Analysis

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New Yorker
1) 500 words
2) 84 sentences
3) 21 words
4) 1 word
5) 5 words
6) 2 sentences
7) 2%
8) 84 sentences
9) 100%
10) 3 sentences / 1 sentence

Mine
1) 488 words
2) 24 sentences
3) 32 words
4) 8 words
5) 20.333
6) 1 sentence
7) 4%
8) 17 sentences
9) 71%
10) 15 sentences / 4 sentences

Ch 3 response

Throughout our national United States history, many different extraordinary events, people, places, and things have occurred over these many years of time. They have all made both good and bad impacts that have caused important changes to our history. One of the most major and longest things that had a great impact on all cultures was a hardship and true evil labeled with the name discrimination. The majority of the people who were receiving the negative side of the impact at hand were black-colored people. The famous black-colored person who felt strongly enough against the issue of discrimination was a man named Mr. Booker T. Washington. W.E.B Du Bois made a point of not only mentioning Mr. Booker T. Washington but also telling a short story of his life story. With the implementation of stating what Mr. Booker T. Washington believed in, what he wanted to do about his issue, and how he planned on developing a solution to his annoying predicament, he only was providing more proof to amplify the audience’s reasoning for wanting to believe what W.E.B Du Bois wanted them to find as true.
During the period of time that Mr. Booker T. Washington was living in, discrimination was not an unknown factor in every single society that existed. The type of discrimination that Mr. Booker T. Washington had to endure on a daily basis, throughout luckily only a portion of his life, was the discrimination that white-colored people had towards their darker constituents. These darker constituents can specifically be labeled as the black-colored people. This discrimination did not simply just appear out of nowhere. It had slowly and gradually developed into what it is seen as today through the many years that have come since the beginning of slavery. When slavery had first came to be, it began to put all white-colored people, who owned slaves, under the impression that the reason for black-colored people being slaves was because of their darker skin color. These white-colored people found themselves to be of better quality of human beings because they believed to be an overall better type of human being. After slavery was completely banished throughout the United States of America, a larger amount of discrimination against blacks had quickly and constantly began its development. Even though the Northern states of the United States of America were considered as free states, even before the end of slavery had occurred, they still held a very large quantity of discriminations towards all black-colored people. In order for Mr. Booker T. Washington to have completed his dream and goal of showing the Northerners that black-colored people were not as bad as a large majority of the Northerners made them out to be, he had to gain the Northerners respect. Mr. Booker T. Washington soon then began working on getting himself an education. With this education, Mr. Booker T. Washington would be able to show all those discriminating Northerners just how sophisticated, proper, educated, and well-brought up that black-colored people could be. Since Mr. Booker T. Washington had successfully fulfilled all these basic requirements and more to there fullest potential, he was able to utilize all of his qualities and characteristics to gain him and his people the respect that they most rightfully had earned and definitely had come to deserve.
With the implementation of stating what Mr. Booker T. Washington believed in, what he wanted to do about his issue, and how he planned on developing a solution to his annoying predicament, he only was providing more proof to amplify the audience’s reasoning for wanting to believe what W.E.B Du Bois wanted them to find as true. Even though discrimination is meant to make oneself lower how they feel about their quality of life, Washington only allowed it to be the reason why he should continue to fight for its destruction.

W.E.B Du Bois

There are a large variety of societies that have developed over the many generations that have dawned on our time on earth. There are societies that may provide its many civilians with comfort, sadness, joy, confusion, discomfort, or even discrimination. These societies vary from every region to region. They develop their characteristics from the many inhabitants that have come to populate the region in question. In “The Souls of Black Folk,” W.E.B. Du Bois’s society was one filled with discrimination. The particular type of discrimination that W.E.B. Du Bois had to endure throughout his early, childhood, youthful years was the discrimination of those not willing to accept the fact that black-colored people of their generation were no longer considered as the Caucasian civilians’ slaves, but instead they were to be viewed as the Caucasian people’s equal partners in the harsh, difficult, troubling, anxiety inducing, and sometimes enjoyable game of life. Since authors are not always able to simply or easily explain their main points to the audience that their work of writing may attract, authors tend to utilize the rhetorical devices’ that have been created and provided for them by the many previous authors that have come before there time of life. Even though there is more than one form of rhetorical devices, W.E.B. Du Bois was able to make the decisions on what specific rhetorical devices would give W.E.B. Du Bois the best amount of assistance that he could have possibly needed or attained to help him interpret his main ideas and beliefs to his fellow audience members. One of the rhetorical devices that W.E.B Du Bois had finally chosen to utilize as a helper in his attempt to inform and ensure that no one in his audience would have to ever come to ponder what W.E.B Du Bois was trying to explain to them was tone. With W.E.B Du Bois using tone within his literary work, he was able to tell the literary work’s audience how he had come to feel about the world and its beliefs of him.
Tone is the interpretation of how an individual may be feeling at a certain time through one’s vocal characteristics. W.E.B Du Bois had to go through his young years of life with the darkening cloud of racial discrimination luring above his head every moment of his life. W.E.B. Du Bois was a black-colored man living in a white-colored world where slavery had seemed to have been only recently banned. The white-people of this time era also did not tend to prefer the national decision of the banning of slavery. Even though they had to learn to live with it, which did not mean that they had to come to learn to enjoy it. When W.E.B Du Bois was a boy of a young age, he was developed a liking for a certain white girl. He wanted to show the little white girl how much he really liked her. So, he decided on giving her a present from the true goodness of his heart. When he had accumulated a large enough amount of courage to go up and personally hand the gift her got for her to her, she resulted in declining his present to her without any consideration towards his feelings. She did so for only one exact reason. It was because he was born of black people meaning that he himself was also a black person. When the girl he had a major crush on had turned his gift down, he had felt disappointed and annoyed with how badly white-colored people chose to think about and treat black-colored people at the time. In order to interpret this thought of his to the audience, he used a tone that symbolized both disappointment and the feeling of being extremely annoyed with something. He stressed on the point of how the girl he was dreaming to be with had declined his gift of love with the simple fact and physical characteristic such as the darkness of his skin.
With W.E.B Du Bois using tone within his literary work, he was able to tell the literary work’s audience how he had come to feel about the world and its beliefs of him. This helped him show the world how he really felt about discrimination in his world.

The Awakening of the Negro

All in a short period of day, God created many different non-living and living things to be placed on the earth. Amongst the many living creatures he made were two humans. Their names were Adam and Eve. God did not provide them with many rules, but he did give them one very important rule that they should never break. If they did choose to break this one rule, then they would sadly have to be banished from the amazing paradise that God had made especially for them. The single rule that they were not supposed to break was to not eat the fruit from a certain tree. This tree was evil and should never have any encounter with the both of them. There was an evil serpent that always remained on this evil tree. One day, when Eve was searching for something to satisfy her hunger for food, she had walked by the evil tree. Since the serpent was very sly and tricky, he knew that it would talk very little effort to convince Eve to eat a fruit from the tree. So, the serpent got Eve’s attention. It began to tell her how scrumptious the fruit of his tree was. It also told her how it would not only surely fulfill her hunger, but it would also be the best fruit that would ever have the opportunity for her to consume. She ended up eating the fruit, which she was never supposed to let touch her lips, let alone her stomach. After she had eaten this delicious, yet evil fruit, she wanted to give Adam the same opportunity she was given and allow him to eat this amazing fruit. Since Adam was given the time to come to develop a strong relationship with Eve, he took the fruit in hand and ate it without question. Immediately after Adam ate the apple, God had appeared before the both of them and soon banned them from the paradise of which they were born. Since Adam had broken God’s most important rule, he has caused all humans after him to have to not be born into a paradise but a cruel and bitter world. In Booker T. Washington’s “The Awakening of the Negro,” the only thing he could rely on to lessen the harshness of the world was to get an education.
Even though every human is forced to come to terms with the many challenges that this world makes us face, not every human has the same amount or harsh quality of disputes in their lives. In order to show his audience how his quality of youth was not a very pleasant one, he implemented pathos in “The Awakening of the Negro.” He used pathos by being very descriptive. Washington gives specific examples of how badly blacks had to live. If blacks had an education, then they would not be so helpless. “By walking, begging rides, and paying for a portion of the journey on the steam-cars, I finally succeeded in reaching the city of Richmond.” (Washington 1) This sentence yet again describes how poverty, in that time era, is common in a black person’s life, especially one without an education. With an education, black people would be able to solve many things for themselves. They would be able to read and write. Without an education, if a black person needed money, then they had to earn that money on the spot, but with an education, a black person could get a job easily. This job would be received by the presentation of the type of degree that that black person had earned in college. If a hospital was looking for a doctor that they needed to hire, then the black person’s doctorial degree will be the help and proof that the black person needs to prove to the hospital that they are the person they are looking for.
In Booker T. Washington’s “The Awakening of the Negro,” the only thing he could rely on to lessen the harshness of the world was to get an education. Even though Adam threw away our opportunity of living in a true paradise, God still cared enough for us by giving us the opportunity to change our world around for the better through education.

