Passage: 
“They are are popular as a piece of dirt,” Japeth said. “Or you know that couch in the classroom? That couch is more popular than any girl. A thousand times more.”

Analysis: 
This passage serves to enhance the view that boys have of girls at the young age of ten. It adds to the argument that boys dislike, and may even believe they are better than girls, from their childhood, which suggests this may continue into adulthood. This specific passage is significant because it captures this idea in a funny, captivating way. Rather than simply stating “boys do not like girls”, the author uses a direct quote from a ten year old boy who is experiencing this. It also as not easily forgotten because of the very obvious humor, in that the boy compares girls to a couch, a very very popular couch. Beyond this humor, it delves into the issue that a boy of such a young age is comparing women to objects.  Although this did help set the tone in a funny way, it can also be seen as more serious. 

Imitation:
“They are as dark as the sky on halloween”, Amber giggled. “Or you know the color of the neihgbors dog? The teacher’s soul is darker than that. Much much darker.”

Passage:
"You've got to help each other out, in this world. Ease your friends' lives, and they'll ease yours: they'll send around a New York diamond cutter with a $4,500 diamond and platinum bracelet for your wife" pg 231



Analysis:
This quote from Tyler’s “Trouble in the Boys’ Club” serves to begin to describe little corruptions that go on undetected and unacknowledged within the government. It helps her argue her point that favoritism, rather than legislation,  largely effects everyday affairs in the United States government. This passage was specifically important to the project because of the casual tone she uses to develop the statement. She makes the issue seem casual and right, in order to make readers’ realize how frequent and wrong this type of governmental problem is. She uses cliches to enhance this idea, including the first sentence and first half of the second sentence, which generally states that if you help your friends and they will help you, rather it is right or wrong. The clause which comes after the colon is also stylistically beneficial because it adds an example in an appropriate context, without completely breaking away from the previous thought. 


Imitation:
We’ve got to look around more, in this life. Care for the world, maybe it’ll care for you too: it’ll send you a much needed favor when you're least expecting it and soon enough be gone. 

Analysis: 

This author argues that despite political cliches, John McCain is sincere in his addresses to the public in which he promises to always tell the truth. Not only does he want to convince readers that McCain is a good candidate, but also that the vote of the youth is extremely important despite the lack of interest in that age group. In order to accomplish this, Wallace immerses himself into the campaign and holds many interviews over the time period. To strengthen his argument, he includes vocabulary directly in the center of the article rather than towards the end, so that the reader can fully understand the points being made. He collects most of research not through important campaign managers, but through average people, for example Jim C the camera man. Overall, he argues that when youth do not vote, they give two votes to groups who are "diehards". 

“He tried. He always, always tried, and always with love at the core of that effort. He was an intensely emotional man.” pg 293

Passage:

Through this piece, Hamilton argues that although each prisoner has a different crime, they each are treated in the same cruel ways, despite an circumstances. To appeal to he emotional sides of her readers, she used her pregnancy and the struggles she went through. This personal connection pulls at reader's heartstrings, specifically women, who can imagine what it would be like to be treated with such disregard, despite the presence of another being within you. The most emotional story she includes is the part about the C-section, which also calls ethos into play. One can only imagine that forcing a non required medical treatment is not ethical, despite any crime committed. By including this personal account, the author suggest that there needs to be reform in the treatment of inmates, specifically pregnant women. Although this was one point of her essay, the other message that seems to be pointed out is that any mistake can be 

Passage:
 As I walk out I hear a father whisper to his young son, “That’s a real superhero.”
 "Are you a real superhero?" the little boy ask Phoenix. 
 “I’m real as you can get,” Phoenix replies. 

Analysis: 
This quote challenges the idea that real life superheros are men simply who dress up in costumes and do not positively impact society. The author appeals to the readers’ emotions by reminding them of what it was like to believe in superheros as a child. By proposing these “real-life superheros” to his readers, he proposes a reality to their childhood dreams and fantasies. This specific passage is very important because it plainly states the author’s opinion on this issue, that at the end of the day these average citizens really are heros in society. To prove that other members in society are accepting the members of these “RLSH’s”, he uses quotations from an older member of society, the father, as well as a younger member, the child. The way this quottions was written allows the reader to anazlyze how they would view these superheros in their own lives. By italizing “real”, the author adds a certain emphasis in order to once again focus on the true couragous acts of these real life super heros. 

