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Specific Purpose Statement: To persuade my audience that I should be the next school prefect I would like to take this opportunity to run for school prefect. I believe true leadership is a quality many aspire to have, and only a few truly obtain, because in order to become a leader you must first learn…

The story opens with a clock announcing that it is time to wake up and a hint of premonition that perhaps no one will. In the kitchen, the stove cooks breakfast and a voice from the ceiling announces the setting: Allendale, California, on August 4, 2026. The automated house prepares itself for the day, but…

Booker T. Washington, considered today as one of the most influential and respected African American figures, was born into slavery and was later freed by the revolutionizing effects of the Emancipation Proclamation. His charismatic and peaceful personality along with his role in philanthropic acts, politics, and negotiations soon turned him into a source of admiration…

Compare and Contrast of “The Cask of Amontillado” and “The Black Cat” Today I’ll be comparing the Narration of “The Cask of Amontillado” and “The Black Cat” by Edgar Allen Poe. Edgar Allen Poe is the author of many great pieces of literature, using his narrators to explain situations that are going on in their…

In his travelogue, Travels with Charley: In Search of America (1962), John Steinbeck recounts his trip across the United States with his French standard poodle Charley in a custom-made camper. The American writer’s determination to travel across the entire breadth of the American continent was an obvious indication of his search for America, a usual…

In William Shakespeare’s play, Much Ado About Nothing,” Beatrice and Benedick are two major characters who share similar attitudes, perceptions, and beliefs. They also play similar roles. In the play, Beatrice is the niece of Leonato, who is a highly rich and influential governor of Messina. Benedick, on the other hand, is a soldier who…

Abigail Williams caused great harm to numerous individuals in the town of Salem. As a troublemaker, she created chaos by falsely accusing innocent people of witchcraft. Her self-centered nature prevented her from acknowledging the difficulties faced by those she falsely implicated. Abigail Williams, a cunning and vengeful teenager, used her personal animosity to assert her…

Essay, Research Paper Lord of the Fliess: Development of the Fictional characters In William Golding ’ s Lord of the Flies, there are at least three characters that display both civilised and barbarian behaviour. These characters are Ralph, Jack, and Samneric. Ralph, the elective leader, is a “ model boy ” whose cardinal motivations are…

Aeneas, the epic hero of Virgil’s Aeneid, lacks the Roman ideals of taking control of one’s life and making one’s own way in the world in every aspect. This is evident in his brief interactions with his lover Dido, queen of Carthage. Once again, Aeneas demonstrates that he is controlled by his passivity and is…

  Introduction – The collection of poetry that the world has seen is storage of the creations of the different states and stages of a man’s mind, and there are times when the poem captures and freezes the myths and its leading man so that the world has a way of remembering some of the…