The Yellow Wallpaper Reponse

Charlotte Perkins Gilman was a woman who had a whole lot of emotions conflicting each other and going crazy within her life. Since authors are known for writing about what they are the most knowledgeable on or what they truly believe in life, Charlotte Perkins Gilman implemented a large portion and variety of pathos within her story, “The Yellow Wallpaper.” Since she used pathos in her piece of writing, she was using a literary technique to try an appeal to the audience’s emotional side.

When she placed pathos within her story, she did so to show her audience how much stress was being inflicted on her, on a daily basis. When Gilman is explaining to the audience that her husband is a trained physician and tells her that she simply has temporary nervous depression, she states that his unwillingness to be even partially religious “is one reason I don’t get well faster.” (Gilman, 1) The fact that her husband is not willing to listen to her and believe her, when she says that she thinks she may have a serious sickness, shows the audience how the husband, in actuality, is only adding to the amount of stress that is already being applied onto her. When instead of hurting her even more, he should listen to his wife and try to help her more. Her husband and brother both thought that it would be logical for her to cease from working. When she is describing this to her audience, she states the many things relating to labor that she is not allowed to do. By describing the situation in this way, she stresses to her audience how much she really does love to work. While she is telling her audience about how her husband and her brother try to vocally tell her that she should keep away from any type of labor, she instead does the complete opposite and tries to continue working without getting caught by either her husband or her brother. Yet again, when her husband and her brother make an attempt to try and stop her from pursuing what she truly happens to love in life, they are counteracting there purpose for wanting her to cease from doing any type of labor. Instead, they result in causing her more stress because she has to use a whole lot of her mental power trying to worry about getting caught working. Another reason for why she put pathos into her literary work was to ensure herself that her audience would not become confused. She made sure that her audience would not have to ever ponder what she was talking about by writing her story as if she were personally talking to her audience. “So I will let it alone and talk about the house.” (Gilman) When she states this, she is writing this story as if she were directly talking to her paper’s audience. Instead of simply going straight to talking about the house, she provides her audience with a direct statement saying that she will begin to discuss on the subject of the house she was looking at. Since she just wrote that she would start writing down what she thought of the house, she was trying to form a close relationship with her audience members by making sure that they do not become confused on what the author is talking about. She used pathos when she described the house by first clearly stating that she thought it was beautiful. After that she carefully started describing the house in complete detail. Also, instead of simply using one or two sentences to describe what she thought of the house, she decided to dedicate a whole paragraph on the topic. She also uses pathos to describe to her audience how thinking about her condition makes her feel. “I confess it always makes me feel bad.” (Gilman) Her condition makes her feel like a huge cloud of dreariness is floating above her because she is filled with so much depression a large majority of the time. Pathos gives Gilman the opportunity to not only tell her audience her story but to do so and appeal to her audience’s emotions.

Since she used pathos in her piece of writing, she was using a literary technique to try an appeal to the audience’s emotional side. Without putting pathos into Gilman’s writing, her story would have been told, but it most likely would not be considered as good as it is today.

Annotated Bibliographies

Black, D. (2007). “Providing a professional service.” Retrieved from

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Even though veterinarians can get paid a good amount of money, they are always in competition with each other, for their service. Even though a veterinarian can go through all that schooling and may have attained their doctoral degree, these things still may not be enough to try and convince an animal’s owner that they know what they are talking about and that they can be trusted. Being a veterinarian does not only consist of helping animals get a healthy body or maintain a healthy diet. Being a veterinarian means that you are also helping and aiding the owners of the animals that the veterinarian is administering their care on. It is not an easy task to get clients to listen to a veterinarian. No matter how educated or logical the veterinarian’s advice may sound, there are always those owners who believe that they may know better than the veterinarian and do not need to listen to the veterinarian. If a person had wanted to become a veterinarian that works on a farm, then they are most likely to not be able to receive the many basic skills that are needed by the veterinarian to successfully give care to the animal in need of it from the veterinary schooling provided by very few colleges. These people wanting to become farm veterinarians have to acquire these skills through personal experience and hands-on training. Veterinarians may be highly well - educated, but at times, veterinarians may need to consult other veterinarians in situations, which may have caused the veterinarian to be filled with complete confusion. The article was mainly about how to improve veterinarian companies. Which means that there were very few things that were said about what veterinarians do or anything else that could possibly inform people that want to become veterinarians about a veterinarian’s normal job description. This article has helped me by giving me the realization that, even though a veterinarian may have all that education and that they are labeled as a legal doctor, there will still be individuals that will not respect all the schooling a veterinarian has and will refuse to take the veterinarian’s advice into high consideration.

Clark, L. (2008). “No discouraging moments: Despite being skunked and kicked,

Viewpoint veterinarian enjoyed rewarding career.” Retrieved from

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When someone places their self in the line of work of veterinary medicine, they are amplifying their risk of receiving any type of injuries or possible pain that can be inflicted on them. This article gives a basic and simplistic description of what things could be classified as possibilities that can go wrong with the patients that a veterinarian may see. Larry Clark makes sure that his audience members will not become confused or puzzled on what he happens to be talking about, in his article, by placing a direct example of what could happen to a veterinarian when they are working with a very distressed, injured, and ill animal. This article tells all the high school students, from its audience members, that, if they are inspiring to become a veterinarian in their future, then they can look into possibly job shadowing a veterinarian that they may be familiar with. Another thing Larry Clark implements in his article, so that none of his audience members will have to ponder the situation in order to find an answer, is how a real-life scenario of what patients and their owners may act like. Veterinarians have the many opportunities to join the many different animal assisting organizations in this world, and they can use their education and experience to help those that cannot afford a veterinarians normal fee by lowering it or doing it for free. Larry Clark also gave many of the audience members wanting to become veterinarians his advice to how to get started on the right path, stay on the right path, and to use their acquired knowledge to change the world for the best. An inspiring veterinarian should have a great love for all of the animals on this earth. An inspiring veterinarian should a high level of compassion. An inspiring veterinarian should make sure that they are continuously getting good grades throughout their schooling. Veterinary colleges are some of the hardest colleges to try to enroll into. They require many different things from any college students that want to enroll into any of these veterinary colleges. This article continues to mainly talk about People’s social life and talks very little about the veterinary field. This article helped me by giving me credible advice that I can use in my consideration of becoming a veterinarian. It was a credible source because Larry Clark was a veterinarian with many years of experience.

Cockermouth, Lambert, C., Hexham, Lambert, Leonard, May, Millcroft Vet Group,

Morle, P., Scott R., ScottMitchell Associates, Shepton Mallet, Shepton Vet

Group, Wellford, R. (2007). “Vet Viewpoint.” Retrieved from

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Veterinarians can give farmers assistance on their cattle. They can give the farmer’s cattle, which have previously been mothers already, help with giving life to a new healthy group of offspring. This new offspring can also be closely duplicated with the intervention of a veterinarian. They complete this almost exact duplication with the use of embryo transfers. Veterinarian’s purpose for working and going through the process of educating themselves is to use all of their knowledge to make the world we live in into a better place. They also are placed with the responsibility of saving as many lives as physically possible. Veterinarians are required to use various types of experimentation to solve any type of problems that they may be faced with. They must find the solutions that will solve the complications that happen to be occurring in their subject’s life. Veterinarians are required to become knowledgeable on how the male’s sperm system operates. With this important knowledge, veterinarians can help owners’ pets or livestock give birth to a healthy and strong set of offspring. The veterinarian has to carry a large majority of the responsibility in ensuring that the farmer’s cattle give birth in the proper format. They are responsible for recording any type of complications that may or are probable to occur to the animal. They must discover administer any treatment that is required for the cattle with the cattle best interests in mind. When giving care to the mother cattle in need of assistance, the veterinarian has to not only worry about the mother’s best interests but the mother’s young’s best interest as well. If the veterinarian does not take precaution in deciding the correct way of helping the pregnant cow feel better, then the veterinarian may be risking both the mother cow and young’s lives. This article talks about both animals and what the animals eat. Even though what the animals eat is a very important thing, it drifts away from the subject of veterinarians. This article helped me by informing me how much veterinarians must analyze a situation and why they must do so.

