hospital?
Would the players have bonded if the team had not won?
How did playing football help the students overcome their prejudices about each other?
How did the football team at T.C. Williams help the adults in the community overcome their prejudices?
Why does the movie begin and end with a funeral scene?
Based on material covered in class, provide a list of reasons and examples from the movie as to why T.C. Williams football team experienced moments of being successful and moments of failure?
What character do you feel made the most impactful contribution to the overall success of the football team?
Describe a situation in which you positively affected a group dynamic and contributed to the success of the group.
Also, discuss a situation in which you felt that any of your rights, freedoms or workplace rights were violated and how did you handle it? How did it make you feel? Provide details and examples to support your experiences.

Select the correct answer from each drop-down menu. How do the members of the household react to Elizabeth’s visit? disapprove of her, while likes her. The household’s women and Mr. Bingley Reset Next Mr. Bingley and Jane Jane and the household’s women