Tag: Academic writing

Why does Connie go with Arnold and Ellie? Why can’t she resist him? Is she flawed in some way? Is it her own fault, or is Oates critiquing society for not giving Connie the tools to protect herself?

1.) Analyze Characterization: Annotate: Mark the details used to characterize Mrs. Whitaker in paragraph 2. Infer: What can you tell about her from these details?
2.) Analyze Fantasy: Annotate: Mark the element of fantasy in paragraph 10. Interpret: Why is this detail humorous in the context of the paragraph?
3.) Analyze Characterization: Annotate: Reread paragraphs 47-56. Mark details in Galaad’s dialogue that help develop his character. Analyze: How does Galaad’s speech reflect the time period of the Arthurian legends?
4.) Analyze Characterization: Annotate: Reread paragraphs 68-70. Mark details used to describe Galaad. Analyze: What does Mrs. Whitaker’s reaction to Galaad reveal about her character?
5.) Analyze Fantasy: Annotate: Reread paragraphs 120-121. Mark examples of fantasy details. Analyze: What effect does Gaiman create by offering these parallel descriptions of the two characters sharing stories of their backgrounds?
6.) Analyze Fantasy: Annotate: Reread paragraphs 126-139. Mark the descriptions of the items Galaad offers to Mrs. Whitaker in exchange for the Holy Grail. Evaluate: Identify the significance of the stone, the egg, and the apple. Does Mrs. Whitaker seem to realize the significance of these items? Explain.
7.) Analyze Fantasy: Annotate: Reread paragraph 174-178. Mark the details that describe the lamp. Draw Conclusions: What might be special about this lamp? Does Mrs. Whitaker really leave it behind because she has no room for it, or might she have some other reason?
ARTS & HUMANITIES WRITING CREATIVE WRITING ENGL 121

By age 21, Billy Smith has spent most of his adolescent years in juvenile detention facilities in California. His crimes began small with drug use and theft, but escalated to armed robbery and second degree murder. Now at 21, Smith was serving the next 4 years of his 20-year sentence at Deuel Vocational Institute (DVI) in Tracy, California. He will be sent to a California prison when he turns 25. An analysis of Smith’s youth beginning at age 12 revealed that he had no attachment to his adopting parents, and he dropped out of high school in 10th grade. He lacked commitment to any socially acceptable endeavors such as after school activities–sports, etc. His only involvement was with the Bulldog Street Gang in Fresno, California. Finally, Smith has no belief in any of society’s acceptable values such as educational achievement, respect for others, and work as a means of success. Your assignment:
1.   Identify the theory that is described above.

