Writing Assignment: Try to put yourself "in the shoes" of someone like Roger-someone who does something bad but is not really a bad person. Why does this person do whatever bad thing he or she does? Write a short story about this character and try to make the character sympathetic to the reader-in other words, create a character that the reader can understand and like despite his or her behavior. Imagine what this character would think and feel and describe him or her in detail. Come up with a different character and situation from those described in "Thank You, Ma'am."

What is the meaning of each underlined word in these excerpts from "a modest proposal" by jonathan swift? i think it is agreed by all parties, that this prodigious number of children in the arms, or on the backs, or at the heels of their mothers, and frequently of their fathers, is in the present deplorable state of the kingdom, a very great additional grievance; and therefore whoever could find out a fair, cheap and easy method of making these children sound and useful members of the common-wealth, would deserve so well of the publick, as to have his statue set up for a preserver of the nation. some persons of a desponding spirit are in great concern about that vast number of poor people, who are aged, diseased, or maimed; and i have been desired to employ my thoughts what course may be taken, to ease the nation of so grievous an incumbrance. the word prodigious means . the word desponding means .

Assignment first, create an outline that organizes the major events of samuel beckett's endgame into a traditional frve act structure your outline must include explanations for why you chose the events you did in each act second, write a paragraph that analyzes how endgame's structure affects its overall meaning.

How can an author reveal move information about a character