...Dual Enrollment English class taught me far more than just how to write a well written academic paper for my next four years in a college environment. Looking back on the second half of the semester, I can look back and appreciate all of the time spent preparing all of my essays, speeches, and notes for discussion. Throughout the semester, I definitely hit some speed bumps along the way; however, overcoming these dilemmas is what I will be able to carry with me throughout college. The class taught me how to be able to stand at the front of the classroom and speak about topics that I was less familiar with than familiar with, importance of priorities, how to write a well composed piece of literature in an academic format....
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...My heart raced, my hands sweat, and my voice quivered as the first few syllables of my essay escaped my mouth. None of the public speaking rehearsals that I had painstakingly endured could have prepared me for the moment when the curtain rose and all eyes at the annual Mississippi VFW Convention stared seemingly through me. At the age of 14, I had never spoken in front of a crowd of that magnitude. As I glanced across the audience and saw the smiles that covered each of the veterans’ faces, all my apprehension vanished. The attitude of spite I had for writing dissipated as I came to fully understand that my ability to read and write had opened doors for me to learn more about my great grandfather’s life, bring joy to the members of the VFW,...
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...The Narrative Essay The narrative essay is simply a complete account of an incident or incidents contained in one cohesive essay. The narrative essay is useful when writing an incident report, such as an automobile accident or a criminal action. By far, one of the best uses of the narrative is when introducing the thesis for a longer work, i.e. a research paper. Your audience for this essay is your fellow classmates and the teacher. Assignment Write a narrative essay, the purpose of which is the serve as evidence for the position you have taken on an issue. The issue in the sample essay is how the writer lost his teeth. The essay must be a minimum of 380 words and no more than 400 words. You will superscript the number of the comma rule that justifies it over each comma. When you turn in your final draft, you must turn in a minimum 100-word, process paragraph expressing what you learned as a result of this assignment. Learning Objectives • To format documents correctly in accordance with MLA; • To understand the structure of a narrative paragraph; • To understand your own unique voice (syntax and tone); • To eliminate sentence fragments, run-ons, and comma splices; • To eliminate point of view errors; • To eliminate verb tense errors; • To eliminate punctuation errors – commas; • To have fun. The Narrative Structure A narrative is a story, and like a story has a definite underlying structure. The parts of a narrative are the situation, conflict...
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...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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...in the blood[1], with the hard work and long hours fading in importance against the vocational rewards. But community nursing has shown how the nursing profession is no longer viewed as merely hard work and long hours, it has illustrated nursing is a skill, a crucial facet of government health strategy, and a social and medical science. This passion extends from hard work and includes the profession shifting its core functions providing a flexible service that meets the changing health and social needs of society. The rewards to the profession and the community include personalized and case specific localized care, health program implementation, and guiding improved social trends at the ‘coal face’. Community based nursing is now at the forefront of social awareness and this important benefit is discussed throughout this essay. This essay focuses on the importance of community based nursing to the profession looking at aspects such as the role’s expanded influence on social trends, analysis, palliative care, outreach to vulnerable groups, and program implementation to the wider community. These functions in combination play a key role in ensuring this aspect of the nursing profession is effective in prevention and in tune with society’s needs. Community based nursing comprises several fields of expertise, including community health, public health, home health, and community mental health nursing. This essay looks at the collective benefits of these and the resulting...
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...Pagan 1 Ezequiel Pagan Patrick Williams English 111 16 October 2014 Family Value and Truth Family in society is a social structure. Family plays a key role in human life because it can give people a sense of home, or a loving and supportive group. In most cases when people think of families they think of having a mom, dad, brother, sister. However, nothing in life is perfect. Today, we have separated , same sex, extended, and blended families. Society tries to explain these more contemporary families but has a harsh way of doing so. In the essay, Stone Soup, by Barbara Kingsolver, she discusses how society views families and in the essay, Family Values, by Richard Rodriguez, he talks about American family values. Both essays express the view that family should be valued regardless of differences. Kingsolver breaks down what it means to be a real family while Rodriguez emphasizes the value of family; both authors show the importance of having family. In the introduction of the Kingsolver essay, she talks about a young boy’s soccer game. She talks about how the young boy, whose name is Andy, has a blended family. Kingsolver writes, “He’s Andy, my best friend’s son. The cheering section includes his mother and her friends, his brother, his father, and stepmother, a stepbrother and stepsister, and a grandparent” (147). She uses her friend’s son as an real life example of what kind of family would be considered a broken family by society but is not. Andy’s ...
