COURSE HERO ACCOUNT NEEDED 2.2.9 Practice You should have completed a draft of this assignment in the activity before this one. If you haven't done so, go back and complete that activity now. Expand the outline you wrote in Lesson 1 into a research essay. As in most essays, you'll need to include an introduction, a body, and a conclusion. You'll also need to support your claim with evidence. Your evidence will come from sources that you researched in Lesson 1, although you should feel free to seek out new sources if you need them. Take special care to integrate your sources correctly — whether you're quoting them or paraphrasing them — so that you avoid plagiarism. You want to make it obvious which words and ideas are your own and which come from sources. In-text citations help you make this distinction.

Read the following claim. people likely will continue making new year's resolutions despite often being unable to follow through on them. which selection from the article provides the best support for this statement?

“tell me o swan, your ancient tale” by kabir “the swan” by rilke “spanish dancer” by rilke “your laughter” by pablo neruda “birthplace” by shaffarzadeh “it’s this way” by nazim hikmet “counting small-boned bodies” by robert bly choose two poems that you would like to write about. analyze each poem. study the perspective, or point of view, of the speaker in each of the two poems that you select for this assignment. consider these questions: who is the speaker in each of these poems? what is the speaker’s tone? is there a conflict? is there a message? what does each of the poems have in common? what is different about each of the poems? which literary devices are used in the poems? are these literary devices found in both of the poems? what does the speaker hope to achieve in each of the poems? how are these achievements/goals been met? directions: using the two poems of your choosing, write a clear, concise, two hundred and fifty word essay that compares and contrasts the two poems. make sure you include at least two of the following to support your thesis: tone, point of view, literary devices, and meter.

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