Following a late movie at a neighborhood theatre, Mary Smith walked across the parking lot toward her apartment, seven blocks away. Less than a block from her apartment, a man named Charles Jones accosted her and a struggle resulted in which he stripped and sexually assaulted her. A passerby heard Ms. Smith’s screams and phoned the police, who arrived to apprehend Jones within a few minutes after he had completed his sexual assault. The police report indicated that Ms. Smith had worked as a prostitute prior to this incident. Jones works as an auto mechanic at a local service station. Question: Did Mary Smith’s behaviour contribute to the likelihood of the attack? Is Mary at fault? How responsible (in percent form) for this event can be attributed to Mary Smith’s behaviour?

The best persuasive essay topics a. are the ones that are popular, that many other people are writing about b. are ones you feel strongly about and that can be backed up by outside sources c. are one you feel strongly about, whether or not there is outside evidence for support

Read the excerpt from "a modest proposal." the poorer tenants will have something valuable of their own, which by law may be made liable to a distress, and to pay their landlord's rent, their corn and cattle being already seized, and money a thing unknown. which statement effectively uses a quotation to show that swift claims that the poor will also benefit from his proposal? “swift writes that poorer tenants will have something valuable of their own, which by law may be made liable to a distress.” swift writes that poorer tenants will finally have something to pay their landlord’s rent since they have neither money nor trade. swift writes that poorer tenants will have something to trade for rent since “their corn and cattle” have already been seized. swift writes that “poorer tenants will have something valuable of their own” that can “ to pay their landlord’s rent.”

In what way was the modernist element of disillusionment shown in “the jitling of granny weatherall”? a) the story rejects traditional, chronological order. b) granny feels jilted at both her wedding and her deathbed. c) the narration makes heavy use of symbolism. d) granny’s thoughts are hard to distinguish from real events