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    How do I use tone in order to compose emails?

    Question 1: Write three e-mails, one to a friend, one to a client, and one to a boss, informing them of the following information: 1.While waiting for the client's package to arrive that contained all of the materials for the most recent ad campaign, an employee of the firm you work for inadvertently received it and sent it

    A Modest Proposal - Jonathon Swift

    I need someone to point me in the right direction and help me identify the necessary quotes: Attached file, "A Modest Proposal" (ENGLISH ---LITERATURE AND SOCIETY) Find 18-20 quotes in the reading, discuss what affect they had when you read those words (quotes), which of them are similar, most powerful? and why? Try t

    IS D CORRECT

    BEING UNABLE TO TYPE, THE BOSS FIRED ME. A) RUN ON B) DANGLER C) COMMA SPLICE D) LACKS PARALLEL PARTS

    GRAMMATICALLY CORRECT

    1) SHE SHOULD OF TYPED THE REPORT. 2) WOULD YOU GET A PENCIL OFF HER? 3) THIS IS JUST BETWEEN YOU AND I. 4) THE NEW SALESCLERK WAITED ON ME.

    IS D CORRECT

    STUDYING HARD WILL GET YOU A JOB___ WORKING HARD WILL LET YOU KEEP IT. A) COMMA B) HYPHEN C) APOSTROPHE D) SEMICOLON IS D CORRECT?

    CORRECTLY PUNCTUATED

    1) THE OPERATING COSTS, AS HE PROBABLY TOLD YOU ARE TOO HIGH. 2) THE OPERATING COSTS AS HE PROBABLY TOLD YOU, ARE TOO HIGH. 3) THE OPERATING COSTS AS HE PROBABLY TOLD YOU ARE TOO HIGH. 4) THE OPERATING COSTS, AS HE PROBABLY TOLD YOU,ARE TOO HIGH.

    APA Reference citation help is given.

    How do I cite this source which is a book that is referred to in an online reference? It needs to be APA format citation? Janis, I. L. & Mann, L. (1977). Decision making: A psychological analysis of conflict, choice, and commitment. New York: Free Press. Retrieved on May 30, 2005 from http://www.cedu.niu.edu/~fulmer/grou

    "catcher in the Rye" versus "Great Gatsby"

    I am preparing for an in class final and teacher has given us some possible topics to think about. Could use some help with this question. Why does Holden Caufield (Catcher inthe Rye) like the book "The Great Gatsby" so much?

    Close Reading Example

    This posting offers an example of a close reading analysis with a focus on Figurative language, Diction, Literal content, Structure, Style, Characterization, Tone, and other devices. The sample passage includes: He laughed. "So you are not all that young, to view the world in such terms!" he says. "Then, if you were a m

    "Sula" vs "One Flew over the Cuckoos Nest"

    Using the theme from "Sula" written by Tono Morison and "One Fklew over the Cuckoos Nest" written by Ken Kesey, with the play write written by Dale Wasserman, What do the two have in common with reagards to their central theme. If possible I could use some help with specific connections.

    "One flew over the Cuckoos nest" Novel and Play Write

    "One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest" novel by ken kesey Play write by Dale Wasserman We are actually reading the play so some things may be different from the book but the basic analogy of flat characters applies. Why does Wasserman preface the play with a quotation from the novel "Like a caroon world, where figures are flat

    "One flew over the cuckoos nest" written by Ken Kesey

    Play write writen by Dale Wasserman based on the novel by Ken Kesey I need help with the dfollowing analytical question. Even if you cant get your hands on the play write knowledge of the novel will do. Question" Discuss the character of Nurse Ratchet. What does she "represent"? What develops her character.

    Emersions "self reliance " essay

    The first line of the pasage reads, " There is a time in every ans education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance: that imitation is suicide..." What do you think Emerson means by this? Hoe does his working here tie in with the themes in other stories like The Great Gatsby, The Shawshank Redemption or Sula?

    Analaysis of Emersons "Self Reliance" Essay

    What does he mean when he says we are not "minors and invalids in a protected corner, but guides, redeemers, and benefactors, obeying the Almighty effort and advancing of Chaos and the dark"? Where have we seen this idea reflected in the stories of The great Gatsby, Sula, Shawshank redemption?

    Writing tips are featured.

    Getting started when it comes to writing stories or essays for ourselves (not school) can be very difficult. A lot of young writers can feel like they are on their own and don't know where to go or how to get started. These are some helpful suggestions for the aspiring writer that wants to work hard to become better.

    Battle Royal by Ralph Ellison is summarized

    This library solution addresses 2 main inquiries relating to Ralph Ellison's 'Battle Royale.' 1. What does the narrator's grandfather mean by his statement: "Our life is a war and I have been a traitor all my born days, a spy in the enemy's country ever since I give up my gun back in the Reconstruction."? 2. Why does Ellis

    Need help

    Hi I need help with is following questions, attached is the essay please review and give me your comments on the following questions. 1. Evaluate the essay's introduction. Is it effective, drawing you into the narrative? Why or why not? 2. How does Staples prove that he is, indeed, the victim of stereotyping? (Cite speci

    Answer questions

    Please read attach essay, don't check for errors in essay. I need you to only answer the following: 1. Afterwards, of course, there were endless discussions about the shooting of the elephant. The owner was furious, but he was only an Indian and could do nothing. Besides, legally I had done the right thing, for a mad elep

    A glossary of common poetic terms.

    A list of definitions of terms useful for writing or discussing poetry. Includes alliteration, assonance, end-stopped, enjambment, foot, free verse, metaphor, meter, nonce form, prose poem, rhyme, scansion, sestina, simile, sonnet, stanza, stress, tone, villanelle, and more.

    Thematic and Formal Connections and Differences

    I am writing a 1,200 word essay discussing the thematic and formal connections and differences between "The Road not Taken" and "Stopping by Woods One Snowy Evening". I understand some thematic connections (seasons, pastoral images, woods, what the narrator sees and what the narrator feels, traditional poetic form with the na

    Isaac Asimov Questions

    1. Agree or disagree with Asimov's statement: "My intelligence, then, is not absolute but is a function of the society I live in and of the fact that a small subsection of that society has managed to foist itself on the rest as an arbiter of such matters." Explain your answer. 2. How would you define intelligence? What i

    Carver's word usage

    These questions are reviewed: Question 1: As you were reading, what descriptive details, both visual and non-visual (smell, Sound, touch) caught your attenton? What made them so effective? Strong, active verbs? Original adjectives? The fact that they creared an image, impression or association in your mind? Question 2: In

    Theme in Nathaniel Hawthorne's " Young Goodman Brown" (Imagery and Symbolism)

    Providing a 3 prong thesis and then to analyze "Young Goodman Brown" in terms of what this text says about good and evil and puritan morality in general. This is what I have developed for a 3 prong thesis: Nathaniel Hawthorne uses imagery and symbolism. These fictional elements are evident in the author's use of sexuali

    Number of Words Summary

    Can a summary take more than one page or it has limited words? and also should i talk about every character or just have to analyze the main characters?and this book INSIDE OUT OUTSIDE IN.PG 132 TALKS ABOUT D.P THERE IS NOT MUCH EXPLANATION ON THE DP BUT THEN THE FULL WORD IS DISPLACED PERSON AND IT TALKS ABOUT SOME WAR THING AN