Background information (author’s name, title of work, genre (type/style), time period, exposition—characters and setting). Thesis (your assertion—opinion—supported with your reasons). First Body Paragraph (Biography)—Topic Sentence (How does the author’s life connect to my story?). Birth. Parents.
Confucius was known to be one of the cleverest and wisest people of his time, and many people followed his teachings. Confucius was born in 551 BCE, and his original name was Kongqui. “His life underlines that his humanity
For the rest of the nineteenth century his story would be told in songs, in plays, and in books—many of these stories deliberately or inadvertently falsifying the life that, when it came right down to it, few knew. In his fine biography, Sam Patch, The Famous Jumper, historian Paul E. Johnson painstakingly examines the record and paints a fresh, if also limited, portrait of the man who was one of the “pioneers” of “modern celebrity." Born into poverty in Rhode Island, Patch was destined to work the mills of Pawtucket, where a poor, uneducated boy could get work and, if he had talent, as Patch apparently did, learn the craft of mule spinning. This was no small achievement: “the spinning mule was among the biggest machines in the world,” and spinning was a craft practiced mostly by English immigrants. It was a difficult operation, mule spinning, and it “required experience, along with a practiced mix of strength and a sensitive touch,” Johnson writes.
Ethan, while he is flawed, is also a victim of circumstance The tiny town of Starkfield, Massachusetts, formed the backdrop for Edith Wharton’s novel Ethan Frome, an intense novel that moves the ill-starred trio of main characters towards their tragic destinies. Of the main characters, the eponymous Ethan Frome is flawed, both physically and in lack of ability to communicate with everybody. Undoubtedly, however, misfortune and circumstance riddled Ethan’s world: crushing his dreams of becoming an engineer and restricting him to a life in Starkfield. Described through the eyes of the omniscient narrator, Ethan was a man whose “lameness checked each step like a jerk of a chain” and who seldom interacted with the townspeople. Highlighted within the opening two pages, Ethan’s flaws (both physical and of character) made him quite a distinguishable character in Starkfield and whilst everyone “gave him a greeting,” his taciturnity was respected and it was only on “rare occasions” that anyone ever stopped him for a word.
By: Chantel Vereen Although Benjamin Franklin has been dead for over 2 centuries, people are still enjoying the fruits of his labor. Franklin is considered to be the best scientist before Thomas Edison, as well as the greatest diplomat America has ever seen. He was an accomplished business man and a successful printer. He stood in the front ranks of the men who built the United States of America, as the only man who signed all four of these key documents in American history: The Declaration of Independence, the Treaty of Alliance with France, the Treaty of Peace (with Great Britain), and the Constitution of the United States of America. .
The author has Darl narrating most often because he is the most reliable character in the novel since he is the one character that seems to speak the most for the author, William Faulkner. Faulkner's narrative technique. Most novels are written in the past tense, and whether written in third person or first person, the author has considerable liberty to manipulate the events. In As I Lay Dying,
In this process, it occurred a lot murder and violence. But blacks never stopped resisting. Here, I need to mention a great man-Martin Luther King, a famous leader of resisting discrimination and a topical representative of pursue fairness of blacks. “He gave a speech ‘I have a dram’ on August twenty eighth, 1968. It is regarded, along with Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address and Franklin D. Roosevelt's Infamy Speech, as one of the finest speeches in the history of American oratory.”(www.smithsonianmag.com) Until now, the blacks gained its rightful situation, they can enter the upper class of society, and they can earn more money than before.
As you can see Martin Luther King Jr. has changed America in ways that may seem impossible to be done by the voice and actions of a single man. This man has proved to people that they can do anything that they believe and change things so that they are right. He became well educated and went to many colleges, he became a great leader, he had gotten many people organized together, he faced the nation with bravery, and he never gave up, and was a hero, and inspired many
His character is one of the most beloved and well known in American literature and a lot of other people no doubt have probably come to my very deductions on his character. He's an very well shaped and thought of character that many of America's youth can connect with even today. Rebellion hasn't changed even with a 50 year gap. On another note, as Holden is an unreliable narrator and "liar" is one of his traits(as well as the story being told this his perspective), how do we know these events actually happened and we're not seeing a sort of doctored version? I guess we could never
For example, they were said to be ‘the best literary institution in the state’ by Horace Greeley (228). Along with many of the other colleges it seemed to be a self-sustaining village. Visitors claimed that it was like ‘a village more than a mere institution for educational purposes’ (229). One of the more sophisticated compliments that Santa Clara College received involved its educational success. Santa Clara College itself was able to claim to have ‘the largest number of Professors and Tutors connected with any institution on the Pacific Coast’ (230).