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| dangling phrases are attached to sentence parts in such a way they create ambiguity and potentiaonally incorrect meanings. |
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| A story in verse or prose with characters that represent virtues and vices. symbolic and literal: The Pilgrims progress |
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| Along pose, usually of book length, reflects values inherent in teh generative society. Homer's Iliad and odyssey Miilton's Paradise Lost |
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| A terse tale offering a moral or exemplum. Ie animals speak and act like humans |
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| Historically factual but actually a misture of fact and fiction |
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| Factual information presented in a format that tells a story. |
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| four main types of nonfiction writng |
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Expository: explains a topic or how to do something
Persuasive:
Descriptive: writing excites senses
Narrative: informs by telling a story |
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| Historical and cultural context |
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Local color
Slavery: Harriet Beecher Stowe- Uncle Tom's Cabin first effort to depict the lives of slaves from their standpoin
Immigration: Undaunted Courage by Stephen Ambrose- autobiography of Meriwether Lewis/ recounting of Lewis and Clark
John Steinbecks Cannery Row and Tortilla Flats Mexican immigrants The joy luck club- Chinese immigrants
Civil Right protest literature:
James Baldwin- Blues for MIster Charlie, Martin Luther King- Where do we go from here |
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Include Clustering
Listing
Brainstorming
Mapping
Free Writing
Charting |
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| Cite anything that is not common knowledge. Includes direct quotes as well as ideas or statistics. |
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| Powers delegated to the federal government |
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to tax
to borrow and coin money
to establish a postal service
to grant patents and copyrights
to regulate interstate and foreign commerce
to establish courts
to declare war
to raise and support the armed forces
to govern territories
to defina nd punish felonies and piracy on the high seas
to fix standards or weights and measures
to conduct foreign affairs |
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| Powers reserved to the state |
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to regulate intrastate trade
to establish local governments
to protect general welfare
to protect life and property
to ratify amendments
to conduct elections
to make state and local laws |
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| concurrent powers of federal and state government |
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may tax
may borrow money
may charter banks and corporations
may establish courts
may make and enforce laws
may take property for public purposes
may spend money to provide for the publich welfare |
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Article 1 of constitution established the legislative or law-making branch of government call the Congress.
responsible for:
makings laws
raising and printing money
regulating trade
establishing the postal service and federal courts
approving the President's appointments
declaring war
supporting the armed forces
change constitution
impeach President |
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Headed by President
leads the country,
recommends new laws
veto bills
appoints federal judges |
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Article 3 of constitution
headed by supreme court
can rule that a law passed by other 2 branches can be illegal and unconstitutional |
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elimination of all government and is replaced by a cooperative community of individuals.
Black Flag |
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ideology of class conflict and revolution
a one party state
government controlled media
government ownership of the means of production and distribution of goods and services
red flag/ stars/ hammer/ sickles |
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rule by individual or small group of individuals (Oligarchy)
enforces through military or police force |
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similar to communism
idolization of the leader, a "cult of personality,
German Nazism and Italian Fascism |
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system of gov. with a legislature, few or many political parties, and has no division between head of state and head of government
can only be removed before an election for major infractions of the law |
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belief and system in which the state takes a guiding role in the national economy and provides extensive social services to its population
promotes democracy though with heavy state involvement |
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| well known foreign policy advocate: the Secretary is port of the Executive Branch and is appointed by the President and confirmed by congress |
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