Kilbane, K. (2008). “Veterinarian Dr. Nancy Whitesell retires after 30 years here: She is

moving to Texas, and may write a book.” Retrieved from

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The article gives a basic but informative history on the veterinarians of our earlier generations. It clearly states that vets of that earlier generation were most likely not women. In fact, at that time, there were a very minute percentage of veterinarians that were of the female gender. All veterinarians are continually requiring themselves to worry about updating the technology they use, the knowledge they acquire, and the medicine that they create and use on their patients. This provides the veterinarian with a large majority of stress to deal with on a daily basis. It places stress on the veterinarian physically, mentally, and psychologically, all at once. The number of women that are in the veterinarian field has also increased to an outstandingly, huge percentage of eighty-five percent. This percentage is found to be so amazing because, as the article stated earlier, women were not likely to be found performing the duties required from the average veterinarian. They were also not usually simply welcomed with open arms by the many sexist people living in that era of time. So, when the percentage of women in the veterinarian field was found to be such a large percentage of eighty-five percent, it was simply amazing that over the passing years from that sexist time era the percentage of women being allowed to educate themselves in the veterinarian science had increased to such a high percentage. Veterinarians happen to meet a large portion of “good” people through their line of work. They meet the people that actually give a care about all the other living creatures on this earth, besides human beings. These are the people who will not simply pass up a helpless animal that just may be lying there on the ground in need of immediate medical attention. They are the people who will bring in any animal in need of a veterinarian and will pay for an animal that is not even under their ownership. The article does not have a single complete paragraph throughout it. There is not even one paragraph that contains a total number of at least eight sentences in it. This article helped me because it informed me how stressful the job of a veterinarian can be, and this stress would be placed on me on a day-to-day basis.

Long, J. (2008). “Untitled.” Retrieved from

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Veterinarians provide their assistance with farmers and society by making sure that our food supply is safe for our consumption and that farmers get as much as they can possibly make from their food supply business. Being a veterinarian does not only revolve around the fact they have to take care of injured or ill animals through surgery, check-ups, or any other type of type of treatment. Sometimes, data recording is absolutely necessary to keep the veterinarian up to date with how the animal’s health and current condition is looking. The recording of the data also can be used as evidence to convince those who doubt the credibility of the veterinarian, who recorded the data, that the veterinarian’s ideas and beliefs are correct. It is not always a simple task to try to convince farmers that what a veterinarian thinks is the best form of treatment is usually the most logical and correct solution to choose. Veterinarians will have to work with many other professionals such as nutritional advisors, breeding specialists, and financial consultants. Since these professionals join as one to work together, they are able to solve whatever issue may come about. Veterinarians get paid a good rate for their advice. Veterinarians give the animal owners drugs to help get the changes needed for the sick and hurt animals. Anyone wanting to become a veterinarian that works on mainly farms needs to have certain requirements. Farm veterinarians must have a strong interest in livestock farming. Farm veterinarians must work as a team when it comes to farming. Farm veterinarians must expect to be required to record data and analyze situations. Farm veterinarians must give respect give respect and receive respect from anyone they meet. Farm veterinarians must specialize in the area of a farm animal veterinarian. Being a veterinarian for animals that are found on a farm is considered as a sixteen veterinarian mixed practice. A farm veterinarian must also have the job of being an advisor to industry bodies. The article gave excess information that was not pertaining to the veterinarian field. The article helped me by telling me what to expect if I were to become a veterinarian for farm animals.

Moser, J. (2008). “I Want THAT Job.” Retrieved from

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This article provides all of the audience members with the definition of a zoo veterinarian. This article provides all of the audience members wishing to become a zoo veterinarian with possible questions that they may want to ask a zoo veterinarian. With these questions, they provide within the article the answers for the possible questions that could have been asked by those ambitious on becoming a zoo veterinarian. A zoo veterinarian is a veterinarian that is specially trained and educated to work with the many exotic animals that a person can find at a zoo on a daily basis. Since these zoo veterinarians are assigned to work in zoos, they have to observe and care for a large variety of different animals on a day-to-day basis. With this fact in mind, the zoo veterinarian has to be educated on each and every one of these very different and sometimes unique animals. They have to be set with the knowledge of all the different anatomies, behaviors, and characteristics of all the zoo animals. These many zoo animals are very much different from each other in so many ways. Since they are so different from each other, that means that, the zoo veterinarian has the difficult challenge of trying to memorize the many facts needed to perform their daily jobs at the zoo that they happen to work at. Besides simply having to use their minds to memorize facts and details, these zoo veterinarians have to do other things as well. They must give their patients routine examinations to ensure that the animal is healthy. They are responsible to give their subjects any vaccinations that the animal is not up to date with. They have to take care of any injured or ill animals. The starting salary for a zoo veterinarian is at approximately $40,000. If the zoo veterinarian has been working for a longer period of time, then they are can get paid up to about $80,000. When they told Mitch Finnegan’s story, the author was very brief and not very descriptive. The article helped me by giving me a lot of facts on zoo veterinarians.

Parr, M. (2008). “A Life of Care For Clients and Creatures.” Retrieved from

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Veterinarians have a tendency to make friends with a good amount of the owners and their pets or livestock. This article gives a very brief history on what veterinarians should preferably be back from the very beginning of the history of veterinarians. In the extremely early years of the blossoming of the veterinarian study, a sexist world was very much present. Women were not considered as smart enough, strong enough, or manly enough to successfully attain the requirements needed to become a veterinarian. Men, at the earlier time in history, believed that women could not acquire these requirements and most definitely could not carry out these requirements. This article describes to all of its audience members what they should expect and be ready for anything to encounter them if they wanted to work on any type of farm. Even though male practices have been more common, the amount of large and local practices continues to remain very numerous and is still standing strong. This article gives all of its audience members an updated version on how a veterinarian is called down for any type of emergencies by farmers. Veterinarians have to demand a lot from themselves. They have to demand both physical and emotional energy and time from themselves. Veterinarians do not only help the animals that they are working on. They help the owners of the animals that they are working on as well. This article main objection was to explain to its audience members what Christine Howe’s interests and life story were. This article did give its audience members true facts, but it also gave them false information as well. This article gave its audience members false information because the author states that he “was interested in medicine, but not in people, so the obvious thing was veterinary science.” (Parr, 3) When someone is a licensed veterinarian, they are not only constantly interacting with many animals on a daily basis but with numerous people as well. This article helped me by keeping me up to date with any current changes that have been made in the average farm veterinarian’s life.

Paulos, L. (2007). “Doggy Doctor.” Retrieved from

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Veterinarians save many lives on a daily basis and ease the lives of so many animals and people at the same time. The job of a veterinarian is both extremely time consuming and very much physically demanding. Veterinarians are responsible for a large variety of animals. Also, a veterinarian must always be prepared for an emergency to occur at any point in time. A veterinarian must be mentally and physically prepared for an emergency patient that may need to be given immediate treatment and care. A veterinarian has to worry about the demand of the attention towards recovering surgery patients, new surgery patients, and the regular check-ups that occur on a daily basis. Since a veterinarian works with animals continuously and constantly, the veterinarian would want to have a love for animals and a passion for wanting to help them. The article gives an average amount of patients that could possibly be seen everyday at a veterinarian’s work place. The article gave an example of what a veterinarian’s schedule could look like. When the example schedule is actually observed closely, it is made an obvious fact that a veterinarian’s normal day-to-day schedule takes up a large majority of that veterinarian’s life. A veterinarian can get a salary check starting at $50,000. After the veterinarian has attained a good number of years working as a veterinarian, then the veterinarian can end up getting a paycheck resulting in $90,000. Those inspiring to become veterinarians must have as much knowledge in both math and science as possible before they try to enroll themselves into a veterinary college. Veterinarians must be able to manage both the animals and people they are working with. They must have a love for animals and be disciplined. A veterinarian must have a bachelor’s degree in either animal science or biology. Then the students must try to enroll themselves into a four year Doctor of Veterinary Medicine program. The article asks questions but does not provide the audience with the answers. This article helped me by telling me all the requirements that inspiring veterinarians need to have or attain.

“Senior Pet Health Programs Help Older Pets Lead Longer, Healthier Lives,” (2008).

