Essays on Letter

Letters to the editor are similar in structure as depicted in all the fourteen letters given in the appendix. Every letter shows the writer’s details i.e. name of the writer, his/her hometown, and the date of publication. The letters are also grouped according to the title. Letters under same title are grouped together in the same page. In my analysis, the first six letters discuss the same topic: “Read This Before Your Feast.” The other letters also share a common topic i.e. Letters # 7 and 8 discuss “Company Secretary, Personal Busines,” letters # 9 and 10 Continue reading...

Final Assignment: Analysis of Passage from Church, State and Jew in the Middle Ages

The letter written by James II, ruler of the Kingdom of Aragon, referred to an incident referring the loss of a young Christian boy, as reported by his mother, in the city of Saragossa. The Christians dominating the whole of Aragon that time blamed the Jews in Saragossa for the loss of the young boy. The whole incident indicated in the letter written by James II involves somewhat a conspiracy set up by the Christians against the Jews in Aragon. Given that the Christians form the majority of Aragon that time, there is an understanding that they favored any Continue reading...

Because of the society she lives in, Hester’s enforced wearing of the scarlet letter is intended to be a punishment, an admonition by the puritan New England society she lives in, but as the novel proceeds the effect on Hester is not what her society expected and the letter itself comes to stand for things other than ‘Adulteress’. This paper will argue that the effect of the letter on Hester is, by the end of the novel, to make her as accepted member of society again and that the scarlet letter is Continue reading...

Introduction

For the purposes of this genre analysis, I chose to examine the letter to the editor as a genre of writing. The concept of letters to the editor has always fascinated me; I have a tremendous amount of respect for those who follow news and editorial stories, and have a rebuttal or show of support for them. It is an interesting and fascinating way for people to express themselves and engage in a dialogue with those who provide them with their information and insight. It is for this purpose that I examine the style, art and purpose of letters Continue reading...

This genre-analysis paper looks at three letters to different newspaper editors. In order to be in opposition to come up with concrete claims about the characteristics of letters to the editor, I decided to pick letters from three major newspapers; the New York Times, the Boston Globe and the Los Angele Times. The letter from the New York Times is entitled “The Ethical Debate of Assisted Suicide” and is written by Jeffrey Freeman. This letter is intended to reach the social domain of the American society especially those audiences who have concerns over the involvement of physicians in helping Continue reading...

William Carlos Williams

William Carlos Williams has always been known as an experimenter, an innovator, a revolutionary figure in American poetry. Yet in comparison to artists of his own time who sought a new environment for creativity as expatriates in Europe, Williams lived a remarkably conventional life. A doctor for more than forty years serving the New Jersey town of Rutherford, he relied on his patients, the America around him, and his own ebullient imagination to create a distinctively American verse. Often domestic in focus and "remarkable for its empathy, sympathy, its muscular and emotional identification with its subjects," Williams's poetry is Continue reading...

Love letters are the most treasured and timeless way used while expressing love. They carry lots of memories and history and, therefore, are to be stored well and treasured. Kate Chopin was a famous feminist author during the 20th century. She wrote of human existence during its difficulties, subtle, stripped of the veil and others. The book was drafted by the principled standards. Her insights and beliefs of a human condition shaped her work and enabled her to become the most remarkable literary revival approximately after fifty years after her death. Her most recognized pieces of work were referred Continue reading...

Letters, in the past, do more than just share a message. These written words often carry the being along with the message; as if presenting one’s self to the one for whom the message is intended to be given. In this activity, a letter from Helen Keller dedicated to those who might like to donate for the cause of helping out deaf-and-blind individuals like herself shall be given particular attention to. Determining the response to the questions, what does this letter tell about Helen Keller? What result could a letter like this specifically bring about in relation to Continue reading...

Thesis Statement 1: Society has a way of punishing people they envy by emphasizing the latter’s weakness and making a ridicule out of that individual only to boost their personal worth.
- Claim: When the beautiful and poised Hester Prynne arrived at Boston, she came alone awaiting for the arrival of her husband Roger Chillingworth, however, to everyone’s knowledge. This made the women of Boston threatened by her.

Interpretation: That left the young, beautiful and poised Hester Prynne the interest of men. This grew the displeasure of the women of Boston.
- Claim: Many believed that Hester Continue reading...

This problem question revolves around the legal issues of offer and acceptance as laid down in contract law. However, before analyzing the legal issues and offer advice accordingly, it is imperative to examine the facts of the particular case.
Anthony has recently been hired as a sales manager for a company called Rocco Limited which is a trend fashion house that deals in selling of clothes. Eager to impress his bosses at work, Anthony goes on an expedition to secure new business deals for Rocco Limited. As a consequence, on Monday, he visits the House of Style Department store Continue reading...

