Economists fondly call it an externality. What’s an externality? It’s what happens when someone takes an action but someone else, without agreeing, pays some or all the costs of that action. An externality is an economic version of taxation without representation. If you happen to live downwind from a fertilizer factory, the ammonium stench is […]
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The questions for the Grapes of Wrath test are listed below. For the test tomorrow, you may use hand-written notes and the book itself, but nothing else.
The test will be two questions, each to be answered in 2-3 well-developed paragraphs with examples from the text.
A quotation worth considering, by reader Jeffrey Schwartz: Reading essays in a straight-backed chair all day long for seven days was about as much fun as I had imagined. At first, every essay was a fascinating challenge. Some were entertaining, a few were brilliant and most, which fell in the midrange, were proficient and dull. […]
As you work on your revisions and second persuasive essays, these are some resources that you might find helpful: Information about parenthetical citation (Purdue OWL, HHS Research Guidebook) Citation Makers for Works Cited Page (Citation Machine, Palomar Citation Generator) Embedding Quotations (Pogreba Writing Guide)