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The Immortal Life ultimately evolves from being the factual story of Henrietta Lacks to being the predisposed story of Rebecca Skloot. Rebecca Skloot does accomplish her primary goal in writing The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks – shedding light on the woman behind HeLa and the complications she and her family faced. But with inconsistencies in character development, a diminishing plot sophistication, and a potentially biased point of view, The Immortal Life is questionable in terms of its excellence as a piece of creative

The article argues that the disappearance of English colony which was sent to Roanoke is no longer a mystery; in fact, they relocated to the Island of Croatoan and provides three reasons of support. However, the professor discusses that the points made in the reading are weak and can be easily ismissed. She refutes each one of them. First, the reading claims that the carved word “Croatoa” indicates that the settlers encountered a problem and move to this place.

Norton appears to aim towards a more mature audience in his writing. Throughout Norton’s article he includes excerpts from doctors and other statistics researchers have found over the topic of student drug use and testing. Norton's article attacks a more logical aspect of the controversial topic. She uses sentences such as this one to add credibility to her article, “Daniel Romer is a researcher and director of the Adolescent Communication Institute at the University of Pennsylvania's Annenberg Public Policy Center. He was not involved with the report, but agreed that random drug testing is largely ineffective”(Norton).

argued that Adam had not been made in the image of God, and that Adam had never received the seal of the spirit. Anne Hutchinson believed that she was directly inspired by the spirit of the scripture. Many felt that Vane and Hutchinson were suggesting that the instructions of the scripture was unnecessary. Hutchinson’s criticism of the Puritans for what she considered to be a narrow concept of morality and her protests against the authority of the clergy were widely supported by Bostonians at first. But soon afterwards when John Winthrop opposed her she lost much of her support after he won election as governor.

The goal of the usage of this fact is to show readers this common term does not reflect real traits of smart people and can be treated as an insult because of that. It is one of the few examples of Fridman’s appeals to readers’ logic. The essay is based on general data; the author mentioned schools and universities promote negative attitude to smart students: “Nerds are ostracized while athletes are idolized” (Fridman). But he did not use any statistical or science data to support his position. For example, Fridman could provide data about scholarships and other types of funding for sports and other activities.

While reading one of Clare’s letters, the narrator doesn’t properly communicate the actual description of the message as it sends two different interpretations to the readers. Not to mention that the phone calls between Clare and Irene also fails to communicate both viewpoints as the narrator only mentions one side of the direct discourse. On that note, the direct and indirect discourses of their face to face conversation demonstrates two different conative discussions, giving us a better insight of their true characteristics. As the end approaches with a mysterious tragedy, we are to question Irene as her dialogue and interpretation ineffectively matches the reader’s perspective, due to her outlook bordering between accidental and intentional motives. With the characters and narrator using different methods of communication, such as the letters, phone calls, and in person conversations, it leads us to question their integrity and whether the discourse accurately represents the climactic fallouts of the

She argues that the book depicts society’s evolution toward the acceptance and normalization of racial hybridity, but her methods of furthering this argument are problematic at best. Moss not only ignores the author’s explicit intent in writing the book in favor of her own idea, but she tokenizes other authors of color to provide what is actually very weak support for her argument. She desperately wishes to show that Smith is depicting a post-racial reality, but in doing so, Moss ultimately diminishes the credibility of her argument by revealing her own

The Copernican theory, although true, contradicted the beliefs of the Church even while supported with evidence. Throughout this time period, the people steered away from the religion and the Church as a result of the Enlightenment and the Scientific Revolution. However, an egalitarian society did not form. While the Scientific Revolution furthered human understanding, it did not favor a society based on equality and it deemed women as “weaklings” (Blanning 75). The political and social elements of this era later created a familiar Neoclassical style similar to famous works produced in ancient Greece and Rome.

Noelle Albert wrote an essay called, “Multitasking: A Poor Study Habit”. Noelle is insisting to readers to stop multitasking while studying. Her main idea of this essay is to inform the reader of poor study habits, and why they should not tend to multiple things at once, while studying. The thesis is stated clearly in the last sentence in the first paragraph. “Multitasking between studies and recreational technology is not an effective way to study” (231) .

She argues that Frankenstein is an autobiography but in reality, she bases her critics on the fact that the novel is not a mere autobiography. I do not agree with the critics of Ginn that shows Frankenstein is not an autobiography. I base the novel as an autobiography because there are some aspects in the novel that corresponds to the life of Mary. The fact that Ginn argues that the novel cannot be autobiography because Percy Shelley did not get angry for being Frankenstein in the story it is not convincing, and it seem vague. I support Coulter who refers Frankenstein as a “cautionary story of bad parenting”.

There is a great deal of risk in the strategy spoken by President Reagan because of the imbalance between ends, ways and means. Lykke provides a conceptual framework and vocabulary for describing risk in strategy in his “three-legged stool” model. His main point is that a balanced strategy is solid, but if ends, ways, or means are not aligned, the strategy incurs risk (Reading C203 D, p. 4). In the spoken strategy there is especially an imbalance between the ends, ways and means to the desired end of a unified and free Europe. The ways in the strategy is only directed towards the city of Berlin.

The first timed writing assignment was to discuss the differences between the novel and the movie, Into the Wild, by John Krakauer. In retrospect, my essay would have been more effective if I clearly identified one element in detail about why the change in narrator impacted the story. The use of examples would have strengthened my argument and allowed me to stay on point with the prompt. I also think that a compare and contrast paragraph would have helped my essay. For example, comparisons could have been made between other written works and films.

Sincere President, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, in his speech, Pearl Harbor Address to the Nation, validates that yesterday the Empire of Japan attacked the United States by way of Pearl Harbor. Roosevelt’s purpose is to notify the American people that the U.S. is officially at war with the Empire of Japan. He creates an authentic tone in order to convey to the People to take his words for truth and have faith that America will triumph in the war ahead. Roosevelt begins his speech by explaining the reveal of Japan’s deception and attack by way of distraction and lies with all this being fact.

Ronald Reagan gave this speech on June 12, 1987, in Berlin, Germany. He was giving his speech during a time where the city of Berlin was split in two, between the USSR and the Western powers. These two sides had been very hostile to each other and war nearly broke out between the two. The wall that Reagan was referring to was a twelve foot wall with electric wires and guard towers to stop the East Germans from escaping to Western Europe. Freedom to leave USSR territory was not the only freedom that was limited by communism, in addition, many other aspects of the people’s lives were controlled by the government.

In 1980, at the age of 69, Ronald Reagan accepted the nomination to run as the Republican candidate for the office of the President of the United States. Before declaring himself as a republican, he used to hold a very liberal democrat point of view. But, after changing his beliefs, he spoke consistently on several major themes (Medhurst, 2016). Reagan also, having been an actor, been the President of the Screen Actors Guild, worked for multiple political campaigns, ran and served as the Governor of California, and ran for the President of the United States twice before his campaign in 1980, had plenty of practice with public speaking and rhetoric (Marez, 2016). He was a man who had won the hearts of many Americans and set himself up for a landslide victory in his campaign.