The letters exchanged between John and Abigail carries a lot of information about their life and service in the American society. These letters helped them stay in love even though they were staying apart. Communication is a vital element in marriage relationship. The letter, which is in the focus of this paper, is, on the one hand, just one of the 1200 letters, which are known to have been written by John and Abigail Adams during their marriage. This letter shows to her husband how much she does care for him and for their mutual relations. It is full Continue reading...

Part 1: Civic engagement letter

Washington, DC Office
2205 Rayburn HOB

Washington, DC 20515

Dear congressman,
RE: Higher tuition in colleges
I am writing for the above named reason. My name is [insert name]. I am a 20 year old student from Xxxx University (insert name and address). The cost of a college degree has risen over the past three decades at a rate of 1,200 per cent. Majority of American students graduate from high school with hope of pursuing a post-secondary education. Graduating from college is part of the American dream. However, this dream is becoming more difficult to achieve. Dear congressman, with private college Continue reading...

Abstract

This paper explores such questions as the definition of letter of credit, its type, the use of these types ate mentioned. The point of using letter of credit is studied and the work of this mean of payment is described. The advantages and disadvantages of the main types of letter of credit for sellers and buyers are considered.
Keywords: letter of credit, issuing bank, advising bank, seller, buyer, bill of lading, commercial invoice.
As a very common way of international payments that causes the risks of transactions to be divided between the buyer and seller Letter of credit is Continue reading...

Martin Luther King Junior’s letter, ‘Letter from Birmingham Jail’ is without doubt a literary masterpiece. He communicates, implores, argues and criticizes within the bounds of civility. He addresses very grave issues in a very balanced tone such that the reader is able to focus on the message he seeks to pass across all through the letter rather than his personal predicament. This submission will focus on three issues in the letter which in the author’s opinion stood out.
The first item which this article will focus on is how the letter brings out the myriad of challenges Continue reading...

Abstract

This paper presents an overview of the claim made on the greatly renowned classic novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter. I would claim that the novel portrays various characters where it would be acceptable to mention and link them to the very controversial topic Women and Honor Killings. This paper clarifies how the story of the Scarlet Letter is a fine example of how women and honor killings occur in different societies and cultures and also with proper evidences it will be made further clear how this claim can be interrelated with the Hawthrone’s story and characters Continue reading...

For : Hara Ku

Re : Feedback on Letter of Complaint to Lacoste
This memo is in response to your request to closely review the complaint letter sent to the Head of Customer Service Department at Lacoste for alleged dissatisfaction with the way customer service handled your inquiry regarding a missing package. Upon evaluation of the letter, I would first like to commend you on the inclusion of needed details to enable the recipient to appropriately address your concern. This included the date of the order, the order number, the product details, the shipping details, the assigned courier, and the events that transpired. Continue reading...

Thesis Statement:

First and fourth letters written by Christopher Columbus and the differences between both the letters
Introduction:
Christopher Columbus is one of the most popular figures of the history. He was a great sailor, explorer, and colonizer who is remembered for his contributions in the respected area. This enthusiastic Italian sailor was very keen to travel and exploring, his quest was shaped when he got the approval from his masters, Spanish monarchs Ferdinand and Isabella. During his voyages, Columbus wrote some letters regarding his experiences at different stages of his voyages. The first letter was addressed to Luis de Santangel, Continue reading...

This genre analysis paper is based on ten letters to the editor from the New York Times from May 11th to May 18th, 2011. Choosing letters from the same newspaper creates an ideal chance to compare the trends in the structure, content, mechanics and styles used in the construction of these editorial genres. In addition, the New York Times is one of the widely known newspapers and therefore avoids wrong information that might be evident in other minor newspapers. All these letters focus on the key issues affecting American lifestyles. The issues range from politics and economics to social Continue reading...

The little short story was written by Hemingway expressing her worries and doubts. The short story is a letter to an unknown doctor in which Hemingway believes he would save her. The story talks about the engagement to a man from United States three years ago. After involving herself in a relationship, her lover was transferred from America to china because of job purposes. Unluckily, they could not travel together and Hemingway was left behind. In her letter, she illustrates her disappointments after the return of her man from china three years later. She is confused and wonders what Continue reading...

This week study focused on Allan Poe’s short story, The Purloined Letter. Allan Poe is acknowledged for his Gothic and American Romantic poems and short stories (Poe, Edgar, 4) Taking into consideration all the work done by Allan Poe, this is regarded the finest. This because the story does not have any gothic elements. From the letter, it is clear that the major theme focuses on the displacement and positioning of power. The two characters Lucan and Derrida are depicted with different levels of irony on the ownership of the letter. The struggle of power is re-enacted between Continue reading...

