...Once I was ruled by the society, now I live my life own my own wish. I was always conscious about the comments passed by people. I almost killed my all dreams to save my image in society. I never enjoyed my life or did what I wanted. The mighty example of this is that I tried to become an engineer, although I wanted to become a sociologist. The society from which I belong thinks that only doctors and engineers have respect and only they can earn good; and earning a good amount can earn you the respect from society. And to earn that respect from society, I tried to become an engineer. I did my matriculation and intermediate in pre-engineering and suffered for four years. I was doing something which I don’t want to do. I was doing all this in society pressure and I tried hard but could never concentrate on studies as I was doing it halfheartedly. I even couldn’t sleep. Night after night, I’d lie awake at 2am. This time period taught me what it’s like to feel depressed, lost, and burned out. I used to live a colorless life, I never tried something new didn’t even discover my hidden talents. I tried hard to score good grades but I wasn’t able to. In those four years, I always felt that this is not what I wanted. Those four years were slowly, inch by inch, sucking the life out of me. After struggling that hard and still getting bad grade in all subjects, I decided not to continue this anymore. I was still being criticized. After all this, I understood that this society...
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...Shah Ahmed Atta ERPID: 09306 Once I Was Embarrassed, Now I am Proud Character: Black Female in Pakistan Once I was embarrassed. I was embarrassed of the individual I was and the values that I symbolized merely because I stood apart. I had no awareness of self-respect. At the young age of eleven, I was in the phase of self-discovery. My skin complexion was too dark. My wavy brown hair didn’t have the flow of the other children. I didn’t fit in anywhere. It was depressing to feel like an outcast. Despite how innocent they may seem, eleven year olds can be cruel to one another. The children spurned me, unconscious of what they were doing. My ears rang with racially disrespectful phrases such as “You look like a Kawwa [Crow],” or “You’ve got the colors of a bat.” Their mirth provoked me long past school hours. I cried endlessly and declined to go to school each subsequent day. All of peers being lighter than me, I sought desperately for individuals that were like to me in appearance, I know, I was wrong but I realize that now. I relentlessly had to battle to be accepted in with different groups of people. I so desperately craved acknowledgment. But, no matter how hard I tried, my efforts were in vain. The other kids saw that I was unusual and shunned me for that exact reason. As I grew older the level of insult intensified. Vicious and harsher things were being said to me as the children became more conscious of my diversity. The situation, as much as I had desired that...
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...The Theme of Identity Politics in “Paradise Now” and “Once Brothers” The two films I will be reflecting on is “Paradise Now” and “Once Brothers.” “Paradise Now” tells the story of two childhood friends from the West Bank who are recruited to participate in a suicide bombing in Tel Aviv which is one of Israel’s biggest cities. Whereas “Once Brothers” tells the story of Yugoslavian basketball players who played on the Yugoslavian national basketball team and eventually were recruited to play on different NBA teams in the United States. The common theme between the two films were the identity politics during the Arab-Israeli conflict and the former Yugoslavian conflict after the disintegation of the Soviet Union. The Arab- Israeli conflict...
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...Once/Now Essay Assignment Cover Sheet Name: ______________________________________________ Section: ________________ Marks Obtained: _______________/10 Faculty signature: _________________________ Write a personal experience essay using the seed sentence: “Once I was ______; now I am ________.” Rubric for Once/Now Essay | Marks allocated | Ideas * The essay has two coordinate themes and an insightful, detailed approach to each of them. * The ideas are consistently original and demonstrate a sophistication and complexity of thought and experience. The examples developed from your personal life should not be implied but revealed and developed in detail. * The response offers perfectly tuned, honest and insightful examples and details from your personal experience. | 3 | Organization * Essay is titled, typed in correct format (standard font, double-spaced, one inch margins) * Introductory paragraph opens with an engaging statement, presents the two subjects that will be compared, and a two-part thesis at the end states the terms of the comparison. For the Once I was____, now I am ___ essay, the two subjects are you in the past, and you in the present. Both sides of the statement are specifically worded, and do not read as negatives. * Body paragraphs are organized either by two subjects (block), or terms of comparison (point by point). * Body paragraphs are developed with concrete words and examples * The concluding paragraph opens with the...
