Read the following article excerpt about the john brown trial of 1859 and answer the question. we rejoice that old brown has been hung. he was not only a murderer of innocent persons, but he attempted one of the greatest crimes against society—the stirring up of a servile and civil war. he has paid the penalty for his crimes, and we hope his fate may be a warning to all who might have felt inclined to imitate his aggressive conduct. —cincinnati enquirer would this article be appropriate to use for research purposes?
a. no, it has too strong of a slant
b. yes, it has a slant
c. no, it does not have enough factual information
d. yes, as long as the slant is qualified

A. no,it has too strong of a slant

One of the things one needs to do when performing research is vet a possible source by determining whether or not the source is biased.  Sources should be free of “slant” and only communicate the factual information.  Thus, opinion should not be present.  We can see opinion in the excerpt with “We rejoice that old Brown has been hung” and “We hope his fate may be a warning…” Thus, this article is “slanted”/biased, therefore, not credible and should not be included in research because its inclusion would make your writing non-credible because of the use of a slanted/biased source.

98 points!

assignment

analyzing characters

respond to the following questions in one paragraph for each. use specific examples from the text to support your responses.

1. there is a set of twins on the island named sam and eric. however, when describing them, golding regularly refers to them as samneric. how does this way of describing the twins relate to their behavior and the way that readers understand their characters? what examples of their behavior readers see that samneric is really the appropriate way to refer to them?

2. as the boys set out to search for the beast, ralph allows jack to lead the way, and he sinks to the back of the pack, " to have escaped responsibility for a time." what does this moment lead you to infer about ralph and about his feelings about being the group’s leader? what does this moment foreshadow?

3. while part of the party searching for the beast, simon realizes that the notion of the beast that the other boys have does not make sense. a beast sitting atop a mountain with claws, a beast who did not leave tracks, could have easily caught the twins. simon has a different picture of the beast: "there rose before his inward sight the picture of a human at once heroic and sick." how does this picture relate to the beast that samneric saw? how does it relate to what simon said earlier about the beast being "only us"?

no plagarism

me

the main character of "the secret life of walter mitty" retreats into a false pretense as a means escape from his mundane reality -- this is a flagrant issue seen in societies abroad, typically found in young adults and it is robbing our youths of their childhood.

explanation:

a thesis -- a well developed, formal thesis is required to be one sentence long. there are many themes in "the secret life of walter mitty" and i had resolved to give you one of the simpler ones while still honing it with class.