Thesis

Letter from Birmingham Jail by Martin Luther King clarifies on the reasons why he participated in the demonstration against racism that led him to be jailed while Disobedience as Psychological and Moral Problems by Erich Fromm talk about the autonomy of human beings in making decisions and disobeying the arm of the law in order to get their rights and freedom.

Summary of the Readings

The Letter from Birmingham Jail was a seminal essay that was written by one of the Americans greatest icons, Martin Luther King. The circumstance in which he wrote this letter was a complicated one since he had been Continue reading...

Hawthorne’s presentation of the wilderness in The Scarlet Letter is both literal – the unexplored and untamed wildness of forest beyond the town – and also metaphorical – he describes Hester’s as being cast into a “moral wilderness” because of her punishment at the hands of the Puritan community of New England. At the same time, Hester’s life in the “moral wilderness” and the forest itself are always juxtaposed with civilization – or the Puritan civilization of 17th century New England. Hawthorne was descended from New England Puritans, but as a Transcendentalist he has a rather different attitude to the Continue reading...

“Letter from Birmingham Jail” is a famous open letter written by Martin Luther King, Jr., in 1963. After he was arrested for participating a nonviolent protest in Birmingham, Alabama as part of the Civil Rights Movement, he wrote this letter to address several concerns he had about the concepts of racial segregation and the ideas of racism present in America at the time, particularly the South. It was published in various newspapers and magazines thereafter, and in his book Why We Can’t Wait.

The primary point of the letter was to respond to the “Call for Unity” that Continue reading...

Introduction

In order for one to best analyse a genre successfully, it is imperative for he or she to base the analysis on two basic categories. They include rhetorical purpose and audience and content and linguistic features. Each category has its own mode of description and this helps in analysis the genres presented. In this particular paper, three letters to the editor have adequately analysed using the categories aforementioned.
The first letter is letter is addressed to David Brooks and like minds. Since the author (John Reeder), tries to contrast David’s statement that unemployment cannot be Continue reading...

The Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. made his debut on the scene of the African-American civil rights movement of the mid-twentieth century. As young African American minister of the racist and bigoted United States south, King used the built-in prestige of an American clergyman to wage an embittered war against southern segregation and Jim Crow laws.
Dr. King’s fight for right had a profound impact on whites as well as blacks. In fact, anyone who limits the work of Dr. King to just helping black people, minimizes his contribution to America. He is responsible for the return Continue reading...

The “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” written by Martin Luther King Jr., is written for the purpose of motivating the African-American community to stand up for their rights and seeking sympathy for their position in society. King displays skillful organization of information to slowly build the audience’s interest before revealing the specific purpose of writing the letter. The types of appeals used in the letter’s composition indicate that King had carefully distributed them across the entire structure of the letter.

However, King’s letter contains several sections where spoken words would have achieved a better effect than written Continue reading...

Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter is the narrative of a fallen woman whose story is not the result of her own innate character, but of social forces which execute their power upon her and the subsequent transformations that these forces evoke. Thus, the personal opinion of this reader is that Hester Prynne truly is a courageous heroine who, prone to flaws like all human beings, makes a choice, which changes her life forever. Whether it was a wrong choice or a feat any of us would endeavor upon is questionable, because as it was said, it is not Continue reading...

Letter from a Birmingham jail is an open letter that was written by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on April 16 1963. Dr. Luther wrote the letter in defence of nonviolent resistance to racism (Ali-Dinar). The letter became an instant favourite with the American Civil Rights Movement in the early 1960 immediately it was published. Dr. King argued that people have a moral responsibility to defy and break laws that are unjust.
Dr. King wrote the letter from a jail in Birmingham, Alabama. He had been arrested on April 12 1963 and placed in the jail for announcing that Continue reading...

‘Letter from Birmingham jail’ was written by martin Luther king on April 16th, 1963. The letter, also known as ‘the negro is your brother’ is an open letter that was written by king against the statement, ‘A call for unity’ that was made by eight white clergymen from Alabama. This paper intends to discuss the letter from Birmingham jail and several other related aspects.
Martin in his open letter addressed Alabama clergymen and argued against the accusations that were leveled upon him by the clergymen. The statement from clergymen and letter from martin Luther king appeared after king was Continue reading...

Introduction

Alabama in the early 1960’s was indeed a state ‘sweltering with the heat of injustice’ as MLK himself said in the March on Washintgon some years after being incarcerated in Birmingham Jail. His letter from the same jail is full of impassioned appeals for non violence against the arbitrary and terrible treatment meted out to those protestors who were chiefly demonstrating for equal civil rights with whites. The author’s thesis is that justice should be there for all especially for negroes who have been sidelined for centuries.
King says; “We have waited for more than 340 years Continue reading...

