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    Help me people

    this is my task: Identify a controlling idea that links any two of the stories from the eight we have read together. Then write a unified critical essay in which you discuss how that idea is developed and revealed in the stories. In your essay, use ideas from both stoires to establish your controlling ieda. Using specific evidence from each story, develop your contrilling idea and show how the author uses specific literary elements or techniques to convey that idea.

    The stories:
    Washington Irving: Rip Van Winkle
    Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Birht Mark"
    Rappaccini's daughter
    Edgar Allan Poe : The cask of amontillado
    The masque of the red deat
    The purloined letter
    The tell tale heart
    William Wilson
    Herman Mellville : Bartleby the Scrivner


    This is my opening paragraph:

    Throughout the ages man has been confronted with the potential of his own mind to do both incredible good and bad. This has reflected itself in literature and countless authors have created their stories around this idea. Nowhere are the twofold capabilities of the human mind a more apparent theme than in “The Birth-Mark” and “Rappaccini’s Daughter,” both by Nathaniel Hawthorne.

    This is all i have and i am at a loss where to go from here if anyone has read these two stories and could offer some help please do. i have some sort of writiers block and for some reason i just cant write. thanks ahead of time.
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    Perhaps you should write that the human mind has been at a loss to directing homework problems to the forums, if the mind had't procrastinated it would have been done.

    Maybe we need a Homework Help forum.

    In anyevent, I am a fan of Edgar Allan Poe, since he is one of those dark writers, I love his work, that is the only author I have read intensely from your listed works, and my favorite is the telltale heart.
    Achkerov kute.

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      yes i procrastinated i did absolutely nothing yesterday except half an hour of french homework and another half hour of enviromental science stayed up till 2 oclock and ended up writing this one paragraph. today i have been on the computer since 1 oclock and i have dont nothing other than go online look up warez and talk to people on aim. i feel so xxxxed up and other than this essay i have to complete an outline for a history essay and study for a physics test. xxxx the history its an easy class and im getting a 93 but i need to study for physics. develop 3 opening paragraphs that have a controlling idea from any two poe stories if you want and post it up. that would be a really big birthday and christmas present for me. you are my forum father after all, who ever heard of a father not getting his son anything for his birthday or christmas?

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      • #4
        Re: Help me people

        Originally posted by TigranJamharian

        Throughout the ages man has been confronted with the potential of his own mind to do both incredible good and bad. This has reflected itself in literature and countless authors have created their stories around this idea. Nowhere are the twofold capabilities of the human mind a more apparent theme than in “The Birth-Mark” and “Rappaccini’s Daughter,” both by Nathaniel Hawthorne.
        I would've gone with Poe as well, but Hawthorne is just as well...
        Ahhh Hawthorne. What he has to say is that mankind is flawed and it is limited by its flaws. Hawthorne is a pessimist. He sees only the evil and ugliness in the world and not the beauty. You know the running theme in his writing (as well as Poe's) is the issue of tampering with nature or natural imperfections. Can you write about that??
        The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposing ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald

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        • #5
          that would fit in really well with the birth mark and rappaccinnis daughter. i think i might actually switch to that

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            Originally posted by TigranJamharian that would fit in really well with the birth mark and rappaccinnis daughter. i think i might actually switch to that
            But of course it would my dear, I know what I am talking about
            The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposing ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald

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              by the way. thank you

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              • #8
                Anytime =) Now can you go take my o-chem final on Tuesday? Please....? Thanks a billion!
                The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposing ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald

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                • #9
                  haha.

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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by TigranJamharian haha.
                    That was a totally unncessary comment. If you laffed, keep it to yourself.
                    Achkerov kute.

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