“Like the rest of us, scientists gravitate toward the huggable” (Begley 257) says Sharon Begley as she refers to animals in her article “Praise the Humble Dung Beetle”. Begley, an accomplished and award-winning science journalist, informs people of the threat on the plants and animals going extinct. In this article published in Newsweek, she persuades her audience that this is harming the environment and humankind and why this is so detrimental. In “Praise the Humble Dung Beetle,” Begley’s use of rhetorical appeals, her organization and syntax, as well as her tone, help inform her audience about the importance of insects in our ecosystem. With her knowledge of journalism, Begley utilizes the resource she knows best, expert opinion.
Evan Santiago Honors English 7/1/15 Assignment #1 Ch. 1: Third Summary
Emma Marris uses many types of persuasive elements in her essay “Emma Marris: In Defense of Everglade Pythons”. In her writing she persuades her readers that the pythons should be allowed to be in the everglades since it is not their fault that they are there in the first place. She uses metaphors to relate to the reader and word choice to enhance her writing.
The sun rose on a beautiful fall morning. Chalupa Batman began to tend to his crops, but before he did that, he decided to munch on some bittersweet, chewy candy known as ‘Sour Patch Kids’ for breakfast. As he left his house to tend to his crops, he came across a vile, roadkill-like, smell. He decided to follow the smell to determine the object responsible for the disgusting smell that met him at his front door. He noticed a small black creature with a white stripe down its back sitting in front of his barn.
The Now & The Later: Frog King by Brothers Grimm Technology has become a big part of every day life in the 21st century. Moreover, technology has reached a point where children are more consumed by it than by other pass times such as fairy tales. The only common connection between Fairy tales and video games is that they both entertain children. However, fairy tales are not only important as a form of entertainment; according to Bettelheim, they also teach children about life and, subconsciously, help them find meaning in it. Bettelheim goes on to express the idea that folk fairy tale stimulates children imagination and help them develop intellectual reasoning and clarify emotions, which makes attuned to their anxieties and aspirations.
Moreover, he carefully makes sure to use empirical evidence in the same manner. “But according to a string of polls, Fay’s caning sentence struck a chord in the U.S. …and a radio call-in survey in Fay’s hometown of Dayton, Ohio, was strongly pro-caning” (Reyes 181). Instead of pressuring the reader into thinking that his opinion is true, he rather comments on the issue at hand according to the events conspired. Notice how there is a minimal amount of negative and positive connotative diction–-it makes superb use of passive voice. As a result, the document is cleverly written; Making sure that every piece of information educates you and doesn’t warp your view of the
The use of language in writing is a form of self-expression and is a way to reveal key things about narrators’ characters. The narrators in “The Notorious Jumping Frog” and “Baker's Bluejay Yarn” by Mark Twain, have a very specific style of language which reveals things about their characters. In “The Notorious Jumping Frog” the narrator’s name is Simon Wheeler, The story takes place in Calaveras County, a mining town in California. Wheeler is originally asked about a man by the name Leonidas W. Smiley, but Wheeler started talking a completely different man by the name of Jim Smiley, a man with a gambling problem, who once lived in town. In “Baker's Bluejay Yarn” the narrator's name is Jim Baker.
Their skin is poisonous to the touch. Their skin is slippery and rubbery. The Poison Dart frog lives in a very small place. They live in northern South America. They live in the rainy rain forests.
The stupid red coats were starting to annoy Dean, when they first started the sugar act. That just in itself almost made him get on a boat himself and go punch the cursed fart of a king right in his smug pompous face. He could even tolerate that stupid bugger or a proclamation that he put in place. The bloody red coats totally crashed down on his business empire. He couldn't even trade with the locals to get the items he desperately needed for his business.
So, is licking a toad a good idea? Definitely not. Not only would it taste disgusting, it would be illegal and extremely
Darwin states, “A large number of eggs is of some importance to those species, which depend on a rapidly fluctuating amount of food, for its allows them rapidly
World War 1 was a vast historical war. World War 1 was declared on July 28th, 1914, and ended on November 11, 1918. Various events led up to World War 1. One of the biggest events that led to this war was the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary. Another big event that helped lead up to World War 1 was when all of the countries were allied.
As best stated by Paul Alster, “ the truth of the story lies in the details.” When it comes to novels, the reader must partake in a close reading to get to the nitty gritty of what is trying to be said by the author and/or characters of that novel. We The Animals, by Justin Torres, is the perfect example of such a novel. There were endless messages linked throughout the novel linking story lines to one another from beginning to end. However, it is not as easy, ad the reader, to such details because Torres constantly withholds information from the audience.
The tale to be interpreted is Charles Perrault’s, “Toads and Diamonds”. This tale type is AT 480: The Kind and the Unkind Girls. The tale is to be analyzed through a Socio-Historical analysis. This type of analysis fits best with this particular tale because, it distinctively captures the strict norms and values placed on women of that era. What is meant by this is that, this tale shows some of the many tasks that women of that time were expected to complete, such as, work in the kitchen, run errands, and overall just work continuously to provide for their families; as well as how they were expected to act.
being passive. This passive state of acceptance can be like poison for the mind of a young reader. The story that a young reader is left with is one that a woman's survival “Depends upon [her] acceptance of roles”(Gruss, 197). Most of the time those roles aren't decided by the main character; they are forced upon them.