The aim of this essay is to present you with a review of chapters 22-24 of the book ‘The Scarlet Letter’. Barlow (2000) refers to this book as ‘The magnum opus’ of Nathaneal. (Barlow, 2000). ‘The Scarlet Letter’ is a story of love, adultery, betrayal, faith, belief and social criticism which was published in 1850 and holds a little bit of all these elements which can attribute to it the characterization of being a romantic novel.
The historical context of the novel’s plot is the social environment of the society living and developing in the area of Puritan Continue reading...

“In giving her existence, a great law had been broken; and the result was a being whose elements were perhaps beautiful and brilliant, but all in disorder, or with an order peculiar to themselves, amidst which the point of variety and arrangement was difficult or impossible to be discovered” (Hawthorne, Chapter 6 p. 98).
The quote above generalizes Pearl’s character. She was the daughter of Hester Prynne, a woman living in the standards of the Puritan society condemned by the people as ‘brazen hussy’ who bears the scarlet letter ‘A’ fantastically embroidered upon her bosom (Hawthorne, Chapter 2 Continue reading...

The book to be used in the running record sheet is entitled Hello Children: Reading A to Z. The book A to Z is of aa level.

The formula is;
((Running Words –Total Errors) ÷ Running Word) × 100
((362-22)/362)× 100
=93.9%
Percentage accuracy of 93.9% shows that this is best for Instructional level for use in leveled reading session.

Self-Correction rate

((Total error + total self-correction) ÷total self-correction)× 100
(22-4)/4
= 1:4.5
4.5 rounded to the nearest whole number it becomes 5, hence the ratio becomes
= 1:5

Error Rate

Is calculated by dividing total words with the total error:
(Total words) ÷ (total error) = Error Continue reading...

Blacks in the United States had suffered a lot due to segregation and mistreatment because they were considered inferior to their white counterparts. After several years of mistreatment, segregation and inequality there was reason to protest against the unequal treatment of blacks throughout the country. It is for this reason that black leaders and the entire black population organized non- violent protests to air their grievances. It is around this time, that Martin Luther King Junior wrote a letter titled Letter from Birmingham Jail. It is a passionate letter that sought to address and respond to another letter that Continue reading...

“Letter from Birmingham Jail,” written by Martin Luther King, was documented in 1963 during the Civil Rights Movement. African Americans were fighting a constant battle for equality between blacks and whites. The document stands as a true example of the period of growth America experienced, as we see the word “Negro” appear throughout the works, but must notice this word is no longer used today. King also plainly tried to show the growing pains America experienced through the purpose of his letter, which is that King desires freedom. He wants freedom for the African Americans. In an attempt to Continue reading...

This is My Letter to the World is a poem written by Emily Dickinson. She has written a lot of poems but This is My Letter to the World is a relative short poem with only eight lines. Emily’s poem has deep meaning behind it as she set out to withdraw from the society that has failed to notice her; she writes “This is my letter to the world, That never wrote to me.” She resents and begrudges her visibility as she accuses the world of not communicating with her. She was passing information to the world and Continue reading...

I. Introduction
Systematic phonics instruction is a subset of educational practice that offers children a variety of tools to help ease their ability to read. Most systematic phonics instruction programs are designed to create letter-sound relationships for children, both independently and in letter combinations (Dahl, Scharer, Larson et al.). These programs are designed to help children learn how to read with greater ease, although they can be used for learners of any age. Indeed, Adams notes that phonics instruction is used heavily when teaching English as a second language, especially to adult learners who must learn how to read Continue reading...

Introduction

Justice is essentially a concept of moral aptness based on rationality, ethics, religion, natural law, fairness and equity, as well as administration of law, taking into consideration the inborn and inalienable rights of all the citizens and human beings. Justice as a virtue refers to a trait of a person. The understandings of the concept of justice differ in each culture, since cultures are normally dependent upon a certain shared history, religion, or mythology. The ethics of each culture create values that influence notion of justice.
On the other hand, civil disobedience is actually the active, declared refusal to Continue reading...

Business

The baptism of the Civil Rights Movement in 1954 was initiated in the case of Brown v. Board when black children were not allowed to admission in the public schools were the white children were enrolled pursuant to the law which required the segregation based on the race of the students. The issue in this case was whether or not the separation of black students from white students in public schools on the basis of race is tantamount to deprive the minority children the equal protection of law in accordance to the Constitution (Brown vs. Board 3). The Supreme Continue reading...

14th May, 2011
The economic depression of the 1930’s was a major hit to the United States. Very many people were rendered jobless and as a result fingers were pointed to several forces some of which are a direct hit to the workforce itself. Some people considered the work force to be responsible for the depression and thus its impacts were just befitting. The work force is composed of different people with different ages and of different sexes. This is what Helen O’ Reilly is addressing through her letter that is basically addressing on the working age. She Continue reading...