...PRE-TEST: 1. Read “The Importance of Rites,” from Myths to Live By, by Joseph Campbell. 2. Evaluate this brief essay in terms of internal criteria by judging whether, or to what extent it is coherent. Specify in detail why you think it is either coherent or incoherent. In the essay, “The Importance of Rites,” Myths to Live By, by Joseph Campbell is a moderately incoherent. A coherent communication should be very clear, and each paragraph should follow through on the main topic, but this essay does not. The author strays from his topic statement where he states his opinion that the function of ritual is to give form to human life, not in the way of what is on the surface, but what lies inside. The author further explains that in ancient times, social occasions were eminently organized and the inner makings were of a religious tone. Campbell further compares those times with the present and states that what is within us is of the utmost importance. The author shares this information in the first paragraph of this essay. Unfortunately, as we continue to read this communication, it is evident that there is little consistency or coherency in in the remaining paragraphs starting with the second paragraph where the author states comparisons of different animal species, with no recollection of his original point. The paragraphs that follow, skips back and forth between structures of rituals, human behaviors, religious beliefs, and other non-essential topics with no relative...
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...Caleb Crawford Psychology Period 6 Dream Essay A dream is a period of spontaneous brain activity usually lasting from about 5-40 minutes that occurs during sleep several times a night usually about 90 minute intervals dreams allow a person to take a closer look into his their mind and themselves sometimes dreams act as a way to discover yourself, dreams can be used to solve all different types of problems. There are also certain types of dreams. There are fantasy, daydream and waking dreams. There are also lucid dreams, nightmares and night terrors. There are also certain stages in the dream cycle. In the first stage, your body temperature drops, your eyes close and your brain waves begin regular alpha rhythms, indicating a relaxed state. In many of my dreams, what happen in my dreams would happen the next day or within the following days. I think the reason for this is because when I would wake up and remember my dreams threw out that day I would be thinking about those dreams I had, had so the more I thought about it the more I would want to make those dreams come true. Like for example Tuesday night I had dreamed about a project I had due the next day in English and my dream was me presenting my PowerPoint and in my dream I had done very good on my essay. We were suppose to present for 5 minutes and I did like 6 minutes and I answered all the questions that my classmates had and I did very good on the whole project in my dream. So when it came time to present my project...
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...EN1320 Composition I | Christmas in Colorado | Module 4 Essay: Write a Memoir | | Jeff Stucker | 4/29/2014 | | Last year my family and I decided to do something different for Christmas and go to Gunnison, Colorado to go skiing for a family Christmas trip. This would include me, my brother, my mom, my dad, and my grandparents. I was so excited ever since I had heard the news in October. I had only been to Colorado in the summer before and I had never spent Christmas away from home before. My grandparents had retired to their summer home in Colorado the year before to live full time. My story begins at the threshold of my trip the night before we left for Colorado. We were all at my house so we could open our presents from each other, but my brother and I would not open our presents from our parents until Christmas morning in Gunnison even though we had opened the presents from the rest of our family that night. This was one of my favorite parts of Christmas, opening presents. I got a lot of cool stuff including a new be spread, a new bed comforter, some new books, some new VHS tapes and a lot more. Finally, it was time for the big present which was from my dad. It was huge! My mind raced with ideas of what it could have been. But to give me and my brother a hint of what it was, they brought us out a smaller present. It was an Atari controller! So that must have meant…yes! It was an Atari 2600! After that, my brother and I decided to try it out and then we...
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...Hi, I’m Kayden and today I’m going to tell you about myself. I’m 14 years old, and I enjoy playing sports and meeting new people. In this essay, I’m going to tell you about myself, such as my hobbies and something about me that is unusual. I was born on January 6, 2002, in Grand Forks B.C. My parents are separated, so I spend time at both houses. I have two brothers, one older and one younger. I also have one dog, and four cats. I love to play sports, especially skateboarding and skiing. Some other things that I like are cooking, listening to music, and going to the gym. One of my dreams is to travel the world and learn about different cultures. Lastly, I’m not afraid of many things, but one of the things that do scare me are spiders....
