Tag: essay writing
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Introduction to Literature: The Handmaid’s Tale- Complacency of Women
The first novel we read in my Introduction to Literature class was The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood. I had had this book on my self for years, but never got around to reading it. I have seen the show and after reading the book with all of its little insights that we miss in…
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I Believe in the Transformative Power of Books
For your final portfolio for my English class, we were asked to create a new “This I Believe” essay based off of the research we did during our persuasive essay research and how our beliefs and perceptions changed. My persuasive essay was on the Gothicism movement and genre, and as an epitome about how books…
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The Gothic Genre: An Unabated Literary Movement
Another English Composition assignment to build off of our “This I Believe” essay from a few weeks ago. I had a really fun time with this one and it served to reignite my passion for literature, specifically Gothic literature. Humans are naturally drawn to all things morbid, corrupt, and morally grey, whether they want…
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I Believe in the Power of Books
This I Believe essays are prompts that ask anybody and everybody what it is they believe in. These collections of personal narratives follow genre constructs that use a belief statement followed by personal experience that support their belief. This is exactly what we studies in my English Composition class earlier this quarter. Below is…
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Rhetorical Criticism of Malala Yousafzai’s Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech
This was the first assignment we had to write in our communications class. The task was to pick a speech of our choosing and analyze it in terms of the use of rhetorical concepts, theories, and paradigms. I had combed through about twelve speeches before choosing Malala’s. One reason I did choose this, outside of…
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Bit of a funny assignment.
Below is an argumentative essay I wrote in my college-level English comprehension call. There were a few few different topics we could pick from, but they were all compare and contrast two things, then make an argument supporting one of the side. The topic I picked was compare and contrast two villains from movie or…
Everything With Nothing 