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...purpose of this essay is to explore, research, and discuss bilingual language education throughout the United States and other countries. It is estimated that throughout the world approximately 6,000 different languages are spoken and that fewer than 25percent of our world’s approximate 200 countries recognize two or more official languages (Grimes, 1992 ). Grimes (1992) also goes on to surprise us with this unbelievable statistic, being that only a mere handful of these 200 countries recognizing more than two. Despite the above conservative figures, data has shown that there are many more bilingual or multilingual individuals around the world than there are monolingual (Tucker, 1999). It is estimated, that there are many more children...
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...Meredith Butler English 1102 Fiction Essay In the story Everyday Use by Alice Walker, the author attempts to show the contrasts between family members in regards to their heritage during the 1960’s. Ms. Walker tells the story of how different the family members are in education, lifestyle and beliefs. In doing so, she illustrates the importance of everyday items and of everyday people. Ms. Walker, through the point of view of the mother, paints the picture of a young woman, too good for her family, running off to the city only to find that the city values her heritage and conversely, now must she. The character of Dee is first described by her mother in the excerpt, “Dee is lighter than Maggie, with nicer hair and a fuller figure” (Walker, 1973). This is in contrast to her “large, manly mother who can kill and clean a hog as mercilessly as a man” (Walker) and her sister who was disfigured in a fire as a young child. The same fire that Dee stands and watches, so intently, that her mother thought to ask her “why she didn’t do a dance around the ashes” (Walker). It is never stated why Dee feels such deep hatred for her home, however shame and ignorance play a key role. “Dee wanted nice things” (Walker), things that would be difficult if not impossible to a young black girl of the time to obtain. Her mother often notes that Dee daydreams to the point of not blinking, determined to get what she wants. When Dee’s mother and the town raise money to send Dee off to school...
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...In Omar Ashmawy's essay Ten Years After 9/11, We're still in the Dark, published on September 9th, 2011 by The Washington Post, he explains that since the 9/11 attack, he believes nothing has changed. In this essay, he explains that America has not moved one step closer to understanding Islam and Arab ways. Because of the ignorance on America's part, we, as a nation, are not protected from being attacked again. An appeal of ethos is supported through the writer's credibility. I believe that Ashmawy is credible because he has been in the military and realizes that Americans, as a whole, do not understand Islam and Arab culture, and therefore, we are in great danger of being attacked again. In his essay, Ashmawy provides evidence and facts to support his view through an appeal called logos. Ashmawy also uses his personal experience of being in the military and what he knows to present this evidence. Ashmawy also uses an appeal of pathos through emotionally loaded words used throughout his essay. Logos, ethos, and pathos have been used throughout this essay to stress the importance of the danger America has faced...
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...Write an essay (900-1200 words) in which you analyse and interpret Anna Hope's short story "A Gap of Sky". A part of your essay must focus on narrative technique and the importance of the city setting. A Gab of Sky - essay To be young is the greatest thing on earth, especially when you have a lot of friends, do well in school, and remember to relax and enjoy life. In this short story Anna Hope tells us about a young girl, Ellie. She takes pleasure in life by using drugs in her everyday life. Ellie is a girl who was sent to college by her parents, nothing she really wanted, but something she had to. She dosen’t like being there, and she has the thought of running away, but something inside her tells her to stay. We are told that the night before she went to a party where she got very drunk and took a lot of drugs. She thinks the night through and she kind a remembers it all, however, she was under the influence of alcohol and drugs. Suddenly she recalls that she have to make an essay and have to print it out, but she dosen’t have any ink, and therefore she have to run out to get some. Ellie is a nineteen year old teenager who lives in the heart of London, where her college is. Apparently she lives at the college and not at home with her parents. Ellie blame her parents for her being there, and she even calls it “this bloody course”. She stays up late and party, smoke crack pipe and do drugs. She dosen’t take her course serious and she really just want to hang out with...
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...OTPR293 TERRORISM IN A GLOBALISED WORLD ESSAY 1. 2. How is the relationship between terrorism and the news media best understood? Terrorism and the Media co exist in a symbiotic relationship, meaning they both need each other. The media need terrorism to attract viewers and terrorists need media coverage for exposure. Media’s primary purpose is communication. Terrorism is a form of communication that is amplified by the media. Terrorism is outrageous violence that seizes the public’s imagination and awakens its audience to political issues and propaganda that are of importance to the perpetrators. The terrorists have a need to reach a target audience and seek publicity to display their actions and achieve exposure. Without such exposure of the acts, the goals of the terrorist have not been achieved (Lutz & Lutz, 2013 pg. 10). A terrorist act by itself achieves nothing without coverage from the media. In essence media is a terrorist’s best friend, for without the exposure given it is plausible to conceive that terrorism would cease to exist. The progression of technology such as mobile recording devices and hand held cameras has heightened the ability for terrorism to be displayed in a cinematic experience. These functions allow front seat access to world viewers of horrific terrorist acts, training camps, messages of hate or encouragement which are in turn beamed throughout the globe via specific terror home pages or through the various media outlets (Hoskins...