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...HOW TO READ ESSAYS YOU MUST ANALYZE 1. Take a pencil in your hand. 2. Read the essay over once, quickly, looking for the main idea, for what the essay is about in general, and for what the author seems to be saying. Don't get bogged down in details. (If you come to an unfamiliar word, circle it but go on reading). 3. Check the meaning of unfamiliar words. If they seem to be key words, i.e., if the author uses them more than once, scribble a brief definition at the bottom of the page or at the end of the essay. 4. Now re-read more slowly and carefully, this time making a conscious attempt to begin to isolate the single most important generalization the author makes: his thesis. Follow his line of thought; try to get some sense of structure. The thesis determines the structure, so the structure, once you begin to sense it, can lead you to the thesis. What is the main point the author is making: Where is it? Remember, examples or "for instances" are not main points. The thesis is the generalization the author is attempting to prove valid. Your job, then is to ask yourself, "What is the author trying to prove"? Another way of identifying the thesis is to ask yourself, "What is the unifying principle of this essay"? or "What idea does everything in this essay talk about"? or "Under what single main statement could all the subdivisions fit"? If the author has stated his thesis fully and clearly and all in one place, your job is easier. The thesis is apt to be stated...
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...My Latest Obsession Essay Worksheet Writing is an invaluable skill for your personal, academic, and professional life. We communicate more and more every day in writing through text messages and email. We demonstrate our professionalism through the messages we communicate to our colleagues and leaders. During your program, you will communicate your learning through online discussions, worksheets, essays, papers, and other written communication. Our assignments in this class are meant to help you practice using the writing process to create effective paragraphs free of grammatical, mechanical, and usage errors. By the end of our time together, you will have created a 5-paragraph essay that conveys your latest obsession as well as demonstrates your knowledge of several rhetorical strategies (to learn a bit more about the 5-paragraph essay, be sure to check out this helpful resource: The 5-Paragraph Essay) You will be using this worksheet to complete your My Latest Obsession essay. You will begin working on your essay in Week 2 and finish it by Week 6. The chart below outlines the sections of the essay that you will complete each week as well as the specific classroom Dropbox that should be used for your submissions. Essentially, you will complete the required sections during the specified week, and then submit your worksheet for grading (you’ll add to your sheet each week and then resubmit it). By our last week, Week 6, you will have written an entire essay using this worksheet...
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...Guide to Writing a Basic Essay An essay can have many purposes, but the basic structure is the same no matter what. You may be writing an essay to argue for a particular point of view or to explain the steps necessary to complete a task. Either way, your essay will have the same basic format. If you follow a few simple steps, you will find that the essay almost writes itself. You will be responsible only for supplying ideas, which are the important part of the essay anyway. Don't let the thought of putting pen to paper daunt you. Get started! These simple steps will guide you through the essay writing process: • • • • Decide on your topic. Prepare an outline or diagram of your ideas. Write your thesis statement. Write the body. • • • • • • Write the main points. Write the subpoints. Elaborate on the subpoints. Write the introduction. Write the conclusion. Add the finishing touches. Choose a Topic for Your Essay Topic Has Been Assigned You may have no choice as to your topic. If this is the case, you still may not be ready to jump to the next step. Think about the type of paper you are expected to produce. Should it be a general overview, or a specific analysis of the topic? If it should be an overview, then you are probably ready to move to the next step. If it should be a specific analysis, make sure your topic is fairly specific. If it is too general, you must choose a narrower subtopic to discuss. For example, the topic "KENYA" is a general one. If your objective is...