Imitation: 
As I turned towards the ferris wheel a mother frantically searched for her child, “Emma ..where are you?!”
“Can I get cotton candy?” the small child whispered from behind the stroller. 
“Yes, please just wait for me,” the suddenly calm mother replied. 

Passage:
"The only way the scene had affected us, in a strict material sense, was that we got our kitchen professionally cleaned for free. We'd faced harder challenges. That's when Psycho Derek appeared." pg 306

Analysis:
Sullivan argues that the house used to film the show was less homey, and contained memories which did not belong to the owners. He appeals to the readers emotionally by including something many people can relate to, the feeling of calling a place home and raising a child in a home. This passage is significant because it shows the beginning of the end of the power struggle between their home and Peyton’s home. “Psycho Derek” represents negative memories brought into the home, which of course are unreal, but nonetheless stay in the minds of the homeowners. The short, abrupt last two sentences give a strong sense of straight-forwardness. They also hint, because there is not a lot of information, that “Psycho Derek” and the challenges he brought wil be explained later in the text. 

Imitation:
The cars barreled down the highway, sweeping through the snow, when my cellphone rang continually at a piercing pitch. It was the University Hospital. I had to get there soon.

Passage:
“The loudest duck gets shot” is a Chinese Proverb. “The nail that sticks out gets hammered down” is a Japanese one. Its Western correlative: “The squeaky wheel gets the grease.” Chua had told her story and been hammered down. Yet here she was, fresh from hammering, completely unbowed. 

Analysis:
This passage, found in the last paragraph of the text, serves to summarize the author’s overall intended message of “Paper Tigers”, by Wesley Wang. The author’s goal throughout the piece is to describe the disadvantage American-Asians have succeeding, and thriving, in workplace settings as well as social settings, due to their upbringing. While Asians have the intelligence to compete in American society, through conditioning and training they can also begin to fit into the American corporate world and society as a whole.  These few sentences show a clear contrast between the way an Asian-Americans may have been raised in compared to an average American. Through the proverbs included, the author catches the readers attention and summarizes Asian values and American values in a clear and concise manner. He makes a bold final statement, in the last sentence, in which the Asian American begins to overcome the conditions which have held them back. By showing a problem being overcome,a positive, motivational tone is stuck in the reader’s mind as the piece concludes.


Imitation:
“Always keep an open mind” is her mother’s favorite. “Learn to dance in the rain” was her younger sisters. Her personal favorite: “The grass is always greener on the other side”. She heard each one and had begun to dance her way through life. There she stood, dancing through the storm, without feeling a drop of rain. 

Passage:
“This was the first time I’d ever seen my mother and father together in the same room- he had abandoned us when I was nine months old. ‘You didn’t seem to smile a whole lot that afternoon,’ my cousin has since mentioned a number of times. The photographs bear this out.”

Analysis:
                This passage serves to describe the author’s relationship with his estranged father in a dramatic way, and the impact it had on his growing up among protests and movements. It foreshadows a reason as to why protests give him such an uncomfortable feeling, because his father was a large player in these events. This passage helps make an early emotional connection that a reader can think back to as the author goes through his experience with the protest. This passage is extremely bold, mainly due to the quotation said by the author’s cousin, in which he states he did not seem to smile much on his wedding day. That statement alone could describe the turmoil that the author’s father brought to him, considering he “didn’t seem to smile much” on a day which, we could be assumed, was supposed to be very happy. Beyond the content, I found the way the sentences were broken up to be attention grabbing. The use of the quotation evokes an emotional connection to the reader, and brings you directly into the author’s personal experience. The last, short sentence, along with the fragment used after the hyphen, give the piece a blunt, raw, emotional tone, which gives idea that the author is telling things as they really are.

Imitation:
This was the day that I knew everything had changed-she had felt the devastation herself already. "There’s nothing you can do about it now," my mother murmured in a way I had heard before. My face spoke my every thought.