Tag: Academic writing

?      Baldwin makes the narrator in “Sonny’s Blues” the brother rather than the namesake. What effect does this form of presentation have on your view of Sonny? Does your view of Sonny differ from the narrator’s and at what point(s) do you align with his judgments?

The lady of the tiger story
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Comprehension Questions: 1. In the story, if an accused person opened the door with a maiden behind it, he would immediately marry her whether or not he already had a girlfriend. wife. andfor family. Apart from whether or not this is a just reward for the man. what about the women involved? How just is it to break up a family or force a woman into marriage? Refer to the second paragraph on page 300 for details. 2. In the story, the tiger is described as the most savage and relentless ofbeasts. In your opinion and using evidence from the text, explain which character is most like the tiger in hisi’her savage nature? 3. How does the author show that the king is semi- barbaric? With support from the text, explain in one sentence how he is barbaric, and in another sentence, how he is civilized, or progressive. 4. When the author states that the king “was greatly given to self-communing,” what does this say about the way he rules? 5. Drawing on the text, describe the king’s method of administering justice within the arena. 6. What characteristics does the king’s daughter share with her father? T. Describe the princess’s passion for her lover. What role does her barbarism play? 8. Why doesn’t the king approve of the youth’s love for his daughter? What clues from the text make this clear? 9. According to the story. “No matter how the affair turned out. the youth would be disposed of.” What does this mean? Would justice have been administered fairly? Why or why not? 10. Why do you think the young man trusts the princess to save his life? Drawing from the text, explain how he knows that she will guide him to choose the right door 11. The princess experiences many “grievous reveries” about the fate of her lover. How do you think these in?uenced her decision?
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TEXT QUESTIONS Date The Most Forgetful Man in the World Joshua Foer responses. DIRECTIONS: Respond to these questions. Cite textual evidence to support your
(a) Recall What two types of amnesia does EP suffer from?
(b) Explain What affect does each type of amnesia have on him?
(a) Compare and Contrast How are EP’s case and Clive Wearing’s case similar? How are they different?
(b) Assess Which man do you think is happier? Explain.
Interpret Do the results of Michel Siffre’s experiment in 1962 seem to support Ed Cooke’s hypothesis, on the one hand, or the fictional Dunbar’s hypothesis, on the other? Explain.
Evaluate In the final paragraph, Foer describes a philosophical conundrum. Do you think it would be wrong to put patients through pain during a surgery if they were unable to remember the pain afterward? Why?

Read the excerpt from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde. Then, answer the question that follows. The elder woman grew pale beneath the coarse powder that daubed her cheeks, and her dry lips twitched with a spasm of pain. Sybil rushed to her, flung her arms round her neck, and kissed her. “Forgive me, Mother. I know it pains you to talk about our father. But it only pains you because you loved him so much. Don’t look so sad. I am as happy to-day as you were twenty years ago. Ah! let me be happy forever!” “My child, you are far too young to think of falling in love. Besides, what do you know of this young man? You don’t even know his name. The whole thing is most inconvenient, and really, when James is going away to Australia, and I have so much to think of, I must say that you should have shown more consideration. However, as I said before, if he is rich …” “Ah! Mother, Mother, let me be happy!” Mrs. Vane glanced at her, and with one of those false theatrical gestures that so often become a mode of second nature to a stage-player, clasped her in her arms. At this moment, the door opened and a young lad with rough brown hair came into the room. He was thick-set of figure, and his hands and feet were large and somewhat clumsy in movement. Which point of view is used in this passage? O First person Second person Third-person limited

Follow directions please and have it done before tomorrow please
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Comprehension Questions With your partner, answer the questions about “My Shot.” Questions: Consider each character: Marquis de Lafayette, Hercules Mulligan, John Laurens, and Aaron Burr. What do we learn about each character and his motivations and attitudes toward the Revolution? In what ways are their motivations similar to and different from Alexander Hamilton’s?

Why does Erdrich in ” love medicine’ tell this story through Lipsha? How might it be different if it were told from
another perspective? Through another character?

In Langston Hughes’s poem “Theme for English B,” the speaker addresses his own identity, ideas about racism and segregation, and his relationship with his teacher. In a well-written paragraph using textual evidence, analyze how Hughes uses metaphor to describe the relationship between the speaker’s life and the assignment.

Using at least 100 words and a direct quote, please explain whether or not “Shoeless Joe Jackson Comes to Iowa” seems like a story that was written in the 21st century?

The text is “Autobiography of Mother Jones” by Mary Harris Jones (excerpt)
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5 Select the correct answer. Which excerpt from the passage best shapes the author’s perspective on the misfortunes of the working class?
A. “Boys,” I said, “go back on your engine. Some day it will be all right” (paragraph 10)
B. “If I were out of this dungeon,” thought I, “I would be fighting the human sewer rats anyway!” (paragraph 12)
C. “He was a man with a heart, who perhaps imagined his own mother imprisoned in a cellar with the sewer rats’ union.” (paragraph 17)
D. “I watched people’s feet from my cellar window, miners feet in old shoes; soldiers’ feet, well shod in government leather, the shoes of women with the heels run down; the dilapidated shoes of children: barefooted boys.” (paragraph 16)
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Identify the dependent clause in the following sentence: If you want, we can go to the soccer game. O If you want O you want O
we can go O we can go to the soccer game O to the soccer game