As an English 101 student, I have found Everyone's An Author to be a very helpful resource when issues came about with writing. ... Everyone's An Author has been of great use to me and many other people that I know who use it. ... This book has many features that set it apart from other textbooks or make it a very great one to use. ... As a result of using Everyone's An Author to help me, I got a very good grade on the project. ... I had written plenty of narrative before but it was much more difficult to write a narrative about myself in great detail. ...

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They had two children: Beau Dearborn and Angelique Gabrielle (Contemporary Authors, 25). ... A book of natural history followed, which he tried unsuccessfully to locate years later for his children (Contemporary Authors, 25). ... His maternal great-grandfather was scalped by the Sioux while a member of the Sibley Expedition, following the Little Crow Massacre in Minnesota. ... Today, over eighty million copies of his novels are now in print, and according to Bantam Books, after the publication of The Man from the Broken Hills, L"Amour is their best selling author, edging out John Steinbec...

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The young author had a habit of falling in love with rich women. ... Scott celebrated youth in his novels and that's what made them so great. ... After Fitzgerald wrote The Great Gatsby, he became acquainted with Ernest Hemingway while in Paris. ... Fitzgerald was an author of dreams, love, and extravagance. ... As two authors who influenced American literature in a great way, both were very successful in their own ways. ...

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This resulted in Hemingway being perhaps the most debated and discussed author of the twentieth century. ... But with the territory an author takes when he establishes himself as a respectable author there are bound to be critics who take the latter side and find complications. ... It was what initially set him apart from the other authors of his time. ... Its felt that this results in an effect of great honesty and reality." ... The Old Man and the Sea is a story that tells of an old man, Santiago waging a great battle on his tiny boat with a large fish for many days. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

The tone in a poem is the attitude the author is showing though his or her writing. ... In addition, the phrase expresses the authors feeling of being greater then the rest. ... The authors attitude towards the mental institution and works is anger and ungratefulness. ... As you read the poem you can see that it has a great amount of imagery. ... The elements help you interact with your senses and realize what the author is trying to say. ...

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"Vulgarity" in The Woman Warrior -----A Stylistic exploration Abstract: The Woman Warrior is a book written by the great contemporary Chinese American woman writer Maxine Hong Kingston. ... Keywords: Vulgarity postmodern readerly writerly The Woman Warrior is a book written by the great contemporary Chinese American woman writer Maxine Hong Kingston. ... Also as the author is depicting these different parts, she has showed an unaffected and unperturbed manner. ... Yet it is just through this deliberate juxtaposition that the au...

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Similar to most aspects in life, great organization typically coincides with success. ... Once the topic and ideas have been decided upon, the author must determine how to be impactful and organize the points in a way which serves to drive home their argument. ... When writing an essay you must forego great lengths to organize yourself personally. ... Keep in mind, no great book was written overnight, and your essay will be the same. ... However, by the end of the day, writing is meant to be an enriching and fun experience for the author. ...

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This article is known as a great example of fine writing that was published on August 27, 1997 in The New Yorker by Terrence Rafferty, a notorious American writer and journalist. ... By using fresh words and alternating the writing's tone, the author finds a perfect balance between formality and informality; allowing the reader to feel comfortable like he was speaking with a friend. ... You can clearly see that the author is good at depicting the characters of the article (Cobb in particular) to the point that by the end of the reading you feel like you actually know the ball player. ... ...

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Gloria Anzaldua, author of "How to Tame a Wild Tongue,"" would argue that imposing mandatory requirements to learn this new way of thinking called "academic discourse- are both oppressive and objectionable. ... Richard Rodriguez, author of "Aria,"" however would argue that the requirement to learn "academic discourse- is valuable and empowering. ... The two authors, Anzaldua and Rodriguez, would have profoundly differing feelings on the subject of academic discourse, because of their very different feelings concerning assimilation. ... He realizes that although he is giving up his more in...

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• Grade Level: Graduate

These authors also spoke out against ongoing trends in society that they found disagreeable much the way Orwell does. ... Arnold felt that the spread of education, an education which employed a fixed cannon, dedicated to literature that was established and recognized as great art, would lead to acceptably cultured masses. ... She goes on to question whether this was the same place that inspired the great writers; "Did Shakespeare and his mates absorb the light here?" ... This is interesting because authors of fiction could fall victim to the habit of ready-made phrases as easily as those of th...

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Earnest Hemingway was a very well-known and highly praised American author who greatly influenced fiction literature in the twentieth century. ... This proves that Hemingway paid great attention to syntax and did not use a lot of adjectives or unnecessary description to take away from the importance of what he wrote. ... He wanted readers to feel as if they had been to the places that he wrote about, so he used a lot of great imagery and adjunct details from every angle of his stories. ... An example of the great detail that Hemmingway used in "Big Two-Hearted River: Part I" can be s...

