Related Objectives • read a variety of texts and analyze their rhetorical situations (i.e. context, audience, and aims) • write papers with a clearly developed thesis and support designed to appeal to various audiences and contexts • read for various purposes Outcome 4: Rhetorical Strategies Students will read and write a variety of nonfiction expository and argumentative genres. ... I require the following additional text: . 3. ... Their Eyes Were Watching God. ... Students who do not complete a Portfolio by the due date will receive an F in the class. Students ...

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To begin with the differences between Jane and Antoinette, I shall start with their similarity in childhood. ... Therefore, throughout Antoinette life, she was hated by white aristocracies and their servants. ... Therefore, they both grew up with a little love from people surrounded them and they lose their family and their first friend. In School, everything not beautiful like they were expecting, but they find it as a safest place than any other places, as Antoinette says: "This convent was my refuge, a place of sunshine and of death where very early in the morning the clap of a wooden...

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• Grade Level: High School

What patterns have you discovered in the text (plot development, characterization)? ... You can feel the intensity the moment Frank lays his eyes on America and how overpowering he feels. 2. ... Both our fathers were never there to support us. ... She has a son and a husband, but never complains about giving Frankie or Malachy something to eat when they were hungry. ... Frank has seen the pain in his mother's eyes when the children went without food and clothes. ...

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His wife tells the narrator that Robert and his wife, Beulah, were inseparable. ... They all drink heavily and eat a large dinner, complete with strawberry pie. ... Even when Robert tells him to open his eyes, he keeps them closed. ... "My eyes were still closed. ... Sometimes they were led by seeing-eye dogs. ...

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Then the epic narrative takes up events prophesied for the future, such as Achilles' looming death and the sack of Troy, prefigured and alluded to more and more vividly, so that when it reaches an end, the poem has told a more or less complete tale of the Trojan War. ... These goddesses had another motivation, however, for favoring these particular men above all the other valorous soldiers: they were the children of gods and men. They were both the offspring of humanity and deity, and thus demanded the special attention of the gods. ... Their goddess-mothers didn't want them harmed,...

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• Grade Level: High School

This enables me to highlight their specific features. ... I will start with a general analysis of the topic related to Shakespeare's text. ... Indeed, Shakespeare's text suggests that the magical creatures of A Midsummer Night's Dream could be explained as physical allegories of nature. ... I will examine the relationship of the fairies with the human world as it is presented in Shakespeare's text and see how Michael Hoffman and Bernard Haitink, Peter Hall and John Bury interpreted it in the play and how they represented the fairies in their screen and stage production. ....

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Nor is her vengeance by any means complete. ... Jason, who has come to punish the murderess of his bride, hears that his children have perished too, and Medea herself appears to him in the chariot of the sun, bestowed by Helios, the sun-god, upon his descendants. ... Her revenge comes when she witnesses Jason's horror as she flies off to Athens in the chariot of the sun god Helios, her ancestor. The most significant player in the text is of course Medea herself. Medea, the grand-daughter of Apollo, God of the sun, is a passionate, emotional, deceptive and predominately angry individua...

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He felt that most of the middle class had pulled wool over their eyes and their denial of such maturing problems was a vice that he could take from them. ... It was accepted as long as the swears were deleted and several names were changed to prevent lawsuits. ... He admired the men and women that he worked with, and felt that they were underappreciated, and eventually became disappointed with the imposing processes that dominated their lives. His political views began to take true shape as he saw that the under classes of this time period were only represented through their strivings to imp...

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A group of boys tries to fight their way into the thicket, but Ralph fends them off. ... Jack's hunters reach the beach and stop in their tracks upon seeing the officer. ... Moved and embarrassed, the naval officer turns his back so that the boys may regain their composure. ... Ultimately, the boys' appalling savagery brings about the rescue that their coordinated and purposeful efforts were unable to achieve. ... In portraying the various ways in which the boys on the island adapt to their new surroundings and react to their new freedom, Golding explores the broad spectrum of ways ...

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• Grade Level: High School