naturally into free verse, and either can be good. It's perfectly possible that the best three poems in a competition could be rhymeless. On the other hand, I agree that there is some prejudice against rhymed verse, perhaps because there was too much of it in past times. You need a particular kind of talent to write it well; a bad rhyming poem immediately proclaims its faults, whereas a bad unrhymed poem might simply send us to sleep! But when it works, it's magnificent! The best poems were in free verse
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just go to my professor’s office hours. Going to office hours will help me succeed because if there’s something I am not understanding that the whole class is understanding I can still go and have that one-on-one time where my professor focuses on me and answers any questions I have that way I know what I’m doing by the time the test comes. The challenge will be finding time to go to office hours and convincing myself that even that one small question is worth the walk. Talking to my professors will
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“Feel free to choose your dead-lines” said my philosophy teacher. “It can be anytime from now to the end of this year and please choose it according to your comfort.” I looked at the sign-up sheet and saw the various dates I could choose from. I was very relieved by the fact that we were free to choose our own deadlines. But as I stared at the rectangular boxes on the sheet where I was supposed to write my choice, I was dragged into a vortex. My mind was swirling helplessly. I was a free man until
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found myself thinking deeply and coming up with something interesting ideas, which was like a surprise for me. Even though something I write seems stupid, I feel good. Moreover, I think writing is a good way to reflect my thoughts. The process of writing is also a process of thinking. When I have done my first topic writing, I feel more relax and ambitious. In my life, I study, sleep, eat and so on, but I never think that why I do these same things every day. For answering, I keep asking myself why
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to Read and Write by Frederick Douglass I lived in Master Hugh's family about seven years. During this time, I succeeded in learning to read and write. In accomplishing this, I was compelled to resort to various stratagems. I had no regular teacher. My mistress, who had kindly commenced to instruct me, had, in compliance with the advice and direction of her husband, not only ceased to instruct, but had set her face against my being instructed by anyone else. It is due, however, to my mistress to
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CITE - Why did free blacks stay in the south? http://www.theroot.com/views/why-did-free-blacks-stay-old-south? Like most of you, I suspect, I was raised to believe three things about slavery in America: first, that slaves who gained their freedom did so by escaping on the Underground Railroad to the North; second, that all of the black people living in the South before and during the Civil War were slaves; and third, that all of the free black people in pre-Civil War America lived in the North
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live on the land of the free with many opportunities, but the slaves are not able to take part in any of it. In the excerpt Learning to Read and Write from The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, Douglass is a former slave, who finds knowledge and literacy as his path to freedom. Through this experience, Douglass learns how to read and write, however his life becomes both a curse and later a blessing. Douglass depicts that not only does he learn to read and write to be well educated, but
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2015 My Literate Life Picture books to books with no pictures at all. Fun short stories to long page books with no pictures at all. Elementary school writing was fun to explore if you really enjoyed writing and to express how you wrote. I remember back in the second grade we would write short stories about our favorite hobbies and I could write for hours about my favorite activities, but now writing has come to MLA format, rubrics, and strict topics I become stumped when it’s time to write. In
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My favorite topic of this month was Pet Peeve. What I liked most about this topic is how we could analyze our different points of views, opinions, to read my classmates points of views and how each and everyone expresses themselves and their thoughts. One thing I learned this month is how can we be creative on many different ways and aspects. How to express in the correct way, having a correct grammar, analyzing points of views and brainstorming. Now I can use my words in a proper way so in the future
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thoughts together using connectives: • How many connectives can you think of? Advice • Be original and entertaining with what you write • Around 2-3 pages long • Purpose – this will be to Argue/Persuade (paper 1) or Describe (paper 2) • Audience – who is it aimed at? What style of language should you use? Who should you address etc? • Task – what have you been asked to write? Speech/Letter/Newspaper or Magazine article/Webpage • Punctuation/spelling/paragraphing/sentence structure/organisation ALL count
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Cameron Chavez Composition Mr. Limone 1/21/13 Compare/Contrast Essay From about the age of 6 I started sports, from soccer to baseball to basketball to football to lacrosse to wrestling, I have never enjoyed going to the practices and games. My dad played sports as a kid and he was very serious about sports and going to all the practices and games. He always tells me to this day, “A commitment is a commitment.” I would argue with him for hours about this. He finally said one day that he has
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Style In the article “How to Write with Style”, Kurt Vonnegut gives the writers some important suggestions on how to write well with personal style. The purposes of his suggestions are to make the writers find their own personal style and make it better. According to Vonnegut, writers should reveal something about themselves, write about interesting ideas, maintain simplicity, and write clearly. These suggestions have provided me with confidence that I can write with style. Kurt Vonnegut
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the truth in their writings. Children usually speak and write honestly most of the time, but adults are just not quite familiar with writing honestly in their writings. “Part of growing up is learning to tell lies, big and little, sophisticated and crude, conscious and unconscious. The good writer differs from the bad one in constantly trying to shake the habit.”(Macrorie 9). So in order to be a good writer, people should know how to write honestly in their writings. People always want to make
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Name: Date: March 12,2013 My Academic Skills Plan for Rehearsing and Memorizing Study Material STEP 1: What is my present situation? In the space below, describe the challenges you are having with remembering important information and skills in the courses you are now taking. Feel free to include problems you have that are similar to those expressed by the students you just read about. I have a hard time with grammar and vocabulary words. My instructor would go over some sort of grammar
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his education with his biggest challenge knowing the fact that he could read and write which was a big problem for slave as it was forbidden for them to know these material. Frederick was determine to know how to read and write as he was trying to know about the world out there and know the fact was a slave which it would been a problem if he would have been caught but still what determine to know how to read and write. After he known how to read he was starting to see that the white man world was