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The main importance of having veterinarians is that they give there assistance to owners in receiving any type of early detection of anything that could possibly cause any harm to the animal that the veterinarian is looking at. Veterinarians give physical examinations to pets varying of all sorts and ages. A veterinarian’s job will consist of helping an animal in lengthening its life span, through keeping the animal in a healthy state. Veterinarians are required to have some kind of knowledge on about almost every single subject that they will be working on or with. They must be informed on facts such as the many different anatomies of animals, average life spans of animals, any diseases that the animal may be highly prone to, and so much more. Veterinarians are required to keep a record of what the subject’s body condition is. With this important information, veterinarians can decide on any exercises or dietary changes that need to be put into effect in the animal’s life. With these necessary changes, the animal’s life would attain a healthy state. After the animal’s life has acquired its proper state of healthiness, then the veterinarian must tell the owner of how they can regulate there animal’s good health. The veterinarian’s physical examination will consist of checking the animal’s gums and teeth, for any type of dental diseases or any of these dental diseases’ horrible symptoms that may be present. The article gave the audience of readers a definition on what dental diseases where. The article also described the audience of readers of how owners of an animal can try to prevent these terrible diseases from occurring in their animal’s mouth. This article gives the many animal owners, in the author’s audience, the numerous things they should look for in their animals that will indicate that something may be wrong with them. Veterinarians administer a large variety of standardized tests, on animals of all sorts that can quickly inform the veterinarian that something is wrong with the animal or that something will be wrong with the animal in the near future. This article is deceiving. It is said that this type of care should be administered to older pets, but this form of care should be used upon pets of all ages. This article helped me by giving me a lot of information how veterinarians help owners.

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Veterinary technicians are very similar to our average nurses. They are mainly assisting veterinarians usually with cats and dog. They are capable of administering medicines, preparing samples for examinations, and recording data on a wide variety of animals. They can be found in a large amount of animal treating facilities. They work about an average of forty hours a week, but their work hours mainly depend on the veterinarians they are working with. They have to go through a minimum of two years of college. Their salaries depend on their experience, employment type, working location, and responsibility level. The Bureau of Labor Statistics starts the average pay at $11.99 in May 2004, and the top ten percent had received more than $17.12. Joliet Jr. College’s veterinary medical technology program had begun in the year 1999. Its purpose of creation was because of the multiple requesting demands for veterinarian technicians, by veterinarians. The National Dissemination Center for Career and Technical Education declared in it its 2002 designation as a “Promising Postsecondary Program.” One hundred percent of the students passed the national board exam given to them. The students are continually educated on any current information. This program is about a ten thousand square foot area where students labor in open labs and study areas are housed. Architects have created a place where students can freely use the facility, built for them, as a veterinary clinical classroom. It has passed the U.S. Department of agriculture and the American Veterinarian Medical Association inspections. They learn how to use many of the technology used by veterinarian technicians. They are given hands on training by being assigned a cat or dog that they have to care for and give weekly physical exams to. They are required to record their findings, based on their assigned pet, and after they are through with that, a veterinarian writes them orders to execute by themselves on their own time. The article was not helpful because it talked about students attending a college, which I was not planning on attending. It helped me to still get an understanding on what veterinarian technicians do.

Poe Response

Whenever an author creates any type of literary work, they are bound to receive many different responses and reviews on their writing. Literary critiques can be considered as a good thing for the author. They provide the author with a variety of opinions and beliefs of how the author can improve their literary work. Even though literary responses can be viewed upon as helpful sources of improvement, they can only be looked upon this way if the author of the literary response has formulated their views, on the literary work they are commenting on, with sufficient and trustworthy reasons support their reasoning for even developing their ideas of improvement. The author of the literary work, which is doing the critiquing, must formulate good main points and include adequate support for their main points within their literary response. Even though Jeanne M. Malloy did properly implement her main points and support for these main points, she could have done so in a better fashion.
Every type of literary work must contain, at the least, one main point. An author must implement a main point into their literary work so that their audience will have an understanding on what the author is trying to persuade them to believe. Without the inclusion of an author’s main points, the audience would become confused on what the author’s purpose for writing their literary work was, and the author would then be without a rationale for developing the literary work in the first place. In order to ensure that her audience would be fully aware of what she was exactly attempting to convince them on, Jeanne M. Malloy made sure that she placed both of her main points within her literary response to Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Pit and the Pendulum.” Jeanne M. Malloy’s main points were that Edgar Allen Poe “couched … events in apocalyptic imagery” (Malloy, 82) and “using apocalyptic imagery as part of a psychological reconception.” (Malloy, 86) In order to provide logos for these main points the author had to use support of many different varieties. Jeanne M. Malloy used outside resources, such as the Book of Revelation, to help prove her point that Edgar Allen Poe used apocalyptic imagery throughout her literary review. “Hirsch, for example, is comfortable with the conclusion.” (Malloy, 83) Besides simply remaining to his views, he used other people’s views and ideas to support his main ideas. Since Jeanne M. Malloy used a wide variety of support, she succeeded in providing logos for her main points, but she did have some flaws within her literary response.
Even though the author may find their literary work perfect, there will always be room for improvements. When Jeanne M. Malloy was trying to explain to her audience why she believed in her main points and why they were right, she tended to leave some deeper descriptions out. These descriptions were necessary in order for the audience to understand why her explanations were logical. Jeanne M. Malloy claims that “Poe heralds … an announcement amply fulfilled by the violence, pain, and horror experienced by the narrator in his prison cell,” (Malloy, 82-83) but after she says this, she does not explain why she believes that to be so. Jeanne M. Malloy tends to get off topic as well. On page eighty-five of Jeanne M. Malloy’s literary response the paragraph starting with “according,” she dedicates that whole paragraph to talk about English Romantic literature, a supporting detail. So, she is basically supporting her supporting detail instead of using her supporting detail to support her main points. By getting off topic she is only placing unneeded and excess information into her literary response. Which will result in confusing the audience on what the author’s true main points are. If she did not make these flaws, then her literary response would sound and flow so much smoother.
Even though Jeanne M. Malloy did properly implement her main points and support for these main points, she could have done so in a better fashion. Since there are no literary works that will ever be perfect, there was bound to be flaws within Malloy’s own literary response. Even the literary responses need literary responses to make them better.

Kate Choplin comparison

When people are writing stories, songs, fairy tales, or any other type of literary work, they tend to include their thoughts, beliefs, and opinions within them. Since the author’s literary piece of writing is based on their thoughts, beliefs, and opinions, they had to derive these views and ideas from a certain source. These sources are developed throughout the author’s lifetime. Any certain significant event that happens in someone’s life tends to make an enormous impact on how that person will live their life and how they will think of a large range of different situations. Since Kate Choplin is just like any other author on this earth, she used thoughts, beliefs, and opinions that she learned throughout her lifetime to help in the construction of “ The Story of An Hour.” With these factors being placed within Kate Choplin’s “ The Story of An Hour,” it affected the reasoning of why this literary work was even drafted.

“ Kate O’ Flaherty grew up surrounded by smart, independent, single women.” (Wyatt, 2) There were many strong and courageous women willing to stand up for what was right, without fear of any consequences that could possibly occur from their actions. They knew that when something was wrong and would not allow it to continue causing havoc or inequality among her society and economy’s rights. If there was something that these women sought, then they would make a determination to achieve their goal and to do whatever it takes to attain it. “ Victoria’s own mother had been the first woman in St. Louis to obtain legal separation from her husband, after which she raised her five children and ran a shipping business on the Mississippi.” (Wyatt, 2) Since Victoria was Kate Choplin’s great-great-grandmother did not simply stand around and wait for someone else to retrieve her freedom from her husband, the trait of taking a stand for what is righteous in life originated and continued from this early point in Kate Choplin’s family tree. It was only destined or classified as logically evident that, since Kate Choplin’s ancestors did not remain silent about what they thought was wrong with their world, Kate Choplin would also result in fighting for the rights and liberties of any type of certain group in need of her aid. “ For the next two years she lived at home with her mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother, all of them widows.” (Wyatt, 2) Since the many women of her family were all widows, they did not have the assistance of men to help them care for the children, housework, money issues, and the many other conflicts that occur when a person is trying to support a family and themselves. With this statement being a true fact, these women had to be strong individuals so that they could handle the many stress-inducing conflicts that would present themselves in these women’s daily lives. Which means that Kate Choplin was always around women that were strong and independent. With these type of women being the only kind of women that she was able to view and learn from, she was bound to pick up their traits and beliefs on fighting for their rights and being able to be independent.

With these factors being placed within Kate Choplin’s “ The Story of An Hour,” it affected the reasoning of why this literary work was even drafted. Since Kate Choplin was raised in a house filled with these strong-minded women, she tended to base her writings on the thoughts, beliefs, and opinions that she derived from her family’s way of life.

The Story of An Hour's Answers

Phrases:

1. "pressed down by a physical exhaustion"- I chose this quote because I liked how the author chose to use diction relating to the medical field which was an actual foreshadow of what the story's conclusion would be.

2. "as a child who has cried itself to sleep continues to sob in its dreams"- I like the way that the author chose to include how she had become as dependent for comforting as a child would be, and how it is theorized that whatever happens to be on someone's mind before they go to sleep, will most likely be what the person will dream of that night.