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...Section B 1. Write a summary of “Sports Leader” in about 150 words. Sports leader is a short story written by Jane Rogers, (B. 1952). The story takes place in the north of England at Huddersfield. Here we’re introduced to a few people, amongst these the main character, the boy. This boy is living with his foster mom Eileen. He still has no finished exams at the age of sixteen, and is always sitting in front of the television. He dreams of training athletes, Olympics. People believe he has his head in the clouds. One day the boy starts working as a window cleaner. Dedicated he shows up every day ready for work. Despite not being too bright, the kid is still trustworthy and is given the “privilege” of collecting money for his boss Phil. One day the boy is robbed, and thus not having a single scratch, the boy is given no benefit of the doubt. Phil tells the boy not to come back again. 2. Characterize the boy who is the main character. The boy is a sixteen year old teenager. He’s harmless and mostly sits in front of the television. All he ever wanted was to become a Sports Trainer. Despite being bossed around like the big chunk he turned out to become, he once was a fit person, giving his ambitions a slight chance of realism. He’s not too bright either. He doesn’t have an exam and is a bit of a day dreamer. Day dreaming away, the boy gets joy from the little things in life, the things we add no value. “Page 9, line 47” * “The boy liked collecting. He liked being...
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...Program was formed in 1986 in response to the devastating volcanic mudflow caused by an eruption of Nevado del Ruiz volcano in Colombia. The mudflow destroyed the city in 1985, killing more than 25,000 people. Unfortunately, the tragedy was preventable. Better education of the local population and clear communication would have allowed warnings to be received, understood, and acted upon prior to the disaster. Volcanologist is the expert that works monitoring the activity of the volcanoes to prevent any disaster. The volcanologist’s work has direct importance to the lives of people who live near to the volcanoes but also it is a high-risk job for their own lives. There is no room for any mistake. As a result the volcanologist’s job requires an educational preparation and training to develop the functions. In addition, there are another pros and cons of working as a volcano expert and it is my purpose to develop some of them along this essay....
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...undisclosed hatred, suppression, and unpleasantness between partners – a point that remains concealed from the outside world. “The Story of an Hour” is a story about a married couple. The story begins with the wife hearing the news of the death of her husband. The news, instead of sending her into a shock, sends her into a state of excitement. Her excitement remains concealed from the people around her, who assume that she is under great shock. However, her excitement does not last too long, and she again faces news. This time, the news arrives with the arrival of her husband in front of her. Unable to control her feelings of sadness, she falls and dies on the spot. The paper takes into account multiple readings of various authors, compares their stance, and studies their views of the story. The paper establishes the point that time is running very quickly, and the story also revolves around the importance of time. It concludes with the outcome that if married couples trust each other, interconnect well, and resolve their problems, instead of thinking evil of each other, their relation is likely to remain flourishing. “The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin The background of “The Story of an Hour” sets its foundations on the moralities of marriage. Marriage is a respected commitment that consists of a social arrangement, aimed at forming the foundation of a family. This makes it a uniquely beneficial institution to the society and offers the partners a platform to create...
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...refugees should not be given priority in gaining entry to democratic countries, while others believe they should. The purpose of this essay is to point out that democratic countries should have an obligation to accept refugees. To support this position, the following areas will be examined: firstly, the reason why those countries are called democratic countries. Secondly, refugees are under the difficult situation. Thirdly, countries can take advantage of accepting refugees. A democratic country is defined as a form of government in which all the people have an equal say in the decisions that affect their lives. In order to deserve that, a country needs to fulfill some basic requirements. One of the most important is to guarantee the basic human rights, which is international norms that help to protect all people everywhere from severe political, legal, and social abuses. For example, Australia and Malaysia had a signature on a bilateral arrangement about transfer and resettlement through UNHCR. Thus, democratic countries have an obligation to accept refugees. A refugee is someone who has been forced from their home country by war, civil conflict, political strife or gross human rights abuses. Most of the time, refugees must flee their home and villages without warning, taking with them only the clothes on their backs until the situation in their home country has become stable and no longer threatening. It is such an unfortunate situation. If developed countries could accept, they...
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