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...According to the short essay “On Going Home” by Joan Didion, you can never go back home once you’ve acquired another. Didion explains generation gaps during the rocky path towards self-realization and acceptance while attending what we call life. She explains that there is a certain time in which people find themselves in what is described as a mid-life crisis- the realization that what was a familiar and comfortable past is now not the present. As teenagers we wait anxiously for the day we once and for all move out and be free to explore the world from a new mindset. However, in Didion's essay we see that there is a possibility of a new reality of what lies ahead once we step out of the house we grew up in. Her life now consists of dealing with her marriage, raising her daughter, and living in Los Angeles; Didion's persona throughout the essay is that she is often triggered by past experiences that lead her into a lingering sensation of nostalgia and uneasiness but yet hope and acceptance as well. Didion is obviously conflicted with the strong values she holds towards her childhood family life and new family life in LA, wishing to unite them in her marriage. Her husband is troubled to be with her family in this "home" on account of her turning into a different person around her family. It becomes apparent her husband was raised conflictingly and doesn't appreciate it when his wife falls victim to the ways of her family, ". . .which are difficult, oblique, deliberately inarticulate"...
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...Maya Angelou once said “You can never go home again, but the truth is you can never leave home, so it’s all right” In the essays “On Going Home” by Joan Didions and “Once more to the Lake” written by E.B Whites are two authors dealing with their personal issues as they compares and contrasts they current life and past, which are vastly different. The way they uses description in this essays and the flow of events is very similar to the way that memories rush in when one returns to a familiar place from one’s past To descript is to portray or re-create a scene, a person, a place or a feeling. Description is an important skill in communication between people, and it appears in most of the writing situation. An effective description requires a dominant impression; a central theme or idea about the subject to which readers can relate all the details. Joan Didions and E.B Whites uses description effectively in “On Going Home” and “Once More to the Lake”. “On Going Home” Didion describes her experiences and thoughts on what defines her meaning of home. Joan Didion begins her story by illustrating what "home" is to her. She describes how her home now is not the place where her husband and daughter live, but in the Central Valley of California with her family. With this introduction, one can sense that she is troubled by the differences between the two. Didion stated “My husband likes my family but is uneasy in their house, because once there I fall into their ways, which are difficult...
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...Congratulations! You have just completed the project charter, scope statement, and WBS. Now that you know what needs to be done, as the Project Manager, you are now ready to begin planning your project. This week, you will have two deliverables to complete for the project. * Using MS Project, create a project schedule and align resources – 35 points * Analyze project schedule and resource allocation: two essay questions – 20 points Please provide these two deliverables (MS Project file and MS Word document) to the Week 3 Dropbox. Please refer to the course Syllabus for your due date. To help guide you through these deliverables, please follow the three step process below. Step 1: Update MS Project with Resource Information Back to Top Project Schedule Instructions The following steps should be followed when setting up your Course Project with Microsoft Project 2010: 1. Set the basic project information * Open MS Project 2010 * Click on the File button (top left), select save as and enter the file name as (your name) cp1. For example: SmithJanecp1.mpp * Click on the Project tab and select Project Information. In the Project Information dialogue box, set the start date of your project. * Leave other dates as is. Click on OK. 2. Set basic Gantt chart format (use also for tracking Gantt chart view) * Right click on the mouse in the gray area of the Gantt chart on the right side of the screen where the dates in...
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... In her essay, Se Habla Espanol writer Tanya Barrientos presents a memoir of a Guatemalan born Latina brought to the United States as a child but failed to identify with her native culture. Now, as an adult, she struggles to regain her Latino identity and acceptance. Barrientos was brought to the United States at a very young age by her parents who immersed her into the American culture by speaking only Spanish. This was to serve the purpose of blending her more readily into her new society and thus, ensuring her success. She describes how Americans during that time were not culturally tolerant and expected foreigners who entered the country to “leave their cultural baggage at the border”. As a result of her parents decision Barrientos assimilates to her new culture and rejects her old one. She took pride in not being able to speak Spanish; and furthermore, she took pride in her American peers saying that she did not seem Mexican. Barrientos states that those comments “made me feel superior. It made me feel American. It made me feel white.” Once her father realized how she felt about her native culture he set out to change her feelings. He sent her to spend time in Mexico City and his plan worked. She returned to the United States with a new appreciation for her Latino roots. She continues on to state that as she became more accepting of her native culture so had American society. The nation that had once ostracized ethnic cultures now accepted them as...