3. "it was too subtle and elusive to name"- I enjoy how the author claims the situation to be too broad of a subject to specifically name, and that it's also somewhat trying to hide from him because it's elusive.

4. "Now her bosom rose and fell tumultuously"- It gives a foreshadow of how her heart is where the issue can be found.

5. "free, free, free!"- I like how freedom is the what brings the author joy. I'm glad that the author has been freed from their suffering.

Questions:

1. Did the women's family, friends, or associates foreshadow her heart condition?
2. Why did the author choose to use pathos in their story?
3. Why does the author consider the heart condition as "the joy that kills"?
4. Why did the author start and end the story as they did?
5. Why did the story consist of how the dying character's thoughts?

Disturbia

Kale was able to viewed as an authentic character with the help of the visual and auditory details presented in the movie. In the very beginning, Kale had his hood over his head. This gave the audience the impression that he did not care about school. This simple detail foreshadowed to when Kale purposely hit the teacher in the eye. When Kale was placed on house arrest, his choice of visual entertainment was watching women in bathing suits. Since this seemed to be his choice of interest,it gave Kale a more realistic image as the average, troubled, and teenage boy. A normal teenage boy is usually portrayed as an individual who's mind is usually attracted to gorgeous girls, preferably with nothing on. Without the visual and auditory details being placed in this movie, it would have been a much harder task to try and portray Kale as an authentic character.

Aren't I a Woman Comparison

When the 50 Essays book edits Sojourner Truth's "Ain't I A Woman" to their preferences, her authenticity is taken away from her original speech. In order for any type of literary work to have a sense of authenticity, it has to receive it from the true author of the literary work. By Sojourner Truth having her speech told to the world as she said it, it allows the audience to view who she really was. In Sojourner Truth's original speech, there is her natural dialect. In Sojourner Truth's edited speech, her true dialect is taken away from the audience. When Sojourner Truth has her normal dialect implemented in her speech, she shows the audience how she really is that woman who is a free, courageous slave, who was not scared of what could happen to her if she did publicize her feelings on slavery, women's rights, and the lack of justice in the world but what would happen to her is she did nothing at all. Physical abuse is a temporary pain. Whereas, mental abuse can destroy a person by beginning at their soul and slowly and painfully killing them. Without Sojourner Truth's authentic words in her speech, the authenticity of it would be completely lost for all other audience members, not present on that day, to experience.

Aren't I a Woman Questions and Response

Questions:

1) Truth is responding to the men whom stated that women couldn't have or deserved equal rights.
2) The examples relate to how women and black people aren't treated with respect. Since she uses these examples and compares them with privileged people's lives, she gives support for how she believes women and blacks aren't treated correctly.
3)The both bring to the reader's attention how everyone deserves to be treated with respect.
4) I probably would have been surprised at the fact that she was publicizing beliefs which could have got her into a lot of turmoil. I may have thought that she would be scared. Since she used so much power with her diction and bodily movements, she was able to show her courage, strength, and determination about women and black people deserving their rights.

Response:

When a speaker has to present a speech to any type or size of audience, they have to discover a plan of action on how they will go about trying to persuade their audience into wanting to believe what they are trying to persuade. The speaker has to find out what will grab the audience's attention and make them want to listen to their speech. Sojourner Truth's method of convincing , in " Aren't I a Woman," was to use diction and physical, body movements which contained and brought power into her speech. Since she used so much power with her diction and bodily movements, she was able to show her courage, strength, and determination about how women and black people deserved their individual rights.

Sojourner Truth's diction gave off a very direct and serious call towards the audience. When Sojourner Truth was talking to her audience, she used sentences which contained exclamation points at the end of them. "I have plowed, and planted and gathered into barns, and no man could head me - and aren't I a woman?" (Truth, 423) When Sojourner Truth places this question within her speech, it begins a calling from Sojourner Truth to the audience for a mutual understanding to be formed. Since Sojourner Truth is asking the audience a question, she is interacting with her audience and shows them that she cares about each and everyone of their opinions. "Look at me! Look at my arm!" (Truth, 423) She is asking the audience to do her favor. In doing so, she is forcing the audience to now interact back with her. When someone asks anyone to do them the simple task of looking at their arm, the person being asked will usually feel obligated to at the least give the person acknowledgment for what was aked of them. Even though her diction may be a pretty powerful device, how she uses her body to interpret her message to her audience is also as strong as well.

Sojourner Truth's bodily movements help her convince the audience to believe what she believes by giving her audience a visual of how she feels on the matter. "And she bared her right arm to the shoulder, showing her tremendous muscular power." (Unknown, 423) In the simple action of flexing her arm, she was able to convey to the audience how powerful she was even though women were classified as weak individuals. She gave proof that women were not as weak as they were supposedly thought to be. Through body motions, she was able to convey her message.

Since she used so much power with her diction and bodily movements, she was able to show her courage, strength, and determination about women and black people deserving their rights. She found her way of conveying her message successfully.

Harriet Jacobs's Response

Diaries were created so that a person would be able to let their thoughts and ideas be known. It is a form of ventilation from the outside world. Harriet Jacobs wrote "Incidents in the life of a Slave Girl" to announce and publicize her story to anyone willing to listen to it. She wanted to open society's eyes to what was really happening to Africans in the world. Jacobs main audience was filled with people who either wanted to hear her story or did not mind listening to it.

Jacobs sought to let her story be known to the few that would want to hear it. In Chapters one, seven, and ten, Jacobs made clear announcements directed towards the audience of her story. "The reader knows that no promise or writing given to a slave is legally binding; for, according to Southern laws, a slave, being property, can hold no property." (Jacobs, 814) In Chapter one, Jacobs made this comment to try and form a relationship between the audience and her, just like a diary. "Reader, did you ever hate?" (Jacobs, 818) Since Jacobs is writing this story for someone who cares about her issues, she includes this sentence to allow the reader to see what feelings Jacobs had to endure during her lifetime slavery. "And now, reader...I have promised to tell you the truth, and I will do it honestly." (Jacobs, 820) Jacobs did not wish to create a story of lies so that society would come to sympathize her. She wrote her story to declare to the world what truthfully was happening to African slaves of her time. Even though she would have loved for the whole world to want to know what truths she had to tell, everyone did not care about her issues or refused to change them.

Jacobs main audience was filled with people who either wanted to hear her story or did not mind listening to it. She wrote this story as if it were her diary. She needed to express her story to someone or something. So, anyone that wished to learn of her story would be warmly welcomed to do so.

Poet's Corner

This is my remake from Oh, Happy Day. I don't really think it changes the meaning of the song because I made sure to simply paraphrase each verse. I changed the effect of the song by making each verse longer. Since the verses were longer, they took away the effect of being able to say each verse quicker and with more meaning.

He led me through it all (yeah, He lead me through it all)
Through the cleansing (through the cleansing, through the cleansing)
Arguing and talking to God (arguing and talking to God)
Arguing and talking to God

Self-Reliance Response

Today’s society consists of many things that cause people to find the opinions of others as an important factor in their social lives. Females of this century seek ambitions of being perfectly fit, wearing the newest design clothing, and much more. Males of this era want to be muscular, athletic, and popular with the ladies. In order to attain all of these goals and wishes, people may have to behave like someone they really are not. The author of the Essay two Self-Reliance believed that everyone should stay true to themselves and think they were perfect. In order to convey this message to the audience, the author used logos, pathos, and imagery. Without these writing techniques, the author would not have been able to convey their message, as successfully as they did, to their audience.

With the use of logos the author was able to provide the audience with credibility for the main idea. “Familiar as the voice of the mind is to each, the highest merit we ascribe to Moses, Plato, and Milton is, that they set at naught books and traditions, and spoke not what men but what they thought.” (Self-Reliance, 1) When the author gives names of specific people, they are implementing a credible source within the essay. The author is also using these people to describe how these people came to succeed in life through their own thoughts and ideas. “The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried.” (Self-Reliance, 2) The author is using this statement to try and explain to the audience how the only person or thing that can discover their feelings is themselves. “A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best.” (Self-Reliance, 2) With this statement, the author provides the audience with a real-life situation. If someone puts all their effort into something, then they would be proud of their finished work. Even though logos provides the essay with credibility, it cannot appeal to the audience’s emotions.

When the author puts pathos into the essay, they are able to attract the audience’s emotions to lean towards the main
idea. “The sentiment they instill is of more value than any thought they may contain.” (Self-Reliance, 1) Since the author of “Self-Reliance” is clearly expressing to the audience how the poem is filled with “sentiment”, the author of the essay is showing how the poem was trying to appeal to the audience’s emotions. In the Essay two Self-Reliance, the author states “envy is ignorance.” (Self-Reliance, 2) If a person envies someone else, then they are being ignorant to what wonderful things that are currently in their lives. “Do you think the youth has no force, because he cannot speak to you and me?” (Self-Reliance, 2) Since the author places emphasis on how even the young children of today still have a voice, they are trying to express to the audience of how everyone has a voice and opinion and should execute them on a daily basis. Appealing to the audience’s emotions is a valuable form of getting the audience to agree with the author’s main idea but being able to supply the audience with images of what the author’s main idea is discussing is also an effective way of persuading the audience to believe the author’s main idea.