I need some help in finding the central argument of the passage and the rhetorical strategies that Carson uses to construct her arguement
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2004 AP ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND COMPOSITION Reason FREE-RESPONSE QUESTIONS (Form B) Thesis ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND COMPOSITION SECTION II Appeal to logos Total time-2 hours pathos ethos Question 1 (Suggested time-40 minutes. This question counts one-third of the total essay section score.) In 1962, the noted biologist Rachel Carson published Silent Spring, a book that helped to transform American attitudes toward the environment. Carefully read the following passage from Silent Spring. Then write an essay in which you define the central argument of the passage and analyze the rhetorical strategies that Carson uses to construct her argument. As the habit of killing grows-the resort to ed with this hion, workers handling “eradicating” any creature that may annoy or foliage that had been treated a month earlier collapsed inconvenience us-birds are more and more finding and went into shock, and escaped death only through Line themselves a direct target of poisons rather than an skilled medical attention. Does Indiana still raise any 5 incidental one. There is a growing trend toward aerial boys who roam through woods or fields and might applications of such deadly poisons as parathion to even explore the margins of a river? If so, who guarded “control” concentrations of birds distasteful to 40 the poisoned area to keep out any who might wander farmers. The Fish and Wildlife Service has found it in, in misguided search for unspoiled nature? Who necessary to express serious concern over this trend, kept vigilant watch to tell the innocent stroller that the pointing out that “parathion treated areas constitute a fields he was about to enter were deadly-all their potential hazard to humans, domestic animals, and vegetation coated with a lethal film? Yet at so fearful wildlife.” In southern Indiana, for example, a group of 45 a risk the farmers, with none to hinder them, waged farmers went together in the summer of 1959 to their needless war on blackbirds. engage a spray plane to treat an area of river In each of these situations, one turns away to ponder 15 bottomland with parathion. The area was a favored the question: Who has made the decision that sets in roosting site for thousands of blackbirds that were motion these chains of poisonings, this ever-widening feeding in nearby cornfields. The problem could have 50 wave of death that spreads out, like ripples when a been solved easily by a slight change in agricultural pebble is dropped into a still pond? Who has placed practice-a shift to a variety of corn with deep-set in one pan of the scales the leaves that might have 20 ears not accessible to the birds-but the farmers had been eaten by the beetles and in the other the pitiful been persuaded of the merits of killing by poison, and heaps of many-hued feathers, the lifeless remains of so they sent in the planes on their mission of death. 55 the birds that fell before the unselective bludgeon of The results probably gratified the farmers, for the insecticidel poisons? Who has decided-who has the casualty list included some 65,000 red-winged right to decide-for the countless legions of people blackbirds and starlings. What other wildlife deaths who were not consulted that the supreme value is a may have gone unnoticed and unrecorded is not world without insects, even though it be also a sterile known. Parathion is not a specific for blackbirds: it is 60 world ungraced by the curving wing of a bird in flight? a universal killer. But such rabbits or raccoons or The decision is that of the authoritarian temporarily opossums as may have roamed those bottomlands and entrusted with power; he has made it during a moment perhaps never visited the farmers’ cornfields were of inattention by millions to whom beauty and the doomed by a judge and jury who neither knew of their ordered world of nature still have a meaning that is existence nor cared. 65 deep and imperative. And what of human beings? In California orchards Copyright @ 2004 by College Entrance Examination Board. All rights reserved. Visit apcentral.collegeboard.com (for AP professionals) and www.collegeboard.com/apstudents (for AP students and parents). GO ON TO THE NEXT PAG
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Elizabeth decided to enter her daughter Tammy into the Little Miss Beauty pageant. Once the rehearsals began Tammy became friends with another contestant, Shelby. After several months of pageant rehearsals, Elizabeth, and Shelby’s mother, Sherry began to notice that the judges favored another contestant named Betsy.
Elizabeth and Sherry decided to go to dinner in order to discuss what to about Betsy. After several hours of drinking, Elizabeth and Sherry decided that they would eliminate Betsy from the pageant in order to give their daughters a chance to win.
The next evening after the pageant rehearsal, Sherry told Betsy that she needed to speak to her outside. Elizabeth, who was in her car with the motor running, was waiting for Sherry to bring Betsy outside in order to run her over with her car. When Betsy went outside and Elizabeth started to drive her car directly at Betsy, Betsy seeing the car coming jumped out of the way, and only scratched her knees when she fell on the sidewalk.
However, Vickie, another pageant participant who was talking to other girls did not see the car and was struck by Elizabeth’s car as she sped away. Vickie was killed immediately by the impact.
What criminal charges, if any, should be brought against Elizabeth? Discuss.
What criminal charges, if any, should be brought against Sherry? Discuss.
Can you list the elements of criminal charges.

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Match the term with its de?nition. Can only use each answer once. Events that complicate the situation and intensify the con?ict. Narrative voice, real or implied, that tells the story to the reader. It is widely recognized -— the common property of a society or culture. Gives human qualities to non—human things, especially animals and objects. ‘ Narrator is the protagonist. Tells own story. How the author establishes the characters in the work. Gets its meaning from the context of the writing itself——by the way the author uses it in the text. Movement toward a possible resolution of the con?ict. Things calm down. Narrator is not the protagonist. Narrator is observing what happened to someone else. Beginning, middle, and end of story -— the basic narrative structure. Rising Action v [ Choose ] Original Symbol Realism Local Color First Person Major Point of View Characterization Universal/Traditional Symbol Plot Personi?cation Exposition Third Person Allusion Falling Action First Person Minor Characterization v [ Choose ] v [ Choose ] v [ Choose ] v [ Choose ] v
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What are the causes of crime from a biblical perspective? What is the ultimate solution to criminal behavior according to the Bible? How might we reverse the impact that secular thinking has had on the administration of justice in our country?

What Is “Good?”
A deontological ethical system, such as ethical formalism, says that if an act or intent is inherently good (coming from a good will), it is still considered a good act even if it results in bad consequences. A teleological ethical system, such as utilitarianism, judges the consequences of an act. The saying “the end justifies the means” is a teleological statement. If the belief is that the act will result in the greatest utility for the greatest number of people, the act is good. Should police officers, prosecutors, and probation officers be deontological, teleological, or a little of each? Explain your answer.

All of the following are
true statements about the insanity defense, except
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under the M’Naghten test a defendant is not considered guilty of the crime if the defendant was suffering from a defect or disease of the mind and could not understand whether the act was right or wrong.
under the M’Naghten test a defendant would be found sane if the defendant knew that a certain action was wrong, but could not stop from taking that action.
under the Model Penal Code test for insanity a defendant could lack either the ability to understand that the act was wrong or the ability to control the behavior.
as is true of most of the Model Penal Code, the MPC definition of insanity has not been widely adopted.

Officer McDonald was on patrol one night. He pulled over a teenager on a bike. The teenager got mouthy. To teach him a lesson Officer McDonald put him in handcuffs and told him he was under arrest. Officer McDonald “tazed” him several times and then let him go. Teenager told his parents who immediately retained an attorney, who filed a federal lawsuit against Officer McDonald.
Explain how Officer McDonald can be sued in a federal court under 42 U.S.C. § 1983.