Present tense

“The Wound-Dresser,” by Walt Whitman, is a gruesome poem that brings his readers face to face with the cruel realities of war. The wound-dresser is about the nurse talking about the fatally injured victims of Civil War and how he had taken care of them. Whitman himself was a nurse in the battle field. This poem allows the readers to see what he saw, and feel what he felt. His main theme that I found is that he used literary techniques to emphasis his writing, showed that nurses also could be…

speech in the context of reading, writing, and speaking verbs (past, present, and future. I can use the TEKS to help the students understand about past, future, present tense when referring to where they went for the trip. Before going to the trip, I can focus on helping first graders understand about past, present, and future. We can do interactive activities where we learn to identify how to properly use each of the verb tenses. Furthermost, after coming back from their trip I can ask the…

more about how you felt when your mom left and how important it is to you that your dad was able to take care of you without help. You have dialogue in the first paragraph and it does a great job at enhancing the essay. 7. The story is mostly in past tense with exception to the concluding paragraph. The events are placed in the correct order and the correct paragraphs. I do not see any reason to relocate any sentences. I see a sufficient number of transitional phrases. 8. Most of the sentences…

stories. These techniques make the story interesting to read and make the characters much more relatable. But, the techniques make the stories more complicated and therefore more difficult to read. Both of these stories use multiple point of views, verb tenses, and several other techniques to tell their story. Foremost, Tim O’Brien and Louise Erdrich use multiple point of views to tell their story. Both novels tell some parts in…

Santiago was already in for the night and he wasn’t so Placida locks him out and he is then killed. Even though Santiago is stabbed a bunch he was still able to walk to his neighbor’s home where he then fell dead. This chapter is written more in a past tense and it clearly lays out the death with vivid imagery on the event of Santiago’s death as expressed when the novella says, “holding his hanging intestines in his hands” (119). In conclusion, chapters one, two and three are similar in the…

In the story “A House for Us,” by Etidal Osman, the author shifts from present tense to past tense midway through the story so that she explain ideas better and write about the narrator’s thougths and feelings. The shift in tenses contributes a thorough evaluation of characters’ thought processes because it demonstrates the actions in the story that happened in the past. When the narrator and Rami play…

thoughts are ultimately distorted, raising questions on what is actually true. Twyla, as the narrator, tells the story with her own bias, making it difficult to discern the authenticity of each thought or event. Her thoughts, however, are influenced by present events, which can be considered to recognize the reality of a situation. Morrison employs Twyla’s memories to uncover how other characters and events shape a person’s…

purpose which is that even if you have a disability you can do anything. In the Devils Thumb the organizational order is that its written in a flashback aka past tense. The story was written in past tense. The author told us a memory of his. In the story Krakheur talks about his eight birthday. This clearly is talking about the past tense of his life, and its how the story is told. This helps the authors accomplish the fact that is told at a memory. Krakheur goes back in time to share some of…

Learning to write psychological reports is an essential component of a psychologist’s academic career. Throughout my brief career working in clinics I thought I had completed an adequate amount of clinical writing, and therefore I felt writing psychological reports would not be a difficult task. However, after completing my first report, I quickly realized I was wrong. The process of writing a psychological report is a thorough and complicated task. After writing a total of five reports, I have…

Throughout this semester I have developed in many ways in my writing and I’ve been able to recognize and learn from my mistakes. There are five major areas that I was graded on with each of my essays. Those five areas are unity, development, coherence, grammar/-spelling/punctuation, and overall. Out of those five areas I had two strengths that was consistent from essay one through essay four, these two strengths are unity and development. Not only did I have strengths but I also have major…