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- 531: Foreshadowing and Flashback; Two Writing Techniques That Make Fitzgerald A Great Writer
- Foreshadowing and Flashback; Two Writing Techniques That Make Fitzgerald A Great Writer 'Suppose you met somebody just as careless as yourself.' 'I hope I never will,' she [Jordan] answered. 'I hate careless people. That's why I like you.' " (Fitzgerald, pg. 63) Jordan is explaining to Nick how she is able to drive badly as long as everyone else drives carefully. This quote represents the writing technique of foreshadowing, which is being used in one of its finest form. Fitzgerald is foreshadowing to chapter seven where Daisy kills Myrtle Wilson because of her reckless driving. Fitzgerald uses foreshadowing to strengthen the ...
- 532: Stephen Crane
- ... began his quest for the truth in the summer of 1889 while visiting his brother who lived in New Jersey (Peden, 104). While living with his brother Crane was drawn to the idea of realistic writing. He would travel to New York on almost a daily basis to witness and experience the poverty and abusive conditions of the slums (Colvert, 104). During his visits to New York Crane was able to ... yearning to express his experiences. He began his mission by placing upon himself the desire to become his own individual, separating himself from other writers of the era by using his unique style of realistic writing as well as dialect (Cantwell, 141). According to Hamlin Garland a well-known critic as well as a writer during this time, Crane, “…gives the dialect of the slums as I never before seen it ... terse” (121). His use of dialect throughout the novel is virtually impossible to ignore. The choppy uneducated lines and dialogue shows the obvious knowledge of the way the poor lived and the purpose behind the writing. Crane was able to develop his own dialect which was reflected in his writings. His dialogue is perhaps the best aspect of his writing gained through his experience. Crane used dialect as the basis ...
- 533: Writing about Literature
- Writing about Literature We have all heard expressions like “Her lips were like roses,” or “she was as beautiful as a goddess,” used to describe a person’s true love. Most writers, poets and novelists, are ... This is because the poem is based on a group of conceits that the modern reader may not be aware of. In the poem, Shakespeare was trying to break away from the old way of writing Poetry, where the poet would write about how beautiful his love was, whether or not it was true. Here Shakespeare is being realistic. He writes that his love’s eyes, “…are nothing like the sun ...
- 534: Personal Essay: Classroom Observation
- Personal Essay: Classroom Observation EDU 301 Social Studies Methods Mary Iandoli Classroom Observation Date: 9-30-96 Kindergarten teacher: Mrs. Debolt First grade teacher: Mrs. Casteluzo Location: Penn Yan Elementary Carrie and I were going to ... door and soon Mrs. Castiluzo, her aide, and the 1st graders came in. It was a tight squeeze but everyone got a little spot on the floor. You could tell the kids who like their personal space because they were uncomfortable in the tight space and tried to wiggle and scoot. Mrs. Debolt introduced Carrie and me and then started her lesson. She started with a story about a green bear ...
- 535: The Crucible: Personal Turmoil
- The Crucible: Personal Turmoil The Crucible, written by Arthur Miller, is a play that takes place in the sixteen nineties during the famous but tragic Salem Witch Trials. Although the entire community is in pandemonium, there are certain ... as his character changes from the accuser to the defender. Through Hale’s conflicts, he decides that earthly life is a greater gift than eternal life. Many people in the town of Salem go through personal turmoil as a result from the “Witch Trials”, but Arthur Miller made a few characters show obvious conflicts and changes. Mary, Proctor, and Hale all face life changing internal conflicts and decisions in Arthur Miller ...
- 536: Creative Writing: The Big Scoop
- Creative Writing: The Big Scoop Hello, my name is Jack Williams. I am a reporter you have been hearing a lot about and this is how I gathered my information for my article on "Computers, Hacking, And ... he is always better safe than sorry. At this point I thought this guy was off the wall crazy or a really well informed kid, but again I reminded myself about the story I was writing. I asked him what he was doing in a nonchalant voice and his response astounded me. He said he was trying to hack a computer server. It was not so much the idea of hacking ...
- 537: Social and Personal Ethics: The Subject of Abortion
- Social and Personal Ethics: The Subject of Abortion It’s a child not a choice, a famous bumper sticker that voices the opinion of people who oppose abortion. In the book Social and Personal Ethics, John T. Noonan Jr., a law professor at University of California Berkeley, and Mary Anne Warren, a philosophy professor at San Francisco State University argue their views on the subject of abortion. The main ...
- 538: Web Advertising
- ... the novelty of the options, a general lack of expertise and the difficulty of accurate prediction (David, 1997). The process must begin with the individual himself. A marketer who is not pushing the bounds of personal technological progression is most likely not inclined to do the same for the company (Joseph, 1996). Joseph (1996, p.29) concluded that 'The Internet, multi-faceted appliances and even the creation of new applications for ... sphere of Web advertising as the initial novelty of the concept wears off and experts in the field become more accustomed to the characteristics and dynamics of the Internet as an advertising tool (J. Matthee, personal communication, 20 April 1998). Nevertheless, the Internet is not yet a proven advertising medium and as such is untested, unregulated and unrefined (Swart.1996). This very situation often results in wise businesses approaching Internet advertising ... or business information were sent at random to Internet users e-mail addresses. This crude form of ad vertising can be likened to common junkmail found in a postbox among things of relevance such as personal mail and bills. Things have progresses somewhat and a number of channels have become available to the business interested in Web advertising and rega rdless of which channel is decided upon it is common ...
- 539: Writing with Mechanics
- Writing with Mechanics As one creates a story, the various techniques an author will use have a great impact on the story and the effect that it will have on the reader(s). A piece of literature serves its purpose when it leaves the readers with a new impression or insight. In the short story, The Storm, the author, McKnight Malmar, uses various writing mechanics in order to provide readers with a suspenseful setting. With the use of imagery, literature can achieve a greater purpose by leaving a person with a distinct image that allows a reader to greater ...
- 540: The Life of Adolf Hitler
- ... upheaval I have ever had to go through. I had ceased to be a weak-kneed cosmopolitan and become an anti-Semite." But at this point Hitler's anti-Semitism was not apparent in his personal relationships with Jews. He still did business with Jewish shop owners in selling his paintings and maintained the friendship with Josef Neumann. However, the seeds of hate were planted and would be nurtured by events ... party, Hitler saw opportunity. "This absurd little organization with its few members seemed to me to possess the one advantage that it had not frozen into an 'organization,' but left the individual opportunity for real personal activity. Here it was still possible to work, and the smaller the movement, the more readily it could be put into the proper form. Here, the content, the goal, and the road could still be ... thus increasing public awareness of the party. At this time, within the SA, a new highly disciplined guard unit was formed by Hitler that would be solely responsible to him and would serve as his personal body guard. It was called the Schutzstaffel, the staff guard or SS for short. The SS adopted a black uniform, modeled party after the Italian Fascists. A former stationery salesman, Josef Berchtold, was its ...
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