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Homeless man becomes a millionaire overnight after releasing Ebook Chicago, March 11, 2018: Local homeless man Jacob Sanders, 48, announced a net salary of nearly 2 million dollars after filing taxes with the IRS. This income came after he released ebook “Through the eyes of nobody,” on amazon during the Summer of 2017. Using a computer at the local Chicago Public library which he frequented, Sanders had written a 90,000 word novel detailing the explicit events of his ten-year-long stint as a homeless man. The first two months of this publication saw no sales, but, after releasing a viral video on youtube depicting him relentlessly being bullied by a group of youths his book-sales suddenly skyrocketed and by the start of winter he had already …show more content…

“I’m not the best writer in the world. Hell, I didn’t even know what a semi colon was five years ago, but I do know what people like to see. They want to see misery, chaos, violence and bloodshed. And that’s exactly what I wrote about in my book. My life aint’ been easy, but I will say, it’s probably more exciting than your average 9-5 brick in the wall worker clutching his coffee.” Sanders later went on to detail some of his experiences he endured and described in the book. Sanders had been beat up by children, run over by cars, drugged, raped, tortured, and fed sandwiches laced with feces from seemingly altruistic individuals. ‘Through the eyes of nobody details these accounts in a way that is shockingly vivid, and the reality of what Sanders faced seems to resonate deeply with the same individuals who may have either ignored him or contributed to his misery. Sanders is now working on a second novel which details the accounts of his reaction to achieving a fortune after living out a life of poverty. ‘Through the eyes of nobody’ is currently available on Amazon in print and ebook format, but the sequel—‘Through the eyes of somebody’—is scheduled to be released Summer

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In Lauren Oyler’s article “The Case for Semicolons”, she persuasively argues the merit and use of semicolons in a time where the grammatical symbol of punctuation is used sparingly by the literary community and broader public by extension. Oyler accomplishes this by successfully integrating various rhetorical strategies and modes of thought to appeal to her audience. Likewise, Oyler attempts to further her argument first by providing a personal experience from her own life, and how the philosophy she gathered from it could be applied to the semicolon. From there on, Oyler argues that the semicolons’ ambiguity and flexibility make them useful for setting near any tone one desires. Oyler concludes her article by arguing that the semicolon asserts

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This story takes place on the streets of New York City. Barbara Lazear Ascher tells us a very detailed story as she walks the streets of New York, observing the actions of everyone around her. She first begins to observe a homeless man and a woman pushing her child in a stroller. She watches as the man approaches the women with his eyes on the child. The women grippes the stroller tightly and then reaches for her purse.

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His writing is simple and direct, which makes the events he describes all the more scary as he successfully gets his point across. His tone is very gloomy and reflective, which reflects the seriousness of the story. He also uses symbolism and metaphor to get his message across, such as the image of darkness representing the evil and brutality of the Nazis. "I had ceased to pray. How I sympathized with Job!

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The story “Unemployed and Working” from Simon Wykoff shows his conventional thinking by writing to influence readers to reimagine the stereotype of the “lazy bum” commonly given to homeless people. The author explains how homeless people work to accomplish the most important job to humans, surviving, which can be just as difficult as a conventional job. Wykoff gives his own personal testimony about the life of his homeless father and the daily struggles and process he went through. He first explains his father’s decision of not using services for homeless people, and how he coped with that while living on the streets. He then goes through each task done by his father in a day, starting with saying how there was often a good chance that something of his was stolen while he was asleep and elaborating on how his father would buy himself food if he had made enough money, but if he had not then he would have to check dumpsters to satisfy his hunger.

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Stuart Byfofsky is an American journalist and columnist. He asserts to let his readers know that he is going to discuss the issue of the homeless. He tells us he is going to be “heartless”. Bykofsky’s main argument is that we need to come together and get rid of America’s living nightmare as he calls them. He uses different strategies to convince his readers that this is a problem.

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In today's population, one person out of every five people is left homeless. Richard LeMieux was a successful business man who, unfortunately, became homeless. Richard expresses the struggles and challenges of a homeless man providing insights on daily lives through his experiences living on the streets of Poulsbo as a beggar to provide for his survival. LeMieux explains how everyday bypassers walk on by without giving a second look in pity. Until one day a sick old lady in red clothing financially handed $64.50.

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In Stephen King’s memoir, On Writing, he expresses dozens of opinions on his craft and provides a compilation of writing preferences for an audience of readers and aspiring writers alike. Jeannette Walls, the author of the memoir The Glass Castle, seemingly displays similar writing preferences to those of Stephen King. Specifically, Walls and King both leave out unnecessary words, they both use dialogue as a characterization tool, and they both believe in writing honestly. One of the first writing tactics King proposes is to, “...

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The article “Homeless in America” is written by Thomas L. Friedman, and from the Opinion Pages in New York Times. In the article, Friedman express his opinion and attitude toward Donald Trump being elected as the president of the United States. In the article Friedman express his unpleasantness toward the newly elected president being Trump. One of them being his fear of the country breaking apart, owing to the population being divided beyond repair, which eventually would result in that the national government would stop function.

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The story “homeless” relates two different aspects, home and identity. The story starts when the author met Ann, a homeless woman. The author identifies the woman as “somebody” for she had a house in which it, home, signifies the identity of someone. For the author, she views home as a place of comfort, privacy and security. The story describes how the society’s perspective on home gradually changes for during the old days, home is where a person live, work and even die, while nowadays, the society defines home as a temporary living place until someone could or need to move to other places.

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He himself describes his writing as autobiographical fiction. He is trying to dispel his fear that his sons' will get hurt, or that something will happen to his wife. He thinks that if he worries about it that it will protect his family from the danger when in reality all it will do is make him blind to the real danger…

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