In using imagery in the essay, the author was able to give the audience the opportunity to view what the author is discussing through mental images. “Else, to-morrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely what we have thought and felt all the time, and we shall be forced to take with shame our own opinion from another.” (Self-Reliance, 2) Since this sentence provided the audience with many details, the author gave the audience everything they needed to form a mental picture of what the stranger looked like. “A boy is in the parlour what the pit is in the playhouse.” (Self-Reliance, 3) Since the author is providing the audience with a realistic situation, they are giving the audience the ability to try to understand the author’s reasoning for believing that everyone should rely on their selves for success. “But the man is, as it were, clapped into jail by his consciousness.” (Self-Reliance, 3) With this statement, the author brings the audience into the world and logic behind one’s soul and inner thoughts. The author wants to show audience of how the mind is a powerful tool that controls the body and must be listened to. Imagery aided in helping to express to the audience the author’s main idea.

Without these writing techniques, the author would not have been able to convey the main idea, as successfully as they did, to their audience. In using logos, pathos, and imagery, the author was able to use many different techniques to try and convince the audience to believe the author’s main idea. Since the author used all of these writing techniques, the essay appealed to the audience’s need for credibility, emotions, and visual representation.

The Slave's Dream Response

In order to improve any type of literary work, certain writing techniques are used. Pathos is used to appeal to the
audience’s emotions. Since diction is considered as word choice, it causes the author to consider what type of context would
be the correct one to use for their audience. With the use of pathos, diction, and imagery, Longfellow was able to provide the
audience with visuals of what the slave felt and dreamt of. If Longfellow did not implement these writing techniques within his
poem, then he would not have conveyed these things to the audience as effectively as he did.

Longfellow uses pathos to try to convince to the audience how the slave is filled with sorrow but soon finds happiness.
“They clasped his neck, they kissed his cheek, they held him by the hand!” (Longfellow, 15-16) When Longfellow states the
slave’s reminiscing of these actions of affection, he show the audience how much the slave misses his family. “A tear burst
from the sleeper’s lids and fell into the sand.” (Longfellow, 17-18) Since a tear had not only appeared but “burst” from the
slave’s eyes, it was clearly insinuated that the slave was desperately longing for his family to be reunited with him once more.
“That he started in his sleep and smiled.” (Longfellow, 41) Since Longfellow said that he smiled, he was making it clearly
evident to the audience that the slave had finally attained happiness. Even though pathos helped to convince the audience of
the author’s main ideas, it only appealed to the audience’s emotional side.

Diction was used in “The Slave’s Dream” to help in successfully describing to the audience the author’s reasoning for
creating their main ideas. “He saw his Native Land. Wide through the landscape of his dreams.” (Longfellow, 6-7) In order to
not confuse the audience, the author kept his descriptions of the dreams closely related to each other. When Longfellow was
describing how the slave was dreaming of his “Native Land”, he stated that the slave viewed them through a “landscape of
dreams”. “And then at furious speed he rode.” (Longfellow, 19) Longfellow showed to the audience how the slave was angry
by using the term “furious” to describe the speed at which he was riding. “Through the triumph of his dream.” (Longfellow, 36)
By using the word “triumph”, he shows the audience how the slave had succeeded in accomplishing his dream. Diction may
have done a wonderful job at making the poem more understandable for the audience, but it could not provide what imagery
did.

Imagery supplied “The Slave’s Dream” audience with realistic and interesting views which are not present in all literary
works. “Beside the ungathered rice he lay.” (Longfellow, 1) This quote provides the audience with enough description to allow
the reader to visualize what is occurring in the poem as if they were actually with the character at the time. “His breast was
bare, his matted hair.” (Longfellow, 3) When Longfellow gives a detailed outer description of the slave’s appearance, he allows
the audience to be able to imagine how the character may appear to the audience if they were real. “And the Blast of the
Desert cried aloud.” (Longfellow, 39) This quote may cause the audience to take a moment and ponder what this statement
could possibly mean. It makes the reader wonder how the “Blast of the Desert” would sound like when it cried. Imagery
provided Longfellow with the powerful tool of forming many different images in the audience’s head. It also caused them to
actually think of what a quote could have meant or of how it was at all significant to the quality of the author’s poem. Imagery
aided in conveying the author’s main ideas to the audience.

If Longfellow did not implement these writing techniques within his poem, then he would not have conveyed these things
to the audience as effectively as he did. Every literary work consists of at least one writing technique. Without these
techniques, the writing would be plain, boring, and not even worth reading. In successfully using pathos, diction, and imagery
within his poem, Longfellow was able to get his main ideas across to the audience and give his paper an appearance of high
quality.

Scarlet Letter Questions by: Kat, Kimber, Randa, Khadija, Amy, Temitope, and Faith

1) Hester, the main character of the novel, committed the sin of adultery. She slept with Arthur Dimmesdale, a minister, while she was married to “Roger Chillingworth.” As a result of her betrayal Chillingworth refuses to recognize Hester as his wife. When Hester asks, “ why not announce thyself openly, and cast me off at once?” (Hawthorne 71) He replies, “ It may be, because I will not encounter the dishonor that besmirches the husband of a faithless woman.” (Hawthorne 71) Another important character, Arthur Dimmesdale, committed the sin of fornication with someone else’s wife, Hester Prynne. The result of this fornication was clearly visible to their society because of Prynne suddenly conceiving a child, Pearl. Chillingworth a sin was to act on his wrath towards Dimmesdale and Hester because of their betrayal. With the committing of sins comes the many consequences.

They had all received consequences for their sins. Hester’s consequence was that she had to stand on the marketplace’s scaffold for three hours on public display and had to wear a scarlet letter “A”, to symbolize how she had committed adultery, for the remainder of her life.

2) Hawthorne shows complex writing style. His writing style sounded archaic and was often difficult to understand. The dialogues were not like natural speech but written as in prose just as everything else, very unlike the normal way people speak. For example, in this statement, "we have as yet hardly spoken of the infant; that little creature, whose innocent life had sprung, by the inscrutable decree of Providence, a lovely and immortal flower, out of the rank luxuriance of a guilty passion. How strange it seemed to the sad woman, as she watched the growth, and the beauty that became every day more brilliant, and the intelligence that threw its quivering sunshine over the tiny features of this child! The statement is very archaic in every sense because readers would read and sense that he was writing for his own benefit and no natural speech is expressed. For instance, he uses person to person.

Hawthorne also uses a great use of large, complex vocabulary. This book could be read by many age groups. The vocabulary used seemed very professional and difficult. Many readers would seem illiterate while reading this novel. In this quote stated,” What little bird of scarlet plumage may this be? Methinks I have seen just such figures when the sun has been shining through a richly painted window, and tracing out the golden and crimson images across the floor. But that was in the old land. Prithee, young one, who art thou, and what has ailed thy mother to bedizen thee in this strange fashion? Art thou a Christian child — ha? Dost know thy catechism? Or art thou one of those naughty elves or fairies whom we thought to have left behind us, with other relics of Papistry, in merry old England?" He also has a great use of figurative language. The one he is most prominent for is metaphors and similes. He uses it in almost every sentence. This makes his writing even more difficult. The consequences of Hester Prynne’s sin were to stand on a scaffold and be mocked and to wear a scarlet “A” on her bosom at all times. This way everyone would know that she committed adultery. The purpose of these punishments was to embarrass Prynne and make her repentant for the sin that she committed. Everyone in town knows that she must wear it as a punishment. The people must ignore he because she defied the Puritan society rule, and this leaves her lonely.

3)The definition of a feminist is the doctrine advocating social, political, and all other rights of women equal to those of the men. Also it means an organized movement for the attainment of such rights for women. In the book Scarlet Letter Hester Prynne is portrayed as an early feminist. In one scene, as she emerged from the prison to stand on the scaffold, from the prison, Hester did not cover her “A”. She wore and showed it proudly. Also the way that she transformed the “A” with the embroidery was another symbol as to how she was an early feminist. She wore the “A” on her bosom as a badge of honor.

