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Grades First through Fourth Content Area Writing and Reading Instruction

format in which reading is a significant component (Department of Staff Development n.d.). * Respond to Reading - Students are ask...

Plot Development in Two Novels by Antonio Lobo Antunes

instructions from a police inspector, who states, "Give the bozo some electric shocks and hell swear he killed his aunt, if necess...

Writing an Abstract for a Holocaust Project

maintained the actions of the Third Reich. In researching this argument, then, it is necessary to consider way in which Hitler ac...

What Writing Means to an Individual

difficult or confusing, perhaps largely because of how writing is taught and how structuring sentences can become almost scientifi...

The Influence of Ancient Literature on Dante's Writing

under them split asunder; and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up, with their households and all the men that belonge...

Literary Devices in Three Novels

makes an impression is the plot and specifically the incident when Huck could turn Jim in to the men who are hunting runaway slave...

Letter Writing: Untouched By Technology

to bridge great distances, and economy...The downside is more subtle--it includes the positive turned inside out:...informality an...

Ideal Class in Writing

In three pages this paper discusses what a perfect class in writing might entail. One source is cited in the bibliography....

Writing Sample in the Style of Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

could well relate to Salingers Holden who finds no hope in the people he meets, no sense of redemption in the adult society. If ...

Rabbit Novels of John Updike

(1983) Religion and sexuality in Walker Percy, William Gass and John Updike: metaphors of embodiment in the androcentric imaginati...

2 Film Versions of 1 Novel Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper

was cast as the Indian renegade Magua and a "less likely and more melodramatic Indian...is hard to imagine" (Magills-1920). Beery ...

Tomson Highway's Novel Kiss of the Fur Queen

of the school" are clear presentations of this perspective. Another powerful element in the story, and one that is mentioned onl...

Social Isolation and Women in Anne Tyler's Novels

it seemed to be the only way open to me" (Celestial 63). Mary wishes to avoid the "single narrow path" outlined by her parents liv...

2 Novels on Utopia

though that ideal does not exist. The society that Julian West leaves behind is capitalist; like modern society, its ugly, strati...

Writing Styles of Thomas Paine and Thomas Jefferson

man who understood the "power of language" and "fought through language to influence history" (Demetrios, 2002, p. 7). Thomas Pa...

Discussion of Tim O'Brien's Vietnam War Novel The Things They Carried

alive and as intact as possible. In many ways this is also reflective of the title, symbolic of "The Things They Carried." They ca...

Latin America Education and Writing

strongly established. This would leave no room for the evolution of a strong nation that would survive. Poma notes, "Boys got thei...

Vietnam Explored in Argumentative, Narrative, and Expository Writing

expedient to American leaders to aid the French, rather than back the people to whom the country actually belonged (Drew and Snow)...

Comparing Novel and Film Versions of The Color Purple

evolves because the men in the film are misogynist or because it is something that is a part of Celie, is unclear. Still, it seems...

Comparing The Time Machine Novel by H.G. Wells and 1960 and 2002 Film Versions

indictment of the British caste system and the exploitation of laborers necessary to maintain its bourgeois lifestyle (Mitchell, 2...

Writing Style of Raymond Carver

by Robert Altman of the same name. Many believe that this collection of short stories is an example of Carvers writings when he w...

Tutorial on Writing About One's Heritage

and experiences of moving as it related, for example, to leaving friends behind or making new friends after the move. Was the move...

Writing Class in English 101

are unsure of their work for any reason should ask someone to proofread for them. And dont trust the computer spellchecker-it won...

Structure of the Novel The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien

checker board and play checkers till dark. He comments on how reassuring that game was in which the rules were known and observabl...

Novel Summary of Hunter S. Thompson's Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

to drive to reach Las Vegas and they were both clearly feeling the affects of drugs, with the narrator claiming it would be hard t...

Overview of the Novel Passing by Nella Larsen

her to school in Nashville when she was 15; finally, when she was 16, her mother told her "to make her own way in the world" (Sull...

Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie's HIstory Writing

providing a complete description of the village, its geography, demography, religious beliefs, social beliefs, families, sex, food...

3 Novels and Q and A

In four pages student posed questions on the novels Conrad's The Light in the Forest, Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451, and Steinbeck's T...

Student Writing on Being a Learner

a very poor way of teaching and learning. As a child I remember how flashcards were quite prominent in the classroom. From math...

Writing Skills' Workshop Petition

a 2000 report by the Wall Street Journal noted that 80 percent of businesses surveyed believe their employees biggest problem is w...