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Introduction and Thesis Writing intimidates me due to the fact that I cannot organize my thoughts well and create a focused, appealing structure for the thoughts conveyed through my papers. Analysis doesn’t seem to be a huge problem, but the factor of “continuity” that Trimble mentions seems to be absent in my writing due to the fact that I have been writing for myself rather than attempting to persuade my reader to accept my view on a particular subject. I must create an overall strategy for the entire
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Notes on Catrin by Gillian Clarke Gillian Clarke says that this poem answers the question: "Why did my beautiful baby have to become a teenager?" The poem contrasts the baby's dependency on her mother with the independence and defiance of the teenager. In a sense, therefore, this poem is for all mothers and all daughters. Gillian Clarke writes that "It is an absolutely normal relationship of love, anxiety and exasperation." In this poem a mother wants to protect her child from danger. However
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University of Phoenix Material Communication Styles Worksheet You spent the past few days exploring the resources available to students at University of Phoenix, and you want to share what you learned with a friend who is interested in enrolling. Write a 150 to 200word email to your friend summarizing the resources available to students. U know im enrolled in university of phoenix online now right? Girl let me tell you bout all the stuff that we can use to help us with our homework
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imagination. For example, maybe I have so much going on in my life and maybe I just want to write it down on paper, all of it. Every thought that goes through my mind every emotion I am feeling, I write it down, and then after I write it all you look what is all there. On that page would be truth, emotion, and a story. When a student gets limited to a list of 5 things to write about they become blank. They are limited on their imagination and just write a mediocre essay that will get them maybe an A or B
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Zuppa EN-110 14 February 2015 Prison changed my life Growing up I loved reading books. I would always be at the library reading books about a dog hero or a person that wears underwear saving the world. I didn’t like to write though, during the third grade I broke my leg and ended up being home schooled, while my leg was healing I missed the classes on how to write cursive writing. When I got to the fourth grade, there was a program that allowed a free personal pizza for reading ten books. In order
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faculty members. There are three ways to receive academic help from learning support center which are free drop in, write credits and eTutoring. Free drop is provides by fellow students who has distinctive achievement in the particular subject. Write credit is for student who is seeking on writing can register one or two credits in Write95 and Write101 with an instructor help. ETutoring is a free charge online academic help source that available 24 hours a day and 7 days a week. The available tutoring
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Spartacus, shocked the nation with the intense portrayal of slaves and revolt. Throughout the movie Davis argues that slaves are portrayed positively in certain sequences. The goal of Spartacus was to create of movie unlike any of its kind. Plutarch writes, “he not only possessed great courage and bodily strength, but was more intelligent and nobler than his fate as a slave would allow.”1 Davis interprets this as a positive statement reinforcing her claim about the movie Spartacus saying something meaningful
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Some may say my life is less than ordinary. I like to believe that my life is extraordinary. From the first time I gazed my eyes upon the pages of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone I knew that writing was something that I needed to pursue. The way J.K. Rowling enveloped me into this world of magic amazed me. I wanted to do this to people too, bring them into a world that was better than their own, a place where they could learn from their mistakes and make their lives better. For me, writing
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Economics or Religion; some adore music and are excellent musicians. Everyone has his own advantages and talents.What is the answer to your problems, if you fall in the category of those, whose writing skills are far from being perfect? Should you write an essay anyway and let your grades fail just because of the lack of needed skills? That is not fair – for instance, people, who are not great at acting skills are not forced to enter the theatre college group. Successfully completing an essay, by
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Maria Copeland Ms. Abigail L. Montgomery ENG 112 An ordinary mind In the short story, the yellow wallpaper, Jane let us into her night mare as she goes through it. While Jane is starving for liberty to write and new adventures, john tries hard to push her back to her normal self by forcing her to spend most of her time in this room with barred windows and walls covered in a distinct yellow wallpaper, at this level she can’t physically leave and she feels mentally trapped, following this further
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Reflective Journal #1 I decided to try and free-write about my experience with writing and after going over my notes, I have come to the conclusion that I feel very insecure about it… I remember in middle school I used to rest my arm on my paper while I wrote, hoping my teacher wouldn’t be able to read my work before I handed it in. Let’s just say, I don’t have much confidence when it comes to writing. My imagination isn't the problem here, I have so many ideas and I feel passionate about so many
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granted. They don’t realize what kinds of freedoms they really have and how unique they are compared to the rest of the world. The word that clearly describes “American” is “Free”. It does not mean that an American can obtain free food, a free car or a free home. Instead it means that a person living in the United States is free to make their own decisions, such as choosing who will run the country. In the United States of America, the people have freedom of speech, religion, the right to vote, the
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others’ experiences to exemplify these points to readers. Douglass depicts himself differently from other slaves’ experiences in that the more educated he became, the more courage he gained to break free, exemplifying himself as a pioneer and leader among former slaves. Education and learning to read and write opened his eyes to how slaveholders wrongfully used religion as justification in the establishment of slavery. Before his Education, Fredrick Douglass was accepting of his life as a slave
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Is it better to eat organically farmed food than intensively farmed produce? I have chosen to write my case study on whether it is better to eat organically farmed food or intensively farmed food? I will be using a variety of research I have collected to write arguments for and against organically farmed food. I will be investigating this question using different sources to back up my arguments. Organic farming: a form of agriculture that uses techniques such as crop rotation, using manure instead
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Reflective Essay on Writing 101 University of Maryland University College October 7, 2014 I chose to participate in WRTG 101 not only because it’s a core requirement towards my degree plan, but to enhance my writing skills. Over the past few months, with the help of my Professor and classmates, I’ve honed my writing skills watching them improve from being decent to something better. Overall I expect to learn and refresh writing skills and identity what skills I need to improve by the end of
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