Another main reason why Hester Prynne is an early feminist is because she took a lot from other people. There were people who looked down on her and didn’t even consider her a woman anymore. They gave her a lot of problems but she didn’t do anything to get them back. In this sense she is so powerful because she didn’t need to do anything. At the same time this set an example for other women. That even though they were looked down upon because they were women they didn’t need to act upon it and treat others badly. She helped people instead. That is why girls would look for her seeking her advice. Hester was very powerful and a leader and she didn’t even know it.


4) This scene serves as the climax of the novel because it showed Dimmesdale remorse towards Hester. Dimmesdale felt sorry because he thought he was suppose to be in Hester’s position seven years ago. He wanted to make up for the time he was supposes to spend on the scaffold. The scaffold was an important symbol of the unity of a family.

Dimmesdale, Hester, and Pearl are starting to come together and unite as a family. “ The moment that he did so, there came what seemed a tumultuous rush of new life, other than his own…”(pg. 140) This was the beginning of a new chapter in their life together. The scaffold scene was the turning point in the novel where they could all be together even though there was no one around to see.

5.) Names of people are usually symbolic. In the novel, same of the main characters had unique names, yet they had meaning. Pearl was Hester Prynne and Arthur Dimmesdale daughter. She was the result of their sinful action. Arthur Dimmesdale was the minister of the community and a role model of sanctity to the people. Roger Chillingworth was Hester Prynne husband and a supposed physician.

Pearls are precious, one of a kind, beautiful and extravagant. Through Hester Prynne eyes, her daughter was this and more. She considered her daughter, her one and only treasure, the one closest to her heart. Therefore she named her Pearl. Arthur Dimmesdale fives a life full of remorse after he realizes that hiding the truth would only make matters worse. Under the physician’s watchful eye, Dimmesdale became weak and depressed. He lives a very dim and black life even though he was viewed as a purified individual. When you think of Dimmesdale, you would think of “dimness”. Roger Chillingworth went through a metamorphosis. During the novel, he went from being a quiet, smart, bookworm to someone filled with hate and determination for revenge. He felt betrayed and humiliates at the fact that his wife slept with someone else while he was absent. His attitude brings forth a flood of chills upon anyone who knows his true intentions.

6.) Hester’s attitude has changed from when she emerges from jail to the last scene in the sense that she is a more optimistic individual. When she got out of the jailhouse, she was insecure and hang her head low. She didn’t have any confidence and she felt neglected. All she had in this world was her daughter and nothing more. Her daughter was her only reason for lying.

One, event that helped with her transformation was when she no longer had to stand on the scaffold for three hours and get a place for her and pearl in the woods. This event helped shape her, because she no longer had to ensure people’s eyes staring at her. She can focus on herself and her daughter. One way that she does that is through her sewing. She lets that be her escape route, and she makes money out of it. She starts to gain her confidence and sense of womanhood back by helping other people.

Gettysburg Address

1) Lincoln should have mentioned some ways of how the people should honor those who fought for everyone's freedom. He did not clearly specify who was fighting who. He did not state where or when these people were fighting.

2) Lincoln states how he believes that being the citizens of the nation, which people fought for, the society should give respect towards the deceased by continuing to fight for colonial freedom as they did. Since Lincoln's main point was to convince his society to continue to fight for freedom for all, this sentence used pathos to grab the audience's hearts and strongly express to them how important it was to not allow the deceased to have died for nothing. This sentence allows Lincoln to try to convince the audience through their emotions. The function that it performs is implementing pathos in his address to the audience. I think it reached the audience's appeal to sorrow for those who died for freedom. My sentence would go like this: Why shall we allow our deceased- those who died for our freedom, justice, and overall equality- to have given up their lives for nothing.

3) Both were written to convince the colonials to fight for freedom, from the British government and both described how their ideas were best for the people. The address was created to describe to the colonials how they should continue fighting for their freedom, so those who died did not for nothing. The Declaration of Independence was made to attack the King's quality of ruling and to list all the injustices the king committed. The Declaration of Independence had a harsher tone which was used to attack the king. The address had a more persuasive tone which was used to try to persuade colonials to continue fighting for freedom.

4) During my speech class, I heard many persuasive speeches and informational speeches. The address, Declaration of Independence, and other speeches I have heard all use techniques of persuasion and facts to support their beliefs and main ideas.

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The Custom House

1) An introduction is a preface by an author or speaker in explanation of the subject or design of his writing or discourse (Webster’s Student Dictionary, 378). An introduction provides the audience with a detailed description of the story that is soon to come. When the author creates an introduction for the audience, the audience is provided with the author’s purpose, background information, or explanations for writing the book. Without an introduction for Nathaniel Hawthorne’s book, the audience would not be able to fully comprehend the author’s point of view. The audience would be baffled on certain situations, unaware of the significance of certain moments, and clueless on what some terms mean. Hawthorne’s primary purpose for the Custom House introduction is to give the audience background information on future important details.
The Custom House introduction supplied the audience with information on the how the Custom House members and citizens were only destroying Salem. Hawthorne said, “these old gentlemen seated, like Matthew, at the receipt of customs, but not very liable to be summoned thence, like him, for apostolic errands,” (Hawthorne, 7). Since the citizens were “not very liable to be summoned thence…for apostolic errands,” it signifies how Hawthorne believed that all the citizens were far from attaining an afterlife with God. When he states “ her own merchants and ship owners,” (Hawthorne, 6) are hurting her, the author is telling the audience that the merchants and ship owners are hurting Salem. It provides the audience with a clear statement from the author saying that he personally believed Salem’s own businessmen were bringing harm to their hometown. “They spent a good deal of time…asleep in their accustomed corners, with their chairs titled back against the wall; awaking… once or twice in a forenoon, to bore one another with the several thousandth repetition of old sea-stories, and mouldy jokes,” (Hawthorne, 14). When Hawthorne begins to discuss about the Custom House members, he describes how all they seem to care about simply keeping their jobs, instead of actually doing them. Without Hawthorne’s Custom House introduction, the audience would not have had the important background information on future important details.

2) In all English courses, a student must construct a paper on whatever their teacher instructs them to write about. After the student has completed their paper, the teacher reviews it and makes any necessary changes. This same situation can be related to Hawthorne’s change of Hester Prynne’s story. First, Prynne wrote her story, the way she believed it should be. Then, Hawthorne reread it and altered it, the way he felt it should be written. Hawthorne thought that giving it a fictional essence would only assist in its success. Even though Hawthorne changed Prynne’s story, he made sure that he gave full credibility for the construction and authenticity of the story to Prynne.
When a writer uses someone else’s ideas, they are required to cite their sources. With the changes Hawthorne made, he made sure to give full credit to Prynne. “The main facts of that story are authorized and authenticated by the document of Mr. Surveyor Pue,” (Hawthorne, 32). Since Hawthorne changed Prynne’s story, he made sure to clearly state that he did so in the above quote. “What I contend for is the authenticity of the outline,” (Hawthorne, 32). Hawthorne makes sure to establish the importance of giving due credit to Prynne. . Even though Hawthorne changed Prynne’s story, he made sure that he gave full credibility for the construction and authenticity of the story to Prynne.

3) In order for a story to get published, the story must contain some type of appeal to the audience. Without any appeals, the story would not be worth publishing. Even though a story may seem perfect, there is always room for perfection. When the author finds the scarlet letter and papers around it, he began to read the papers. Albeit the original author of the papers, Hester Prynne, found her literary works to be sufficient for the average audience, the author believed that it needed something extra. By implementing fiction into Prynne’s writing, her story was given more creativity and interest. Without it, the story would lack that excess push towards successful writing.
Fiction gives a story an imagination of its own. When the story contains this creativity, it allows the author to take the audience into a world that one can only venture in books. “I must not be understood as affirming, that, in the dressing up of the tale, and imagining the motives and modes of passion that influenced the characters who figure in it,” (Hawthorne, 32). The author did not change the story just for the sake of changing it. He altered it to make it that much closer to perfection. With the story’s fiction, the author was able to create an imagery world for the audience to experience. If the story were to simply remain strictly informative, without any form of imagery or fiction, then it would not have appealed to such a wide range of audiences and probably would not have evolved into the success it is today.