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...Travis Weaver English 112 June 1st, 2012 Primary Research Essay Lake Wylie is located on Gaston and Mecklenburg Counties in North Carolina and York County in South Carolina. The lakes water supply primarily comes from the Catawba River. The lake is man-made and used to create hydroelectricity by Duke Power Company. Lake Wylie is a large lake and offers an abundance of space for recreation and activities including: boating, fishing, water skiing, sun bathing, swimming and numerous other activities around the lake. It is enjoyed by many people during the summer time. Safety on the water becomes a problem with so many people participating in water activities. Several People die and many others are injured each year in association with the lake. The first thing that comes to mind when being around water is being able to swim. Many people die each year while being on the lake because they cannot swim or not very strong swimmers. Some people think its not cool to wear a life jacket so they jump into the lake without wearing one. They can swim for a short while but they become exhausted and are not close enough to grab on to anything and they struggle to keep their head above the water. Other children were never taught how to swim at all and they think they will be fine hugging onto a float or noodle but they can lose their grip and down they go. The water is dark and by the time someone notices it is to late. The lake water itself is a safety concern. There have been reports...
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...Portal Entry Essay: The Adirondacks The history of the Adirondack Park in Upstate New York is a prime example of people taking responsibility for their actions. Companies exploited the forest for many years. The state recognized the importance of the Adirondacks, thus establishing a strict forest protection Act. Now the Adirondacks are being affected by climate change. I live in Upstate New York on the northern border of the Adirondack Park. The Adirondacks have always been part of my life, from my childhood summers canoe camping on the lakes, to hiking and skiing in the Adirondack Mountains. I wanted my portals to revolve around something I had a personal connection to. I chose my three entries mainly based on my previous knowledge. I knew the Adirondacks had been clear-cut long ago and that resulted in a protection act to preserve the area. I had considered looking at when the Park officially became a state park. I also...
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...Exercise 1: i) Read the paragraphs below and locate the Topic sentence. ii) Circle the Topic & underline the Controlling idea. Iii) There is one sentence that breaks the rule of unity.Find it & cross it out. Passage 1: Daredevil sports are becoming popular. Young people especially are increasingly willing to risk their lives while mountain biking, bungee jumping, or high-speed skateboa California is a state with every type of geography.It has mountains where you can enjoy the winter sports of skiing,snowboarding,and snowshoeing.It has deserts where temperatures can reach 110°F (43°C) in the summer.It has beaches where you can surf,swim and fish.It has forests where the world’s tallest trees grow.Finally,it has farmlands where a lot of the nation’s fruits and vegetables grow.California also has Hollywood and Disneyland,which are world-famous centres of entertainment.California is a popular place to live,so many peolple move there every year.Indeed California has it all: deserts, beaches, and farms. Exercise 2 In the following paragraph, choose an appropriate transition signal from those listed after each blank. Have you ever wondered how those big ocean storms called hurricanes or typhoons get their name? Who decides to name a hurricane “Anne” or “Barbara” or “Bill”? The way hurricane and typhoons are named has changed over the years, and it is an interesting story. Originally, weather forecasters described them by their position in degrees of latitude and longitude...
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...underline the Controlling idea. Iii) There is one sentence that breaks the rule of unity.Find it & cross it out. Passage 1: Daredevil sports are becoming popular. Young people especially are increasingly willing to risk their lives while mountain biking, bungee jumping, or high-speed skateboarding. Soccer is also popular in the United States now, although football is still more popular. One of the riskiest new sports is sky surfing, in which people jump out of airplanes with boards attached to their feet. Sky surfing, rivals skydiving and bungee jumping are becoming popular for the amount of thrills and risks. Passage 2: California is a state with every type of geography.It has mountains where you can enjoy the winter sports of skiing,snowboarding,and snowshoeing.It has deserts where temperatures can reach 110°F (43°C) in the summer.It has beaches where you can surf,swim and fish.It has forests where the world’s tallest trees grow.Finally,it has farmlands where a lot of the nation’s fruits and vegetables grow.California also has Hollywood and Disneyland,which are world-famous centres of entertainment.California is a popular place to live,so many peolple move there every year.Indeed California has it all: deserts, beaches, and farms. Exercise 2 In the following paragraph, choose an appropriate transition signal from those listed after each blank. Have you ever wondered how those big ocean storms called hurricanes or typhoons get their name? Who decides to name a...
