By Quoting, Paragraphs

The paper is in MLA format and I had some trouble keeping it in present tense, block quoting a speech from poetry, and siting the poetry inside the paragraphs themselves help would be very very appreciated. sorry its so long. also I dont know if i like my closing statement, should I add more or...

Anonymous wrote: I will be using this at the end of my essay. Can you please tell me if I did my quoting correctly? For the purpose of this question, I am ending my paper, with a quote by so-and so: “Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is...

I will be using this at the end of my essay. Can you please tell me if I did my quoting correctly? For the purpose of this question, I am ending my paper, by defining leadership as being (in the words of Colin Powell and Sam Walton) “Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop...

please help me teachers/ english professors with my essay. feel free to email me about my mistakes @ phu53@yahoo.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ “The Scarlet Ibis” The short story “The Scarlet Ibis” by James Hurst...

I have two questions concerning quotation marks. The first is; When in a paragraph a person is thinking a sentence or two, and these are strictly thoughts that are not actually spoken, are quotation marks used in the same way one would quote a person's speech? Example; At first Jennifer was...