Anne Bradstreet

“ Most critics consider Anne Bradstreet America’s first authentic poet,” (Jill, 1). Since female poets were not commonly found in the 1600’s, she was viewed as an amazing poet. Her great writing styles helped to revolutionize the way for woman. She opened the doors of acceptance, for all women to enter through. Since Anne Bradstreet had, what seems, like a good life, she had a great background to produce her writings on.
Thomas and Dorthy Dudley gave birth to Anne Dudley, in Norhampton, England, around the year of 1612. At the age of eighteen, she married a man named, Simon Bradstreet. “ In 1630, the Bradstreets and Dudleys came to the New World,” (Jill, 1). Before they found their permanent home in North Andover, Massachusetts, in 1644, they had resided “ in Salem, Boston, Cambridge, and Ipswich,” (Jill, 1). When Simon Bradstreet was executing his duties as “ a judge, legislator, royal councilor, and twice a governor of the colony… Anne Bradstreet became a devoted wife and mother,” (Jill, 1) to her eight children. Reverend John Woodbridge, Anne Bradstreet’s brother-in-law, published some of her poetry, in England, in 1647 (The McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of World Biography 137-138). Bradstreet created many various types of publications.
“Bradstreet’s first publication is entitled The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America, By a Gentlewoman of Those Parts,” (Jill, 2). “Her other publications include: Several Poems, a revision of Several Poems, and The Works of Anne Bradstreet in Prose and Verse,” (Jill, 2). With the case of these poems, they are written in heroic couplets and are in traditional subject matter, (Dictionary of American Biography 577-578). “ Her early work, largely imitative and influenced by that of the sixteenth-century French poet Du Bartas is conventional, dull, and easily forgotten (Webster’s American Biographies 129). She also wrote “ Contemplations”, “ The Flesh and the Spirit”, and “The Author to Her Book.” Bradstreet based many of her literary works on her lifetime experiences.
Since Anne Bradstreet had, what seems, like a good life, she had a great background to produce her writings on. Her literary works made, “ many readers enjoy her subjects and how they were treated,” (Jill, 3). Given that Bradstreet had provided her generation with so much, “her death on September 16, 1672, in North Andover, Massachusetts, was a great loss,” (Jill, 3).

Anne Bradstreet Response

Any type of love poem should contain words of passion, love, emotion, and feeling. With the assistance of these words and phrases, the author will be allowed to more efficiently express any type of loving emotions towards their audience. In Anne Bradstreet’s “To My Dear and Loving Husband”, Bradstreet uses pathos to appeal to her audience’s feelings of love and devotion. Throughout her composition of this poem, she implants various examples of pathos. Without the use of pathos, in her love poem, she would not have been able to explicitly state her excessive love towards her audience.
Pathos is a technique used by many authors to appeal to the audience’s inner and deepest emotions. Bradstreet implements pathos in her love poem to allow her true feelings, for her husband, to be known by the entire world. “ If ever two were one, then surely we,” (Bradstreet, 1). In stating these words, she was describing how her husband’s and her love was the strongest love one could ever find. When Bradstreet said, “ compare with me, ye women, if you can,” (4) she was describing, to her husband, how much she truly believed that she was the only woman to completely fulfill his needs and wants. In her eyes, no other woman could possibly try to attain or perfect the accomplishments Bradstreet overcame to please her husband. “ I prize thy love more than whole mines of gold,” (Bradstreet, 5). Since gold was considered a significant and amazing find, she compared her husband’s and her love to it. In doing this, she gave her husband a direct example of how much she loved him. With this example, he would then be able to relate her love for him. Bradstreet said, “ My love is such that rivers cannot quench,” (8). In this quote, Bradstreet gave rivers a form of personification, by stating that they “ cannot quench” (8). Since rivers are considered as strong and powerful, Bradstreet was explaining how this object, though being strong and powerful, could still not withstand the power of her husband’s and her love. “ Thy love is such I can no way repay,” (Bradstreet, 9). In view of the fact that Bradstreet had already established how good of a woman she was to him, she tried not to sound so cocky by explaining how she was only inspired by his love. Without “thy love” (Bradstreet, 9), meaning her husband’s love, she would have not been able to have developed the love she had for him. With the stating of “ the heavens reward thee manifold, I pray,” (Bradstreet, 10) Bradstreet expresses how such a powerful being, as God, has encouraged her husband’s and her love. Since her “ manifold” (Bradstreet, 10) is being rewarded, this means that God is giving a blessing towards her husband’s and her love. “ Then while we live, in love let’s so persevere,” (Bradstreet, 11). Bradstreet is attempting to describe to her husband how she wants their love to continue throughout the rest of their lives. The feelings she receives from their love are too overwhelming for her to simply let go of. Bradstreet said, “ that when we live no more, we may live ever,” (12). Even though her husband and her may be dead, she still wants their love to continue on. With her use of pathos, she expresses her feelings towards her husband.
Without the use of pathos, in her love poem, she would not have been able to explicitly state her excessive love towards her audience. If a love poem does not contain any type of pathos, then the poem cannot be considered a love poem. Pathos is what is used to attain the audience’s emotions. It gives the audience a bird’s – eye view of Bradstreet’s inner, most feelings for her husband. If there is no emotion within the poem, then it could only be considered as a normal poem.

Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca

Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca had to experience many difficult and strange things in order to survive his expedition. He was placed in, what seemed to him like a completely different world. In order to fit along with the natives, he had to place himself in their world. This meant that he had become accustomed to their customs and traditions. If he did not, then the natives may have become angered and could have killed him. He had to view “their women toil incessantly” (Vaca). Even though he may have wanted to help the women, his assistance would not be considered as good but bad. The women and men were not allowed to come into contact with each other, unless they were spouses. Since he had to go through such a drastic life experience, for his King, this picture reminds me of how he succeeded through this hardship.

When I read the Christopher Columbus story, throughout the entire story, all I continued to think about was how Columbus was trying to justify his cruel actions and mistakes with the audience’s sympathy. If he could attain the audience’s empathy, then he would not have to suffer, emotionally and physically, for his mistreatment of the Indians and neglectfulness to keep control over the new land he stole. I specifically chose this picture because, every time Columbus tried to convince the audience that he was the innocent man within the conflicts, he was in fact the main criminal at hand. Columbus is the one who brutally forced the Indians off their land. He was the one who did not completely ensure the efficient productivity of the new world. When someone receives continuous persecutions, they usually are not coincidental. There usually are logical reasons as support for such prosecutions. Even if there were not any justifying facts to back up these accusations, then Columbus should have been more mature about these problems and dealt with them in a more masculine manner. Instead, he chose to try to justify himself by blaming others and using pathos to try to get the audience’s emotions to lean towards him.

Columbus Response

In order for an author to construct any type of literary work, they must decide how they will get their main idea across. In the case, of the writer, of the Christopher Columbus story, the author chose both pathos and logos. With the combination of both pathos and logos, the author was able to certainly convince the audience that Columbus had to go through long and stressful experiences in his lifetime. Without the use of pathos and logos, the author would not have successfully got their main idea across to the audience.
When the author wrote this story, the author wanted the audience to feel sympathy and respect for Christopher Columbus. Since the author wrote, “ he was forced to return to Spain to clear his name of politically motivated charges made against him by other Europeans in the Indies,” (Paragraph 1) he was trying to have the audience see how Christopher Columbus was being falsely persecuted. If the audience were to then believe that Christopher Columbus was truly being wrongly accused, then the audience would begin to sympathize for Christopher Columbus. Once Christopher Columbus returned, from his third voyage, to Hispaniola, he “ soon found himself under arrest, sent in chains to Spain in 1500 to answer yet more charges,” (Paragraph 1). When the author described how Christopher Columbus was charged with more crimes, he had definitely persuaded the audience into understanding why the author thought Christopher Columbus had gone through difficult situations. “ His last voyage, intended to recoup his tarnished reputation, resulted in a long period of suffering in Panama and shipwreck in Jamaica, and these outer woes were accompanied by nearly delusional periods,” (Paragraph 1). By dramatically stating how Christopher Columbus had to experience many horrible and stress- educing situations, the author used descriptive reasoning for believing in his main idea. Even though the author’s use of pathos would have sufficiently proved the main idea, logos only amplified the process’s efficiency for convincing the audience into accepting the author’s main idea.
Logos helped the author by providing information to back up the credibility of the story. Throughout the story, many dates were placed in the text. Since the dates were written in chronological order, the audience would be able to put an event with an exact date. The audience would be able to create a mental picture of what happened, in history, but when it occurred as well. “ The supposed Journal of his first voyage is actually a summary prepared by the cleric and reformer Bartolomé de los Casas,” (Paragraph 2). By giving a definition for the object the author was writing about; the author was ensuring that the audience would completely comprehend the object’s meaning and significance. If the author did not provide a definition for the word “Journal”, then there could have been a possibility that the audience may have become confused. The author not only used facts but documents to support the main idea. With these documents, there is hard and credible proof to support the author’s main idea. Since the author used logos to support the application of pathos, the main idea had both logic and an emotional appeal to aid in convincing the audience to accept the main idea as true.
Without the use of pathos and logos, the author would not have successfully got their main idea across to the audience. Both forms of writing techniques help the author to appeal to his audience more sufficiently and cleverly. The author not only persuades the trustworthiness of the main idea onto the audience through emotions but also, through logic.

Simile

A willow tree is like a loved dog.