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...Expressive Essay (Observation, Ethnography or Memoir) First Draft ENC 1101 – CR Junkins Purpose: What do I want the student to do? In this course, we will explore the two most commonly used forms of writing for college students: expressive writing and academic writing. Expressive writing captures what is important to the writer. In order to succeed, writers must understand themselves. Such writing is deeply personal. Expressive writing is designed to prepare students for writing outside academics—communicating feelings and observations, beliefs and opinions, community and individuality—all skill sets that will enable students to succeed in any discipline or career path. From a learning perspective, expressive writing is often an easier form of writing than academic. It allows students to begin working with such concepts as language, reasoning and mechanics while working with material they find worth discussing. In this assignment, I want students to carefully examine both themselves and their community. What makes their community unique? What is their place within the community? How did their unique, individual personality take shape? Project Overview: How do I want the student to do the assignment? Component One: Personal Students will choose to write on one of the following three topics: • One’s sense of place (observation) • One’s place within a community (ethnography) • One’s relationship to an event from the past (memoir) ...
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...A Taste of Freedom - Student comment: This essay is not made by a student with english as his primary language. It is subject for grammatical errors. Have you lived your life the way you’ve always wanted to live it? Or are you looking back at missed opportunities and regrets, which are slowly taking over your state of mind. In our current society, where individualism dominates and the spotlight is pointed at personal achievements, a lot of people find themselves living in the past or in their minds as the only solution for satisfaction or as an escape from reality. This is situation that Ray Drower is stuck in, in the short story “A Taste of Freedom”. Ray indirectly gets confronted with his opposite and the one he always wanted to be like. The story has two settings during its timespan of several weeks. The story sets off in the suburbs in England, which in most cases associates with areas that are heavily dominated by family residents just like the Drowers. Suburban families can be of a wide variety of social classes, but are mostly middleclass. The atmosphere is due to the family environment, which surrounds the neighborhoods, affected by the mentality of settling down. Most people settle down, when a family is being established. The level of disturbance and noise is probably at a minimum due to this and the isolation from the wildlife of the city. The most disturbing thing may be the dog next door barking at a constant rate. The story takes place in the modern time, even...
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...among the clouds around the summit. To the Navajo, the mountains are Doko’oo’sliid, “Shining on Top”, a place where medicine men collect herbs for healing ceremonies. The peaks are one of the “sacred places where the Earth brushes up against the unseen world,” in the words of Yavapai-Apache Chairman Vincent Randall (San Francisco Peaks). To skiers, the mountains are home to the Arizona Snowbowl, a 777 acre ski resort only four hours away from Phoenix. The San Francisco Peaks have long been the source of land-use conflicts. Starting in the late 1800s, the area was extensively logged and grazed. At the same time, the area’s natural beauty attracted tourists and outdoor adventurists. The use of the west side of the San Francisco Peaks for skiing began in 1937, when the Civil Conservation Corps built a road and a small lodge at the base of the Anazani Peak. In 1978 the US Forest Service approved a major expansion into what today is known as the Arizona Snowbowl, with thirty-two trails and four lifts that can accommodate up to 180,000 skiers (Nabokov, pg 140). In 2002 the US Forest Service accepted a proposal from the Snowbowl to expand the resort and to use reclaimed water for snowmaking. The proposal received approval in 2005 from the Southwest Regional Forest Office. Following the approval, a group of Native American tribes sued the government challenging the Forest Service’s approval of the expansion under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (“RFRA”), and the National Historic...
