Now that we've come to the end of the first unit, it's time for you to really let your new creative juices flow. again, without worrying too much about the final product, pick a subject you feel passionate enough about to write a creative essay. remember, unlike the usual type of essays you'll write for other subjects, there is no need to create a balanced or logical argument here.
this is simply about expressing your feelings in an eloquent and nonfictional way. if you like, you could brainstorm a few ideas first or do some freewriting on the subject to get yourself started.
assignment instructions: then take everything you've learned about the music of words from translitics, and about how your favorite writers achieve the effects they do, and try to write an essay that really makes an impact on your reader. your essay should be between 600 and 1000 words and not be a repetition of any previous work. submit your completed essay in the creative writing 1.4 assignment dropbox. this assignment is worth 20 points.
once you've done that, you'll be ready to move on to the next unit, where we'll talk more specifically about literary devices and how great writers use them.

themselves

an intensive pronoun is a pronoun that ends in self or selves, such as himself, herself, themselves, yourself, ourselves. since band members is a third person plural, the correct intensive pronoun would be themselves. if the band was talked about as a collective noun, itself would be the appropriate intensive pronoun. intensive pronouns are used to add emphasis to the noun it's modifying which is why it directly follows it.

a. it reminds protestors of the reasons they have to protest.

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serve the people! ,” smoothly translated by julia lovell, offers an initial sample of yan lianke’s writing to an english-speaking audience. a bluntly drawn, mildly erotic fable, it teases mao zedong by poking fun at a true believer who obeys the chairman’s precepts too literally. to a western sensibility, the broad strokes of yan lianke’s humor would seem to pose little risk of inciting rebellion, whether of the flesh or of the body politic. but then, part of the book’s attraction is that it doesn’t have a western sensibility. it lets the reader see — or rather, intuit — what jokes chinese officials don’t consider funny, and how very little it takes for a writer to be branded an incendiary in 21st-century china, more than three decades after the death of mao, a decade after the death of deng xiaoping and seven years since china entered the world trade organization, a move that would seem to signal a willingness (however wary) to mingle with the rest of the world.

actually the answer would be c.) jane addams worked hard to improve the lives of less fortunate people.