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She was not an author who wrote to entertain, but rather an author who wanted her voice to be heard. ... Another aspect of life that Nikki had great influence on was politics. ... An author once said, "She has written about most of her family members. ...

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Paulsen is one of the greatest contemporary authors for young adults. ... If it had not been for that teacher, Paulsen might have quit school and not become the great author that he is today. ... Paulsen was sued for using the pen name of another author as his title for Winterkill (1976). ... Gary Paulsen is one of the greatest authors for young adults. ...

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Steinbeck was able to relate to these characters because before he found success as an author, he traveled across America from California to New York looking for jobs (O'Connor, pp25-31). ... Of Mice and Men is set entirely in this part of California and Steinbeck goes into great detail in the novel to describe it. ... It is apparent that this novel reflects John Steinbeck's passion and purpose for writing, since he was not concerned with money, the timing of publication, or what the rest of the country would think of him as the author of this book. ... These examples prove that St...

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This story was based in the court of "Akbar the great" one of India's greatest kings. ... In the case of this particular story, Stockton, lays the plot with great alacrity and care. Though, any well read reader would be aware of the humdrum in the happenings, but it was his great ability as a writer to so smoothly hold the reader's attention, the beginning was obvious, the momentum grew slowly, started twirling faster and soon like a wanderer lost in a desert, Stockton, brings the thirsty to the oasis. ... Then how can we expect a princess, who also has a great deal of pride and ego ...

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She was raised by her mother, grandmother and great-grandmother who were all French Creole descendants. ... She longed for being a great mother, wife and neighbor and she did succeed although her outlook on life soon died along with her husband. ... The Awakening was reissued and Kate Chopin finally received the credit she rightly deserved as an author in 1964. ... At the time of the publication of the book, desire for another person while you are married was morally wrong and considered a great sin. ... Edna realizes this, but she cannot help the way she feels for Robert and has a great pas...

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Walt Whitman can be considered one of the greatest writers because of his great attributions to literature, one his different view of life and two his unique writing methods in which you can observe from many of his works. ... Whitman's life, as thought by many authors, could have been affected by the events occurring around him. Among the many events that shaped Whitman in to the great writer that he was were the Civil War and the Irish riots. ... Gramercy Great Poets. ...

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Net communication has revolutionized the rate at which information can be exchanged and are great assets to a child's education. ... Students are taught how literature reflects the heritage, traditions, attitudes, and beliefs of authors. ... The building is of no use to him at the present time and by donating the land he would be benefiting our community a great deal. ...

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"Her subjects are often parts of the topography of her own psyche; she explores her own feelings with painstaking and often painful honesty but never loses sight of their universal poetic application; one of her greatest techniques is to write about the particulars of her own emotions in a kind of universal homiletic or adage-like tone ("After great pain, a formal feeling comes") that seems to describe the reader's mind as well as it does the poet's." (http://www.sparknotes.com/poetry/dickinson/analysis.html) When Dickinson writes she compresses a great deal of meaning into a very sm...

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A great deal of communication is sent to the receiver without the use of verbal language. ... I agree with the author that nonverbal communication is more meaningful and understood then any other type of communication such as verbal communication for a variety of different reasons that I will explain in this paper. ... The central aim of the book is to show us that the field of non-verbal communication is fast growing, rapidly growing and that it has a great affect on human beings, yet it promises practical applications to our daily lives. ... There eyes are half way shut, and their postur...

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I, like one of the authors suggests (Eschholz pp.172), would like to know the rules of grammar to the point that I am absolutely confident in my speech. ... This kind of dialogue scares me, because although there is great value in the Internet, it can never take the place of the vast treasures of the written word. ...

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The student carefully examines every part of the dogfish, recording his finding carefully, making no mistakes with his precision instruments, taking great pains to do the dissection correctly. ... He reads with great interest, believing he has found a true treasure of an unknown but great ancient author. ... Because the first man reads for the sheer pleasure of reading a great new piece of literature. ...

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In his Atlantic article, "Is Google Making Us Stupid," author Nicholas Carr writes, "Over the past few years I've had an uncomfortable sense that someone, or something, has been tinkering with my brain, remapping the neural circuitry, reprogramming the memory. ... And this leads to all sorts of great experiences and outcomes, including the mixing of thought, the creation of knowledge, deep interaction with others, and somewhere in that mix-wonder. ...

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Once the paragraph outline was filled out, the logic was that students could write great paragraphs. ... One can only imagine the places that the author creates in his own mind when writing his novels in the depths of his most inner thought. ...

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