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...Writing Your Graduate School Application Essay Generally speaking, there are two types of application essays for graduate school: the statement of purpose (SOP) and the personal statement. (Refer to FAQs to find out how the two types are different.) Both types let you convince the admissions committee that you are a good fit for the program and can contribute to the department. Although different graduate schools may ask you to answer different prompts, most ask that you write no more than a two-page application essay. The application essay is difficult to write because you must pitch your candidacy to a few department faculty members who read through hundreds – or sometimes thousands – of other essays. In this handout, you will learn how to show these busy readers that you will contribute meaningfully to the university and their department. 1. Relate your past and present experiences to the future. In their application essays, many applicants make the mistake of underemphasizing the future. But it’s important that you show how your past experiences have informed your present work, and how your present work can be extended to the future or raise new research questions. Admissions committees assess many qualified applicants based on whether their research will reflect positively on the university and their department. Committees will think your past and present work is relevant only if it relates directly to your plans for the future. If you don’t know exactly where your current...
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...Sinziana Preda Professor Trimble English 55 Narrative Essay March 21, 2014 Narrative Essay Life is full of ups and downs. When things go wrong we learn to appreciate the small good things in life. Just like everyone else I been through both bad and good experiences, and I had obstacles along the way that made my road a little harder. That is why I believe the year 2011 aka my senior year has been the best time of my life so far. One of the reasons why 2011 was the best time of my life is because I was a senior in high school. I was doing great in school, and my grades were better than ever. I was in the honor roll of my school for almost every marking period and that made me feel very proud. I didn’t think I was actually going to make it to senior year in four years so just the fact that I was a senior made me feel amazing. My senior trip was also a major highlight. It was a wonderful and unforgettable experience. We spent three days and two nights in a resort in Vermont called Smuggler’s Notch, and it was nice to get away from New York for a few days. We went on bus and watched a few movies to make the trip feel shorter. I was very excited and eager to get there. I knew this was the beginning of an unforgettable weekend next to my friends. Since it was a long ride we were all trying to kill time by cracking jokes and doing pranks on the people that fell asleep. Taking pictures of them while they were drooling uploading them on Facebook, putting shaving cream on their...
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...| Hospitality and Restaurant Management As an In-Demand Course: | A Survey Study | | Peter Jay Obillo | 10/1/2013 | | CHAPTER I THE PROBLEM Background of the Study In the annual rate of enrollees at Panpacific University North Philippines, The College of Hotel and Restaurant Management takes the place of one of the courses that has a high percentage of enrollments every year in the other courses offered. This result shows that many students are giving interest of taking up Hotel and Restaurant Management course. Hospitality Management is one of the courses that is in-demand in the Philippines and all around the world. The program has a very broad scope of subject and skills to be learned, it may come in many names; these are food and beverage, hospitality management, and travel and tourism business, cruise line and maritime. Here are some factors why Hotel and Restaurant Management course is in-Demand: 1.)Wide Range of Opportunities- Hospitality Industry is very huge. You can find different Hospitality companies anywhere in the globe. Because of this you will Have Unlimited opportunities for your career. You can choose to work in your local or find jobs abroad. 2.)Different Career Path- Graduates who study Hotel and Restaurant Management choose a career based on their expertise or shift to another field related to Hospitality Management. You can be a Restaurant Manager, Hotel Manager or any career that is related in hospitality industry. 3.)High...
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...International Tourism “The tourism in Germany” Essay by Florian Otto BECKER Introduction: Germany is the seventh most visited country in the world with an estimated total of 31,5 Million visitors in 2014. It is a widely diverse country that has to show and offer vast numbers of attractions. From the North - and Baltic Seas with its coasts and islands to the Alps, this nation situated in the heart of Europe, offers nature parks, beautiful landscapes, strongholds from the medieval age and authentic Roman treasures as well as a well-developed infrastructure. But obviously there is not just nature or old notable things to see. Germany likewise offers also some of the absolute most energizing cities on the planet where one can appreciate shopping, celebrating, and the excellent restaurants and cafés in the heart of every city. History: The historical backdrop of tourism in Germany goes back to the ancient Romans who used Germanic healing springs and founded cities with spas as Aquae Granni (Aachen) and Aquae Mattiacorum (Wiesbaden). As a result of teachings of Balneology, the first German Spas like Bad Schwallbach established from 1581. From the late eighteenth century onwards, urban communities like Dresden, Munich, Weimar and Berlin were significant stops on a European Grand tour. In the 19th century, noble spa- and health resorts on the coast and inland established when major train routes were built to connect the seaside spas to urban centers. Main travel destinations...
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