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...There are various kinds of essays, from descriptive to 5 paragraph persuasive essay, one should know how to write is effectively but no one will guarantee you that your instructor would like your essay or not. All you have to do is find the best way for writing an essay and put your best into it. Writing a 5 paragraph narrative essay will also require a lot of effort from your side, although it’s a short one as compared to the other essays but this needs a proper structure to write. Here, we are encapsulating five rules for 5 paragraph essay writing. There Are Five Parts Of 5 Paragraph Essay Outline, Which Are: Introduction Body paragraph number one Body paragraph number two Body paragraph number three Conclusion Introduction: This is basically an opening statement so it should be well written and interesting to grab the attention and force the readers to continue reading the essay. This can either start with a pertinent quote or any short anecdote. Once you are done with, write some background about the topic then come to the crux of the issue that is your thesis statement. Make sure your thesis statement is the last thing in your introductory paragraph. Body Paragraph No. 1: First Body paragraph of your essay 5 paragraph should begin with a transitional sentence which can lead to the first supporting evidence of your five paragraph essay topic. Your evidence should be associated with a single theme and should be in quotations. This can be counted...
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... 3Be sure to structure it. A sociology essay that is well structured is pleasing to read and shows the reader that you have the ability to present the problem, argument, solution and conclusion in a disciplined way. Structuring your essay is also something that you need to do before you start writing. This will ensure that you have a framework in mind at all times and you do not deviate from the topic. Structuring will also help ensure that each section in the essay is given equal and appropriate importance and it will help maintain the flow of essay so that the essay does not appear haphazard. 4Be sure to include an Introduction, Main Body and Conclusion. A good sociology essay that is pleasing to read should ideally be divided into three parts – an introduction, the main body and a conclusion. When you start writing the essay, you will have all the material with you and a structure in mind. Now you need to know what content will fit which section. The introduction is where you will set the tone for the essay, introduce the argument and give the readers an overview of what the paper is all about, in the main body, you need to expand on the argument, give a balanced view of the argument and share your perspectives and findings. The conclusion of a sociology essay is essentially a summary of all entire paper. 5Reference your work. Once you are done with writing the sociology essay, you now need to add citations. For a sociology essay, the Harvard system of referencing is the...
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...In high school, I hated writing essays for my English classes. At first, I did not have a reliable writing process. I would free write a rough draft and turn it in as a final draft. I would also write last minute instead of using the time to create a well-thought essay. I focused more on passing a class rather than boosting my writing skills. Now that I am in college, I take writing seriously. Throughout the years, my writing process has drastically changed. As a writer, I will continue to advance my writing skills. Prewriting is significant when preparing for an essay, although this step is most of the time ignored. The process of writing is just as important as the writing itself. Prewriting is great for writers to have an organized essay. Sectioning the writing process can make writing less stressful and gives the writer more time to go back and improve their paper. My writing process consists of brainstorming, outlining, rough drafting, and peer revisions....
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...is the quote that I choose to open up my This I Believe essay and now I have branched that out into a digital story. My digital story has the songs “Cinema” and “Gotta Have It” and it is about the struggles that Lebron James had to endure in order to get his championship ring. The theme of my digital story and essay is, in retrospect, failure is success. The style of my essay and digital story is anecdotal. The combination of the theme and style in my essay and digital story is what helps incorporate the “So What?” First, already know that the theme of my essay and digital story is, in retrospect, failure is success but now I have to show you how it shown in my pieces. The theme is shown in my essay by the sentence, “The only way to learn how to ride a bike is to fail multiple times and to learn from your mistakes.” This quote from my essay depicts how the them is shown in it by giving and anecdotal explanation on how no matter how many times you might fail, the information that you gather will help you out in the end. The theme is shown in my digital story from the several pictures of Lebron James training after he lost the NBA finals in 2011 and which lead to winning the finals in 2012 because he learned from his mistakes/ failure and he succeeded. Next, you already know that the theme of my essay and digital story is anecdotal but now I have to show you it is shown in my pieces. A quote from my This I Believe essay that helps prove my style is, “When I experiences this...
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