"I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child well nursed is at a year old a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee or a ragout." ... In the fifth paragraph of the essay, the children are referred to as "poor innocent babes," but then it is suggested they be murdered. ...

• Word Count: 459
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

= 120,000 2) For Example: How much will it cost to raise a child? 2 shillings How much will a gentleman pay for the "carcass of a good fat child"? ... Fifthly, good food will increase the business at taverns. ... This is true because his youngest child is nine, past the age of one, so she would be too rough to eat. He also cannot profit from his proposal because his wife is past child bearing. ...

• Word Count: 1218
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

The fifth and last paragraph restates the main thesis idea and reminds the reader of the three main supporting ideas that were developed. ... When one asks a child, what is literature, most children respond that, a book or a novel, perhaps a poem, is literature. ...

• Word Count: 720
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

After a three month European honeymoon, the newlywed Chopin's returned to New Orleans, Chopin's new home, and shortly thereafter on May 22, 1871, she gave birth to her first child, a son. ... Soon after the birth of her fifth child in 1878, Chopin and her family moved to Cloutierville, Louisiana. ...

• Word Count: 1243
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

The Cheese and the Worms was a story written about a sixteenth-century miller, named Domenico Scandell, who went by the name of Menocchio. He was denounced to the Holy office being accused of speaking heretical and most pious words about Christ. Carlo Ginzburg uses trial records as his primary sou...

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James Arthur Baldwin was an American poet, novelist, essayist, playwright, and social critic. He was born August 2, 1924 to Emma Berdis Jones. Baldwin's mother never told him the name of his biological father. Emma Jones left Baldwin's father when Baldwin was a young child because of his father's us...

• Word Count: 925
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

I accepted the fact that if I was given a topic to write an essay on in fifth, sixth, and seventh grade, then there was no doubt that I was not going to have to write essays in college. ... She states, "The first draft is the child's draft, where you let it all pour out and then romp all over the place, knowing that no one is going to see it" (Ann Lamott). ...

• Word Count: 1099
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School